Jason Pettus 

@jasonpettus
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Freelance book editor and rare book collector based out of Chicago. This is a migration from another account I've had since 2019. I do the middle-aged dad version of shitposting, whatever that's called. Mastolikes: Discordia, transgression, cyberpunk, intl travel, absurdism as lifestyle, breadmaking. Mastodislikes: Toxic positivity (aka "You Got This! Syndrome"), radicals on either side of the political divide, sports, popular music, and many more. #StopTalkingAboutLinux.
Freelancing sitehttps://pettus.rocks
Personal journalhttps://write.as/jasonpettus
Photographyhttps://pixelfed.social/@jasonpettus
Very excited to share that my new cat memoir, "It's Always Sunny Around Here," has just hit the #1 spot on the Amazon "Hot New Releases" bestseller list, in its category of "Cat Care and Health!" Check out the book at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWD3M9J8/ , or see the free making-of guide over at my freelancing website at https://pettus.rocks/Sunny . That guide is specifically for other self-publishing authors who are seeking information and tips, so I hope you'll share that with other authors.
My growing realization of just how much young people are shunning all digital media these days, to return to a time of physical objects and real-world meetups, has me thinking a lot about when I became a teen at the dawn of the '80s and my generation intuitively rejected the polyester clothing of the previous decade, to instead embrace cotton, linen and denim to the unexpected surprise of those industries. We didn't give this deliberate thought, and I don't think "Generation Alpha" is either.

I was already an adult when it started airing in the mid-1990s, but I must confess that I was an obsessive fan of the PBS series "Wishbone," in which classic literature was retold through the perspective of a wiseass dog who would always imagine himself as the hero of each story. There's a new documentary coming out about the show, and I will absolutely be watching it!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-the-1990s-a-dog-taught-kids-about-shakespeare-and-homer-a-new-documentary-tells-the-tale-of-wishbone-from-his-backflips-to-his-historical-hats-180988552/

In the 1990s, a Dog Taught Kids About Shakespeare and Homer. A New Documentary Tells the Tale of 'Wishbone'—From His Backflips to His Historical Hats

The film reunites the human cast and crew who saw the potential of a Jack Russell terrier to bring classic literature to life on PBS

Smithsonian Magazine

Spotify has just won $300 million in a music piracy lawsuit; the problem is that no one knows who the defendants are.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/913007/spotify-annas-archive-music-scraping-lawsuit-judgement?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find

Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna’s Archive.

The Verge
I have become the person who says "I am just not built for that kind of thing anymore" about situations I would have thrown myself into ten years ago and I cannot decide if this is wisdom or surrender. Some days both.
Because as we all know, things have always gone great over the last two thousand years for any secular government that criticizes or threatens the pope

LIDAR experts are claiming that they've discovered a second Sphinx at Egypt's Giza Pyramids, buried under a hundred feet of sand that has compacted over the centuries into sandstone, which is why traditional archeologists have never found it. What isn't being disputed is that the group also discovered a whole series of underground rooms and passageways underneath the Sphinx we know about.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15681329/second-sphinx-egypt-giza-plateau.html

A SECOND Sphinx detected in Egypt as scans hint at 'underground megastructure'

Human history could be rewritten after researchers announced a possible second sphinx hiding beneath the sands of Egypt's Giza plateau.

Daily Mail
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