Stalin: What, then, is the chief force in the complex of conditions of material life of society which determines the physiognomy of society, the character of the social system, the development of society from one system to another? This force, historical materialism holds, is the method of procuring the means of life necessary for human existence, the mode of production of material values – food, clothing, footwear, houses, fuel, instruments of production, etc. – which are indispensable for the life and development of society. In order to live, people must have food, clothing, footwear, shelter, fuel, etc.; in order to have these material values, people must produce them; and in order to produce them, people must have the instruments of production with which food, clothing, footwear, shelter, fuel, etc., are produced, they must be able to produce these instruments and to use them. The instruments of production wherewith material values are produced, the people who operate the instruments of production and carry on the production of material values thanks to a certain production experience and labor skill – all these elements jointly constitute the productive forces of society. But the productive forces are only one aspect of production, only one aspect of the mode of production, an aspect that expresses the relation of men to the objects and forces of nature which they make use of for the production of material values. Another aspect of production, another aspect of the mode of production, is the relation of men to each other in the process of production, men's relations of production. Men carry on a struggle against nature and utilize nature for the production of material values not in isolation from each other, not as separate individuals, but in common, in groups, in societies. Production, therefore, is at all times and under all conditions social production. In the production of material values men enter into mutual relations of one kind or another within production, into relations of production of one kind or another. These may be relations of co-operation and mutual help between people who are free from exploitation; they may be relations of domination and subordination; and, lastly, they may be transitional from one form of relations of production to another. But whatever the character of the relations of production may be, always and in every system they constitute just as essential an element of production as the productive forces of society. "In production," Marx says, "men not only act on nature but also on one another. They produce only by co-operating in a certain way and mutually exchanging their activities. In order to produce, they enter into definite connections and relations with one another and only within these social connections and relations does their action on nature, does production, take place." (Marx and Engels, Vol. V, p. 429.) Consequently, production, the mode of production, embraces both the productive forces of society and men's relations of production, and is thus the embodiment of their unity in the process of production of material values. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5843
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- 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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Henri-Pierre Picou
Henri-Pierre Picou (Nantes 27 février 1824 - 17 juillet 1895) est un peintre français. Son œuvre commence par des portraits et des sujets historiques classiques, mais il passe ensuite à des thèmes allégoriques et mythologiques.
Peintre académique, il est l'un des fondateurs de l'école néo-gréco, avec ses amis Gustave Boulanger, Jean-Léon Gérôme et Jean-Louis Hamon, également peintres académiques. Tous ont étudié dans les ateliers de Paul Delaroche et plus tard de Charles Gleyre. Le style de Picou est nettement influencé par Gleyre. Alors que le reste du groupe peint généralement des sujets classiques et mythologiques, Picou reçoit également des commandes de grandes fresques religieuses pour de nombreuses églises, dont l'église Saint-Roch.
Il fait ses débuts artistiques au Salon de 1847. L'année suivante, il reçoit une médaille de deuxième classe pour son tableau Cléopâtre et Antoine sur le Cydnus. Également connu sous le nom de Cléopâtre sur le Cydnus, ce tableau est généralement considéré comme le chef-d'œuvre de Picou. Cette exposition au Salon de 1848 a fait l'objet d'un article du critique Théophile Gautier, qui a estimé que le sujet était trop ambitieux, mais a également déclaré que «tel qu'il est, il donne le meilleur espoir pour l'avenir du jeune artiste, et se classe parmi les sept ou huit tableaux les plus importants du Salon» En 1875, le tableau a été exposé à New York, et a ensuite trouvé refuge sur les murs d'une galerie d'art privée à San Francisco.
Picou possédait un grand atelier à Paris, boulevard de Magenta, qui lui permettait de travailler sur ses vastes fresques. Sa popularité ne cesse de croître et il remporte le deuxième prix de Rome en 1853 pour son tableau Jésus chassant les vendeurs du Temple, ainsi qu'une autre médaille de deuxième classe pour son tableau du Salon en 1857. Dès ses débuts en 1847, il fut un habitué du Salon, exposant presque chaque année jusqu'à sa dernière exposition en 1893. On a dit de lui qu'il était le peintre le plus en vogue vers la fin du Second Empire français.
Le trio des Poissons
Le trio des Poissons, situé dans la constellation des Poissons, comprend NGC 467, NGC 470 et NGC 474.
L'étoile la plus visible sur ce cliché est HD 7991, une étoile au déplacement rapide. Il s'agit d'une géante orange/rouge 11 fois plus grosse et 3 fois plus massive que le Soleil et située à 625 années-lumière. L'étoile brillante à gauche d'elle est TYC 23-21-1, un soleil jaune 3 fois plus gros et 1,6 fois plus massif que le Soleil situé à 840 années-lumière.
La galaxie à droite de HD 7991 est NGC 467. Elle est située à 112 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre est de l'ordre de 81000 années-lumière.
La galaxie spirale vers le milieu à droite est NGC 470. Elle est située à 112 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre est de l'ordre de 81000 années-lumière. Elle est située à 109 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre est de l'ordre de 104000 années-lumière. La galaxie à gauche est NGC 474. Elle est située à 105 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre est de l'ordre de 16000 années-lumière.
