Notices by anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)

@berniethewordsmith My choice, right now, is The Great Derangement, by Amitav Ghosh, https://search.worldcat.org/title/1081118824

@slowenough @iDGS thanks. good points. i am more interested in how separate silos might connect with each other.

@slowenough @iDGS John, yes, i think bsky is a single service, but i am confused about what theory and practice you are referring to. can you say a bit more about that? thx

bsky needs some bench rest

@bethsawin 💥 thank you so much for posting this

'An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people. Ignorance will destroy America like it destroyed Germany during the Nazi era."

~ Oliver Markus Molloy

Molly quotes W.E.B. DuBois:

"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://badchoicesmakegoodstories.substack.com/p/an-important-lesson-from-nazi-germany

@amiserabilist "... the 2020s look a lot like the 1820s ...." I realized this when reading Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914 (https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/51728655)

SIDE CHARACTERS

VISUAL STUDIO CODE: Attends "Lesbians Who Tech". Dubious politics. Wears dark pantsuits. The most organized of the bunch, leads all the group projects. Invested in crypto

SUBLIME TEXT: VSCode's mom, craggy gray-haired gardener vibes (she looks older than she is) but friendly eyes. Australian.

VI: A chibi version of Vim, constantly gibbering asemic streams of ADDADADDDA syllables. Everyone ignores her; her presence is never explained.

NOTEPAD++: The token boy

KATE: It's Kate!

PLOT THREADS

* Emacs has a long-time association with a problematic older man. No one wants to talk about it.

* Flashback to when vim and emacs were MUCH younger and ran in different social circles. Back then Vim was a sullen goth and went by Ed; Emacs, having a Chunni phase, went by "Teco" and was terrible at communication

* "Evil Mode": It turns out vim and emacs can enter "Evil Mode" where they do a fusion and become a terrifying many-armed Kali/Ashura entity. No one wants to talk about it

Notes for forbidden Vim/Emacs Gijinka Slashfic

VIM: Straightlaced, alarmingly thin, straight black hair. So serious most people think she has no emotion at all. Dresses in plain black & gray hoodies, but occasionally shows a splash of color. Personality shifts based on context. Writes nothing but Python and inscrutable DSLs she designed herself.

EMACS: Big, brash, curvy. Supremely confident, believes she can— and tries to— do anything and everything. REALLY wants you to try LISP. Control freak

@gwynnion thanks again for saying what needs to be said about any of the "too far left" talk.

from a neighbor social:
Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
November 7, 2024

A thing you can do if you have D local officials: call them up and ask what their plan is for preventing the deportation of your immigrant neighbors.

from yesterday:
Susie Dent @susie_dent • 06 Nov 24

Word of the day is
'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

a little gem from a murder mystery:

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

- Molly's gran, from The mystery guest by Nita Prose
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1380998276

a generative and heart-warming essay:
Apology Not Accepted - A.R. Moxon, Nov 3, 2024
How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.
<https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/>

"It's a Kobayashi Maru. There is no winning here, there is no outcome where everyone gets saved."

You don't get to cheat, like Kirk did. There is no rule to break, no loophole to find and exploit, no last-minute respite.

There is just better-than-catastrophic and catastrophic.

@clive preach it! i am always surprised to find that so many well-read folk do not know this.

@muffinista many thanks for providing the service, and the many enjoyable, informative, and creative bots supported.

my morning citizen work:

@slowenough ha ha, thank you, i accept (very funny exchange)