Alle möglichen Wege führen aufwärts: Turm, Stadt an bewaldeten Hügeln, alte Bauwerke, graue Wolken über der Kuppe. Kälter Wind reißt in schwülen Vormittag. #outerworld #escapism #transit and travel

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Einschlafen zwischen fremden Hügeln, Erwachen in fremden Betten und immer wieder Zeitpunkte und Zeiträume, an die es vage Erinnerungen gibt und die sich kürzer anfühlen, als sie es wohl waren. Strecken. Gähnen. Wassertemperatur prüfen. Ein wenig Gänsehaut spüren, mit rauher Hand über das Gesicht reiben, Haare in Form streichen. Und in die Welt da draußen lauschen, zu erfühlen versuchen, wie der neue Morgen hier klingt, sich mit den Augenblicken verändert. Merklich vor dem ersten Kaffee. Habt es mild heute! #outerworld #elsewhere #transit and travel #escapism #always in between

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Friday evening, elsewhere and once more wrestling that state of being that is bridging the gap between body and soul and different velocities and different places. A densely packed week, roads, hills, sunset and disconnecting, reconnecting, trying again to cool down. And gazing at another river, always a good way to spend a few moments, no matter the time of day. Sleep safe everyone wherever you are. #outerworld #elsewhere #transit and travel #always in between

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Unterwegs: Enge Straßen, dichter Wald, Grenzbereiche, kantige Kirchtürme schon im Abendschatten des Mittelgebirges. Förderanlagen. Verfallende Häuser. Ein großes Zelt, Dorfplatz, Bier und Grill und man fühlt sich beobachtet selbst in dem kurzen Moment der Durchfahrt. #outerworld #transit and travel #always in between

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Nachmittag bringt den heutigen Erstkontakt mit der Außenwelt, die Sinne nehmen widersprüchliche Informationen zu Temperatur und Wetter wahr und verbliebene Reste der Aufnahmefähigkeit zwischen Überreizung und angespannter Konzentration versuchen, Dinge richtig einzuordnen und einige vielleicht abzulegen. Blinzeln in das immer noch hohe Licht. Durchatmen. Zählen. Weiterziehen. #outerworld #escapism #concrete city #the afternoons moving on

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Lunch break, temporary deviations but by choice. Limited resources as a challenge that becomes more immanent the closer you look at it. Managing test cases and expected misbehaviours of complex systems and muttering about absent information while that mug of tea is cooling down way too fast. There's always a critical path that is known, and most likely there are more than just one to be discovered while walking on it. Here we go again. #outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #where we do what we do

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Feststellung des aktuellen Zustands: Tabellen aus Text und Zahlen, die die Rahmen vieler Bildschirme sprengen. Eingehende Benachrichtigungen aus jenen Hintergründen, die nervös werden, wenn man sie länger ignoriert. In der Straße heult der Motor einer Vespa, der Balkontisch gegenüber trägt eine Kaffeetasse und ihr Schattenbild. Himmel und Luft klarer und weiter als der eigene Horizont, gerade eben. #outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #where we do what we do

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Freitagmorgen also. Nacht, Zerrbilder, milde Luft, gelegentliches Rascheln in den Blättern der Zimmerpflanzen, gelegentliches Tanzen von Staubpartikeln über dem Bett, dem Gesicht, dem Traum, erstes kaltes Wasser, erstes heißes Wasser, Satzbehälter, aber im übertragenen Sinne, weil der Krümelkaffee rückstandslos verschwindet und jeder andere Satz um diese Zeit eine reine Angelegenheit von Zufall und Glück ist. Ferner erinnert man sich gerade um diese Stunde besonders gut an die Dinge, die der Vortag eigentlich noch einfordern wollte und die im Rauschen untergingen - noch fehlt die Konzentration, aber im unsortierten Modus fehlt es nie an Unruhe im Angesicht solcher Erkenntnisse. Gewohnte Mechanismen, gewohnte Routinen, vor dem Auftakt zu den vergebenen Stunden. Habt es mild heute! #outerworld #concrete city #waking to the day #the early hours

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A lot later again, a breath of relief in cool evening air. Watching the late daylights, the soft glow behind opposite windows, the random spots of cigarettes dancing on open balconies, feeling the scent of burning tabacco and other vegetation all rolled up, browsing through inner music libraries and feeling more indecisive than ever before. Eventually giving up, flowing with some stream for a while and then putting the day to rest, hoping for the thoughts to follow. Sleep safe everyone wherever you are. #outerworld #concrete city #evening deviations #stories of sleepy souls and restless minds

