Indie Web: Write more?

hi@idlip.in (Dilip | Zororg) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post was written in BLR Indie Web Club writing session.

As I've spoken on prev post, I accidentally discovered Bengaluru Indie Web Club on mastodon by abhinav tushar. And ever since I had a blog site, why did it not occur to me that I should have searched for some clubs like these to improve my writing, and get motivated to write more. Maybe I was too involved in church of Emacs, and as you see I started revamping this blog site from January, and till July I did not get another push…?

Nevertheless, every-time is a right time to start the work. So as of I'm writing this post, this is my first BLR Indie Web Club meetup, and this is club's 31st meetup. So here's to the great day of writers coming together, am writing this post based on the prompt of discovering a random image from WikiMedia commons and making a post about it.

And look what I found randomly… Lucky for me it was a tree (garden or park Idk).

A random image found via Wikimedia Commons. Source: WikiMedia

I dont know about the place since the page has all info in Italian language nor I'm writing about the place. Picture can definitely speak 1000 words (yes this phrase was repeated many times in today's session, so cheers to it.)

All I can see is the peaceful and lovely tree, sitting in the shadowy realms of every day life. Its always the nature that makes me a take a moment in life, sit back, relax and reflect on whats happening around me. Day by day life seems so busy that I fail to acknowledge whats even next to me, so much focused work is also harming me lol. And here's a simple park or a garden that can make me relive a lost moment and make me process my living state and always guide me to think what I've been doing and what's actually required.

Apart from main focus on tree in the image, there are two people, a house behind, the one half of a gate and so on, I'm not giving opinion on them, those are yours to interpret (if you can!) and follow any details.. its a static image after all, I only wrote about ~160 words, you fill the rest of the 840 words please!

Another things I learned today was that August month are considered as Blaugust time and Indie web circle practice to publish one post each day, so totaling 31 posts for this month. Its easy to do micro blog, but heck I need to find topics to even try it, but I may as well give it a try so I get disciplined as well. This also stops me from updating my site eamcs theme and start writing more to utilize them feature-fully and then analyze the need and whats actually required for my site/posts.

The 2026 edition is happening here.

Finally, cheers to the first embark of long-overdue tasks on writing and to blog more. I tried to start in Jan, and here finally in August 2026 I'm able to get the actual start. And on good side I've been writing daily journal from past week, so that's again a good start to more writing.

Still I need to write more, but gosh Times Up! 30 mins got me only so far?

Note: 10 mins was extended, But Imma use that time to clean and fix grammar. Its also time for me to reflect what could 30mins of my brain write and converse in text.

TIL a word: Sentience

hi@idlip.in (Dilip | Zororg) — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

NGL, Its a subtle word among Sentence and Patience

I attended the third science sante (my 2nd sante) and I was excited to attend because there will be Unconference session during the meetup (TBH I only cared for that & of course the free Lunch - Nothing's better than free food!).

Thankfully this event is not equipped with only talks, I hate the boring talks and presentations (that's another topic to blog about). Unconference session is where group of attendees propose topics in chits and organizers pick and give space and time to talk about it. And people can randomly pick any of their interest, sit, listen or speak about it.

These are run in a faith that not only one person speaks or lectures, and its about who you are or what you are, its more of, here's the topic and lets put our facts and opinions with evidence and discussion in multi-disciplinary to comment on the matter. But TBH not every topic were ideal, of course many table go on with one person driving & streamlining the conversation and many putting up opinions or their own belief. But nonetheless it can turn out to be fruitful session and some discussion can carry to connect a missing dot.

Just like that on second unconf topic, there was topic on "Our unsung heroes of Agriculture". Immediately as I read the immediate picture I had was of farmer's pets, the soil bacteria, worms, insects and cattle's, but mostly I thought of micro-organisms (such a small bookish brain I've to imagine them).

But the proposer's viewpoint were completely different, since the theme of the event was on "Food Science", they cam right on track with the topic IMO. The person opened the discussion with putting out the word -> Sentience

Sentience means to perceive and sense the feelings of either oneself or others. OP asked that why don't we human feel sentience among the primary animals that we use for either farming or even as food. Here they primarily meant meat, people consuming them in mass and even farmers utilizing them in mass. OP wanted to either know why we human are not really feeling sentience towards them or why do we even not understand that they also have awareness and feelings, why don't we respect those animals?

Even I sat and argued that we humans might have normalized this based on mapping out, these animals life cycle is this, purpose is of a sort and we can efficiently utilize them this way. This was my argument saying that maybe scientist might have already studied them all, and just chose whats most economical and ideal way for even that species to live? Better to ask a Animal behaviorist TBH.

Others argued that we humans are not welcoming to other humans, it might be our psychology and Anthropomorphism. But at the end, the point did not go anywhere, nobody got answer nor OP was even contempt (I guess). OP was not definitely looking for these opinions or answers, but I felt like that was a nice moment to appreciate others lives and think in other animal's shoe (if they wear), and yes sentience can make us Buddha in some way TBH.

Oof.. it was a coaster for me, initially I thought the topic was on appreciating important of microbes in farming/agricultural needs (how silly of me..) and then topic shifted on generic sentience on animals around us, and later I realized that OP was vegan and all they meant was on Meat consumption (holy… that concludes).

Most bizarre moment was that, just after this unconf, the talk was presented on "Insects as our future protein food". Appetizing for sure just before lunch!

It's always worthwhile to pause and reflect on the lives of other beings, to recognize the natural behaviors of animals, appreciate their place in the world, and cultivate gratitude for both the joys and hardships we experience. Yet, in the rush of our own lives, we're often too consumed by work, deadlines, and an ever-growing list of tasks to even reflect on ourselves, let alone extend that empathy to other sentient human. Perhaps taking a moment to acknowledge their lives is also a reminder to slow down and reconnect with our own humanity.

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Indie Web: Write more?

TIL a word: Sentience