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(PDF) Language and Power PDF | On Jan 1, 2001, Norman Fairclough published Language and Power | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

End of year craziness is over, so I have time to read again. First up, an old but useful book on power relations in language www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Went to say "you're not my Dad"... then realised I was indeed talking to my Dad. Damn.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Looks like a helpful analogy

I'm also knitting. Currently a sock, then this cool knotted scarf (in red cashmerino) www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

I watched and was awed by your progress when you did the month of drawing thing

I've treated myself to the book "365 days of art". The first day's instruction is "colour or create a pattern". I was trying on japanese shirts today because I liked the patterns, so I'm now digging into Japanese fabric designs for ideas, and it's delightful www.nippon.com/en/japan-dat...

Language is odd, therapy is great, I'm a work in progress. Today she (rightly) picked me up about using 'you' instead of 'me' to add psychological distance, hours after I gave the same advice at work. I also shorten it by using 'you' instead of 'they'. Sorry. Am working on being less confusing now

@densaer.bsky.social saw this in my local, thought of you.

For now, if you have the resources to, do the small things to help other people. Teach. Make music. Build community to help those in need. You can't fix everything. But you can be kind.

Use those to focus on having a plan for after the destruction - which assumptions can you drop, what needs to exist in their wake.

I've been through my own grief cycle for a life I once had in a country I still love. And thought hard about who and what to be. And for now I can only think of really know who you are, what your values are, what's precious to you.

These are uncertain times for many friends. Much is changing, much is being torn down, there is much direct and indirect cruelty that will happen regardless of protest or appeal. Many good people are swept up in this, as both affected and affector. I am old - I've seen too many countries do this.

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A whole bunch of games by women, femme, and non-binary developers are on sale for Thanksgaming: store.steampowered.com/curator/4468...