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@PaulGrahamRaven @mjohnharrison Out of print and fairly expensive on the secondary market (which, of course, doesn’t feed authors, regardless of price).

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when someone has many guns, that's polyarmory
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Seeing a *lot* of laid off/position eliminated posts lately, and it's just... it's disgusting. What kind of logic is it to see a recession looming, so you cut people, who then have to scramble to find a new income, try to keep their housing and necessities going, do you think they've got any money left to pump into the economy to satisfy the 'endless growth' fantasy of corporations?

You can't fix a house fire by pouring gasoline on it, and you can't fix a recession by gutting jobs en masse either.

Where are the news articles about the executive class taking cuts to their pay and bonuses?

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A right-wing Australian politician seems to be getting in on the MAGA act by calling for straight people to get their own flag and parade. Why, you ask? For "preventing human extinction." 🙄

Yes, because heterosexuals are the true victims.

comicsands.com/latham-heterose

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#gender

"If femininity hadn’t been so maligned, would we care if boys embraced it?"

My Son Asked For Minnie Mouse Underwear And I Realized We Have A Big Problem
huffpost.com/entry/minnie-mous

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@joanne07081 @terrafiedkestrel I threw myself into trying to get it done as early as possible, and still only managed it at 10 months.

@terrafiedkestrel I’m so sorry. 🥺 Once you’ve commited, each and every roadblock is its own trauma. 🫂

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@KinkyLotus I’m a little ashamed to say Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure (~300 hours). I spent a lot of the pandemic putting on muscle that I now get to watch dissassemble into fat.

Almost had a second cup of coffee immediately after the first. Rookie mistake. 😝

Plucked from the archives.

I had just come out to my closest friends a week or two earlier on this same trip, so the male/female split of the standee was of the standee was what caught my eye.

We had to walk back to the car for my equipment, because hauling 30 pounds of gear on my back wasn’t how we did our evening ambles. Worth it.

I remember it was well dark, and getting the movements right to have both the castle and the standee in focus took some work.

The negative was processed semi-stand in Rodinal at 1/100 dilution for an hour.

The castle is just barely overexposed. I shot two sheets, and were it possible for me to keep things better organized while traveling, I could have processed the two independently and let the second sheet soak for less time. Then again, highlights are the first to clear. 🤷‍♀️

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.