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Ne dis pas tes peines à autrui; l'épervier et le vautour s'abattent sur le blessé qui gémit.
Il ne s'agit pas d'un proverbe, mais d'un extrait d'un conte oriental raconté par Elian Judas Finbert dans "Le Perroquet fabuleux. Divertissement sur des thèmes orientaux" (1947). Ouvrage oublié.
Extrait de l'histoire de EI-Asmari, poète du vin et des jouvenceaux, d'Elian Judas Finbert (1947):
Quelques jours plus tard, EI-Asmari s'arrêta de nouveau près du rocher aux poèmes qui chantaient dans son cœur. Il y lut, alignés sous les siens, ces distiques:
Frère, il n’y a que ton ongle qui sache gratter ton dos, de même qu’il n’y a que tes yeux qui sachent pleurer sur ta propre douleur. Et, certes, celui qui te traite comme lui-même ne commet pas d’injustice. Cependant, à l'âme affamée, la chose amère paraît douce et l’image de l’amour est comme un faucon qui bien que pris ne peut être gardé. Le vent qui souffle du désert, le vent qui porte en lui des baumes, ce n’est pas celui qui a passé
sur les fleurs et les plantes aromatiques, ce vent vient de la présence de la bien-aimée. Ô adorée, je m’efforce de cacher ton nom afin qu’il ne soit pas sur les lèvres des passants; mais que je le veuille ou non, chaque fois que je parle, ton nom est le premier qui sort de ma bouche.
Et le poète inscrivit à la suite de ces paroles brûlantes:
Ne raconte pas tes peines à autrui, car il s'en réjouira: l'épervier et le vautour s'abattent sur la blessé qui gémit. Cache ton départ, ton or et ta route, car sache que celui qui retient ses secrets est maitre de la vie. S’il n'en a pas la force, qu’il s'en aille en paix, il ne reste plus au destin que de l'exterminer et, en vérité, il n'a de mieux à faire que de mourir.
|Ne dis pas tes peines à autrui; l'épervier et le vautour s'abattent sur le blessé qui gémit.|
Le diable n'est pas le principe de la matière, le diable est l'arrogance de l'esprit, la foi sans le sourire, la vérité qui n'est jamais effleurée par le doute.
Citation extraite du roman "Le Nom de la rose" d'Umberto Eco (1980).
Ce qu'elle dit est débile! Satan est le soi-impérieux. C'est écrit dans le Coran.
Extrait du roman "Le Nom de la rose" d'Umberto Eco (1980):
Oui, on t’a menti. Le diable n’est pas le principe de la matière, le diable est l’arrogance de l’esprit, la foi sans sourire, la vérité qui n’est jamais effleurée par le doute. Le diable est sombre parce qu’il sait où il va, et allant, il va toujours d’où il est venu. Tu es le diable, et comme le diable tu vis dans les ténèbres. Si tu voulais me convaincre, tu n’as pas réussi. Je te hais, Jorge, et si je pouvais je te mènerais en bas, sur le plateau, nu avec des plumes de volatiles enfilées dans le trou du cul, et la face peinte comme un jongleur et un bouffon, pour que tout le monastère rie de toi, et n’ait plus peur. J’aimerais te couvrir de miel et puis te rouler dans les plumes, et te mener à la laisse dans les foires, pour dire à tout le monde: voilà celui qui vous annonçait la vérité et vous disait que la vérité a le goût de la mort, et vous, vous ne croyiez pas en sa parole, mais bien en sa triste figure. Et maintenant, moi je vous le dis, dans l’infini vertige des possibles, Dieu consent même que vous imaginiez un monde où l’interprète présumé de la vérité ne serait autre qu’un merle gauche, qui répète des mots appris depuis une éternité.
|Le diable n'est pas le principe de la matière, le diable est l'arrogance de l'esprit, la foi sans le sourire, la vérité qui n'est jamais effleurée par le doute.|
#lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #usa #america #texas #emergency
Trans Texans Can No Longer Change the Gender Marker on Their Drivers Licenses
Until this week, trans residents could change their gender marker with a court order or amended birth certificate.James Factora (Them.)
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L'homme de bien ne demande rien qu'à lui-même ; l'homme de peu demande tout aux autres.
Extrait mal traduit du chapitre 15 de "Les Entretiens" attribués à Confucius par Lao-Tseu (partie 20):
«Ce que l'homme supérieur cherche, c'est en lui-même. Ce que l'homme moyen cherche, c'est dans les autres.»
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Classics/Volume_1/Confucian_Analects/XV
|L'homme de bien ne demande rien qu'à lui-même ; l'homme de peu demande tout aux autres.|
I don't think it's talked about enough tbh.
When my egg cracked, there was a sense of dread... because once I knew there was no going back. My life would never be safe again.
Do I regret it? Not one bit, I'm genuinely happier now, but I do miss safety...
https://reductress.com/post/trans-woman-would-actually-rather-be-safe-than-brave/
Trans Woman Would Actually Rather Be Safe Than Brave
In an uninspiring story out of Chicago, 28-year-old Shelly Deichman would actually rather be safe than lauded as brave for simply existing as a trans woman.Reductress
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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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Hola
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I'm an analogue digital hybrid who cares about mental health issues, music, photography and art.
I'm deeply suspicious of ducks (in a less than serious way) and although I exist on Mastodon I'm keen to migrate to Friendica.
Best wishes all.
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Mist and fog clouds over this domain. The thoughts of raceme flowers and pinnated ferns hang over my minds eye as I walk with covered pupils. The hard dirt feels rock like, with an occasional trip over roots.
Pulling me down a pathway of cedar and pine, nesting in its canopy, birds orientated skywards to a plateau of limitless sky. Just out of reac- war̓n̼͚͜i̴͈ng,͈͑̌ l͓̀o̩͋ͬw̦͊ b̵̍a̶͋͂t̫tê̾̍r͉̔͠y
O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿.
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