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dogtrax

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I teach. I write. I explore. Sometimes, I find my way back.

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dailyhaikuprompt, to random
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Our haiku prompts for May 25 - June 1.

As always, feel free to use any variation or even not use the word at all.

Please take some time to read, favorite, boost, and comment on each other's work if the mood strikes you

05/25 Cool
05/26 Wellspring
05/27 Cocoon
05/28 Green Leaves
05/29 Brief
05/30 Tea
05/31 Morning
06/01 Sunshine

Petals I amass
with such tenderness
prick me to the quick.
―Kobayashi Issa

#DailyHaikuPrompt

dogtrax,
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@dailyhaikuprompt

Afternoon cocoon;
a book and a sip of tea
in a quiet room

#SmallPoems #DailyHaikuPrompt

dogtrax, to random
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dogtrax, to random
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box464, to random
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Have fun. Learn something.

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

dogtrax,
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@box464 That is so cool. Thanks for sharing

dogtrax, to random
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I completely missed that today was a palindrome day. Dang. I usually do palindromic (word?) things with my students.

baldur, to random
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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

dogtrax,
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@baldur Same. My RSS feed is happy to wait for long stretches for any updates. When an old but familiar name of a feed pops up, there's a little bit of celebrated happiness on my part - "hey, someone's writing!"

NatureMC, to writing
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    dogtrax,
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    @NatureMC @writers

    "Write here because ideas matter, not authorship. Write here because the more robots, pirates, and single-minded trolls swallow up cyberspace, the more we need independent writing in order to think new thoughts in the future — even if your words are getting dished up and plated by an algorithm."
    -- James Shelley

    Interesting post, with lots to think about in terms of ideas. I suspect some will push back on writers getting lost in the mix as their words linger on.

    #ds106

    stevencudahy, to poetry
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    The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 10th January 2024 is:

    #middle

    The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

    #SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

    @penprompts (remove link from any replies)

    dogtrax,
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    @stevencudahy

    In the moment
    of the middle
    of each falling
    rain drop

    time stops

    but we
    continue
    on

    #SmallPoems

    rolle, to mastodon
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    Almost everyone who says "Mastodon didn't work for me" on Bluesky seems to have posted only "me me me" stuff for months (if that) on Mastodon, followed about 10-20 people, never replied to anyone and then gave up because "nobody there, it didn't fly".

    It seems there is a big misunderstanding how this free and healthy social media works. We are not here for the easy wins, likes, shares and dopamine spikes. We are here because we accept the fact we are not part of the commercial hype machine. We choose natural engagement over spoiling algorithms, we choose conversation and meaning in our social media. At least that is how I see it.

    dogtrax,
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    @rolle You articulated that exactly as I think about it. And I think it takes time and patience to make those connections.

    RiversideBryan, to Florida
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    dogtrax,
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    @RiversideBryan I love this community art movement to use the old utility boxes as canvas for public art -- we have those done around here, too.

    dogtrax, to random
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    dogtrax, to random
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    dogtrax,
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    @tanweerdar

    Inundation starts
    with a single drop -
    the pull of gravity,
    from ground on sky
    that never stops -
    and then, on cue,
    the deluge begins

    #SmallPoems for #MastoPrompt

    eclectech, to random
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    #silentSunday

    A view from the edge of the Great Orme headland. In the foreground, following a diagonal line from a quarter up the left hand side to 3 quarters up the right hand side, is rocky grassland, balanced by a deep blue sea beyond. A strip of blue sky runs across the top. The chimneys of a building peek over the edge of the headland.
    A photo of the Great Orme Tramway. The bottom half of the photo is golden brown and orange, sunlit hillside. The top half is bright blue sky with some wispy clouds on the right. In the centre is the tram, an old style single carriage, open to the air, with blue panels and its name on the side.
    A view from the edge of the Great Orme headland. A triangular area of land in the borrom left is rocky with some grass, and two sheep seemingly poised on the edge, heads down. A pale blue-grey sea fills the majority of the screen, with a faint, hazy line of wind turbines at the horizon. The strip of sky of pale grey across the top.

    dogtrax,
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    @eclectech My thought: there are no real rules for #SilentSunday. Suggestions, perhaps. The one strong suggestion is to try our best to always use Alt-Text on images for screen readers. But I think your idea of reply/tag to photos is a good one, and makes sense to me. Have a great day!

    dogtrax, to random
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    @tdc #tdc4277 #ds106 #DailyCreate #Flashku

    My Flashku is too long to share here so this is a link --

    https://write.as/dogtrax/flashku

    or use the image here

    Thx to @haikushack for sharing the Flashku concept (prose with image and borrowed words)

    https://vocal.media/writers/how-to-write-a-flashku

    dogtrax,
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    @haikushack Thanks. I actually like to keep that particular writing space of mine image-free and art-free. I have a blog elsewhere where I can do all that.

    https://dogtrax.edublogs.org/

    But I appreciate the tutorial.

    dogtrax, to random
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    dogtrax, to random
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    Each year, there's a local farm that creates a maze (often science-based, with stations within as scavenger hunts) as part of its Autumn business. They always get creative. This year, the maze design is a reaction of the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

    “In the age of artificial intelligence, what makes us human?" -- Mike's Maze, Warner Farm, Sunderland, MA, USA

    #smallmoments

    haikushack, to 13thFloor

    When I announced my new writing challenge yesterday, many people were confused about the Flashku. So I wrote a tutorial to help.

    https://vocal.media/writers/how-to-write-a-flashku

    #fiction #writing #writingcommunity

    dogtrax,
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    @haikushack thx for the overview … I like the concept of Flashku … could I suggest it for the #dailycreate activity? It’s a good mix of words and art.

    dogtrax,
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    @haikushack The DS106 Daily Create is an ongoing web-based invitation to create something each morning through crowd-sourced prompts. See: https://daily.ds106.us/ and https://daily.ds106.us/about/ The Daily Create is now on its 4,225th consecutive day (I believe I have that right) of prompting folks to be creative with art, words, design, humor, etc.

    #ds106 #dailycreate

    bleeptrack, to random
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    Lot's of you were asking how I make my animated scribble videos. Here is finally a walk through :
    https://youtu.be/vArIkzYtW6I

    dogtrax,
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    @bleeptrack Thank you for sharing the inside look at how you make your animations ..

    dogtrax,
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    @bleeptrack I am having fun playing with your various online generators ... they are very interesting ... I hope you don't mind if we use a few of them -- with credit to you, of course -- for the @tdc Daily Create -- a daily invitation to be creative with design, art, words, etc.

    dogtrax, to random
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    I am not sure if Nick Sousanis is here on Mastodon (I don't think so) but his latest work around how to create comics accessible for blind and low vision readers is fascinating and an intriguing look at how to extend a visual literacy (comics) into the audio/text reader world.
    More: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/28/1074341/comics-beyond-sight/
    And: https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

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    dogtrax,
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    @tanweerdar @penprompts

    Levers
    get pulled;
    Buttons
    get pushed

    Every mechanism
    in the machinery
    of manipulation
    gets used to lure us in,
    fueled by frustration,
    anger and confrontation

    Noticing
    the architecture
    is a step towards
    resisting it, and then
    dismantling it

    #smallpoems for #mastoprompt

    clive, to random
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    I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

    The "Weird Old Book Finder"

    Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me

    Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just start readin'

    Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

    A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

    This was a search for "mastodon"

    dogtrax,
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    @clive I love that tool you made (and remember exploring it back when you released it, I think). Thanks for bringing it back to attenion

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