Hey masto, if you’ve been here for more than a few weeks and you really like your instance and have a minute, could you weigh in here and name it and say why you like it? We have new folks coming in and I never know where to point them for real-talk instance recs.

Would love to know whether your instance is open to new people, whether it strictly moderates abuse (racist, misogynist, anti-LGBT, disability-linked), how aggressive its defed policies are, whether it’s technically stable.

The bird is dead
That we have made so much on. I had rather
Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,
To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch,
Than have seen this.

Cymbeline[IV, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #DogsOfMastodon #RateLimitExceeded #FFS😠

Another #twitter migration? Welcome, former tweeters! This is an example of an #introduction post (it will put you in people's searches and help them discover your beautiful self):

My name is Ink, and I love #poetry, #shortfiction, #art (#drawings, #paintings, #collage, #mixedmedia), #movies, #film, #cartoons / #anime, and #music. I also am the EIC of @StanzaCannon - an online #litmag for audio poetry.

Make sure you use ALL the hashtags for the things you want to have in your feed!

Photograph from THE STARS, AT OUR FEET - my project from 2015 celebrating Eryri being designated the world’s 10th International Dark Sky Reserve, undertaken as part of my residency for the Snowdonia National Park Authority

+more here: https://medium.com/the-signifier/the-stars-at-our-feet-d96e4dfd666f?sk=f335b76318fe65a4a7cbe8ad91d24686

#art #poetry #photography

Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.

Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace

If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.