{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":5,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/theres.life\/users\/DMakarios","displayName":"Deborah Makarios","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/141722-original-tmp20230702051642.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/141722-96-20230702051642.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/141722-48-20230702051642.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/141722-24-20230702051642.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"141722"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/141722-96-20230702051642.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Handwork &amp; history, trees &amp; teas. Cats &amp; chooks, blooms &amp; books (both read and written). Humorous and wholesome, yes; dismal and dispiriting, no.","url":"https:\/\/theres.life\/@DMakarios","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"DMakarios","displayName":"Deborah Makarios","note":"Handwork &amp; history, trees &amp; teas. Cats &amp; chooks, blooms &amp; books (both read and written). Humorous and wholesome, yes; dismal and dispiriting, no."}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\" class=\"u-url mention\">@derek<\/a> Have you read any of Anthony Trollope's work? If not, you may well enjoy!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/theres.life\/users\/DMakarios\/statuses\/114040008515318293","object":{"id":"https:\/\/theres.life\/users\/DMakarios\/statuses\/114040008515318293","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\" class=\"u-url mention\">@derek<\/a> Have you read any of Anthony Trollope's work? If not, you may well enjoy!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/theres.life\/@DMakarios\/114040008515318293","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037406151084106","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037406151084106"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-02-20:objectType=thread:nonce=50d76d7c9d1d759b","notice_info":{"local_id":"9028218","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-02-22T13:48:09+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/theres.life\/@DMakarios\/114040008515318293"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-original-tmp20250111042104.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-48-20250111042437.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-24-20250111055646.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37421"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community.","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","note":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community."}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theres.life\/@DMakarios\" class=\"u-url mention\">@DMakarios<\/a> Oooh! No. I'll check him out!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114047850007149420","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114047850007149420","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theres.life\/@DMakarios\" class=\"u-url mention\">@DMakarios<\/a> Oooh! No. I'll check him out!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114047850007149420","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/theres.life\/users\/DMakarios\/statuses\/114040008515318293","url":"https:\/\/theres.life\/@DMakarios\/114040008515318293"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-02-20:objectType=thread:nonce=50d76d7c9d1d759b","notice_info":{"local_id":"9028219","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-02-22T13:48:08+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114047850007149420"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-original-tmp20250111042104.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-48-20250111042437.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-24-20250111055646.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37421"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community.","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","note":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community."}},"content":"<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookstodon.thestorygraph.com\/@StoryGraph\" class=\"u-url mention\">@StoryGraph<\/a> asks \"is the story plot or character driven\"? I realize that the far end of the spectrum, the \"character driven\" side, is occupied by books that leave the user inside the heads of the character thinking about and reacting to things. It's not enough that a person is \"a character\" - strange and remarkable - do we see the internal machinations of this person?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037440466488400","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037440466488400","objectType":"note","content":"<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookstodon.thestorygraph.com\/@StoryGraph\" class=\"u-url mention\">@StoryGraph<\/a> asks \"is the story plot or character driven\"? I realize that the far end of the spectrum, the \"character driven\" side, is occupied by books that leave the user inside the heads of the character thinking about and reacting to things. It's not enough that a person is \"a character\" - strange and remarkable - do we see the internal machinations of this person?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037440466488400","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037406151084106","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037406151084106"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/bookstodon.thestorygraph.com\/users\/StoryGraph"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-02-20:objectType=thread:nonce=50d76d7c9d1d759b","notice_info":{"local_id":"9005878","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-02-20T17:40:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037440466488400"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-original-tmp20250111042104.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-48-20250111042437.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-24-20250111055646.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37421"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community.","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","note":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community."}},"content":"<p>One of the reasons I like <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/tags\/JaneAusten\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#JaneAusten<\/a> is that she brings the whole package: humor, engaging characters, mastery of the written word, and engaging plotlines. <\/p><p>At their best, a lot of older English authors wrote about humans and our strange, contradictory, hypocritical, silly ways. Dickens somehow managed to do it while simultaneously being deadly serious and funny. The Bront\u00ebs did it albeit without cracking a smile.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037406151084106","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037406151084106","objectType":"note","content":"<p>One of the reasons I like <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/tags\/JaneAusten\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#JaneAusten<\/a> is that she brings the whole package: humor, engaging characters, mastery of the written word, and engaging plotlines. <\/p><p>At their best, a lot of older English authors wrote about humans and our strange, contradictory, hypocritical, silly ways. Dickens somehow managed to do it while simultaneously being deadly serious and funny. The Bront\u00ebs did it albeit without cracking a smile.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037406151084106","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037378127298116","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037378127298116"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"janeausten"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-02-20:objectType=thread:nonce=50d76d7c9d1d759b","notice_info":{"local_id":"9005791","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-02-20T17:32:07+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037406151084106"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-original-tmp20250111042104.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-48-20250111042437.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-24-20250111055646.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37421"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37421-96-20250111045805.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community.","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"derek","displayName":"Derek Caelin is writing a book","note":"Sustainability organizer seeking a #solarpunk world. Writing a book: &quot;Where the Roots are Long&quot; about  modern environmentalist themes in The Lord of the Rings.Senior Product Manager at Terraso working on @terraso and LandPKS. Member of Rocky Hill CT&#39;s Open Space and Conservation Commission. Opinions expressed are my own.I post on #climate, #crafting, and #community."}},"content":"<p>Isn't it weird how your frame of mind impacts your enjoyment of a book?<\/p><p>Example: I have tried and failed many times to get into George Eliot's \"Middlemarch\". I always found it dry and incredibly slow paced. Where is the plot? It's so many words about nothing. <\/p><p>This time around, I finally get it. Listening to the audiobook (Narrator: Nadia May) helped. Middlemarch is a *comedy* and the humor is in absurdity of these human characters in responding to their situations.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037378127298116","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/derek\/statuses\/114037378127298116","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Isn't it weird how your frame of mind impacts your enjoyment of a book?<\/p><p>Example: I have tried and failed many times to get into George Eliot's \"Middlemarch\". I always found it dry and incredibly slow paced. Where is the plot? It's so many words about nothing. <\/p><p>This time around, I finally get it. Listening to the audiobook (Narrator: Nadia May) helped. Middlemarch is a *comedy* and the humor is in absurdity of these human characters in responding to their situations.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037378127298116","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-02-20:objectType=thread:nonce=50d76d7c9d1d759b","notice_info":{"local_id":"9005709","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-02-20T17:25:00+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@derek\/114037378127298116"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/4600048","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}