Feather Quill @ink_heart@computerfairi.es

Monday: Okay, the weekend's over. Time to get to work
My brain:

Exhibit A: Close your eyes and you could easily mistake this for a CH cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VzKMuXP6iU

Shower thought: Crowded House is just REM in major key

*screams internally*

@maple

That moment when you "win" the lottery but you only win R10 (50c US) 😂

4/? On social media, we are encouraged to "be our true selves", especially in more insular spaces like Mastadon. All well & good on its own but now we add that competition factor mentioned above & suddenly "our true selves" are given an arbitrary value which is easily measured against others. Say you pour your heart & soul into a post & it gets no likes or reposts. What does that then say about you?

3/? I'm not saying this was Mastadon's intention or that users are competing deliberately. However, when you create a system that clearly marks certain people/posts as "better" than others, then competition emerges whether users are conscious of it or not. Competition in a foot race is one thing. Competition on a social media platform is another.

2/? This can be clearly seen in Mastadon's continuation of Twitter's public Like/Repost counters. These counters serve as open indicators of popularity and, intentially or not, create an unnecessary environment of competition between users with those able to accrue the most likes/reposts emerging as the "winners". Conversly, those who doesn't achieve similar metrics are the "losers".

1/? Idon't think it's controversial to say Mastadon is an important evolution of the Twitter format. The increased moderation capability as well as the ability to create channels for any niche topic means Mastadon feels (to some degree) more friendly than birdsite. Unfortunately, by using the Twitter format as its foundation, Mastadon inevitably runs into a similar problem of connection, or rather the lack thereof.

@evie it's basically just a bunch of TS Elliot poems smashed together & set to music. To call the story "threadbare" would be an understatement and anyone who's read Elliot knows the poems aren't connected in this way

@wigglytuffitout yup, sounds about right

I won't mourn this monster. If there is a hell, then he's burning in the deepest circle of it.
Of course, all his evidence now dies with him. We may never know now just how deep Epstein's reach truly was.
A lot of powerful people were implicated and there's a good chance they'ln now get off scott-free.
One last slap in the face to his victims
Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead | NBC News
https://youtu.be/3DiXSAPFbHE

Me singing along to the Grease soundtrack

Tell me more, tell me more!
Was it love at first sight?
Tell me more, tell me more!
*uncomfortable mumbling*
Shoo ba ba shoo ba ba!

Monday Motivation

Meeting your online friends irl for the first time
https://youtu.be/wxGyL6RUqpA

After 2 years of waiting, my Cthulhu dice finslly arrived!

Perks of being a journalist: getting hand-delivered an original oil painting by a local artist as a "thank you" gift

Nature is so majestic
https://youtu.be/hsBVvlJjNtc