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   Debby (debby@hear-me.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 02:50:41 JST Debby

   Happy Birthday, Zamenhof! 🎉💚

   Today, we celebrate the 165th birthday of Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof, the visionary creator of Esperanto. His goal was to establish a language that would facilitate communication among people from different countries and cultures, thereby contributing to peace and cooperation among nations.

   Esperanto is now the most successful planned language in the world, with millions of speakers in over 120 countries. It is utilized on the internet, in social media, and even in some universities and institutions. But Esperanto is not just a language—it's a movement. It represents a community of individuals united by the common goal of promoting peace, unity, cultural richness, understanding, and cooperation among all people. Esperanto is a language of hope, unity, and love.

   Zamenhof's vision is more relevant than ever. In an era of increasing globalization and interconnectedness, Esperanto provides an opportunity for people from diverse cultures and countries to communicate and collaborate without language barriers.

   Moreover, Esperanto serves as a valuable tool for inclusion and accessibility, thanks to its simplicity and regular structure. It not only eases communication between speakers of different native languages but also supports neurodiverse individuals who may struggle with learning natural languages or navigating irregular writing systems like English orthography. Thus, Esperanto can promote accessibility in education.

   What makes Esperanto so special? Its simple, logical grammar and vocabulary derived from the most common European roots make it incredibly easy to learn. Its phonetic spelling features one sound per letter and one letter for every sound, unlike English or French. Beyond its practical benefits, Esperanto embodies the noble ideals of mutual understanding, cultural exchange, and the brotherhood of all people.

   In our increasingly interconnected world, Esperanto has found new life on the internet, where online communities and resources allow learners to connect across borders. It is truly a language of the digital age, used for everything from casual conversation to academic discourse.

   As we celebrate Zamenhof's 165th birthday, let us embrace his timeless vision of a more harmonious world, where Esperanto serves as a bridge between cultures. By learning this beautiful language, we honor the legacy of its creator and take a meaningful step toward a more peaceful and productive coexistence for all.

   Happy birthday, Zamenhof! Your dream lives on. ✨ Thank you for your inexhaustible legacy and the inspiration you have given us all. Let us unite humanity and reach for the stars! ✨

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   **Interesting Facts about Esperanto 🌎💚:**

   * Esperanto is the 14th most used language on the internet, according to 2022 statistics.
   * The website "Duolingo" offers an Esperanto course, which is one of the most popular courses on the platform.
   * The University of Amsterdam includes an Esperanto course as part of its program in international communication.

   #Zamenhof #Esperanto #Peace #Coexistence #InternationalLanguage #Revival #CulturalRichness #Zamenhof165 #EsperantoOnTheInternet #LingvoInternacia #Planlingvo #Naskiĝtago #FelichanNaskiĝtagon #ZamenhofTago #ZamenhofDay #KulturaRicheco #Paco #Kunlaboro #a11y #inclusion #accessibility

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   GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 18:18:46 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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   @mailbox_org The alt text does not cover the same information as the animated gif. It is not sufficiently helpful for blind people.

   In addition the quick animation is not readable by sighted people, either. Consider putting 4 non-animated images instead.

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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 17:25:34 JST Steve's Place

   U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D., a Democrat, held a "telephone town hall" a few days ago.

   With 12,000 people.

   In Oregon.

   The district she represents includes most of the east side of Portland and reaches into Gresham. There is a large minority population here, and I imagine they are up in arms about what is going on at the federal level.

   She's holding an in-person town hall next Sunday, April 6th at 3:30 pm at Parkrose Middle School in Portland. I wonder if the turnout will equal or surpass the telephone version.

   #USpolitics #USpoli #Portland #Oregon #Gresham #Democrats #coup #ICE

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   skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms (skykiss@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:36:31 JST skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms

   Putin claims the number is 700,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped.

   💬 "They are proud to have stolen 700,000 children."

   And the world is silent.

   Russian terrorists kill and kidnap thousands of adults and children, destroy cities and villages, leaving scorched spots where normal life once was. Another day of Putin's genocide.

   This is part of the systematic genocide russians carry out against the Ukrainian people.

   In 2023 the International Criminal Court at the Hague issued a warrant for arrest of Vladimir Putin for genocide of Ukrainians.

   Putin, Russians: Where are the 🇺🇦 Children? The world is waiting.

   #Ukraine #eu #europe #nato #France #Deutchland #Baltics #usa #Spain #Italy #Poland #UK

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   rastinza@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:38:36 JST rastinza

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   @freeschool @freemo about the last point. In a communist economy the state decides how production is organised, how many people should be making bricks, how many people should be building cars and so on.
   It is not for profit in the sense that there is no individual gaining the profits of those factories. The factories may make a profit, it could then be decided whether to reinvest that in the same factory or somewhere else.
   It is the state to decide what the economy does, this means politicians, since they generally represent the state. Of course you can organise it in different ways: you don't necessarily need the prime minister to be there every day saying alright, the next week we need 50k bricks. You'll have comitees studying the economy and taking decisions along those lines.
   Then you may have factory directors who'll be tasked with executing those things. We need your factory to produce 50k bricks a month, here is some money employ the necessary people and buy necessary machinery. The factory director will receive a salary, it may be increased if the factory works efficiently but he won't be directly profiting off the factory production.

   Do politicians and economists know what is the better for the nation and are very good at organising production? No, not at all; that is not to be expected. On the other hand: are capitalists very good at the same? I would argue also no. Capitalism is a good system because it requires no bureaucracy to function, it functions automatically. It however also has plenty drawbacks for the people.

   In communism do people at the top really make no profits? Well, there always will be corruption and power grabbing. But that is not really the point. The economy is organised in a different way. It is not capitalists deciding what a nation should produce in order to make profit for themselves. It is rather the government deciding what should be made on a national level.
   Communism is one example of an economy type in which production is not controlled by capitalists for profit. It is not the only one.

   The Soviet Union has failed under many fronts, but a 5 years plan appears like a wonderful way to organise the expansion of production. In capitalism you get that freely, but you also get a bunch of stupid people messing things up: 1929 crisis, dot com bubble, 2008 crisis these are all directly related to capitalism. Such a crisis can happen only in a capitalist economy, as it happens due to the expectations of profits of the people.

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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:56:10 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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   @serapath @dveditz @bbmin7b5 @root @james

   🤔"many people are ...something naive?broken?privileged?... you name it."

   🤔"People who only operate on the level of "fun" will definitely not ever be early adopters - they just dont understand much what things are about in this context"

   This is you saying things about people.

   In my thread about improving Mastodon and having empathy for why people choose BlueSky.

   And yes, I said stuff about you. Specifically, that you without irony, did a Mastodon.