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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 04:52:57 JST Evan Prodromou

   I keep rereading this passage from George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia (1938). In a way, its timelessness speaks to our own era.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:24:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     ...

     I sighed. "Hermano, I have checked all my supplies, and I cannot find the Quote Tweet."

     "Si, comrade," he said ruefully. "There are no Quote Tweets here."

     The next day, as I sat in Fascist headquarters to apply for my return visa to England, I thought about my courage

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:24:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Alt text: a screenshot of a book with the following text

     I had now joined the Spanish Republican forces. My brigade was to be stationed in the mountains of Andalusia, where cold and hunger would dog our heels at every turn.

     My platoon leader, a grizzled veteran, took me aside the first day. "Comrade, do you have everything you need to fight the fascists?"

     ...

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:26:06 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Sorry I forgot this!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:55:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Kevin Russell

     @kevinrns I don't understand your point

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     Kevin Russell (kevinrns@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:55:17 JST Kevin Russell

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     @evan

     You have screencapture software, theres better available, even free. Make a copy of the post you want to quote, put it inYOUR post, add a link, swing away at the ponts needing explained.

     Once you do it a couple of times itll be be easy.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:57:10 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Martin Vermeer FCD

     @martinvermeer no, I'm still on Mastodon 3.5

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     Martin Vermeer FCD (martinvermeer@fediscience.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:57:12 JST Martin Vermeer FCD

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     @evan Can't you edit it? The edit will be shown to all repliers.

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     Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:58:44 JST Jyoti Mishra

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     @evan

     You made me giggle, you doofus :ablobmeltsoblove:

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 06:58:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jyoti Mishra

     @Jyoti glad you liked it! ??

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 07:46:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • penryu

     @penryu it's entirely fabricated.

     <jokeml>The joke is that the narrator has the idea that he will do anything for the cause, but at the most minor inconvenience he chooses instead to cave in to the fascists and run away.</jokeml>

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     penryu (penryu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 07:46:57 JST penryu

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     @evan I think I'm missing a punchline, or at least a secondary reference. I assumed this was a slightly modified quote from the actual book, but I can't even find an exchange resembling this.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 07:48:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Kevin Russell

     @kevinrns oh, I see. Unfortunately, it's made up. They didn't have quote tweets in the Spanish Civil War.

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     Kevin Russell (kevinrns@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 07:48:25 JST Kevin Russell

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     @evan
     If you want to use quote you capture an image of the post. Add a link

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 02:19:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Tom Coates

     @evan@prodromou.pub we were talking about ActivityPub as a revolutionary movement today at our #SummerOfProtocols weekly meeting and it reminded me of this post. /cc @tomcoates