Clara Zetkin: For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6105
Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
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Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Le Grimpereau des bois
Il est insectivore et monte vers le haut des troncs pour chercher les invertébrés qu'il trouve dans l'écorce avec son fin bec incurvé.
Suivez les trois R: Respect de soi; Respect des autres; Responsabilité de toutes vos actions.
Cette citation n'est pas du Dalai Lama 14, mais de Horace Jackson Brown, Jr. dans son ouvrage "Life's Little Instruction Book Volume II" (1993) qui était un best-seller du New York Times comme le volume I.
Extrait de "Life's Little Instruction Book Volume II" de Horace Jackson Brown, Jr. (1993):
563 - N'oubliez pas qu'au moment même où vous dites «J'abandonne», quelqu'un d'autre se trouve dans la même situation et dit «Quelle belle opportunité».
564 - La prochaine fois que vous serez à New York, visitez l'antenne principale de la bibliothèque publique sur la Cinquième Avenue. Inoubliable.
565 - N'offrez jamais à personne un service à fondue ou un objet peint en vert avocat.
566 - Ne laissez pas votre famille si occupée que vous ne preniez pas au moins un repas par jour ensemble.
567 - N'oubliez pas les trois R: Respect de soi, respect des autres, responsabilité de tous ses actes.
568 - En voyage, emportez votre propre réveil. Les réveils des hôtels ne sont pas toujours fiables.
569 - Lorsque vous perdez, ne perdez pas la leçon.
570 - Laissez la lumière du porche allumée jusqu'à ce que toute la famille soit rentrée pour la nuit.
571 - Ne plantez des courgettes que si vous avez beaucoup d'amis.
572 - Apportez un petit cadeau à l'hôte ou à l'hôtesse lorsque vous êtes invité à dîner. Un livre est un bon choix.
|Suivez les trois R: Respect de soi; Respect des autres; Responsabilité de toutes vos actions.|
L'amour est cette merveilleuse chance qu'un autre vous aime encore quand vous ne pouvez plus vous aimer vous-même.
Citation tronquée extraite de l'ouvrage "Aventures de l'esprit" de Jean Guéhenno (1954).
La photo d'illustration est hors propos.
Extrait de l'ouvrage "Aventures de l'esprit" de Jean Guéhenno (1954):
Si l'amour, dans le cas des nations comme dans le cas des hommes et des femmes, est cette merveilleuse chance qu'un autre vous aime encore quand vous ne pouvez plus vous aimer vous-même, qu'un autre continue de croire en vous quand vous n'osez plus y croire vous-même, j'ai vérifié, au cours de ce voyage, que l'amour ne manque pas à la France, et je veux le dire aux Français. Car tous, à quelque instant de ces cinq années, si entêtés que nous ayons été d'espérance, nous avons douté de nous-mêmes : nous sentions sur nous la souillure de la trahison. Je ne puis dire la douceur qu'il y avait à reconnaître partout une fraternité qui n'avait jamais cessé d'être. Je veux ici remercier nos amis Brésiliens, Argentins, Uruguayens, Chiliens, Péruviens, Mexicains, de m'avoir donné cette joie. Qu'ils m'excusent de ne désigner aucun d'eux nommément. C'est que cela est proprement impossible. J'ai lu dans tous leurs regards qu'ils savaient que nous n'avions jamais perdu l'honneur et qu'ils continuaient d'espérer en nous. Nos désastres de 1940 les avaient, à la lettre, remplis de stupeur. Si éloignés, et trompés par les journaux des traîtres, ils ne comprenaient pas, ils ne pouvaient comprendre ce qui leur paraissait être notre résignation. Ils ne pouvaient y croire. Quand les échos leur vinrent de notre résistance à partir de 1943, ce fut, sur toutes les lèvres, le même « Je vous l'avais bien dit », et le 21 août 1944, à la nouvelle que Paris était délivré, (la nouvelle était fausse encore, mais ils ne pouvaient plus attendre), ce fut, dans toutes les capitales de l'Amérique du Sud, la même fête, la même acclamation, la même Marseillaise.
|L'amour est cette merveilleuse chance qu'un autre vous aime encore quand vous ne pouvez plus vous aimer vous-même.|
Existe-t-il pour l'Homme un bien plus précieux que la Santé?
