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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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randomfactor.bsky.social
"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too. Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense. We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe... One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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graham.loadingreadyrun.com
Oh, you like baseball huh?
Well, we’re going to sit here while you smoke this whole pack of baseball and THEN we’ll see how you feel.
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
steganographicflow.bsky.social
realized local government makes good parasocial noise, plus I am learning things while gaming!
www.youtube.com/live/6iKvoaJ...
10.23.25 regular Meeting
YouTube video by MultCoBoard
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October 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
steganographicflow.bsky.social
Sometimes I organize my to-do list just so I can have a clear idea of what I am ignoring for the day. #productivity
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
steganographicflow.bsky.social
Turns out you can get a replacement ID in Oregon with like no docs if you already have a realid. Saved my ass today!
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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thecorlew.bsky.social
everyone is welcome and encouraged to resist fascism, to fight back

but we can’t just go back to Clinton/Obama neoliberalism

it wasn’t working then, it got us where we are now, and it won’t get us out
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM