Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@KitRedgrave anyway, heaven or earth, these are things which can only be analysed through the lens of history

a ruler may appear terrible but remain in power; perhaps the jade emperor saw reason to grant him favour

a ruler may appear just, but fail to sustain power; perhaps the jade emperor found him weak

after the fact, we can often look back and enumerate reasons why such‐and‐such did or did not lose control, but we can never look forward and say whether they will maintain it

@KitRedgrave communist party of china doesn’t have the mandate of heaven, they have the mandate of the people

whether they meet that mandate is open to debate

@alyssa in fanfiction taking a phrase and putting the second half of it in parentheses is an incredibly cliché trope for fanfic titles

the quote above is a well-known line from a sappho poem; formatting it like a clichéd fanfiction title (and i did get this from a title of a fanfic) is really, uh, how do i put it…

1) unnecessary, because the line was perfectly fine the way it was before, and they could have just used that as the title directly

2) anachronistic, which would be acceptable if this was a fanfiction ABOUT sappho, maybe as a teenage girl in a modern setting (but it was not)

3) aggravating, because it doesn't even fit the format well (the second half is way longer than the first, causing the whole thing to feel unbalanced) which distracts from the poetry of the original line (which did not depend on that kind of symmetry)

although a fair bit of my aggravation comes from the fact that this is SUCH a common and overused title trope; if it weren’t, there would be no reason for the author to have made this choice; the impression is that they liked this line (understandable) and liked that title format (i disagree but whatever) and just mashed the two together without ever stopping to think about whether that actually worked

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why doesn't internet archive host git repos instead of doing whatever self-righteous fights they are picking now

turning a company’s loss leader into a cornerstone of your workflow/movement/culture and expecting it to just be there forever as an act of goodwill is not a viable longterm strategy

i do think it is a cultural loss but i also do not think that private corporations should be stewards of our culture in the first place

that is the real problem which needs to be addressed

obviously people use the git repos that gitlab is looking to delete; if people didn't use them, they wouldn't save money by deleting them

professor juniper…

bug pokémon……

just for three seconds please assume that the person you are speaking to is not current on the past three decades of leftist thought and furthermore does not give a shit

“but the problem of today is capital” no the problem of today is organizing and you’re failing at it

these people are always getting interviewed for a piece because there’s never any reason to interview them in their own right

you ever read someone get interviewed for a piece and be like “oh my god can you not be a leftist weirdo for like five seconds”

muppet kobold: rawr

if there aren't muppets in the new d&d movie i'm not watching it