Post #4026379

2026-07-23 04:03 UTC

Writing on a public social medium is a little different from what I'd call "writing" in general; perhaps I'm being starchy. I feel altogether too conscious of the ephemerality while at the same time reminding myself that I could always make it less ephemeral if I put my mind to it. There must be folks who simply auto-archive their own posts regularly and all that. I have limited myself by sticking to an end-user sort of computing experience. But also...everything I've written has been in the moment. I have felt a bit like William Shirer writing bulletins from Berlin or Paris, watching in dismay as fascism crept into everything he'd come to know and love. I hope that I have furnished a bit of perspective on events and their contexts. If events play out as I hope they will, the things about which I've written will pass away. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 04:11

I hope in future that it will not feel necessary to hurl oneself against those who betray reason, who seek to dine on what they imagine to be the dregs and leavings of a human civilization--civilization, whose power they crave while hating the sense of community that civilization requires. I hope the future doesn't need firebrands. Social harmony and peace has no need for incendiary journalism and Thomas Paine crying out 'Tis time to part! Hence it is meet that I should turn in the direction my older sibling prefers to haunt, the Past. Both of us have a doozy of a Past and thus we've both had a very difficult time coming to a sane balance with its memory. I myself have been accused of dwelling on the Past but that's only been for the specific reason that it's caused me pain. (cont'd)

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