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shineymetalass.bsky.social
Is there a fediverse equivalent to Craigslist/Facebook marketplace? I want to start doing business with good quality people in ny community. Any other seemingly obvious suggestions are welcome.
March 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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jackscellphone.bsky.social
Musk is not stupid as you describe: he knows & does not care. The only thing that matters is getting his way, whatever it happens to be at the moment. For instance, he often refers to Iain M. Banks, a socialism supporting unionist, as one of his favorite authors. Why? He identifies w/ the villains👍
2 pages from the Iain M. Banks book "The Algebraist": "Colonel,' he asked her. 'Are you all right? Is everything Core is... you must prepare...I... I am sorry to... There is bad news, Fassin,' she said finally, in a rushed, broken voice. 'Very bad news. I am so sorry." The Archimandrite Luseferous did not really buy into the whole idea of the Truth. Of course, when he had been rising within the ranks of the Cessoria he had given every appearance of believing in it, and had been a gifted evangelist and disputer, arguing, many times, with great force, logic and passion for the Church and its views. He had been often commended for this. He could see at the time that his superiors were impressed, see it even when they didn't want to admit to him or to themselves that they had been impressed. He had a gift for argument. And for dissembling, for lying (if you insisted on using such crude, un-nuanced terminology), for appearing to believe one thing while, at best, actually not caring one way or the other. He had never really cared whether the Truth was true. The idea of faith interested him, even fascinated him, not as an intellectual idea, not as a concept or some abstract theoret-ical framework, but as a way of controlling people, as a way of understanding and so manipulating them. As a flaw, in the end, as something which was wrong with others that was not wrong with him. Sometimes he could not believe all the advantages other people seemed prepared to hand him. They had faith and so would do things that were plainly not in their own immediate (or, often, long-term) best interests, because they just believed what they had been told; they experienced altruism and so did things that, again, were not necessarily to their advantage; they had sentimental or emotional attachments to others and so could be coerced, once more, into doing things they would not have done otherwise. And-best of all, he sometimes thought-people were self-deceiving. They thought they were brave whe…
February 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

"I will undoubtedly learn countless lessons from this disaster, many of them bitter and unwanted," writes Meghan Daum, who lost her home in the Los Angeles fires. "But the greatest so far has been the realization that help plays by the same rules as love."
Opinion | I Lost Everything In the L.A. Fires. Why Is It Hard to Accept Help?
Losing my home in the L.A. fires has forced me to learn to accept help from others.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
shineymetalass.bsky.social
It's about to get a lot more weird and political around here, I guess. Can't stop the signal.
January 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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A reminder that T. S. Eliot had the problems of today figured out 103 years ago in his essay and poetry collection "The Sacred Wood."
"The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts."
December 14, 2024 at 1:26 AM
shineymetalass.bsky.social
Whoever's post reminded me to rewatch Moon, thanks.
December 14, 2024 at 7:01 AM
shineymetalass.bsky.social
The first time I tried reading Seveneves, I got bogged down with the whole mining ship debacle and moved on to something offering quick gratification. Then, I jumped back in as that arc wrapped up, and proceeded to read the remaining story in one sitting. Way to go, Neal. Hell of a story.
December 13, 2024 at 7:06 AM
shineymetalass.bsky.social
Really looking forward to Andor season 2. Such high quality Star Wars, best since the original trilogy in my opinion.
December 5, 2024 at 4:14 AM
shineymetalass.bsky.social
Overexposure to Christmas music is a leading cause of depression, type 37 diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among retail workers. I strongly assert this without citing any source outside my own experience.
December 2, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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glassbottommeg.bsky.social
Huh.

They did another study on Kessler Syndrome (the cascade event where one orbital collision cascades into a permanent storm), and they put it at around 2050 now, unless the rate of orbits slows down. robertvanwey.substack.com/p/the-immine...
The Imminence of the Destruction of the Space Program
New calculations put the date much closer than we should be comfortable with
robertvanwey.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:41 PM
shineymetalass.bsky.social
Hello world! Thanks for hosting this party. It's a banger, but let's be respectful of the neighbors and not burn the place down.
I love science/speculative fiction, and moun Iain M. Banks' passing.
I find the internet is suffering an overabundance of media involving cats, and it vexes me.
December 2, 2024 at 6:42 AM