#commonplace — Public Fediverse posts

In 2017, I started a commonplace notebook focused on Humanist and other nonreligious writings exploring life in our shared world.

This thread reproduces a selection of entries from that notebook.

The epigraph is adapted from the Humanist Manifesto III.

#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #notebook #commonplace

In 2017, I started a commonplace notebook focused on Humanist and other nonreligious writings exploring life in our shared world.

This thread reproduces a selection of entries from that notebook.

The epigraph is adapted from the Humanist Manifesto III.

#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #notebook #commonplace

In 2017, I started a commonplace notebook focused on Humanist and other nonreligious writings exploring life in our shared world.

This thread reproduces a selection of entries from that notebook.

The epigraph is adapted from the Humanist Manifesto III.

#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #notebook #commonplace

In 2017, I started a commonplace notebook focused on Humanist and other nonreligious writings exploring life in our shared world.

This thread reproduces a selection of entries from that notebook.

The epigraph is adapted from the Humanist Manifesto III.

#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #notebook #commonplace

In 2017, I started a commonplace notebook focused on Humanist and other nonreligious writings exploring life in our shared world.

This thread reproduces a selection of entries from that notebook.

The epigraph is adapted from the Humanist Manifesto III.

#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #notebook #commonplace

new on my blog: The essential question

https://sylvia.studio/the-essential-question

#Commonplace-book #Writing

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #holmes #sherlockholmes #boredom #brainwork #cogitation #commonplace #intellect #mundanity #ordinary #prosaic #thinking

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #holmes #sherlockholmes #boredom #brainwork #cogitation #commonplace #intellect #mundanity #ordinary #prosaic #thinking

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #holmes #sherlockholmes #boredom #brainwork #cogitation #commonplace #intellect #mundanity #ordinary #prosaic #thinking

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #holmes #sherlockholmes #boredom #brainwork #cogitation #commonplace #intellect #mundanity #ordinary #prosaic #thinking

@johnjohnston you'll be pleased to know #Commonplace now pulls through Flickr previews.

#AskAndYeShallReceive

@johnjohnston you'll be pleased to know #Commonplace now pulls through Flickr previews.

#AskAndYeShallReceive

@johnjohnston you'll be pleased to know #Commonplace now pulls through Flickr previews.

#AskAndYeShallReceive

@johnjohnston you'll be pleased to know #Commonplace now pulls through Flickr previews.

#AskAndYeShallReceive

@johnjohnston you'll be pleased to know #Commonplace now pulls through Flickr previews.

#AskAndYeShallReceive

#Commonplace now has a bookmarklet that allows you to choose which collection to add a link into.

Try it out: https://commonplace.dynamicskillset.com

new on my blog: remain and listen

https://sylvia.studio/remain-and-listen

#Commonplace-book #Joy

@johnjohnston FYI I fixed the bookmarklet functionality in #Commonplace 🙂

Video walkthrough of #Commonplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfqtBnxVzA

#Commonplace is a new experiment in community resource curation.

It gives groups a shared place to gather links, readings, tools, and other references, then make those collections easier to browse and reuse across the open web.

The intro post talks through the concept, the current setup, and how it could work for communities you are part of.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/introducing-commonplace/

#Commonplace #CommunityCuration #KnowledgeCommons #OpenWeb #OER

Oh good! @troypatterson has noticed that I've added not only images to represent collections but also resource uploading to #Commonplace 😄

https://commonplace.dynamicskillset.com/about

File uploads are now a thing on #Commonplace 🙌

Now I just need to make it look a bit more exciting...

https://commonplace.dynamicskillset.com/about

Replies to posts from #Commonplace that happen on the Fediverse are now shown in the UI. They can be hidden by curators.

https://commonplace.dynamicskillset.com/about

In 2025, approximately 21.8 million people residing in Germany had an immigration background. According to data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis),... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41635 | #news #affecting #background #becomes #commonplace

In 2025, approximately 21.8 million people residing in Germany had an immigration background. According to data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis),... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41635 | #news #affecting #background #becomes #commonplace

In 2025, approximately 21.8 million people residing in Germany had an immigration background. According to data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis),... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41635 | #news #affecting #background #becomes #commonplace

In 2025, approximately 21.8 million people residing in Germany had an immigration background. According to data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis),... https://news.osna.fm/?p=41635 | #news #affecting #background #becomes #commonplace

#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest

- French: cliché

- German: der Gemeinplatz

- Italian: topico

- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum

- Spanish: tópico

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest

- French: cliché

- German: der Gemeinplatz

- Italian: topico

- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum

- Spanish: tópico

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

Has anyone used #Commonplace to respond to eg a local council survey? I'm trying to draw my ideal cycle route through town on a map and I've ended up just closing the tab as it's so difficult to do without constantly clicking where you don't mean to and so on, I've just lost patience with it. Their surveys are complicated enough - I never know how I ended up at a certain page or how to find all the bits of a survey. Shame, as I'd like to take part.

