- Managed to hang a repaired shed door today... which i failed to yesterday.
- Good friend helped me to hang said she'd door
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@maxelcat@universeodon.com
mastodon 4.6.8I teach #physics, play in a #punk band. 🎸 'All manner of things shall be well.'☦️
Nature brings joy. 🌳 I tweet about my dog Boobington Bear, and all sorts of stuff. I tend to avoid accounts with 10000s of followers. Looking for thoughtful tooters.
I think I am kinda old fashioned.
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book I wrote on Ascent:
Climbing the Ancient Hills: A deepening encounter with the God of Heaven:
I went out into the garden at 10:30pm in the dark to observe the meteorites. I gave myself time for my eyes to adjust. I wrapped up warm. Since I saw exactly zero bright flashes streaking through the heavens here's a picture if a cake i made recently #physics #astronomy #crushing #disappoint #cake #meteorites
Anyone get what I mean?
I don't want to keep up with:
1) What promises our political elites are breaking
2) what is going on in Iran, America, or Israel or The Chagos Islands
3) the adventures of little Prince Harry, Randy Andy or 2-tier Keir
4) space trip jollies to monetise the moon or Mars by techbro priests who destroy and acquire and who 'do no evil' but force their vision of eutopia on us.
5) celebrities or stars or sporty people or actors, authors and definitely, definitely not influences.
6) which team is kicking/hitting/bowling/putting/passing/striking/whacking/throwing/juggling(!) the ball best.
I don't need to have anger, or jealousy or rage or hate stirred up in me. I don't need to fear things 'with no edges' that happen beyond my sphere of influence and which I cannot see or touch or sense except by tiny coloured spots of electronic light emerging from my screens.
Above all I don't want the multifaceted noise that demands my attention at every juncture of every day, distracting me from the still small voice within, and screaming stress within my ear, suffocating my peace destroying my inner life, and leaving my agitated and anxious.
I want to slow down. Please let me slow down. How can I slow down?
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@teadrinker@aus.social sounds like some good positives in there amongst the grind. Esp the bit about a young friend. I like getting to know my kids friends (mostly!)
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social well... basically self taught and trial and error. Oh and years of teaching. I am working on speeding up the production... some of them were far too labour intensive, and cutting out the waffle. A yt vid is not a lesson. I wanted to get monetised... it is far harder than you might think.
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social I've been making them for a few years now. Some of the early ones are a bit waffle. Recently I have done a whole pile of shorts. Try some of then.
#storm #dave is just the best name for a storm. Kudos to whoever names storms. What's you're preferred name for a storm? #stormdave #
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@forestfern yes I miss those days too. I remember pre answer machine and waiting 28 days when you ordered something by post. And 2 TV channels. It was slower, more intentional. Turning off my phone? It's a good idea. I wonder if I could?
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@aral regardless of your thoughts about sky faries we human are capable of horrors without invoking religion. Its like everywhere.
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social a walking buddy? Sounds good. That's what Boobington is to me. Interested that you feel your life is small. As I get older I wonder if bits of mine are closing down? I guess they are, but new things come along. What would make your life bigger?
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@ossobuffo I got a big shock yesterday when the usual Greek changed to Aramaic and then French. Very cool.
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@forestfern@mastodon.social I've noticed round here that birds I used to have to travel to go see are in the woods and even in the garden. Some in great numbers. All we ever hear is that nature is in free fall. But maybe its not across the board. Maybe there's hope?
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@forestfern@mastodon.social that is pretty. But also encouraging. It seems to me, at least in part, we are beginning to learn that we should cooperate with nature
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@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org references tistellar life cycle come up from time to time and I remember obe about subatomic patyicles from the sun streaming through our bodies. Neat!
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@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org am I right in thinking you like astronomy/astrophysics? It seems to me that these themes pop up in you poems.... or am I imagining it?
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@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org me too. I did some cosmology at uni. But I grew up loving the beauty of the night sky and the science behind it
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social I believe AI has its uses... I use it to help focus voice overs in my videos. It makes mistakes, uses phrases I wouldn't and is sickingly upbeat all the time. Tonnes better than shifting through a pike of search engine results i think. But using it to set the tone of writing... how aweful. And AI images that it generates are so cringe worthy.
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@sjpurrs@mastodon.social tbh I gave up msm ages ago. I have been hooked on the phone in, 24hr news shows where its always bad bad bad with endless endless speculation about events I don't need to know about.
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@Rivikah which is just typical and so brilliant. Same with Bait Lechem where he was born.
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@TheZorse that's the bottom line... mom is right. It's a spiritual battle mostly fought with unseen enemies who whisper into our thoughts and raise our passions thereby leading into destructive thoughts and behaviours which drown the still, small voice, steal our peace, damage our souls and so forth. Though I am very new this is how (in part) I am understanding orthodoxy.
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@forestfern@mastodon.social good plan. De tox step by step. Did you replace the noise with anything? I have been trying to replace it with podcasts etc. It is a lower level of noise on the anxiety inducing meter. Would be better to have nothing... but that would mean listening to my own self talk. And that's not good
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social I hear you. Feels like a constant battle to keep anger, anxiety, frustration etc at bay. Listening to news on and off is really not good at all (for me). I wasn't built to have adrenaline constantly pumped out into my blood stream. I sense the still small voice has faded a little for me.
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social also I have very difficult political opinions. I don't talk about these at all. But I have blocked a few keywords. It is frustrating tbh. So I post about dogs, my band...
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@TheZorse you know there is wisdom there in what you are saying about 'the need to vent.' I shall ponder on that. Venting has got me into a whole pile of issues.
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@TrueBlue4THREE@mastodon.social i hear you. The whole of creation groans for the unveiling of the children of God. Imagine that... the great restoration of Eden. Come Lord.
How do you send a dm on mastodon?
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@forestfern forgot to add walking the Hound everyday is a great help. The woods are beautiful
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@paulehoffman@infosec.exchange @rk@mastodon.well.com and it comes in halves except when it doesn't
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@limneticvillains@mastodon.online is it OK to ask ... did things pick up and how did you get out of the rut?
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@lazy@fedi.at @Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org just noticed this isnt one of yours... i teach a bit of astrophysics and it was what got me into physics back in the dim and distant past. If you will permit me a little soapbox time... personally i dont believe the sun to be insignificant at all, by any stretch whatsoever. Each person is one among billions, but that does make them insignificant... same with Brother Sol which I was pleased to see (🌤) reclaim his position at the 2nd stanza. I sometimes feel that ancient ancestors were onto something when they gave voice, and sentience to the heavenly lights.
I do enjoy your physics based poetic reflections on value and life
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@forestfern@mastodon.social isn't that weird? There is hope. Nature just carries on, doing its thing, being beautiful and awe-inspiring and scary and... wild. Even the butterflies... one 'extinct in the wild' species is back.
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@elabarts@mastodon.social every year I have to get year12 students to unlearn that photons have an amplitude. Very nice illustrations though.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I kinda feel like this humble ticket machine has been gifted and mystically chosen to bring prophetic hope to the bowed down and the weary of ancient Albion. (Cash is king)
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@TheZorse@hear-me.social I started to chat with you because you engaged with spiritual stuff. I look for signs and sometimes nudge gently. Worked with you! Didn't wirh others. I try not to push but I also try to be authentically me. I'd rather have a few mutual who engage than 1000s who dont
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I suppose I was. But I have been thinking about putting more of them onto fedi. Just don't want to put people off
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@binsk@infosec.town that was my mum. She piddled around for ages too.... I just don't have the time for it.... but I wonder if I'll end up like her. There is something fab about the way it disconnects a person from the matrix.