progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

L’écriture est sur le mur, as the French don't say.

Why my homeland Taiwan is cool, part n+1: two friends’ bookstores just won commendations at the inaugural Independent Bookstore Awards. So many great Taiwan #indiebooks #bookshops that they can select the top 40 💚

dushuawards.com
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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
#writing

http://review31.co.uk/article/view/823/i-am-scared-i-might-stay-like-this-forever

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

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.

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.

https://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post/700542046648369152/women-lumberjacks-at-the-northwestern-timber

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.

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.

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

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

#6 in my Linkfest here: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/urban-darwinism-smashomancy-and-why-gen-z-loves-subtitles-2cefe9395e5f

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

On information hygiene (and the Twitter meltdown)

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/information-hygiene

My partner and I started calling Elon Musk “Melon Muskmelon" and tbh this is self care