#birdcage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #birdcage, aggregated by home.social.
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BIRDCAGE is a hybrid across time. On one hand, it’s as flashy as the best of 1990s #shmup s, with jamming music, striking visuals, and frenetic action. No matter how crowded the arcade is, you’re going to notice it. But its design philosophy is like a modern #Soulsborne game. It’s hard, and you’re going to have to ”#GitGud”, but the game fundamentally wants you to succeed and is meticulously laying out challenges to teach you the way.
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BIRDCAGE is a hybrid across time. On one hand, it’s as flashy as the best of 1990s #shmup s, with jamming music, striking visuals, and frenetic action. No matter how crowded the arcade is, you’re going to notice it. But its design philosophy is like a modern #Soulsborne game. It’s hard, and you’re going to have to ”#GitGud”, but the game fundamentally wants you to succeed and is meticulously laying out challenges to teach you the way.
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BIRDCAGE is a hybrid across time. On one hand, it’s as flashy as the best of 1990s #shmup s, with jamming music, striking visuals, and frenetic action. No matter how crowded the arcade is, you’re going to notice it. But its design philosophy is like a modern #Soulsborne game. It’s hard, and you’re going to have to ”#GitGud”, but the game fundamentally wants you to succeed and is meticulously laying out challenges to teach you the way.
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BIRDCAGE is a hybrid across time. On one hand, it’s as flashy as the best of 1990s #shmup s, with jamming music, striking visuals, and frenetic action. No matter how crowded the arcade is, you’re going to notice it. But its design philosophy is like a modern #Soulsborne game. It’s hard, and you’re going to have to ”#GitGud”, but the game fundamentally wants you to succeed and is meticulously laying out challenges to teach you the way.
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BIRDCAGE is a hybrid across time. On one hand, it’s as flashy as the best of 1990s #shmup s, with jamming music, striking visuals, and frenetic action. No matter how crowded the arcade is, you’re going to notice it. But its design philosophy is like a modern #Soulsborne game. It’s hard, and you’re going to have to ”#GitGud”, but the game fundamentally wants you to succeed and is meticulously laying out challenges to teach you the way.
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Illustration by Madame B, from “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s).
Source: Art Institute Chicago
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a7386a38-e137-40c7-8b73-79e63c5ecfcd
#watercolours #collage #cats #portraits #birdcage #design #art #publicdomain
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Mijn #kijktip voor tijdens het optuigen van de #kerstboom: The #Birdcage uit 1996 (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
Alles wat nu de overhand heeft in de USA wordt er subliem aan de kaak gesteld. Zeer passend gecast, met een hoofdrol voor Robin Williams op zijn best (en met wat we nu weten over hem, een beetje trieste lading). Anyway, een lach, een traan, en een heleboel heerlijke camp😍
En bonus: hartstikke woke!
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Mijn #kijktip voor tijdens het optuigen van de #kerstboom: The #Birdcage uit 1996 (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
Alles wat nu de overhand heeft in de USA wordt er subliem aan de kaak gesteld. Zeer passend gecast, met een hoofdrol voor Robin Williams op zijn best (en met wat we nu weten over hem, een beetje trieste lading). Anyway, een lach, een traan, en een heleboel heerlijke camp😍
En bonus: hartstikke woke!
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Mijn #kijktip voor tijdens het optuigen van de #kerstboom: The #Birdcage uit 1996 (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
Alles wat nu de overhand heeft in de USA wordt er subliem aan de kaak gesteld. Zeer passend gecast, met een hoofdrol voor Robin Williams op zijn best (en met wat we nu weten over hem, een beetje trieste lading). Anyway, een lach, een traan, en een heleboel heerlijke camp😍
En bonus: hartstikke woke!
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I just cleared the hardcore #shump #BIRDCAGE and I'm having trouble believing I did it. I've never beat a game like this before, and I didn't think I was good enough yet.
But somehow, I didn't tense up thinking about how hard this was and just reacted.
It feels like I'm having a religious moment where the grand epiphany was that I was good enough all along.
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@Darkasvim This is my jam!
I can't verify the pay part, but #Haste is great roguelike racer that does a great job capturing the exhilarating sensation of speed:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796470/Haste/#BIRDCAGE is a tough-as-nails shmup with a lot depth to how you use its 4 attacks. And runs in it are really quick.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/BIRDCAGE/#Abyssus is a great 4-player FPS roguelike where long runs are only like an hour.
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Late #SteamNextFest recommendation for #BIRDCAGE. It's a stylish #shump that pairs two firing modes with a powerful ship-mounted sword... and then clobbers you so hard you wonder if you were good at video games.
