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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #transience, aggregated by home.social.

  1. CW: Existential thoughts over the transient nature of fediverse instances, instance shutdowns, and mourning loss

    We were reminded recently of the XKCD comic 686: Admin Mourning.

    That single comic is profound in its own right, as the loss of a single being matters.

    But this got us thinking about what it means when an entire fediverse instance goes offline for good 🥺😔

    In the 3 years since we abandoned the sinking ship of mastodon dot lol, we alone have made over 30 thousand posts on our current instance.

    If we ever were to migrate elsewhere, we could not take those posts, or any of the media, with us.

    But that alone doesn't convey the whole story.

    We've interacted with so many people, and our posts have been seen and shared by so many other beings.

    We've made so many friends and got to know and befriend so many folks, even if we've increasingly struggled to keep in touch with most of them.

    If this instance ever ceases to be, even if somebody archives the entire server somehow, it won't just be the links to posts that will go dead: it'll be so much deeper.

    English has the word nostalgia to describe the intense, bittersweet pain of wanting to return to a home or familiar surroundings, though it has gradually taken on the additional meaning of being a place or time that you cannot return to.

    From what we understand, old Welsh has a similar but stronger word -- hireath -- which roughly translates as an intense yearning or longer for a past or home that specifically no longer exists and which you can never return to.

    That reminds us of Gollum's Song (performed by Emilíana Torrini) from the end of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, particularly the lyrics:

    You are lost

    You can never go home

    Maybe a being or entity dies when they are forgotten, but an instance can die when it goes permanently offline without backups or archives.

    We guess it's an uncomfortable reminder that nothing and nobody will last forever.

    #fedi #fediverse #Mastodon #existential #transience #ephemerality #InstanceShutdown

  2. CW: Existential thoughts over the transient nature of fediverse instances, instance shutdowns, and mourning loss

    We were reminded recently of the XKCD comic 686: Admin Mourning.

    That single comic is profound in its own right, as the loss of a single being matters.

    But this got us thinking about what it means when an entire fediverse instance goes offline for good 🥺😔

    In the 3 years since we abandoned the sinking ship of mastodon dot lol, we alone have made over 30 thousand posts on our current instance.

    If we ever were to migrate elsewhere, we could not take those posts, or any of the media, with us.

    But that alone doesn't convey the whole story.

    We've interacted with so many people, and our posts have been seen and shared by so many other beings.

    We've made so many friends and got to know and befriend so many folks, even if we've increasingly struggled to keep in touch with most of them.

    If this instance ever ceases to be, even if somebody archives the entire server somehow, it won't just be the links to posts that will go dead: it'll be so much deeper.

    English has the word nostalgia to describe the intense, bittersweet pain of wanting to return to a home or familiar surroundings, though it has gradually taken on the additional meaning of being a place or time that you cannot return to.

    From what we understand, old Welsh has a similar but stronger word -- hireath -- which roughly translates as an intense yearning or longer for a past or home that specifically no longer exists and which you can never return to.

    That reminds us of Gollum's Song (performed by Emilíana Torrini) from the end of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, particularly the lyrics:

    You are lost

    You can never go home

    Maybe a being or entity dies when they are forgotten, but an instance can die when it goes permanently offline without backups or archives.

    We guess it's an uncomfortable reminder that nothing and nobody will last forever.

    #fedi #fediverse #Mastodon #existential #transience #ephemerality #InstanceShutdown

  3. CW: Existential thoughts over the transient nature of fediverse instances, instance shutdowns, and mourning loss

    We were reminded recently of the XKCD comic 686: Admin Mourning.

    That single comic is profound in its own right, as the loss of a single being matters.

    But this got us thinking about what it means when an entire fediverse instance goes offline for good 🥺😔

    In the 3 years since we abandoned the sinking ship of mastodon dot lol, we alone have made over 30 thousand posts on our current instance.

    If we ever were to migrate elsewhere, we could not take those posts, or any of the media, with us.

    But that alone doesn't convey the whole story.

    We've interacted with so many people, and our posts have been seen and shared by so many other beings.

    We've made so many friends and got to know and befriend so many folks, even if we've increasingly struggled to keep in touch with most of them.

    If this instance ever ceases to be, even if somebody archives the entire server somehow, it won't just be the links to posts that will go dead: it'll be so much deeper.

    English has the word nostalgia to describe the intense, bittersweet pain of wanting to return to a home or familiar surroundings, though it has gradually taken on the additional meaning of being a place or time that you cannot return to.

    From what we understand, old Welsh has a similar but stronger word -- hireath -- which roughly translates as an intense yearning or longer for a past or home that specifically no longer exists and which you can never return to.

    That reminds us of Gollum's Song (performed by Emilíana Torrini) from the end of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, particularly the lyrics:

    You are lost

    You can never go home

    Maybe a being or entity dies when they are forgotten, but an instance can die when it goes permanently offline without backups or archives.

    We guess it's an uncomfortable reminder that nothing and nobody will last forever.

