Mastodawn

@marcoarment @atpfm , I don’t think anything could top your name suggestion in the diamond dog episode, but - as a regular user of writing apps that do way more than I want them to and are bad at getting out of my way and letting me write - might I also suggest:
Paper Trail
Re: Cursive
Marginalia
And, since I can’t remember if it was suggested yet, Fwritedown.

Liz Shayne Oct 1

Jonathan Dresner Oct 1

Honest Unetanneh Tokef

By our choices it is written and by our actions or inaction it is sealed:

who shall we kill by fire and who shall we kill by drought,
who shall die from our bombs and bullets and who shall die from our friends and neighbors bombs and bullets,
who shall suffer diseases we could prevent and who shall suffer diseases we could treat,
who shall hunger and starve in distant lands and who shall hunger and starve in our communities,

1/2

Liz Shayne Jul 21, 2025

Ada Palmer Jul 20, 2025

Sweden is now entirely cage-free for laying hens, a feat achieved not with legislation but via consumer pressure and retailer pledges. Campaign group Project 1882 confirmed in June 2025 that the last 'enriched' cages were empty, freeing some 17 million birds. Goodgoodgood https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/chickens-sweden-cage-free-ban?ref=fixthenews.com
#ShareGoodNewsToo

This country's chickens have gone completely 'cage-free.' And they didn't wait for a law to do it

In Sweden, all egg-laying hens are officially cage-free, after decades of public pressure and grassroots momentum from animal welfare group Project 1882.

Good Good Good

Liz Shayne May 30, 2025

I’m so annoyed that or took me so long to get the Apple Turnover pun that it was…maybe two minutes before @siracusa explained that it was a joke.
Well played, sir.

Liz Shayne Apr 18, 2025

I have discovered granny square sweaters.

The first one is a sunflower cardigan for me. The second one is a heart pullover for my younger child, who immediately saw my cardigan and wanted a sweater of his own (and I was very bored of flowers by then).

#crochet #JustMakeSquares

Liz Shayne Mar 28, 2025

Jo - pièce de résistance Mar 27, 2025

They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion.
People aren’t flying to US.
Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does.
#resist #resistance #boycott

Liz Shayne Mar 23, 2025

Mar 23, 2025

Periodic tiny reminder that you do not have to (and actually shouldn't) give your own name to your devices.

Give them their own unique names.

Your privacy will be better for it,
and they'll be happier ✨

#Privacy

Liz Shayne Jan 13, 2025

Jeremia Kimelman Jan 11, 2025

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

Liz Shayne Jan 13, 2025

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Strypey Jan 11, 2025

I always had a sense that fascism wasn't really about the particular policies or strategies of 1930s German racialists, any more than it was about jodhpurs or unimpressive moustaches. But I didn't consciously understand fascism until I read the classic essay on Ur-fascism, by a survivor of Mussolini's regime in WW2 Italy, the novelist Umberto Eco;

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

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Ur-Fascism

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

The New York Review of Books

Liz Shayne Jan 9, 2025

Alfie Kohn Jan 8, 2025

Australian parenting author Louise Porter: “Obedience is a fine aim for household pets, but we don’t expect pets to grow up and leave home.”