Jubal Barca @JubalBarca@mastodon.at

Think I'm probably going to be leaving the fediverse, just so people know. Just not finding Masto either super useful or particularly comfortable to be on at the moment.

I feel like I keep seeing things saying that the most important thing when brains are sad is reaching out or being reached out to.

I feel like I keep trying and trying to reach out

I feel like the reach isn't connecting with anything, at least nothing I can hold onto

This is not a good feeling. :(

@pfigel I seem to be having big problems atm with this account: the web interface isn't logging me in at all (trying this from Tusky), and I've been having loads of toots just vanish when I hit the toot button, and picture attachments pop up with a different previously uploaded image. What is going on?! I cleared Masto cookies yesterday after some issues but I seem to have even worse issues today.

MASTODON NERDS, HEED MY WORDS:

I need your "random encounters for a fantasy warband" ideas again. Specifically looking for "things you might encounter in plains/fields" and "things you might encounter in woods". Ideally not just monsters - I'm thinking sidequest givers, upgrade offerers, or other things with more interesting "hooks" about them.

Can we just have some appreciation for how freaking awesome and classy-while-fabulous this bird looks?

Tragopans are beautiful and we should all appreciate them more.

Ontario got screwed over by its terrible electoral system. Clear centre-left majority in the votes: clear Conservative majority in the seats. Utterly ridiculous and utterly tragic (and it's the Canadian liberals that most need to get their act together on this one - Trudeau's failure to implement a better voting system is a disgrace to liberalism internationally).

Labour continue to repeat the same old ways to disappoint me on a regular basis - coming out today with "we want full access to EU markets but without doing anything for it", and claiming this is different from Tory policy... which is to maximise access to EU markets but without doing anything for it. Like, if Labour want to have the same Brexit policy as the Tories that's their call, but them lying to claim it's substantially different is something that REALLY upsets me.

Also, I found a mention of two women in my source today and they're not royals ("only" senior nobility) and they're mentioned doing something other than manufacturing babies, so that's nice and unusual considering the material (C12th chronicle sources) that I mainly work with.

#historodons #history #medievalmastodon #medieval #academia

I sometimes wonder whether I'm really a proper humanities academic, then I realise how many of my online rants boil down to "define the terms of your argument in the introduction to your essay, everyone"...

OK, here's a thing about political terminology that people need to get their heads around and frankly too many people here and everywhere don't: English-language political terminology is still, even in the internet-driven C21st, very localised and extremely variable in its usage. You can *never* just post on a public platform and "assume everyone knows what you mean" by a lot of political terms.