Post AQ15mENo5fpM5LL3rM by PennyOaken@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AQ0fUKswZyDQEMi1a4 by herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club
       2022-11-26T02:27:34Z
       
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       Militant decency.#Gnu #TerryPratchett
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ0gSpDUw6qDg3AOFU by otyugh@pouet.chapril.org
       2022-11-26T22:53:12Z
       
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       @herhandsmyhands #Gnu ? What's gnu about it ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ15mENo5fpM5LL3rM by PennyOaken@mastodon.social
       2022-11-27T03:36:46Z
       
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       @otyugh @herhandsmyhands In one of the Discworld novels, some clever engineers invent mechanised, high-speed semaphore, & part of the semaphore operator’s meta information coding are letter flags:G : Send the message onward (to next tower)N : Do not log message (typically for routine overhead metainfo)U : Turn message around at end of line (typically “keep alive”)Along with the notion that one does not die while their memory is spoken of —
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ1rlUpEGiEQaeseu0 by otyugh@pouet.chapril.org
       2022-11-27T12:34:32Z
       
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       @PennyOaken Oah, remembers me I didn't read it all yet. Thanks for enlightening me.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATZEJiXMsZFAH59Hea by zleap@qoto.org
       2023-03-13T08:29:01Z
       
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       @herhandsmyhands This is interesting, as I remember the Albania vs England football game a few years ago, several of the England black players,  Saha, Rashford, where being targeted by racists.Rather than the team getting angry and distracted, or just walking off, it seemed to give them some sort of extra strength to score more goals.  So the negative abuse resulted in a really positive result,  it made the team stronger too.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATufDeZoN741SFp67U by SubplotKudzu@dice.camp
       2023-03-23T16:39:18Z
       
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       @otyugh @herhandsmyhands It’s a reference to Pratchett’s book “Going Postal” as the codes used on the semaphore network to keep a message moving through the network indefinitely so that the persons name would never die. It’s a mark of respect among Discworld fans to always remember members of the community who have passed on.