The Very High Priestess @TheVeryHighPriestess@mastodon.social
Avid knitter, constant gardener, polyamorous newbie, Discordian Very High Priestess and mother of one (dog). Runs on coffee, myths, sci-fi, fantasy and hugs.
Currently reading:
1. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_on_the_Edge_of_Time)
2. Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others)
Currently reading: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Last night's show, uploaded and timestamped https://www.mixcloud.com/Filthy_Pagan/saturnalia-18042018/
"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."
Fellow (wannabe) #writers, follow @WritingPrompts for #writingprompts! <3
900 years ago you left Earth on the colony ship Alexander to a planet in a different Solar System, Valhalla. You were cryogenically frozen. When you arrived you found Humans from Earth had already Colonized it... 500 years ago.
#writingprompts #writing
The awesome #sync when you think about versions of self and the next day a friend of yours invites you to #Pessoa #play, Pessoa being a poet who invented #heteronyms, ie. he wrote poems under various personalities of his self.
"Make sure you capitalize the first letter of each word in hashtags so that screen reader software reads out each word separately. It also makes them #EasierToRead!"
"So I reckon that #magic is our response to #consciousness and I think that magic is practically synonymous with #art and I think it’s practically synonymous with #language and I think that all of these four phenomena are language, magic and consciousness. I think that they’re four parts of the same thing, four aspects of the same thing."
http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/alan-moore-youth-conversation/
With the #deletefacebook / anti-birdsite movement seemingly picking up speed, I have a few questions:
* How has it affected your social life?
* Did you manage to keep in contact with people far-away that you only spoke to occasionally?
* How did your relationship with social media / media as a whole change.
* How did your 'free time' change? Were you more productive or did you procrastinate elsewhere?
If you're replying, please say how long you've been without #Facebook / #Birdsite :)
'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album
In the 1980s, the #sci-fi author teamed up with musician Todd Barton, inventing new instruments and a language to create Music and Poetry of the Kesh
Wow, i just learned that the #MIT has its own #Mastodon instance. https://mastodon.mit.edu/about
Currently reading:
1. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_on_the_Edge_of_Time)
2. Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others)
"...Δυστυχώς βέβαια η στίγμη που η ανασφάλεια οξύνεται, και άρα μαζί της η ανάγκη για φιγούρα, είναι η διαδικασία του φλερτ, όταν και ζητάμε την αποδοχή και τη συντροφικότητα ενός σημαντικού (ή ασήμαντου) άλλου. Κατά έναν τρόπο με τον οποίο θα κάγχαζαν ο γνωστός καραφλός με τα γυαλιά ή ο άλλος μουρλόγαλλος, λοιπόν, η στιγμή που ζητάμε την αγάπη είναι και η στιγμή που είμαστε κατεξοχήν ανίκανοι να την εισπράξουμε (γι' αυτό και οι άνθρωποι συνδέονται συνήθως σε δεύτερο χρόνο)."
Κλεμμένα λόγια από το fb #1
"Ένα σημαντικό ζήτημα με τις σχέσεις, με έμφαση στις ερωτικές σχέσεις, είναι ότι δεν μπορείς να συνδεθείς ενόσω κάνεις φιγούρα. Διότι όταν πας να κάνεις εντύπωση κρύβεις εκείνα τα στοιχεία που δεν ανήκουν στην αυτοφαντασίωσή σου, τονίζεις εκείνα που ανήκουν, και αφήνεις τον εαυτό σου απ' έξω. Μετά ή βαριέσαι, ή βαριέται ο άλλος, αφού η εντύπωση, αντίθετα με τη σύνδεση, είναι ένα πολύ γοργόκαυστο πράγμα. Θα πάει μέχρι ένα πήδημα, δύο, μέχρι εκεί..."
Α series of #films based on Polish folktales, directed by Tomek Baginski.
A female widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) on big bluestem grass in the prairie meadow. #dragonflies #odonata #Illinois #nature #photography
#sexuality and #reproduction in #dystopian #fiction, a #paper by by Marie Louise Davis, September 1995
https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/13362/1/fulltext.pdf
I am still wondering what I'm doing here, working in front of my small desk and why I am not in a commune or collective making yarn out of wool and tending plants. #consensusreality
Why you should be reading Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer
