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Mithrandir
Mithrandir
12:00 AM
Or at least internet-world.
 
humn
humn
Another random interrupt. Bret Harte!
Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. == Biography == ...
Mark (Samuel Langhorn Clemens) Twain has gotten some attention at LSE, but Bret Harte none, far as i can tell.
They were binary stars at the time.
They learned from each other.
. . . just thorning . . .
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@humn If I ask a question about his work, would you have a go at answering it? :-)
 
humn
humn
Might take days. Somewhat personal. (I've been compared to both. Took it personally. Too much so, made me hide for a couple of years.)
 
user61230
@Randal'Thor @Mithrandir Yeah! I'm fluent in toki pona, it's lowercase.
 
user61230
The only capitalized words in toki pona are names and inherited proper nouns.
 
user61230
12:15 AM
mi li jan Sajera. mi kama, tan ma Amewika.
 
humn
humn
!
 
user61230
(It's okay to write Toki Pona, no one's gonna get on your case about it or anything. And it makes more sense in English. But it would be written 'toki pona' in toki pona.)
 
humn
humn
! !
 
user61230
toki ala toki e toki pona, @humn?
 
humn
humn
An honorary member, at best.
(I understand better than i speak.)
And i understand that you learned English on the mean streets, @Zyerah. Not a bad talent.
Saves a few trips to the emergency room.
I'm always super nosy, @Zyerah, and if you mind i'll quiet down. But what is your natural language? (Mine's Suomi/Finnish the hard way, but i've learned English for 50+ years the easy way.)
 
user61230
12:24 AM
It's good, don't worry :>
 
user61230
I'm a native English speaker. I was raised around Spanish and Hebrew, but I never picked them up as working second languages.
 
humn
humn
Thank you.
 
user61230
Finnish is a language I've always wanted to start learning, but it's tricky to find time.
 
humn
humn
Might not be worth it, to tell the truth. It has almost no analogue. And everyone from there speaks fluent English and Swedish. It might be a dying language.
 
user61230
Aww. Yeah, I can understand.
 
humn
humn
12:31 AM
... i promised not to post video after video, but, well, ...
^ these are some of the world's greatest linguists showing off their musical talents for someone lost, all of whom i've edited. But the name, "Dead Tongues," is precious.
Thank you for enlightening me to a rising, risible, tongue, @Zyerah.
 
user61230
I'll watch this in a bit, thank you for sharing it!
 
user61230
And you're welcome :> It's a whole lot of fun.
 
humn
humn
! . . . and now i'm truly taking the show on the road. This time of day (late afternoon) I don't expect vignettes.
 
humn
humn
12:54 AM
... agh, just ran back in the door. "linguist" is not the same as "litterateur," but there's some connection.
... and now running back out the door . . .
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Zyerah Finnish is hard, for an English speaker.
It's so dissimilar to almost any other language of Europe.
 
user61230
Yeah, that's part of what draws me to it. I enjoy exploring a variety.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
OK, it's not quite Basque, but it's not in the Indo-European language group.
 
humn
humn
. . . and now agreeing . . . old Latin is the closest but still entierely dissimilar
Morphologically it's also similar to Magyar but all the words are different.
It, I fear, is a dying tongue, so i only use it for threats now. It sounds like machine-gun fire when spoken by someone street-borne.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@humn And even more similar to Estonian?
 
humn
humn
12:59 AM
Almost identical!
And that's about it.
Some Saami/Lapp languages also, but . . .
Even a few indigenous Alaskan languages, but . . .
 
BESW
BESW
@humn "Alaska Native" is the collective term, if you're looking for it.
 
humn
humn
(too late to edit)
 
BESW
BESW
Ada Lovelace calls Charles Dickens to her death-bed
Tweeted by VictorianLondon on February 6, 2018 at 4:44 PM
"Murderbot is a very human sort of bot—despite their occasionally assertion that they’re not really a person." Sleeps With Monsters on @marthawells1 creation! https://www.tor.com/2018/02/06/sleeps-with-monsters-the-adventures-of-murderbot/
Tweeted by tordotcom on February 6, 2018 at 4:17 PM
“Specified several captive offer a turnip ship.” —When ur translation utility ain’t all it could be. #Provenance @ann_leckie #nospoilers
Tweeted by morinotsuma on February 6, 2018 at 6:14 PM
 
user15026
@BESW I loved the first Murderbot book!
 
user15026
I can't wait for more.
 
