40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the #PublicDomain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

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@pluralistic My only problem with this is that Agatha Christie's "The Big Four" is a terrible, terrible book. Possible the worst she ever wrote.
@mike Great! You can rewrite it now!
@pluralistic That is an excellent point! Alas, some works are beyond redemption, and The Big Four is solidly in that sector.
@mike @pluralistic Small mastodon comment -- hiding your short tweet length toots behind the "Long thread" and expando button kind of hurts my already repetitively stressed hand and your toots are so bite sized, the do not overtake the feed anyways!

@gleemie @mike
Here's a bookmarklet to open all CW posts in a thread with a single click.

https://mamot.fr/@proximacentauri@mstdn.social/109446641864950446

Proxima Centauri (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images @[email protected] Sorry, you sound like someone has complained about this before. I made an bookmarklet, that opens all the CWs with single click: javascript:document.querySelectorAll(".status__content__spoiler-link--show-more").forEach(el => el.click()); 1. Add it to Bookmark bar 2. Thread before 3. Thread after Maybe you can give this to someone who next complains about this.

Mastodon 🐘

@pluralistic @gleemie @mike

If a reader is willing to dispense with CWs altogether, there's also an option in Preferences:

"Always expand posts marked with content warnings"