Immer noch, wieder kleine Schneeflocken aus Pollen, die durch die Leere zwischen den Fassaden geistern. Vorabend, warme Farben, Dokumentenroutinen, grobes Papier. Kleine unangenehme Schnitte. Tatsächlich und metaphorisch. Noch etwas Konzentration aufbringen für gewisse Dinge, und Willen, unsicher, was davon schwerer ist. #outerworld #evening deviations #where we are we are

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Closing in on 4pm, a couple of minutes off screen and returning to a couple of missed calls and an unexpected pile of messages. A constant flow, fast pace across shaky, uncertain ground. Trying to fix things, maybe even better avoiding breakage, while the sun creeps through the windowblinds, heating up the room, causing other shadows to dance. But maybe it's just movies shaped by fantasy in overdrive. No clue. #outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #afternoon deviations #where we do what we do

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A change of place without changing speed, tourists and cyclists left and right and concrete and commercial areas and the colours and shapes in bright sunlight that add up to a load of input hard to process immediately. Crossing other neighbourhoods, watching a garbage truck and a crowd of city workers cleaning the meadows along the sidewalk, briefly interacting with pedestrians for the whole sake of staying out of ones way. Almost afternoon again, summing up while switching context. #outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #where we do what we do

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As I've been hinted to reconsider here, maybe that's a good starting point to think of - follower power: Please do share bubbles that you consider work well out here on the #Fediverse, maybe (for obvious reasons) with the specific exception of those focused on protocols, web technology and development. Curious to see what might be around.


Respectfully, and as a newish user from a special interest group, I disagree. There's a large and vibrant #blind community on Mastodon that couldn't exist on any other platform.

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(Dann Büroflure, geschlossene Fenster, offene Türen, Landevorgänge in stickiger Luft. Gegenüber sind die Jalousien dicht verschlossen, die Terrasse trägt zwei neue Sonnenschirme, einige Etagen weiter unten frühstückt man halböffentlich und auf der Straße sucht der Transporter eines Hausmeisterdienstes in mittlerweiler dritter Runde nach einem geeigneten Stellplatz. Weiter Horizont, keine Wolken, fehlende Details im Plan.) #outerworld #concrete city #office hours #where we do what we do

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Ein Abend eine Nacht ein Morgen ein Augenzwinkern dazwischen, wenige Brüche, kaum Träume, aber einige Sequenzen, deren Ursprung man nicht mehr genau nachvollziehen kann. Lärm von Katzen und Mardern im Hof, jetzt die frühen Vögel auf den Bäumen. Vereinzelte Wecker. Der Bus. Die ersten Pendler. Die Schritte im Treppenhaus, abwärts in Richtung Tür. Der eigene Puls hinter den Schläfen, und das Schnipsel Melodie, das sich ganz plötzlich von irgendwo nach vorn drängt, um zu bleiben. Donnerstag, entlang des Taktes. Habt es mild heute. #outerworld #concrete city #the early hours #waking to the day

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Very much later again: Conclusions and new dissatisfactions. Postponing tomorrows meetings, rearranging agendas for the weeks to come, pondering risks and outcomes and seeing buffers shrink. Matters of responsibilities and owning these, matters of having levers at hand to push things forth - or not. (And then for artificial rain, a bit too cold and waking up slightly more than joyful at this hour. Trembling, breathing, listening to the sound of drops on tiles and the other appartments in deep sleep already. Have a calm night wherever you are.) #outerworld #concrete city #evening deviations #stories of planning and responding and other weird inner forces

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Schließlich, wieder Abend, wieder oder noch im Freien. Mittlerweile haben Büsche und Stauden den Blick von den Wegen fast vollständig geschlossen, die Sonne bleibt in den höheren Bäumen hängen und entlang der Laube warten die Tomatengestelle auf Tage des Wachstums. Die schweren roten Blätter von Mohnblüten bedecken große Teile der Wege, verschiedene Arten von Salbei entdecken neue Farbe, nebenan wird die Pforte abgeschlossen und das Rad samt Anhänger zum Ausgang geschoben. Immer noch heller Tag, schon wieder fast mitten im Jahr. #outerworld #concrete city #urban escapism #where we are we are

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(Switching back to here for now. I love social.lol and the community over there but ... can't help feeling very much how annoying it is to keep communication across Bluesky, Tumblr, Diaspora* and ActivityPub on any platform other than Friendica. Not sure whether I'll regret that but then again, and in general, maybe ... it's all about accepting imperfection of all of these solution and not bothering all too much as ... esssentially no one does.)
Als Antwort auf Kristian

