@SheHacksPurple I just read it last week. Some of the dialogue hits hard today .....
“It’s out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.”
“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.”
🎉 It’s FOSS turned 13 today!
13 years of spreading Linux knowledge, supporting the community, and promoting open source.
❤️ Thank you for being a part of this journey — together, we’ll keep growing! 💪✨
Thinking, again, about despair: the fear I have for the future of this country, and the deliberate actions that are being taken to keep us all mired in uncertainty. This despair is debilitating when I give it a chance to take root. It doesn’t take a lot.
A colleague shared in a meeting today about hearing Hillary Clinton talk about optimism as a moral choice she makes every day. That phrase stopped me in my tracks, and I’ve been mulling it over since.
Maybe I can come to things from a place of optimism. Not blind, not performative, not unrealistic. But an outlook that’s grounded in things I believe in — the power of joy, the importance of community, the value of history. Beliefs so fundamental that they can give me the space I need for hope.