Oh thank god. Every time y'all wrote about people looking for mirrors in the past, I was like, "I see myself just fine. I'm the loser they stole the winter grain from to feed the army."

we wrote about this! it won't always be this way!

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@profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social, do you think it will always be like this? What can we do to ensure that our stories are told, instead of later generations learning about us by exhuming our corpses from the bottom of a well?

So, kinda tangential, but have you read @alexwhite.bsky.social 's SALVAGERS series? Because it starts out as a lot of things, but the first book is about a SF F1 driver getting roped into a conspiracy with a bunch of neerdowells going treasure hunting

1/2

Also, I feel like people probably compliment their blackmailers a lot.

Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.

Hmmmmm

2 Neighbor 2 Totoro
My Neighbor: Totoro Drift

I want more Totoros. The number of neighbors can stay the same.

I appreciate that they posed it in the form of song lyrics.

For coming from a party that loves to crow about supporting small business, Trump’s cuts to the ACA are the biggest attack on small business people imaginable