#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest

- French: cliché

- German: der Gemeinplatz

- Italian: topico

- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum

- Spanish: tópico

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Join our new subreddit for language learners @ https://reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage

Mea maʻa mau == a common thing #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #common #commonplace #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu #hawaiian https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-april-3rd

A quotation from Montaigne

Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.
 
[Tel a esté miraculeux au monde, auquel sa femme & son valet n’ont rien veu seulement de remerquable. Peu d’hommes ont esté admirez par leurs domestiques.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 2 “Of Repentance [Du repentir]” (1586) (3.2) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #attendants #commonplace #contempt #domesticity #familiarity #family #household #perspective #proximity #servant #valet

#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest

- French: cliché

- German: der Gemeinplatz

- Italian: topico

- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum

- Spanish: tópico

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Join our new subreddit for language learners @ https://reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage

#Explore the #Darkest #Corners of the #Internet to #Understand #Real-#World #PoliticalViolence: Read an #Excerpt of #BlackPill by #ElleReeve

If you’ve been struggling to understand how we arrived here, with an #insurrection in our recent past and #politicalviolence becoming almost #commonplace, take an eye-opening journey with an award-winning #journalist who has breached the #digital and #reallife #spaces where #hate and #conspiracy coalesce.

https://bookriot.com/black-pill-by-elle-reeve-excerpt/

A quotation from Alfred Hitchcock

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English film director
In François Truffaut, Hitchcock: A Definitive Study [Le Cinéma Selon Hitchcock], ch. 4 (1966) [tr. Truffaut (1967)]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hitchcock-alfred/189…

#quote #quotes #quotation #abridged #banal #boredom #commonplace #drama #dullparts #dullness #film #life #movie #mundane #story #storytelling

В Перми открылась новая независимая библиотека

В #Пермь открылась независимая #БиблиотекаДонКихота. В её каталоге есть книги либертарных издательств #DirectioLibera, #ЧёрныйКвадрат, #CommonPlace и др.
Адрес: улица Максима Горького, дом 64/1, ​цокольный этаж. Работает каждый день с 16 до 20 (кроме воскресенья).

https://avtonom.org/news/v-permi-otkrylas-novaya-nezavisimaya-biblioteka
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие

Reading "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" by Roland Allen. Such a good book and curiously resonant with the modern digital age.
#zilbadone #commonplace
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2786

The #rightwing #obsession with the #genderidentity of the #Nashville #killer is #disgusting and telling. Although #massshootings have sadly become #commonplace, this recent #attack on a #Christian #school was #unique because the #perpetrator was #transgender.

https://www.newsweek.com/rights-fixation-gender-identity-nashville-killer-disgusting-telling-opinion-1790968

Five ways you could get in trouble under the #Texas #antidrag show #bill

#SenateBill12 was #pitched as #protecting kids from being exposed to #dragshows. But three attorneys say the #legislation goes far beyond #drag and could, in fact, #criminalize a slew of #commonplace #behaviors.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Texas #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/04/24/five-ways-you-could-get-in-trouble-under-the-texas-anti-drag-show-bill/

How #queer went #corporate: The 50-year #evolution of #LGBTQ+ #marketing

#Inclusive #ads from #MillerLite to #Subaru to #BudLight have gone from #trailblazing to #commonplace to #controversial again

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pride #PrideMonth #Business #PinkWashing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/16/lgbt-marketing-advertising-history-pride-month/

Book # 2 of our thematic week:
Jillian M. Hess's study "How #Romantics and #Victorians Organized Information" examines #commonplace books, scrapbooks & albums as mediums of organizing knowledge & people, too!

#VictorianCulture #Romanticism #CulturalStudies #MaterialCulture

From the archives... #ardrossan

#photography #mundane #everyday #commonplace

I learned of the term #commonplace book reading Tom Ricks’ immensely educational book #FirstPrinciples.

As part of my #introduction, I’d like to continuing with my messy personal experimental process of #digital #pamphleteering, gathering shared data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to build a sense of #community across time and space. 🇺🇸#fediverse #federated #networks #republicanism #scottishenlightenment #history

Why Do #NeoNazis Keep Getting #Arrested For #ChildSexualAbuseMaterial (CSAM)?

A surprising number of #farright #extremists have been #caught with some of the worst content imaginable, is this a #trend or is #CSAM just distressingly more #commonplace than most realize?

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://web-origin-1.vice.com/en_asia/article/3akvbw/why-do-neo-nazis-keep-getting-arrested-for-child-porn