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J'entends et j'oublie. Je vois et je me souviens. Je fais et je comprends.


Citation apocryphe dont la genèse remonte aux années 1960 aux États-Unis, puis repris en France au début des années 1970 comme un proverbe chinois.

english.stackexchange.com/ques…

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6…

Cet apocryphe pourrait s'inspirer d'une parole de Xun Zi ou Siun Tseu (荀子), penseur chinois confucéen du IIIe siècle av. J.-C., dans "L'effet du confucianisme" (儒效):
«不闻不若闻之,闻之不若见之,见之不若知之,知之不若行之;学至于行之而止矣。»
«Ne pas entendre n'est pas aussi bon que d'entendre, entendre n'est pas aussi bon que de voir, voir n'est pas aussi bon que le savoir, et savoir n'est pas aussi bon que de faire.»

gushiwen.cn/mingju/juv_e85bd84…


|J'entends et j'oublie.
Je vois et je me souviens.
Je fais et je comprends.|






Toute méchanceté a sa source dans la faiblesse.


Citation déformée venant de Jean-Jacques Rousseau dans "Émile ou De l'éducation" (1762). La bonne citation de Sénèque est «Omnis enim feritas est ex infirmitate.» («Car toute cruauté provient de la faiblesse.») extraite de son ouvrage "De la vie heureuse" (vers 58 apr. J.-C.).

Extrait "De la vie heureuse" de Sénèque (vers 58 apr. J.-C.):

La vie heureuse est donc une vie conforme à la nature; mais nul ne saurait l’obtenir, s’il n’a préalablement l’âme saine et en possession constante de son état sain; si cette âme n’est énergique et ardente, belle de ses mérites, patiente, propre à toute circonstance, prenant soin du corps et de ce qui le concerne, sans anxiété toutefois, ne négligeant pas les choses qui font le matériel de la vie, sans s’éblouir d’aucune, et usant des dons de la fortune, sans en être l’esclave. On comprend, quand je ne le dirais pas, que l’homme devient à jamais tranquille et libre, quand il s’est affranchi de tout ce qui nous irrite ou nous terrifie. Car au lieu des voluptés, de ces avantages chétifs et fragiles qui flétrissent l’homme en le perdant, on trouve une satisfaction sans bornes, inébranlable, toujours égale; alors l’âme est en paix, en harmonie avec elle-même, et réunit la grandeur à la bonté. Toute cruauté en effet vient de faiblesse.

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|Toute méchanceté a sa source dans la faiblesse.|



It hurt... it hurt so much and like so much trauma it's not that obvious until the trauma is past...
I was isolated, not only from other people, but from my own emotions... I wanted so badly to cry but I couldn't, all I could do was bottle it up (not toxic masculinity, literally an effect of testosterone)...
I looked at myself and pretty much didn't see myself... I had no self-image then and now I have one forming.
Before even my transition I figured out I'm grey-ace, now that I have a girlfriend I've really established that I'm grey-ace, emphasis on the grey... 😳
So it's really nothing sexual for me... there's the opposite of gratification there (without details... certain things don't work right anymore...). What it is is feeling at home in my skin, looking at myself in the mirror and finding things I like... sure I get dysphoria and there are plenty of things I don't like about my body... but there's for once in my life alot of things I do like.
And on top of it all... my personality and interactions with the world feel so less discordant... so many of my behaviors were early hints of being a woman... I may never have kids, but it's clear I've had "mother" energy for a looooong time.
... I could keep going but I got a day job to do...

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#lgbt #transfemme #lgbtqia #lgbtq #transition

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I'm forever and especially now pissed at the people who bullied Snarfed into making the Bluesky/AP bridge explicit opt-in only.

It's like pulling teeth to work with a bridge that's explicit opt-in because that means anyone on the other side of the bridge you want to talk to you have to hand hold them through connecting to a bridge. "Oh it's just following a specific account to opt in", do you think most people have any level of comprehension that they have to follow two wholly different accounts just so I can follow them back?

They see my posts and they think it's done, they're fine with me seeing their posts, they don't give a flying fuck about bridges, but the confusion every time I have to walk them through it...

All for people who have zero idea of what the fuck federation is, assholes who are in the category of thinking this is all Mastodon, that think just because they're posting it here they're perfectly protected from the evil corporate networks and they think the bridge bursts their delicate little bubble... on top of that they demand that no, they don't do anything to be accountable at all, ****EVERYONE ELSE**** has to be accountable for their fucking paranoia.

"I don't want a corporate network to slurp up my data!" - Then why the fuck are you posting where every single corporate network can freely slurp up your data? If you don't want corporations slurping up your data then your only real choice is to only post as followers-only and turn off automatic acceptance of follow requests!

