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Welcome to AndyTube
My initial discoveries of, and love for, the Fediverse has been well documented. But I’m not done. Two months ago I teased this… Post by @andyrush View on Mastodon That was February 12, 2025, but way back in December of ’24 I signed up for a FediHost account and started my own instance of PeerTube.…
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Austin Powers My Conference Mojo
Sorry. First thing I think about when I hear the word “mojo” is Austin Powers. I don’t know if all of the other web search results of “getting your mojo back” are referring to The Spy Who Shagged Me, but for the sake of argument, let’s just say that it means regaining enthusiasm for something.…
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I Miss(ed) Austin
This post will be partially about the SXSW EDU conference which I attended from March 2-7, 2025. Since I’m trying to get my blogging mojo back, I’m still not good at getting my thoughts down right away to properly talk about conferences/events I attend. I’m also trying to get my conference mojo back as well.…
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The Class
One of the things I did like about the SXSW EDU 2025 conference (still formulating/percolating a post about it), is the emphasis on filmmaking that it borrows from SXSW “Original Recipe”. In hindsight, I wish I had concentrated on the film/tv screenings more when filling out my schedule. Lots of reasons why I didn’t, again…
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I Think This Blogging Thing Might Catch On
This blog post might calm the “shakes” I’ve had recently. Why the “shakes”? Because I ended 2024 with 5 posts, and started 2025 with 7 posts on this blog alone. Sure, some of them were shorties, but they broke the log jam and they just kept coming. One person even described me as “on fire”.…
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Sometimes a Blog Post Starts With an Image
Monday mornings on the Fediverse don’t start with trepidation, like other platforms. They start with anticipation of what wonders we will find. Today being no exception. One of my favorite follows recently has been Elena Rossini on Mastodon. Her profile – “Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France.” – is intriguing in and…
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Meet All the Federated Andys
You can’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook anymore. So where can you, dear reader, follow me if not those friendly and non-user-hostile mega sites (I kid)? Well, get ready because an onslaught of new links are coming. Really, it is more a list of services/platforms/instances that we should be thinking more about and testing…
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I Should You Not!
There’s a psychological concept of “shoulding” yourself, a termed coined by the psychologist Clayton Barbeau, he of “Joy of Marriage” fame, a book that any mother and father from the late 70’s had on their bookshelf (more about how difficult the research was of finding just that simple amount of information, maybe later). Anyway, what…
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A Filmmaker-YouTuber’s First-hand Account of the LA Fires
You’ve probably (OK, definitely) heard numerous accounts of people’s harrowing escapes from the various fires that broke out during the first full week of 2025 in Los Angeles. The tales of families losing everything and in a state of shock brings empathy as we think about the unimaginable moment when in an instant your home…
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Where Andy Rush Hasn’t Gone Before
When we first moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2015, we found a rental property (a 3/2 house) about 4 miles from the University of North Florida. That experience is a story for perhaps another day, but the short version is that we bought a home less than a year later and is where we currently…