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Clever Rat and Literary/Textual Analyst, interested in wise ways of being rather than smart tech.

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Natasha Nox šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦šŸ‡µšŸ‡øNatanox@chaos.social
2025-02-16

If you happen to have any #DRM infested #Amazon eBooks you want to keep, free them NOW. You won't be able to in 10 days.
theverge.com/news/612898/amazo
#Books #eBooks #Ownership #Piracy #Kindle #Capitalism #Calibre

@dansinker I’m going to take this advice, thank you!

Craigforth House, lying derelict and awaiting demolition. Completed in 1970 as a headquarters for Prudential. The building, which sits on the River Forth, had space for 3,000 workers. #abandoned #UrbanExploration #derelict #scotland

A concrete building in a modern style, blackened by the elements, and with many of the large window panes broken, is reflected in stagnant water which covers the ground in front. One tree, without foliage and apparently lifeless, is dwarfed by the building behind.
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John Colagioiajcolag
2024-12-05

Inside the manipulative ā€˜conspiracy’ of consumption fastcompany.com/91237775/insid

Why should everyday people feel guilty, the film asks, when manufacturers and retail companies are doing everything within their power to drive up the pace of consumption?

A person shopping at a computer in a messy room

@cicely it worked well as foreground interest!

@scozmos it was such a cold day that it made the heat and the smell so much better!

Steam coming off hot tar while it’s being rolled. #scotland #landscape #construction #photography

A Bomag roller dominates the left of the screen, the operator looking down the side and concentrating on his work. Steam comes off the surface behind the machine.

@GayDeceiver have you seen the men who are popular with women? The standard is low.

@GayDeceiver blowjobs, specifically

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#goodnews #game #author #literature #fun #gift #USA

Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Finally Published After 70 Years–It Turned Out to be ā€˜Deep and Very Fun’

goodnewsnetwork.org/kurt-vonne

@venetiana Ann Aguirre (2012). ā€œDevil's Punch: A Corine Solomon Novelā€, p.279, Penguin ???

Text which read ā€˜This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.’
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2024-11-17

I just went in and updated this resource page with links to all of the 1200+ Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes. New playlists linked to of episodes on works by Lovecraft, Leguin, Kant, Seneca, and Cicero!

gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/
#Podcast #Resources #Philosophy #Literature

It is a dark and stormy night, and the wheelie bins are playing ā€˜tig’ in the backyard.

@tinker I never had Twitter, not Facebook actually, but I found myself here a while back.

@GrahamDowns I don’t actually have an alarm, I wake up at 5:03am. No idea why

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2024-11-14

When a clown moves into a palace he does not become a king.
The palace becomes a circus. #thursday #thoughts

@nyatalily where do I sign up for my weekly homomiasmaing?

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