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Emily Herring

In the year 2000 I was nine years old and I had already survived one apocalypse...

Here's a piece I really enjoyed writing for Review 31 about turn of the millennium anxiety, growing up knowing the future will be worse than the present, and, of course, #Radiohead, lots of Radiohead
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review31.co.uk/article/view/82

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Sometimes, seeing dudes behaving in the world, I remember the awful sorry-not-sorry text to Der zürnenden Diana (oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/3003) and then think, what a bizarre time capsule Schubert was of his moment, absolutely anything that crossed the guy’s desk was at risk of getting immortalized. What were the odds of “Best Biedermeier Erotica 1820” being the thing to hang around?

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Sifu Tweety Fish, cDc

Going between twitter and mastodon right now is like flipping channels between some insanely trashy reality show and an orientation video for a job at a nonprofit

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robinsonmeyer

Almost indescribable how similar Masto is to using Twitter in 2010. Almost the same cast of characters is here?

It’s reminding me of that experiment where they bussed 80-somethings to a summer camp where everyone pretended it was the 1940s and everyone’s dementia immediately vanished.

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Chris Levesque

Women lumberjacks at the Northwestern Timber Salvage Administration’s lumber mill at Turkey Pond, N.H. get $4 a day, 11/10/1942.

Three women in heavy work clothes and kerchiefs over their hair carry a log on their shoulders. In the background is a pond filled with logs.

todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post

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@nicole I'm now so used to the group texts that the lack of a one-click laugh tapback is throwing me.

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@Gargron Origin story! I do like elephants but maybe our server will merge in github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p a bit early.

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Eugen Rochko

Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.

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@nicole Yes to the Valium, and the Xanax, and that weird alpha agonist transdermal patch they’re prescribing. Anything to bring our resonance frequencies down to the point where our faces don’t end up anti-aliased?

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@kiplet @sifutweety @zunguzungu "This living space features warm wooden tones, an abundance of natural light, and proximity to arts and culture"

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@sifutweety @zunguzungu It's been illegal since the Peace of Westphalia to put kids in a theorbo

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Aaron Bady

A gratifyingly reliable baby-calmer is to play mandolin for them. It works amazingly well! They also like it when I put the mandolin where they can touch it and feel the vibrations.

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I was googling for a pic of the Antikythera mechanism and it came out of my brain as "Ankylotheria device," which you don't need to try yourself because it's a big nada. No corroded gears, no crooked beasts! Pleistocene on the brain I guess.

reddit.com/r/pleistocene/comme

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V. Joshua Adams

Popping back on to say that ignoring the news and reading Vallejo is worth it (trans. Eshleman & Barcia):

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Clive Thompson

"Smashomancy", or, a divination system designed to tell your fortune by looking the cracks in your smartphone's screen

#6 in my Linkfest here: medium.com/@clivethompson/urba

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@zumhagenyekple Tout merdé.

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@lexipenia "Mind, Value and Reality" -> "B-sides and Rarities"

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chris fenwick

The subtitle of "Mind and World" should have been "John McDowell Unplugged in Oxford".

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raun

RT @holdengraber@twitter.com

“If you plan to drown your problems in alcohol, keep in mind that some problems know how to swim perfectly.”
~ Robert Musil
Born on this day, in 1880

thanks to @poetry_weekend@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/holdengraber/statu

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@mjohnharrison I'm thinking of Julien Sorel keeping a picture of Napoleon under his mattress. Adult Henri Beyle wouldn't do that. But I can't believe even of a complete egotist that he could just replace a picture of Napoleon with a picture of himself.

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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.

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