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Nothing is complicated;
everything is detailed.

Live in the meanwhile;
meanwhiles are all we have.

Some things endure.
Every world is hand-made.

There is no victory alone.
Play only the infinite game.

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Posts self delete irregularly. Do not presume upon my ephemerality, in either direction.

Post reach is at my discretion. Do not alter it by replying public to a private post or by adding hashtags in reply to a public one.

It still matters to me as a reaffirmation that rocketry can be used for something other than bombing the ground.

"Why is my subject search for 'Gender expression' turning up so many titles on aerodynamics?" I was wondering just now, until I realized the most likely explanation was some catalog update process had done a pattern search-and-replace on "Drag" as a subject without checking the results.

(Seen in a HathiTrust subject search. Most likely not their fault, as they take records from partner libraries pretty much as they get them.)

Thinking of a home data server and my own website to host repos & things. I don't trust internet/clouds/etc. I'm convinced if I don't back it all up now, AI will deactivate all my stuff bc of something I said in 2009 & forgot about.
@brennen yeah. It's hard for me in a mobile life and without paper recycling hard to justify. Eink and stylus doesn't work as well, but, better than nothing.
I'd be tempted to leave the glowscreens entirely for daily life. Except the last time i did that, my eink phone caught malware and couldn't be wiped. Grapheneos or bust, alas.
I "printed" a section of code I need to read so I can scribble in it on my boox, and immediately started finding necessary edits because I can think clearer off the glowscreen.
A double cross contains twice as much messiah as a NIST reference cross

A crescent Earth as seen from the Artemis II Orion Integrity spacecraft, now over 46,000 km away. The spacecraft is located above the north-east coast of Brazil, where it is night-time

22/n

@ColinTheMathmo history menu -> restore session, sometimes works