    #fedi #fediverse #Mastodon #existential #transience #ephemerality #InstanceShutdown

  4. CW: Existential thoughts over the transient nature of fediverse instances, instance shutdowns, and mourning loss

    We were reminded recently of the XKCD comic 686: Admin Mourning.

    That single comic is profound in its own right, as the loss of a single being matters.

    But this got us thinking about what it means when an entire fediverse instance goes offline for good 🥺😔

    In the 3 years since we abandoned the sinking ship of mastodon dot lol, we alone have made over 30 thousand posts on our current instance.

    If we ever were to migrate elsewhere, we could not take those posts, or any of the media, with us.

    But that alone doesn't convey the whole story.

    We've interacted with so many people, and our posts have been seen and shared by so many other beings.

    We've made so many friends and got to know and befriend so many folks, even if we've increasingly struggled to keep in touch with most of them.

    If this instance ever ceases to be, even if somebody archives the entire server somehow, it won't just be the links to posts that will go dead: it'll be so much deeper.

    English has the word nostalgia to describe the intense, bittersweet pain of wanting to return to a home or familiar surroundings, though it has gradually taken on the additional meaning of being a place or time that you cannot return to.

    From what we understand, old Welsh has a similar but stronger word -- hireath -- which roughly translates as an intense yearning or longer for a past or home that specifically no longer exists and which you can never return to.

    That reminds us of Gollum's Song (performed by Emilíana Torrini) from the end of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, particularly the lyrics:

    You are lost

    You can never go home

    Maybe a being or entity dies when they are forgotten, but an instance can die when it goes permanently offline without backups or archives.

    We guess it's an uncomfortable reminder that nothing and nobody will last forever.

    #fedi #fediverse #Mastodon #existential #transience #ephemerality #InstanceShutdown

  5. CW: Existential thoughts over the transient nature of fediverse instances, instance shutdowns, and mourning loss

    We were reminded recently of the XKCD comic 686: Admin Mourning.

    That single comic is profound in its own right, as the loss of a single being matters.

    But this got us thinking about what it means when an entire fediverse instance goes offline for good 🥺😔

    In the 3 years since we abandoned the sinking ship of mastodon dot lol, we alone have made over 30 thousand posts on our current instance.

    If we ever were to migrate elsewhere, we could not take those posts, or any of the media, with us.

    But that alone doesn't convey the whole story.

    We've interacted with so many people, and our posts have been seen and shared by so many other beings.

    We've made so many friends and got to know and befriend so many folks, even if we've increasingly struggled to keep in touch with most of them.

    If this instance ever ceases to be, even if somebody archives the entire server somehow, it won't just be the links to posts that will go dead: it'll be so much deeper.

    English has the word nostalgia to describe the intense, bittersweet pain of wanting to return to a home or familiar surroundings, though it has gradually taken on the additional meaning of being a place or time that you cannot return to.

    From what we understand, old Welsh has a similar but stronger word -- hireath -- which roughly translates as an intense yearning or longer for a past or home that specifically no longer exists and which you can never return to.

    That reminds us of Gollum's Song (performed by Emilíana Torrini) from the end of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, particularly the lyrics:

    You are lost

    You can never go home

    Maybe a being or entity dies when they are forgotten, but an instance can die when it goes permanently offline without backups or archives.

    We guess it's an uncomfortable reminder that nothing and nobody will last forever.

    #fedi #fediverse #Mastodon #existential #transience #ephemerality #InstanceShutdown

  6. A thin sheet of ice seals a roadside puddle, marked by fine white lines and soft fractures. It suggests how quickly form appears, and how quietly it lets go.
    #photography #ice #winter #abstract #stillness #transience #patterns #silence #photo

  7. Life requires change, and change brings excitement, even on a molecular level, as we all know. This excitement permeates through your ambivalence; it affects you, it becomes one with you, it becomes a warbler. No, this warbler is just another structure within you. It becomes a song of a warbler— brief and beautiful— Hooo- hokekyo, hooo- hokekyo.

    hermitage.utsob.me/musings/a-m

  8. A quotation from The Bible

    We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
     
    [μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα· τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    2 Corinthians 4: 18 [KJV (1611)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81657/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #2Corinthians #eternity #impermanency #impermanence #invisibility #permanence #permanency #spirit #temporality #transcendence #transience #visibility #world

  9. A quotation from The Bible

    We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
     
    [μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα· τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    2 Corinthians 4: 18 [KJV (1611)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81657/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #2Corinthians #eternity #impermanency #impermanence #invisibility #permanence #permanency #spirit #temporality #transcendence #transience #visibility #world

  10. A quotation from The Bible

    We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
     
    [μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα· τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    2 Corinthians 4: 18 [KJV (1611)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81657/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #2Corinthians #eternity #impermanency #impermanence #invisibility #permanence #permanency #spirit #temporality #transcendence #transience #visibility #world

  11. A quotation from The Bible

    We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
     
    [μὴ σκοπούντων ἡμῶν τὰ βλεπόμενα ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα· τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    2 Corinthians 4: 18 [KJV (1611)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81657/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #2Corinthians #eternity #impermanency #impermanence #invisibility #permanence #permanency #spirit #temporality #transcendence #transience #visibility #world

