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𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙, 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡, 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧This is where I set down what's on my mind ("mindsets"...get it?).I may edit repeatedly for clarity or style.Don't know how my media tab became a 1980s pop culture zone. That stuff first arose only in my replies to folks, not my own posts. But then I began to lean into it.Test your server's fidelity by seeing if you can find my banner image source under my media tab.

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Post #3426010
The top five (non-technical and non-Mastodon-specific) English language terms I never knew were so popular until I arrived in the Mastodon system: (5) "THE GUARDIAN" and news ascribed to it, (4) "chuffed," (3) "whilst," (2) "Glastonbury Tor," and (1) "#TOTP." Even now, I still don't know what that hashtag refers to. The contexts, in which people use it, seem inscrutable to me. It's some recurring event, I think—? Moreover, I'...
Post #936750
I guess not everybody, from every instance, can see this...but I&#39;m intrigued by how the visual artist whose work appears most under my media tab, as of this writing, is José Luis García-López (praised be his name). Mr. García-López is among the most impactful in his field, so maybe his impact upon my media tab was predictable. Despite never having been the main topic of any of my posts or replies. Well, until the current post. All right, you&#39;ve twisted my arm: now I&#39;l...
Post #936749
Let me share my favorite in-story welcome message in all of #literature. It&#39;s spoken by Pablo in STEPPENWOLF by #HermannHesse (occasionally misquoted in translation): &quot;&#39;This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred or a thousand, and behind each door exactly what you seek awaits you. It is a pretty cabinet of pictures, my dear friend; but it would be quite useless for you to go through it as you are. You would be che...
Post #738545
&quot;Multinational mishmash in motion&quot; ...that&#39;s my nomination for the best catch-phrase in the whole Mastodon realm (found on the profile linked below). Is it for the user called klu9? Is it for #fediverse activity in general? Is it for humankind itself? You decide. 🫵 https://ohai.social/@klu9
Post #738544
I&#39;ve noticed that whenever I post anything over 100 words, up to half a dozen followers go away (though if boosts occur, then departures and arrivals mostly cancel out). My choice of topic doesn&#39;t even make a difference. Still, I try to write at least 100 words per post semi-regularly, to help me avoid becoming a lazy or superficial communicator. Accordingly, I now declare that I&#39;m developing a new post that&#39;ll greatly exceed 100 words. If that distresses—up t...
Post #738543
I seldom agree with critics&#39; remarks such as: • &quot;This show was way better than it needed to be.&quot; • &quot;We&#39;re don&#39;t deserve such beautiful music.&quot; • &quot;This book had no business being this good.&quot; If taken literally, I mean. My usual opinion is that art which is less-than-good shouldn&#39;t be offered to the public in the first place. Because I want high artistic quality to be the norm. To be the normal public expe...
Post #738542
RE: https://mindly.social/@setsly/114161481212443838 Happy #PiDay. My prediction: curiously, today pi will be exceeded by the ratio of people celebrating with pie to people celebrating with pi.
Post #738541
Part 25 of a series—things I&#39;ve said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly one year ago. &quot;The human body requires chloride, chromium, fluoride, iodine, and molybdenum. Why, then, do virtually no food #NutritionLabels include chloride, chromium, fluoride, iodine, or molybdenum data? Breakdowns of soluble and insoluble fiber would seem very helpful too. &quot;I can find no credible source providing an answer. Why d...
Post #738540
In general, the reason potential reformers do not sufficiently organize is that they don&#39;t fundamentally dislike bad stuff. Not purely on the basis of it being bad. Not on that principle, really. Instead, they just dislike how the bad stuff makes them (or others) feel; the hurt or harm which they (or others) feel as a result of bad stuff. So this undercuts their prep time. Which, in turn, makes the timely growth of their movement unlikely. #organizing
Post #738539
Around here, I&#39;m often afraid someone will find out I&#39;ve never sat through an entire DOCTOR WHO television episode. Regardless of its timing or era. Nor any contemporary &quot;Star Trek&quot; television episode since STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, over thirty years ago. 😬
Post #738538
At times I wonder if I upbraid my readers too much. Even if usually not overtly. But then I check out what the great WEATHER IS HAPPENING Weather Man is (always) telling his readers. Overtly. Reminding me how maybe we all should be upbraided more, not less... Yeah, it&#39;s a fine mess we&#39;ve made! And no, I don&#39;t think Weather Man is only joking around. Not truly. #repentance #WeatherIsHappening https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/11625614631123049...
Post #611927
@Sunny There are probably some settings you could adjust, to reduce or even totally eliminate the gremlin(s). I have disabled most such &quot;features&quot; on my devices. I know they hurt more than they help, if left on their own.
Post #611926
RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/116081106660485007 It&#39;s dawning on me that to have owned only four mobile devices—such that only two are &quot;smart&quot;—in one&#39;s life is uncommon for an adult in a developed nation. In my case, in reverse chronological order: • Two smartphones: one for several years and counting, the other for nine (!) years. • One flip phone for several years. • One candy bar phone for several years. Anyway...welcome to my first quote post, everyone....
Post #611925
From a few hours ago—the author of the following Reddit comment is the most self-aware neurotypical person &quot;(probably)&quot; that I happened to come across this month. &quot;People don&#39;t think much. I don&#39;t say that as an insult, but many just operate on autopilot. No reflection, no questioning, neither their own actions nor those of systems. &quot;[Neurodivergent folks] question the hierarchy because it doesn&#39;t run automatically for [them]. Neur...
