Funny old business, time; it delights in frustrating your plans.

— The Doctor, in “Dragonfire”

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Is it me, or is the new #Mastodon #quote feature the MOST USELESS tool ever to be designed? It overloads a button, making you take an extra tap to boost, not to mention having to read and target a new menu with a finger or a mouse? In case you didn't know, it is hidden under the boost button in the Web UI. It allows you to quote a whole toot, annotate the quote, and ask, if necessary, if the poster will allow you to do so. The poster can revoke permission.

...to quote something, copy and paste only the content you need. Be sure to include the user's handle if you want to attribute the quote.

Nobody that would abuse quoting, that is would misappropriate or twist a toot's meaning, would use the feature. They will copy and paste. This leaves the remainder of the community doing an extra tap, with the extra dexterity required for potentially challenged users, while trying to figure out why they would use the feature in the first place.

Boost for Sample Size when you vote, please!

#BoostingIsSharing #poll

#fediverse #write #author #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

• I've used the quote feature and like it. (33%, 20 votes)
• I've used the quote feature and don't like it. (6%, 4 votes)
• I've not used the quote feature. (35%, 21 votes)
• What quote feature? (16%, 10 votes)
• I left a comment. (6%, 4 votes)

I wasn't wandering the streets. I was merely contemplating certain local cartographic anomalies.

— The Doctor, in “Remembrance of the Daleks”

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“Hence, this new device. It's called a randomizer, and it's fitted to the guidance systems and operates under a very complex scientific principle called pot luck. No one knows where we're going, not even the Black Guardian.”

“Not even us.”

— The Doctor and Romana, in “The Armageddon Factor”

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“Allowing himself to be captured by the Sontarans — if anything happens to myself as a result of it, I will never forgive himself.”

“I do wish you'd stop switching personal pronouns.”

— The Doctor and Peri, in “The Two Doctors”

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“Is that bad?”

“Bad? No, it's disastrous.”

— Peri and the Doctor, in “Timelash”

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“Einstein says that—”

“I'm not paying Einstein, Professor; I'm paying you.”

— Professor Kerensky and Scaroth, in “City of Death”

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“Ancelyn, in this world we have a great and honourable tradition of tactical withdrawal.”

“Ah, you wish to run away. Well, there can be but thirty of them at the most.”

— Brigadier Bambera and Ancelyn, in “Battlefield”

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Sleep is for tortoises.

— The Doctor, in “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”

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“Doctor, why didn't the helium make *your* voice go squeaky?”

“Because I'm a Time Lord. I've been around, you know.”

— Leela and the Doctor, in “The Robots of Death”

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“I have always had a certain regard for you, Doctor, personally, and the operation will, of necessity, be painful, but —”

“It will hurt you more than it hurts me.”

“What gives you that idea?”

— Dastari and the Doctor, in “The Two Doctors”

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“Boot cupboard? But it's enormous!”

“Oh, I've seen bigger boot cupboards.”

— Sarah and the Doctor, in “The Masque of Mandragora”

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Did you ever get to Troy, Drax? A little place in Asia Minor...

— The Doctor, in “The Armageddon Factor”

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You can compile a reverse transition from existing data — you love doing that.

— The Doctor, to K9, in “State of Decay”

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Sleep is for tortoises.

— The Doctor, in “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”

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For every reaction, there's an opposite and equally different action.

— The Doctor, in “Shada”

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You cannot speak as though reality is a one-dimensional concept.

— The Valeyard, in “The Ultimate Foe”

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“Look. What do you see?”

“Nothing.”

“Billions of atoms, spinning at random, expending energy, running down, achieving nothing.

“Entropy, like the stars. But what is the one thing that stands against entropy, against random decay? Life. See how the atoms are arranged here? They have meaning, purpose.”

— Skagra and Romana, in “Shada”

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The proof of the pumpkin is in the squeezing.

— The Doctor, in “Time and the Rani”

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A bad workman always blames his fools.

— The Doctor, in “Time and the Rani”

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Don't interrupt me when I'm eulogizing.

— Dr Judson/Fenric, in “The Curse of Fenric”

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Some galactic hobo with ideas above his station... the cosmos is full of them.

— The Doctor describes the Black Guardian, in “The Leisure Hive”

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“That's your answer to everything — knock it on the head.”

“Effective, isn't it? Smash it once and for all?”

— The Doctor and Leela, in “The Invisible Enemy”

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“Are you telling me you don't know what year it is?”

“If I knew, I wouldn't ask. Don't be obtuse, man!”

— Laurence Scarman and the Doctor, in “The Pyramids of Mars”

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“Nice to know that you can be relied upon to be your usual treacherous self.”

“I endeavour to maintain a certain continuity.”

— The Doctor and Sil, in “Mindwarp”

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I warn you, Rossini — fail me, and you will breakfast on burning coals.

— Count Federico, in “The Masque of Mandragora”

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Brigadier, I think our past is catching up with us. Or maybe it's our future.

— Doctor #2, in “The Five Doctors”

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She lets her knowledge out a bit at a time, so as not to embarrass me.

— Ian, talking about Susan, in “An Unearthly Child”

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One must always accept the unexpected.

— The Doctor, in “The Leisure Hive”

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“How *dare* you? I am high priestess of Troy!”

“All right, then, get back to your temple before you give us all galloping religious mania!”

— Cassandra and Paris, in “The Myth Makers”

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You're just an aging hippie, Professor.

— Ace, to the Doctor, in “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”

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This is no madness; 'tis England.

— Lady Peinforte, in “Silver Nemesis”

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Say something, please! “Yes” would be best.

— The Doctor, in “Castrovalva”

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“Romana, you've got two minutes, 58 seconds to rebuild this machine.”

“What, this? The CET? Are you joking?”

“Do I look as if I'm joking? Well?”

“I'll need a screwdriver.”

— The Doctor and Romana, in “Nightmare of Eden”

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It was only a small explosion. They couldn't understand how blowing up the art room was a creative act.

— Ace, in “Dragonfire”

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“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

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“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

— Unknown

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The purpose of good #caregiving isn't merely to perform tasks, it is to support quality of life, offer #kindness, and help the other person accept love.

#Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth #quote

When a person living with #dementia asks the same question repeatedly, listen to the question differently and you may learn more about the needs underlying the question itself.

#Alzheimers #caregiving #empathy #quote