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feminist next door (@emrazz) on X
Following people with a different perspective than you is an easy, low effort way to broaden your horizons. Amplifying people with the same opinions or interests as you but speaking from an underrepresented group is an easy way to put more of those voices into public discourse.
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The firehose of all my posts, including replies, likes and reposts. If this is too much,
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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X
English has an ancient law: in words like 'chit chat', 'zigzag', and 'seesaw', we always put the part with an i (as in 'pit') or e (as in 'be') first. We instinctively know this rule of 'ablaut reduplication'. You can't have a pair of flop flips or jamjims, or play pong ping. -
Feb 20, 2020, 8:12 PM -05:00 I think this is my new favorite Twitter account
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Susie Dent (@susie_dent) on X
Word-discovery of my morning is 'bumfle': Scots for a wrinkle in clothing or an unsightly bulge. Goes well with 'cover-slut', 17th-century English for a garment put on over another in order to hide a tear or stain. -
Feb 12, 2020, 10:27 PM -05:00 Your Website Is Your Passport
One of the themes that crops up again and again in the IndieWeb community is that your personal domain, with its attendant website, should form the nexus of your online existence. Of course, people can and do maintain separate profiles on a variety of social media platforms, but these should be subordinate to the identity represented by your personal website, which remains everyone's one-stop-shop for all things you and the central hub out of which your other identities radiate.
Part of what this means in practice is that your domain should function as a kind of universal online passport, allowing you to sign in to various services and applications simply by entering your personal URL.
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Jan 27, 2020, 6:47 PM -05:00 Territory Acknowledgements
I am writing this on the traditional and present homeland of the L’nui Mnikuk and Epekwitk First Nations. Under the Peace and Friendship Treaties, this territory – as part of Mi’kma’ki – was never surrendered, and is still Mi’kmaq land. Ton, you asked “what was the import” of the paragraph like that in my last post, the one about the garden. Short answer, it’s a territory acknowledgement. It’s a thing that’s become common in Canada at the beginning of a meeting or ceremony, to show our... -
Jan 26, 2020, 8:40 PM -05:00 Watching Paradise Lost! #CentaurTheatre
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Jan 22, 2020, 5:42 PM -05:00 The modern manifestation of a Turing Machine is an algorithm, not a computer. The modern manifestation of a computer is a Universal Turing Machine, i.e. a Turing machine that can simulate and run any other Turing Machine. #Turing
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Jan 17, 2020, 3:14 PM -05:00 That's probably a good way to think about it. Or at least about establishing an alternative.
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Bill Bennett (@billbennettnz) on X
@desmondrivet Hi Desmond, I think of the IndieWeb as being less about "knocking Facebook off its perch" and more about establishing a resistance movement. -
Jan 14, 2020, 1:55 PM -05:00 This looks good! But why do you have four identical photos?
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Portal
📸 A section of the D&R Canal State Park trail between Rocky Hill and Kington has a tunnel that runs under Route 27/Main Street on the border with Kingston and Princeton. A few years ago I walked this section of the park as part of a longer walk from Griggstown in Franklin Township. I remember that the first time I saw this tunnel it felt a bit spooky when seen from a certain angle. One cannot see into the tunnel which, due to its length appears cavernous, and which makes disconcerting noises... -
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Dark clouds with wisps of sky barely visible between them, one of them making a tilted V, over a yellow orange horizon from the recent sunset behind the Pacific Ocean, waves crashing, leaving a smooth wet sandy shore with a mirror image reflection of the bright horizon, and a negative space letter T from the reflected wisps of sky surrounded by dark clouds Walk on the beach at sunset, another item crossed off a list. Cracks between dark clouds let the light in, painting single letters separat... -
Jan 12, 2020, 10:40 PM -05:00 This whole thread is awesome. I remember reading someone's fantasy Superman scene somewhere and it involving him on a mountaintop listening to the entire world in danger, in anguish over who to save first.
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Artemis Ursidae 🐻 (@The_Bear_Queen) on X
Take on Superman I think would work well in live-action: Explore his hyperawareness. Delve into the nerves living in a world of cardboard might give a person. Explore the feeling of being able to hear people in peril all the time and never being able to do enough. -
Jan 10, 2020, 8:39 PM -05:00 Aww, no love for @getpelican? I guess it's really only a thing if you already like Python :) It's my blog engine of choice these days though I'm considering switching to @gatsbyjs.
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Cameron Moll (@cameronmoll) on X
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Jan 9, 2020, 6:17 PM -05:00 It's 2020 so I decided to join the 2010's and replace my desktop hard drive with an SSD. Pretty easy, mostly due to Clonezilla. It's...nice. I should probably shake things up more often.
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Jan 5, 2020, 11:39 PM -05:00 Thank you! The link should work now :-)
Jan 5, 2020, 5:02 PM -05:00Thanks for the write-up on the Indieweb principles Desmond. Looking forward to the other posts in the series. I did notice that the initial link to your previous post is not working. It seems the URL is wrong. Shouldn't it be this: https://desmondrivet.com/2019/12/08/intro-to-indie-web ? -
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Jan 5, 2020, 11:06 AM -05:00 Your Website Is Your Castle
In a previous blog post, I gave a very brief introduction to the IndieWeb, hopefully giving a sense of what it is and why it matters. In this post I'll try and zoom in a tiny bit and explain something of the mechanics of how the IndieWeb actually works and what it means to "like" a post or "share" a status update.
I'm deliberately trying to avoid too much detail in this post because, frankly, there's a lot to write, and it's easy to get lost. So I'm going to try and give a rough idea of what an IndieWeb enabled website looks like at a very high level, without going into the weeds. Further posts will go into more detail.
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AnaRodrigues.dev (@ohhelloana) on X
📝New blog post: "Goodbye 2019" https://t.co/de60qhmvPJ -
Dec 28, 2019, 11:45 PM -05:00 I kind of love that @BarackObama is also a Ted Chiang fan. Read Exhalation if you haven't already.
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Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) on X
I used to draw. I have a weakness towards watercolor paints, and used to be kinda good with coal + pencil + ink. I think one of my "New Year Resolutions" should be getting back to the one thing that used to completely get my mind off of everything. -
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Hank Green (@hankgreen) on X
I was today years old when I learned that a manger is a box animals eat out of. -
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Dec 24, 2019, 12:30 PM -05:00 I find it confusing in general, not just with WordPress (although WordPress is extra confusing since I think you can have both multiple tags and categories, yeah?)
