A lot of ostensible leftists seem to be stuck thinking of this as an individual consumer choice thing rather than as a political matter to strategize around and work collectively on
@universalhub Not to put too fine a point on it, but the BPL has been shutting down when it's 86° but 80° is still unbearable and the staff is expected to suck it up.
@universalhub In preparation for tonight's "Staff Appreciation Night" the BPL has been demonstrating its appreciation by toasting the staff (and patrons)
Extremely tempted to try to go to @xoxo
I don’t feel like I have any work worthy of it just yet… but it would be a good motivator to get some stuff together by then.
welp, in the last week I went from ambivalent about applying, to really psyched about it, to bummed I probably didn't get in, and now growing acceptance...
Bought a Kindle silverink on EBay for 20£ just so I could convert a bunch of previously purchased Amazon books to PDF so I could read them in my Remarkable2.
What’s ridiculous (for Amazon) is that this kind of portability makes me far more likely to buy ebooks from them, not less!