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re: meta killing crowdtangle 

@christa RIP the dream of web 2.0 tbh

Can I go to sleep at 7pm if I woke up at 5:30am and took a boat to Canada this morning

doing prep for my first oral history interview by watching a talk my interview subject gave on how open source political economy is bad and broken and i got a little teary eyed at the end?? look it's been a long day i've been up since 5am

The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division has created a fun map album that you'll probably enjoy "a wonderful variety of maps found in photos of miniature golf courses, napkins, classrooms, war rooms, and more."

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/albums/72177720319476180/

#maps #photography #flickr

my sister and I were talking about how she's only on FB for updates from her rural WA town's group page and she said "Oh no, I never *post*" in a tone as though I'd just asked her if she regularly shits her pants

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: general abstractions, body bags, laser snake, life-force, scintilla, a shark in love

Learned that there's a Zootopia sequel in the works and it's not titled 2topia or Zoo2pia

Death, animals 

found out a friend's dog died so the rest of the day is cancelled, go tell the dogs in your life that you love them please

The U.S. Forest Service has ordered the company that sells Arrowhead bottled water to shut down its pipeline that draws water from springs in the San Bernardino Mountains. The decision could end the long fight over the company's extraction of water from public lands. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-07/arrowhead-bottled-water-permit

update: i can use the laptop on the couch while petting her, that's fine

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uspol shitpost 

spending too much time reading and thinking about 19th and early 20th century anarchists and getting annoyed that in the 21st century people are labeled "socialists" when they don't even want to murder a king or blow up Wall Street

apologies for my delayed response, my dog would not stop barking at me until I walked away from my laptop

long-ish shot: would anyone in PDX be willing to let me crash on their couch for one night August 20? Some of my travel plans pre-XOXO got scuttled and it might make sense to come down a day before my shared airbnb booking

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.