Richard Carroll

Catholic, Southerner, bibliophile, Reactionary.

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2024-07-28 18:49:59

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@npub16wp…37pk I agree, I’ll just point out that with a large number of people, motivations will vary. Some of these Jews may have just been naive, and others malicious. If we want to be nuanced, then it’s not going to be either/or.

2024-07-28 14:18:37

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@npub1er2…arq5 a guess: if you watch IT-related videos, you might have watched one adjacent to systems librarianship. Admittedly, it’s at least as likely that YT is just being arbitrary and retarded.

2024-07-28 13:38:50

New post: A review of The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature, along with some discussion of the most interesting essays.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/cambridge-companion-to-childrens-literature/

2024-07-25 20:01:40

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@npub175d…wrtj only an acceptable answer if you’re working on a personal project.

2024-07-25 19:53:53

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@npub175d…wrtj “11 hour workday” - dude, wtf.

2024-07-24 14:42:33

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@npub1780…4ed5 well, it’s not like he needs a lot of features, but this guy is a boomer who I expect will rely on a WYSIWYG interface.

2024-07-24 14:17:08

Anyone know of a blogging platform they like that’s easy to use and is more reliable than WordPress? A friend of mine is wanting to set up a blog but doesn’t want to use a site like Substack or Medium, and I don’t think he has the know-how to work with something like Hugo.
Recommendations for good web hosts are also welcome.

2024-07-23 15:05:29

My results on texting style skew older, which doesn’t really surprise me. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/06/us/texting-style-generation-quiz-cec/
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2024-07-22 13:17:36

The Master said, “There has never been anyone who came with as little a present as dried meat for tuition that I have refused to teach him something.” (An. 7.7)
Education then: hand over some beef jerky, hear an enlightening lecture that not only teaches you to better appreciate your favourite authors but also helps you become a better person
Education now: pay tens of thousands of dollars, be told that your favourite authors are gay and so are you.
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2024-07-19 15:07:03

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There’s also at least one font based on it, if I want to go all-in on a bookish aesthetic on my website.

2024-07-19 15:04:39

Hm… I should learn to write in Library Hand.

2024-07-19 13:00:57

Apparently every computer in the world is down but mine is fine, so I still have to work. WTF.

2024-07-15 13:14:58

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9UTjiQxO5s/
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2024-07-15 12:58:32

The Right managed to take over the term “fake news,” now a few folks are trying to co-opt “stochastic terrorism,” e.g., William Briggs and Theophilus Chilton.

2024-07-15 12:41:37

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@npub106d…3m89 the internet is great in many ways, but the big downside is that occasionally I learn that sites like that exist.

2024-07-13 00:55:29

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@npub1yyc…s3n8 yeah, Mozilla’s condition became terminal a long while ago. I’ve been bouncing between browsers for the last few years; several decent options but nothing I love.

2024-07-12 19:59:35

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@npub1yyc…s3n8 don’t worry, we’re all autistic here. The non-autists are on Facebook.

2024-07-12 14:48:45

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@npub175d…wrtj “soma” is a bit too on-the-nose for social media stuff.

2024-07-10 18:09:05

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@npub175d…wrtj no…

2024-07-10 02:32:43

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@npub1d58…jv5f @npub1w4j…cead she lives in Singapore, yeah. I used to think she was French, but I think she just lived there for a while.

2024-07-08 14:07:41

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@npub1yyc…s3n8 nah, MBTI is still mostly for women. It’s just 80% women instead of 90%.

2024-07-02 17:18:19

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@npub1mew…gjf7 this was one of those big eBay sellers who sell tons of books, so they probably just give a quick look at each item, assign a condition without much thought, and didn’t even notice the inscription.

2024-07-02 14:36:36

Ordered a used copy of Geraldine McCaughcrean’s adaptation of Moby Dick from some eBay seller, opened it up to find it’s inscribed by… Geraldine McCaughcrean? I guess I accidentally got a signed copy of a book.
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2024-06-25 18:38:49

https://x.com/sochioo/status/1805524117107752970
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2024-06-25 18:30:58

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@npub1qez…kasy what’s great about the internet is it can give you direct access to celebrities and politicians.

2024-06-21 13:57:11

Good post on a couple objections to people’s fondness for traditions: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/fake-tradition-is-traditional

2024-06-20 20:01:42

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@npub1u6g…su6y I like a small amount of raw onions on a burger, but my tolerance for them isn’t very high. They’re much better when cooked, IMHO.

2024-06-20 19:54:16

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@npub1u6g…su6y I’d have to at least cook the onions to make this sandwich edible.

2024-06-18 18:16:49

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8XXjUDPyXc
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2024-06-18 00:43:13

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@npub1d58…jv5f honestly, if eating seems like wasted time, you might need to loosen up your schedule.

2024-06-18 00:34:13

TIL Clifford the Big Red Dog is part of the same cinematic universe as Citizen Kane.
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2024-06-18 00:32:57

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@npub1d58…jv5f why not just mix it and drink it, though?

2024-06-18 00:20:25

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@npub1d58…jv5f you certainly can, the question is whether you’re brave enough to try.

