the roamer5d ago

Sir Archibald often drafted long posts, then re-read them, then deleted them without trace. Over dinner in the Great Hall, some of the more boisterous knights made rude (if good-natured) jokes about it.

"Deleting is good and Sir Archibald is right", our Lady Joan Mastodon finally intervened. "His deleted toots speak louder than any published toot ever will. If you know how to listen, you can hear his untoots. They are beautiful."

"As is everything you do, Archie," she said quietly to her old friend.

#JoanMastodon #silence #deleting #untoots

Show threadVirginicus
@the_roamer I owe all my career success to the emails I wrote and then deleted without sending.
Jun 23 at 11:43pmWeb
Show threadthe roamer5d ago

@Virginicus

:-) Oh yes, absolutely. However, here Lady Joan Mastodon did not want to advise her knights on how to avoid upsetting their superiors or their paying clients, important though that is. (She wasn't very good with office politics and career management. She died in battle.) Her remarks referred to the mystical communion between tooters through the medium of the mutually unspoken. She was a bit of a mystic and Taoist, our Lady Joan was. Not everybody understands those more spiritual aspects of the ActivityPub protocol.

Either way, we all must exercise continued self restraint and must abstain from sending off those frank emails to our bosses! :-)

Show threadVirginicus5d ago
@the_roamer 🤣