Don't really think the whole Twitter migration worked, at least not for me… Just being here is isolating and doesn't help with networking, plus I miss everyone who didn't switch, so I think from now on, I'll be active both on #Mastodon and on #Twitter / #X… Sure hope the #Fediverse won't hate me for this! 💀
@ninokadic I agree, there used to be more activity and @academicchatter here. There are some very active political philosophers on #BlueSky and I got some important news and paper alerts there. But my timeline is more diverse and more fun here!
@leochavez Depends whether the game felt like an upward hill battle or not! I only say conquered for Souls-like games because they tend to be player hostile in nature, it feels like a constant battle between me and the game. I tend to finish these games out of spite. For games with a player friendly nature or normal difficulty, I tend to say finished or completed because I had fun during my playthrough.
like... just not having to bring up, much less explain, cptsd because the other person can talk about their own self-work... at this stage in my life, meeting new people again, i really appreciate that the @actuallyautistic and ND community writ large is figuring out our shit and healing.
For a long time I've been bothered by problems with the Paradise Lost #wikipedia article. Periodically I go try to improve one section or another, but I feel like it needs a group effort. Do I know any Miltonists or #Milton sympathizers interested in a mini editathon?? or Milton haters if you've got the receipts!
(#ParadiseLost? is that a hashtag anyone would use??)
@medievalists Interesting article, & use of DNA analysis! Chess pieces made of horse, cow & deer bones - and "fashioned by groups (of pawns, of rooks, of bishops and knights and of queens and kings), which testifies to planned, routine activity, probably in a specialized workshop."
@josephcox This also affects science - when you visit the website of the journal "Nature", sources like Bidswitch and Pubmatic are installed. So researchers are in the view of this shady company and its customers.
"I guess everybody felt like if they did the work and enough people did the work for personal development that somehow that would create a massive shift and everybody all at once would experience collective leap in consciousness. This lie, this neoliberal lie of moving towards collectivism through startling individualism and navel gazing has just blown me away. And I feel like that took over the entire decolonial movement. I feel like it's in every every activist movement." Tyson Yunkaporta
Theres an LaTimes think piece about how bosses are unhappy that the people they forced back into offices no longer have the office etiquette that they had pre-covid and are forcing employees to take “charm school” classes.
Cry harder, you fucking babies. You asked for this. Fuck your conversion therapy.
@TiciaVerveer This is a fascinating paper, thanks for posting!
"dolia were no ordinary class of pottery, but highly specialised vessels whose size, shape, materiality & buried setting all contributed decisively to the nature and quality of ancient wines" #Roman#winemaking#ceramics@histodons