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eviŁrooster

@evilrooster.bsky.social

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Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3h

If you see a tree in the middle of the road, please be patient as it takes time for them to cross

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h

I have never seen so many Baseball/Waiting for Godot crossover posts and I understand neither of those things enough to appreciate them but I'm obsessed with them anyway

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 6h

The Dutch term was “onderduiken “, ducking under the surface of water.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 22h

Reminds me of Emanuel the emu, but I suspect with 100% less milkshake duck.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 22h

Or was it the brightness that lives in contrast to shadow? Was the snow a reminder of the hemlock, or a reminder that the world is more than hemlock?

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 23h

It genuinely depends what the author's intention is. Is it a bright poem or a dark one?

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, sweeties!

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

Nevertheless, in poetry the word has its own weight.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

Took me literally decades to see it myself.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

I love that poem, but that’s a *hemlock* tree. Ya gotta think deeply about what, exactly, that change of mood is.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

Dante was Catholic and the Inferno is full of Popes.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @handle.invalid · 1d

This presumes that the essence of Catholicism is the worship and/or veneration of clergy, particularly the Pope, and that’s never been a settled thing within Catholicism.

I mean, yes, these guys are ridiculous, but not because they argue with the pope. Catholics argue with the pope. It’s a thing.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

The precise phrase was “welcome to the cafeteria”, and yep.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

Think of it this way: Everyone in that room is a lifelong political operative who has risen high in a global organization that has communicated through symbolism and allusions for two thousand years. Anyone playing stupid is marking themselves as, well, stupid.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

Funny time for the search function to stop working, all things considered.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

I’m seeing other people saying it’s broken in my timeline.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating.

Same issue, too: consent.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 2d

Classics is deeply embedded in the British elites.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 3d

But will they tackle the ultimate useless degree, Classics?

(NB: I have a BA in Latin.)

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

Pinterest spam is getting out of hand.

Image of my Pinterest feed with all of the ads hidden. There's barely anything left.

eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

I do it with my sister every week. It does help my focus.

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 4d

Social-media has become a shitstorm, doing for the Web what climate-change has done for the planet.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

He probably didn’t mean you might like to buy it.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 4d

Not a seasonal name change, but a timely one.

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