But! It's the kind of brutal challenge that feel yourself improving at, and even just beating the first level on normal, I was already proud.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/BIRDCAGE/
First heard about it via this #NoClip recommendation list:
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I made a thing. The misses bought a small metal bird cage on an unmentionable Chinese megastore, which I then proceeded to carve up with and angle grinder and turn into netting for something different and slightly more organic. I think it went pretty well.
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Good evening #mastoart #mastodon
This is #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #window #windows #fotografie #photography
Angle Place, #sydney #newsouthwales #australia
#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #urban #birdcage #cage #laneway #lane #alley #city #architecture #life #buyintoart
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Good evening #mastoart #mastodon
This is #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #window #windows #fotografie #photography
Angle Place, #sydney #newsouthwales #australia
#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #urban #birdcage #cage #laneway #lane #alley #city #architecture #life #buyintoart
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Good evening #mastoart #mastodon
This is #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #window #windows #fotografie #photography
Angle Place, #sydney #newsouthwales #australia
#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #urban #birdcage #cage #laneway #lane #alley #city #architecture #life #buyintoart
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Good evening #mastoart #mastodon
This is #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #window #windows #fotografie #photography
Angle Place, #sydney #newsouthwales #australia
#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #urban #birdcage #cage #laneway #lane #alley #city #architecture #life #buyintoart
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Good evening #mastoart #mastodon
This is #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #window #windows #fotografie #photography
Angle Place, #sydney #newsouthwales #australia
#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #urban #birdcage #cage #laneway #lane #alley #city #architecture #life #buyintoart
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The Wild West’s Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona, is famous for its colorful history and reputation as one of the nation’s most haunted places. #Ghosts #birdcage https://connectparanormal.link/post/773204427989532672/haunted-bird-cage-theatre
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This scrimshaw birdcage by Joseph W. Clapp is made from Peruvian mahogany, whalebone, sheet metal, and brass pins. It is currently on view in the exhibition “Somewhere to Roost," open Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free!
The American Folk Art Museum
@FolkArtMuseum #museums #scrimshaw #birdcage #birds #Craft -
This scrimshaw birdcage by Joseph W. Clapp is made from Peruvian mahogany, whalebone, sheet metal, and brass pins. It is currently on view in the exhibition “Somewhere to Roost," open Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free!
The American Folk Art Museum
@FolkArtMuseum #museums #scrimshaw #birdcage #birds #Craft -
This scrimshaw birdcage by Joseph W. Clapp is made from Peruvian mahogany, whalebone, sheet metal, and brass pins. It is currently on view in the exhibition “Somewhere to Roost," open Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free!
The American Folk Art Museum
@FolkArtMuseum #museums #scrimshaw #birdcage #birds #Craft -
This scrimshaw birdcage by Joseph W. Clapp is made from Peruvian mahogany, whalebone, sheet metal, and brass pins. It is currently on view in the exhibition “Somewhere to Roost," open Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free!
The American Folk Art Museum
@FolkArtMuseum #museums #scrimshaw #birdcage #birds #Craft -
This scrimshaw birdcage by Joseph W. Clapp is made from Peruvian mahogany, whalebone, sheet metal, and brass pins. It is currently on view in the exhibition “Somewhere to Roost," open Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free!
The American Folk Art Museum
@FolkArtMuseum #museums #scrimshaw #birdcage #birds #Craft -
@Holberg Who but a financial analyst would you expect to be formulaic?
We can't all be Nathan Lane in #Birdcage
https://media.tenor.com/B8UaCDta4iEAAAAM/hint-of-color-birdcage.gif
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@arstechnica What if the most active #birdcage accounts are #Muskrat 's and bots?
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Interessant.
Da kritisiert jemand bei der Übernahme eines Online-Dienstes die hohe Anzahl an Fake-User-Ids und wenige Monate später schießen maschinengenerierte Accounts nur so aus dem Boden.
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Interessant.
Da kritisiert jemand bei der Übernahme eines Online-Dienstes die hohe Anzahl an Fake-User-Ids und wenige Monate später schießen maschinengenerierte Accounts nur so aus dem Boden.
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@Ada @defcon42/Mirko @[email protected] To me, it sounds more like some #Mastodon users, especially those who came in through the #TwitterMigration, actually can't stand there being something else in the #Fediverse than their beloved Mastodon. When they caught their first glimpse of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, they reacted much like the people of Krikkit when they caught their first glimpse of the universe beyond Krikkit: "It has to go!"