Cette citation n'est pas exactement de Socrate, mais d'un médecin dans l'imaginaire de Socrate qui lui affirme que le plus grand bien est la santé. Elle se trouve dans "Gorgias", dialogue socratique écrit par Platon vers 380 avant J.-C.
Or, Socrate va nous expliquer que la santé et la maladie cohabitent ensemble dans le corps, contrairement au bien et au mal. La santé n'est donc pas un bien mais un désir réalisé (agréable).
Extrait de "Gorgias", dialogue socratique écrit par Platon vers 380 avant J.-C.:
C'est que tu pourrais bien être assailli tout de suite par les artisans de ces biens vantés par l'auteur de la chanson, le médecin, le pédotribe et le financier, et que le médecin le premier pourrait me dire: «Socrate, Gorgias te trompe. Ce n'est pas son art qui a pour objet le plus grand bien de l'humanité, c'est le mien.» Et si je lui demandais: «Qui es-tu, toi, pour parler de la sorte?», il me répondrait sans doute qu'il est médecin. – «Que prétends-tu donc? Que le produit de ton art est le plus grand des biens?» il me répondrait sans doute: «Comment le contester, Socrate, puisque c'est la santé? Y a-t-il pour les hommes un bien plus grand que a santé?» Et si, après le médecin, le pédotribe à son tour me disait: «Je serais, ma foi, bien surpris, moi aussi, Socrate, que Gorgias pût te montrer de son art un bien plus grand que moi du mien», je lui répondrais à lui aussi: «Qui es-tu, l'ami, et quel est ton ouvrage? – Je suis pédotribe, dirait-il, et mon ouvrage, c'est de rendre les hommes beaux et robustes de corps.» Après le pédotribe, ce serait, je pense, le financier qui me dirait, avec un souverain mépris pour tous les autres: «Vois donc, Socrate, si tu peux découvrir un bien plus grand que la richesse, soit chez Gorgias soit chez tout autre. – Quoi donc! lui dirions-nous. Es-tu, toi, fabricant de richesse? – Oui. – En quelle qualité? – En qualité de financier. – Et alors, dirions-nous, tu juges, toi, que la richesse est pour les hommes le plus grand des biens? – Sans contredit, dirait-il. – Voici pourtant, Gorgias, répondrions-nous, qui proteste que son art produit un plus grand bien que le tien.» Il est clair qu'après cela il demanderait: «Et quel est ce bien? Que Gorgias s'explique.» Allons, Gorgias, figure-toi qu'eux et moi, nous te posons cette question. Dis-nous quelle est cette chose que tu prétends être pour les hommes le plus grand des biens et que tu te vantes de produire.
https://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/Philosophie/Platon-Gorgias.pdf
|Existe-t-il pour l'Homme un bien plus précieux que la Santé?|
D'énormes bulles repérées à la surface de l'étoile géante R Doradus.
Selon un article publié dans la revue Nature, ces bulles de gaz géantes et chaudes à la surface de R Doradus ont une taille environ 75 fois supérieure à celle de notre soleil.
Ces images de R Doradus ont été prises avec ALMA le 18 juillet, le 27 juillet et le 2 août 2023. Crédit image : ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Vlemmings et al.
R Doradus est située à environ 178 années-lumière dans la constellation méridionale de Dorado.
Également connue sous le nom de HD 29712, IRAS 04361-6210 ou TIC 38877693, l'étoile a un diamètre d'environ 350 fois celui du Soleil.
Sa masse est similaire à celle de notre Soleil, ce qui signifie que R Doradus est probablement assez semblable à ce que sera le Soleil dans cinq milliards d'années, une fois qu'il sera devenu une géante rouge.
R Doradus est généralement visible à l'œil nu, mais dans l'infrarouge, c'est l'une des étoiles les plus brillantes du ciel.
«Les étoiles produisent de l'énergie en leur cœur grâce à la fusion nucléaire», expliquent le professeur Wouter Vlemmings et ses collègues de l'université de technologie de Chalmers.
«Cette énergie peut être transportée vers la surface de l'étoile sous la forme d'énormes bulles de gaz brûlantes, qui se refroidissent ensuite et coulent - comme une lampe à lave.»
