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@amerpie This is totally me, much to the exasperation of my wife.
I do not like walking away from an uncooperative computer, especially my own.
I totally get this. And the frantic flow state I end up in trying to recover from a problem... Hours vanish. It's an extremely unproductive use of time. And being a Linux user gives me the freedom to fuck things up at a rate Windows users can only dream. These days I make sure I only make changes to my system when I can genuinely afford the time to fix my mistakes.
Thankfully I have not had a backup fail me yet.
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@bsag if you are the sort of personality that likes tiling WMs and dotfiles then you'll be unable to resist the pull
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@benwerd thanks for sharing. Totally agree Jakarta Method is the book for anyone just getting interested in a critical perspective on US foreign policy
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@Denny I agree with you about micro.blog discovery. The emojis-as-tags thing is more-or-less useless as there is only a handful, and the main discovery feed is one-size-fits-all and curated by one person, which seems to favour trivial and inoffensive platitudes rather than anything substantial or challenging. I hardly ever find new blogs to follow on micro.blog.
I might try the tab-group workflow for following blogs; I use RSS which is great, especially on mobile, but I do miss seeing the nice site designs and so on. I think Cory Doctorow has mentioned he follows website by having a huge tab group he opens each morning.
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@jsonbecker which gives them a lot of power of information dissemination, and also incentivises SEO ("Google optimisation") crap from publishers while leaving Google little incentive for improve the results
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@jsonbecker I'd say search monopoly is not without problems as it makes Google into the sole gatekeeper between publishers and audiences
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My beautiful second son is born on this day at half past midnight. We’re all happy and well
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@johnnydecimal you can get something similar for young children to learn when it's time to get up/wake their parents up
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@DiplomaticDiva amen
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@manton Interesting on the hard numbers of how prevelant Apple users are on here. Coming from the Linuxy side of Mastodon (I am the 9.6%) to micro.blog was a bit of a culture shock. "Micro.blog?? More like Mac-ro.blog!"
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New library in Liverpool before and after being torched by far-right thugs
I lived in Liverpool for 8 years, absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating that a city so full of love and light is going through this.
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@bbowman I really enjoyed Technopoly when I read it a few years ago, and enjoyed your quotes and comments popping up in my timeline
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@DaveyCraney The Olympics are upon us, so I'll have the urge to get a skateboard again very soon
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@DaveyCraney agree with this!
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@patrickrhone Sorry to hear of this Patrick. What a beautiful dog
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Media lens describing the electoral and media conditions under which Starmer won, as compared with Corbyn
Corbyn lost by a landslide in 2019. Starmer won by a landslide in 2019.
Corbyn got more votes.
Yet the media narrative is Corbyn was uniquely unpopular, and his supporters fringe lunatics.
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I ended up voting Lib Dem despite not being a supporter. Mainly a protest against Labour on Gaza, but Lib Dems were the right tactical vote as well. They were a strong 2nd, Labour 4th. Shows how wrong MRP can be – Labour didn’t campaign here at all, parachuted a candidate in. MRP doesn’t see this.
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Adam Ramsay on how First-Past-The-Post distorts our political discourse
[…] it means we don’t spend that time, effort and headspace thinking or talking about what we want for the world. […] That conversation is shut out by the one about who does or does not have a chance of winning here. Voters are forced away from something we are excellent at – determining what policies represent our material interests and values – towards something we are terrible at: trying to game a stupid system.