They make themselves and each other believe that Mastodon is superior to any other Fediverse project in just about any regard imaginable while apparently completely refusing to learn about those other projects. They're supported in their belief by mass media only ever writing about Mastodon and the number of Mastodon users.
However, mass media only write about Mastodon because they simply don't know a thing about the rest of the Fediverse, and they didn't know a thing about Mastodon until the #TwitterTakeover had actually happened, and the second wave of former #birbsite users had come flooding into Mastodon in such numbers that it was impossible to ignore even for those who act as if #FLOSS doesn't exist.
As for the numbers of Mastodon users, they're so high because I guess more than 90% of all Mastodon users still don't know that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, because they have never heard of anything else in the Fediverse. Mastodon was pretty much the only Fediverse project advertised on #BirbSocial when this was still possible.
There are various reasons why Mastodon users don't spread across the Fediverse in masses. None of it is because Mastodon is superior to everything else because, truth be told, it isn't. I'll come to this later. One reason is, again, that the vast majority of them still don't know anything else. Another one is because it was hard enough to get used to Mastodon after years of using #Twitter, and they don't want to get used to yet another platform. And another one is that it's hard to move from Mastodon to something else and take your account or at least your connections with you.
Another reason may be because people don't need anything beyond microblogging, and that's what Mastodon does. Now, sorry for all those of you who fight tooth and claw to defend Mastodon against the competition, but #Akkoma does microblogging, too. With extra features beyond Mastodon, some of which Mastodon users have been pestering Eugen Rochko to include in Mastodon for ages (e.g. "quote retweet"). All while being more lightweight and requiring fewer server resources than Mastodon. Oh, and it federates with Mastodon.
Other Fediverse projects aren't even competition for Mastodon because they specialise in something else. @Pixelfed specialises in posting pictures, much like #Instagram. @PeerTube specialises in video upload and streaming, not too dissimilarly from #YouTube. #Plume and #WriteFreely specialise in distraction-free traditional blogging, much like #Medium. #Lemmy specialises in groups and posting and discussing news, much like #Reddit or #HackerNews. You can't claim that Mastodon is better at each of these things than these platforms.
And then there are the jacks-of-all-trades which are usually filed under either "macroblogging" or "like #Facebook ". They weren't launched to have something that goes beyond Mastodon because their history reaches far back before Mastodon. Mastodon was launched in 2016 (and not 2022 like many believe). #Friendica was launched in early 2010, even before the crowdfunding campaign for the development of #Diaspora started. And in that early stage, Friendica, then still named #Mistpark, was vastly more powerful than Diaspora* ever got and also vastly more powerful than Mastodon 13 years later.
#Hubzilla, created by the same man as Friendica, is the most extreme one of them all. For starters, it eliminates the need for multiple accounts by having multiple independent channels with separate identities on the same account. Each channel can have multiple profiles like on Friendica so you can present your channel differently to individual contacts or groups of them and differently again to the general public.
It can do micro- and macroblogging with 50,000 or more characters and just about everything that can be done with #BBcode (italics, bold type, underline, lists with bullet points or numbers, quotes,code blocks), and you can embed as many pictures as you want in your posts where you want them instead of them automatically being attached to the end of the post.
Group handling in Hubzilla is much easier than list handling in Mastodon. You never have to type the name of a contact to find them. You can edit contacts and add them to groups or remove them, and you can edit groups and add or remove contacts, all with a few mouse clicks. And while Mastodon shows a maximum of four lists on the main page, Hubzilla will give you easy access to all your groups.
On top of that, you can have- very fine-grained access rights control with pre-definable contact roles
- forums (just like Friendica, Hubzilla has #Guppe built in)
- more elegant macroblogging with articles which, in addition to BBcode, support #Markdown
- simple webpages (or not so simple if you're the admin of a hub, and you can expand it further)
- wikis (I'm not even kidding)
- a public calendar
- a virtually unlimited number of private calendars with #CalDAV connection
- a virtually unlimited number of address books with #CardDAV connection
- a file server with #WebDAV connection with its own access rights management which also ties in with the Photos and optional Gallery app (Mastodon drops your pictures somewhere, Hubzilla lets you upload them to your personal cloud space where you can access them whenever you want)
All with one run-of-the-mill Hubzilla account. And once per channel, separately.
And as if that wasn't enough, Hubzilla introduced the #Zot protocol and with it a concept named #NomadicIdentity.
Mastodon and Friendica let you have multiple accounts, even on separate instances. They also support migration from one account to another, and unlike Mastodon, Friendica lets you take all your content with you. Hubzilla (and #Streams, the successor of its slimmed-down successor, still created by the same guy) goes even further: Not only can you easily move from one hub to another, you can have channels on multiple hubs and automatically keep them fully in sync! If one hub goes down, it doesn't matter because you've got everything on all your other accounts.
