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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 07:26:33 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   normal people have new year commitments like "lose weight" or "get fit" or "find a girlfriend". i'm considering making my new year commitment be "build less infrastructure"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 07:33:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • HP van Braam

     @hp if more people did this i'd have to build more infrastructure again. this is the exact opposite of solving a problem

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 07:33:54 JST HP van Braam

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     @whitequark I wish more people would copy this commitment.

     Be the change you want to see in the world!

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 07:43:27 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • HP van Braam

     @hp have you seen the infrastructure i'm building? it's that, instead of, like, github

     (that but significantly more equitable than the rich academic playpen of internet circa 1993)

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 07:43:29 JST HP van Braam

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     @whitequark just less infrastructure, get closer to nature.

     (Nature being the internet around 1993)

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     arylia lunacharskaya (aryl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 07:49:11 JST arylia lunacharskaya

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     @whitequark mine is "stop doing chemistry on the floor"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 08:02:26 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Olivier Galibert

     @galibert :)

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     Olivier Galibert (galibert@piaille.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 08:02:28 JST Olivier Galibert

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     @whitequark I suspect your success rate will be similar to any other new year commitment

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 08:51:43 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Peter Brett

     @krans nice! best of luck

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     Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 08:51:44 JST Peter Brett

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     @whitequark I'm considering making mine “build more infrastructure”