Tommy "The Purchase"

Listening to the history of the Norse settlement of Greenland taught me one thing: To get farmland going way up North, you need to shit all over it.

Believe it or not, right wing authoritarianism is not the only possible answer to left wing authoritarianism. And those who say that "we" must oppress the people and force them to think our way in order for "them" to be unable to accumulate power is the same type of narrow-minded aggressive power-grabbing of which you accused "them" to begin with. Or to put it differently: "He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Owning nothing sure is expensive.

I like that ribbon type old-timey bookmark that beautifully bound books still have. Alas, I don't have the means to buy a whole lot of those so I mostly read print-on-demand paperbacks by fantastic, yet nearly forgotten authors. So I built myself a crooked little brass clip with a ribbon attached to enjoy some classic bookmarking action on any old pile of recycled paper I have on my puny bookshelf. Not an ad, not a piece of art, just a fun side project that didn't require a computer for once 😄

Just came home with a Pixel 10, any advice concerning GrapheneOS that isn't in the docs? Like, is it actually trustworthy or is it in any way related to state actors?