On pense que ces structures en coquilles de NGC 474 pourraient venir de l'absorption de plusieurs petites galaxies dans le passé, mais ce n'est pas certain. Elles pourraient aussi avoir été produites par une collision avec la galaxie spirale NGC 470.
La galaxie sous TYC 23-21-1 est MCG+00-04-083. Il s'agit d'une galaxie naine située à 102 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre est estimé à 26000 années-lumière.
La galaxie à droite de HD 7991 est LEDA 1249151. Nous ne savons pas grand chose à son sujet.
La galaxie à gauche de NGC 474 à droite de deux étoiles est 2MASX J01203953+0325416. Elle est située à 328 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre est estimé à 54000 années-lumière.
La galaxie au bord du cliché entre deux étoiles est WISEA J012052.59+032022.9. Elle est située à 147 millions d'années-lumière. Son diamètre n'a pas été estimée. L'étoile au-dessus d'elle est 2MASS J01205658+0322007, un soleil comme a peu près comme le nôtre située à 1093 années-lumière. A noter qu'à côté de la galaxie WiSEA a été détectée une supernova: iPTF 13dkx. Elle a été observée dans le proche infra-rouge:
Sh2-174
Sh2-174 (aussi connue sous le nom LBN 120.29+18.39) est une nébuleuse planétaire visible dans la constellation de Céphée.
C'est l'une des nébuleuses planétaires les plus septentrionales de la voûte céleste. Elle est située à environ 3° au nord de γ Cephei et est visible sur des photos à longue exposition prises avec un puissant télescope amateur. Sa déclinaison fortement septentrionale signifie qu'elle peut être observée presque exclusivement depuis l'hémisphère nord, où elle est circumpolaire jusqu'aux latitudes tropicales.
Le nuage, catalogué comme une nébuleuse en émission générique dans les années 1960, n'a jamais montré de signes de formation d'étoiles en cours, et l'étoile ionisante de ses gaz n'a jamais été connue. Au cours des années 90, l'hypothèse a été avancée qu'il s'agissait d'une nébuleuse planétaire, dont l'étoile centrale s'est glissée au fil du temps hors de l'enveloppe gazeuse qu'elle s'est créée, étant donné que ses dimensions étaient trop petites pour être une région H II, mais comparables à celles d'une région nébuleuse planétaire. Cette étoile ionisante serait la naine blanche cataloguée GD 561, située à l'extérieur du nuage. La distance, à partir de laquelle les dimensions ont été dérivées, a été obtenue par l'étude de la vitesse radiale, et est indiquée à 946 années-lumière.
Sur l'image qui suit, j'ai entouré en rouge, la naine blanche de l'origine de la nébuleuse. 10 étoiles ont été numérotées pour être identifiées:
1 - TYC 4614-901-1, une géante rouge 10 fois plus grosse et deux fois plus massive que le Soleil située à 1957 années-lumière.
2 - IRAS 23449+8044, une autre géante rouge 38 fois plus grosse et 4 fois plus massive que le Soleil située à 3174 années-lumière.
3 - BD+80 783, une géante orange 8 fois plus grosse et 3 fois plus massive que le Soleil située à 1078 années-lumière.
4 - Gaia DR3 2286338811105958528, une géante rouge 21 plus grosse et 3 fois plus massive que le Soleil située à 6547 années-lumière.
5 - BD+80 781, une géante rouge 13 fois plus grosse et 3 fois plus massive que le Soleil située à 1499 années-lumière.
6 - TYC 4614-962-1, une étoile jaune 10% plus petite et 25% moins massive que le Soleil située à 461 années-lumière.
7 - TYC 4614-907-1, une étoile jaune 2 fois plus grosse et 1,4 fois plus massive que Soleil située à 862 années-lumière.
8 - TYC 4614-1081-1, une étoile jaune orange 15% plus petite et 25% moins massive que le Soleil située à 478 années-lumière.
9 - LP 12-181, une étoile orange au déplacement rapide 30% mois grosse et 40% moins massive que le Soleil située à 171 années-lumière.
10 - BD+79 795a, une géante orange 19 fois plus grosse et 3 fois plus massive que le Soleil située à 4099 années-lumière.
A noter la présence de la galaxie LEDA 2783942 située à environ 370 millions d'années-lumière:
Comme le diamètre apparent de LEDA 2783942 est de 49 arcsec, son plus grand diamètre compte-tenu de sa distance serait de 88000 années-lumière.
La beauté est dans les yeux de celui qui regarde.
Citation mal attribuée. Elle est de Margaret Wolfe Hungerford dans son roman "Molly Bawn" (1878).
Extrait du roman "Molly Bawn" de Margaret Wolfe Hungerford:
«Maudie? Est-elle toujours aussi fascinante? J'espère, Marcia, que tu as trouvé son jeune homme pour elle cette fois-ci, car elle était tout simplement insupportable l'année dernière.»
«Je ne l'ai pas fait», dit-elle en riant ; «c'est un secret de polichinelle, mais le fait est qu'il n'est pas venu.»