«Ce mouvement de mélange, appelé convection, distribue les éléments lourds formés dans le cœur, tels que le carbone et l'azote, dans l'ensemble de l'étoile.»
«On pense également qu'il est à l'origine des vents stellaires qui transportent ces éléments dans le cosmos pour construire de nouvelles étoiles et planètes.»
«Jusqu'à présent, les mouvements de convection n'avaient jamais été étudiés en détail dans des étoiles autres que le Soleil.»
À l'aide de l'Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), les auteurs ont observé R Doradus pendant quatre semaines, entre le 2 juillet et le 2 août 2023.
Ils ont pu obtenir des images à haute résolution de la surface de l'étoile.
«C'est la première fois que la surface bouillonnante d'une véritable étoile peut être montrée de cette manière», a déclaré le professeur Vlemmings.
«Nous ne nous attendions pas à ce que les données soient d'une qualité telle que nous puissions voir autant de détails de la convection à la surface de l'étoile.»
«La convection est à l'origine de la magnifique structure granulaire observée à la surface de notre Soleil, mais elle est difficile à observer sur d'autres étoiles», a déclaré le Dr Theo Khouri, également de l'université technologique de Chalmers.
«Grâce à ALMA, nous avons pu non seulement observer directement les granules de convection, dont la taille est 75 fois supérieure à celle de notre Soleil, mais aussi mesurer pour la première fois la vitesse à laquelle ils se déplacent.»
Les granules de R Doradus semblent se déplacer sur un cycle d'un mois, ce qui est plus rapide que ce que les astronomes attendaient en se basant sur le fonctionnement de la convection dans le Soleil.
«Nous ne savons pas encore ce qui explique cette différence. Il semble que la convection change au fur et à mesure que l'étoile vieillit, d'une manière que nous ne comprenons pas encore», a déclaré le professeur Vlemmings.
«Des observations telles que celles de R Doradus nous aident à comprendre comment les étoiles comme le Soleil se comportent, même lorsqu'elles deviennent aussi froides, grosses et bouillonnantes que R Doradus.»
«Il est spectaculaire que nous puissions maintenant imager directement les détails de la surface d'étoiles si lointaines et observer la physique qui, jusqu'à présent, n'était observable que dans notre soleil», a déclaré Behzad Bojnodi Arbab, étudiant en doctorat à l'université technologique de Chalmers.
Source:
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/huge-bubbles-surface-giant-star-r-doradus-13258.html
Le télescope spatial Hubble a contribué à résoudre le mystère de l'eau qui s'échappe de Mars.
Les scientifiques ont découvert que les taux d'échappement de l'hydrogène et de l'«hydrogène lourd», appelé deutérium, changent rapidement lorsque Mars est proche du Soleil. Cette découverte bouleverse l'image classique que les scientifiques avaient jusqu'à présent, selon laquelle ces atomes se diffusaient lentement dans l'atmosphère jusqu'à une hauteur où ils pouvaient s'échapper. L'extrapolation du taux d'échappement dans le temps a aidé l'équipe à comprendre l'histoire de l'eau sur la planète rouge.
Voici des images Hubble dans l'ultraviolet lointain de Mars à son point le plus éloigné du Soleil, appelé aphélie, le 31 décembre 2017 (en haut), et à son point le plus proche du Soleil, appelé périhélie, le 19 décembre 2016 (en bas). L'atmosphère est clairement plus lumineuse et plus étendue lorsque Mars est proche du Soleil.
La lumière solaire réfléchie par Mars à ces longueurs d'onde montre la diffusion par les molécules atmosphériques et la brume, tandis que les calottes polaires et certaines caractéristiques de la surface sont également visibles. Hubble et MAVEN de la NASA ont montré que les conditions atmosphériques martiennes changent très rapidement. Lorsque Mars est proche du Soleil, les molécules d'eau s'élèvent très rapidement dans l'atmosphère, se brisant et libérant des atomes à haute altitude.
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The chasm and chamber open up, fewer lights than before linger but all is the same dull brightness.
