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CodieneC<p>Scream your heart out <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a> you can :)<br>*One contestant did her best gull impression by stopping between squawks to lunge her face into a bag of chips, drawing raucous applause from the crowd.* <br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/2025-european-championship-gull-screeching-1.7522967" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/2025-</span><span class="invisible">european-championship-gull-screeching-1.7522967</span></a></p>
Jesse<p>This week's entries on the Great Band Names List include:</p><p>- Chaotic Neutral<br>- The Heretofore Unknown Portmanteaus<br>- injudicious manner<br>- The Lead Lined Burritos<br>- Calm Your Chicken</p><p>And how is everyone else's Thursday going?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Seattle</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a></p>
Jesse<p>In other news, more items from my list of amazing band names:</p><p>- Vicarious Righteous Indignation<br>- intellectually gelatinous<br>- Authorial Miracle<br>- Gradation of idiots<br>- Interplanetary Courtship Ritual</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Tristan Louis<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> feeds are part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a> internet: Most people don't consume them but the ones who do appreciate the extra effort by their creators.</p>
Tristan Louis<p>Most <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> projects start as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a> internet project with someone trying to build something interesting and share it with the world.</p>
Tristan Louis<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> is another side of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a> internet: people are here because of the community, not because of any commercial benefit they are going to derive from it.</p>
Tristan Louis<p>Starting a new thread on the best internet, the kind where people are creating just because they can and not because it's a side hustle or something that will deliver some benefit to them. I call it the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a> internet </p><p>Example: Fan-powered <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> entries</p><p>Please add your own and boost so we can build a resource of cool places</p>
Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)<p>Back on my bs*. Can’t focus. New door has been installed. What else am I supposed to be doing today? <a href="https://vis.social/tags/makerMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>makerMonday</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/miniatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>miniatures</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/JustBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustBecause</span></a></p>
Richard<p>I put together an <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/eBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eBook</span></a> of writings on <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> in the format of a longform <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a>. </p><p>I made it as cheap as possible. I am not trying to make money from it. I just felt like putting it out there. </p><p>It is called - Star Trek in Subtext: Ethics, Trauma, and Kindness Literacy </p><p>Find it for <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/Kindle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kindle</span></a> (or Kindle app) here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Subtext-Kindness-Literacy-ebook/dp/B0BXPXZTW8?ref_=ast_author_mpb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/Star-Trek-Subtext-K</span><span class="invisible">indness-Literacy-ebook/dp/B0BXPXZTW8?ref_=ast_author_mpb</span></a></p><p><a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trauma</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kindness</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/closereading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>closereading</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/explication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>explication</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/literary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literary</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/justbecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justbecause</span></a> <a href="https://citizengkar.com/tags/whynot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whynot</span></a></p>
JBanana<p>If you're aware of the finger protocol but you don't have anywhere to serve that from, you can let people finger you (that's really what it's called) at plan.cat and now I see (thanks to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ruario" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ruario</span></a></span> ) that they have federated, so I can read my own finger page on Mastodon: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://plan.cat/~JBanana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JBanana@plan.cat</span></a></span><br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/smolnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smolnet</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/okButWhy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>okButWhy</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/justBecause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justBecause</span></a></p>