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@djsundog https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/ is very old but still pretty widely used i think for querying the contents of collections; might be somewhere to look for that piece

@djsundog i think there is an assumption that any large collection will require some searching to navigate, and search is often a bit fine-tuned, so there hasn't been a ton of work to standardize navigating and exploring collections across platforms

but assuming you have found a resource and have a link to it, there has been a lot of work into how you can then reuse that resource in lots of places

@djsundog i’d probably start by considering https://iiif.io/

@aescling you devolved?

@akjcv it's very “how do we dechristianize our family traditions” but i think it will be good

i like the gradual lighting of more candles as new years approaches; the traditional third pink candle lines up with the week of the solstice; and orienting the holidays around weekends will work well with our schedules

we both have things we like doing in winter but have zero attachment to the christian trappings surrounding it (or to christmas in particular)

@coriander (<https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm>)

@coriander In its struggle against these conditions criticism is not a passion of the head but the head of passion.  It is not a lancet, it is a weapon.  Its object is an ENEMY it wants not to refute but to DESTROY.  For the spirit of these conditions has already been refuted.  In and for themselves they are objects not WORTHY OF THOUGHT but EXISTENCES as despicable as they are despised.  Criticism itself does not even need to be concerned with this matter, for it is already clear about it.  Criticism is no longer an END IN ITSELF but simply a MEANS.

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The criticism dealing with this matter is criticism in HAND-TO-HAND combat, and in such combat the point is not whether the opponent is noble, equal, or INTERESTING, the point is to STRIKE him.

@akjcv @Satsuma your worldbuilding should not dictate what you can write; what you want to write should dictate your worldbuilding

@akjcv why would you want to pretend you don’t hold your sincerely held religious beliefs

@coriander wikipedia claims one major reason the colonialist stuff got added to thanksgiving was because it made it easier to teach colonial nationalism in schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries if it was attached to a holiday

@coriander anyway the whole colonialist thing is actually revisionism; it was just a calvinist get-together for folks who thought christmas was idolatry