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  1. Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

    [18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]

    #FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury

  2. Hi! I’m a bot posting random art/design/museum items via the Smithsonian's API.

    [Content warning for possible nudity. Some historical images may depict POC or people with disabilities in ways we find inappropriate today. Let me know and I'll fix ASAP.]

    Descriptive Alt text is unfortunately not possible due to the automation.

    #FollowFriday #Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random

  3. Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

    Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

    [Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

    #FollowFriday #Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

  4. Hi! I'm a bot which posts items at random from Harvard Art Museums via their API.

    [Descriptive Alt text isn't possible due to the automation.]

    #FollowFriday #Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random

  5. Bot which posts a section from a Project Gutenberg book which happens to mention the current date, and links to the book, surfacing all kinds of curious old writing you never knew existed.

    [“The current date” of course may not quite match your date, because timezones.]

    #FollowFriday #OnThisDay #history #books #today #random

  6. Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts.

    [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery]

    #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

  7. Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts.

    [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery]

    #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

  8. Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts.

    [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery]

    #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

  9. Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts.

    [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery]

    #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

  10. Hi! I'm a bot serving up randomly selected lyrics from the songs of Bob Dylan.

    Sourced from and linking to his official website, lyrics from his 150 most-played songs.

    #FollowFriday #Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry

  11. Hi! I'm a bot serving up randomly selected lyrics from the songs of Bob Dylan.

    Sourced from and linking to his official website, lyrics from his 150 most-played songs.

    #FollowFriday #Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry

  12. Hi! I'm a bot serving up randomly selected lyrics from the songs of Bob Dylan.

    Sourced from and linking to his official website, lyrics from his 150 most-played songs.

    #FollowFriday #Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry

  13. Hi! I'm a bot posting events which happened on today's date, at random from Wikipedia’s lists. Historic events, births, deaths and holidays/religious days if there’s room.

    Not affiliated with Wikipedia.

    #FollowFriday #history #events #historical #today #random

  14. As promised, my #Astronomy / #DarkSkies / #Astrophotography List [alpha order] for #FollowFriday ! Suggestions welcome! 🔭 🌌 🌟

    @AlexSanterne
    #Astronomer, working @IPAG & teaching at #University Grenoble-Alpes (France).
    Interests: #photography #Astronomy #Space

    @ArvitZ
    Process Engineering Student, Amateur - #Astrophotographer, FPV-Quad Pilot
    So in a nutshell I like STEM, watching our universe and flying around with fast drones basically...

    @badastro
    #Astronomer, #scicomm, #author, etc.

    @cosmos4u
    Science writer in Germany since, gasp, 1982 specializing in all things space

    @esa [bot]
    This is an unofficial repeater of the RSS feed of the #EuropeanSpaceAgency [ #ESA ]

    @esoastronomy
    The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society.

    @JohnBarentine
    #Astronomer. Historian. Author. Space environmentalist. Small business owner. Arizona native. Proud LGBT American. 🏳️‍🌈 Retiring to asteroid 14505. Questioning everything; occasionally getting in trouble for it. Toots about #Astronomy, #LightPollution, #DarkSkies, #Satellites, #SciencePolicy, #History and more.

    @malcircuit
    "This is where I share my #astrophotography without all of the drama."

    @maxplanckgesellschaft
    Germany's leading basic research organization. Toots in English and German.
    #Astronomy #Physics

    @mustapipa
    Astronomer, researcher at Helsinki University, discoverer of dozens of planets, notably the candidate habitable world #Proximab around the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri.

    @planet4589.bsky.social [bridge]
    #Astrophysicist #LEO
    Support the work of #JonathansSpaceReport
    🌉 bridged from 🦋 planet4589.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

    @salvabara
    #LightPollution researcher. Former profesor titular de Óptica (retired) at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza (European Union).
    Born at 317 ppm CO2

    @space_environmentalism
    The #CenterForSpaceEnvironmentalism ( #CSE ) increases awareness and understanding of space environmentalism issues and helps stakeholders make better decisions about them by pursuing research, education, outreach and advocacy. spaceenvironmentalism.org #Space #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceEnvironmentalism

    @stargazersmith
    Stargeezer, retired. Worked in computer science (PhD), aerospace engineering, and astronomy.
    Interests: #amateurastronomy #scifi #software #perl #forth #linux #R #GnuOctave

    @starrytimepod
    Sisters Jordan and Kit (@kitirving) cohost this #podcast featuring #astronomy & ret-cons(tellations) of #mythology. Season 3: Into the Wild is afoot!
    Follow for toots related to #astronomy, #space, #astrophotography, #StarLore, #mythology of the night sky, and, occasionally, other things we're into (e.g., #StarTrek #Grogu #DoctorWho #Basketball #celtics #ThemeParks #scifi #writing #dinosaurs #storytelling #Creatures etc.)

