The Ecology of Freedom -
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
Doing some maintenance. -steele
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Saturday, 10 January 2026
quote [ Alt-Rock Dept. is author Niko Stratis’ essay series about working at a grocery store in the mid-‘90s and the radio songs that filled every aisle and stockroom. ]
Possum Kingdom, that's a real place
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Friday, 9 January 2026
quote [ The Republican calendar crystallised a French dream of rationality and symmetry, which echoes in everything from the geometry of garden design to the metric system. ]
[sings] Time is on my side, yes it is
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quote [ How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather ]
She wore scarlet begonias
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Thursday, 8 January 2026
quote [ The number 26, which gets back-burnered compared to numbers with neater divisibility, is an essential digit. And you’re gonna be hearing all about it in 2026. ]
Was it 26?
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Wednesday, 7 January 2026
quote [ A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it. ]
Now is that book a fraud or is it really truth
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Manufacturing Consent -
The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
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Tuesday, 6 January 2026
quote [ For more than 300 years, Italians have fried soft-shell green crabs, called moeche. But the culinary tradition is under threat ]
I'm snapping like crabs
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Monday, 5 January 2026
quote [ In the autumn of 1952, a small black rubber dinghy drifted out of the Canaries and into the immensity of the Atlantic Ocean. Its lone occupant was a doctor, Alain Bombard, a young French biologist determined to answer a deadly question. ]
You know, that's why I'm shipwrecked
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Sunday, 4 January 2026
quote [ ProtoWeb is an online service that allows users of vintage computers to browse classic web sites. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days. ]
I thought you might be interested in this. While the link goes to the main page, read the Features page for info.
This is a combination of proxy/archive allowing for browsing on very old devices seemingly using a combination of http/ftp protocols for use with backports like Retrozilla. Didn't test.
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quote [ Behind the transformative star photographs of the 1880s lay a complex collaboration between astronomers and engravers. ]
Star sur les photos
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Saturday, 3 January 2026
quote [ Our results show that people are conditionally corrupt: They offer bribes based on their partners’ national backgrounds for whom they hold inaccurate corruption stereotypes. ]
That looked like something you might be interested in: people over-estimate the corruptness of nationalities they assume corrupt and vice-versa.
(thumb via free study PDF)
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Blueprint for Revolution -
How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
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