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Enver Hoxha: As a result of the implementation of the correct revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line of the Bolshevik Party led by Stalin, the socialist transformations throughout the country were successfully carried out within a short period of time, the backwardness inherited from the Czarist regime was liquidated, and the Soviet Union was transformed into a powerful socialist State with modern industry, with a large-scale collectivized agriculture, with a most advanced technology and science, with a tremendous economic and military potential. The great historic victory over fascism in the years of the Second World War was achieved and the role and importance of the Soviet country in international life grew considerably. The consolidation and growth of the influence of the communist movement in the world, the creation and consolidation of the socialist camp after the Second World War, the general weakening of the positions of international imperialism and the great successes in the development of the world proletarian revolution are due, to a considerable extent, to the internationalist revolutionary line consistently implemented by J.V. Stalin. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6025
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”).
Rosa Luxemburg: People who pronounce themselves in favor of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6026
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”).
Henry George Todd
Henry George Todd est né le 20 janvier 1847 au 27 St John's Street, Bury St Edmund's. Il est le fils de George Todd, artiste décorateur, et de son épouse Sophia née Spencer (9 Mary 1818-janvier 1893), qui se sont mariés le 8 avril 1845 à l'église St Mary, Bury St Edmund's.
Henry a fréquenté l'école de Bury St Edmund's, son père était artiste et grainetier, et le jeune George a été son apprenti et a été formé à la décoration et à l'écriture d'enseignes. À l'âge de 18 ans, Henry s'inscrit dans une école d'art et ses progrès l'amènent à étudier à l'école de South Kensington, aujourd'hui le Royal College of Art. Après avoir travaillé dans l'entreprise de décoration et de dorure de son père à Bury St Edmund's, Henry et son père George exposent leurs œuvres dans la boutique Todd's St Andrew's Street North. Vers l'âge de 27 ans, Henry arrive à Ipswich et entre au service d'Alfred Stearn & Son, l'entreprise de décoration la plus importante de la ville à l'époque. Il travaille dans le domaine du design, de la décoration et de la dorure, et reçoit des commandes de commerçants locaux pour leurs devantures, que beaucoup considèrent comme des œuvres d'art. Bien qu'Henry travaille à plein temps, il trouve toujours le temps de peindre ses natures mortes et ses paysages du Suffolk. En 1871, il est artiste et loge chez Mary Schulen, fabricant de poteries, au 1 Rope Walk, à Ipswich. L'année suivante, il épouse Ellen Lucy Quinton (1851-1923), âgée de 21 ans et originaire d'Ipswich. En 1881, il est «artiste des fruits et des paysages» et vit au 14 Waterloo Road, à Ipswich, avec sa femme Ellen, âgée de 29 ans, et leurs enfants, Ada Ellen, née en 1874, George William, en 1875, Eva Spencer, en 1876, et Arthur John, en 1880. Leur fille Kate Sophia, âgée de 16 mois, est décédée au 16 Woodhouse Street en novembre 1882.
Artiste particulièrement célèbre pour ses natures mortes et sa capacité à peindre des raisins, il est membre du Ipswich Fine Art Club 1885-1897 et expose depuis le 14 Waterloo Road, Ipswich, en 1883, trois œuvres : «Stone Lodge Lane», «To Beach Farm» et «Stone Lodge Lane from the Fields»; il expose fréquemment, ses huiles « Still Life, Edmund's Fine Art Society en 1880 trois natures mortes de fruits et en 1882 «Gainsborough's Lane» et en 1889 à l'exposition d'art de Woodbridge à l'Assembly Room, Bull Hotel, Woodbridge il a exposé plusieurs huiles. Il a également exposé une peinture à la Royal Academy, ainsi qu'à la Suffolk Street Gallery de la Royal Society of British Artists, et à la Dudley Gallery 1885-1898 du 46 Croft Street, Ipswich. Henry George Todd meurt à Croft Street, Ipswich, le 30 juin 1898, à l'âge de 51 ans. Il est enterré au cimetière d'Ipswich cinq jours plus tard. Il a signé ses œuvres «H. G. Todd».