BESW
BESW
1:05 AM
@Ash It's on my list.
I've spent 2 years tracking the gender balance in my stories. In that time, I've raised the proportion of women whom I quote from 25% to 50%. Here's why I did it, and what I learned on the way. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/
Tweeted by edyong209 on February 6, 2018 at 4:27 PM
Thread:
Hello, friends! Hugo nominations have opened up, so I want to take this moment to tell you all about some great books I worked on this year. Feel free to nominate them for Hugos--or just go read and enjoy them!
Tweeted by navahw on February 5, 2018 at 4:52 PM
 
user15026
@BESW I highly recommend it, it's fun and interesting
 
humn
humn
@BESW , sweet!
 
user15026
@BESW I am going to check this thread out later and I suspect it will explode my TBR list
 
BESW
BESW
I'm slowly working through Provenance right now.
It's good! The main character has the very relatable flaw of thinking she knows how other people will react to things, and being very wrong.
 
user15026
Interesting :D
 
BESW
BESW
1:08 AM
Also Leckie's great at stuffing me inside the heads of people I don't think like.
 
user15026
I decided at 1 am to start re-reading all the Tamora Pierce books.
 
BESW
BESW
 
user15026
@BESW I tried her Imperial Radch stuff but I just couldn't follow it
 
user15026
@BESW hahaha that was me today after that decision, yes
 
BESW
BESW
@Ash The first couple chapters of Ancillary Justice were difficult for me, because I really don't like "Narrator won't explain what's going on even though the POV character knows" conceits, but it was so worth it.
I got Trogdor to read the series, too. He finished it earlier this week.
 
user15026
1:11 AM
@BESW I finished all of Ancillary Justice and my review was "wanted to like it but was too confused to hold it all together in my head", effectively
 
BESW
BESW
Fair enough.
I felt... very rewarded, by her depiction of colonial assimilation.
It was hauntingly familiar in ways that I've never seen in speculative fiction before.
 
user15026
I liked what she had to say about things, just how she said it was a struggle for my brainmeats
 
BESW
BESW
I'm glad I read it when I did. Provenance is much less challenging and my brainmeats aren't what they were.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@BESW That can be done in a very kludgey way (PoV character keeps describing something they know about using evasive/non-descriptive language); I'm sure it can be done well too, but can't think of an example offhand at 1am ...
 
BESW
BESW
Provenance is more of a cozy political murder mystery about a younger daughter of a noble house looking to make good in a world that's struggling with its own identity crisis, where Radch is a sprawling space opera about a dead spaceship that wants to kill the immortal who murdered it but finds compassion and friendship along the way.
 
user15026
1:15 AM
So it's not related to Radch?
 
BESW
BESW
It's set in the same universe, a short time after the Radch trilogy but very far from Radch space.
 
user15026
ah, okay
 
user15026
I might have to try it at some point
 
user15026
Mind you, my TBR list is over 400 things again :(
 
BESW
BESW
I'm more than 2/3 through and there's one Radchaai character and she's mostly just miserable because she's not in the Radch.
(If the Radch trilogy is, thematically, about exploring how our bodies and minds create our identity, then Provenance is about exploring how our external context and history create our identity. Hence "Provenance.")
 
user15026
1:19 AM
Interesting
 
BESW
BESW
#CetoReadingList “There were only three names allowed in the family, and only three children. There was the oldest, who was always Ruth, and the middle child, who was always Susan. The youngest was “the baby” or simply Baby.” By Ursula Vernon, @UrsulaV https://www.apex-magazine.com/the-dark-birds/
Tweeted by CetoUnderDysis on February 6, 2018 at 6:46 AM
@Ash ...this morning I ran across a Twitter thread full of links to fanfic about Steve Rogers' socialism, and now that's in my queue.
 
