Notices by Kate (katebowles@mastodon.social), page 6

@tellio @dogtrax

But look, this also: http://greaterthanorequalto.net/

(Made by @alantrotter, shared by @yaf)

Don’t rush it.

And what if you could fork it? Maybe everyone but me already knows that you can.

@RussSharek @DistroJunkie

I had to rub my eyes too when I saw it: a little bit of everyday magic. But it’s perfect. A cat full of clowns.

@tellio @dogtrax

This black ring isn’t always visible, and sometimes when it’s visible, it’s empty. I don’t know whether it’s natural or industrial. Today, this composition.

@paralithode When I was having chemo I photographed the same view of sunlight coming through our bedroom window, over and over. I wanted to remember how it felt just to look at that light and think about it.

@tellio @dogtrax

Forking was a thing I loved to do, once I learned how to do it. And I love watching you two quilting, it's one of the signal joys of mastodon for me.

@tellio @dogtrax

At the moment, there are people on the beach who make small cairns. I never see them but I come across the cairns. I can't believe they're always the same people. I think we're communicating with each other, cairn by cairn.

And then of course the ocean itself does most of the heavy lifting, both of sand and stones, so that every day the beach is very substantially different, including in ways that aren't obvious.

@tellio @dogtrax I think about this when I'm walking on the beach.

Do you remember a couple of summers ago there was a woman carving dolphins in the sand, in my community. I thought about her making, explicitly with labour and time, something destined to be washed away. Who owned it? We all did. We all had a sense of delight in it.

But beaches are complex social spaces—patrolled, and regulated. It's not all free there either.

@DistroJunkie @RussSharek

Also from this joyful picture I learned that the collective noun for clowns is a catful.

Day is made.

@dogtrax @tellio Coming late upon this exchange I wondered about hyperlikes. That is, being able to loop from the specific word or phrase that I liked to what I’m thinking next, in such a way that you could see the whole.

It’s not quite what hypothes.is does, but it’s what fedwiki did for me. Pulling a loop of an idea from someone else’s canvas to my own.

@tdorey Yes, this is where I am too. I read Ben’s post with much agreement until he listed networked relationships as shallower than “real” relationships.

We don’t have a measure for relating that works like this. All interactions with others have the capacity to be comforting, demoralising, helpful, and so on.

But once we agree to see ourselves as the stranger in someone else’s life I believe we get better at sharing resources.

@letthewatersroar That’s beautifully put. The woe of the world is itself a story arranged for maximum (commercial) attention-gathering. And against the orchestration these stories whisper: but, but, but.

What we all have in common is that we are the ones alive now, together. The currently living world population are a unique combination of individual capacities, a number and permutations of choices that is unguessable and constantly in flux.

We can leave the world better than we find it now, or not.

But I sense that to do this, we need to find means to connect with and imagine the lives of strangers, not just with kin.

I’m reflecting on others’ decisions to step away from social media, having come back to mastodon after time elsewhere (Twitter).

For me: news media and social media blur. I follow happenings of the world that mainstream media don’t always pick up, especially activism. But I’m aware that I’m trading editorial indifference for algorithmic prurience.

Also me: the #smallstories and art of strangers have helped me pay more careful attention to the world I live in, on this planet we share.

@paralithode

Here's a thing that flew to mind. It's about half of the overall painting, rotated once.

@compostablespork @modgethanc I blogged without my own name attached for about a year until I had found my voice and people read things without it being Hey Look At Me.

I think it helped me maintain a sense of the blog being an autonomous presence in the world that has its own hopes, not an amplifier of me.

@ianalanpaul I just want this said over and over again. Thank you.