Notices by Henry Edward Hardy (hhardy01@mastodon.social)

Some of my favorite shared universes of my younger years have been killed dead by corporate exploitation. When a shared universe becomes a brand and franchise, it is creatively dead.

Star Trek--dead since Picard. Really since Discovery, which was obviously inspired by the fan film, "Axanar."

Marvel--dead, and beaten into the ground since "Endgame." Black Panther, and Ms. Marvel was fun... and that's about it.

Star Wars--mostly dead since the Disney takeover, except Andor and the Filoniverse.

Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

#midjourney illustration for my Mongoose Traveller RPG campaign, planetary romance and persistent world, "The Starry Messenger".

The airship FMS (Free Motile Ship) Aiwa II approaches the docking pylon at the floating city of Laputa, inside the Verdant Swamp Zone of the Proximian O'Neill cylinder world-ship, "The Starry Messenger".

What do you think?

I am in internal conflict since the #election

To some degree I am an institutionalist in that The People, being sovereign, do ordain and establish a government regulated by laws and procedures which are fair and the same for everyone. We don't always get our way, but we work together for the common good.

But what happens when The People, democratically elect a government which is manifestly unfair and injust?

I think that to be a #dissident is the proudest thing one can do in such times. ✌️

Yippee yi ki yay
Git along little dogies

Roy Rogers
Git Along Little Dogies
1940

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cFji4CmHE

@clacke @fitheach @ParadeGrotesque

Nachos with homemade salsa.

Nom nom!

aaronsw, we miss you.

@Gargron

There is a demand to make Mastodon into a clone of twitter.

Is that what we want?

If people want to fork the code or submit a patch then they could do that.

@Gargron

I put up some of the Martin Luther King posters I made.

What do you think?

What is this "Twitter" of which you speak? :)

@feditips @crossposter @moaparty