+1 to this.
Libb
joined 2 years ago
I’ll avoid it as one of the manifestos mentions that we should be being kinder and look out for each other.
I won't blame you for that, quite the contrary :)
But since it's obviously one way to look at it, I thought I should mention it.
I’ve added your community to the sidebar. If you know of others that might fit, let me know.
Thx for the link.
Beside the ones I listed in the sidebar already? I follow a few that are related to old tech, others that are more into 'simple' and peaceful content. Alas, like often here on Lemmy, quite a few of them see little to no activities. Next to the journaling community I've decided to focus on the other community I would love to see grow and be active is the Simple Living one. It was one of the communities I appreciated the most back on Reddit (with great mods and great overall participants, useful content with little negativity/hatred or even drama) !simpleliving@lemm.ee
I also consider the Calvin & Hobbes community a great complement to any timeline. The humanism and the kindness that come out of every single strip of that wonderful comic is more precious than ever !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world (I happily look at the new strip posted each day, even though I own all the comics)
And then there are the others communities. Things like !vintageads@sh.itjust.works or I don't know !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works, and quite a few more.
I don't know if the full list of my subscriptions is visible when looking at my profile, here on Lemmy? Let me know if it isn't and I will send you a copy of them so you can see by yourself. Many of those communities can share content related to getting back control (on our lives/activities/the things we do and the things we use, the world we (want to) live in), and most will do it in a non-hostile way, but that is also not their main topic so I'm not sure you may want to include that many ;)
Any ideas for an icon and banner gracefully received.
- Something related to land/landscape and growing culture or stuff? Something peaceful at humane scale.
- Something related to simple/basic HTML and CSS code, like they used to be back then?
- A journal/diary page maybe? But some may suggest I'm not that objective here :p
- I try to avoid vindictive content myself but you may also consider showing the demise of that shi... corporate Web, say in the guise of some ruined ugly building/factory, and the grow of a more organic and once again fully personal Web (a tree or whatever)?
I'm no graphic designer but I made the banner/icon for our small journaling community (!journaling@sh.itjust.works). If you like it and if you think I can help you in any way contact me I would be happy to help. BTW, I also promoted your new community to our members as I think they might really be interested in what you want to do ;)
Nice! Happily joined ;)
Yeah, I can understand that (really sorry it happened).
Well, (potential) customers do care about quite a few completely useless metrics, or ta least meaningless ones. Exactly like they do with their photography gear. Marketing departments need those things to sell new device, right? ;)
But I will bring it with me when I travel for more than a day or so. If I get a little time to myself in a hotel room it makes for good writing because I can talk about the stuff I’ve done or will do on that trip
I don't even do that,what I will do is bring a new journal for the trip.
Also, something I do with my pocket notebook is to write down on the back of the cover, in French as well as in English: '20€ REWARD if found + email'. It's an email I use only for that purpose, not my personal email, and it saved my ass a couple times already.
Pour rebondir sur tes remarques, ça pourrait être marrant d’ouvrir un débat sur /c/cineseries à propos des films ou séries généralement populaires, mais qu’on a pas aimés.
Me suis inscrit ;)
Thx for sharing.
There is something sad for me to be reading this article while I'm making a break from my usual work, having a quick look at the pen that is resting on top of the sheets of scribbled reading notes I've been taking for the last few days while I'm working my way through Rousseau's Emile, ou de l'éducation (Emile, or On Education for the few non-French speakers out there ;)).
Our mixed feelings about machine-made signatures make plain our broader relationship to handwriting: it offers a glimpse of individuality.
Schoolchildren are not the only ones who can no longer write or read cursive. Fewer and fewer of us put pen to paper to record our thoughts, correspond with friends,
For me, that's the real sad part. So sad.
More and more often, even though I'm no teacher and don't meet that much young people, I can see and hear their baffled reactions when they watch me take handwritten notes, or when they discover I'm always taking notes while I'm reading, or when they learn that I draft almost everything I write longhand—like some caveman, save that cavemen back then did not write even if some of them painted.
They sincerely don't understand why anyone would not want to use the speedier keyboard, when they're not surprised one may want to write anything at all. They also don't understand why anyone would want to use such an impractical mean of storing thoughts and sharing them (my handwriting is shit, even I can have a hard time reading it). And I can't blame them. Why would I?
Most of them have never experienced first hand how handwriting very slowness is key and how its uniqueness (my shitty handwriting, or the much nicer handwriting of my spouse) make it such an efficient way to internalize thoughts, notes, ideas, lists and have them ingrained in our brains... in our personality. And a unique way to share them, too.
I'm a decent typist, I can use many type of keyboard in a few various layouts without much need to look at them, but I would not exchange my fancy fountain pen or even my cheap ballpoint Bic pen for any keyboard when it's time to take notes, to put down some thoughts and draft something. The keyboard is best for finalizing a text as far as I'm concerned, not so much before that.
“We’re trying to be realistic about skills that kids are going to need,” said one school board member in Greenville, South Carolina. “You can’t do everything. Something’s got to go.”
The grumpy old man in me is tempted to say 'Maybe it's that type of education that needs to go out, and quick?' but I won't say that.
Instead, I would suggest we question the purpose of educating kids. Why waste so many effing years of their life on school benches? What is it supposed to make out of them or help them make out of themselves? Very optimized and very performant parts of some gigantic machinery that constantly needs new (but highly standardized) cogs to keep working? Or do we wish to help them become the individuals they can be, each with their own personality and, yeah, sometimes also with their own shitty handwriting? But like I mentioned, it's most probably just grumpy-old-me that's, well, old and grumpy and doesn't understand the time we're living in and how bright and happy the future of those kids is looking like— rejoice child, you won't have to learn cursive.
My coffee has gone cold. The conclusion is obvious: too much of me ranting, time to go back to my (paper!) book, and that stack of sheets, and to my stupid pen ;)
edit: typos + clarifications.
Why most reasonable US citizen won't leave the US now that the orange dude is in charge, free to spread his terrible ideology? Probably because they can't leave the country (their job, their family, their friends...). The same goes for most media, they need to reach their audience and a lot of their audience is still on X. Edit: and because they refuse to leave the country in the hands of the Orange dude, too.
Papers like The Guardian are able to take risks, because they don't rely on ads revenues but on subscriptions and because they also know some of their audience (hi, guys) aren't on X anymore ;)
Aya Nakamura
Tu m'auras donné l'occasion de faire sa connaissance ;)
Voilà voilà, on s’en fout mais c’est probablement cool. Je ne sais pas j’ai jamais vu la série.
Merci pour l'info!
Et si t'as l'occasion de jeter un oeil sur la série, te prive pas.
I don't see those very often either, or they will be sketchbooks like the ArtCreation from Royal Talens that I'm using, (they're also available in A7/pocket size, Bic pen for scale):
I don't know why the photo made the paper so white (it's not my phone so...) in reality the paper is much more ivory like.