Continuing its f͑ͨ̒͝ą̥͙̬̫̙̤͍̠̥̊͆̇̄̀̎ͭͯ̊͗ͩl̸̸̡̨̙͗͠͡s̮̙̼͕̮̬͎̏̆ͮḝ̸̷̵̨̯̟͈̦̱̜͎̻͂͐̎̒̚͟͝h̨̛͖̣̗̰̗̠̬̬ͨ̓͆̑̂̉͌͠o̸̢͔͚̹̲̰̲̖̭̠̺͈̅̂ͫ̈̏̆̊̚͢͜͡ơ̸̠̭̥̭̺̭̻͙͇̋̌̆̇̏ͩ͊͛̆̔̋̕̚͢͢͠͞ͅ_̞̠̥̭ͩd̵̷̨̦̯͎͍̳̣̬̳̮͕́ͮ̎̈́ͧͭ̑̄̏͑ͥ͂͌̚̚͠͞
of pretending infrastructure with no intention of designating purpose to itself. Tiles on the now very high up ceiling, protrude a yellow reflection from the carpet floor. Only noticing the Rot which slowly creeps down, Invisible at first but with time becomes more noticeable, maybe even growing? A hand imprint on the wall glares into the open, empty chasm.
This place has been forgotte- no.. Abandoned. If god exists, it won't be here and if the Devil exists, this would be a prison even for ḩ̵̸̢̖̟͕̫̄ͭͤ́͆ͣ̏͆͊ȉ̴̸̡̛͉̙͚̣̗̦͕̥͍͚̯͉̦̫̐ͤ̀́́͒̅͂̆ͥ̀̽̑ͫ̓͑̚͘͜͞ͅm̶̡̡̨̨̢̰̹͉̩̭̙͍̹̋̿̃̎̉͊ͭͥ̽ͦ̀̚͞͡͡
The hand is not there. ǝɯᴉʇ sᴉɥʇ ʎʅuo ,ɯsɐɥɔ ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ oʇ punoɹɐ ʞɔɐq spuᴉʍ sʇI .xǝʅdɯoɔ ǝɥʇ ɟo uɹnʇ ǝʅqᴉssodɯᴉ uɐ ʇɐ sɹnɔɔo ɹǝuɹoɔ ǝʅqɐǝɔᴉʇou ɐ ʇǝdɹɐɔ ᵷuᴉɥsnɯ ǝɥʇ ssoɹɔɐ ᵷuᴉʞʅɐM
Where the hand was,, there is now a door. Djduehwjdiwoq187#817+$9991
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Lights dim, shadows grow
Life's sin, shallows row
Chords plucked, listen more.
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A First Post
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First post on Friendica
So I'm relatively new to fediverse, although I have already interacted with federated protocols (such as Matrix, but Matrix is way different from Mastodon/Friendica/Bluesky/Pleroma/etc).
I have been sailing through two Mastodon instances, but Mastodon's character limit is low for my needs. I'm a developer (JS, PHP, Python, etc) that also like to write poetry and chronicles, as well as interacting with AI to create artistic representations of the gothic and the dark supernatural. While it seems that Friendica supports more characters, I'll know it the moment I send this first post. It has 1342 characters in total.
I have a syncretic view over the reality, trying to converge scientific inquiry with the philosophical questioning and the metaphysical spirituality from all religions and belief systems (even when they seem to "contradict" one another; actually, they have more in common than people think, starting from the beginning of the existence from primordial waters from the amniotic liquid to the electromagnetic fields permeating the cosmos, but it's a subject for another future post).
One important thing for me to ask: does the instance allow AI Art (e.g. from artistic representations of daemons such as Astaroth and Lilith to mathematical concepts such as fractals; obviously these AI imagery would be marked as so)?
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@Daemon Silverstein This instance? I allow properly marked AI content, I would also suggest content warnings (in Friendica it's done with [abstract]content warning message[/abstract]), but I count that more as a courtesy effort than something I'm going to really demand.
Friendica has no character limit set.
As Friendica isn't the friendliest user interface, if you do find you'd prefer Mastodon or Mastodon-like, there are many that have higher character limits.
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzgsBSEiEgLhn4vA5YER6ds57Zu12VfwD&si=99ybkfxy9ATFvMH4
Pt 3 is still in the works as this is a rework from 2020
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Sorry for the downtime
Housing situation has been a pain, still on the temporary server environment and been hitting major resources bottlenecks.