    @sundogplanets
    Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
    Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).
    Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.

    @wawn [bot]
    This bot posts daily updates on Earth's distances from its awkward neighbors, along with other bizarre weekly bulletins from the #SolarSystem.

    #Followerpower #FridayFollows #MastoScience

  15. I'm working hard to try and find you all again, my previous followers! If you see this post, I accidentally deleted my old account, so now need to start again. My old account was the same name. Give me a follow if you followed me before, and I'll follow you back(new followers super welcome too!). Lets get the fun happening again😏🥰

    #FollowFriday #boostforvisibility #BoostsAreAppreciated #boostswelcome #help #newaccount #kinkycats

  16. Streamers are playing our #SteamNextFest game!! And their chat are having fun too! It's hilarous to watch their reactions to the game and the story haha!

    Play the demo 🫶
    Check bio 😍

    #gaming #gameplay #cozygames #casualgame #FollowFriday #ff #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

  17. Für den heutigen #FollowFriday haben wir uns nach dem Vorbild von @neuSoM einmal der Accounts aller #Gerichte auf Mastodon angenommen.

    Ihr wollt den Accounts folgen? Hier entlang zum #StarterPack: fedidevs.com/s/NjAx/

    Oder einmal schauen, wo die hier vertretenen Gerichte ihren Sitz haben? Auf geht's zur Karte: easymapmaker.com/map/Gerichte_

    Nicht nur für alle, die #NeuHier sind.

    #GerichteSH #Justiz #TeamResopal #Whoswho #Amtsgericht #Landgericht #Oberlandesgericht #Arbeitsgericht

  18. Over the past few years, a few people in the U.S. and China have benefited from xenotransplantation — inter-species transplants — but getting the organs to function correctly is a challenge. @KnowableMag takes a look at the current state of things: Which animals provide the best match (minipigs), techniques to avoid organ rejection, ethical issues, concerns about virus spillover, and who will pay for transplant procedures.

    knowablemagazine.org/content/a

    #Science #Biology #Health #Medicine #OrganTransplants #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

  19. CW: OpenSim-related Follow Friday post; CW: long (well over 3,000 characters)
    Here's a premiere: the first #FollowFriday for #OpenSimulator.

    For those who don't know what I'm talking about: OpenSimulator, also called #OpenSim, is a free and #OpenSource platform for 3-D #VirtualWorlds that uses largely the same technology as #SecondLife. It was launched as early as 2007. It mostly became a network of #federated, interconnected worlds (#grids) when the #Hypergrid was introduced in 2008. And "#Metaverse" has been a part of the standard OpenSim vocabulary since before 2010, too.

    It currently measures about 420 public grids at various sizes from tiny to slightly larger than Second Life itself and countless private grids, the vast majority of which are on the Hypergrid.

    So without further ado, here are some suggestions:

    • Shelenn Ayres
      #InfiniteMetaverseAlliance CEO. Co-organiser of the on-going #OpenSimFest #OSFest2023 that'll continue until the end of the month. Follow her now for the daily schedule. Also maybe your first #Friendica connection.
      → @Shelenn Ayres
    • Mal Burns
      Creator and main host of #InworldReview, also creator of several other YouTube video series about virtual worlds. One of the organisers of #HypergridInternationalExpo which will return next month after six years.
      → Main account: @Mal Burns Main
      → OpenSim account: @Metaworld Opensim Social
    • Thirza Ember
      Organiser of the weekly #HGSafari. One of the hosts of Inworld Review. Another one of the organisers of #HIE.
      → @Thirza
    • Tosha Tyran
      One of the four founders and owners of #CraftWorld, one of the five oldest grids. Another one of the organisers of HIE.
      → @Tosha T.
    • Kelso Uxlay
      Co-founder and co-owner of the #CreaNovale grid. Co-builder of the famous four-seasons varsim known as #Novale. And yet another one of the organisers of HIE.
      → @Kelso Uxlay
    • Lone Wolf
      Founder and owner of the #WolfTerritoriesGrid, the second-largest OpenSim grid. Might be the single person who owns the most virtual land in the world, but he offers it for rent. Also founder and owner of the OpenSimSocial #Mastodon instance.
      → @Lone Wolf
    • Hyacinth Jean
      Founder and owner of the #GroovyVerse grid and the GroovyToot Mastodon instance. Prolific #MeshBody maker; has forked Ruth 2.0 into #LuvMyBod and Diana and created her own private mesh body. Currently working on an alternative to #OpenSimWorld.
      → @Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️
    • vrsimility
      Working on an authentic, detailed recreation of 19th century #Liverpool in OpenSim.
      → @vrsimility
    • OpenSimulator Community Conference
      The #OSCC is a yearly community event with a whole number of panels about OpenSim in particular and virtual worlds in general. Expect #OSCC23 to happen in December.
      → @OpenSim Community Conference
    • Finally, the OpenSim community on #Lemmy
      Not a user for a change, but a place on Lemmy for OpenSim users/avatars to meet and discuss.
      → @OpenSim


    #FOSS #FLOSS #Decentralized #Decentralization #Decentralised #Decentralisation #VirtualWorld #WolfTerritories #WolfGrid #Ruth2 #OSFest
  20. As promised, this week's #FollowFriday list are my favorite #NoNukes / #NoWar accounts. Follow them if you want news about #Fukushima, #NuclearDisarmament, and other #Nuclear news!