Last but not least, both Friendica and Hubzilla federate with almost everything that moves, even far beyond the #ActivityPub Fediverse. This could be Diaspora*, this could be #GNUsocial, this could be #Wordpress blogs with or without the ActivityPub add-on, this could be RSS feeds (and they both generate feeds themselves, so this is bidirectional, too), this could even be Twitter until the API is shuttered. Friendica even used to federate with Facebook until Facebook put rocks in the way; this is the only connector that Hubzilla didn't take over.
The obvious downside is that for someone who just came in from the #birdcage, all this is utter overkill. In fact, people who are used to Mastodon may find Friendica borderline unusuable due to its many features. And Hubzilla is so infamous for its own clumsy UI capitulating before its sheer power that even Friendica users find it hard to use, fresh converts from Twitter to Mastodon even more so.
Some design decisions may be hard to understand for outsiders. Converts from other Fediverse projects to Hubzilla regularly fail at something as seemingly similar as connecting to users on other ActivityPub-based projects until you tell them that ActivityPub is an optional app on Hubzilla that has to be activated first because Hubzilla concentrates on Zot with its Nomadic Identity.
Also, just because these projects offer so much power, that doesn't mean that everyone needs it. If you do, it can be convenient to have it all under one login. But if all you're looking for is a bit of microblogging and online socialising, you don't need to drag a CMS and a full-blown cloud server with all bells and whistles along with you that just clutter up the UI. In that case, projects like Mastodon and Akkoma win because they're more approachable.
And while Friendica, Hubzilla & Co. can do threaded discussions and even have something like forums, Lemmy can do this more elegantly because it specialises in it. While you can use Hubzilla's private calendar feature for event planning, it's easier to do the same with #Mobilizon which, again, specialises in it. Or you can host podcasts on Friendica, Hubzilla & Co, but you can host them better on #Funkwhale and even better on #Castopod.
Wanting the Fediverse to be only Mastodon hinders development, namely the development of new projects within the Fediverse that may be able to do all-new things that we haven't seen in the Fediverse yet. Things that, sorry to say again, you'll never be able to do with Mastodon.
P.S.: For extra kicks, don't just read this on Mastodon. Open my original post; there you can see what Hubzilla is capable of, and what Mastodon strips away. - very fine-grained access rights control with pre-definable contact roles
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@Depher Delighted to find the wonderful DEPHER on here, having departed the #Birdcage two months ago.
Thank you again for all you do, James and team.
For anyone else who wants to support front line action that really helps people hardest hit by Britain's terrible politics, there's a go-fund-me link in the post to which I'm replying.
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Just realised it's two months since I flew out of the #Birdcage... and It feels like a lifetime ago.
#Mastodon is a much calmer, more reflective and connected space - my feed is no longer stuffed with the same (repeated!) tweets from a small handful of people - I am thrilled to see every post from everyone I follow, unfiltered by the blue bird's invisible algorithm designed to enrage.
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Drüben im #Birdcage geht gerade wieder der Rechtsradikale Mob steil. Hier findet man nicht mal den Ortsnamen in den Beiträgen. Bemerke immer mehr, wie gut der Weggang von Twitter tat, wie wenig Lust ich weiterhin auf Facebook habe und das ich möglicherweise kurz davor bin, reale soziale Kontakte zu knüpfen.
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For a second I thought I was never going to see you again, you beautiful, kind strangers! 🥰 🤗
Who did this? If it’s the biggest loser in the world - EM, this is for him:
I’ll NEVER gonna back on #BirdCage! Even if there are no other social media left! FU
Donating again to @trumpet more than the measly $8.
#Fediverse #ILoveItHere Seriously!
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Thank you. I hesitated to join out of fear of backlash then I remembered where I was: The #Fediverse and not the #BirdCage. :awesome:
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🐤 Vogel an Eichhorn. 🐿️ 🧐 Ach, ich weiss ja auch nicht. Na dann träumt mal schön. 😃
Artist: #bragalastone - in City: #Larnas France 🇫🇷 (Mad Maze Experience Park, 2850 Route de Saint Remè) - #streetart #mastoart #art #mural #graffiti #3dart #squirrel #bird #animals #Eichhörnchen #birdcage -
#TheStacks back-pedal furiously, as people finally notice they are being farmed like cyber-cattles on #DataFarms like #FarceBook, #goOgle, and the #BirdCage
https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/20/facebook-google-microsoft-and-twitter-launch-the-data-transfer-project/
