This idea is mostly aimed at making it easier for me to follow along with what I'd like to call the #mastoparle community.

Unfortunately I don't have any time to invest in a project like that - already have too much important stuff on my plate.

I suspect the first one will be of particular interest to much of the #Mastoparle participants here:

@lauraritchie @Tdorey @ShorterPearson @clhendricksbc @mahabali @sundilu @actualham @katebowles

I've a more in-depth piece about the unquestioned, unspoken frameworks underlying ill-concieved engineering that is currently halfway done, but it's 4am. I hope to have it done & published tomorrow.

PS: the scifi piece is like 3 minutes as well, pretty short.
PPS: feel free to share if you wish, ofc

@sundilu @ShorterPearson @lauraritchie I've been thinking a little about a monthly #mastoparle. What I really liked about it was the slow gravitation to a theme. That seemed to me to be important.

So I like that we have persistent collecting points like #smallstories but I also really like the gentle event nature of #mastoparle and I think it can help in these times.

It's a pop-up festival of small thoughts.

One of the reasons I think it's important to keep the type of conversation that was a part of #mastoparle going is because we ARE still building a regular conversation. Just like @clhendricksbc says, we will miss several of these events - but we still need them.

We should take chances to raise the profile of what we do here, but more importantly, we should keep doing those things, and work to build our community. It's a VERY good community, after all.