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Emotion - Direct Your Feelings Before They Direct You
#emotions #feelings
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Emotion - Direct Your Feelings Before They Direct You
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Brian Schottenheimer doesn't care to hurt feelings, only championships https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-doesnt-care-hurt-feelings-only-championships

recline into your evening with last night's frow show on @…, peaceful uneasy feelings for a hot stupid summer, including new sounds by terry riley, marshall allen, jonathan richman, joseph allred, steve gunn, alan bishop, bob dylan & barbra streisand, & more.

Hi #MutualAid, @… needs your help!
If you live in the EU and have strong feelings about video games, whether you love them or hate them, this is your chance to make an impact.
Boost this post now, join the conversation everyone is t…

7. All in all (general gripe about streaming): if it wasn't for my desire to scrobble songs with ListenBrainz and save storage space, I would've just gone back to my iPod. 😂 Hell, even Symfonium (which I have mixed feelings about) can work with music files stored on a cloud drive, and NextCloud apparently has a music plugin which can serve as a subsonic-compatible server. That's what I would recommend to a less technical / tinkery friend if I wanted to encourage them to ditch str…

New Steelers TE Jonnu Smith on trade from Dolphins: 'Got to go where I am appreciated' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-steelers-te-jonnu-smith-on-trade-from-dolphins-got-to-go-where-i-am-appreciated

DreamState - Awakening
- awakening with dreams alive is one of the best feelings -
- #DreamState #NowPlaying -
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DreamState - Awakening - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects
Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02367

Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects
Virtual assistants (VAs) have become ubiquitous in daily life, integrated into smartphones and smart devices, sparking interest in AI companions that enhance user experiences and foster emotional connections. However, existing companions are often embedded in specific objects-such as glasses, home assistants, or dolls-requiring users to form emotional bonds with unfamiliar items, which can lead to reduced engagement and feelings of detachment. To address this, we introduce Talking Spell, a wear…

This is going on, and the UK government is worried about a punk act at Glastonbury hurting the IDFs feelings?!?
The end cannot come soon enough for Netanyahu and the IDF.
#IsraeliGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

Tariq (@rzeta0@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Fuck von der Leyen. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Merz. Fuck the EU. Fuck the BBC. Fuck the Guardian. Fuck the US Democrats. Fuck the German Staatsrason. Fuck the complicit mastodon-social admins. History will not forget your role in this. #genocide #gaza #warcrimes #history #palestine #ukpol #uspol #europe #journalism #mastodon #germany

Dr. McEntarfer would seem to have a pretty good defamation case. He accused her of criminal malfeasance in office with no evidence other than his own hurt feelings.
His only real defense would be that no one believes a word he says. Which is demonstrably, if regrettably, false.

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Season 2 Starts Airing in 2026
Source : #anime #manga

here’s what look to be newish sidewalk trees, 2 of them, on Capp in front of Alioto Park.
I have mixed feelings. Capp’s sidewalks are a miserly 9’ while the roadway is much too wide. Now when SF widens the sidewalk, these trees will be obstructions in the middle of it. We need to legalize planting trees in the parking lane

I had similar feelings to what @… said upthread, and had avoided it for similar reasons. This thread convinced me to give the series a try. https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/114936879976208792

Novel Feelings
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Cowboys’ George Pickens Makes Feelings Clear on Future in Dallas https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-makes-feelings-clear-future-dallas/?adt_ei=[email]

"But to denounce an army is not to denounce a race. And given serving IDF soldiers revealed in the Israeli press just last week that the IDF is actually ordering its troops to fire into unarmed crowds of Palestinians gathering to collect food from its tightly controlled aid centres — ...— it’s understandable that feelings against this genocidal military are running high."
Glastonbury furore shows how fast our freedoms are being dismantled

SO GOOD. Refer to this video every time the incompetent, useless WNBA refs miss another flagrant call or the execs get their feelings hurt.
Justice. The #WNBA is officially on report.
▶️ How the WNBA Lost Control of Sophie Cunningham — FOR GOOD

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Strong Feelings
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/strong-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/4w7iiR54wJS8qYJG7dwcIX

😘 The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-07-21/the-emotional-burden-of-flirting-on-your-phone-lies-ghosts-and-crumb…

The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
Toxic behaviors, such as ghosting or intermittent flirting to maintain the other person’s interest, damage self-esteem, increase feelings of loneliness, and fuel dating app fatigue

Science Lab: Cowboys must extract vanilla from offense vs. Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-must-extract-vanilla-from-offense-vs-eagles

How popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships

the system wants you numb
your feelings are resistence

Aquatic ape feelings

I have mixed feelings about this.
a - first Bond film not under the control of the Broccolis.
b - But its Amazon.
c - But its Villeneuve.

