The piano called me this afternoon. Pressed record, no idea what I would play, and there was this. An offering for my neglected #Piano#Diary. Hope you like it.
I'm thinking about Mastodon in a wide view, in the world of social media, this feels a little outsider, while at the same time it also feels like it might be the future. So, let's talk about it!
What do you get out of Mastodon?
Why are you here?
How has it compared with your other social media experiences?
What do you see for the future of Mastodon?
What do you want to see?
And basically anything else about it you want to say about Mastodon.
LET'S TALK!
Päiväkirja on itselleni yksi apuväline, joka auttaa ylläpitämään henkistä hyvinvointia. Sen kirjoittaminen on usein tosi terapeuttista. Sinne voi oksentaa kaikki ajatukset ja olotilat eikä se välitä siitä millaisia ne ovat.
Joskus haasteena on kuitenkin sanoittaa ja kuvailla omia fiiliksiä. En osaa itse piirtää tai maalata, joten sanojen korvikkeeksi olen koittanut etsiä netistä kuvia, jotka kuvaisivat fiilistä, tunnelmaa tai ajatuksia.
Tänään kuitenkin tajusin, että ehkä Midjourney voisi olla työkalu näihin tilanteisiin. Testasin ja olin varsin tyytyväinen siihen, mitä muutaman epämääräisen sanan prompti palautti.
Ehkäpä alankin käyttää AI:n generoimia kuvia digitaalisessa päiväkirjassa silloin kun omat sanat ovat hukassa ☺️
For the last maybe 10 years I’ve been using a journaling app called #DayOne as a diary. As times goes on it's really interesting to see what happened "on this day 8 years ago”. Learned recently of a new app called #Daylio and have checked it out. I don't think it'll replace DayOne for me, but Daylio is mostly free and has some improvements over DO so I thought y'all might like to know about it. It's better than DO as it's possible to "microjournal" with it. You can just choose your mood from 5 options, and then there are sections for things like health, social, chores etc. So in 10 sec you could click on Good, and then Cooking, Gym, Movies and tv, and that's it. You can also add full notes like a real diary if you want, along with photos, and it also has a goal tracker and comprehensive stats per day. I really like it. For instance, today I just chose good, coffee, dishes.
Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.
the wife is going for a swim on this fine saturday morning. i’m not really in a swimming mood myself, so it’s back into the #dune universe for me. i’m about two-thirds through #DuneMessiah, let’s see if i can’t finish it today.
i think most people would look at me and say i’m thin. i think that’s relatively true, and i don’t have any severe body image issues or anything like that. but i have noticed some… changes, over the span of just a few short years, and especially over the last 6 months or so.
i used to very comfortably fit into jeans with a 30” waist as recently as a year ago, but now my new 34” jeans (bought because my old jeans just straight-up don’t fit anymore) are feeling really snug. will i be wearing 36” jeans next month? at this rate, likely yes.
almost certainly it’s my sedentary lifestyle. i don’t eat terribly, but i don’t go out of my way to eat healthy either. and now that i’m a couple years past my 30th year, my metabolism is starting to slow down and i need to make a conscious effort to do something about this.
wow! after my workout this morning, i drove back to the old house to clean and gather up some remaining junk. checking my metrics now, and i see that i 200%’d my move goal for the day! i feel like damn, if i can keep myself on this kind of pace, i might make some progress.