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Older mastodon newbie. Joined November 8, 2022.

Learned to program in PASCAL, on printer-only terminal running at 8 baud. Or did I dream that?

I love to read. WAY too much screen time.

Enjoy walking outdoors, especially near water.

Use to photograph with an SLR and actual film. I take lots of photos with my camera, my SLR is too heavy to lug around.

#reading #walking #music #photography

Beyond heartbroken for the 5 people killed & 18 injured in a mass shooting at #ClubQ, an LGBTQ nightclub in #ColoradoSprings. If you can, please support families & survivors verified GoFundMe’s:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-the-club-q-families-and-survivors
https://www.gofundme.com/f/victims-of-club-q-colorado-springs-mass-shooting
https://www.gofundme.com/f/classroom-of-compassion-in-colorado-springs-co
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TDoR 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
3 Good Things, Saturday morning edition:
1. I applied for a doctoral degree program! Let’s see what happens.
2. I finished Nanowrimo! Got the first draft done of Novel #3 in my trilogy and also set a publication date (Dec 21) for Novel #2 in the same trilogy.
3. My son is having friends over tonight! (edited to include exclamation point to match how I feel about the previous two items, which is to say, excited!) This might not sound like a big deal. I’ve wanted to create a new home for him and his older brother that felt cozy and comfortable and different from the home he has with his dad. Him having friends over makes it feel normal. (edited to remove air quotes around the word 'normal' because normal means it does not deserve air quotes... so, we're in the normal zone... yay!!!). I’m very happy about that. And we got our Christmas tree up, too, so it will be a little sparkly-celebratory, too.
#3GoodThings @3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings
#AmWriting #ChristmasTree #cozy #DBA #desi #divorce #doctorate #EcoFiction #Fiction #friends #home #MixedDesi #Nanowrimo #tree #trilogy #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #writing

One of the many small tributaries to the River Etive begins its journey up on Rannoch Moor. Water flows down from the many small lochans towards the Kings House Hotel and on down Glen Etive. Here, the water flows over small rocks in its path creating eddies that lead your eye up to Buachaille Etive Mòr.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Glencoe #RannochMoor

Musk owns Twitter. It’s his now, and he can ban or promote anyone he wants.

He is currently banning people for calling him a “jerk” on offsite blogs (true story).

He is verifying actual Nazis with handles like “Day of the Ropes”, which promote literal genocide (also true).

It’s his right.

It is your right to decide if you want to support genocidal incitement by giving Musk and his Nazi friends your free labor, your free art, and your eyeballs.

Should be an easy decision. Right? Right!?

💚 Artist: #FARRAH / #FarrahContemporaryArt
- in City: #Bristol Greville Rd. off North St. Bedminster, UK 🇬🇧 - (📷 via #catsandcoffeecreativity ) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork
Toot Time 21.11.22 /01:23 😉
Hello, #histodons 👋
I just joined #Mastodon so I am briefly introducing myself.
I am currently a #PostdoctoralFellow at #UniversityCollegeDublin where I am researching a project entitled “Making Fun of the Fascists: Humor Against the Leader Cult in Italy, France, and Germany, 1922–1945.” This is a study of how #humor was used as an instrument of political resistance against dictators in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Vichy France.
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel in economics, though she was a political scientist, for her carefully gathered evidence that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable & that communities that successfully govern common resources (water, fisheries, forests, etc) use 8 design principles. I like this brief explanation that specifically mentions #onlinecommunities
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-design-principles-for-collective-governance-of-the-commons-.html
A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons”

Reminder: Running a company with billions in government contracts and subsidies is Elon Musk's MO.