Why I'm Expanding My Blogging Presence

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/17/why-i-m-expanding-my-blogging-presence/

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A feel-good story in the news today...

Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one

The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.

“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”

Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.

If you keep thinking "wow, Christine keeps being right in retrospect"

You can get in early on smug correctness by paying attention: the work we are doing at @spritely is the future

Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?

Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.

They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.

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Good morning! Here’s wishing all you decent people a wonderful day and sending a very special and heartfelt fuck you to J. K. Rowling and every other bigot out there.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans people are people.

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Confirmation: Bluesky Now Blocking User In Turkey In Response To Turkish Demands

Yesterday Arda Kılıçdağı @arda posted (https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114344261036182422) that #Bluesky had blocked a user in response to Turkish pressure, and published the purported notification.

Today, he confirmed the block by demonstrating that the subject account is still visible in the rest of the world, but blocked in Turkey (see below and https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114348085466681138). Independently confirmed by @aral (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114348113927295764).