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@aescling my university recommended Karl Marx: Selected Writings ed. Lawrence H. Simon pub. Hackett, which begins with the sentences « Karl Marx is the most influential thinker of the modern period. Indeed, one could go further and claim that, in terms of sheer numbers, Marx’s ideas have had a greater impact on more people than those of anyone else in history, with Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad his closest rivals. »

a character who i previously knew nothing about is suddenly potentially quite important to my fic

it doesn't rain often enough for when it rains not to effectively douse the poles in electrolyte solution

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there are dilfs in pokémon too i’m just gay

@aescling it would be more fun though if our tools helped us do our work instead of making our work difficult

is it possible to wrangle the mastodon codebase into something it is fun and easy to contribute to? and other unsolved problems of computer science

« Link wasn’t exactly sure *why* this was a special occasion, but he liked the breakfast, so any reason was a good one. »

how is it pronounced

« This Pokémon is popular among the elderly, who say the vibrations of its lumps are great for massages. »

this is a real pokédex entry for a real pokémon; yet nobody has written about it doing sex work yet

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did you know that there is a vibrator pokémon and nobody has written a sexy fic about it yet

@emmy understand git and how contribution workflows built around git and related technologies (e.g. github) operate

employ that workflow in some kind of project so that you have something to talk about in an interview

demonstrate an understanding of how your actions today can make things easier or harder for others, including yourself, in the future, and provide strategies you employ to make the correct decision

@aescling there's a stone mural warning people "when the absol appears, it is warning glalie froze over the spring and there will be a massive steam eruption soon" but the semiotics were lost and so people thought it was saying "absol brings disaster" instead

we were talking about the Flabébé episode and how it was really about the importance of pollinators

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my girlfriend was like “lesbian pokémon dune would be dope”

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i think it goes really understated how even the very simple things in Pokémon like “Peck is super-effective against Bug-types” still does more exploration into the natural world and ecosystems and interactions between different kinds of life than like 99% of videogames, and maybe even fictional media

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we talked about how the absol episode was like nuclear semiotics

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A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.