user15026
1:51 AM
@BESW I am intrigued
 
user15026
@BESW oooh I have read that I recommend it, it is a good story
 
BESW
BESW
@Ash Starts here. Lots of links to articles, fanfic, etc.
> ...unlike other patriotic superheroes (like Superman, for example), Captain America is meant to represent the America of the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic Charter, and the Second Bill of Rights – a particular progressive ideal.
 
user15026
I will have to check that out
 
BESW
BESW
A lot of the fic recs are Stucky.
I have deeply mixed feelings about Stucky.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
2:35 AM
Lit people may appreciate (or be able to answer) this question:
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Q: Did Jack London influence "We"?

rosesunhillSummary: Did Jack London's dystopian novel, The Iron Heel, published in 1908, influence Zamyatin's We? Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel, We, completed in 1921 and published in English in 1924, is one of the earliest dystopian novels, and usually called a significant influence on George Orwell's 1949 nov...

dystopia society influences
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
3:24 AM
@Shokhet The former was copied directly from the latter, so presumably this is all Gutenberg's fault ... — Rand al'Thor 12 hours ago
Very likely, I think. @Randal'Thor
@Ash I have a copy of Ancillary Justice, the question is whether I'll find the time to read it...
Interestingly, I had a similar feeling after reading Small Angry Planet. Although I had the sense that this feeling of grasping at holding it all together was more due to reading it in several pieces, mixed with other books. I don't think it was very convoluted, as sf books with multiple species and characters go.
 
BESW
BESW
...I felt like Small Angry Planet's scope didn't fit its ambitions.
 
user15026
Funnily enough, I adore Small Angry Planet
 
user15026
I think because I had no idea what it was supposed to be about
 
BESW
BESW
I might like it better on a second read?
 
user15026
a friend just went "people doing people stuff in space" and I read it
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
3:30 AM
I'll definitely have to revisit it, give it the attention it deserves.
 
user15026
and I think I liked it because I just think of it as people being people in space
 
BESW
BESW
Not that I didn't like it, just that it was a little too big for a cozy character drama and a little too small for a sprawling space opera and I got the impression it wasn't sure which it was aiming for.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
People meaning sentients, not humans. Multiple species is a huge part of the story.
@BESW Interesting.
 
BESW
BESW
And it was too... coherently plotted? for a really solid road trip.
I dunno, maybe it was my need to figure out what it was in the context of other things that get in the way of my reading it for itself.
But on that read it just felt like it was almost three or four different really good books but it couldn't quite pick.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Hmm.
I'm not sure I see what you're seeing in the book, but I'm pretty sure I understand what you mean.
 
BESW
BESW
3:35 AM
It's a first novel, I think that's all.
Lots of first novels have that same scattered voice and the sense that there's a bit too much going on without a good way to connect it all together.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
It's a pretty good first novel :)
 
BESW
BESW
It is!
The only first novels that aren't a little shaky tend to also be the last good novel the author writes for a very long time.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
It was a Kickstarter project, right? Was there an editor involved? ...I wonder if an editor might've been able to nudge the book more toward ...cohesion, I guess.
 
BESW
BESW
I don't know, but I've read Twilight. I know an editor isn't a panacea.
You've gotta get an editor that clicks with the author, and the author has to listen.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
I'm sure
(I haven't read Twilight. I'm not sure I get your comparison.)
 
BESW
BESW
3:40 AM
And even then, an editor can't bring something out if it's not there. There are perfect novels and there are published novels and you can only choose both about once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
0
Q: 1984 - What does O'Brien mean by this sentence?

OviWhile Winston is being held prisoner, O'Brian walks in the room for the first time and the conversation goes something like this" Winston: They got you too! O'Brian: Yes, they got me a long time ago. Does this mean that O'Brian, like Winston, was once a rebel, but was caught and conver...

nineteen-eighty-four
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
That's a good way to put it
@Bookworm Not that sentence. I was talking with/about BESW. Stop interrupting, Bookworm!
 