Post #611923
I had difficulty, over the decades, trying to fully watch or rewatch PICKET FENCES (1992-1996; about the last time I opted to possess a TV set). Perhaps my favorite fictional #television show ever. But I succeeded eventually, as indicated by a prior post of mine. Hallmark Channel showed reruns of PICKET FENCES long ago. But accessing Hallmark Channel, and homing in on specific episodes, wasn&#39;t straightforward. Therefore I never attained a complete viewing experience, back then, from...
Post #350438
This year represents the 40th anniversary of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. And the 25th anniversary of its (THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN) lesson about how commercially successful stories typically morph into lame cash grabs. I mean, if they weren't lame cash grabs from the start. #comicbooks #media https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnNkx3Ag8qc https://www.dc.com/blog/2026-02-17/dc-celebrates-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-dark-knight-returns
Post #291147
This looks like a good day for some heavy thoughts Let&#39;s put this whole thing in perspective Eating is important And sleeping is important But nothing is more important than holding someone you love Check that Reciprocation is nice, too ✔️ Scrivener&#39;s note: to me, cats are like strangers, all right? #StrangersDeepThoughts
Post #291146
My most attentive readers will rightly find a hint of ambiguity, about whether I endorse the house cat&#39;s attitude toward life. ...and I&#39;m not referring only to my January 13, 2026 post. #cats
Post #291145
Part 19 of a series—things I&#39;ve said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly one year ago. &quot;A fantastic short definition of &#39;God&#39; is stated on page 245 of Thomas Whittaker&#39;s &#39;Giordano Bruno&#39; (MIND, volume 9, number 34, April 1884): &quot;&#39;In Bruno&#39;s system God,—the absolute intellect,—is at once the beginning of things and the end to which they aspire according t...
Post #291144
I&#39;m saddened by the intellectual constraint outlined below by BL Whorf, quoted in &quot;Geometry, pregeometry and beyond&quot; (pp. 435-464 of STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PART B, volume 36, issue 3, September 2005) by Meschini et al. &quot;&#39;It was found that the background linguistic system ... of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas ... . We dissect nature along lines laid d...
Post #291143
I expect this post to have no value for anybody who sees it when it first appears, yet it may have unique value for somebody who finds it in the future... For reasons I pieced together here before, I had barely played any video game since 1993&#39;s Doom, except for casual games (though I maintain basic awareness by viewing clips of many later games). However, while still not surpassing the release year of 1993, I recently decided to change this situation by fully playing my first non-casu...
Post #291141
My very rough theory of #business is that everybody in a company, in effect, works for its sales/marketing divisions; by giving those divisions stuff to market or sell. Per the intelligence and strategies that the sales/marketing divisions furnish to everybody. Then the sales/marketing divisions push the company&#39;s stuff to the outside world. By &quot;stuff&quot; I mean services, goods, experiences, and so on. In other words, sales/marketing is usually located right at, or ext...
Post #291140
Part 21 of a series—things I&#39;ve said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly two years ago. &quot;Our current political strife is essentially a #CultureWar. Not a policy war; its worst fights aren&#39;t really about policy preferences. So, comprehension of issues (or lack thereof) isn&#39;t necessarily what fuels the conflict. &quot;Rather, it is motivated by scorn for separate groups of people, where their separ...
Post #291139
Part 22 of a series—things I&#39;ve said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly one year ago. &quot;I would be lying if I didn&#39;t admit that, even [more than a year] later, I&#39;m still upset that my fall 2024 warning posts about swing state voter attitudes were largely ignored. &quot;After all, virtually no one else in the Mastodon system was talking about the issue. Practical, timely, and of relevance to the wh...
Post #291138
I was employed in the #construction business for about five years. And I was amazed to see how relatively little the art and science of that field is, or has been, put into writing. More than any other type of place I worked at (in alphabetical order: chemicals, consulting, education, government, law, pharmaceuticals, real estate, recreation, resource conservation, retail, and theatre), I would say construction is the hardest to learn if one isn&#39;t already doing it, in some way. Whethe...
Post #291137
One of the strongest forces that pull people so deeply into fiction is its sensational delivery of the illusion of surplus discovery; of amped-up surprise. On an intellectual level, we know fictional stories aren&#39;t occurring in our own world. But when we&#39;re immersed in fiction, it does tend to feel like we are there, wherever it is taking place. Thus, fiction often feels substantial enough to excite us though the joy of apparently easy discovery...easy surprise...easy learning...
Post #291136
Okay. I have observed enough. I&#39;m calling it now. As of this date, I&#39;ve seen &quot;it&#39;s&quot; and &quot;its&quot; used incorrectly more times, in my life, than I&#39;ve seen them used correctly. I think their incorrect usage has been ramping up especially since the early 2010s. With no sign of slowing. Even in professional writing for large audiences, lately.
Post #291135
Part 23 of a series—things I&#39;ve said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly two years ago. &quot;I find no cause to ask myself what a proper life journey is, in a general sense. I don&#39;t see how there could be a general answer. &quot;That being said, I still think it&#39;s good to pursue challenging goals in life. But probably not by copying other people&#39;s goals. Almost no others are suitable because...
Post #291134
Part 24 of a series—things I&#39;ve said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly one year ago. &quot;I don&#39;t know. I guess folks simply don&#39;t locate and read enough top-quality analyses in disparate areas of knowledge. Not even &#39;smart&#39; folks—? &quot;I mean: I recall reading law review articles, a generation ago, that fully explained how US Presidents have enjoyed too much power-creep over time...
Post #196947
It's not wrong to point out that far too many Americans vote against their own interests; yet it's more revealing to point out that the way they choose what's interesting is against their own interests. 🫤 #psychology #USA https://mindly.social/@setsly/115177968433673762