#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/

#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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#5yrsago Notre Dame and 73 other institutions secretly conspired with the Trump administration to deny #BirthControl https://theintercept.com/2018/10/11/notre-dame-health-insurance-birth-control-trump/

#5yrsago #FamilySeparations: the Trump administration stole thousands more children than previously reported https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/usa-catastrophic-immigration-policies-resulted-in-more-family-separations-than-previously-disclosed/

#5yrsago Dystopia watch: Guide to spotting #HiddenCameras in your #Airbnb https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/how-to-find-hidden-cameras/

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#5yrsago #SAD: #Doonesbury’s collected Trump strips afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted https://memex.craphound.com/2018/09/18/sad-doonesburys-collected-trump-strips-afflict-the-comfortable-and-comfort-the-afflicted/

#5yrsago Photos: #HongKongDisneyland in the aftermath of Super Typhoon #Mangkhut https://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2018/09/photos-hong-kong-disneyland-devastated.html</a.

#5yrsago #AjitPai: California #NetNeutrality law is “illegal” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/ajit-pai-calls-californias-net-neutrality-rules-illegal/

#5yrsago North Carolina #Verizon customers, trapped by #HurricaneFlorence, say they’re being throttled and upsold https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9glj90/big_shout_out_to_verizon_for_throttling_data_for/

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#5yrsago Chinese spies force US-based #Uighurs into “voluntary” surveillance by threatening their families in China https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-police-are-spying-on-uighurson-american-soil

#5yrsago CEO-to-worker #WageGap yawns ever wider, hitting 312:1 in 2017, up by 17.6% https://www.epi.org/press/top-ceos-compensation-increased-17-6-percent-in-2017/

#5yrsago Portugal proves that# austerity doesn’t work https://www.truthdig.com/articles/let-this-be-the-end-of-austerity-once-and-for-all/

#5yrsago Big Bang: the “stupid patent” on #teledildonics has expired https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne55x8/teledildonics-patent-has-expired

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#5yrsago Chicago’s ‘#AlohaPoke Co’ wants Hawaiians to stop using the words ‘aloha’ and ‘poke’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/07/30/a-midwestern-chain-told-hawaiians-to-stop-using-aloha-with-poke-igniting-a-heated-debate

#5yrsago #Koch thinktank inadvertently proves that America would save trillions by switching to #SocializedMedicine https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/30/koch-funded-hit-piece-backfires-shows-medicare-all-would-save-whopping-2-trillion

#5yrsago #FDA warns companies: stop selling quack “#VaginalRejuvenation,” adds, “People, please don’t do this to yourselves” https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/dont-try-to-rejuvenate-your-vagina-the-fda-warns-after-scolding-companies/

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