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The Fediverse Stats Paradox

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The more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both.

Blogging shouldn’t be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. These stats turn blogging and writing into accounting. I don’t want to see disengagement quantified. I want positive signals, and here I only see negative signals.

#absurd #disengagement #fediverse #ROI #stats

WIST Quotations Apr 28

A quotation from Bill Watterson

   CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
   HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
   CALVIN: So what?!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters

WIST Quotations Mar 19

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #disengagement #truth #dispassion #discernment #insincerity #reality #sincerity #skepticism #truth

Carlyle, Thomas - Lecture (1840-05-22), "The Hero as King," Home House, Portman Square, London | WIST Quotations

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Emberhart Jan 8

Sliding Doors 9/10 Disengagement is a slow betrayal: unreturned glances, avoided conversations, unspoken resentments. Over time, the jar empties. 🫙 #Disengagement #EmotionalWithdrawal #RelationshipWork

Killer Rabbit 90 Dec 11, 2025

So This Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/somalia-trump-america-first-military/685207/ #trump #AmericaFirst #Somalia #disengagement #WorstPresidentEver #PedoPresident

Somalia Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like

The practical application of Trump’s isolationism is hardly the big break he promised.

The Atlantic

Osna.FM Oct 15, 2025

A growing disconnect between policymakers and the youth population is escalating as debates surrounding the revised German military service obligations intensif... https://news.osna.fm/?p=19464 | #news #citing #criticize #debate #disengagement

Student Leaders Criticize Military Draft Debate, Citing Youth Disengagement - Osna.FM

Student representatives urge policymakers to consider youth voices in the evolving German conscription debate.

Osna.FM

nonlinear Sep 27, 2025

ah, and we posted praxis latest #studygroup, on #disengagement (of cruel systems)

http://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/

we also changed our slogan, for monochrome covenant lyrics.

http://praxis.nyc/

disengagement study group

a neoliberal bye

nonlinear Sep 12, 2025

working on #disengagement #studygroup for #praxis
https://praxis.nyc/study/disengagement/

Soon enough we'll have a proper CTA, pretty much asking for historical examples of communities disengaging from cruel systems and nurturing their own alternatives.

disengagement study group

a neoliberal bye

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 9, 2025

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

Like everything else in the world, however, there is a price to pay for love, for the more happiness we derive from the existence and companionship of other human beings, the more vulnerable we are when there is any cause for apprehension. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who live generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1939-04-01), “My Day”

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/59…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #emotionalcost #disengagement #emotion #engagement #fear #living #love #emotionalpain #risk #vulnerability