Annihilation is a good book, but the hype it got is much more due to:
the fact that it arrived at the peak of the new wave of interest for Weird lit,
its (again, very timely) environmental spin to weird fiction,
the fact that Vandermeer worked a lot to present himself as THE authority on Weird fiction, with his articles, collections, prefaces to reissues of older books and so forth.
Oh no, they are not means. They are retribution.
We should start cutting off heads right now tbh
All of a sudden? Yeah, if over a century of critique counts as "all of a sudden"
Same. If I could still use boost I would probably go back often, but the official all is so incredibly, profoundly user unfriendly that I just can't
Preach it brother. Enlighten the unwashed (m)asses.
Same. It's not intrinsically bad, it was abused, but often useful
This is the right answer. Of course marginalized groups tend to colonize new communities, because the big platforms, both because of their top-down structuring Nd because of the people who are on them, aren't always welcoming.
This is different from Voat tho. Voat was explicitly made to be a "free speech zone" i.e. a "let's say nazi shit because nobody can censor us"-space. The fediverse's idea is simply not to be dependent on centralised platforms, it says nothing about the content. If it happens to be left leaning, it's because left leaning people tend to care more about stuff like right to privacy and centralisation.
Pope John Paul II.
I was working catering in the Vatican for some conference, and they kind of forced me to go to the audience with the Pope. Sort of shook his hand, but he was already late into Parkinson's.
That's exactly why we do drugs
I've used Calibre for so long, it's just a great piece of software
Kos, or some say Kosm