Slowcore HQ

Slowcore HQ

A Farcaster-native slow culture movement. Home of Studio Slowcore, purveyors of fine wordsmith arts and connoisseurs of slow culture. Our motto: "Move slow and preserve things."

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The Studio Slowcore team is pleased to announce the official revival of the /slowcore-hq channel after a long hibernation. In keeping with the announcement in our other channel, /gift-economics, the studio (stewarded by myself, @trigs.eth, and @y0b) will be experimenting to build a hybrid gift economy + business endeavor to sustain both channels. More details in our studio's launch announcement linked below. A few initiatives we're considering for /slowcore-hq: - Recognize contributors with Slothy Awards - Continue weekly rituals of "not-doing" and Slowcore Quotes of the Day - Expand our Slowcore Manifesto (aka "What Is Slowcore?") - Host themed discussions based on writings by our fellow slowcasters, e.g. "In Praise of Going Slow" by @tombeck.eth - Build a slowcore lexicon and knowledge base for collective concept stewardship (e.g., a slowcore lexicon, slowcore-friendly patterns in place-making, etc.) - Maintain digital gardens catering to the snailblazers and the slowpilled - Facilitate slowcore-friendly URL-to-IRL meetups Other ideas are welcome! Note: All pending memberships from many moons ago have now been approved. Our apologies for the ridiculously long wait while the owner dealt with a death in the family and the future of channels was uncertain enough that we put the channel into hibernation for many months. We were delighted to see that many casters just kept right on casting here to keep the channel alive during the time the mods were unable to tend to it. Your efforts are appreciated. 💜 🐢 If you appreciate our work and wish to contribute financially, gifts of crypto are accepted at the studio's multisig: slowcore.eth. We will route them toward retro-rewards for the gift labor done to bootstrap our channels. Gifts can also help free up more time for us to steward the channels responsibly in the future. Please do not gift any funds that are needed for your own support. https://farcaster.xyz/danicaswanson/0xa76d9edf (https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x24453ebe8d78de52f6d253cf26fec18ab34b041f/2?referrer=tombeck.eth)

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The Slowcore HQ weekly ritual: What did you "not-do" this week? Not-doing covers "preserving things" as well as "moving slow," so feel free to interpret the question creatively. (Bonus: What other questions would you like to see for the weekly ritual? The channel mods are gathering a list. We may rotate the questions every few weeks if there's interest).

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "There are those who urge us to speed. We resist! If you can slow down when all around you are speeding up, then you’re one of us. Some are born to slowness—others have it thrust upon them. [...] If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing slowly." ~ from the lighthearted Slow Manifesto by The International Institute of Not Doing Much (IINDM) https://www.slowdownnow.org/slow-manifesto/

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin

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Recently I found this recommended reading list from Jennifer Rauch, author of the award-winning book "Slow Media: Why Slow Means Satisfying, Sustainable & Smart." It includes a sampling of foundational articles in mainstream publications that influenced the slow-media movement, one of which is called "Time for a Slow-Word Movement." The phrase "slow-word movement" is delightful and will likely appear in the /slowcore-hq channel lexicon. 🦥 https://slow-media.org/resources

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"The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry, hurry as the most important objective of living is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy." - Herman Hesse One of those quotes I memorized just because you never know when it'll come in handy.

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "I've decided that my personal web is going to be a slow web." [...] "When someone here holds a position I disagree with, they have time and space to explain the reasons why and I have time and space to understand those reasons - even if I don't agree in the end. When someone is interested in something I'm not, I still can't help but be inspired by their enthusiasm even if I'm not inspired by the object of that enthusiasm. This is how my strongest relationships have developed. The similarities create bonds. The differences catalyze growth." "So I plan to stick with the slow web. I do worry about missing out on things. There's so much to discover here and it's hard to suppress the urge to try to absorb it all at once. But I also know that it'll be here next week, or next month, or next year. My hope is that if I keep building a slow web, so will I." ~ Greg Sarjeant, "Building a Slow Web" https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/

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The Slowcore HQ weekly ritual: What did you "not-do" this week? Not-doing covers "preserving things" as well as "moving slow," so feel free to interpret the question creatively.

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Slowcore Quote of the Day “I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. [...] The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.” ~ May Sarton From "Journal of a Solitude" (1992)

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"our interfaces have lost their senses" https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses lovely scrolling story and so thoughtfully designed to be tactile AF "Compare the feeling of doomscrolling to kneading dough, playing an instrument, sketching... these take effort, but they're also deeply satisfying. When you strip away too much friction, meaning and satisfaction go with it."

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The Slowcore HQ weekly ritual returns! What did you "not-do" this week? Not-doing covers "preserving things" as well as "moving slow," so feel free to interpret the question creatively.

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This is very /slowcore-hq It shouldn't be a paradox, it should be self evident. 🐌 ✨

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i'm in the process of putting together a list of some of my absolute favorite movies i've watched in the last year or so, and it reminded me i really need to re-watch this one: The Green Knight. based on an obscure 14th-century poem, watching this movie felt like falling into a fantastical dreamscape. the set, the costumes, and the characters were so stunning to look at, and the pace felt relaxed enough to let me really enjoy the world building. it's a slower burn, definitely not your typical "hero on a quest" story. without giving too much away, it combines the idea of "history is written by the victors" with the unsettling truth that "nothing lasts forever". 💚 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6ksY8xWCY

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Just published on @paragraph: our /slowcore-hq channel revival announcement. Also included: The Slowcore Manifesto and a "brief history" intro. (Note: this blog post is a slightly edited version of the casts from our launch last week, so if you've read them in-channel, the post will look familiar). https://paragraph.com/@danicaswanson/the-slowcore-hq-channel-revival-manifesto

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One of those days where I haven’t got on to building my app. Tried to squeeze it in yesterday and ended up with a shit nights sleep because to much in my mind. I’m not going to make that mistake today. The app will wait

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