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a while back i was trying to collect certain published articles on animal intelligence and animal speech but i stopped. i should really pick that back up again. i just came across someone talking about articles published recently about decoding animal language.

yearning for local-only posts

let me talk to my peeps on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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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cant believe how they tricked us all into thinking we dont deserve to be able to make and share our own copies of information

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Hey! Are you publishing an academic text?

MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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HEY! Are you a University Student? Do you have access to databases of published papers?

SAVE THEM! WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WON'T HAVE ACCESS ANYMORE! SAVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER LOOKED AT - SAVE MORE IF YOU CAN!

gonna centralize some of the tools people have mentioned in replies here

"Shiroi" : github.com/go-shiori/shiori/

"HTTrack" : httrack.com/page/2/

"Archive Box" : archivebox.io/

"SingleFile" : addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef (there's versions for other browsers out there too)

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maybe i need to start trying to go to local shows again like i did as a kid....

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note to self per a bit of discourse i saw; how do we get organized labor of dirty fuel to fight for better clean fuel positions? how do we bridge those worlds without asking people to sacrifice themselves on the altar?

i dont have much saved, myself, yet. but im workin on it!

ive got a big download of TheAnarchistLibrary and ive made remakes of a few different popular hrt resources (anarch.cc/diy-hrt-resources) to save them for posterity

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