Joan BarreraPolitics Turned 'Trash TV': The Global Spectacle of Governance 📺🎭
https://joanfriendica.duckdns.org/display/848bfe52-9269-1e07-815f-3a1192220716
Jones[Sorry for reposting, final version]
I’ll bury all my children
I’ll carry them to death
I’ll bury all my children
I’ll carry them to death
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Funeral For My Future Children, Anna Von Hausswolff, https://annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/track/funeral-for-my-future-children-2
I think this is an "exorcism", meaning she was so eager to have children, and at the same time so scared of having them in a world like this, that she had to imagine herself as the killer of her children; because she internally wanted to have the greatest possible power to make them live well and for a long time, while the external world was and is negating this possibility, so, driven by the desire to have them, she imagined to be their killer, because that seemed to be the only way to have some control over the situation: when we think "i can't do anything about the state of the world", or some other big problem, sometimes this makes us feel so bad that we unconsciously end up preferring the idea that *we are guilty of the problem even if we are not at all*, because this imaginary guilt at least gives us the illusion that we can solve the problem or make it better by changing only ourselves; for example, in the case of the song, the illusion that she could solve the problem or make it better by becoming "good", or less "evil".
Funeral for my Future Children, by Anna von Hausswolff
from the album Ceremony
i. celeste aurora 
[witchzard]I think, we have to turn it upside down - don't tell people "it is like Twitter, but you have to choose a server", tell them:
Unholy/Syn(ACK) 
I think one of the things that I like best about being on Fedi is the idea of starting with a small community and building my social graph here from the ground up based on essentially word-of-mouth due to how federation works. I got exposed to a bunch of new people in my local instance, got to know them, and through them was able to branch out and find more and more people to interact with.
And finding a small community - and participating in it - is a lot easier than people think (and we generally haven't done a good job explaining that to new folks as a whole). It just takes a little bit of work and maybe an application and a waiting period to get accepted into that instance.
But every other social media that I've ever used has had the opposite model - get blasted in the face with everybody shouting from everywhere and whittle it down to your "community", which is what I think most people are now trained to accept, and maybe why they don't like the fediverse paradigm.
But for my money, I prefer to build my network from the bottom up, warts and all. It feels so much more like "communicating with" than "being shouted at", if that makes sense. Maybe that's why I love my instance so much - I took the time (and risk) to find one that looked like a group of people I would vibe with. 
Robert Cadenaeeesh ... so I'm thinking of restarting my mastodon instance (machine501.com) ... not sure why ...
MOVED TO POLYMATHS (Krafter)I feel like this is an amazing time to live in but nobody acknowledges it.
Many proprietary platforms are dying at the hands of investors.
Meanwhile, open source is flourishing and building up an amazing ecosystem that (at least for me) takes out the need for most proprietary software. The only proprietary stuff i use (besides broadcom drivers) are discord and video games.
James Wynn 🧐I'm not even sure if Legend of the Red Dragon was a good game. It was a time and place. The community and feel of those BBSs in the 90s. In a way it kind of reminds me of the feel of the fediverse now. Small communities loosely stitched together. I'm not sure how to recapture the gaming aspect of that though.
glennmagusharvey@alexhaist @tara I also feel hesitant at using hashtags because they feel like awkward pandering to me, like I'm begging for attention. Also because I have to think separately "okay, where can I add hashtags?", because I have zero sense for what should have hashtags.
For example, should I hashtag #hashtags in this message? What about #awkward? Or, if I'm feeling particularly shameless, what about #psychology, #fedithoughts, #mastothoughts?
Or maybe I'm just #shy...?
BadriWould it make sense for Mastodon instances to have a "federates with" or "top sister instances" list?
This could display on the About page but can be auto-generated unlike the blacklist. Just thinking, because now while browsing instances it's so easy to get a list of *bad* instances; not so easy to get a list of *good* ones!
Ferdi Groenewald 
Hope you guys and gals are having a good Monday? #FediThoughts #Mastodonuts