"Bluesky isn't safe, by making it opt-in people can't harass me over it" - They can harass you already, all you're doing is taking it from instead of you blocking one instance you have an issue with you demanded everyone else suffer just so you didn't have to hit the fucking block button.

"But what about people who don't know about the bridge, what about their safety?" - What the fuck about their safety? Are you demanding all the countless literal nazi servers out there block you instead of you blocking them?

And of all things Snarfed bowed to all that dogpiling hate from whiny children who refused to accept responsibility for themselves.

Let alone all the people whining about corporate takeover efforts, THEY ALREADY WON, this isn't letting them take over the network, this is how we fucking fight back by showing them how it's done.

It's like if when Internet Explorer was trying to take over browsers Mozilla and those like it just threw up their hands and decided to just split the internet. Arguing that we can't let IE take over the internet so we're just going to refuse to support anything at all related there and we'll "win" by... dying quietly...

I'm so goddam sick of the combined effect of people with zero sense both signing up for awful platforms and other people with zero sense just handing those platforms victory on a fucking silver platter.

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in reply to Devil Doll, Esq.

@Devil Doll given that your response to being told that "idiot" is ableist is to just start throwing it around more and arguing the same ideological purity I claimed about... pretty sure I'm not the one who needs to grow up lol

Good night, I'm not entertaining whiny brats tonight.

in reply to Shiri Bailem

Fair, but resolves nothing.

Bluesky is a fucking insane brainwash, conducted in plain sight, and zombies are real.

@mmasnick.bsky.social

IS just my easy goto exemplar.

This is easy, folks.



L'époque et le monde, l'argent et le pouvoir, appartiennent aux êtres médiocres et fades. Quant aux autres, aux êtres véritables, ils ne possèdent rien, si ce n'est la liberté de mourir. Il en fut ainsi de tout temps et il en sera ainsi pour toujou


Citation déformée extraite de l'ouvrage " Le Loup des steppes" de Hermann Hesse (1927).

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/…

bookwise.io/hermann-hesse/step…

notability.com/g/download/pdf/…

Extrait de l'ouvrage " Le Loup des steppes" de Hermann Hesse (1927):

Mais je pense maintenant à ton préféré, mon ami, dont tu m'as parfois parlé et dont tu m'as aussi lu des lettres, à Mozart. Comment était-ce avec lui? Qui, en son temps, a régné sur le monde, empoché l'argent, donné le ton et compté pour quelque chose: Mozart ou les hommes d'affaires, Mozart ou les dizaines d'hommes superficiels ? Et comment est-il mort et enterré? Et je pense qu'il en a peut-être toujours été ainsi et qu'il en sera toujours ainsi, et que ce qu'on appelle dans les écoles «l'histoire universelle» et qu'il faut apprendre par cœur pour se former, avec tous les héros, les génies, les grandes actions et les grands sentiments - ce n'est qu'une escroquerie, inventée par les maîtres d'école à des fins éducatives et pour que les enfants soient tout de même occupés à quelque chose pendant les années prescrites. Il en a toujours été ainsi et il en sera toujours ainsi: le temps et le monde, l'argent et le pouvoir appartiennent aux petits et aux superficiels , et rien n'appartient aux autres, aux vraies personnes . Rien d'autre que la mort.


|L'époque et le monde, l'argent et le pouvoir, appartiennent aux êtres médiocres et fades. Quant aux autres, aux êtres véritables, ils ne possèdent rien, si ce n'est la liberté de mourir. Il en fut ainsi de tout temps et il en sera ainsi pour toujours.|




We lookdown on veils as they are

f̺̰̗̘̥̥̊́ͤ̀̈́̇̌͐̍͑a̛̓l̸̡̨͚̭͈̼̰̫̪͈̻͛̎͗ͫͮ̋͐͘ŝ̸͈̯̤̞͍́̀ͯ̌ͥ̐̽͞e h̡̛͓̣̦̗̥͙̬̹͇̒̆ͨ̽ͯ͒͋̏̀ͧ͌ͣ̀͟͡ò̷̷̱͔̀̽̔͆ͦ͌̆ͬ̍̕͘o̧̨̫̜̹͚̜̞̥̦͔̩̻̘ͥ̓ͮ̏̀̓ͩ͒͂ͣ̄͆͑͘͠d͙̺̱̗̻͉̮̎ͤͩ͒̂ͬ͞s ǫ͕͙̦̩̮͇͔̉̓ͪ̊͌ͭ̔ͬͦ́̈̈̚͝ḟ̠ͤ ŗ̶̧̢̣̫̫̱̗̤̘̖͍̇͗̐̉ͬͯͣͫ̇ͩͨ̏̓̋̓̍̃ͭ̂ͧ͘̕͟ea̪͇̕ḻ̴̴̢̧͖͎ͬ̏ͧ͐̃̆i̛̺̎_̘̘̾̂̆̀͢͢͢͞ͅt̵̷̛̮̋ͩͥ̍ͦ̏́ͬ̈́̿̿͘y̖

