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biased opinions on subjects that scarcely matter

#Emacs #London #meetup got a new website https://
emacs.london

@emacs_london

New post on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest!

"Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

https://www.chiply.dev/post-ij-sierpinski

#literature #infinitejest #math #blog #writing

Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket

In a 1996 Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace confirmed something Silverblatt had spotted about Infinite Jest:

Charlie Holland's Blog
On a suggestion from @chiply I wrote a thing for this month's Emacs Carnival hosted by @sacha

"May I recommend... escaping the minibuffer"
https://vannilla.org/write/1778277936/article.html

#emacs #emacscarnival
May I recommend… escaping the minibuffer

I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.

The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.

#PlaidCymru #Wales

Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned. 💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Forget being T-shaped. Be Щ-shaped.

#lifeadvice

🐙 Obligatory Pynchon Day celebrations! 🐙

#Pynchon #PynchonInPublic

Announcement: our next #Emacs #London Meetup is Tuesday 12 May, 6PM. In person, at UCL in WC1N 1LE.

Emacs users of all levels welcome! Interested in Emacs but not really a user? More than welcome too!

Full details and registration:

https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/

cc @ericsfraga @xenodium

Emacs London meetup, Tue, May 12, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for our next Emacs London meetup held at University College London (UCL). A projector will be available, if anyone wants to give a presentation and/or if helpful to

Meetup

I was wrong, turns out there /is/ a way to indicate the dialect. Ironically, it's unofficial

#lojban #conlang

I suppose, many emoji are attitudinal indicators, that are usually placed at the end, when applied to the whole sentence 🤔

#lang_en #emoji #Lojban

I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to make it and share it