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CONTENT WARNING: Sex, BDSM, questioning authority.
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YOU CAN’T SAY “ORANGE” TO YOUR BOSS.
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The most violent book I’ve read this year. Jenny Odell argues the unthinkable – why don’t we harness doing nothing as a form of political activism?
Lessons from the scrivener – you can’t say “no” to your boss, but to refuse, you don’t have to.
Published in 2019, it’s a product of its time – might the Fediverse make collective action and co-operation easier?
I would prefer not to.
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A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users , that is.
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.
TOOT TOOT
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Content warning: Both of these books explore weight stigma, wellness culture, and fads that can be extremely destructive, physically and mentally. If you’re made uncomfortable by that, give this post a pass.On the flipside – if I get it wrong, I hope I’ve got it wrong better than most.
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In which the featured image does not display the books in chronological order, but in the order that I write about them.
This is the first in a series of posts about books I’ve read this year. Find the introduction here .
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Despite catching COVID, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Approaching the end of the year, I find it appropriate to share what I’ve read.
I was going to do this all in one great big long post, but decided to split each book into separate posts.
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I turned twenty-three this week, so here’s a collection of topics that have nothing to do with that:
Frustrations over that bloody video, again;
Books on my radar;
Working on the blog on-the-go with a new cloud solution (that’s not actually in the cloud)
happy birthday
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In which I document the steps I took to go from the default cube to a dice in Blender.
No, really. That’s it.
It’s not much – well, there’s a lot of steps – but it’s honest work.
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Twitter friends: Friends, on Twitter, who I left without telling them where I was going.
Our social media predicament: Is it addiction, a you problem? Or does that distract us from the reality of monopolies doing a monopoly?
The EU will force Big Tech companies to interoperate in 2024. It’s got one chance to show the world how interop can work. I hope it does.
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Here at Brologue HQ – this is just a post about the cat, isn’t it?
Yes, yes it is. I figured I’d better do it sooner rather than later.
Cats are more affectionate than we think. It’s all in the body language and appealing to the raw cat, to bring out the best version of themselves.
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