#connecting people

[alpaca-clouds]

The internet is pretty cool

Twitter is a hellscape. I mean that literally. It has always been, but fuck has it gotten worse since Elmo took over.

Facebook is not any better, for that matter. (Accidental poetry for the win!) There is a reason so many boomers got radicalized into some conspiracy bullshit via facebook.

Youtube is slowly drowning in the adpocalypse.

And tumblr... Has most certainly its own issues, though I gotta say that after getting used to the place it seems the most sane place of all the internet.

And I guess reddit... Trudges along.

So, Web 2.0 in general though... Kinda sucks.

Yet, I am currently basically chatting on a daily basis with a Japanese friend, who has studied Japanese history and will ramble about said Japanese history to me all day long. And then I will chat to friends in Berlin and talk about social movements in Germany. Maybe I am then also discussing stuff with friends from the USA or from Brazil. And we will share our knowledge. There are forums on Solarpunk. There are places for people to organize.

Even the fucking hellscape that is twitter most certainly made it so, that marginalized voices that have been ignored for decades got finally more room.

And that... is kinda awesome, isn't it?

If I have a question, there is a good chance I will be able to answer it by googling it. Or by just going to Wikipedia or SciHub. There is so much knowledge accessible. Or I can just ask the question at some place and get it answered.

And... like. That was kinda what the internet was supposed to be, right?

It was supposed to be a place for knowledge to be shared. I mean, it originally connected universities for heaven's sake. And when it does that, it is kinda a fucking amazing place.

And all I am thinking is... we kinda need to find a way to take the internet back from big companies.

No, I do not know how. But... It somehow has to work, right? The internet should not be in a chokehold by a handful of quasi-monopolistic companies. It should just be a place where you could properly share your knowledge with other people. A place for folks to connect.

I really do not know how to get there. But... It needs to happen, God darn it.

[sgnog]

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[positivefumo]

Connecting Fumo  ᗜˬᗜ

[dayvan]

crashing the tulpar into the asteroid that turns you into a dog ft. lil curlydog fanart by @rdhndrd

some design notes under the cut

Curly: Husky mix, maybe GShep? (mush, captain, mush!!!) Anya: Silken Windsprite (or long-medium haired sighthound mix) Daisuke: seen at least 2 different instances of people drawing him as a Papillon and i agree wholeheartedly Swansea: XL Bully/Cane corso Jimmy: badly socialized German Pointer mix

also ciarans fanart is based on this

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[unapologeticallydorky]

idk if anyone else felt this way, but in the Shapeshifter ep of Dungeon Meshi, it's treated like a joke that all the copies of Laios are super obviously not him, but isn't it kind of fucked up that Laios's closest companions don't seem to view him as... whole?

None of his companions had an accurate view of him as a person! One of the copies was a stupid, drooling mess! And on top of this, they all believed that because Laios struggles with social cues he wouldn't be observant to them as people. They just... fundamentally don't understand him.

I think the really accurate copies of the rest of the party was drawn from Laios's mind. His powers of observation and analytics are his strength, but that's not the same as being good with social cues.

Anyway. It made me really sad. I know his party cares about him, but it's so isolating to know your friends don't know you.

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[onlinedatingaps]

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[culturaldiversityday]

(Panel Session 6) 6th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue.

"Opening eyes and building contact: Tourism connecting people and its role in building intercultural dialogue"

Keynote speaker:

Mr. Fuad Naghiyev,  Chairman of the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Moderator:

Dr. Jafar Jafari, Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research

Panelists:

Mr. Jasmin Ademović, the Chairman of the Sarajevo City Council

Ms. Rosette Chantal Rugamba, Founder and Managing Director, Songa Africa, Rwanda

Mr. Miguel Carvajal, Co-founder and General Director, Get up and Go Colombia

Ms. Lucy Garner, Senior Expert on Youth and Talent Development, UN Tourism

Ms. Daniela Otero, Interim Chair, World Committee on Tourism Ethics

Closing remarks: Ms. Zoritsa Urosevic, Executive Director, UN Tourism

Related Sites and Documents

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[depassport0]

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[kodasea]

Son of Gondor

[lastoneout]

the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet

[sgnog]

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[flintpunks-mind]

A co-worker of mine was standing outside with me during a break from customers to share a cigarette with me, and told me about how he had lost his brother that he was close with some years ago. He told me about how they used to be in a band together with some friends, and how ever since he'd died, he hadn't played any music because he'd been too scared and anxious. I told him about how I'd lost my brother to suicide some years ago.

I went home and pulled out an old tiny wooden box my brother had given me before he'd died. I'd been using it to store guitar picks I'd collected over the years, including one guitar pick that used to be his. I haven't played the guitar since he'd died, my hands are too small to play some of the chords, so I play bass and piano instead.

I went to work the next day and gifted my brothers old guitar pick to my co-worker. I told him that it'd been sitting in a box for ten years unused, and would probably sit there for longer if I kept it there. Told him that I thought he deserved to have it, because I bet he could put it to better use than I ever would. Told him I didn't feel like it was coincidence that me and him would cross paths with each other in our lives, and that it seemed suiting that we had these similar experiences but split in two halves. That somehow, I felt like he was meant to have the guitar pick. I told him that I knew he'd not played guitar since his brother died, but that if he ever decided to play again one of these days, maybe he'd be able to honor both of our brothers by using that guitar pick.

He almost cried. He thanked me. Then he went home that night and for the first time in years he played the guitar.

I don't know what the meaning of life is or what my purpose is, but I do believe that love and human connection is one of the most important things in life. It's finding ways to tell strangers you love them and share experiences with others. I think it's all just about love.

[wentian]

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