Personne ne peut vous enlever votre liberté de penser. Vous pouvez être conseillé, éclairé par d'autres, mais ne laissez jamais quelqu'un penser pour vous
Cette citation n'est pas de Baruch Spinoza, mais de Diane Cailhier dans l'épisode 3 de la série québécoise "Chartrand et Simonne" (2000), romance de la vie de Michel Chartrand et Simonne Monet, dans une réponse du personnage de Simonne Monet-Chartrand.
Extrait de l'épisode 3 de la série québécoise "Chartrand et Simonne" intitulée "1942-1945 - L'amour et la guerre" (2000) à partir de 24'40:
|Personne ne peut vous enlever votre liberté de penser. Vous pouvez être conseillé, éclairé par d'autres, mais ne laissez jamais quelqu'un penser pour vous.|
Nous devons être respectueux de la démocratie, mais quand quelque chose nous apparaît non légitime, même si c'est légal, il nous appartient de protester, de nous indigner et de désobéir.
Citation extraite de l'entretien de Stéphane Hessel dans l'hebdomadaire "Politis" du 18 novembre 2010 intitulé «Le motif de la résistance, c'est l’indignation».
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2010/11/le-motif-de-la-resistance-cest-lindignation-12170/
Extrait de l'entretien de Stéphane Hessel dans l'hebdomadaire "Politis" du 18 novembre 2010:
Vous écrivez que «le motif de la résistance, c'est l'indignation?» C'est-à-dire?C'est un peu un appel. Le sentiment le plus grave, aujourd'hui, c'est de penser qu'«il n'y a rien à faire» parce que les choses ne changent pas comme l'on voudrait et que les acteurs politiques et financiers ont toutes les cartes en main. Baisser les bras me paraît tout à fait mauvais. Je dirais donc, un peu comme Sartre, qu'«un homme qui se désintéresse n'est pas vraiment un homme». C'est quand il commence à s'indigner qu'il devient plus beau, c'est-à-dire un militant courageux, un citoyen responsable. Se dire «on n'y peut rien», se retirer, c'est perdre une bonne partie de ce qui fait la joie d'être un homme.
Cela a-t-il partie liée avec la désobéissance ?
Je souligne toujours l'écart entre légalité et légitimité. Je considère la légitimité des valeurs plus importante que la légalité d'un État. Nous avons le devoir de mettre en cause, en tant que citoyens, la légalité d'un gouvernement. Nous devons être respectueux de la démocratie, mais quand quelque chose nous apparaît non légitime, même si c'est légal, il nous appartient de protester, de nous indigner et de désobéir. Dans le cas récent des enseignants qui ont désobéi, ce n'était pas pour une question de salaire mais parce qu'on a voulu leur imposer des choses au détriment des enfants dont ils ont la charge. Ils peuvent donc exciper de cela, comme les faucheurs d'OGM peuvent dire qu'il est peut-être devenu légal d'en semer mais qu'en réalité ce n'est pas légitime. La notion de désobéissance est donc intimement liée à la notion de légitimité.
|Nous devons être respectueux de la démocratie, mais quand quelque chose nous apparaît non légitime, même si c'est légal, il nous appartient de protester, de nous indigner et de désobéir.|
Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus; après la philosophie il faut l'action.
Pensée de Marius Pontmercy, personnage du roman "Les Misérables" de Victor Hugo (1862).
|Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus; après la philosophie il faut l'action.|
NGC 1559
NGC 1559 est une galaxie spirale barrée située dans la constellation du Réticule, près du Grand Nuage de Magellan, mais beaucoup plus éloignée, à environ 35 millions d'années-lumière de la Terre. Hubble a visité cet objet pour la dernière fois en 2018. La lumière brillante capturée dans cette image offre une mine d'informations qui, grâce à Hubble, peuvent être utilisées à la fois par les scientifiques et le public.
La quantité de nébuleuses dans cette galaxie est impressionnante, sans oublier leur grande taille!
