lizkat @lizkat@talkedabout.social

@giascott

I often read books with a singular focus for awhile, whether a particular genre, author or literature from some region or subcontinent.

Every summer I do that intentionally, in what I call a Deep Dive. One year it was rereading a lot of #Faulkner and another time some #Hardy #novels. Another year it was reading about the art and difficulties of #translation.

Awhile back, some #fiction and #nonfiction about the tribulations of Sri Lanka.

This past summer: beach reads!

@NanoRaptor

Heck I might have liked the bird site a whole lot better if I'd carved out time from news and politics and followed some #tech over there, might bumped into your account.

First #Apple machine for me was a unenhanced 512k bought in 1985. Booted the thing on the kitchen table, wrapping paper and box tossed to the floor.... saw that smilin' face and knew my Compaq luggable with the 9" green on black display was gettin' close to toast at that very moment.

@RabBrucesSpider1

Lots of people may not even be aware of option to enhance value to visually impaired by providing descriptions of images they post using ALT-TEXT

Maybe add on or incorporate more hashtags into your own posts about general subjects

#music #education #sports

or whatever! as well as including brief reminders to describe images so that everyone can appreciate them.

More people will end up with your posts in their timelines and so then see the alt-text reminders as well.

@smotus

I think that's true even for pretty niche #communities that had been established at the bird site. For anyone with eclectic interests it can be a real pain now to make time to help grow the equivalent #gatherings in a new and #decentralized venue.

In at least the short term one has to remember to use hashtags --or append them to posts or replies, in order to expand visibility, get more feedback, run into more accounts to follow.

#politics #mastodon

@janellewilson @edutooters

That is wonderful! My own equivalent was made when I had #cats willing to climb real #ChristmasTrees from the moment they were brought into the house: I settled for a tiny antique fake, decorating it with ornaments cut from a novelty fabric, backed with paper to stiffen. It only interested the cats for about five minutes, so became my trusty seasonal fallback for the rest of their lives!

@smotus

Nearly a week late was often enough the way we used to read the Sunday NYT from out in the boondocks, when delivered via rural route USPS.

It was weirdly comforting to read of "current events" when they were actually well en route to the dustbins of history.

Gotta love #headlines too: we survived a few allegedly cosmic disasters that never did filter on out into local #newspapers.

@Jelaniya @jeffjarvis

I can understand reluctance of institutions --including government agencies and nonprofits-- to just up and leave what had been a pretty reliable platform.

"Where else to go?" remains problematic at the moment.

What I don't get is if #regulatory agencies are stepping up to their obligations: are they causing Musk to make changes in #corporate controls (and so in #moderation) which are starting to put guardrails back around Twitter? Why are they so quiet about it?

@ericgtr @AlliFlowers

Hah I am too dangerous with my well known ability to type first and consider what and where I'm typing later on. All speed, no accuracy and zero trust in that infernal #autocorrect to understand what I may have intended.

Count me in as a "person in need of supervision" and so only a minor partner in crime. I could maybe make coffee for the getaway drivers... 🤪