Notes From the Northern Colony @stevenson@mastodon.scot
- Pen name
- https://barrygrahamauthor.site/
- City Cave Zen
- https://zen.scot/
Scottish, not British. Writer, activist and #Zen #Buddhist monk. Author of more than a dozen books. Returned to my native Glasgow in 2017, after 22 years in America. Green socialist, Scottish independence supporter (but not a nationalist). Urban walker. Married to @OrTheWhale
Pronouns: I don't care.
Joined Feb 2021
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“A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicise such things.”
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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No Cleaning in Wyndford High Flats in At Least 4 Months https://stevenson.scot/no-cleaning-in-wyndford-high-flats-in-at-least-4-months
New poem published on Buddhistdoor Global: https://teahouse.buddhistdoor.net/takuhatsu-in-glasgow/
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The Delta Variant is headlining Lollapalooza this year. With special guest, the delta variant. #Comic https://nitter.net/MarchForScience/status/1421681823806070790
At last week’s City Cave Zen meeting, the Dharma talk/discussion was about how, contrary to popular belief, Buddhism is based not upon the Four Noble Truths, but rather the Three Marks of Existence (no self, or not self, impermanence, suffering). Tomorrow, (Sunday, August 1), we’ll discuss the Buddha’s declaration: “I teach only two things: suffering, and the end of suffering.”
https://zen.scot/schedule
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#OtD 31 Jul 1887 Kiuchi Teiko (木内錠子), Japanese Taisho-era novelist and feminist, was born. She was one of the co-founders of the monthly feminist magazine Seitō (Bluestocking), which laid the groundwork for Japanese feminism.
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Psalm 35, gettin' spicy today at Nones (mid day prayers):
Fight those who fight me, O LORD;
attack those who are attacking me.
LET'S GET 'EM GOD
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This is exactly why the Tories need to send the Duke of Cambridge up here: double those numbers! https://www.thenational.scot/news/19477452.rishi-sunak-scotland-visit-embarrassment-livestream-drops-just-14-viewers/
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Abolish the monarchy and expose its collaborators. The Scottish Government should never have allowed this. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-ministers-climate-law-exemption
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It's often assumed that because Twitter has a larger userbase than the Fediverse, that accounts would automatically get more followers there.
However, many accounts (especially FOSS projects) have more followers here on the Fediverse.
Some examples (as of 26th July 2021):
@fdroidorg has 10.8k vs 7.33k on Twitter
@k9mail has 1.57k vs 680 on Twitter
@Minetest has 1.39k vs 785 on Twitter
If you know any Libre projects that are yet to join the Fedi, please ask them to give it a go!
- Pen name
- https://barrygrahamauthor.site/
- City Cave Zen
- https://zen.scot/
Scottish, not British. Writer, activist and #Zen #Buddhist monk. Author of more than a dozen books. Returned to my native Glasgow in 2017, after 22 years in America. Green socialist, Scottish independence supporter (but not a nationalist). Urban walker. Married to @OrTheWhale
Pronouns: I don't care.
Joined Feb 2021
