Taru Luojola @Stoori@polyglot.city

I saw the words ”crush posting” and immediately thought what would be

posh crusting

@June @mxsiege Indeed!

@ak For me Street View is not usually enough, because I really want to get the physical feeling of places. And look behind the scenes of cities and towns. Tourist areas are OK when they're closed and you're not supposed to be there.

I was, by the way, quite surprised of the strong smell of petroleum near my birth home. It was between an oil refinery and a shipyard. Luckily I didn't live there long as a kid, it didn't feel like a healthy place.

@ak Perhaps!

But my travels are *really* haphazard. This week I took my bike and rode a train to the town where I lived as a kid. Then I cycled the whole night around in random residential streets, churchyards and industrial areas. I even rode an unlit forest path just to see if I can find a pond which I wondered when I was seven. And the next morning I took a train back home.

I guess it's just hard to believe that anyone else could find it exciting.

I feel it's safer to travel aboard with someone (rather than alone as a trans woman), and generally it's nice to have someone to talk with when away from home.

But my travel patterns and interests are so haphazard and spontaneous that I feel that no one should suffer from them with me. Because they might feel like suffering for others. And I actually enjoy traveling alone.

Thus I mostly end up not traveling and just stay home dreaming of travel.

@t54r4n1 need to get groceries for a week? try #bikeing

I'm toying with GarageBand. Please note that I know basically nothing about music nor can I play any instrument.

But here's my first toying, an old Finnish psalm from 17th century. Yes, there may be mistakes in this, but to my ear it sounds good enough.

So enjoy this little bit of Finnish self-loath, sadness and patheticism!

@funnypanja @rgggn Having both would be a good compromise here. :)

@funnypanja @rgggn It is a problem for a non-native English reader (like me), at least.

Yes, I must at times use English material to learn other languages, because they're just so much abundant than Finnish material for the same languages.

And English pronunciation is not *that* regular that a non-native speaker could effortlessly decipher the sounds that they are after. Every now and then I find out that some word is pronounced in a completely different way than I've always thought.

@rgggn @jools That would probably be too much hassle for such a small thing. :)

@jools Thanks for your support!

It's very likely that polyglot.city could be classed as Light. And I appreciate your donation offer.

However, it's not that simple. I live in Finland, where it's illegal for me to receive donations without official permission. Many people do that off the radar, but if I state it anywhere publicly (like, here), some adversary could snitch me.

So putting up a working infrastructure to circumvent that problem is too much effort for me now, esp. just for 2€/mo.

@Alamantus Yeah, it would be nice if here was some thematic discussions going on. But I'm not the best person to get it going, either.

I've noticed that I'm more likely to participate in discussions that someone else has started, but it's not so easy for me to be the one to start a discussion.

It also looks like chat is a more natural platform for me to discuss things than this kind of social media platform.

So that's one of the things that probably won't change here any time soon. :)

@SeventhMagpie I've already done that once, and I can definitely do it again. But it didn't bring in any especially active new users, so as a repeated method it'll have a limited value.

Also, I haven't been the most active local community builder myself either, so I'm pretty confident at this point that we're not going to get a thriving community here. Which surely will to some extent be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But hey, this isn't my first community that didn't take off. I'm used to this.