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  1. A quotation from Joubert

    It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
     
    [Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

    Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
    Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

  2. @ianbetteridge

    I've heard the suggestion that Facebook is great if you're interested in people, and Twitter is great if you're interested in ideas. That was certainly the reason that I favoured Twitter!

    #My #worry #about #Mastodon #is #quite #foundational#its #apparent #inability #to #search #for #terms #that #aren't #hashtagged. #This #makes #it #much #less #effective #as #a #way #to #see #who's #talking #about #a #particular #aspect #of #a #topic.

    Unless you write like that, of course!