Them: "Mastodon is hard to use."
Me: _gets started easily_
#coops

Them: "The #fediverse is fragmented - hard to find anyone."
Me: _easily finds many folks here I know or enjoy_
👋

Them: "It's just white male tech nerds"
Me: _discovers fairly robust presence of non-white, non-male folks_
✊

Them: "It's set up so it's antiviral"
Me: _sees more interest in my thoughts here than ever on the birdsite_
🙃

Them: "Local servers are like isolated islands."
Me: _finds a canoe to explore archipelago_
🛶

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

George Eliot

#SuddenWords #Poetry

Soluble

Whisked mixture
Tincture of time
Subtle this moment
Escaped and sublime

They dance on pardoned waves
Alone, distinct in water
Dissolving feet first in passion
Ripples beneath the surface

Fixed concoction
Harbor divided
Brash in action
Staying, no longer guided

By Norman Barton

King Lud was a pre-Roman #Celtic King who rebuilt #London and the city is thought to derive its name from him. His original settlement was said to be at Ludgate Hill. Worn statues of Lud and his sons are on display in a church in Fleet Street in London.
King Lud is associated with Lludd Llaw Ereint, "Lludd of the Silver Hand", a legendary hero from Welsh #mythology. In the #Mabinogion, Lludd is the ruler of #Britain while his brother Llefelys ruled #Gaul.

#Wales #Cymru #ancienthistory #histodon

“­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.”

On Margaret Atwood's birthday, her 10 rules of writing https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/10/05/margaret-atwood-10-rules-of-writing/