I'm conflicted.
#movies #bond #jamesbond

Science Lab: Cowboys must extract vanilla from offense vs. Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-must-extract-vanilla-from-offense-vs-eagles

DT Adam Butler gave what appears to be a pretty loaded statement about Raiders O-line https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/30/dt-adam-butler-…

Cowboys' Trevon Diggs has 'hurt' feelings after Dallas uses contract clause to dock its Pro Bowl CB $500,000

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c…

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281

Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
The Feelings:
🎵 Dearling Darling
#TheFeelings
https://thedarlingsuns.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l6J2SdGpsByRQ9L0fhAtf

Calamus 43 O you whom I often
A short and sweet love poem, Whitman at his most writerly. The spare and simple words have a light musicality that's often missing from his more didactic blank verse.
The literal meaning is Whitman telling someone how his very presence inspires feelings of love. It's so short and precise I'm just going to quote the whole poem.
O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you,
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
I love the lack of action. Whitman simply wants to sit in the same room as his beloved, a quiet devotion I appreciate. And that phrase "subtle electric fire". Electric had a different meaning in pre-Edison America but it works both ways.
Mostly this poem is just a lovely mood.
(The linked video and commentary are more than usually good.)

Is anyone aware of publications or research on what sort of bugs LLM-generated or LLM-assisted code tends to have?
Like, we have a huge body of knowledge in the security community about how to audit human-generated codebases for the types of bugs that human developers commonly write.
But we don't have that kind of data yet (AFAIK) for the vibe-coded monstrosities all of us are going to be pentesting soon.
Gut feelings:
* There are some common threads and patterns …

Your feelings are valid.
Just because your feelings are valid, it doesn’t mean your thinkings are valid.
I would very much like people to learn the difference.

Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Sonia K. Murthy, Rosie Zhao, Jennifer Hu, Sham Kakade, Markus Wulfmeier, Peng Qian, Tomer Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20666

Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Navigating everyday social situations often requires juggling conflicting goals, such as conveying a harsh truth, maintaining trust, all while still being mindful of another person's feelings. These value trade-offs are an integral part of human decision-making and language use, however, current tools for interpreting such dynamic and multi-faceted notions of values in LLMs are limited. In cognitive science, so-called "cognitive models" provide formal accounts of these trade-offs in humans, by …

I cannot stress enough the stupidity of e.g. "ACAB" and "ABOLISH THE POLICE"
Get out of your feelings and get into your strategy -- it is undeniably true that there is a SEVERE need for police reform
But, tell me, who escorted ICE away from Dodger Stadium?
#uspol #blackmastodon

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
🧘‍♂️
https://ca…

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

Mind Bubbles: Exploring Children's Big Feelings In A Fun Way
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mind-bubbles-exploring-childrens-big-feelings-in-a-fun-way/

This survey has a few hours of life left, but I've gone ahead and chosen "Innocuous In Innisfil." That feels right and suits my general objective to be harmless and not give offense or arouse strong feelings. Although I've failed that objective on occasion.
#NewBeginning

I can't find words to express what seeing a giant star suspended inside a classical building is doing to my feelings and my mind 🫨
https://youtu.be/BcWP3SyKr58?feature=shared

it's having weird feelings about everything day!!!

Philippe Neau & Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi – Elephant
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/05/philippe-neau-antonella-eye-porcelluzzi-elephant/

Mela: *braucht Buch*
E-Book: − über 30 Euro
Antiquariat: unter, bis knapp über 10 Euro ←
Mela: *Bestellgeräusch*
Antiquariat 1: "Habs schon verkauft. Whoopsie. No hard feelings."
Antiquariat 1: *bietet das Buch weiterhin auf 3 Plattformen an*
Antiquariat 2: *schickt Buch noch vor der Bezahlung*
Antiquariat 2: "OMG, SQUEE, <3 <3 <3. So cool von Dir das Buch zu kaufen. Kauf doch bald mal wieder was bei uns. Das wäre einfach klasse! Hab…

Trevon Diggs Got Candid About Losing $500K of His Cowboys' Salary: 'Hurt My Feelings' https://www.si.com/nfl/trevon-diggs-got-candid-about-losing-500k-of-his-cowboys-salary-hurt-my-feelings

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.

The Real GenAI Issue

I can't tell you how weird it is as a manager to go through burnout blossoming and then sinking in to become a morass of emotional exhaustion and feelings of utter uselessness — while, in parallel, hearing feedback from my reports about how I've helped them struggle through and in most cases escape their own burgeoning burnout over the past few months
Just out here using my own body as a stick to pull my reports out of the quicksand of burnout

Tom Brady’s True Feelings on Sam Darnold’s Fit With Raiders Leaked https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-sam-darnold-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

In episode 184, I talked about feeling the feelings - why it's so terrifying, what is actually good about it, and the things I'm doing to try to feel the scariest feelings at all. Here I talk about some of the unexpectedly positive things about allowing myself to feel stuff deeply #FeelingTheFeelings

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Strong Feelings
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/strong-feelings