BESW
BESW
@Shokhet Mmm. It's something I think lit.se needs to keep in mind more: that books aren't perfectly polished expressions of the author's original thoughts or inner mind; that books are always collaborations between author, editor, publisher, friends, and family; that books are mostly written as professional products on professional deadlines with professional pressures.
 
user15026
@BESW so much this.
 
BESW
BESW
 
user15026
3:48 AM
@BESW hahahahahahahaha
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@BESW Those ideas have been bouncing around in the background of my mind recently. I tried to sign up for a creative writing class this semester, but the class was cancelled because they couldn't find enough students to take it. (Grrr...) There was some stuff about this in the syllabus, though.
It's a shame I couldn't get that class. I haven't written creatively in many long years, and have been thinking about starting again. Doing it in a structured way with feedback from a teacher (one of my favorite teachers; I was in his Comp II class) would've been perfect.
 
BESW
BESW
@Shokhet I think all literary analysis and criticism could benefit from more direct contact with the world of authorship and publishing. There's a lot of really froo-froo ideas about the mystic nature of authorship out there, that a good sit-down with Ursula Vernon's Twitter feed would explode in a heartbeat.
@Shokhet Whenever I come across links to online writing classes, I share them here.
 
user15026
@BESW hahahahha oh yes very much so
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@BESW Ah yes, Ursula Vernon Twitter is very good for that. I've been following recently, and it's all your fault! (In a good way :-)
 
BESW
BESW
 
user15026
3:51 AM
Oh man I want to back this at the $8 level SO MUCH: kickstarter.com/projects/candystar/…
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@BESW Hahaha :)
@BESW I haven't spent much time with the Writers.SE crowd, nor in the Overlook Hotel. (Perhaps I should.)
I know Brandon Sanderson puts some of his creative writing classes on YouTube.
 
BESW
BESW
Some weeks there's basically nothing in the Hotel except me linking to Writer Twitter.
How to Be A Writer In 5 Easy Steps: 1. harvest an idea, roots dripping with ichor 2. howl "WHAT ARE WORDS, WHY IS PLOT" under the moon 3. witness the silence of the void 4. despair 5. write the story anyway, in defiance of the dead gods asleep beneath the waves.
Tweeted by Merc_Rustad on January 4, 2018 at 11:57 AM
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Not necessarily a problem. Writer Twitter is cool :)
 
BESW
BESW
I recently followed Jemisin and Leckie, and that's been fun.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Oh? I didn't know they were on Twitter. (I haven't read their stuff. Except for part of Ancillary Justice.)
 
BESW
BESW
3:56 AM
Your plan for your novel vs how it turns out
Tweeted by PaulMMCooper on December 27, 2017 at 3:52 PM
Ann Leckie ☕
@ann_leckie
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer, author of Ancillary Justice.
28.1k tweets, 18.8k followers, following 359 users
N. K. Jemisin
@nkjemisin
Hugo-winning bestselling SFF writer & reviewer. I use robust autoblockers due to harassment. They catch some friendlies. Unavoidable; sorry. She/her.
52k tweets, 48.5k followers, following 728 users
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@BESW thankee
Will take down the links for when I get back to Twitter. (Taking a sabbatical right now.)
Hrm. Looked at NK's website to make sure I hadn't read any of her books. (I haven't.) "The Inheritance Trilogy" sounded very familiar, but I'm sure that's Christopher Paolini's fault.
 
BESW
BESW
Yeah, there's a lot of series with that title or something very similar.
Inheritance was good. Rather different, sometimes baffling.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@BESW I believe we've had this discussion before. Fantasy titles sharing a very small number of interchangeable elements...
 
BESW
BESW
I liked Broken Earth better, though usually I'd prefer something like Inheritance that's less... post-apocalyptic.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
More important than Twitter, I just put Jemisin and Leckie on my ad-hoc TBR list. (I recently started a written list; not sure how that will work.)
 
BESW
BESW
4:05 AM
I've been trying to use GoodReads recently.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Someone else just told me I should use it.
 
user15026
I love Goodreads
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
I'll figure out what it is/how to use it eventually :p
 
user15026
I really just use it to track what i read
 
user15026
So I know the absurd number of things I read in a year
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
4:09 AM
@Shokhet I know when I started keeping a written list. NYPL is really cool :)
@Ash I wondered how people knew stuff like that
I put check marks next to stuff I read already; maybe I can tally it all up after a while? :p
...just realized that I haven't actually started any of the books that were recommended by NYPL :0 ...will start looking for them soon.
 
