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negative12dollarbill

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• Coder in Sydney, Gadigal land
• Bass/Rhythm/Lead guitar
• Bouba in the streets;Kiki in the sheets
• I run a couple of bots.
• I do #WebDev, currently working with a #perl system and learning #Golang at the same time, which is giving me mental whiplash

User image and header are both from the animated series "Gravity Falls" in which a fictional President of the USA issues a bill worth -$12.

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ronsboy67, to bookstodon
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A question prompted by "Crime Wave at Blandings", the first story in "Lord Emsworth and Others, which I currently . PGW has Lord Emsworth saying "dooce" a lot. In my quasi-literate ignorance, that seems like an Americanism, the sort of thing PGW might have picked from living there. Would a very English Earl of the era have said "deuce" as "dooce" , or would he have been more like to say /djuːs/ ? @bookstodon

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@ronsboy67 @bookstodon
Are you reading an American edition perhaps? Maybe someone has a U.K. edition and can compare?

ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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Meanwhile in #Paris..... having been subjected to a #bedbug infestation & a #sewage problem in the #Seine, now the #Olympics organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside #book stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...

How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen

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@riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

Bibliothecarmen, to bookstodon German
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Somehow I missed this trend: When did trivial medical romance become trivial romance?

Dieser Trend ist irgendwie an mir vorbeigegangen: Wann wurde aus dem trivialen Arztroman der triviale :in-Roman?

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@SemAntiKast @Bibliothecarmen @bookstodon
https://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Vintage-cover-of-Nympho-Librarian-painted-by-Paul-Rader.html

Daojoan, to random
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You either die a hero, or you live long enough to rebrand with a sans serif logo

negative12dollarbill,
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@Daojoan
If it's simply your company name in a specific font, does it even count as a "logo" any more?

The IBM logo is a real logo: it is composed of stripes. I can't just type the three letters, choose the right font and I'm done. It has another, hard-to-replicate aspect.

Essentially, nobody HAS a logo any more.

evanpeterjones, to bookstodon
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Dan Brown only sucks if you're more pretentious about his books than his books are, lol. They're just corny and fun little adventures and I'm convinced it's just jealous authors who drive the Dan Brown hate.

Not every book has to drive you into an existential crisis to be enjoyable.

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@CommonMugwort @evanpeterjones @bookstodon

If you haven't read this, check it out—Brown's writing is bad at the sentence level … and the subclause level and the word level.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html

andrew, to law
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Playing around with a new little robot lawyer person for esq.social. Who wins? Original little critter first.

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@andrew @law
Number 2, but with a smile like number 4.

ramblingreaders, to bookstodon
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Do you know there's a alternative to Amazon-owned ? is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different instances and on . You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available @bookstodon

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@ramblingreaders @danialbehzadi @bookstodon
This is correct.

There aren't only two kinds of software, fully open source vs. proprietary.

So to say “it's not open-source therefore it's proprietary” is like saying a crocodile is an insect because it's not a mammal. It's a category error.

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@danialbehzadi @ramblingreaders @bookstodon
Blocked

DocCarms, to bookstodon
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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (English translated):
“It is inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
@bookstodon

negative12dollarbill,
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@DocCarms @bookstodon

I'm fascinated by this one:

“The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel”

because changes in technology have changed its meaning dramatically since 1982. What colour are you imagining?

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@Montaagge @bookstodon
I read an article once which said research showed that Harry Potter books had kids reading LESS. They would read one, then wait a year for the next one.

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@DocCarms @bookstodon
This article is great. It's neither a first line nor a novel, but it argues for one single comma being the author's "favorite comma in all of literature".

https://medium.com/@penguinrandomus/shirley-jacksons-sublime-first-paragraph-in-hill-house-annotated-14834632fc61

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@Kay @Montaagge @bookstodon

Surely if they read all the books in a row then all the books had been published already?

negative12dollarbill,
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@shaedrich @Montaagge @bookstodon I think you're missing the point a little? If you want kids to eat fruit and they love only one type — they will only eat mangoes when they're in season — your kids eat less fruit overall.

surya, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon

negative12dollarbill,
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@surya @bookstodon
That typo is extremely annoying

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negative12dollarbill,
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@Kay @CommonMugwort @bookstodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0K6ojmGZA

negative12dollarbill, to random
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I have a pretty big Mastodon question/problem.

I'm trying to link someone who doesn't have an account to this thread:

https://techhub.social/@[email protected]/110753630156713990

which contains an image for each country in the world.

I can see it at that URL.

But when I go to that thread in Incognito/a browser where I'm not logged in, I get redirected to this URL:

https://universeodon.com/@LadyDragonfly/110753630154110925

which cuts off after Brunei.

What's happening, how can I stop it, and how can I share that full thread with someone not on Mastodon?

This is kind of a blow to my evangelism.

negative12dollarbill,
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@feditips perhaps you have some insight?

negative12dollarbill,
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@feditips
Maybe it’s intentional — to start showing some replies after 20-odd posts in a thread? To show replies after 10% of the thread? To show replies as soon as they start showing up?

But the fact that there is

• a radically different view for the logged in and the non-logged-in user, and
• no obvious affordance to let the non-logged in user see the rest of the thread

is a major bug, I feel.

thevglibrary, to bookstodon
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No matter what language you speak, you'll find something to enjoy in !

🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇳🇱 🇹🇷

👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/guinness-world-records-2018-gamer-s-edition

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@EclecticLee @thevglibrary @bookstodon
He’s huge on gaming YouTube. Or he was.

negative12dollarbill,
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@MrComradeTaco @collegefurtrader
Not to be that guy, but I think accessibility advocates would rather you didn't do that, because it causes issues for screen readers for the visually handicapped.

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