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Hey, #trans people, #trans kids, #trans allies, Happy #TransDayOfVisiblity!
We see you, we love you, we accept you.
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Be like Dr. Howell, nerds
https://liberapay.com/tarsius #magit
https://liberapay.com/fediscience #fediscience
https://liberapay.com/org-mode/ #orgmode
Find your favorite projects: https://liberapay.com/explore/
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Be like Dr. Howell, nerds
https://liberapay.com/tarsius #magit
https://liberapay.com/fediscience #fediscience
https://liberapay.com/org-mode/ #orgmode
Find your favorite projects: https://liberapay.com/explore/
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Be like Dr. Howell, nerds
https://liberapay.com/tarsius #magit
https://liberapay.com/fediscience #fediscience
https://liberapay.com/org-mode/ #orgmode
Find your favorite projects: https://liberapay.com/explore/
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Be like Dr. Howell, nerds
https://liberapay.com/tarsius #magit
https://liberapay.com/fediscience #fediscience
https://liberapay.com/org-mode/ #orgmode
Find your favorite projects: https://liberapay.com/explore/
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Be like Dr. Howell, nerds
https://liberapay.com/tarsius #magit
https://liberapay.com/fediscience #fediscience
https://liberapay.com/org-mode/ #orgmode
Find your favorite projects: https://liberapay.com/explore/
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What did Kurt #Vonnegut teach you about #evolution?
"If I had known twenty years ago that I would be assigning short papers like this one," to paraphrase Henry Miller, "I would have GONE OFF LIKE A BOMB"
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What did Kurt #Vonnegut teach you about #evolution?
"If I had known twenty years ago that I would be assigning short papers like this one," to paraphrase Henry Miller, "I would have GONE OFF LIKE A BOMB"
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What did Kurt #Vonnegut teach you about #evolution?
"If I had known twenty years ago that I would be assigning short papers like this one," to paraphrase Henry Miller, "I would have GONE OFF LIKE A BOMB"
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What did Kurt #Vonnegut teach you about #evolution?
"If I had known twenty years ago that I would be assigning short papers like this one," to paraphrase Henry Miller, "I would have GONE OFF LIKE A BOMB"
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What did Kurt #Vonnegut teach you about #evolution?
"If I had known twenty years ago that I would be assigning short papers like this one," to paraphrase Henry Miller, "I would have GONE OFF LIKE A BOMB"
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(setopt shr-use-colors nil)
THIS SETTING COMPLETELY FIXES what has been by far my biggest annoyance with mu4e. Namely the ghastly clash of awful foreground and background colors in messages that can only be rendered as HTML.
Thanks to Wouter Groeneveld for this tip and many other improvements to mu4e!
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/customizing-the-emacs-email-experience-with-mu4e/
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@ericsfraga @mstempl I learned about all three of #Emacs, #TeXLaTeX, and #literateprogramming at the same time in the late 1980s.
The first two always went together, and the third was a dream, a thing only the gods upon Mount Knuth-lympus could do.
Then, much later! Oh happy day! #OrgMode came along, and all three were baked into a warm, delicious pound cake. The tool that decisively allowed me to become a confident Emacs user was to make my config a literate Org document. Inspired by @sacha's example! Having it be a document, structured as an outline, with paragraphs of prose, was just qualitatively different from a monolithic lisp file.
Collapsing outline elements (1) allow fractal movement between a gestalt and detailed view, and (2) impose structure. There is no way to overstate how necessary are both of these for managing even as small a project as my ... HOLY SHIT, I JUST LOOKED, and my config is more than 1,800 lines of code!
Okay, point proved
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@marlinz's "Constantly fighting for structure" includes "constantly fighting against friction, because the slightest friction can become paralyzing, especially additively."
Conversely, removing distractions becomes a long-term exercise in continuous subtraction. Removing UI elements until only the essential is visible. Removing steps in workflows. Paradoxically, ADDING steps (single keystrokes) to workflows in order to reveal options in steps rather than presenting all the choices. Each reduction is tiny, but the cumulative effect—over years—is a huge reduction in stress and a huge increase in productivity throughout the day.
Much more of the day in focus. Much more of the day in flow.
For someone else's brain, context switching between a bunch of desktop apps might feel like the same cognitive burden as switching between #Emacs buffers. But for me, #OrgMode, #mu4e, and #magit have not just changed how I work.
They allow me to control how I work, with results that have been a binary, qualitative improvement.
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@leehall Funny to see a notification that you had followed me on here, only a couple hours after I read your piece in CounterPunch. Always inspired by the creative dredging of our suppressed and falsified history.
Students laugh at me because I never quit banging on about how we are apes. I think it does sink in for some of them....
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Well now this is strange. I could swear none of these books were in my suitcase at the beginning of this trip
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Well now this is strange. I could swear none of these books were in my suitcase at the beginning of this trip
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Well now this is strange. I could swear none of these books were in my suitcase at the beginning of this trip
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Well now this is strange. I could swear none of these books were in my suitcase at the beginning of this trip
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Well now this is strange. I could swear none of these books were in my suitcase at the beginning of this trip
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Dr. Howell says VISIT THIS BOOKSTORE
The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah Georgia USA. You can trust me on this kind of thing: this is one of the best used bookstores in the world.
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Dr. Howell says VISIT THIS BOOKSTORE
The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah Georgia USA. You can trust me on this kind of thing: this is one of the best used bookstores in the world.
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Dr. Howell says VISIT THIS BOOKSTORE
The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah Georgia USA. You can trust me on this kind of thing: this is one of the best used bookstores in the world.
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Dr. Howell says VISIT THIS BOOKSTORE
The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah Georgia USA. You can trust me on this kind of thing: this is one of the best used bookstores in the world.
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Dr. Howell says VISIT THIS BOOKSTORE
The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah Georgia USA. You can trust me on this kind of thing: this is one of the best used bookstores in the world.
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The neighbor kid three doors down won a national science fair. With work that is truly incredible.
https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/article314998319.html
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For all of her ghastly faults, Constance Garnett's translations of #Tolstoy include comically frequent repetition of the phrase "hateful and loathsome."
That's it. That's the post. It's already in the public domain, but here I give it to you anyway:
"Hateful and loathsome."
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What are the gifts of #Emacs? What does she provide that is precious to us? @chesheer
First gift: the Four Freedoms. I have learned a little, over lo, these 37 years, but (as @joeress might say) "I'm too thick." I cannot replace most of my packages, much less write a featureful version control like #Magit!
Second gift: the Community! Let the world know that I still trust @tarsius with my life. Here I again publicly thank him for Magit. I could give up this package or that package, but I WILL FIGHT to support @publicvoit @daviwil @sacha @rougier @howard @bbatsov @xenodium @danderzei @oantolin @minad @tusharhero @kickingvegas @divyaranjan @sanityinc @ramin_hal9001 @andros @yantar92 @bzg @mousebot @ericsfraga @amake @mms @pixelate @susam (sorry if I forgot you)