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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:32:02 UTC Strypey

   According to Bruce Lipton, when you fold enough skin together over millions of years, you get a brain.

   #BruceLipton

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:31:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @strypey @bsmall2 You are too kind. =)
     
     There were many nice people on quitter.se and associated instances.
   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:31:57 UTC bs2

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     @strypey Yes! how did you notice that. It all disappeared, But it was fun while it lasted. I can't now remember the name of "the nicest guy on the internet." They seemed to have a nice supportive group going in Sweden.

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:31:57 UTC Strypey

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     @bsmall2
     Was it @clacke by any chance?

   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:31:59 UTC bs2

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     @strypey I first noticed the term in Percy Shelly's _Defence of Poetry_ but similar uses show up in Bertrand and Dora Russell's _Prospects for Industrial Civilization_ and, more recently in Amitav Gosh's _Nutmeg's Curse_.. There seems to be a problem with looking at the world as a purposeless machine.. There has to some sort of feel for purpose, or the sacred, mystery.. Theodore Roszak in _Voice of the Earth_ works on the problem too I think.

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:31:59 UTC Strypey

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     @bsmall2
     BTW I notice you too are a veteran of Quitter.se 😁

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:32:00 UTC Strypey

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     @bsmall2
     Mechanists?

   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:32:01 UTC bs2

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     @strypey That view might explain the limited way mechanists use their brains??

   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 11:04:59 UTC bs2

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke @strypey Somebody wrote a blog post about quitter, maybe it was medium or something. The post talked about how a quitter developer (who preferred to be called a maintainer of gnu-social and to use languages that "make sense") helped censored people start up their own instances, maybe even right-wing goof-balls... It was a fun post and called the quitter maintainer "the nicest guy on the internet"...

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 11:04:59 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @bsmall2 @strypey Aha, that was @hannes2peer@quitter.se and I was very close to suggesting he might have been the one you meant. =)
     
     I don't think he is around. @pettter might know better.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 11:16:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @bsmall2 There is a history of the Fediverse at farside.link/scribe/what-is-gn… which in the middle briefly describes the events around Quitter and Qvitter, and offers a couple of words of appreciation for Hannes.
     
     /by @rw
     
     @strypey @pettter