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[nemfrog]

North American passenger railway routes in the 1930s. Social studies, intermediate grades. 1938.

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From a textbook uploaded by LexW

[buddienetwork]

Welcome to buddienetwork, a new network by and for fans of buddie.

This network is meant as a place for the buddie fandom to come together. An all-in-one place for buddie-related fandom events, whether that's events we're hosting or events coming from the thriving buddie community. Gifs, fic, those buddie playlists we all seem to have on our Spotify, text posts, meta - we're here for it all. We want to build a place for us to all come together and celebrate, so we're building it here.

Buddienetwork was created to be a place for all buddie fans to come together, so whether you’re freak4freak, joy4joy, or even a multishipper with a certain fire-themed poly ship, we’re here for you.

See you there, cowboy. Apply here.

[felixsource]

Introducing felixsource ──.★

This is an open network dedicated to Felix from Stray Kids. Will be tracking #felixsource, please feel free to tag your creations! ��� Content that will be reblogged: ✦ Gifs ✦ Graphics/Edits ✦ Fanart ✦ Mood Boards ✦ Resources (icons, banners, lockscreens etc) Content that won’t be reblogged: ✧ Nsfw 18+ content ✧ Anything that is stolen or reposted

Would love so much if you could signal boost this post to get the word out, thank you!!

[thirdity]

The [literary] canon is not a list. Though from time to time the canon presents itself as a paradigm, this is merely a flattened representation of a complex system, of a rhizome, of a syntagm, or simply of an abstract set of interrelations, too rich to be mappable with any sophistication in less than three — and more likely four — dimensions.

Samuel R. Delany, "The Para•doxa Interview"

[postcardsfromheapside]

I am old, and I am tired.

I just need to be so clear right now.

If y'all are using chatgpt to find information, you've already lost.

Also, I'm not sure what kind of connecting you're looking to do, but on a most basic level:

We used to have things called “third spaces,” which have effectively disappeared, where people (kids especially) could hang out - there are a couple books out about this whose exact names escape me at the moment but if you google “books” and “third spaces” you can find them.

But also, quite simply, you get invited to something with friends, then meet friends of friends, and talk to people. I met the person who has been sort of chatting at me that way - not through social media.

If you needed to find a specific person, for research, for information, whatever, you could ask Google, you could ask a librarian, you could start asking other adults until someone pointed you to who you needed to talk to, and gave you the contact info. It was work, and you actually had to communicate with other human beings, but it had a surprising success rate.

[scaredappliances]

Canonically fucks with sublime

[writing-with-olive]

Alright so with the state of the world, you've probably heard calls to "get in community" and "support your community" and "do community" and lots of action phrases that otherwise involve the word community.

But how…. exactly…. do you do that?

First thing, toss out the idea that community is flashy. There may be outliers, but for the most part, your community isn't going to be some well-oiled commune that is also liberating the world with explosions and rousing speeches in front of millions. I know I'm being a bit over the top, but with the rhetoric I see online, newbie activists could be forgiven for thinking that's what they're supposed to be doing. Scale down. Community is about supporting each other, not about optics.

Next up, understand that you ARE ALREADY AMONG your community members. When people who know what they're talking about say "find community" or "get organized," they're not saying "find some new group of people and wrangle them together," they're saying "get intentional with your interactions with people you already know." A lot of getting organizing off the ground is mindset, more than it is anything else.

Identify what connects you to other people you already know, regardless of whether or not those other people know each other. I'm not talking about titles (employee, parent, friend, sister, coworker), I'm talking about how you engage with others. For particular individuals, do you provide monetary support, transportation, interesting conversation, advice, food, or something else? Do you receive any of these things from others? This takes practice, but I do encourage you to think about connections with others from the perspective of support. Do note that many dynamics won't be perfectly balanced, and that's normal -- we're observing how we help one another, not establishing a tit-for-tat system.

Once you have a sense of how you're connected to people, you can get intentional with it. To be clear, this doesn't necessarily mean formalizing something (though it can), it means making sure these connections don't fall by the wayside. If doing game night with your friends is something that helps you relax and de-stress, consider being the one to reach out to form plans instead of waiting for your buddy to do it. If you have a large platform, boost information you think people should know. If younger co-workers look to you for encouragement, let them know more often specific things they've accomplished that you appreciate. If you need help moving things and a friend is stronger and is cool with doing that with you, reach out and ask for help, rather than waiting for an offer. Recognize and respect if people say no, or aren't available for something, but there's no harm in asking for help or connection, or offering it.

If you want, scale up. There may be things that you want to do that aren't immediately attainable within the dynamics you already have with people. In this case, look for groups that are already doing the sort of thing you want to do -- community action takes people power. Be the people power. The personal benefit to this is that you'll be putting yourself in proximity with other people that have similar interests and motivations so you're more likely to hear about more stuff that's going on that might pique your interest as well.

If there is a hobby you're interested in, look up "[your city], [hobby name]" and see what groups are established. Same goes if there's an issue you want to address. For example, I do a lot of work with food insecurity in my town, which means looking up local food pantries or the food bank and signing up for volunteer slots. Sometimes I get friends or family to go with. If there is an organization in your area that does good work, but doesn't have an established volunteer program, call them or shoot them an email and let them know that you appreciate the work that they do (be specific, it lets them know what particularly caught your attention/that you actually did your research), and that if they have a need, you're interested in volunteering with them.

This post is getting long, so I'm going to cap it here, but if you want more examples, or me to go into more depth on anything send me an ask and I'd love to. TL;DR, toss out the idea that community is fancy and engage with the people you already know.

[ve-lial]

bathroom cablegore

[talos-stims]

cisco packet tracer | source

[protoslacker]

Autocracy, Inc: Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat in Conversation

The 92nd Street Y, New York

An important conversation from July.

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum

[spaceintruderdetector]

Cyborg Mind - What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[arctic-hands]

I got my little Zerowriter epaper typing machine working the other day and I'm having fun writing on it and since I actually remembered to install Samba on it so I can actually transfer the txt documents I bang out on it to my laptop to actually edit and further save it.

The problem being that I actually have no idea what Samba or SMB is, I have no idea what will happen to my documents if wifi is down or otherwise off, I don't know how it will save if I make this ultra portable and am away from my laptop and home wifi, and I have no idea what Google Play apps are actually trustworthy to put on my phone to access the network on my Samsung android if that's a thing I need to do if I want to write away from my wifi

Halp I'm the most tech-inept millennial and don't understand shit it took seven hours to get the raspi and Samba working and i may have cried q but bc I didn't know what I was doing

[dciricnetworks]

movement path generation: urban scenario definition, tree-search structure based on established network connectivities, displaying values for relevant parameters (e.g., proximity, landmark, heritage, etc.), decision-making differs with each path increment with respect to defined scenario and path parameter

Source: ©dciric, 2024

Software: Grasshopper

[proserpentina]

Everything is intricately interconnected

[coolcomicbookcovers]