Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

Hello Earthlings! (From the Artemis mission launched today.)

#NASA #space #Artemis

I had this experience in French catholic schools growing up in northern #Ontario which borders QC. Mom & I were French: thoughts, dreams, speech, activities.

But I was also Ontarian. My father was English with an English last name.

So I was harassed by my teachers as inauthentic, from a bad wrong language home, or variations on that BS. 😖

By Lori Weber:

Opinion: Why I'm saying farewell to Quebec

I love living in a French city. I embraced the language early on and made sure my child did, as well. But Quebec has never embraced me.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-why-im-saying-farewell-to-quebec

#Québec #language #discrimination

#TransAwarenessWeek
We see you.

We love you.

You're a beautiful emergence of Sol, Earth, Life: real people always and in all ways.

Your natural truth doesn't need proving because it simply IS; embodied within the very fabric of the universe.

Be joyous and rest in this.<3

(And vampire movies.)

(Some reflections on the effectiveness of donations, surprise gifts, advocacy, requests for help, unrequited love and unwanted attention.)

The receiver of a gesture, item or resource decides if it is a [gift] or not, not the giver.

[Support?] becomes [Support.] through consent.

This is my favourite ice cream. I like it because it has these little chunks of chocolate in it.

Sorry, I mean full-diameter SHARDS OF SUCCULENCE! XD

#chocolate #bliss

But I'm sure they'll sound great mixed into streams from Spotify lol. Capitalism wins this round. 😋

I bought the new remasters of GnR Illusions since I enjoyed the originals so much in the 1990s but had lost those copies over the decades.

And they sound terrible lol. Modern loudness compressed, mid range is boosted so high my teeth hurt, and November Rain got wrecked:

Piano is quieter, strings are louder, the thunder clap is muted to almost background atmosphere, the last bass drum kick on the signature drum roll is muted. It has no cinematic narrative punch anymore.

#GunsNRoses #music

E.g.

“Our perceptions are a species-specific user interface, not a window on truth, and its underlying code is a sea of kludges, punctuated by islands of inadvertent brilliance. Vision does not approximate an ideal observer who recovers objective truths. It is an interface kludged together on the cheap. It tells us just enough about fitness to keep us alive in our niche long enough to raise kids.”

The Case Against #Reality by Hoffman is a wonderful read. If you’d like to learn more about biological consciousness, models of adaptation, and challenge all your preconceived notions about the #veridicality of the “visible” universe as a consciousness emerged from evolution, this #book is a thrill ride!

Currently in a section about how our brain compresses information for adapted responses.

I'm fluent in English and Français,
and I'm learning 日本語。

Oops, more:
#Space #Physics #Science
#MentalHealth #Spirit

"To help make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you as tags so they are searchable, then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others can do the same"

#Gaming
#Music
#Chocolate
#RetroComputing
#Nerd #Geek
#Meditation
#Humanities
#LGBTQIA

Land doesn't vote, people do (animated map): https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1591175192834965515?t=8QkVIGl6CmIxTcp4Avx93g&s=19

A=Analog
D=Digital

Who remembers the times you could predict the warmth you'd hear on CD based on the three letter sequences of:

A/D : recorded
A/D : mixed
A/D : mastered

So AAD was usually earlier CDs for artists who liked warmth but still wanted to sell the new format.

ADD was modernized without losing all the advantages of analog. Balanced.

*DA is 2020s cheaply produced vinyl where they press from a CD source lol.

DDD overly marketed as the digital future and some artists like Yes (Talk) bragged about it.