Brandon's Notepad

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Live richly, take notes along the way. Lifelong learner, techie, reader, Catholic convert, tea & coffee lover, socially-conscientious patriot. ICXC+NIKA
I’ve heard that you can follow accounts from other platforms on the #Fediverse from #Mastodon. Yesterday, I decided to test this and started following a #podcast on #Funkwhale. I’ve already received a toot announcing the release of an episode. This Fedithing is growing on me.

#CancelCulture
It isn’t new.
It isn’t #ethical.
It certainly isn’t #moral.
Some say it isn’t even real!

Currently seeking #opinions on any or all of the above statements. Thinking about #writing a #blog post on the topic.

Welcome to Libreture all you new readers!

You're joining thousands of other users who have created their own personal online libraries from their ebook, digital comic & magazine collections!

https://www.libreture.com/

Currently #reading “Holy Cow” by David Duchovny, who I did’t know was an author until recently. Sixty pages in. So far, so good. #NotShakespeare

"Are you having hot chocolate or coffee?" she asked.

"Coffee, please." I replied.

"Are you sure? It's snowing. Hot chocolate and snow kinda go together."

I had to give her that, but then my thoughts snapped sharply to the ubiquity of coffee and its contributions to the progress of mankind.

"Yes, but coffee goes with everything...from petting the kittens on the back porch to...well...war."

There is #snow on the ground in #Texas. It is not a day to venture out, as Texans are notoriously bad about driving in this kind of #weather. It’s a good day to #binge #read some of those #books on the shelf and to drink some warm #coffee and/or #tea. Who’s with me?
Who out there listens to the #WriteNow #podcast by Sarah Rhea Werner? It’s a show for professional and aspiring #writers about #writing as a #lifestyle. She has some really good and #practical #advice. Over 100 episodes! Highly recommended.

When you feel like you have nothing left to say, nothing left to #write about that hasn’t already been written, remember that the real #challenge isn’t novelty, but to deliver timeless messages to a new #audience in a novel way. This is not new and you are not alone.

Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.
(#Ecclesiastes 1:10)

Quick questions for those who (have at least attempted to) keep a diary: how important is it to #write in your diary #daily? Were you taught to do this as a #child? Do the words #diary and #journal have different meanings or evoke different #emotions or #memories for you?
Just doing some random searching on Mastodon tonight and ended up in comic book land. I can’t believe that a search on the #TMNT hashtag yielded zero pics of the original #comic. Thank you so much, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, for providing hours upon hours of #turtle-tainment over the years. [And I weep for what has become of your magnum opus.]