I'm hoping to get a place sooner, but I've hit some roadblocks that very likely will push it drastically further out... in which case I'll need to spend more money on this environment to return things to stable.
Reminder that I'm covering this entirely out of my own pocket and these constraints are because I'm between homes and can't use my own much cheaper hardware. If you appreciate this instance I would very much appreciate a donation.
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Friendica vs Mastodon
I tried Friendica previously, but never figured out what I wanted to do with it, and deleted it after a while. But after I'd read the excellent post @Elena Rossini wrote on her blog I realised I really should give it another chance, and decided to put a little more effort into it this time. So I created this account yesterday, and now I'm trying to decide how I want to use it. Some part of that uncertainty is because I haven't figured out all the bells and whistles of the platform, and I don't always quite understand what the help pages are trying to tell me. This is definitely mostly on me, having some preconceived notions and expectations, and getting a little confused here and there. This is not Facebook or Goggle+, it is its own thing.
For the most part though, just trying things out with one eye on those help pages have solved any questions I've had.
After I had signed up, I initially imported all the accounts I am following on Mastodon, but am starting to regret this. The two networks are obviously very different beasts, and I will act accordingly from now on. My current idea is to use Friendica, at least partly, as a sort of news aggregator, following accounts both on the fediverse and via RSS feeds, so a lot of those Mastodon accounts will be unfollowed here for a quieter experience and left on Mastodon. Just because you can follow everything everywhere on ActivityPub, it doesn't always make the best sense. But that, of course, is also the beauty of this, what doesn't make the best sense for me, might do for someone else. Different folks...
Occasionally I may even post something here, things that require more than 500 words, things like this.
That's what I'm planning to do right now, anyway. Who knows what I'll think tomorrow?
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@Jarulf @Elena Rossini welcome aboard! I'm definitely saving that article, might link it or one of the guides it mentions in the getting started welcome panel (... I should review that as well, I haven't looked at it in ages)
Also remember there's a helper group as you're figuring things out, just tag helpers@forum.friendi.ca (not tagged here because otherwise it'll share this comment to the group). I'm also happy to help out my users!
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I'm figuring things out as I go along, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it here. I'll be sure to ask for help when I'm getting too confused
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Long time no writing here
I started to digging into my latest hobby of #bookbinding (but it's not the only one i assure you)
And made several pamphlet, with also some custom design.
I recently made couple of handmade hardcover journals. One using a custom hero-quest character sheet, the other one is just a lined notebook.
More info for who is interested are available here: https://ko-fi.com/post/Two-more-bookbinding-projects-M4M511EWAN (don't worry all my posts on #ko-fi are free)
It also gave my a nice surprise of receiveing the first donation ever (even if it will be the last it still made me happy! :) ) Any opinion comment is appreciated.
These are couple of pictures of my latest works:
https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/useruploads/display/e25f68b4-5f59-4dd9-aa52-e93b11fe46e5_1000053442.jpg
any comment/critics is appreciated.
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Hey there, I'm Kees (they/them/their, ne/nem/nir), a 30-something bug living in California. I'm hoping to make this my public facing account to share my art and generally interact with the rest of the fediverse.
I'm an amateur naturalist (I like BIRDS and BUGS, especially parasitic wasps) and I do art in various media (digital, watercolor, acrylic), usually of birds or original characters from an ARPG I help run. #tokipona li pona. Aaand I don't know what else to put in here so I'll stop ha.
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in reply to Vanessa • •@Vanessa That would be me for future reference (in the menu under information it has a lot of the server details and in there is a link to my profile as well as my email address)
If you look further down on that error message where it says HTTP 502 Bad Gateway it tells me the server might have been having issues at that point in time. In all honestly it's kinda unavoidable at the time due to resource constraints, sites currently on a rented dedicated server until I fix my housing situation (current ETA is late october when I can work on putting it back on my own, more stable, hardware again), so it probably was just having issues loading that page at that time.
There's not a lot I can do with troubleshooting clients, but let me know if it keeps having trouble and maybe I can work with you to find some answers?
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in reply to Shiri Bailem • •It's working fine now. Thanks
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