Time for a #discord alternatives thread, for no particular reason.
I've actually been looking into all available options for the past few weeks for other reasons, so here's a thread to share what I've found.
In particular I'm looking for stuff with:
* Data sovereignty
* Strong moderation tools
* Wide platform support
Hopefully this gives everyone else some ideas too, and feel free to chime in with corrections, suggestions or anything else!
Episode 33 is out! 🫡 We are diving into the story of Lakshmi Sahgal and the Rani of the Jhansi Regiment, the first all-female combat unit in modern Indian history, formed in Singapore during World War II.
ℹ️ Most members were teenage Tamil girls from plantation communities who left estate life to train as soldiers in the Indian National Army and were later sent to the Burma front.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/herstoryseapod
#HerstorySEAPod #WomenInHistory
#TootSEA #Podcast #History #Asia #India
19 December 1898 | Czech Jewish woman, Gertruda Nefová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 9 October 1944. She did not survive.
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The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/z-getta-w-theresienstadt-do-obozu-auschwitz-ii-birkenau/gQiyl0Ei?hl=en
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 17 - Give a shout-out to a resource or site you think more writers should know.
A few years ago, I tried to create a link page with all English-language folk tale collections in the public domain that I could find, similar to the one at the German Wikisource site.
Here it is, and feel free to add any works you know of!
(Rare work post, you know what I do)
Yes I'm a fan of the creative team that produces Pluribus. Yes, it's an Apple TV show. Because yes, Android users can get the Apple TV App on Google Play, subscribe to it, and watch the show.
Yes I still ask the interview question "Do you like creative people?"
The X-Files producers had a problem: Season 1 was a big hit, but where would they get ideas for another 24 episodes for season 2?
A sci-fi nerd / Twilight zone fan from Virginia went to film school, saw season 1 of the X-Files, and thought it was the coolest show ever. He wrote a fan script for it.
The X-Files producers saw his fan script, and said "This is really good!" So they hired him to be a writer for X-Files season two.
He worked on the X-Files for 7 years.
Then he had a weird idea for a disturbed show about a high school chemistry teacher that becomes a meth dealing drug kingpin.
Great Movies and TV, are made by great Movie and TV makers. Creative people, working together, to produce something new.
Human beings love stories. Some of us go so far as to say that human beings need stories.
Sometimes I think that people forget that our role is to support creative people.
I've never met Vince Gilligan. I don't know him personally. I don't know if he's a nice person.
I only know his work.
Or more accurately, the output of his work. The tiny bit that makes it through all the rough drafts and bad takes, and didn't get cut in editing, and that studios released.
And I know that he didn't produce his shows by himself. He was part of a team, that is in turn part of an entire ecosystem of people and companies and organizations that support the production of creative work that we all enjoy.
I like creative people, and the ecosystem that supports them.
No Twilight Zone? No X-Files.
No X-Files? No Breaking Bad.
No Breaking Bad? No Pluribus.
It's easy to see how the world would be missing something if those never happened.
What's harder to see, is that there are other stories that didn't happen because we didn't support Black producers in 1959.
First guest post on my website by the expert on German folk tales @juergen_hubert ☺️
Jürgen explains the Wild Hunt phenomenon, what the tales have in common, introduces the leaders of the hunt, and reveals why the spirits are on the move at all:
I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.
NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115656072048265142
Brilliant. Totally stealing this.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115651353406288981
The only rational response.
Marc
Agas Ramirez 🎙️
Auschwitz Memorial
Jürgen Hubert
mekka okereke 
Erotic Mythology 💘
Ruben Bolling 🪲
Rudy Rucker