Notices by Algot (algot@mastodon.art), page 14

hey mastos!! wondering if you can help me out…

what are some MASTODON INSTANCES 🐘 which:

1. were created in the PAST YEAR
2. have either OPEN or APPROVAL-BASED registrations
3. are run by DECENT FOLKS
4. are NOT TECH-THEMED (in word OR action)
5. have at least SOME ENGLISH-language moderators and documentation (multilingualism 🆗!)

reply with any and all that you know!! boosts 🆗!!

What did the blanket say as it fell off the bed?

"Oh, sheet!"

Awake at last
The night has passed
Breakfast done.
Let's have some fun!

#SmallPoems

Someday "The Young and the Restless" will be replaced by "The Old and the Sedentary".

Do retired military canine units go to...

...veteranarians?

#WordOfTheDay

cenotaph

/ˈsɛnətɑːf/ /ˈsɛnətaf/
noun
1 A monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war.
1.1 the Cenotaph - The war memorial in Whitehall, London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and erected in 1919–20.

Origin
from Greek kenos ‘empty’ + taphos ‘tomb’.

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The Washington Monument serves as a national symbol for the USA while also being a cenotaph, of sorts. President Washinton's remains are buried at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

toothache mostly gone
more appointments still to come
summer vacation?

#SundayHaiku
#CLMOOC
#SmallPoems

Cooking show about cowboys in winter weather:

Call it "Chapped"

Has there ever been a pool champion

named Bill Yards?

"Fall in love with thousands of brands."

Boy, what a weird tag line.

A real re-defining of love.

Getting a root canal today.
I don't want to say hooray.
But in spite of the lingering cost.
It should take my jaw pain away.

#SmallPoems
#SmallStories

#WordOfTheDay

pirogue

/pɪˈrəʊɡ/
noun
A long, narrow canoe made from a single tree trunk, especially in Central America and the Caribbean.

Origin
Early 17th century from French, probably from Carib.

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Bob got all fired up when he became involved in making a 20 foot pirogue from a storm-felled white pine. The team used axes and adzes and fire.

Bob can do it, canoe?

When a company advertises something as "All new",

it makes me wonder...

...just how many electronics companies use re-used parts.

#WordOfTheDay

dither

/ˈdɪðə/ verb
[with object]
1 Be indecisive.

Origin
Mid 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘tremble, quiver’): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder.

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We must not dither in our choice of words. Be decisive. Speak out clearly. (That does not mean we must shout.)