#pleroma

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 28 November 2024

The purple flowers and velvet foliage of Pleroma urvilleanum (glory bush, purple glory tree, Tibouchina) make this tender perennial an eye catching container plant for the summer but it needs winter protection. The tree will require pruning to keep the plant under control.

Jill Raggett

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Pleroma, physical embodiment of creation and destruction, strongest of the aeons! Amazing intelligence and knowledge, can be understood by anyone (though its messages are typically through mysterious visions), and can see through all illusion and darkness. It also has magic to create anything at any time, overwhelm you with the majesty of a god, shape or create various materials...and cast literally any spell of 9th level or below. So it has all the magic. can also create black holes or orbs of pure creation, so if you want a field of wildflowers just give it a minute.

Oh yeah, and for size, somewhere in the 8-16 ft (2.4-4.9 m) range. At least in PF1. PF2e leaves size a bit more up to interpretation, more caring about the space it takes up on the grid unless specified. So go a bit taller or smaller if that's your jam. It's creation incarnate, if it wants to be 30 ft tall then sure. EDIT: fixed where I'd called them inevitables. That's what I get for cranking these out for a few days straight to prepare for the holidays!

[mnemotechnicstoo]

Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage

From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.

[riotouseaterofflesh]

A warning to anyone trying out the fediverse/Mastodon

There's a large cluster of people who are basically an alliance of photomatts and (if you're on Twitter) Jai orbiters who try to police the various servers to isolate people they deem to be undesirables.

They are deeply transmisogynistic and unhinged, in ways that make photomatt's recent behaviour seem downright enlightened in comparison.

A recent good summary of what's going on is posted here.

A much lengthier history of this drama (which has been going on for years) has been put up by a kindly anon here.

The fediverse isn't all like this, but you do need to watch out which server you make your account on.

General red flags to avoid:

any involvement with "The Bad Space"

mastodon.art

users who frequently post to the #FediBlock hashtag

use of automated or shared blocklists (these are for entire servers blocking other servers, not individual accounts)

reasons for blocking a server mentioning "oliphaunt" or "tier" anything

As a general rule, you will want to coordinate with your mutuals which servers you go to as much as possible, to minimize the chances that you end up on different instances and end up getting cut off from each other until at least one of you makes an alt so you're both on servers that communicate with each other. This takes a bit of trial and error but unfortunately that is the nature of a decentralized social networking system.

So all that said... I really hope staff smarten up, Matt gets put in his place by his and Tumblr's lawyers and we can all stay where we are.

[darnellclayton]

I typed a message to the @tumblr team about copying a feature from @wordpress & @wordpressdotcom that allows the latter two to automatically post snippets with links to Mastodon.

I know activating ActivityPub within Tumblr is currently expensive…

…so a better option would be to flirt with the Fediverse instead via auto share. At least until ActivityPub support comes to the Tumblverse (I still believe ActivityPub activation should be a premium feature for those with custom domains as an anti-spam measure).

It would also be cool if Tumblr could embrace other platforms beyond Mastodon such as:

Misskey

Pleroma

Firefish

Threads (in the future)

…but that might be asking too much. Maybe…it would be cool if they supported the others though.

[dearimasu]

[stupidwittlebaby]

Fediverse! We're in it! Feel free to follow haumeageth@seafoam.space! Our posts there will be very similar to our posts here - otherkin stuff, plural stuff, daily life stuff c:

[mergaliscious]

Another friendly reminder that we're allowed to talk shit about CEOs on the fediverse and while it's probably not a good idea to make death threats against your server admin, if you run your own server you can say literally anything you want

[andmaybegayer]

I'm looking at getting back on Fedi. Are there any Fedi servers with like, a well used Admin Patreon. Having both run and been on instances that have died due to lack of admin interest, I'd like to just pay an admin for the simplicity of a server that is at some level a job, not a hobby.

[mateuscosme]

[negreabsolut]

[drhoz]

#1955 - Pleroma urvilleanum - Glory Bush

AKA Tibouchina urvilleana, lasiandra, princess flower and pleroma. The specific refers to 19th-century French explorer and botanist Jules Dumont d'Urville who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. The plant, on the other hand, is from Brazil.

Yet another ornamental left to its own devices at Lake Mangamahoe. Naturalised in NZ since 1977, and a weed in Queensland, Australia.

[dubhdove156]

Don't you hear the melody?

Why child do you fight against?

Feel the rhythm in your soul

Find reason for a felony,

in this symphony condensed,

an order against my control

Aren't you watching the play?

Why child do you blind yourself?

Binded in your silly role,

a fool made of clay,

like a puppet on a shelf

Child you are my entire goal

Why aren't you playing my game?

I made it just for you my love,

complex in design yet simple to play

Day by day release your shame

Piece by piece rise above,

sacrifice yesterday for today

Freedom is here O'Child

Why can you not be witness?

It is your design I have embedded

Child you're born to be wild,

in prison you're limitless

It is to you whom I have confided

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

Killah Priest - Pleroma (Official Music Video)

[atsvensson]

Ingen äger Fediversum

Ingen äger Fediversum medan kapitalister och storföretag äger X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Youtube och andra välkända och stora sociala medier. Det är ett korrekt påstående. Ingen äger Mastodon påstås det också ofta. Det är ett falskt påstående. Mastodon är den vanligaste programvaran i Fediversum både när det gäller antalet användare och antalet instanser och den ägs faktiskt av ett företag,…