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   Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:02:25 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

   "It has been said that bad history does violence to the past. Allow us to gently disagree. The long dead can no longer be harmed. The real danger of bad history is that it does violence to the future. The study of the past, at its best, is filled with the potential of prophecy. History, at its best, opens up possible worlds."

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:16:07 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @playinprogress to me the source does not matter that much, as often enough they are behind paywalls when coming back to it.
     I am normally butchering streams of thoughts while flowing through.

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     play in progress (playinprogress@assemblag.es)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:16:08 JST play in progress

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     @woodbark This is a very nice quote, but not for the first time I am wondering why you are posting quotes without sources?

     With source I would boost, but without I don't want to, feel reluctant to engage much more. And yet you usually post without source, so I am assuming an intention behind it that I am not getting.

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:16:51 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @playinprogress https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/03/historical-analogies-covid-fascism-mccarthyism/ for this one

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:29:28 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @playinprogress well, in more refined and less scrap-book writing I would cite things accordingly. And can so because the system is in place. But here it is the former, a way to think a bit in public, without having the thought properly narrated and formulated.

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     play in progress (playinprogress@assemblag.es)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:29:30 JST play in progress

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     @woodbark Thank you, this whole thing is very relevant to my interests :)

     Yeah to me that is an entirely alien way of doing it, I guess the historian is too deeply entrenched. But then, aren't you an archivist originally?

     Or maybe an archivist-renegade by now;)

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:31:14 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @playinprogress sometimes it is even just enriching the context and fabric of thinking before the thing I want to say is properly formed

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:39:23 JST simsa03

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     Finally someone who gets the "social" in "social media". Not narcissistic scream media (sourced or un-sourced) but in development, unfinished, rolling. Dancing a thought – alone or with others, together, until even that distinction disappears.
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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:40:20 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @playinprogress two resonances here:
     1. you are one of a few who actually asks about sources
     2. its sometimes a childish fun to quote things from a context that would be looked upon with side-eyes while the thought is still something to assess. hihi

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     play in progress (playinprogress@assemblag.es)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:40:53 JST play in progress

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     @woodbark I understand what you are saying, but my bodymind still has a visceral bristle at the thought. Not because of "correctness", just because for me divorcing thoughts from context like that feels almost impossible/goes so thoroughly against the grain of how I think. Feels disorienting to me.

     Again, I am not saying it is bad! I just can't even 😅

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     Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:45:44 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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     @simsa03 there is a reason why I wrote about "figuring it out in public" and made it a thing for myself. Because often enough we (as we the people) deal with others, that want to be perceived as finished and condensed in ideas. I am not finished, I am just beginning.

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 03:58:34 JST simsa03

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     Not only that. It makes one inclined to think of oneself as the source and molder of one's thoughts and ideas. That restricts the impetus of both by one's own personal circumstances and doesn't do justice to how thinking wants to be seen.