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@Arotrios@kbin.social

For Amusement Purposes Only.

Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.

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The Mabinogion - the earliest prose stories of Wales - 1350 (pdfhost.io)

The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn] ⓘ) are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c. 1350–1410, as well as a few earlier...

"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin

Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...

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@inkican - Agreed - Kbin will live or die based on its content. One thing that should be mentioned to those on the fence about contributing is how powerful Kbin is as a publishing platform in comparison to either Mastodon or Lemmy - this is one of the few places where you can post and get your content on both style of instances.

There are a couple of factors degrading contribution that could be alleviated by more stringent moderation - particularly the bot networks and downvote spammers. I've seen a couple of instances where folks have gotten bullied out of trying to run a forum, and Kbin's flaws in blocking (a blocked user can still downvote your posts and message you), make ongoing harassment an issue for contributors. No one wants to submit something to have it shat upon.

The other factor is that a number of users set up magazines, grabbing popular names from Reddit, then did nothing to maintain them. I think removing or reassigning these ghost magazines to interested moderators would go a long way in improving the content quality here now that the dust has settled from the Reddit collapse.

From a moderator standpoint, if you're looking to expand the reach of your magazine and get new subscribers (and thus, hopefully, more contributors), one thing I've found that helps expand the audience is using a Lemmy account to crosspost, as the cross-posting functionality is built into that architecture and provides a link back to the original. This both expands the range of the content, and draws subscribers from Lemmy that normally wouldn't see you on Kbin to subscribe to your magazine. Mastodon is similar - a single supportive account there boosting magazine content expands your reach dramatically.

Side note: I run @13thFloor and wanted to say if you or your users ever feel like cross-posting our scifi content from there, or cross-posting your content to our magazine, feel free to do so - we fucking love scifi over here.

On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft - Stephen King - 2000 (pdfhost.io)

In the early nineties (it might have been 1992, but it’s hard to remember when you’re having a good time) I joined a rock-and-roll band composed mostly of writers. The Rock Bottom Remainders were the brainchild of Kathi Kamen Goldmark, a book publicist and musician from San Francisco. The...

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That's nothing - at least they can see. You should have seen 2018. Simone Smash It has my vote for 2024 regardless.

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@some_guy @YourContentSucks Poor little lonely downvote pumpkins...

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Why do so many people make absolute assholes famous so that they can poison and damage society with their bigoted and toxic views?

Asking for a civilisation.

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@autoerot1ca because even though they stink and are full of crap, assholes make amusing sounds. And a loud fart always distracts from the discussion at hand.

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Did they ever reveal how the Statue of Liberty gets transported to the Planet Of The Apes? 🤔

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@CrypticMirror

@selzero

Oh shit. There goes the planet.

Complete History Of The Gorn In Star Trek (screenrant.com)

The Gorn made their first appearance in the iconic Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena," but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has introduced a whole new version of the vicious reptilians. After Starfleet learns of the existence of the Gorn in Strange New Worlds, they begin developing weapons and technology to defend...

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The Arena terrified me as a child - I still don't know why, but that Gorn haunted my nightmares as a child. I'm glad SNW has gone into depth with them - it's one of my main draws to the series.

How can India have a strong leftist movement like in the US? (www.reddit.com)

The Indian media is filled with so much BJP/right wing propaganda right now. Especially on YouTube and Instagram. That stupid modi has brainwashed so many young Indians into his hateful ideology. Its hard to find a rational indian who thinks for themselves on social media....

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I'm not Indian, but coming across Gaddaar by Bloodywood gave me hope that the left hasn't lost its voice over there. If you ever wanted hear Rage Against the Machine in Hindi, check these guys out.

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momo stfu

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@momo

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@momo

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Received on Kbin

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A tool for mapping and animating chaos - Nico's Fractal Machine.

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Whatever happened to Saturday Night?

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I think this post broke the weather control network.

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Caitlín Matthews - Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain: An Exploration of the Mabinogion. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Arkana, 1987, 1st edition.

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@Vibracobra23 Your post inspired me to go and track down a copy of the Mabinogion - here it is if any of your other readers are looking for their own copy.

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That's a great episode, especially when they try to get the DeLorean up to 88mph on Deck 14. I remember seeing it last tomorrow, just like it was yesterday, when it aired in 2085.

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I attended a funeral yesterday. My ASD mind and my atheism combined to question the burial ceremonies within our multicultural world and started to think about how "The Church of Jeff" would conduct a burial ceremony.
Serious question: How would you want your funeral to run and how does that reflect your values? How does the ceremony help and effect the living left behind? What does the burial signify to future generations when their archeologists dig us up?

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@jeffowski My preference would be to go with a tree pod burial - or something similar, as long as a tree was planted where I was interred. Wouldn't call for much of a ceremony, but it would be my hope that the wake would be off the hook.

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Holy shit - this rocks - fantastic set!

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