«J'aime bien ce jeune homme. Bien que je considère qu'il nous a vendus honteusement. Quelqu'un d'autre?»
«Ma cousine, Eleanor Massereene.»
«La cousine! J'en suis ravie. Tout ce qui est nouveau est un tel soulagement. Et j'ai entendu dire qu'elle était belle - l'est-elle?»
«La beauté est dans l'œil de celui qui regarde», dit Marcia à voix basse, et d'un geste de la main vers la porte ouverte à l'intérieur de laquelle se trouve Molly, elle renvoie Lady Stafford dans l'escalier sans autre forme de procès.
« C'est Lady Stafford?» demande Molly lorsque Marcia revient dans la pièce.
«Oui.»
«Elle semble très fatiguée.»
«Je ne sais pas vraiment. Elle pense l'être, ce qui revient au même. Vous la verrez dans une demi-heure environ aussi fraîche que si la fatigue était une chose inconnue.»
https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Molly_Bawn/dgM1AAAAMAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=0
|La beauté est dans les yeux de celui qui regarde.|
Toute la politique serait changée si le seul fait de promettre et de prédire était par tout le monde considéré comme insupportable et inconvenant.
Citation tronquée extraite de "Autres rhumbs" de Paul Valéry (1927). 🥱 (Désolé je fatigue sur l'insignifiant!)
Il manque devant la citation "Tout parti prophétise".
Ce n'est pas prédire qui est inconvenant, mais mentir et suivre des intérêts privés.
|Toute la politique serait changée si le seul fait de promettre et de prédire était par tout le monde considéré comme insupportable et inconvenant.|
L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.
Citation extraite de la première lettre de Simone Weil à Joë Bousquet, le 13 avril 1942.
Extrait de la première lettre de Simone Weil à Joë Bousquet, le 13 avril 1942:
J'ai été très touchée de constater que vous aviez fait véritablement attention aux quelques pages que je vous ai montrées. Je n'en conclus pas qu'elles méritent de l'attention. Je regarde cette attention comme un don gratuit et généreux de votre part. L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.
Il est donné à très peu d'esprits de découvrir que les choses et les êtres existent. Depuis mon enfance je ne désire pas autre chose que d'en avoir reçu avant de mourir la révélation complète. Il me semble que vous êtes engagé dans cette découverte.
|L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.|
Le pangolin de Temminck (Smutsia temminckii)
Contrairement aux autres pangolins, le pangolin de Temminck (Smutsia temminckii) est bipède, marchant et supportant le poids sur ses pattes arrière, les membres antérieurs étant repliés vers la poitrine, et la queue étant maintenue hors du sol et utilisée comme contrepoids.
Il ne reste plus que cet animal pour imiter la marche bipède en porte-à-faux des dinosaures.
Le pangolin de Temminck reste donc, presque par hasard, un vestige d'un mode de locomotion qui régnait autrefois sur le monde terrestre.
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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
Chords plucked, listen more.
p̧̠̹͕̫̳ͣ̒ͧ̄͗ͣ̉̒̋ͯ͐̚̕͠͞l̶̨̤̤̪͚̺̬̘̾͒ͫ̅ͯ̓́ͪ̽ͤ̏̾ͩ̈̇̈̀͜͠͞e̴̵̖͇̗̻̺̖̲͚͌ͧ̍̆̀̓ͬ͊̿͂̐̌̎ͧ͜ă̧͍͙͚̹̮̬͈̣͎ͧ̿͗ͦ̇̇̽̃̈́̍͠se̘̗͊̆̔͗̒͟͞͞ o̶̳̩̺̬͎̖̤͉͓̬̽̑͒ͭͪ̎̏͠p̴̴͔̘̬̻̪͚͂ͬͩͪ̓ͦ͒͘̕ẻ̡̢̘͓͗ͤ̅̓ͣ̇ͭ̃n̛̰ͯ̑ t̴̷̵̢̨̲̙̱̫̙̥̬͈̩̳̰̞͙̺̎͆͗̾̉ͪ́́ͭ̀̅̑̑̏̒ͮ͢͝h̵͙̬̮͍̞̻̖̳̙̞̙̲̩̭͖̮̿̀̇ͥ̈́͒̂͂ͣͬ̄͐ͨ̕̕͟͢͝ę̵̵̶̧͍̺͚̦͔͕̳̤̠̙͕͔̤͒̀̊͐̓̄́͒͒̐ͯ̔̍͘̕͜͝ ḍ̶̸̸̹̤̻̣͈̘̰̖ͦ̔ͦ͒̎̾͌́̒ͮ̿̒̾̓ͧ̍ͦͥ͌̅̽ͧ̔̽̆̍̂̍͟͢͜͞ͅo̧̹͍͚̣͇̟̭͔͚̝͚͇̔ͮ͑̿ͫ̈́́̈́̀͛̽͢͟͝͝ͅo̸̷͙̫̰͕̠̳̜͔̺ͭ͑̍̈̓̀̕̚̚͠ͅr̵̯͇̤̰̺̟̓͗̈́̋͆̋ͥ̑͛ͣ̑͘̚͜͢͝͡
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@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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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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