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   Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 22:42:05 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

   "Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds."
   "Tress of the Emerald Sea" by Brandon Sanderson

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 22:42:04 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @mackayim2022 Reminded me of this:

     "But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition?" Utah Phillips

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 06:31:02 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Maike Küper

     @MaiKueper I know it from the albums Ani DiFranco put out with Utah Phillips

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     Maike Küper (maikueper@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 06:31:03 JST Maike Küper

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika @mackayim2022 fantastic quote, where is it from? Basically the reason I went freelance