Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org

@starbreaker In a word: Scabs. People are so brainwashed that unions are bad that they mostly reject them out of hand, which makes organizing impossible.

Even if an artists union did form, we'd need a critical mass of independent artists to join it and for people to NOT be scabs and take non-union jobs, which won't happen until it's accepted knowledge that unions are a force for good and that life is better in a union.

♲ @dickmandrake@elekk.xyz: The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were offered $100,000 on the condition that the donation "will not be used to support transgender girls".

They sent the money back, held a fundraising campaign, and raised $300,000. #ForEVERYGirl

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-g…

The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were offered $100,000 on the condition that the donation "will not be used to support transgender girls".

They sent the money back, held a fundraising campaign, and raised $300,000. #ForEVERYGirl

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-girl-scouts-transgender-20150703-story.html

We must revive Gopherspace | box.matto.nl

Not just for sdf-ers anymore?

https://box.matto.nl/revivegopher.html

@tomasino @cosullivan @snowdusk_

@starbreaker I don't see what I'm wondering as much related to existentialism, sorry - I'm not thinking about the meaning of the events, but how those events are structured as a narrative.

And while the two could overlap - the narrative helps inform the meaning - that's not how I'm thinking of it; I'm thinking more in literary scope.

(But, because I'm down for the conversation, hold up while I write a second response to this.)

@starbreaker I think that the individual struggle being one of existentialism is pretty novel - most individual struggles in the past seem (in history and literature) to have been more a struggle to secure the prosperity to allow oneself to explore/discover existentialism.

So in that way I think I'd view history as a quest for our species to get to that same point - to where we have the luxury to just /think/ for a moment. Which weirdly goes to what @clacke and I were talkin about.

Now I'm thinking about this and I wonder if history, as a linear narrative, could be described as humanity taking warp and making it weft.

We must revive Gopherspace

https://box.matto.nl/revivegopher.html

This tummy needs a pat

#cats #Caturday

Possible projects if I get moving tomorrow:
- set up sparc64 machine
- set up arm64 "machine"
- set up a vm
- learn to crash it! XD
- find a Unix programming book not written by an ass?
- read everything!
- poke a code maybe?

They were talking about FFVIII on the polygon show and now I have a really strong urge to play it. I've never given it a shot before!

Librarian recommended Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane stories, since he saw me checking out Conan. I thought I might as well—and am laughing with delight as I read.

Well, looks like the mass-market edition of STEELFLOWER is up at Amazon.

Man, this is satisfying. https://amzn.to/2EdOKLK

OKCupid reminds me daily "someone likes you". While clearly not their intention, I'll take that mental health win 😂

🍾 🥂 🎉 🙌 🏆 💪

Got my ol' scanner to work!

Using the Sway Window Manager on Fedora

https://thomas-leister.de/en/sway-window-manager/

Wanted to present my Sway based Linux workspace to you :-)

#wayland #sway #linux #i3 #desktop #blog

Wrote a bit about the design philosophy of sourcehut here, if anyone is interested:

https://lobste.rs/s/ig1nfc/github_ui#c_tfzfxh