Oh my goodness! 🥰 Your LJ was one of the best ones - if not the best - when I was an active re-enactor. I also quote your "history is fragile" text often at my work - I work in a museum, with the textile collections. Nothing big or fancy, but correct representation (and context) is still important.
October 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Oh my goodness! 🥰 Your LJ was one of the best ones - if not the best - when I was an active re-enactor. I also quote your "history is fragile" text often at my work - I work in a museum, with the textile collections. Nothing big or fancy, but correct representation (and context) is still important.
I'm too old and impatient to tolerate that anymore. Seriously, I'm 50 - I have had my online encounters with idiots and trolls since the dawn of social media (gods I miss old school discussion forums, and IRC...)
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm too old and impatient to tolerate that anymore. Seriously, I'm 50 - I have had my online encounters with idiots and trolls since the dawn of social media (gods I miss old school discussion forums, and IRC...)
You can also mute them - blocking wipes the entire discussion away, which means that other people might not realize what asses they are.
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
You can also mute them - blocking wipes the entire discussion away, which means that other people might not realize what asses they are.
Just mute them, and go on your merry way. I did.
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just mute them, and go on your merry way. I did.
Well, fortunately muting is easy here. I think I will excercise that ability now.
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Well, fortunately muting is easy here. I think I will excercise that ability now.
Nah. I have never felt the need to "discuss" with right-wing extremists. In fact, I have promptly blocked them on Facebook, too - I even blocked one of my (former) friends, when she started dating one of them. They are not worth of my (or anyone else's) time and effort.
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nah. I have never felt the need to "discuss" with right-wing extremists. In fact, I have promptly blocked them on Facebook, too - I even blocked one of my (former) friends, when she started dating one of them. They are not worth of my (or anyone else's) time and effort.
(copying myself from upthread) I'm reminded of this dialogue from the Greta Garbo classic, "Ninotchka", 1939 (just replace Russians with Americans):
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
(copying myself from upthread) I'm reminded of this dialogue from the Greta Garbo classic, "Ninotchka", 1939 (just replace Russians with Americans):
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
I'm reminded of this dialogue from the Greta Garbo classic, "Ninotchka", 1939 (just replace Russians with Americans):
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I'm reminded of this dialogue from the Greta Garbo classic, "Ninotchka", 1939 (just replace Russians with Americans):
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
Suomenkielinen versio löytyy Hesarista (the Finnish version from Helsingin Sanomat) :
www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
Arkeologia | Korppikotkan pesästä löytyi 750-vuotias sandaali
Espanjalaiset tutkijat löysivät partakorppikotkien pesistä yli 200 ihmisen tekemää esinettä. Luolien kuiva ilma on säilyttänyt löydökset täydellisesti.
www.hs.fi
October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Suomenkielinen versio löytyy Hesarista (the Finnish version from Helsingin Sanomat) :
www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
Exactly. "“They appeal to our sense of belonging and storytelling,” Rutherford argues, “But they were specifically set up in order to harvest people’s genomes: the densest amount of information that exists in the known universe.”"
www.standard.co.uk/news/science...
www.standard.co.uk/news/science...
Why the fall of 23andMe marks the end of an era for genetic testing
From $6bn to $100m in four years – how did it all unravel for the DNA pioneer?
www.standard.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Exactly. "“They appeal to our sense of belonging and storytelling,” Rutherford argues, “But they were specifically set up in order to harvest people’s genomes: the densest amount of information that exists in the known universe.”"
www.standard.co.uk/news/science...
www.standard.co.uk/news/science...
Likewise. Never trust the corporates! All of my old RPG friends are very skeptical towards anything like this.
March 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Likewise. Never trust the corporates! All of my old RPG friends are very skeptical towards anything like this.
And PAYING for voluntarily handing it over!
March 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
And PAYING for voluntarily handing it over!