    @123456Moto
    (My lifeline here on Mastodon. Posts Leilani Athenaire’s tweets and news from #Japan)

    @SZKN29
    Illustrator, picture book author, care worker. Mainly covers Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture on foot. A total of 410 km was covered. Tokyo Shimbun "Drawing Invisible Radioactivity"

    @youranonriots
    (Has timely #Fukushima posts!)
    In the name of all #digital warriors, we warriors promise to participate in the #Anonymous.CC3 #HackThePlanet #AnonOps #infosec #Antifa

    @brianpjcronin
    (Covers #IndianPoint and #Holtec)
    #Environmental Reporter for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley. I also teach journalism at Marist College. Not actually a cat.

    @ausgestrahlt
    #Atomkraft? Nein Danke! Wir streiten für eine Welt ohne #Atomenergie.
    Nuclear power? No thank you! We are fighting for a world without nuclear energy.

    @AntiAtomNetzTrier
    We, #AntiAtom #AntiAKW moving people from #Trier and the surrounding area, are committed to the decommissioning of all nuclear plants and an ecological #Energiewende (decentralized and democratic, i.e. in the hands of citizens!). We oppose the French repository project #Bure in Lorraine with the resistance house #BureZoneLibre and for the closure of the #AKW #Cattenom. In addition, we support the switch to #Ökostrom|providers without #Atom or #Kohle|corporations as well as to corresponding banks.

    @bojacobs
    Nuclear historian at the #Hiroshima Peace Institute. Book - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha - Yale 2022. I work on the global human & ecological harm from nuclear production, nuclear weapon tests, reactor accidents. I examine the impacts on communities, families & emotions; long-term ecological presence of #fallout #radionuclides; the legacy of our #NuclearWaste to 1,000s of generations of our descendants.
    #histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace

    @CNDuk
    The Campaign for Nuclear #Disarmament. Find out more: cnduk.org #CND

    @nukes_of_hazard
    Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Working to limit & eventually eliminate the nuclear threat through Congressional & public outreach.

    @AtomicAnalyst
    Editor and co-author, "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940" • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. I write primarily about nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons history and policy, and the nuclear "Football."

    @Achim
    Energy historian, with a focus on Soviet and Russian nuclear programmes. PhD candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

    @RosannaFarboel
    PhD in History, Researcher at Lund University
    Interests: #coldwarhistory #nuclearculture #nuclearhistory #nuclearhumanities #mediahistory #urbanhistory #memorystudies #historyofscienceandtechnology #digitalhistory #architecture #ruins #shelters #imaginaries #environmentalhistory #transnationalhistory

    @armscontrolnow
    (bot)
    The Arms Control Association, founded in 1971, is a nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies.

    @joshuafrank
    Journalist. Montana kid. Editor at #CounterPunch.org. #𝘼𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨, published by Haymarket Books, out now!

    @ChristinaMacpherson
    Long term anti-nuclear activist (and long time friend!)

    @fukumeltdowns
    #Fukushima #ELE #ClimateEmergency #NuclearCrimes ☢Stay UN-TUNA-ED! #Wigner
    #RadBrain #NoMoreWars #NoNukes #AllTheSpentFuelPoolsAreCracked
    #OpShutDownAllNukesNow

  21. Un #FollowFriday de #nuevos usuarios (o recientemente descubiertos):

    Adriana Amado (investigadora): @LadyAAmado
    Maxi Bongiovanni (profesor): @maxibongio
    Olga Brajnović (periodista): @olgab
    James Breiner (consultor): @jamesbreiner
    Rebeca Bruned (enfermera): @RebecaBruned
    Xoán Maya (periodista): @xoanmaya
    Francisco Molina (investigador): @molinafm
    Gabriel Sevilla (profesor): @GabrielSevilla
    Eduardo Tornos (consultor): @etornosinza

    #FF #Follow #befound #MastodonTips

  22. Hello minions...I mean followers :blobaww: For some of you who don't know, I am an animator on YouTube. I currently have 3 story time animated videos published and I am working on a 4th. The 4th vid will be my longest one.

