(1/12) How I fell in love with social media & the EU, and made that my whole career, a thread.
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@BrennpunktUA well it also does sound a lot like an iPod, but with H
and it's short which was handy for twitter (remember when the max was 140 characters? I used to be a wizard at shortening sentences, because i had to translate 140 character tweets from English to German)@hpod16 hahaha yes, here it's 500 characters (on most, but not all servers, infosec.exchange allows for 5.000), but I still sometimes try to squeeze as much as possible into it
Reminds me when I started doing this with the old-fashioned SMS.Or when I used to optimize GIFs to fit 10 or 20 Kilobytes as a youngster (even won an GIF award back then!)
And I've always been very impressed by the 4kb and the 64kb PC "intros" out there – you do know them, right? -
@hpod16 hahaha yes, here it's 500 characters (on most, but not all servers, infosec.exchange allows for 5.000), but I still sometimes try to squeeze as much as possible into it
Reminds me when I started doing this with the old-fashioned SMS.Or when I used to optimize GIFs to fit 10 or 20 Kilobytes as a youngster (even won an GIF award back then!)
And I've always been very impressed by the 4kb and the 64kb PC "intros" out there – you do know them, right?@hpod16 about your username: my first guess was indeed Hannah + iPod
you're an apple fan? (I'm not) -
@hpod16 aahhh that’s where you got your handle from
@superuserdo
"To be or not to be, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler
in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune
or to take arms against
a sea of struggles
and by opposing
- end them"Or something like that... I should really look it up again.
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@superuserdo
"To be or not to be, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler
in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune
or to take arms against
a sea of struggles
and by opposing
- end them"Or something like that... I should really look it up again.
@hpod16 Gotcha
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@hpod16 hahaha yes, here it's 500 characters (on most, but not all servers, infosec.exchange allows for 5.000), but I still sometimes try to squeeze as much as possible into it
Reminds me when I started doing this with the old-fashioned SMS.Or when I used to optimize GIFs to fit 10 or 20 Kilobytes as a youngster (even won an GIF award back then!)
And I've always been very impressed by the 4kb and the 64kb PC "intros" out there – you do know them, right?@BrennpunktUA but I like the limitations.
I like character limits for the same reason I like Sonnets in Poetry.
There's only one strict way to write a sonnet, and yet hundreds of thousands have been written, one more creative than the next.
Maybe 140 characters was too little, but something about being given a limit makes me want to push it. Get the most out of the few characters I have.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day...? -
@BrennpunktUA yes! First with the European Youth Parliament.
I went to a conference in Feb 2013 and made plenty of friends who were later protesting on Maidan Square. Ivano Frankivsk. I went back in 2014 and 2015, for EYP sessions that were actually Belarusian conferences, but since EYP was banned in Belarus, they often held their sessions in Lviv. And then During my master I went for a wedding and to visit a friend in Kyiv. Oh, and to the European Lesbian Conference in 2019, that was wild...@hpod16
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Ukraine even held CSDs during wartime, I don't know for the last two years, though. RuZZian attacks continue to intensify each year 
I've been back to Ukraine in 2015 and in 2016, both times in Kyiv, 1 time for the job (solar PV)
In early 2022, our small initiative against right-wing extremism collected money for 5 small camera drones for
. Not much, but all we were able to afford. Yet, at a very early stage. There have been other, much larger drone campaigns, after (not ours). -
@BrennpunktUA but I like the limitations.
I like character limits for the same reason I like Sonnets in Poetry.
There's only one strict way to write a sonnet, and yet hundreds of thousands have been written, one more creative than the next.
Maybe 140 characters was too little, but something about being given a limit makes me want to push it. Get the most out of the few characters I have.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day...?@hpod16 sometimes limits force us to go beyond limits! Imagine car producers had to fulfill a max. weight of let's say 1 ton and a max. consumption of let's say 10 kWh (
) per 100 km – they could achieve it (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loremo). -
@hpod16 sometimes limits force us to go beyond limits! Imagine car producers had to fulfill a max. weight of let's say 1 ton and a max. consumption of let's say 10 kWh (
) per 100 km – they could achieve it (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loremo). -
@sandorspruit I had a lot more luck than bravery, I would say. And besides, what else was I going to do? Be a lawyer? I don't think so. (I don't think any law firm would have hired me).
Coming out of a European law education of sorts, I have no idea what I am but I'm certainly not a lawyer. Doesn't seem all that luck based though, more like a shot in the dark where you'll hopefully end up as some thing or another. @hpod16
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@hpod16 @oelschle You self-verify by linking to a website that you control.
Instructions: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification
If these are too difficult, here's another guide by @FediTips https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/
It can also work on any platform where you can enter custom HTML code or where the person running the site is willing to enter the custom code. For example many people are verified by their organisation/employer's website if they have a profile page on that site.