In many ways this ... is also basically caused by being increasingly disappointed with how things are going in the #Fediverse but maybe that's just a bubble thing. I've been out here ever since early identi.ca days, with my first post on federated social networks dating back to 2011 and still being around somewhere in the Wayback Machine. As of 2018, I think, this was the first time ever to feel like this kind of networks could finally be up to counter the commercial walled gardens, to provide an actual, human, human-centered alternative to surveillance capitalism and people farming. Turns out: It surely does better than Facebook, X, ... in some way. But it still is far from where it would need to be for that. And worse, it doesn't seem to improve much. Sure, individual platforms have matured. Mastodon has. Friendica has. But at the very end, at the bottom of things, in 2026 (eight years later) it's still the same un-addressed, unresolved issues to run into as in 2018 (which I have been whining about often enough not to do it again). Still, from some angles, it's amazing to see how some of these things did "just work" before on Diaspora* (and still do). It's amazing to see some of these issues fixed in ATProto (regardless of ones opinion on Bluesky) because people cared to think a bit ahead of the status quo in advance. It's, too, saddening to see how many once-vivid accounts and contacts out here have either turned quiet or deleted their accounts or visibly announced retreat into some walled garden (again) or to individual blogging and all of that. It's not a bad thing. It's an individual decision that should of course be respected. But it's sad. It feels very much like mission not accomplished. It feels like specifically ActivityPub has turned out to be what it apparently started wanting to be - a protocol that focuses on open networking but actually, in this, focuses on hackers and tinkerers and developers rather than users and communities, a protocol that by design is biased towards people building "something new" on top of it (and making compatibility - or lack thereof - something anyone else is to blame for) over people using technology in a reliable manner. Not sure whether the Fediverse is growing or shrinking and at some point I don't really bother that much at the moment. Just hoping that, for the time being, #Friendica will somehow continue working as good as it can to keep different channels under one hood (and not having to decide to keep or cut contacts based on an individual network technology choice again - or being overwhelmed by trying to handle a plethora of different inboxes in a load of almost fully equal yet separated systems) - and hoping for people out here to be forgiving if there are things, conversations, communications I just miss out on. Maybe part of the deal is accepting that big-picture things over "here" aren't built with reliability in mind.
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@Radgryd Yeah, this. It's also ... not so much the fact that people give up and move on, that apparently happened in every other network too. It's specifically, in my environment, that I notice people moving on after being here for weeks to months, trying to feel home here, becoming more quiet and eventually just quietly cutting ties then, for a lot of reasons that probably could have been avoided and are valid. 😔

Lunch break deviations, a bit later that very day: Out on the terrace, observing the birds of the office neighbourhood resting on the metal roof. Bright sun, still, but there's a breeze too to keep the day bearable. Letting attention jump around and temporarily attach itself to random findings, having a lot of technical and non-technical aspects keeping ones own circuits under load and running still. The challenges of entering a state of break. And the early summer one doesn't yet feel ready for. #outerworld #concrete city #office hours #where we do what we do

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Later and indifferent, slightly lost track of daytime as darkness came down like a soft veil again, carrying the scent of moist river banks and close-to-blossoming parks and everything that found its place after the wind seems to have taken most of the wintry elsewhere for now. Unsure, but maybe just sticking to this very imagination of grey days passing is soothing in some way. (Home office window closed for now. Summing up. Concluding. Another page turned. Sleep tight everyone wherever you are.)

#outerworld #concrete city #the late hours #slowing down under open skies

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Clouds in a dark early dusk sky.(Us and the clouds in a quiet sky.)

#smartphonephotography #lost in moments #outerworld #concrete city #edge of dusk

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Every other week I read about some federated social network instance running into trouble due to some system outage, either following human error or technical failures on actual hardware or infrastructure issues on some provider. And again and again this feels sad, given we're in 2026, we have decentralized approaches such as dat or ipfs around, and still, just all too often, availability of full services, user data and the like depends on virtual machines with some sort of "local" storage operated by small groups or even individuals. Where did we fail to get architectures more robust and reliable than that? 😔

#technology and its amazing consequences #outerworld #rant but only half

Vormittage heißen Kaffees münden in Nachmittagen kalten Tees. Anfragelimit erreicht, Verlauf abgeschnitten, für ältere Informationen bedarf es tieferen Grabens in anderen Ablagen auf anderen Maschinen. (Schlüsselpaare suchen. Virtuelle Fenster zurechtrücken. Analoge Fenster so weit geöffnet lassen, dass der Nachmittag vereinzelte Tropfen auf Stirn und Unterarme werfen kann. Geschichten von Niedeschlag und Staub.)

#outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #where we do what we do

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Out with the wind. A few moments, or rather fragments of these, to let mind loose of what kept the morning busy. Refitting repurposing inner compute resources. And almost instantaneously feeling weird for using such technical metaphors. (Noon and on. Expiring passwords, infrastructural hiccups, sessions cut. Waiting for flows to settle.)

#outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #lunch break and weather

Hinter irgendeiner der Wände hustet und lacht eine kleine Stimme. Eine merklich ältere, merklich müdere versucht Kinderlieder zu intonieren, verheddert sich immer wieder in Text und Melodie. Regen schlägt auf die Bleche vor den Fenstern, unvermittelt. Windige Stunden, unter grauem, zerklüftetem Himmel.

#outerworld #home office hours #stories of apppartments and encounters #where we are we are

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(Wiping that one mail folder again. Moving appointments, but as a mechanical task, like a sieve that then and now lets more relevant tasks stay in focus. Fast-paced clouds and the sound of garbage bins in the street, along with wheels running on wet concrete. 7am, the neighbourhood's busier again this week.)

#outerworld #concrete city #home office hours #stories of scheduling and priorities

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Montag also. Schlaf als ein unsteter Begleiter, launisch und immer auf Abwegen. Gewohnter Klangteppich umwebt das Dickicht zwischen den Häusern, erste harte Schritte, eine Garage wird entriegelt. Katzenaugen hinter Türspalt, Wasser im Becken, Wasser im Pott. Selbstorganisation, Selbstbegradigung, ein sehr frühes Stadium. Vor allem anderen. Habt es mild heute.

(Managed to reconnect to the day and evening after all. Aware of the odds and ends to follow the dawn of a new week. Yoga postures, a rough short exercise, as good as the tense body is able to. And then succumbing to silence. Sleep tight everyone wherever you are.)

#outerworld #concrete city #late sunday #evening deviations

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Und dann neue Dämmerung über den Höfen. Fahrradbewegungen, Ketten, Bremsen, Luftpumpe, Öl an den Händen. Vorsichtiger Optimismus, Bewegungsfreiheit auf das zeitliche Korsett der neuen Woche gelegt. Und damit in Gedanken schon wieder viel weiter.

#outerworld #sunday afternoon #stories of water and weathers #concrete city

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Der Tag der Fluss die Weite das Rauschen. Drinnen wie draußen. Hunde des Viertels spielen über die Wiesen, Krähen und Raben begleiten Wandernde in sicherem Abstand. Sandige Ufer, Marken von Biberzähnen im Unterholz. Die Leere des Stadtsonntags zwischen zwei Brücken. Und die Suche nach dem Stillen, nach dem Schweigen des eigenen Lärms.

#outerworld #concrete city #sunday escapism #where we are we are

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9am and on. Weather reports. Moist surfaces. Grey clouds. Invisible horizon. The imagery of old mental movies but here in the now.

#outerworld #sundays #waking to the day still #stories of clouds and its outlines

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(Traum als ein zerreißender Nebel, hinter dem nurmehr anderer Nebel sichtbar wird. Starenzank, das Klappern angrenzender Küchen, Arie der Kaffeemaschine und ein knirschendes Fenster sperrt wildfliegende Geräusche wieder ein. Erste Schritte Flur Bad Haustür. Einige unbeschriebene Hoffnungen, manchmal. Einige umfassende Nervositäten, immer. Habt es mild heute.)

#outerworld #concrete city #early sunday morning #waking to the day #the early hours

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The night: A reoccurring collection of thoughts and inner states one is slowly drifting into, noticing and yet being unable to very much control. A candle still flickering, a mug of tea that turned cold, a minor chord and somehow every melody connected to it leading into a weird kind of dissonance. A play of words turned into a play of dreams. Sleep tight everyone wherever you are.

#outerworld #concrete city #the late hours #saturday night urban blues

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(Stadtgrenzen, Lichtwechsel, ein Sonnenkegel aus dichten Wolken, dicke Regentropfen, Vaporwave, ein anderer Schwarm über der Parkbrache. Menschen im Sicherheitsabstand. Angespannt. Unterwegs.)

#outerworld #concrete city #returning #the spring in things

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Afternoon rain. Rolling hills, wet fields, a day warmer than one is used to. Adaptation problems. Pondering male stereotypes and annoying imbalances of power and finally resorting to music to cut mind from that. Close to 3pm, still somewhere.

#outerworld #always in between #where we are #stories of weathers and selves

Inspirierende Geschichten über die Segnungen einer wettbewerbsfokussierten Wirtschaft, heute: Staubsaugerbeutel. (Unschlüssiger Regen über der anderen Stadt. Und eine Ahnung von Frühling im Grau.)

#outerworld #elsewhere #all these stories

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