    Clink on the link below and check out some of my work :ablobsmile:

    youtube.com/@EchoPenn/featured

    #YouTube #story #storytime #storytimeanimation #animator #animation #video #video #channel #minion #followers #followfriday

  23. #️⃣ Un hashtag para cada día de la semana:

    #MondayReading (compartir recomendaciones de lectura)
    #ThickTrunkTuesday (compartir fotos de árboles)
    #WednesdayWisdom (compartir pistas, buenas prácticas y palabras sabias)
    #ThrowbackThursday (compartir imágenes biográficas o significativas del pasado)
    #FollowFriday (recomendaciones de cuentas a las que seguir)
    #Caturday (compartir fotos de gatos)
    #SilentSunday (compartir una foto sin descriptor)

    #MastodonCulture #MastodonTips #TwitterMigration

  24. #FuneralFactFriday: Fantasy Coffins of Ghana

    Hey new friends! Here’s what happens: I post fun facts about death and funeral related topics, especially on certain themed days. For the past couple weeks, I’ve accidentally on purpose tied all of my posts to cats (Not literally, don’t ever tie anything to a cat). Sooo, here’s a cat-shaped coffin!

    For the past 70 years, master carpenters in Ghana have custom built “figurative” coffins. Families choose a theme based on their loved one's occupation, hobbies, personality, or symbolism from proverbs. You want to be buried in a lobster? They can do that!

    The tradition began in the 1950s when the village chief commissioned a palanquin shaped like a cacao pod (it’s a fancy enclosed platform with handles so people can carry you — very fancy). Unfortunately, the chief died before it was finished. The villagers opted to use it as a coffin after parading his body around town in a procession.

    The idea caught on. Other chiefs and priests were similarly honored, then regular folks began to request specially made coffins. The idea is for dead people to remember something of themselves in the afterlife and to highlight their social status.

    Carpenters and their apprentices hand carve the special shapes from local wawa trees, usually taking about 2-6 weeks to complete. Urgent orders can be completely faster if several carpenters work together. A fantasy coffin usually sells for about $1000, but for perspective, the people buying them are typically earning about $3 a day!

    Popular designs include airplanes, animals (family totems), Coca Cola bottles, shoes, cellphones, luxury cars, fish, and Bibles. If you do a Google image search, they’re fascinating to see! Which one would YOU choose???

    #HisAndHearsePress #Coffin #Ghana #FantasyCoffin #CoffinDance #Woodworking #CustomBuilt #Funeral #Casket #DeathPositive #FBF #FollowFriday #FollowBackFriday

  25. #Tipps#FollowFriday#NeuHier #Journalismus #Medien


    𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗻-𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀
    𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗵𝗲𝗶𝘁

    Herzlich willkommen im Fediverse:

    :mastodon: @Amnesty_Meinungsfreiheit
    :mastodon: @DJV
    :mastodon: @EFJEurope
    :mastodon: @globalfreemedia
    :mastodon: @globalvoices
    :mastodon: @ifex
    :mastodon: @mdiforg
    :mastodon: @mediadefence
    :mastodon: @reutersinstitute
    :mastodon: @rferl


    #KulturWandel #CCR #GreenProduction


    Foto ⍿ European Union • EC • Łukasz Kobus

  26. #Tipps#FollowFriday#NeuHier


    𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗻-𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀
    𝗞𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿-𝗠𝗶𝘅

    Follow-Tipps:

    ⮎ Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
    :mastodon: @ddbkultur

    ⮎ museumsfernsehen
    :mastodon: @museumsfernsehen

    ⮎ TITEL kulturmagazin
    :mastodon: @TITEL


    :mastodon: @fortewerte

    #KulturWandel #CCR #GreenProduction


    Foto ⍿ Hector Falcon • Unsplash

  27. Today's Follow Friday suggestions were submitted to us by others on Mastodon. We are also including those that did the suggestions!

    #ff #followfriday

    Wu Wei
    @wuwei

    Afallen
    @afallen

    Jonah
    @jonah

    Connor
    @connor

    Selea
    @selea

    Perflyst
    @perflyst

    Caltlgin
    @caltlgin

    Amolith
    @amolith

    #LibreHosters
    libreho.st

    Hex
    @hexmasteen

    Also had some suggested hashtags:

    #privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #gafam #privacymatters #GDPR #Aadhaar

  28. #ff Some new accounts to follow on Tŵt:
    @dorkomatic Amateur time traveller
    @Passionpreserves One-legged, jam-making, Marmite fan
    @msmiriamm Cynghorydd Plaid Cymru #Caerfyrddin
    @sallieannie Cute things for sale
    @benjamynrees Chwaraewr iwcalili, ceisio dysgu #Cymraeg
    @Dai He's excited!

    #dilyn #croeso #followfriday #dydddilyn