This 1984 Martha Gellhorn paragraph I titled "politics is everything" seems on point these days:

@Museek Preach it!

stupid and silly, but it is a humor break (from threads):

/amusement (YMMV) via threads: steven.cookson
Drunk American Jazz enthusiast passenger: It's really about the notes they DON'T play.
Me: Yeah I'm constantly not playing notes. I'm actually not playing notes right now even.

georgehtakei (/via threads)
We all learn eventually!

@Meantomyself
My 8 year old already knows what it's like to be an adult because he was playing with his Rubik's Cube and said, "I've gotten to the part where I don't know what I am doing"

from a neighboring social today:
Misandrosaurus Bex @bexone.bsky.social

Every time I see the "arc of history" thing I turn into the goose meme yelling "WHAT MAKES IT BEND" because like

It's not gonna do it BY ITSELF

Jul 19, 2024 at 9:57 AM

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.

- unknown source (posted on FB)

@gemswinc Amen!

@Museek thank you for posting this. much appreciated. 🙏

@BenA :snap: it is starting to seem like that is true. meanwhile co2 levels trend in the wrong direction.

was there a new media rule to take the "new" out of "news"? -- even with several different sources there is repetition day after day. i might be wrong(TM).

information and library science query: is there an open-access equivalent to <worldcat.org>? i am looking for a way to get machine-readable citations for books and articles

@Kinnison @Bliss Steel Rat Gamer, i think you are talking about Baltimore bridge / ship event; i am referring to a recent software bridge between the Bluesky and Mastodon social nets.

@Bliss bsky bridge report (final?): it works; there is a bot in the middle to ferry posts back and forth; network effects rule (my numbers of followers / following are small ....).

today's socials gem: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/112441397612608445

@Museek yes, i hear you on that -- also, i just like looking at them ....

@Bliss with an acc't on a fedi instance that does not block the bsky bridge, posting from one to the other seems to work; more tests needed to see what happens with re-skeets ....

There is a kind of insubstantiality to clouds, and a softness, a yielding…. In a way, everything is a cloud.
- Rick Hanson -
(note: no citation deets for this quote ... yet)

@Bliss yes, i know that is the situation. and i still have interest in the ideas and workings of a decentralized and idiosyncratically networked federation. so maybe i need to create a "lab rat in a lab coat" account somewhere else. (note: this post updated because of proofreading failure)

@[email protected] do you read me? (oh, too much shade?), no just complicated potatoes