Cette galaxie est à peine plus petite que la Voie lactée (75000 à 96000 années-lumière de diamètre), et elle est gravitationnellement isolée.
Cette image est composée de dix images différentes prises par le télescope spatial Hubble, chacune filtrée pour recueillir la lumière d'une longueur d'onde ou d'une gamme de longueurs d'onde spécifique. Elle couvre la sensibilité de Hubble à la lumière, de l'ultraviolet (275 nanomètres) au proche infrarouge (1600 nanomètres), en passant par le bleu, le vert et le rouge. Cela permet d'enregistrer des informations sur de nombreux processus astrophysiques dans la galaxie: le filtre rouge de 656 nanomètres utilisé ici en est un exemple notable. Les atomes d'hydrogène ionisés peuvent émettre de la lumière à cette longueur d'onde particulière, appelée émission H-alpha. Les nouvelles étoiles qui se forment dans un nuage moléculaire, composé principalement d'hydrogène, émettent de grandes quantités de lumière ultraviolette qui est absorbée par le nuage, mais qui l'ionise et le fait briller de cette lumière H-alpha. Par conséquent, un filtrage permettant de ne détecter que cette lumière constitue un moyen fiable de détecter les zones de formation d'étoiles (appelées régions H II), illustrées sur cette image par les couleurs rouge et rose vives des taches florissantes qui remplissent les bras spiraux de NGC 1559.
Ces dix images proviennent de six programmes d'observation différents avec Hubble, de 2009 à aujourd'hui. Ces programmes ont été menés par des équipes d'astronomes du monde entier avec des objectifs scientifiques variés, allant de l'étude du gaz ionisé et de la formation des étoiles, au suivi d'une supernova, en passant par le suivi des étoiles variables pour contribuer au calcul de la constante de Hubble. Les données issues de toutes ces observations sont conservées dans les archives de Hubble, à la disposition de tous, non seulement pour de nouvelles recherches scientifiques, mais aussi pour créer des images spectaculaires comme celle-ci ! Cette image de NGC 1559 rappelle donc les opportunités incroyables que le télescope spatial Hubble a offertes et continue d'offrir.
Voici 6 étoiles identifiées sur le cliché du HST numérotées de 1 à 6 (n'hésitez pas à zoomer):
1 - Gaia DR3 4676459661466251904. Il s'agit d'une étoile orange 15% plus petite et 30% moins massive que le Soleil située à 2517 années-lumière.
2 - Gaia DR3 4676459661466252288. Il s'agit d'une étoile orange/rouge de même taille et 30% moins massive que le Soleil située à 7571 années-lumière. Juste à gauche d'elle, très proche, se trouve Gaia DR3 4676459661464302720, une naine rouge 80% plus petite et massive que Soleil. Elle est située à 2931 années-lumière.
3 - Gaia DR3 4676459695825988224. Il s'agit d'une étoile jaune 20% plus grande et 10% plus massive que le Soleil située à 1894 années-lumière (espérance de vie: 8,5 milliards d'années).
4 - Gaia DR3 4676459695825989376. Il s'agit d'une étoile orange 20% plus petite et 40% moins massive que le Soleil située à 5445 années-lumière.
5 - Gaia DR3 4676459627106513792. Il s'agit d'une étoile jaune/orange au moins deux fois plus grosse et 20% plus massive que le Soleil à plus de 30000 années-lumière (sa distance est indéterminable par la parallaxe).
6 - Gaia DR3 4676506768667550592. Il s'agit d'une naine rouge 80% plus petite et massive que le Soleil située à 1562 années-lumière.
7 - Gaia DR3 4676459657169273088. Il s'agit d'une naine rouge 70% plus petite et massive que le Soleil située à 5969 années-lumière.
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.
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Good watch for those of you not in the US to understand how bad the country is
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
ᵃⁿᵈ ᶦᵗˢ ˢᶦⁿᵍᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵉ
Lights dim, shadows grow
Life's sin, shallows row
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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?
Vanessa
in reply to Shiri Bailem • •It's working fine now. Thanks
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