#+SETUPFILE: ../../../template/level-2.org
#+TITLE: Brain dump and emails
#+DATE: <2020-08-23 Sun 23:06>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: Yet more ramblings.
#+KEYWORDS: braindumps pop


* gnusocial.no

The site will go down next week. I will write up a better entry
later. I have not decided if I will continue to use a microblog or
not.


* Email

I found this [1] repo I think after reading about it from reddit and
got the idea that maybe I should go back to just using email. Or
rather, imap and smtp. I've had these bookmarked for a while.


* Pop culture and personal life

After reading a graphic novel for Hilda and the Midnight Giant, I
wanted to lookup the name of one of the giant characters but I think I
found some trolls instead [3]. It looks like someone has confused one
character for another even though they appear in the same frame at
least once and have different facial, chest, and hair appearances. I
assume the folks commenting have mostly only watched the TV rather
than have read/looked at the book. I didn't even post the comment.

I had some problems trying to archive it, so I will like to the
original [4], which will change over time. I wonder if the wayback
machine will survive all of what has happened on Earth recently.

I absolutely detest pop culture arguments. Back when I used to edit
for Wikipedia, I got into a ruckus with someone regarding the Ridley
Scott/HR Giger alien. It turned into this huge thing which partially
lead to my decision to stop editing under my handle and later
altogether.

This also partially relates to why I rarely discuss personal
news/topics on my blog. I had a telephone stalker/harasser at one
point who worked in a building a few blocks from where I worked at the
time. But I guess one good thing about the pandemic stay-at-home means
I probably won't run into them any time soon.


* Pop culture and scifi

I read/watch lots of commentary online regarding older scifi that have
had remakes, reboots, remarketings over the last several years. I
think some of them have some good points when it comes to some
universe that suddenly starts making a direct commentary about a
current event in the world. But I dislike the opinions that attempt to
make some kind of causal connection between being woke and bad
writing.

PS: Using facebook/instagram or even twitter counters wokeness. Use
the fediverse.


* COVID-19

I decided that since Donald Trump wants to assign blame to call the
virus so many slurs, that I would do something about that with a
little bit of satire. Though, so far I've only registered the
tronald19.com domain.


* References

- [1] https://github.com/trstringer/pymail/blob/master/pymail.py
- [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/51uj9z/commandline_email_client/
- [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200824061035/https://hildatheseries.fandom.com/wiki/Valfreyja
- [4] https://hildatheseries.fandom.com/wiki/Valfreyja
