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• Post #4406007

  "Some eccentrics believe Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Be that as it may, the linkage from Ham to Hamlet to Bacon to the boar's head on Shakespeare's Coat of Arms to the boar who killed Adonis to the dead-and-resurrected god is perfectly clear in dream-logic, however perplexing to the Rationalist. Joyce plays endlessly with these linguistic coincidences; for instance when an American hog-caller denounces Earwicker as "York's Porker" in Chapter Three,...

• Post #4346504

  Mastodon has made it easy to purge my feed of "friends" who couldn't vote for Kamala or Biden but who instead touted Jill Stein and RFK Jr. as the people who could save us from a second Trump adminstration. I miss some of the folks in my old "walled garden on the internet," but I don't miss having to try to listen to that kind of whack job and pretend to have respect for them.

• Post #4235303

  i boost too much because? too passive? too opportunistic? does it make me friends or build community? does it make my world a better place? yours? but in /this/ context, "mastodon," "the fediverse," aren't boosts how it works? instead of some formula uplifting content, we lift it ourselves, for and to ourselves and anyone who can see us? is that how this is supposed to work?