having many thoughts over how real-world human connection is necessary for us as individuals and as a species, and how technology and tech people are flattening our relationships. we should become more nuanced, more complicated, more understanding as we go through life. not the other way around.
I went for the first time in 2022 and this was the single event that gave my my writing spark back. I keep getting more enmeshed with the community and I love it. Makes me feel like my stories are worth telling after all.
We are absolutely losing a generation of activists and artists who see how activists and artists get treated online and want nothing to do with it.We are absolutely losing a generation of activists and artists who see how activists and artists get treated online and want nothing to do with it.
The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.
If you want a meaningful gd existence, you need to square in your head the facts that there are many reasons for despair, and you have to get up in the morning and keep trying anyway just in case something works
Ultracrepidarian [uhl-truh-krehp-ih-DAYR-ee-uhn] (n.) One who gives opinions and advice on matters that they know little or nothing about. (adj.) Pertaining to one who is talking about things beyond their scope of knowledge.
Well holy shit. The Shasta Nation just got a major Land Back victory. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged.
There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives. Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.
I often see people desperately worried about loud and angry misinterpretation, willful or otherwise, of their work by people with limited experience with fiction, low reading comprehension skills, or malice at their core. And I cannot say this enough: fuck them kids. Do what you want.
Happy Pride to the enduring memory of Marsha P. Johnson. www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
Marsha P. Johnson was one of the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City.