Notices by Tellio (tellio@mastodon.social), page 8

@qwazix You can't teach that kind of obdurateness, but you can certainly find ways to encourage it and spaces to live it. Institutions of education aren't bad, they are just mirrors of the zeitgeist. We gotta counter the doom loops and rise up singing and fighting. Your response makes me want play another semester right now.

@dogtrax God bless all the idlers of this world.

@dogtrax @katebowles There is only so much we can do within the system we have wrought. We can try to lay down parallel tracks that have different destinations, but we are still using trains that have tracks and cars and engines. Does it become yours, whatever 'it' is? I think it does by definition. We enter into the fediverse with our eyes open, yes? I think the problem is that we do not enter with clear eyes. We can't. We have to make that road by walking it in good faith.

@reto Reminded of this as I read your poem: https://youtu.be/FArZxLj6DLk #smallpoems response.

@katebowles @dogtrax Kevin and I trust each other enough to share ad libitum. It is just so much easier that way with thresholds and boundaries as permeable as we can manage them. I think that is why federated wikis are so hard for us to 'accept'. It is anarchism in its original form as mutual aid and cooperation. It is not capitalism and hierarchy. I think that is why it feels so odd at first because most of our online tools are constructed at their core contra to mutual aid.

@dogtrax Me too.

As we bear witness to our high holy days of Bleak Friday and Cyber Moanday I recommend you watch "Happiness": https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/b74fd102-df79-4510-8721-3ab58c65bfb3 or scan the QR code. Get happy and woke, no joke.

While my wife has been visiting our girls in Phoenix, I have been holding down the farm. I have started listening to James Howard Kunstler's "A World Made By Hand", a story about the U.S. after what amounts to a slow societal crash. Maybe that is not such a good idea when one is spending the better part of most days alone. #smallstories

@dogtrax I have responded to your blog post (hypothes.is) and to your Storybird in the comments there.

@dogtrax I am annotating it in slow motion. I loves the map of our little feldgang. It, of course, reminds me that the map is not the territory. The map is the metaphor, but an oh so handy tool.

Terry and Kevin's liminal adventures: @dogtrax here's my blog post reflection of our back and forth: https://goo.gl/7w6G1e

@gaditb @Gargron I will give it a try. thanks so much for the direction.

Anybody know if there is any way to embed a threaded conversation in Mastodon? I can embed individual toots, but don't know of a way to embed the whole thread. It would be super handy for sharing on blog posts or in other digital spaces. @Gargron

@dogtrax Wouldn't it be interesting to study these liminal moments of transition: from text to hyperlink to digital object and back button to poem again? What happens in our minds as we 'code shift'? Is it actually code shifting? Something else? I call these transitions 'friction'. Is this something we can learn to do better, to invoke better, to share better? Might a voice interface be better? We need to spend more time exposing these blind spot thresholds. Yes? #smallstories #smallactions

@dogtrax That's the first time I put a YT link in a poem. I would have just created a clickable word if I coulda, but I couldn'ta. How do you feel, as a reader, about the distraction of a hyperlink? #smallresponse

A Thanksgiving dialogue just ran through my fervid noggin:

Hubby--Going out to get some last minute stuff.
Wifey--OK, don't forget the Romaine lettuce. You know how I loves me my Romaine.
Hubby--But...
Wifey: You heard me. Don't come back without it.
Hubby--OK.

#smallstories #smallscenes

"RumbleStrippin'" from Justin Johnson's "Drivin' it Down" Double-Album https://youtu.be/cUiYamjM4GU Lucky listen today. Or was it? In our age of algorithms can anything online be called "lucky"? Tell me about your latest "lucky listens". #clmooc #unboundeq #smallactions

@dogtrax This is called social luck, my friend, and it seems to be a nice, thick slather of it in those three words. Think of it as a spell, cast to keep you safe. Of course, reciprocation adds to the luck of the world. Cast on and knit it up like you need a scarf tomorrow. #smallactions

@Kaffe Adorable to some max degree heretofore unknown.