 
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BESW
BESW
5:44 AM
my boyfriend almost never reads SFF but he’s just started reading an ARC of THE POPPY WAR so he can see what I spend all my time writing. I was a little nervous but today he called me to ask meticulous questions about pronunciations, geography, history, etc and I’m SO TOUCHED.
Tweeted by kuangrf on February 5, 2018 at 10:11 PM
keeping up our #geometry theme this week, or #T3D2019_PoftheD comes from @bodleianlibs Douce 125, a late 10th or early 11th century copy of (Pseudo)Boethius on Geometry. Largely bi-dimensional, but we love #medieval #maths! https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_4501
Tweeted by T3D2019 on February 6, 2018 at 5:30 PM
 
user15026
@BESW awww yay
 
user15026
@BESW this is neat!
 
BESW
BESW
@Ash It's a fun project!
 
BESW
BESW
6:19 AM
Unusual #NHEphemera ? 1590 pamphlet about Peeter Stubbe, a farmer who was convicted of being a werewolf. Stubbe admitted to making a pact with the Devil in return for a belt which gave him the power to transform into a wolf at will. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-damnable-life-and-death-of-stubbe-peeter-a-werewolf-1590
Tweeted by BL_prints on February 6, 2018 at 3:26 PM
Excited to announce finalists for the 2018 Audie Award for Science Fiction! Congrats! #Audies2018
Tweeted by tordotcom on February 6, 2018 at 7:02 PM
 
user15026
@BESW I love stuff like this.
 
BESW
BESW
@Ash I've mentioned my attempt to make a Fate Accelerated game out of the testimony of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, right?
 
user15026
No but that sounds awesome.
 
BESW
BESW
The idea was to spend the first scene as ordinary villagers and establish your quick/forceful/clever/careful/flashy/sneaky approaches, then as you set out on your mission you turn into werewolves and get werewolf permissions, and gain stunts that back them up.
That way you're defined by your human natures, even as you become hounds of god.
 
 
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BESW
BESW
10:50 AM
Book review: 'Nani's Kiss' by @LehuaParker https://talesfrompasifika.com/2018/02/07/nanis-kiss-by-lehua-parker/
Tweeted by PasifikaTales on February 7, 2018 at 9:52 AM
There really is no better classroom discussion topic than Rock-Ogress-Yeti-Monsters. I mean, I can talk sacred Shaligram ammonites all day but nothing beats Dharma, Demons, and Darwin. Thanks @savageminds /@anthrodendum https://savageminds.org/2015/10/15/my-mother-was-a-rock-ogress-yeti-monster-true-tales-of-dharma-demons-and-darwin/
Tweeted by Manigarm on February 6, 2018 at 8:23 PM
I'd love to see some critical engagement with the parenthetical in the final sentence of that essay.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Bookworm Dupe!
We haven't had many duplicates here. Interesting that that quote should give rise to one.
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:42 PM
0
Q: 1984, did Julia ever reach room 101? If so, what was her worst fear?

OviWhile O'Brian is torturing Winston, he reveals that Julia betrayed Winston almost immediately. Does this mean that she never reached room 101? If she did reach it, do we have any hints as to what her worst fear might have been?

nineteen-eighty-four
 
 
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Fabjaja
Fabjaja
1:51 PM
Found this interesting article when searching for Narnia's name origins: 40 Things You Never Knew About Narnia
 
 
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Shokhet
Shokhet
3:27 PM
@BESW So he admitted it. Did he provide a demonstration of the belt's functions? :p
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Odd result of merging.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Mithrandir Interesting
Good work on the merge, tho ;-)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I just pressed the convenient "merge" button ;)
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Lol
I don't know how mod things work. Have never been one :)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I actually use a couple scripts to put some of the more dangerous stuff easier to access ;)
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
3:34 PM
Hmm. I suppose it makes sense that there would be mod-specific scripts for stack exchange functions
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I've got... probably more scripts than is strictly necessary.
(The number proooobably exceeds 30.)
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Haha. I use a few SE scripts. Though I had to turn off the one that provided the top bar to chat after they updated the top bar
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I didn't... still works for me.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Mithrandir Oh wow. I probably use less than ten. Probably not more than five.
@Mithrandir Really? Lemme see if I still have it...
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
3:38 PM
Hmm
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Actually, I have exactly 29 enabled at the moment, and 2 disabled :P
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
I'll try it later; I have to go now. להתראות!
@Mithrandir Still a lot :p
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Later!
 
