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@CatsOfYore I like to spell it "miaou", because the past tense, "miaoued", is one of the only words in English to use all the vowels.

In a recent conversation, it came up that William Faulkner had wanted to print The Sound and the Fury with different-colored inks for the different time periods. This would be very doable with an e-book, of course, but I wondered about accessibility. What would be some good alternatives to colored text for color-blind readers?

@javi And people wonder why I plod along with simple, mostly-static websites.

Would you believe I found a *working* payphone at the City Market gas station in Granby, Colorado? Yes, friends, this one has dial tone, no broken buttons, and it rings!

This is not far from the Granby Ranch ski area.

The number is (970) 887-9907.

This is interesting: being a member of the Free Software (@fsf) Foundation allows one to use their Jitsi Meet instance.

I have observed that when starting a conversation about free software, bringing up privacy is no help. Most people don't care, or even worse, they care, but think the battle was lost a long time ago.

@foolishowl The bare-bones HTML can be a little blunt. I need just a little bit of styling, something like readable.css adds a few kilobytes of overhead.

I'll be on IRC tonight, starting at 6:30 PM Mountain. Come talk to me about the e-books you've been enjoying, bugs you've noticed, and what you're enjoying on the platform. I can also share my plans for anonymous payments. irc.libera.chat, channel is #nantucketebooks

@benjaminhollon You never know until you try.

@benjaminhollon No, it's not necessarily a problem. It's part of the narrative tradition, all the way back to Paradise Lost and Richard the Third.

I've seen "Thanos did nothing wrong", I've seen "Griffith did nothing wrong", but nothing compared to seeing "The Drejj did nothing wrong", i.e. the aliens from Titan AE who *blow up the entire Earth.* (Re-upload since I wanted to add alt-text)

I'll be on IRC for another half-hour. irc.libera.chat, channel #nantucketebooks

I've been using this minimalist phone for about a week. It's going well! I've been looking for a phone with no Google in it, and the Punkt MP02 uses a Google-free version of Android. A step in the right direction.

Looking for less-stressful, low-bandwidth news? Here's a page I made with links to text-only news sites. https://ndhfilms.com/other/litenews

I'll be getting a Google-less phone later this week. Happy Labor Day, everyone!

One thing I'm lacking in free-software is a good map web application. OpenStreetMaps is a commendable effort, thought if you were hoping to actually find the location of a business...