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A quotation from Orwell
To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.


George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), β€œThe Prevention of Literature,” Polemic Magazine


Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/46536/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #boldness #conformity #fear #heterodoxy #language #nonconformity #orthodoxy #radical #writing





Is the theory here that if you let a child know that a particular other kind of person exists, even if there is no overlap between what defines that kind of person and religion, even if that kind of person is statistically likely to be the same religion as the child, then somehow that teaches the child a different religion?!?!?

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@Blaise

Personally I hope for a day when societies can leave Mass Control Devices such as religion to our past and learn to grow as a people.



I tried watching Murderbot. I'd heard about it from the book I think.

Meh/10

Didn't really grab me. Think I've overdosed on "witty banter" Sci-fi and stuff recently.

Onward....

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Cee75
@plan-A appletv. Newish. Based on some series of books. Available for free on the right places I expect.


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Currently devouring #Abarat 2, The #CliveBarker YA book. I have the third and like all his fans I'm desperate for books 4 and 5, but health.... I love Abarat.

I keep dipping into #elric here and there. I've done part/all of an #audiobook (difficult to remember because time passes). I "think" I've done: Elric of MelnibonΓ©. I can't remember if I listened to all of The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate and The Weird of the White Wolf. It's a long audiobook!!

AFTER I've done #convergence book 2 (taking a break from #sci-fi for "urban fantasy"), I will dip back into Elric audio.

#Reading #books #Fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon group group

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Went out for MacDo (because trashy Friday food). came back with Takoyaki and Nori bento. Oops.



#Productivity is just another word for squeezing out the man-hours of two employees from one employee so that you avoid hiring for what is actually a 2-man job. Overtime at time-and-a-half pay is where you're getting the pay of one and a half men for doing a 2-man job.

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Oh, about that Battle of Kâse Dağ in the year 1243---As the Seljuks had their asses kicked repeatedly, Uiygurs dropped by and provided assistance. The grateful Seljuks thereafter treated the Uiygurs among them as equals and this blend then produced the Ottomans. Of the Empire, clearly.


The Mongol Empire defeated the #Seljuk Turks OTD in 1243 at the Battle of KΓΆse Dağ cromwell-intl.com/travel/turke… #travel #Turkey #history

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#BaldVancePics

By golly--chrome dome JD Vance fits right in at the Kremlin.

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Somebody didn't read the notes...

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Cee75
@plan-A cheers! I remember session. Must revisit to remind myself.
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Cee75

@plan-A you might not want xmpp. It can be locked down but like many things there are issues.

Looking at element, simpleX, session...














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