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7 Jan

@GreatDismal

In his 2014 novel The Peripheral, @GreatDismal plunges us into a far-future London, radically depopulated, quietly authoritarian, and under the iron thumb of "the Klept" - a fusion of the British chumocracy with post-Soviet Eurasian kleptoracy.

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The origins of this society - its depopulation, its neo-aristocracy, its captivity to inscrutable AIs called "the Aunties" are lost to history. 3/

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6 Jan

twin peaks
– 1.05, “the one-armed man” wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/672650647…

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6 Jan

The Haunted Mansion (WDW) disneyshauntedmansion.tumblr.com/post/672641119…

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6 Jan

Theda Bara in Salome (1918) draculasdaughter.tumblr.com/post/672594245…

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5 Jan

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Hospital beds are a monopoly; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/05/hil…

#Pluralistic 1/

Note: I'm having my (other) hip replaced on Jan 11 and I've got a LOT of work to clear up between now and then. This may (or may not!) be the last edition of Pluralistic until I'm recovered from the surgery. 2/

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Hospital beds are a monopoly: The casket to hospital bed monopoly pipeline.

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5 Jan

@publicdomain

The great @publicdomain tells an important parable about the coining of the term "ecology." Before the term came into wide use, the "ecology movement" as we know it was just a bunch of fragmented, seemingly disconnected issues.

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Like, if you're worried about owls and I'm worried about the ozone layer, it's not immediately apparent that we're fighting the same fight. It's not intuitive to link the fate of charismatic nocturnal avians to the gaseous composition of the upper atmosphere, right? 3/

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