There is just something so grating about seeing someone who isn’t the target of oppression explain how it makes them feel freer.
– Sarah McLaughlin på Mastodon (link med kontekst)
There is just something so grating about seeing someone who isn’t the target of oppression explain how it makes them feel freer.
– Sarah McLaughlin på Mastodon (link med kontekst)
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
– R.H. Tawney, ‘Religion and the Rise of Capitalism’ (1926)
We should see the theoretical and the practical as informing one another, but too often we see them in opposition. E.g. the “productivity hack” is the enemy of theoretical reflection. Productivity and reflections are sides of a coin.
“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”
Mens voksne bruger det nedsættende begreb Curlingbørn, så tager de selv raskt ud i weekenden og modtager en medalje for at gennemføre et ligegyldigt motionsløb i en middelmådig tid. Dette dokumenteres naturligvis på de digitale medier, så venner og bekendte har mulighed for at anerkende denne ikkepræstation.
– Niels Overgaard: Det hele handler ikke om dig, s. 20
The structural differences between in-game play and in-game work are mostly arbitrary, and “real” work is half a game, anyway. Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called “professionalism” that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions-every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny.
– Cory Doctorow: In real life
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain
‘I just don’t feel like a submarine is a real boat. Like, it’s the bottom of a boat twice. It’s a boat sandwich.’
– Gamefully Unemployed podcast review of Crimson Tide.
Rocco’s voice had a musical quality—like an accordion being kicked down some stairs.
– Alex White: A big ship at the edge of the universe
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.
– Charles Bukowski, Book of Love