edwardiglesias

@iglesiasedward
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Academic Librarian, Geek, Occultist
@Anstapa @drangelapuca Yay you convinced her.

Cough @pluralistic #enshittification example HP #hewlettpackard printer

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Read a good thing on rewilding your attention, by @clive, found via a recentish blog post from @davatron5000
https://uxdesign.cc/rewilding-your-attention-d518ede18855
Rewilding your attention - UX Collective

Recently I read a terrific blog post by CJ Eller where he talks about the value of paying attention to offbeat things. Eller was joining an online conversation about how people get caught up in the…

UX Collective

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

#ikea #chair #hardware #weird

The Ancient Greek Mysteries of Eleusis explained by an academic and sourced from peer-reviewed literature by Dr Angela Puca of the YouTube channel Angela's Symposium
https://youtu.be/x64wpRjfgCQ
#eleusinian #greekmythology #greekmysteries #Kore
#paganism #greekmythology #greekmysteries #initiation #religion #Demeter #Persephone

Supreme Court Justice is implicated in major bribery scandal. There’s no other way to describe it.

He took the money, concealed the transactions, and ruled again and again in Crow’s interest. https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.

The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice. The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.

ProPublica

Me currently reading a book: “This is great! Why don’t I do this more often?”

Me any other waking moment: “OK, magic glowing rectangle, fill my eyes with your thoughts.”

I used You.com's chat for a bash scripting problem this morning and I'm quite sure it was faster than individual searches for the elements
@liza "Offering hundreds of examples of tree veneration from religious history, this book was part of a larger Phallic Series of treatises by occultist Hargrave Jennings."