2024-06-15 22:21:03

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On a side note, I notice that I screwed up the date formatting so I guess I’ll need to fix that.
Also, I need to figure out how to format poems better in markdown. There’s a Hugo theme geared towards formatting literature like this, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time and had a more convoluted setup process than most other themes.

2024-06-15 22:18:29

New post, on Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins, focusing on “The Windhover.”
This is part of the Hundred Friends series, wherein I memorise a hundred poems.

2024-06-14 15:04:13

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2024-06-13 12:57:45

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@npub106d…3m89 I haven’t had to do this often, but it’s annoying. I thought the whole thing with the postal service was that they brought my packages to me?

2024-06-10 12:41:04

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@npub175d…wrtj if you have a foothold in the industry you’ll probably be fine. Good luck!

2024-06-09 12:46:22

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2024-06-08 17:09:44

雪 | Tamaki #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119466083
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2024-06-08 17:09:10

ささがく生活 | fjsmu（ふじしむ） #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119456306
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2024-06-08 12:56:31

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@npub1f9c…0ry2 that sounds interesting, but since the locality is specific I won’t ask you to dox yourself by sharing the title, lol. I do have access to a university library which has a couple dozen books to choose from, but I always like getting personal recommendations.

2024-06-07 13:44:40

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@npub175d…wrtj F

2024-06-05 15:27:18

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@npub175d…wrtj teacher! Teacher! He said a bad word!

2024-06-04 22:11:27

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@npub1mt0…esms honestly, the only people I know who use it regularly are women in marketing and sales.

2024-06-04 20:54:33

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@npub1mt0…esms isn’t that the standard practice?

2024-06-04 20:05:06

Do any of my followers have recommendations on books about children’s literature? Could be history, analysis, focus on particular themes - I’m pretty open.

2024-06-04 17:50:39

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@npub175d…wrtj well, time to die.

2024-06-04 14:50:26

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@npub13lr…vus5 you should’ve taken a screenshot to keep the chain going.

2024-06-04 14:49:21

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@npub1syf…mzey ultimately, yes, it’s virtue/vice, “There are but two courses which can be pursued, that of virtue and its opposite.” https://ctext.org/mengzi/li-lou-i#n1672

2024-06-03 21:55:14

https://x.com/tatakinofu/status/1797581205011087589
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2024-06-03 18:45:53

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@npub1d58…jv5f funny, but is it really so different than making children do household chores or mow the lawn?

2024-06-03 13:05:17

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@npub1780…4ed5 RIP

2024-06-02 14:56:11

Exoteric reading: this is a book about funny dogs.
Esoteric reading: this is a book about the proper use of prepositions and other basic grammar.
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2024-06-01 13:27:01

https://x.com/simzarts/status/1796709583123083558
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2024-05-31 12:26:35

Regardless what happens with the election, what next for us? If history is a guide, violence—from the left. Do not discount this. The left will be drunk on power. People do stupid things when they’re drunk.
https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/51877/

2024-05-30 18:53:22

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The only other Windows software I’m concerned about is Legacy Family Tree, but I know of at least one viable alternative if that turns out to be too much of a hassle.

2024-05-30 18:50:28

I plan to migrate from Win10 to Linux in the nearish future, so I’m happy to see it’s not too hard to get Scrivener working. I feel like I can trust this guy because he installed Kali on an old Mac and called the device “Knick Knack Kali Mac,” and someone who names their computer after the KKK is probably one of my e-friends.
https://rdewalt.substack.com/p/installing-scrivener-on-linux

2024-05-30 12:22:42

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@npub1d58…jv5f the Hyakunin Isshu is great. Which translation are you reading?

2024-05-29 18:07:14

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@npub1yyc…s3n8 high risk/high reward strategy here.

2024-05-28 02:51:19

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2024-05-27 19:53:00

神泉 | すり餌/お仕事募集中 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119077221
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2024-05-26 22:02:21

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I also split up the "literature" and "non-fiction" sections on the index page to make the lists a little less unwieldy.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/highlights-and-review-index/

2024-05-25 00:31:18

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@npub1nts…y4mr I feel like I’d be more apt to be fired because of the people I follow than for what I post myself.

2024-05-24 12:28:00

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@npub1mew…gjf7 with a glossary. The nice thing about older forms of English is that they become comprehensible to speakers of Modern English with relatively little help.

2024-05-23 20:13:37

If you’ve ever wondered how St. John’s Gospel sounds in West Saxon:
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2024-05-19 20:47:33

New Post: A review of Treasury of Children’s Poetry.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/treasury-of-childrens-poetry/

2024-05-19 02:50:21

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@npub175d…wrtj peak library performance.

2024-05-18 22:33:33

Good review of a book on Bl. John Duns Scotus:
https://thepillarist.com/review-ordered-by-love-thomas-m-ward-angelico-press-2022/

2024-05-14 12:40:00

菊の宴 | すり餌/お仕事募集中 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118727128
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2024-05-11 13:41:58

Thoughts while reading children’s books: Is Amelia Bedelia autistic? How good is her lemon meringue pie that Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are willing to put up with her?

