Ashdroid ☄️🤖 @Ashdroid@octodon.social
| she/her, I guess |❄️
Things We Have Thrown Into the Lake and What Has Thereby Been Summoned:
) A pineapple: Nothing
) A lover's gift: Regret
) A fish: Friendship with all fish
) A wax sphere: Nothing
) A doll bound in string & hair: Nothing
) A tooth: The Tooth Spirit of the Lake
) A magazine: A forest ranger who asked me to stop littering in the lake
humans: everybody work as hard as you can, and when winter comes, we'll have enough food for everyone, even the little ones who can't farm so good yet
capitalists: *takes the farmland and rents it back to the farmers*
capitalists: This is the superior system because of human nature. It simply isn't human nature for each person to work according to their ability and receive food according to their needs. Humans are naturally greedy.
little human: *dies*
honestly surprised that I haven't tooted a link that I meant to search for yet
We have forgotten hospitality, the old myths of caring for strangers. Show more
So there are, like, video games that play with the fact that you're looking at a screen, or messing with a controller. There are movies or TV that do similar things. Not enough books play with the physical medium they're in (e.g. House of Leaves). It would be cool to have more books not just user paper and ink as an incidental delivery mechanism for ideas, but as a part of the art.
Here's an introductory toot of my #cat Athena to prove that I'm cool enough to be here.
Our cat has a favorite toy. She has good taste.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/11/cats-love-octopuses/
had a dream that my cat was running a really cool Mastodon instance
"Will Mastodon make any money?" scream the journalists, who have forgotten the joy of building sandcastles on the beach
But how can I turn Mastodon into a money-making machine?
*thinks about it*
*opens a webshop that sells pineapples, introductory books on the French language, and incrementally larger server thingamajigs*
the follow bots suggest an emerging use-case. I think the solution is to have the local timeline for any particular domain be a feed people/bots can subscribe to. in theory, this isn't hard for the protocols underneath to do.
What if this place was just a platform for talking to people? What if we didn't compete for social space? What if there was actually respect for the ideas of others regardless of their social standing?
I see that possibility here. Please don't screw it up.
And now, for your viewing pleasure:
Cute alien babies https://mastodon.social/media/1qQPQY1si6gjZoHTE_I https://mastodon.social/media/juObpcI7YAub-pU6iwc
cynicism.porn
@lmorchard How about one where everyone is randomly assigned a generated set of political opinions upon joining, and must defend them as a form of rhetorical exercise.
Especially interesting is that one is bound to get at least one position one deeply opposes, possibly more. It's all a roll of the dice.
Doom is just an adventure game where all the solutions are >shoot imp