  12. A quotation from Cicero

    Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
     
    [Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #philippic #impermanence #age #change #era #flourish #flower #generation #passageoftime #success #succession #successor #transience

  13. A quotation from Cicero

    Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
     
    [Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #philippic #impermanence #age #change #era #flourish #flower #generation #passageoftime #success #succession #successor #transience

  14. A quotation from Cicero

    Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
     
    [Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #philippic #impermanence #age #change #era #flourish #flower #generation #passageoftime #success #succession #successor #transience

  15. A quotation from Cicero

    Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
     
    [Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #philippic #impermanence #age #change #era #flourish #flower #generation #passageoftime #success #succession #successor #transience

  16. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  17. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  18. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  19. A quotation from Shakespeare

    GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
       For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
       Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
       He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
       With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
       Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #blowingover #brevity #burningout #fierceness #fuel #selfconsumption #transience

  20. A quotation from James Hilton

    The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

    James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
    Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hilton-james/79489/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshilton #losthorizon #shangrila #age #brevity #elderly #humancondition #lifetime #oldage #transience #youth

  21. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
     
    [Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #remembrance #afterlife #brevity #death #fame #forget #forgotten #history #passageoftime #past #renown #reputation #time #transience #unimportance #marchoftime #timemarcheson

  22. This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the game. Links:

    github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tre

    wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Mus

    Title:
    Transience

    Author:
    Aleksi Aubry-Carlson

    official filename:
    transience.ogg

    time to upload: 5 seconds

    If you like this song maybe you want to follow @wesnoth

    #wesnoth #WesnothMusic #GameMusic #music #soundtrack #WesnothSoundtrack #FediMusic #AleksiAubryCarlson #Transience #WesnothTransience

  23. This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at

    github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tre

    Also described at:

    wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Mus

    Title:
    Transience

    Author:
    Aleksi Aubry-Carlson

    official filename:
    transience.ogg

    time to upload: 5 seconds

    #wesnoth #WesnothMusic #GameMusic #music #soundtrack #WesnothSoundtrack #FediMusic #AleksiAubryCarlson #Transience #WesnothTransience

  24. This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the game. Links:

    github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tre

    wiki.wesnoth.org/Available_Mus

    Title:
    Transience

    Author:
    Aleksi Aubry-Carlson

    official filename:
    transience.ogg

    time to upload: 5 seconds

    If you like this song maybe you want to follow @wesnoth

    #wesnoth #WesnothMusic #GameMusic #music #soundtrack #WesnothSoundtrack #FediMusic #AleksiAubryCarlson #Transience #WesnothTransience

  25. Starship Berlin
    A #poetry thread in three parts

    i.

    The promise of a future bright
    encased in a temporal temple:
    It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
    a spaceship made to resemble.

    Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
    dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
    alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
    for the future’s many loyal recruits.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #writing #photography
    #Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
    #iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

  26. Starship Berlin
    A #poetry thread in three parts

    i.

    The promise of a future bright
    encased in a temporal temple:
    It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
    a spaceship made to resemble.

    Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
    dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
    alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
    for the future’s many loyal recruits.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #writing #photography
    #Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
    #iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

  27. Starship Berlin
    A #poetry thread in three parts

    i.

    The promise of a future bright
    encased in a temporal temple:
    It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
    a spaceship made to resemble.

    Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
    dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
    alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
    for the future’s many loyal recruits.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #writing #photography
    #Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
    #iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

  28. Starship Berlin
    A #poetry thread in three parts

    i.

    The promise of a future bright
    encased in a temporal temple:
    It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
    a spaceship made to resemble.

    Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
    dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
    alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
    for the future’s many loyal recruits.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #writing #photography
    #Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
    #iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

  29. Starship Berlin
    A #poetry thread in three parts

    i.

    The promise of a future bright
    encased in a temporal temple:
    It sits among Berlin’s blinking lights,
    a spaceship made to resemble.

    Its oracles stood in this aluminum starchurch
    dressed in sparkling ABBA track suits,
    alit by glittering disco balls with lights that search
    for the future’s many loyal recruits.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #writing #photography
    #Berlin #architecture #futurism #scifi #transience
    #iccberlin #hasselhoff #iwentthere

  30. Temporary v. Permanent (slightly longer-form thoughts on the cool side-effect @TootTropiques experienced when he took an indigenous headache remedy): asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/10356 #ephemerality, #TraditionalMedicine #amazonia #transience #change

  31. Temporary v. Permanent (slightly longer-form thoughts on the cool side-effect @TootTropiques experienced when he took an indigenous headache remedy): asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/10356 #ephemerality, #TraditionalMedicine #amazonia #transience #change

  32. Temporary v. Permanent (slightly longer-form thoughts on the cool side-effect @TootTropiques experienced when he took an indigenous headache remedy): asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/10356 #ephemerality, #TraditionalMedicine #amazonia #transience #change

  33. Temporary v. Permanent (slightly longer-form thoughts on the cool side-effect @TootTropiques experienced when he took an indigenous headache remedy): asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/10356 #ephemerality, #TraditionalMedicine #amazonia #transience #change