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Cerrone & Rahim Redcar (AKA: Christine and the Queens):
🎵 Catching Feelings
#Cerrone #RahimRedcarAKA:ChristineandtheQueens
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WZL03aLF9GVNaa5Q6ATNe

#Spearhead's #MichaelFranti played a concert last night at #SDSU as online rumblings grew about allegations from a female artist casting some unusually dark shadows over the positive vibes associated with ex-

I am looking for a mood tracking app for the iPhone.
It would be nice to have a long list of moods/feelings to choose from. I think I want to allow me to enter a bit of text too.
It must be not subscription based.
If you know any please do share. Thank you

Steelers backup QB shares his true feelings on Aaron Rodgers: 'He gets misinterpreted a lot'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Folks, we need (#)Monthstodon.
Mastodon isn't exciting enough.
"It's all about engagement"
Yeah, but Monthstodon IS engagement.
You see what content gets liked, what gets not...then more quickly Mastodon users are going to want to improve their posts, post more stuff that gets liked...instead of posting their genuine feelings like I do!
Hahaha, you thought you got rid of my Monthstodon aspirations? Not by a long shot!

From @… for @… :
https://www.

White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.

Need sometime to sort out my feelings after finishing Blue Box anime. EP 24 was painful to watch.
I really hope there’s a second season on the way.
#anime #bluebox

Painful lesson of the day: the desoldering gun does not care about your feelings or your hands when clearing a clog and not being careful. However, got the CPU, PPU, WRAM, and VRAM unsoldered (including sockets) from the NES mainboard. I'll solder the VRAM and WRAM back in later. Desoldering guns make things so much easier even if I'm an idiot on occasion.
#electronics

AI spreekt soms wel de waarheid.
Zelfs Grok, althans zolang Elon nog niet de gelegenheid heeft gehad om hem te herprogrammeren.

The “Neural Data” Goldilocks Problem: Defining “Neural Data” in U.S. State Privacy Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/the-neural-data-goldilocks-problem-defining-neural-data-in-u-s-state-privacy-laws/
@…

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

#PennedPossibilities 692 — Share a song that either describes your current feelings about your story or your MC in general.
The first time I heard this song, I immediately thought of my poor MC. The lyrics felt honest, and fit the dark hour of his soul.
“Cause out here in the darkness,
and out of the light,
if you get to me too late,
just know that I tried”

White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/

Cowboys Star Left With ‘Hurt Feelings’ After Jerry Jones Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-star-left-with-hurt-feelings-after-jerry-jones-move/?adt_ei=[email]

Happy #AutisticPrideDay! ♾️💙
I’m proudly autistic, my brain works in its own unique way, full of different thoughts and feelings all at once. Being autistic is part of who I am, not something to fix. 🧠🧠
I’m also queer and genderfluid, and that’s just another part of my colorful identity. Some days I feel one way, some days another, and that’s okay. 🏳️‍🌈☂️
Neurodiver…

I’ve been getting beta reader feedback on my #novel and it’s the most magical thing hearing how other people have formed their own relationships to and feelings towards my characters.
I made up these characters in my own mind, they didn’t exist a few months ago, and now they are real to not just me but other living, breathing humans.
Artistic creation feels like one of the closest ways we have of approaching a sense of something almost divine.
#writing #writersofmastodon #fictionWriting #writers

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Strong Feelings
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/strong-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/4w7iiR54wJS8qYJG7dwcIX

In his op ed in the WaPo,
Jay Bhattacharya has shown that he should not be taken seriously. He’s DEFINITELY not a real scientist.
If people don’t like science should we ignore the potential it has?
That’s not how it works.
Science doesn’t care about your feelings.
https://

I share a lot of @…’s feelings here. (He doesn’t mention training data sourcing, but that’s on my mind too.)
There’s a layer of ethics and social impact that hangs, as Tim put it, as a stench over all the thinking about whether and how the tech is useful. I am actually willing to discuss the utility questions, but they are secondary.
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114807889514002925

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Cerrone & Christine and the Queens:
🎵 Catching Feelings
#Cerrone #ChristineandtheQueens
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WZL03aLF9GVNaa5Q6ATNe

Feeling the feelings, am I right?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Cerrone & Rahim Redcar:
🎵 Catching feelings
#Cerrone #RahimRedcar
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WZL03aLF9GVNaa5Q6ATNe

Sunday Morning Reading
from @…
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/07/06/sunday-morning-reading-110/

Sunday Morning Reading
Mixed feelings and mixed emotions on a Summer Sunday by the lake.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Cerrone & Rahim Redcar (AKA: Christine and the Queens):
🎵 Catching Feelings
#Cerrone #RahimRedcarAKA:ChristineandtheQueens
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WZL03aLF9GVNaa5Q6ATNe

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Cerrone & Rahim Redcar:
🎵 Catching feelings
#Cerrone #RahimRedcar
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
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All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

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