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@dx it's the number 1 feature driving me to want to update my instance into a hometown instance

@ja_herre i'll check out that Veyne book, thanks for the recommendation!

i'm just saying the refrain of "i'm against religion because i'm against all false realities" really falls flat when you examine "religion" as a category at all

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i wonder how the Brent Nongbri book "Before Religion" would be received

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i think i'd like to do a religion thread on here some time. a way to whet my writing, which i've put off for too long. i'd want it to be opening up some of the repetitions i see in the discourses of ostensibly left critics (like anarchists)

picking a gender mark where i live is so easy holy shit

i have figured out the secret to mastodon engagement

@argumento people who are okay with genocide never like being associated with the name of the concept

@julieofthespirits @2d as someone whose only experience with academia was working IT/software-dev at a uni for 5 years - it's nice to have some others with more experience helping me adjust my understanding

if you're an academic who doesnt make their papers widely accessible for free you can not complain about your fellow citizens "not following the science"

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@mycorrhiza ooh! thanks for makin it easy for me!! ill definitely try this out

@leggylav @mycorrhiza i was actually just about to write a response cause i found it, but thank you bunches!

@mycorrhiza tried searching to no avail. everything just wants to spam me with AI stuff thanks to google gemini.

@mycorrhiza ive *not* heard of this! thank you! whats the "Gemini" in the url mean here?

@gardencourt aaaaand external hard drives exist! perfect for large databases of texts that you dont regularly need to grab from but still want permanent access to when you do need to grab one!

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