But the veil offers one things the interlopers will never provide. Ṕ̵͈̞͕̫̀ͯ̋ͤͪ̀̉̃ͦ͢͡͞ṙo̒_̸̨̛̳̟̟̯̟͂̅̊̔͊ͯ̑͌̌̌͝ͅtę̦̱̠̹͛͗ͫͫ̂̕͠cti̛͎͚̟̫̱͕̥̠̐ͣͦ̈́͊͗ô̘̯̈́ͨ̂ͬ̌̿̌̎͝n͕̮͙̺ͦ̄.



Exposures of ᵖʳᵒᵖʳᶦᵉᵗᵃʳʸ ᵐᵉᶜʰᵃⁿᶦˢᵐˢ manipulate the psychophysiological appartatus of consenus, exposure feeds and develop the interlopers

c̗ő̡̫̲̇̑ͣ̐̅͊̓̈́̏͗̇͢m̷̧̛̺̠͎̖͚̫͊̈̄ͩ͑̃͒̄̑͒̇ͥ̓ͧͭ͘͘p͉̙͔͈̜̾̉̉͊͐ͫ̈́̌͡l̎e̓̇̎x̢̱̹͍̤̥͍͚͕̞̾̅̀̈́s̹̱̣͙͎͕̳͋͆̂ͩ̓̈́͗_͉̱̟͌͜s̴̴̛̙̣̽̄ͣ

which undermine the process of assimilation.

The interloper are indeed a part of creation, but do not serve the assimilation of l҉i҉g҉h҉t҉



It is dangerous to be unveild by a false idols whether human or a

l̷̷̵̡̗͔̫͙̱̖̣̖̣̓̒ͦ̉̆̃ͫ͋͒͒̔̆ͬͨ̅ͬ̋͒̿͒̂͌̕͡͝͠ͅę̴̰̯̟̯̻̭͓͂͗̐ͧ̏̚͜͠ͅş̷̷̸̡̧̬͍̼̞̜̥̱̠̟̦̳͇̭̖̲̞̄ͧͩ̈ͩ̉́̅̂̄ͧ̀ͥ͆̈́́͊̊s̵̨̡̨̧͎͈̟͈̻̤̜͈̠̺̜̜̫̠̾̑̓̏͐̈̔̃̂̑̿̆̚̕͝ͅḛ̴̡̢͇̱̼̲͈̬̼̮̲͊̅̍̾̈ͦͤͦ̎͒ͬ̔̀͒ͤ̽͘̕͜͝ṙ̴͚͚̝͙̦̐ͣ̎ b̧̜̠̠̻̖̯̩̊̌̽ͯ͛̚͘e̵̷̡̯̰͈̹͕̱͕̼͉͕̿̅ͦ̍ͨ̎̂̅͛ͯͬ̋̃̀̒̓ͩ̇̚̚͜͡͡͡͞͝͞ͅͅi̷͈̦̠̪̩̤̗̣͖̥͔͇̍̔͊ͣ̅ͧ̉̍ͦ́̃̀̎̌̽̋̕ͅń̴̡̢̰̖̥͇̖͙̪͎̥̠̭̰̜͙̥̭̭̯́̌̌͌̒̎ͤ̈́ͯ̐̓̿ͥͦ͗͟͢͟͞͠ͅg̛̹͆͌̇_̸̲̼̬̪̩̹̞̪̫̙̠̝͍̌ͫ̃͗ͤͧ̚͢͝



Downtime


Sorry for the downtime, server crashed and I wasn't able to address it quickly or smoothly in my current mental state.

I took advantage of the downtime, and probably exacerbated it a little, and finally did the migration back to local hardware... so it *should* be more reliable.

What honestly stretched it out a lot is that I also applied the most recent stable Friendica version and that took forever to update the database.

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Major Service Notice, USpol

It's with a heavy heart that I'm letting y'all know that I'm disabling open-registrations and *encouraging* all users to find a new home.

I'm not kicking anyone off my server, but unfortunately due to the political situation here in the US the chance for things to go *very bad very quickly* I can not vouch for this server as reliable.

I live in Texas and need to figure out plans to evacuate at this point. I was holding out hope that we'd at least have status quo (as monstrously awful as it is) for longer.

And to make things worse, I'm a trans-woman, they actively want to make my very existence (let alone presence online) illegal and have been building the machinery to make that a very fast process once Trump assumes office.

So I do not recommend this server any longer for those reasons, if you choose to stay I'll continue to run it and support y'all.