Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
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S.Tori
@Torithom@theforkiverse.com
mastodon 4.7.3I listen to tech news podcasts to sleep. I live mostly on the Internet but I'm looking for better corners. Long Covid keeps me from the real world so I dream of online connectedness. Educator, musician, overthinker. You can find my DIY Freak Folk Chamber Pop songs and lefty writing at Linktr.ee/torithom
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Joined February 15, 2026
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@tchambers yes it feels so much healthier scrolling the Fediverse and I feel like my thoughts have cleared up and deepened, becoming more creative. There are still aspects of parasocial and followers/ metrics on the Fediverse though and I'm still undecided about if I want/need them in my life. I would be curious to see someone explore that further. Along with things such as the movement of music on the Fediverse, which sits a little outside the sphere of knowledge sharing described.
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@_elena and isn't the situation with Substack such that you can migrate your profile to a different platform rather than starting over? I still think platform migration fatigue is not given enough credit for being a legitimate excuse, but sticking to platforms that can migrate is a good idea.
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@vlrny@disabled.social it is terrifying knowing that with a minor disability from long covid, that I spend so much time advocating for myself and so much money paying for treatments, and I can because I have the energy and can work, but if I get covid again I could become permanently so sick that I can't do that. There is nothing for us. And I also have to spend heaps of effort stopping myself from getting covid again because everyone, even health care providers, do nothing. #covidisnotover
My profile picture is the album cover of my EP Dissolves Corporeality, which I will start releasing in a few weeks. It is part of a series of photographs that came about when I was having a small nap in my bathroom (as you do) and I noticed an interesting mirror view of the room through the plumbing under the sink. I realized that if I took a selfie in that reflection, it captured the concept of the album; the self in corporeal form being sucked into the machine. #diymusic #musician #creative
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@nielso@digitalcourage.social @bitboxer@mastodon.social I agree. It's so hard to keep up as a musician, and toying up between putting music where most people can find versus supporting the right platforms. Can anyone explain to me if this one is federated like Bandwagon?
The daily grind. "I sat outside trying to hear the birds, and ignore the forces of Normal Productivity." A small clip from a later release on my EP Dissolves Corporeality. This is the first time I have made a video recording and put it into Reaper to add a visual filter. #reaper #diymusic #diy #musician
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@WTL yes, and is there a track record of running not for profit then changing model later on? Like with OpenAI? Meaning there needs to be more mechanisms shown from the beginning for added assurity when committing to a new platform.
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@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social marriage and owning a home shouldn't be conflated together. Together they tell us little. Maybe some people are ideologically opposed to marriage but still own a home? I'm guessing they are not but marriage isn't the unquestionable stage in life it used to be.
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@luciedigitalni@aus.social straight away borrowed the book from Libby after reading this. The fact it is on Libby without a waiting list is a sign this news needs to be further spread.
RE: @sickhurtfuck@mastodon.social
Awesome anti capitalist lyrics with creative fresh sound. And fuck fibro, it's a close cousin to long covid which I know first hand really sucks!
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@eclectech @AmeliasBrain I like how I can forget the days in New Zealand but then there is a backup day when they happen the day after in the rest of the world. Quality content!
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@hamishcampbell the thing I am curious about though is companies starting off as nice and then changing into #dotcons when they get bigger as people flock there when boycotting another platform that isn't nice anymore. What's the best protection against this never ending situation which potentially disperses and weakens communities?
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@georgepenney@sunny.garden I am ever bemused at how much I don't see New Zealand as the quaint little utopia you make out (especially where I am in Auckland), but I have too enjoyed attending a gig of Lesbian Death Slutz from Hell!
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@Cognessence this is so good. I find it easy to get lost in the why, entrenched in the Capitalist world of productivity and marketization. Just to create is to be human.
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@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz yes, exactly! Until now when we still have Covid but all the scientific advice about reducing reinfections, improving air quality and 2 way masking is largely ignored by the public.
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@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz yes we were lucky. Funny, at the pharmacy yesterday getting my vaccines, the little booth was filled with old posters about social distancing. While quaint, both this and hang washing are outdated advice now we know the virus is an aerosol. And today Covid19 continues to kill people and disable large numbers, at this point unencumbered by the latest evidence on prevention.
#thursdayfivelist
Wish you well- Sierra Ferrell
https://tidal.com/track/351105889/u
Leaving on a Jet Plane- Peter, Paul and Mary https://tidal.com/track/3469655/u
Bye bye Bye- *NSYNC https://tidal.com/track/32773091/u
Bye bye Love- Everly Brothers https://tidal.com/track/25710477/u
Goodbye (Demo)- The Beatles https://tidal.com/track/118390460/u
Which time zone is Bandcamp Friday in? Or is it subjective to where you are? It's #bandcampfriday
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@pip@infosec.exchange @evacide@hachyderm.io what is the alternative? It seems like you can't be too purist when we're in a capitalist system which by design requires selling ones soul to exist. Sometimes the slightly less shit thing is as good as can be done in the moment, right?
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@Lana@beige.party they are though, off their backs with nothing or a lifetime of student debt. It's just about finding them when marketing such things isn't like it used to be.
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@evan@cosocial.ca I mean you can but it makes mistakes just like you do. What is the point? Are there any benefits beyond the checking features that have been in office processing software for yonks, assuming we're not calling these AI?
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@ftmf it's hard to work out what day it is in most of the world because here in New Zealand it's a day ahead, and I don't like to be late. My contribution to FairTrade Music Friday is my latest track Dissolves Corporeality https://torithom.bandcamp.com/album/dissolves-corporeality
Is there a place for youth groups to be funded to create suitable spaces on the Fediverse for kids in countries where social media is banned for 16+?
I was planning to release the last song by Bandcamp Friday but for now it is a 3 song EP with 4th one coming after naps. Listen for wardrobe-recorded, self-produced Feak Folk Chamber Pop, stepping into the mind that fairly cluelessly absorbed tech news podcasts for months for the poetic value and then ended up on the Forkiverse.
https://torithom.bandcamp.com/album/dissolves-corporeality #bandcampfriday
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@SecondUniverse@autistics.life @afewbugs@social.coop excuse my ignorance, what's wrong with a url shortener?
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@nickofnz@mastodon.nz I don't get it, doesn't more weight use more fuel anyway? Also, I need to photograph this government's PR campaign on how to keep using a car but use less fuel. It's absurd and laughable.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social trying to think of the most ridiculous thing to have a high level passion for making, like the part in the toilet that makes it flush... And then it comes around to bringing back artisans. At least then, the toilet maker business could have a passion in making the whole toilet!