I've been taking **one photo every day of April**, and sharing it online, [since 2008](https://www.flickr.com/photos/tripu/collections/72157616151140465/). Most years, a bunch of friends and virtual acquaintances followed suit, and we had good fun.
Today I started a new batch — here:
Today I've been microblogging for exactly **15 years**
😲
The #Fediverse didn't even exist back then, of course
🙂
> _“**The main tenets of #liberalism** are political #democracy, limitations on the powers of #government, the development of universal human rights, legal #equality for all adult citizens, #freedom of expression, respect for the value of viewpoint diversity and honest debate, respect for evidence and reason, the separation of church and #state, and freedom of religion.”_
Yeah, by all means let guilds and industry associations have their little awards and ceremonies. Why not? I just don't care for something so provincial and political as the #Oscars.
I wish there were something like [The Greatest Books](https://thegreatestbooks.org/) but for #film and #music. I only know of [IMDb “Top Movies”](https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/) and of #RottenTomatoes, but those two don't seem balanced nor independent enough to me.
@przemek@soc.sakrajda.eu
I used it only a couple of times, the day I discovered it. Once it worked well, and the other one it failed. I assumed the “failure” was a blip 🤷♂️
Alternatives:
* https://archive.ph/
* https://archive.org/web/
* Save in https://getpocket.com/ and open in “article view”
tripu
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@tripu Yup, but in this case there's actually a deaf oscar winner who should get some attention too...
I'm deaf, so that's got a bit more value to me. Moreso than the silly slap.
That too, I guess.
Although the Oscars themselves are only slightly more interesting to me than the stupid Will Smith thing.
(The #Oscars are a cheesy event where a specific organisation gives awards to a very homogeneous handful of rich people; the whole thing is horribly US-centric, the merits of the winning films are dubious at best, and it works as an hours-long commercial wrapped in glitter.)
Against #thenews, more evidence:
#WillSmith #WillSmith #WillSmith #ChrisRock #ChrisRock #ChrisRock everywhere the punch the scandal the speech the shame the arguments and counter-arguments the gender angle omg #meme #meme #meme outrage joke still clip another angle the gender discussion again omfg #WillSmith WHAT HAVEN'T YOU HEARD ABOUT IT? EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT IT DUDE! #meme #meme #meme bandwidth ink focus pages culture wars #WillSmith #WillSmith #WillSmith #ChrisRock #ChrisRock #ChrisRock
So disgusting. Intellectual porn — of the bad kind, even. And so many consequential and inspiring and worrying and beautiful things going on at the same time.
@przemek@soc.sakrajda.eu That's even worse, yes!
What does it say of us as a civilisation that the most reliable hint that something might be spam, phishing, fake, is _still_ that it has lots of spelling mistakes, bad grammar, and seems written by a little child??
@przemek@soc.sakrajda.eu
That doesn't look bad at all! (Get well.)
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We've experimented and reflected, and we freely choose…
MONOGAMY! Ha!
In your face!”
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