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There's a learning curve with Mastodon/the Fediverse, and it takes time to find and build your community (I'm still working on that part myself), but it is all worthwhile.

Some more resources:

fedi.tips - a lot of really useful info + guides
fedi.garden - a pretty large catalog of servers to join

In other news, my new goal is to find a way to work this screenshot into either my book or a future journal article, because I want to bring something unexpected into a copyeditor's day by making them conform this image to their publisher's standards

I hate Illinois Nazis

This is apropos of a thread about what publications lose when they lose older culture writers and only have young ones. All I'll say about that is that learning about cultural history is a lifetime's work, and if you do this for a living, there's no shame in not knowing, only in not trying to learn.

Also it's been a while since my classes on the film industry, but wtf does a "tariff on movies" even mean?

The United States could easily become the world's top cheesecake exporter and dominate the "upscale casual restaurant chain" market if we just supported this important cornerstone of the American economy

Peter, you seem to have expressed a nuanced opinion that you've put time and thought into. Unfortunately, this is the internet, and we don't really do that sort of thing here