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  1. It’s so funny to me how “broadly” seems to have become the serious poster’s defense against getting nit picked

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon July 11, 2025 - 3:05 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/07/11/114835214964645130/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/07/11/114835214964645130/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Silly workaround for passively seeing who you muted in slack without unmuting them is to paste a link to a muted post in the message window, hit space, and let the preview unfurl to yourself and only yourself, where it reveals all to you even though you have the poster blocked and can see neither the poster nor the post in chat

    🤷🏻‍♂️

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 27, 2025 - 10:47 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/27/114757761513733748/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/27/114757761513733748/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Obviously not gonna happen but i should be able to take a drivers license equivalent exam and road test to earn the right to roll down the lower windows on muni buses and ride with my elbow hanging out, maybe stick a hand out to wave it in the breeze, and so on

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 18, 2025 - 12:48 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/18/114701613010581174/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/18/114701613010581174/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. We lose sun on our western-oriented patio around 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon this time of year but the summer sun sets just north enough to tag from around the other side of the building and hit the farthest northwest patio corner from 5:30 to 6:30PM before we lose it again and that sun patch is like my secret book nook to escape out to for one month a year. I love it.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 17, 2025 - 2:25 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/17/114696332498595539/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/17/114696332498595539/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. It was kinda nice to get to civic center and not really find any electeds going on about some nonsense on a PA system, it was just like, well we’re here, that was nice, there’s the avakian revcom weirdos [wayne’s world wayne seeing-stacy-face] there’s the people from salt tabling, ok, well let’s walk back up market and see how long it is, wow this is a lot, very cool

    ah well I guess that’s it, ok, cya, I’m gonna go get a beer, ok cya I’ve got plans, yeah cool, later

    so stoked about the martian I didn’t notice spiderman

    selfie, man (me) in a yellow camp shirt w/ flowers on it, red kn95 mask and black SF giants hat. behind me someone with a “save NPR” sign is dressed like the martians from sesame street who panic every time the phone rings trying to figure out what it isfurther in the distance someone in a spiderman costume pushes a bike
    Figure 1. selfie, man (me) in a yellow camp shirt w/ flowers on it, red kn95 mask and black SF giants hat. behind me someone with a “save NPR” sign is dressed like the martians from sesame street who panic every time the phone rings trying to figure out what it isfurther in the distance someone in a spiderman costume pushes a bike.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 15, 2025 - 3:14 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/15/114685200612766111/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/15/114685200612766111/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Relaxing this morning after breakfast reading a bit before heading to the Dolores Park to Civic Center “No Kings" march later today and I get to Inferno III ( https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n61/mode/2up), beginning with the famous “abandon all hope, you who enter here” gate of hell, and where Dante and Virgil encounter the damned for the first time, in the vestibule, who in life were neutral and never took a side.

    Dante - Dante's The Divine Comedy - The Inferno (2012) Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveDante - Dante's The Divine Comedy - The Inferno (2012) Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean HollanderInternet Archive

    😬. Well, ok then.

    Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n603/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 34-36, which says:34-36. For the history of the interpretation of this tercet, nowgenerally understood to indicate the presence in the "ante-inferno," orvestibule of hell, of the neutrals, those who never took a side, seeMazzoni (Mazz. 1967.1), pp. 355-67. And, for the existence of exactlysuch a "vestibule" in hell in the apocryphal Visio Pauli, describing St.Paul's descent to the netherworld, see Silverstein (Silv.1937.1). InPaul's vision (for the most recent text see Silv. 1997.1) there is a riverof flame separating "those who were neither hot nor cold" (Revelation3:15-16) from the other sinners. [return to English / Italian]
    Figure 1. Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n603/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 34-36, which says:34-36. For the history of the interpretation of this tercet, nowgenerally understood to indicate the presence in the "ante-inferno," orvestibule of hell, of the neutrals, those who never took a side, seeMazzoni (Mazz. 1967.1), pp. 355-67. And, for the existence of exactlysuch a "vestibule" in hell in the apocryphal Visio Pauli, describing St.Paul's descent to the netherworld, see Silverstein (Silv.1937.1). InPaul's vision (for the most recent text see Silv. 1997.1) there is a riverof flame separating "those who were neither hot nor cold" (Revelation3:15-16) from the other sinners. [return to English / Italian].
    Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n605/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 52-57, which says:52-57. Dante's essential technique for indicating the crucial moralfailures of his various groups of sinners is here before us for the firsttime. The neutrals, who never took a side, are portrayed as anorganized crowd following a banner: exactly what they were not inlife (e.g., the neutral angels who neither rebelled directly against Godnor stood with Him, but who kept to one side). And in this respect theneutrals are punished by being forced to assume a pose antithetic tothat which they struck in life. At the same time, the banner that theyfollow is the very essence of indeterminacy. Not only is there noidentifying sign on it, it is not held in the anchoring hand of anystandard-bearer; it is a parody of the standard raised before a body ofmen who follow a leader. Elsewhere we will encounter other suchsymbolic artifacts. In Dante's hell the punishment of sin involves theapplication of opposites and similarities. This form of just retributionis what Dante will later refer to as the contrapasso (Inf. XXVIII.142).[return to English / Italian]
    Figure 2. Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n605/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 52-57, which says:52-57. Dante's essential technique for indicating the crucial moralfailures of his various groups of sinners is here before us for the firsttime. The neutrals, who never took a side, are portrayed as anorganized crowd following a banner: exactly what they were not inlife (e.g., the neutral angels who neither rebelled directly against Godnor stood with Him, but who kept to one side). And in this respect theneutrals are punished by being forced to assume a pose antithetic tothat which they struck in life. At the same time, the banner that theyfollow is the very essence of indeterminacy. Not only is there noidentifying sign on it, it is not held in the anchoring hand of anystandard-bearer; it is a parody of the standard raised before a body ofmen who follow a leader. Elsewhere we will encounter other suchsymbolic artifacts. In Dante's hell the punishment of sin involves theapplication of opposites and similarities. This form of just retributionis what Dante will later refer to as the contrapasso (Inf. XXVIII.142).[return to English / Italian].
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 14, 2025 - 3:32 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/14/114682437470277783/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/14/114682437470277783/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. A move I’ve noticed cool hip with-it conflict-avoidant people do which I’ve decided to try to do is to make more claims about my own experience than I normally would because it feels redundant or just a lot of work to do all the time

    so instead of “you should __" or “people should __” I try to go with with “I have __ and here’s how it worked out for me, to me.”

    I kinda remember being mad like twenty years ago that every other move needed to be considered with an “in my experience, __” prefix and this is how long it took me to connect it? wild

    as a bonus, this helps me feel ok not passing along second-hand “advice" or information, or even posting much at all anymore

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 13, 2025 - 8:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/13/114677858560931131/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/13/114677858560931131/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire#Interpretations fascinating takes.

    Pale Fire - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

    The Botkin theory is very plausible, and these critical essays from Boyd on the Nabokov mailing list is also a fun read (i’m on 3 of 9, made possible by reader mode in my browser, the archive newlines are a little weird).

    (you know you are reading some real lore when you see the old “name-l” listserve decorator)

    https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/7641408

    gravely's comment on Pale Fire - BookWyrmNonebookwyrm.social

    I picked up the inferno (this hollander one https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander ) off my now two-shelf long to-read, half-read, and probably dnfing pile because I’m about to get to it in the Berkeley philosophy lectures I I’m listening to on walks anymore (Dreyfus mentioned previously, https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619) and it’s in the form canto, commentary on canto, canto 2, commentary on canto 2, and so on

    Dante - Dante's The Divine Comedy - The Inferno (2012) Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveDante - Dante's The Divine Comedy - The Inferno (2012) Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean HollanderInternet ArchivePhilosophy 6 - Spring 2007 : Hubert Dreyfus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMan, God, and Society in Western Literature - Spring 2007. Philosophical issues as expressed in poetry, drama, and the novel. This course will compare and...Internet Archive

    ffs

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 08, 2025 - 6:58 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/08/114649276586716973/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/08/114649276586716973/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Content warning: us pol

    “Brother, can you spare securing the existence of our people and a future for wh—“

    “Sorry friend, I don’t carry cash.”

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 08, 2025 - 6:56 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/08/114649268133241287/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/08/114649268133241287/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. I never have any urge to post what I think about people like stephen miller on here because it would feel like bad smalltalk, just casual observations of a shared banality.

    for some insane reason I instead am constantly not posting the same nonsense on linkedin, a website I don’t understand and dislike the need for, because “they” (??) need to hear it.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon June 08, 2025 - 4:27 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/06/08/114648681937765404/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/06/08/114648681937765404/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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