So we need to hunt them down, then.

Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling is the story of a boy coming of age in colonial India. Kipling grew up in India himself, and the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with a Tibetan llama is mind-blowing. Meanwhile Kim is drawn into the “Great Game” of spying between the European powers. It’s a deeply moving and beautiful book. Best of all, you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats!

It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.

I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.

I can’t imagine how a smaller person could cook with one of those things. It’s all I can do to lift it to dump out whatever I’ve been cooking.

I saw a much bigger Lodge skillet in a department store; maybe it was 15 in, maybe more. Anyway, I couldn’t even shift it with one hand. It took two hands just to move it, and it wasn’t easy!

He’s finally part of the “in” crowd. Notice that both Republicans and Democrats are pretty much eager to avoid looking at his crimes; instead both parties are just fundraising off of him.

My 10" cast iron Lodge skillet. It’s great! And don’t believe all the people who claim that you have to devote most of your life to taking care of your cast iron. They’re cast iron for God’s sake! Pioneers took them all the way across America in their Conestoga wagons. Just don’t leave them wet or stick them in a dishwashing machine, and you’re fine!

Not bad! The anchor was a little off on his definition of subreddits, and they could have mentioned spez lying and the accessibility issues more. Plus it would have been nice if they had mentioned Lemmy by name. But all in all, not too bad!

The many thousands of free ebooks at Project Gutenberg and on other sites like it.

I didn’t trust it WITH him!

I agree that the double @ is off-putting.

107k. But what really matters to me are the thanks I got from people I helped out with book recommendations.

I was agitating too.

But nobody’s dying. Yes, communities are being broken up and fragmented. But the individuals who made up those communities are still there. They still have thoughts and opinions to share. One way or another, they WILL be back.

This has happened many times before. I’ve seen it. It will happen again. But maybe, this time, the Fediverse will provide a place for the best of those communities to be safe…free from the greed of our psychotic ruling class.

Absolutely. Capitalists are mad dogs. You are never ever safe with them. I like the Fediverse. I’d like to see it improved by becoming fully democratic and publicly funded.

Tildes is, but it doesn’t sound good to me.

I’d like to know, too! Can we even swear here?

Just like Dr. Mengele!

“These eyes are brown…I would prefer them to be blue!” -spez

But isn’t squabbles owned by a single company? I thought I heard that. So the same thing will probably end up happening there.

No, I signed up for Mastodon long ago. Didn’t get a ton of use out of it, but I posted there occasionally. I’ve had too many platforms bought out from under me and turned to crap, so the idea of the fetaverse appeals to me. Okay, the fetaverse was invented by Android voice dictation. I invite everyone to come up with their own ideas of what that Greek cheese-based universe might be like. 😆

But I’ve gotten far more into the Fediverse In the last two or three days then in the previous 59 years. I’ve set up Lemmy, kbin, and BookWyrm accounts. I know they can all theoretically connect, but I don’t know how to do it yet.

I think Lemmy desperately needs to integrate two things:

• The ability to search for communities across instances inside of Lemmy (I’m aware of the search option outside of Lemmy, but that’s less than ideal)
• The ability to easily search within posts A) in all local communities, B) in all subscribed communities, and C) across all communities in the whole Fediverse. Yes, I’m aware that C) is a huge ask. But I think it’s vital to the success of Lemmy.

That really should be built into Lemmy.