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WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>difference</span></a> : the state or measure of being different or unlike</p><p>- French: différence</p><p>- German: der Unterschied</p><p>- Italian: differenza</p><p>- Portuguese: diferença</p><p>- Spanish: diferencia</p><p>------------</p><p>Thank you so much for being a member of our community!</p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/roddenberry-gene/79059/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Gene Roddenberry</b></a></p><blockquote>If man is to survive, he will learn to take a delight in the essential differences between cultures. To learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.</blockquote><p><b>Gene Roddenberry</b> (1921-1991) American television screenwriter and producer<br>Quoted in Stephen E. Whitfield, <i>The Making of Star Trek</i>, Part 1, ch. 3, epigraph (1968)</p> <p>More info about this quote: <a href="https://wist.info/roddenberry-gene/79059/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/roddenberry-gene/790…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=generoddenberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generoddenberry</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>startrek</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=coexistence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coexistence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>difference</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tolerance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=variety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>variety</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>PYREX vs. Pyrex: What's the Difference?</p><p><a href="https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-vs-pyrex-whats-the-difference.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">corning.com/worldwide/en/produ</span><span class="invisible">cts/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-vs-pyrex-whats-the-difference.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PYREX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PYREX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pyrex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pyrex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Difference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Glassware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glassware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>From <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Difference</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disease</span></a>: How Labels Shape <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/09/10/difference-disability-disease-how-labels-shape-autism-49715" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">acsh.org/news/2025/09/10/diffe</span><span class="invisible">rence-disability-disease-how-labels-shape-autism-49715</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference</p><p><a href="https://mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanov</span><span class="invisible">s-biggest-blunder</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stepanov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stepanov</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blunder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blunder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Adjacent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adjacent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Difference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hacker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curiosities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Curiosities</span></a></p>
Aurianne Or<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SnakeOil</span></a>: What <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Difference</span></a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> Stone Center on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inequality</span></a> &amp; Shaping <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Work</span></a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/C3TqcUEFR58?si=CngpppHMLDVj-sbH" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/C3TqcUEFR58?si=Cngppp</span><span class="invisible">HMLDVj-sbH</span></a></p>
Nuwagaba Gift<p>We are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/happy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>happy</span></a> to see our harvest and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poor</span></a> people being fed but most <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sad</span></a> to see all this ending. It's only your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>support</span></a> that can help make a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/difference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>difference</span></a>. <br><a href="https://gofund.me/c6169d1d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gofund.me/c6169d1d</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 10 (1963)

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WIST Quotations · The Neurotic's Notebook, ch. 10 (1963) - McLaughlin, Mignon | WIST QuotationsThe past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
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@WooShell @lauren

As Lauren says, many people use simple phones without cameras - not "smart" at all.

And then there's people like me, who only have a landline. Kinda difficult to decode a QR code with one of them.

The vast majority of people absolutely suck at considering that other peoples' experiences and situations can be utterly unlike their own.

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@something-sometimes-sudden-thoughts @Gina @fosstodon @mastodonindians
This needs #attention .
Hiding this #truth and not being able to #educate folks damages #fosstodon community and infuriates all #Hindus and #Buddhists seeking justice for their sacred symbol.
Folks on mastodon, SPEAK UP!
See the #difference and make a difference.
"**Dishonesty by #moderators of #fosstodon.org under #influence , biased or lack of knowledge.**"

A quotation from Judith Martin

All this variety is certainly interesting. If there were a standard and everyone met it, how on earth could people tell their ex-spouses from their new ones? If children did not show visible changes, what would encourage their parents to believe that they might ever pass out of the horrible stages they happen to be in?

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1986-01-19)

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A quotation from Jack Vance

Any collocation of persons, no matter how numerous, how scant, how even their homogeneity, how firmly they profess common doctrine, will presently reveal themselves to consist of smaller groups espousing variant versions of the common creed; and these sub-groups will manifest sub-sub-groups, and so to the final limit of the single individual, and even in this single person conflicting tendencies will express themselves.

Jack Vance (1916-2013) American writer [John Holbrook Vance]
The Languages of Pao, ch. 5, epigraph (1958)

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WIST Quotations · The Languages of Pao, ch. 5, epigraph (1958) - Vance, Jack | WIST QuotationsAny collocation of persons, no matter how numerous, how scant, how even their homogeneity, how firmly they profess common doctrine, will presently reveal themselves to consist of smaller groups espousing variant versions of the common creed; and these sub-groups will manifest sub-sub-groups, and so to the final limit of the…