For stuff that we are sharing anyway, it might be a lost cause to try to avoid having it indexed. I'm thinking more in terms of Articles and other content that doesn't get into the timeline (unless we put it there).
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Nov-2018 14:50:04 EST
hoshI was writing after seeing the news about the latest mass shooting. But sure, California is in lots of ways a beautiful state, as are many others. Here's another map showing election results for the House of Representatives. The red parts and pink parts are of course republican, the blue democrats. Although the Ds have won the House, the Rs seem to be in larger evidence than the above map indicates.
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Nov-2018 04:52:24 EST
hoshJust an apology for not seeing all the comments before adding mine. I was thinking spoiler tags = summary tags and remember that Mike said in another thread 9 months ago: "Incidentally you can also provide summaries in posts and comments, but don't do it. The reason is that these could federate with Mastodon and Diaspora and GNU-Social and the summaries won't work in other networks (because Mastodon has made it impossible or impractical to try and translate to standard 'summary' fields without generating warnings). So we don't translate it at all. Readers on other networks will see a mess. Save summaries for 'articles'. That's what they're there for." Re-reading that post, I see that he's saying that Mike's saying they do federate with Mastodon but generate a content warning. I don't see a content warning in my experiment.
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2018 15:27:42 EST
hoshAt least among musicians and artists, there are many who promote peace. Barenboim actually began the East West Diwan Orchestra together with Edward Said (whose Wikipedia article shows them together in Sevilla). Leonard Cohen, who I think you also like, donated the proceeds of his Israel concert to peace organizations. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd played to a crowd of about 40,000 here at our village (!) but since that time has become one of the most active campaigners for the cultural boycott. Due to his work, musicians and artists usually think very carefully before deciding whether to appear in Israel. It is no longer a trivial decision.
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2018 10:57:54 EST
hoshOut of the blue, Ian Anderson came to visit us once, I mean our community. But unfortunately I missed him. I got the email asking if he could visit in Istanbul airport, on my way to India. There was nothing rock-starish about him - he seemed just a nice ordinary chap. He says on his website that he donates all of the income from concerts performed in Israel to "bodies representing the development of peaceful co-existence between Muslims, Jews and Christians, and the fostering of better Palestinian/Israeli relations" and therefore included us among them. Ian Anderson visit