2024-05-10 15:12:09

Morale among teachers is extremely low, but the stat that stood out most to me is this, “Teachers also overestimate how many of their students want to be in school (48% vs 19%).” The second number came from a survey of teenagers, and I wouldn’t have been shocked if that number had been lower.
https://www.edchoice.org/engage/new-k-12-teacher-survey-indicates-morale-crisis-among-educators/

2024-05-10 13:04:40

Interesting interview with Jack Dorsey. Sounds like he’s tried to build an open social media platform twice and completely failed both times.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

2024-05-09 14:48:33

https://x.com/demizuposuka/status/1788571628898791868
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2024-05-09 12:41:13

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@npub1mew…gjf7 shameful!

2024-05-08 23:50:48

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@npub1mt0…esms it was 90° down here today, what’s this “almost 70” nonsense? Come to Texas and make some ice cream where it’ll actually be appreciated.

2024-05-08 12:42:26

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@npub1mew…gjf7 yeah, that’s a good way of putting it.

2024-05-08 12:01:12

Occasionally there’s debate about whether Leftists really believe the nonsense they say they do. This, I think, is the answer: some do, some don’t, and of those who don’t, some are more willing and able than others to cynically exploit true believers.
https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/51580/

2024-05-07 12:17:40

I’ve updated my post on the Divine Office/Liturgy of the Hours, adding a paragraph about Word on Fire’s monthly subscription option.
On a side note, I’m a little surprised that Hugo doesn’t have separate “published” and “updated” dates for post front matter, just a plain “date” field. I’d guess that there is a way to do this, I’d just need to figure out how.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/notes-on-praying-the-divine-office/

2024-05-05 21:16:14

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@npub1al5…klcc yeah, AFAIK the content that wasn’t on archive.org is just gone and completely irrecoverable. Even archive.org is hardly immortal. Keeping online content accessible in the very long term is a huge problem, but I really don’t know what the solution is.

2024-05-05 21:07:08

In the past week for the blog, I’ve drafted a new post (on Thomas Carew), added a sidebar site to make it easier to navigate, and fixed all the broken links.
On the links, about half were cases of me missing an internal link to redo, the rest were to sites that no longer exist. In the latter case, I was able to link to an archived version most of the time, but in a few cases I had to either remove the link or add a parenthetical note that the site is dead.

2024-05-05 21:01:44

無題 | すり餌/お仕事募集中 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118459545
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2024-05-05 13:01:09

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2024-05-05 03:20:57

爪弾き | すり餌/お仕事募集中 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118436835
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2024-05-02 15:12:56

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@npub106d…3m89 from what I can tell, the big Mastodon instances have a similar audience as Bluesky, people who think Elon’s twitter is “fascist.” Both are a wasteland of virtue signalling.

2024-05-02 00:54:22

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@npub1tzg…nree yeah, when I was migrating my blog I checked it out to see if there were any good images I could use since I remembered it being pretty good, but it was a pain to use and I didn’t find much.

2024-05-02 00:03:23

Great job killing my interest in this announcement.
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2024-05-01 13:19:55

I’m thinking about setting up an ILS/catalogue for my home library. I don’t know if it would have much advantage over just updating my LibraryThing account and it would be essentially doing what I do for work at home, but playing around with it may be fun.

2024-04-30 18:04:09

https://x.com/xanyax_/status/1785262883330461809
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2024-04-23 20:05:20

This is an interesting story. Google was already untrustworthy before 2019, but became significantly worse later, and this article spotlights the people who seem to be most responsible for that.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

2024-04-23 13:57:50

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We believe that the proper foundation of devotion is dogma, and that the best way to lead Catholics to live their Catholic life in its fullness is to try to make clear to them what a Catholic really is, and what the plans and the principles underlying Christianity are.

2024-04-22 19:32:54

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@npub14ta…9v2x I wasn’t aware of this, very cool. In the past, I’ve generally saved articles and such individually, never a full website.

2024-04-22 16:46:03

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@npub14ta…9v2x yeah, if you’re lucky they’ll be archived on archive.org’s Wayback Machine, but it doesn’t have 100% coverage.

2024-04-22 16:24:42

An occasional reminder that online content is fragile. It looks like there are people trying to archive academic journals like this, but nonetheless, it’s worth saving anything you find interesting or useful yourself.
“A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk”
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/a-key-chemistry-journal-disappeared-from-the-web-others-are-at-risk/4019265.article

2024-04-21 20:35:54

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2024-04-18 15:34:39

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@npub175d…wrtj it’s good to include that kind of anecdote in your articles, especially if they’re only tangential to your main point. Keeps the reader’s attention.

2024-04-18 15:33:37

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@npub175d…wrtj just that WordPress is a disaster, so unstable that it felt like the blog could just frickin’ die permanently at any moment, and isn’t getting better. So, I wanted to get away from WordPress ASAP.

2024-04-18 15:19:54

New post: “The Rectification of Posts is Complete,” the second and final post on the WordPress to Hugo migration.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/rectification-of-posts-complete/

2024-04-17 15:21:35

https://www.instagram.com/p/C507TuPtT0N
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2024-04-17 13:47:27

Good take on the Yarvin/Rufo debate a few days ago: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/51299/