doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

the other side of this is: RUN YOUR OWN WEBSITES!!! HELP YOUR FRIENDS RUN THEIRS!!

SAVE YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES

keep copies of them! they're not going to last forever! and the tools we've collectively made to archive them are under attack! it's up to you!

i watched a really weird video about "initiations" the other day. some dutch pagan was talking about how we need initiations, how it's something missing in modern society. how the power of initiations, the way the world seems totally different after an initiation comes from *you* having been changed with the knowledge. and that there's a kind of magic in that.

all of that was relatively agreeable. and then they went "and kids these days look up to influencers and influencers are just kids in the bodies of adults and they're just Good Consumers and we need to teach boys how to be Dangerous Men, we need to teach boys how to be Producers and not Consumers"

and honestly i really should've seen it coming.

something i never see people talk about for fresh instances on masto is the work that goes into pathmaking.

when your instance is fresh it doesn't know any other instances - someone has to do the work to go "find" the posts for the first time to bring them back home.

the best way i've found, which i have spent so many hours doing, is going through whatever follow lists i can, seeing who in there has a semi-active account and following it, just so i could have more selection to choose from moving forward

oh hm, but private windowing fixes it. hmmmmm

and it doesn't seem to be a function of *my* masto instance, because the problem still occurs when i'm on others' instances

audio on masto videos almost never work for me on browser (but do work on my phone app) and idk why

centering my mind on becomings today.

my own becomings—the intermingling of others' becomings with my own (and of course my becomings intermingling with theirs).

"...there are as many sexes as there are terms in symbiosis, as many differences as elements contributing to a process of contagion. We know that many beings pass between a man and a woman; they come from different worlds, are borne on the wind, form rhizomes around roots; they cannot be understood in terms of production, only in terms of becoming."

"That is the only way Nature operates—against itself."

still not seeing the aurora where i live - the last time was my first and so cooool

i'm going to invent a lottery for whoever can brand decentralized social media as something better than "the fediverse" - just saying it makes me feel like i'm glowing

oh also you all should stop complaining when people call the fediverse "mastodon" - it's not their fault masto has better branding than "the fediverse"

STOP CENTRALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA

- posts were not supposed to be seen by everyone!

- years of posting and yet NO REAL WORLD USE found for putting them all in one place

- wanted more people to see your post anyway? we had a tool for that it was called FORWARDING

- "yes please show me the random musings of transphobic celebrities on the same site i jerk off to porn on" - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

this, of course, is yarrow

okay now that i'm more certain the Unidentified plant in my neighborhood is Queen Anne's Lace i should pluck a specimen for my book

I think i've got Yarrow down pat, it's really QAL vs Poison Hemlock that i struggle with, and that struggle is a lot more serious, poison hemlock can mess with your head just from touch, let alone eating any on the mistaken thought that it's wild carrot.

in order: Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace, and Poison Hemlock

the most notable part of the yarrow, in contradistinction is the fern like leaf patterns.

the difference between Queen Anne's Lace vs Poison Hemlock, as i've heard it, is that The Queen has hairy legs - the stem has lots of little hairs on it. And that the Hemlock has purple splotches on the stems.

but what i see in my neighborhood seems not to have either hairs *or* purple splotches. so i'm at a loss.