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I'm still not here long term, but I'm tossing out a suggestion and want to maximize its propagation away from my usual Mastodon community.
Is there any interest (or any presence!) of a sports-centric instance of Mastodon - a community where we can ethically discuss US and world sport? The thing holding many folk to birdsite is the presence of sports media propagated there, and it would be nice to break that hold.
My direct messages here are open if this is something that you want to discuss.
Hello fediverse! It's been too long!
I'm going to leave this account up for posterity (it was my first attempt at Mastodon, after all) but I'm not going to put too much pressure on the original. Most of my use of networks like this is academic in any event. So my use of this handle is going to be EXTREMELY limited, to zero.
This is where I'll be for the long term. https://scholar.social/web/@TusculumPearson
13 Posts, 15 Following, 27 Followers · Associate Professor and Chair of Natural Sciences, Tusculum University. Geek at large. Seeing if this still exists.
tapping the mic one more time
the next time I speak I expect I'll make PRONOUCEMENTS
hey
is this thing on
Yesterday: Hey, the start of the term is pretty ok, workload-wise. I’m not really stressed. This term may be ok.
Today, with 17 things on todo list of which I did maybe half: Crap, how am I so behind already? This term is gonna be rough.
If you're new to Masto (or are old to it but still figuring it out) and you want to know how to sort out who to follow: One of my best methods is to find a good conversation, see who's saying things there that make sense, /and follow that profile/.
It's a vastly better algo than checking who's following you (assortment of rando space alien cats), soliciting suggestions (though that can work).
It also means that the best way to get followers /is to converse productively/.
I did get significantly (if nowhere near completely) caught up on work today.
I also got significantly (and completely) caught up on my favorite webcomic. http://somethingpositive.net/sp11212017.shtml
But I've been looking at things I wrote last year and wondering if there's anything worth resharing with anyone, and I found this, and all of you came back to mind.
Rereading it broke my heart, because following through on the commitment is so hard, and my my best intentions might not be worth a hill of beans. But it's still so important to try.
So I'm here. I will try to stay here, for you, and for me. https://chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/lymi/
And I've mentally shut Mastodon out. Honestly, I'm not sure why - we know this is a comforting place. But for whatever reason, I've actively resisted comfort this season.
I don't know if it's for any reason similar to why I've resisted the sleep I so desperately have needed.
So yeah. I'm pretty upset, about a lot of things, and I don't know how to put form and shape into the path forward, other than to just throw forward and do.
Chuck Pearson
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