#MissKittyPolitics The Iranian terror had its intended effect at home. The #elections are not coming out of hardly any mouths. I put up a new bigger directory and the adoption rate has been very slow. Measured subjectively by #likes, #reposts, and comments. Not much activity. #Iran covers #midterms.
en revenant sur le site, je me suis rappelé le besoin de veiller toujours à la cohérence #likes #fediverse #webmentions #activitypub
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Ce qui compte ? Ce sont les liens, pas les likes.

Effet pervers de la révolution numérique, tout est prétexte à notation, likes, avis en ligne, compétition... Tout cela engendre une pression sociale liée au besoin de témoigner de sa performance. Tour à tour évaluateur ou évalué, nous voilà oubliant l'essentiel : la qualité de l'échange, l'attention à l'autre. Ce qui compte, ce sont les liens, pas les likes. S'interroger sur ses valeurs même pour des choses anodines L'exemple tout simple est celui du site. Je me réfère […]

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I really appreciate the #likes that landed on the middle box. You know I might need to jump in officially & get some subscriptions going on this infrastructure that I am now reporting to you. I've been devoting all of my time to politics instead of art and fiction. They stare at me like fruit flies.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hc7tndm7gduompba65aps75k/post/3mgvxougbc223

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1888-09), "A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3 | WIST Quotations

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now…

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Sending a heartfelt thanks for all the friendship, support, likes & shares defending #Democracy & challenging #trump And a gentle reminder that I strive to support & defend another alienated community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️& its millions of #LGBTQ members. They need your occasional support #likes & #shares too!