Notices by Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mstdn.social), page 3

"Themes like everything is connected, nothing happens without a purpose, and nothing is what it seems are central to both yoga philosophy and conspiratorial thinking"

Wow, seriously NPR? Is this real?? ???

(According to their birdsite bio, the by-lined author on this "story" is a senior producer for the podcast it basically promotes ?)

#covid #DavidIcke #EmilyGuerin #GuruJagat #Hinduism #journalism #media #NPR #QAnon #religion #yoga

@lonetwin The Times seems pretty bad for this. Are there any outlets there that succeed in putting accuracy above taking a strong editorial position one way or another?

@icing If you took someone who works for NASA and quizzed them on how to do my job, with no training, 95% wouldn't be able to do what I do. It's not a very good way of evaluating people's capabilities.

This time last year I coded a star chart as a side project. Ever since it has accurately shown me the positions of the sun and planets (see attached). I don't remember the calculations off the top of my head; if I need to, I'll figure them out again.

Congratulations on having read Wikipedia.

Small men do this routinely; hound women who speak truth, make them a running joke, belittle them, chip away at their credibility with a steady flow of put-downs and false claims no one has time to dispute (diverting your resources in that way is part of the game).

And it has little to do with gender and everything to do with power. White men happen to be the people who have power and know how to keep it at any cost, so this is what we see. It's regressive and harms everyone

... and I'd like to care less but this is just too funny, because he literally disconnected without warning from a Space when he couldn't justify his position, then shut down the space and tried to erase any record of it from the whole birdsite (but failed, because the internet forgets nothing) ?

#Twitter #ElonMusk

@luckytran Because we want it not to be happening and we can't make it stop, which is terrifying, so instead of facing that we'll pretend it's gone away and just victimize anyone who tells us otherwise, and feel better (until we die, or someone close to us dies, then we'll demand to know why nobody warned us about this terrible thing).

Obviously.

@h_tejas That's what I would presume, but I'm not 100% sure :blob_grinning_sweat:

One of the best videos on spiritual thought that I ran across last year, and perhaps for many years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRTtYUONgs

Even though I don't fast fully on Ekadashi, there are a lot of foods I appreciate a lot more the rest of the time now I'm observing it with a partial fast twice a month. And maybe, at least in part, that's the point. ?

@mikeisawake Happy New Year! Fingers crossed, eh... ?

Anyone know why Mastodon.social seems to have so many problems with login? It's always saying my token is invalid, or logging me out really quickly, or having problems editing posts or saving them and then if you reload the page it's actually logged you out. Now I've enabled 2FA, having to log in again all the time is more of a hassle, too. #Mastodon #MastoDev

@keishi 明けましておめでとうございます~?✨?

Think this might be the first New Year's Eve I've not listened to #kohaku since... maybe 2013, when I was living in a slightly oppressive shared house. It doesn't really feel like New Year this year. Christmas didn't feel much like Christmas, either. Perhaps I've crossed the threshold of pandemic self-isolation and am now in full-on hermit territory, where time no longer has meaning ?

@Hoigwai Moving here from the UK certainly changed Christmas for me. Even before that I was sometimes on-call. For most of my time here it's only NYD that's been a guaranteed day off (one year I even had a job interview on Christmas Day... perhaps they were testing me ?). Now I'm focused more on the Hindu calendar, with a significant day tomorrow, New Year has felt less like the main event. Meaning really is something we give, and something we need to agree on to share, I guess.

@taiyo 明けましておめでとうございます ?

@Sujiyan Hello. Do you know why the auto-delete function isn't working on mstdn.jp at the moment? I have an account there and none of the old posts are being deleted.

@taiyo He's calling Twitter a publisher again?

@taiyo @eirliani yes, that's what I mean - the hashtag goes as far as the servers to which your following extends

@taiyo @eirliani Even the hashtags only travel as far as your following (I only discovered that recently). So it's possible for two people to be using the same hashtag on different servers and not know about each other. But that changes quickly as soon as you each get some followers on the other main servers, so it's not really a problem. It's nice in some ways that you could carve out a little space without it being trivial to find.

@taiyo Exactly... they will do exactly that. ?