helvede.net is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Velkommen til Helvede, fediversets hotteste instance! Vi er en queerfeministisk server, der shitposter i den 9. cirkel. Welcome to Hell, We’re a DK-based queerfeminist server. Read our server rules!

Server stats:

172
active users

#pound

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

One of the worst anti-business moves is the abolition of #ChildLabour in this country.

Think about it: with the value of a #degree falling dramatically, there’s very little need for children to actually do formal schooling any more. What’s the point of learning maths, science, and PE when going to #university is worth less now?

It would help stem the labour market issues we are currently having and it would allow children to understand the value of the British #pound sterling.

When there's a flight of locks, sometimes you end up waiting in one lock for a boat that's coming from the next lock. Both crews leave the lock gate open so we can pass each other between locks and directly enter the next lock.

Today, the draining water from the lock above was overfilling the pound and lock I was waiting in. Just look at the water level … nearly overflowing.

This is exactly why I have struggled to adapt my hashtagging practices to really work on Mastodon. “On top of all that, in-post hashtags feel thirsty. After a decade of Twitter and Instagram, I associate them firmly with spammers and #blessed clout-chasing thinkfluencers, #shoehorning that #pound #symbol into the #middle of #sentences to reach more #eyeballs.” theverge.com/23673125/mastodon

The VergeHashtags are everything on Mastodon — why not give them a home?By Adi Robertson
Continued thread

Since the first translations of haiku were made in the West, some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century have grown fond of this poetic genre, from Rainer Maria #Rilke to Paul #Eluard. In Italy, some poets who have embraced the current of hermeticism, such as #Ungaretti and #Quasimodo, approached haiku. Famous is that of Ezra Pound with his urban #imagism:

"The appearance of these faces in the crowd,/Petals on a wet, black bough."