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Eleatic Stranger @willtochaos@chaos.social

There's an ideal, and there are several paths leading there. I must not get distracted. I must not attempt to identify myself with it, even as I attempt to incarnate it. And as I speak my being forth, it shall be none but power in repose. An economy of words, a parsimony of movement.

And with that, good night.

Приветствую тебя, пустынный уголок,
Приют спокойствия, трудов и вдохновенья,
Где льется дней моих невидимый поток
На лоне счастья и забвенья.
Я твой: я променял порочный двор цирцей,
Роскошные пиры, забавы, заблужденья
На мирный шум дубров, на тишину полей,
На праздность вольную, подругу размышленья.

-- Пушкин, "ДЕРЕВНЯ"

Appreciating beauty without having to possess it, to consume it.

Keep being brave.

If you don't have the energy to be brave, ask someone to help you be brave <3

"You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery."

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog. But we'll know if you are a totalitarian with a keyboard.

Me: May I borrow a pen?

Person: Why?

Me: I'm making soup.

Person: *dumbfounded*

Me: Because. I. Have. Need. Of. A. Writing. Impliment. And. Do. Not. Currently. Have. One. In. My. Possession.

I need some kind of personal information management system. I keep losing ideas, topics, books that are worth exploring.

I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?