I read [this book review of “The Conquest of Bread”](https://www.awanderingmind.blog/posts/2021-10-30-book-review-conquest-of-bread.html), where it says that #Kropotkin was very much against #parliamentarism, and I remembered: you know who else attacked parliamentarism, like, _a lot_? [Hitler](https://blog.tripu.info/mein-kampf/). Just sayin'.
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RT @dustriorg@twitter.com
Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music — https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html
Thank you for sharing!
New article in my blog: "My free-software photography workflow" https://blog.fidelramos.net/photography/photography-workflow I speak of tools such...
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Under #AprilOfMyLife I will post one photo every day of April, documenting my day to day life.
I’m joining former beloved colleague @tripu@qoto.org or @tripu@pixelfed.de who’s been doing it since 2008 and uses #dailyphoto, and perhaps @fidel too
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@fidel @tripu gotcha!
I took a couple of selfies in the meantime just to be sure so I’ll figure out where and how I partake :) I’m thinking of using hashtag #AprilOfMyLife
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
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> _“**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.”_
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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.
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.
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??
“Listen, boomers!
You know #monogamy? That oppressive and reactionary institution that you insist is more fulfilling and leads to better, healthier relationships?
We reject it! We're queer and progressive and have thought hard about it! Don't you dare impose on us your narrow vision of what #love and #sex ought to be.
We've experimented and reflected, and we freely choose…
MONOGAMY! Ha!
In your face!”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vxxy/what-is-radical-monogamy
📣 #AltruismoEficaz 🇪🇸 #Español:
[_Riesgos Catastróficos Globales_](https://riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com/) y [_Altruismo Eficaz Hispanohablantes_](https://www.altruismoeficaz.org/) tienen abierto un generoso **concurso de ensayos sobre #xrisks** ✍️
https://riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com/articulos/concurso-de-ensayos
The idea/complaint above would be familiar to anyone who, like me, is not an American nor lives in #America, but leads (admittedly: by choice) a rather US-centric life.
In the sense that I read much more in English than in my mother tongue (literature, essays, blog posts, social media), I pay more attention to American intellectuals and media figures than to authors in my own country, I listen to podcasts produced mostly in the US, etc.
Someone like me — living in a better democracy than the US (according to studies I've seen), with longer life expectancy, lower crime rates, a much longer history as a country, involved in fewer wars, etc — sometimes grows tired of hearing so much about the uniqueness of America, the unprecedented experiment that it is, the unparalleled clarity of the Founding Fathers… Is that really so? Even today? Or is it American chauvinism, provincialism, or ignorance?
