#3GoodThings (static edition)

• Handel’s Neun Deutsche Arien HWV202-10 (okay that’s nine good things) because I remember when I discovered them, music-making with friends one evening, and how, after each one, we were torn between doing it again (rare to even suggest it in such a situation) and trying the next to see if it was as good. (It always was.) These are one of my sources of joy in music, highly recommended would visit again.
• (related) memory is good, at times.
• (also related) music done well for the pleasure of the participants is a rare and rich treasure.

#tldr music is lifeblood innit.

Digitized an old #vhs tape of a #highschool #basketball game from 1987. A classic memory preserved! #TLDR (#tldw too long, don't watch)
https://youtu.be/bDBTniM3BuQ?si=n6qG0hf53isvKOAx

#3goodthings

• Being not doing. Ah what, were you expecting coherence?
• It was a day when the balance tipped slightly towards kindness, partly because I reduced the number of actions undertaken to near zero (but don’t look too closely at that) which, you’re right, presupposes social interaction of some kind — a secondary good thing I guess, but not, I think, robust enough to stand on its own, though you might disagree.
• Long sentences (vide supra) just because of the amusement they provide me.

#tldr
• Zen and kindness and not enough full stops

#TLDR
Behold Fediverse the impending collapse of the So – Called United States is at hand. I am convinced of this. However I do not see this as an unconditional net negative.

The #indigenous peoples of #TurtleIsland were told by prophecies of their wise leaders, that they would see the United States of America [come & go].

It is an immutable Truth that each action has consequences. This applies to Nations as much as to individuals.

I am not a christian but for those who are here are the words of your God and his prophets:

Galatians 6:7 
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Galatians 6:7-9 
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Hosea 8:7 
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

We will all need to find our strength. For the time is quickly approaching when even those who support the #FelonMusk & #Dumpster will turn on them.
It will come to #CivilWar soon between the #Loyalists and the #Revolultionaries who want to preserve the ‘Democratic Constitutional States’.

"The clear smell of #russian total garbage!"

#Russian media's first reports from the #US_Russia negotiations. The #TLDR is: it's all the #US fault, #Russia is blameless, #US were hit by sanctions much harder than #Russia.

#Biden's policy has undermined confidence in the dollar, while sanctions have helped #Russia become more independent.

I am quite enthusiastic about the toot quoting feature recently announced by @MastodonEngineering ... yes, very often it just makes sense.

But I am not sure about adding too many new complex properties of toots (statuses). How would inter-platform Fedi compatibility of these new privacy levels be enforced, at all?

It would be much easier to associate "quotability" with certain levels of privacy/publicity, which we already have 4, but still very often use just the 2 extremes (all public/all private). If I mark something as globally public, I am fully aware it may be quoted by someone. However, the next "slightly less public" means often sometimes, I don't really want to promote much (and it means also promote by quoting). But this would mean adding feature to limit privacy retroactively, which is not provided yet (only as "delete and repost").

While allowing quoting to people who follow me is not always good bet, generally I wouldn't mind being quoted by people who I follow (I can still unfollow). Quotability attribute may be useful, but would add more complexity. Not being able to be quoted by people I block is must.

Generally, being quoted is more or less identical to reply and boost used together. So being notified is a must, because we are being already notified about replies and boosts.

Being able to block being boosted by someone is also the same feature as being able to block quoting. Sometimes, "keeping it simple and strong" and avoiding redundancy of features is the best design pattern, I believe...

#tldr For all those who are to lazy to read the full article on quote toots

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

Here is how it will work:
- opt-out
- notification
- removal option

(According to the blog post, it took so long, because they did some research and Activity Pub work, so all other services will profit, too)

#3GoodThings (fruit cage edition)

• this afternoon I pushed myself to go to the HofCU and deconstruct the fruit cage, in readiness for conveying it to its new home in a friend’s garden this coming weekend
• the hex key for doing this was no longer in evidence so I used the drill’s screwdriver attachment: four times I dropped the hex bit out of the end into the undergrowth and four times I found it again
• I finished before dark, which is more a good thing about the lengthening days than my efficiency at the task

#tldr #haiku
• I faced the fruit cage
• and fought against entropy
• as days grew longer

#3GoodThings (music version)

• The morning was given over to Haydn (Op71/1) and Schubert (A minor) string quartets with friends, which I enjoyed, happy with my playing;
• In the afternoon I used (had to use) a practice session to try to drive a sudden dark mood away and it didn’t quite do that but it did stabilise me.
• I have blasted through preparing* nearly 600 comments on the latest copy-edit (a large symphony) which can go to the client tomorrow.

* clarifying my shorthand and removing any exasperation and immoderate language that I might have used.

#tldr #haiku version:

• Haydn and Schubert
• the cello as therapist
• second thoughts are best

a good writeup on the #citizenship issue.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order/

#tldr
#tRump is trying to make citizenship a gift and not a right.

It goes down hill from there