kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

If you're new to Mastodon;

Follow people and hashtags, lots of them. That's how this place works, there is no other way really. If you're waiting for stuff to come to you it aint gonna happen.

Start typing hashtags of things you're interested in and follow them. Put them in your introduction and/or bio.

Start following anyone that looks slightly interesting. Follow people who boost a lot and anyone they boost that looks interesting.

Can someone hand this note to everyone that shows up?

Le Guin’s advice—read when you cannot write, sleep when you cannot read—has been top of mind all week and I am intensely grateful.

He has the high ground. #caturday

Chaton On/Off
#Caturday #MastoCats #AutomneDuChaos

#vegan friendly all you can eat #hotpot at the local Thai restaurant! Choose your broth base, make your own sauce, and cook anything you like directly at your table. Love to share a wholesome and delicious meal with the family ❤️

Oh my god. My dad's painting, The Planetary Suite, is referenced in #TheLastOfUs part 2.

I am absolutely astounded.

An XL note to self. Handprinted #letterpress #poster

I'm not too keen on context-free advice myself, but this one usually works :)

I made a notebook!! my first attempt at making book cloth with starch paste, and there are imperfections but overall I am very pleased with this result

and as always, every time I work on a project I learn things for next time!

#bookbinding

Today's the birthday of Richard Grey Jr., aka the Black Condor.

(Art by Dick Dillin, Jerry Ordway, and Nick Cardy.)

#1976DCCalendar #DCComics #QualityComics #comics #FreedomFighters

I giggled so much making this.

#mastoart #pigeons

Transformers Inducted Into Toy Hall of Fame

🔗 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2024-11-14/transformers-inducted-into-toy-hall-of-fame/.217853

Grand #Piano, #haunted, free
#humor (source: bdsmlr)

See the Full Beaver Moon on Friday, the Last Dazzling Supermoon of 2024
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-full-beaver-moon-on-friday-the-last-dazzling-supermoon-of-2024-180985469/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag

"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

#office365 #AI #microsoft

#friends

本日の猫団子お待ちぃ！🐾

Black Artists Group Profiled

Source: The Shfl. The Black Artists Group (BAG), formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1968, is often seen as a junior stepsibling to Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which launched a few years earlier. But while the AACM was focused entirely on music, BAG was a multidisciplinary arts organization that included writers and poets, dancers, actors and painters.

http://avantmusicnews.com/2024/11/13/black-artists-group-profiled/ [参照]

Hey, folks from what was once called Twitter! My fedi tip is: follow hashtags. You can search for hashtags of interest and then follow them just like you can follow any account. Your timeline will fill up quickly if you do that, and then you can start to follow interesting people in the timeline.

For example, some of the hashtags I follow include #blackmastodon, #mutualaid, and #canpoli, among others.

I've found that I can get news just as fast here as folks on #X.

#fediTips