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“To do biology, with any kind of fidelity, the practitioner _must_ tell a story, _must_ get the facts, _must_ have the heart to stay hungry for the truth and to abandon a favourite story , a favourite fact, shown to be somehow off the mark.”

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"The _Companion Species Manifesto_ is, thus, about the implosion of nature and culture in the relentlessly historically specific, joint lives of dogs and people who are bonded in significant otherness." — P.16, Donna Haraway (1993)

Doreen Valiente

Doreen Valiente was one of the most important figures in Wicca. She wrote down much of its ritual and worship; and she played an integral part in lifting the legal ban on witchcraft on _29 July 1951_, which had been in place for over two centuries at that point in the UK.

What even is adulthood?

Biologically, turning 24 and ceasing growth?

Economically, turning 18 and ready to be exploited in the workplace, or kill in a war?

Sociologically, having to kill all your interests, and replace them. With drab, unexciting, bland, tasteless doldrum. Or you'll forever be economically locked out of any opportunity, for expressing yourself.

Adulthood is bullshit, don't ever grow up.
Grow your interests, and never lose yourself.

Idle thought of the day: if you assume that environmental crises, political instability, and authoritarian states are going to become more common over the next couple of decades, how would that change the way you design your websites and apps?

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== Call LIVE Director ===

LIVE Biennale Performance Art Society is seeking New Leadership!

details:

livebiennale.ca/jobs/director.

=== Active Passive - Line Up ===
Vol. 4
2022 August 21st, 1-9pm, Galiano Island

* IHA
* Caro
* tondive
* Lori Goldston
* Andromeda Monk
* Ora Cogan & Jon Scherk
* Genuine Happiness
* Zen Escalator
* Andy Zuliani
* Wallgrin
* PRS

Their is no "Great Reset"
Their is no "Great Replacement"
Their is no (insert conspiracy theory)

We're going to fucking die if we don't solve climate change.

And were not going to be successful, unless we stop Capitalism

That's it, that's literally what's happening.

Scientists have even said so.

They release the same damn report, with the same damn conclusions every quarter.

"As I've written, it's not just that every billionaire is a policy failure: every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures at scale" — Cory Doctorow

onezero.medium.com/rubber-hose

The downsides of a world with billionaires in it are well-rehearsed: billionaires can convert their vast wealth to power, and use that power to turn their whims and pet theories into policy failures that affect millions - or even billions - of people.

Take Bill Gates. Forget all the conspiracy theories about Gates and vaccines - it's bizarre that people bother to make up those fairy-tales when the truth is so much worse.

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wrote a teeny little script to pull my listening data and update a "now playing" section in my bio - if you check my profile at any time (right now !!) it'll show what song i'm currently listening to :•D

Please join us for watching and interacting with the Performance Art <Game[2Vancouver]>

Thursday May 12th, 7 pm
at VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE

underconstruction.vivomediaart

The makers of @pixelfed, the Fediverse photo sharing platform, have just created a slick new guide to the Fediverse at:

fediverse.info

It's got a list of Fedi projects, a list of mobile apps for Fedi platforms and an opt-in directory of people to follow.

The directory is particularly interesting as it works very differently to FediFollows or Trunk. You add hashtags to your profile plus a special extra hashtag #Fedi22, then submit your profile to the site, and it will become searchable for the tags in your profile.

(And, yes, Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, see here for details: mstdn.social/@feditips/1082159)

#FediverseInfo #Fediverse #FediTips #MastoTips

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