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
5:24 PM
@Mithrandir Since the number that's strictly necessary is zero ... yes, probably :-)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
It's kind of annoying to have to turn off each script when testing to see if a bug is SE or a script though...
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Don't use scripts - problem solved.
<----- is a Luddite
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Mithrandir
Mithrandir
5:47 PM
Scripts make things so much easier.
...like the script that adds a link to everyone's chat profile from any site.
...or the one that adds a top bar in chat.
...or the one to add auto-comments.
...or the one to notify me when there's a new flag immediately.
...I could go on.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Mithrandir If you know their username, you can find them in the chat userlist anyway.
Who needs a topbar in chat?
Autocomments make you look like a robot.
The flag density on Lit ain't exactly high anyway, and flags pretty much never need to be handled ASAP.
 
user15026
I moderate a decently large site and I don't use any scripts :P
 
user15026
But everyone has their own workflow :)
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
6:03 PM
@Ash Same :-)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
It's all for convenience ;)
@Randal'Thor Sure. I still like to know though :)
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
> Modern convenience is an excuse for switching your brain off.
If that's not a literary quote, it should be.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Randal'Thor I am a robot. I mostly use them on IPS, where I've tried to make them not sound like a robot so much.
 
user15026
@Randal'Thor Sometimes, though, it's nice not to have to think
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Ash Each to their own, I guess :-)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
6:08 PM
@Randal'Thor meh.
I don't switch my brain off, I just focus it on other things.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
If you achieve something only through the help of machines, how can you get any satisfaction from it?
This is why I don't get, e.g., gaming the system for badges.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Randal'Thor What do you mean?
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
OK, so you've made a load of pointless edits to get the Copy Editor badge, or got a machine to help you with flagging to get the Marshal badge. Wouldn't it have been so much more satisfying to get those badges naturally, by dint of your own effort, and know you'd earned them?
(not you you, the impersonal you)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
...those are entirely different from my scripts, though.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
(yeah, I was just thinking that we've probably shifted away from the original topic)
(maybe it's just a random rand rant)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
6:16 PM
My scripts are usually informational (Chat DEFCON, flag desktop notification, global flag summary) time saver (autocomments, chat link) or to enhance the experience (SOUP, SOX).
 
 
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Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
7:57 PM
Who run the world? Introducing the Humble Book Bundle: Geek Gals! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/geek-gals-books?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=Geek_Gals_Books_Announce
Tweeted by humble on February 7, 2018 at 7:03 PM
 
user15026
That's a pretty good bundle
 
BESW
BESW
10:44 PM
There is a meme! @amyignatow tagged me! I have to post a book cover I love for cryptic reasons! I AM BAD AT MEMES AND FEEL THAT AFTER THE PEAR I SHOULD HAVE MEME AMNESTY BUT HERE IS A COVER
Tweeted by UrsulaV on February 7, 2018 at 4:07 PM
At the library: A kid patron came up to me at the desk, asked me where she could find more mystery books. That she'd read her first mystery & had loved it so much. So I led her over to the MG mystery series section. She placed a hand over her heart & whispered, "Oh my gosh."
Tweeted by WriterJuneHur on February 6, 2018 at 11:26 PM
@Ash Goldie Vance, Lumberjanes, Paper Girls--nice!
...I appreciate Jem and the Holograms so much more with the headcanon that Jerrica Benton later went rather mad, abandoned her pop star career, and became Diamanda Hagan.
 
user15026
11:10 PM
@BESW Oh that is so damn precious and I love it
 

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