. . . @wion@writing.exchange

I’ve never read #Ecotopia, but I think I might have to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia

I like what I’m seeing there.

For a long time I actually saw the PNW (where I’m from) as one of the best places for such an idea, as depicted in the book, though it’s too far adulterated at this point.

I think somewhere up by Lithuania and Latvia would be the best fit now. Potential threats from the east, though, and it wouldn’t be the first time.

Haha.. There’s a bar in Paris called The Fluids Mechanic (La Mécanique des Fluides).

I guess The Mixologist was too controversial of choice...

https://www.linguee.fr/anglais-francais/traduction/mixologist.html

I don't even know which high school, exactly, either, so it would begin as shortlist process of of walking through and checking. Seems quite unlikely being worth the effort.

Wonder what the odds are of finding a student enrollment list for a French high school circa 1935...

I mean, I don't even think the high school at this point would have that information.

Curious game: Beholder.

In a world where privacy is out the window, moral choices can mean helping your neighbors or keeping your family alive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beholder_(video_game)

Beholder by Creative Mobile https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/beholder/id1205486761?l=en&mt=8

The handling of the Buffalo Soldiers was lame, though. That was an opportunity in the story for something much more interesting than what happened there.

Godless is pretty good, and Dockery is fine. (I am a sucker for westerns and freckles.)

Just flipped on the dark theme in Qwant. So many software UIs are offering dark now. It’s cool.

My digital experience is nearly all dark mode now. I only use-walk the city at virtual night.

I feel far from the centralized startup boolsheeters and their marketing-addled cult-of-personality systems. (Quitting all of those platforms helped, of course.)

Bring on the seclusive and quiet dark embrace.

I don’t know how ‘wait for it’ gets by editors, but it makes me cringe every time I see it in writing:

‘In addition to the ubiquitous protein balls . . . you can now buy protein noodles . . . and – wait for it – protein coffee.’

The editor should have told the author about the ubiquitous ‘wait for it’.

Readers don’t want to wait for it. They want it now, if it’s even worth sharing at all. They have better things to do than read useless diction meant for speech, unless that speech is dialog.

There seems to be a growing number young teens in the ‘verse, thus I’m second-guessing everything I post and boost now. It’s not really the community I want to have to navigate.

This m’don app I use doesn’t provide the delete/redraft function and it really irks me, because I mainly use m’don via phone. Grrr!

Anyway, overlook the typos. My big dumb thumbs don’t do well on these tiny phone keys. And I don’t have the patience of a saint for socmed posts.

Ancestry.com is immensely popular, apparently, and it seems to be helping people on one hand, but all that DNA collection has me very concerned.