L. Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town

@elilla Laurie Marks' Elemental Logic series might fit the bill. I'm halfway through the first book, and there's much to recommend about it. https://smallbeerpress.com/books/2019/01/22/fire-logic/

Political philosopher Michael Walzer: "Overthrowing racism will still leave us with capitalism; overthrowing capitalism will still leave us with racism." https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-note-on-racial-capitalism

Ancient Egyptians cities had institutions, established by royal patronage, where medicine, theology, ritual and clerical administration were practiced and taught. They were called The House (or Mansion) of Life — which strikes me as a very elegant way of bundling a group of potentially incongruous disciplines. Not entirely dissimilar to "the humanities."

Hmm. 🤔 I don't love the way writefreely truncates federated messages, linking back to the site. micro.blog's method of federating the whole message when the char count is <280 is more federation-friendly, if you ask me.

Ideally, there'd be an option for untruncated on 280-length posts, and snippet + link for blog-length posts. Will suggest as much on their forums.

Been tearing my hair out on a weird redirect I've been getting on a repurposed subdomain. Tried to access it from a different browser and it worked right away. Turns out, I just needed to clear the cache on by primary browser. 🥴

@fruechtchen I ran across that before, but it didn't look like it was ready for deployment. Have you tried running an instance?

@gueorgui @Tingyi I wish I could remember specific places to recommend. Parts of Sartene have a nice medieval vibe, if you're ranging that far south. And I really enjoyed the local chestnut beer, Pietra. But mostly we just soaked up the local atmosphere as much as we could.

An excellent time to pick up mailing stuff to people as a hobby. https://www.engadget.com/snail-mail-pandemic-hobby-140017534.html

If anyone knows of a lightweight, self-hosted, single-user blog/microblog package that federates AND works with Webmentions, I'd appreciate the tip.

@gueorgui @Tingyi Interior, or around Ajaccio?

I was there probably 7 years ago, mostly along the coast from Ajaccio to Bonafacio. Really gorgeous island.

Authorized https://forget.codl.fr/ to continuously prune my account, so if you have any old favorites, go copy 'em to a text file or something.

@gueorgui @Tingyi North side of the island, or south?

Looking at https://writefreely.org as a potential replacement. It already has ActivityPub and RSS syndication baked in, and may be adding WebMentions with its upcoming remark.as service. Self-hosting is a plus, and it seems relatively lightweight (which is why I haven't set up a personal Mastodon/Pleroma instance). At a glance, I don't see any Twitter cross-posting option, but that's low priority.

Ending my micro.blog trial. There are some interesting premises underlying the design of the service but:

1. ActivityPub interoperability is buggy;

2. I couldn't get Twitter cross-posting to work;

3. Apart from WebMentions, the social aspects are a bit too minimal;

4. I'd prefer to self-host, not just link a domain name to a hosted service.

I was willing to trade on one or even two of those, but all four make for a platform that doesn't really serve the purpose I had in mind.

micro.blog seems to have a relatively large community of Protestant clergy, which is something I thoroughly did not expect.

Linux evangelists, sure, but evangelist evangelists? 🤔