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The basic argument being that, no, men are not being pushed out of the traditional publishing houses by "woke-ass DEI feminazis," but rather that the overall decline of publishing as a business, and particularly of serious literary publishing, has meant that people with lower cachet in the workforce (i.e. women) are the ones willing to do the work for less money, and also that modern opportunities tend to go to aspiring authors who are willing to build an audience on their own, generally online, and then take their brand to a publisher with a built in floor of book buyers. Again, the need for "hustle" and enduring public scrutiny and largely unpaid creative labor is more likely to be done by people who sense they have fewer options in the "traditional" business world.

The gruff but masculine "man of letters" who's too proud to promote himself is no longer able to bully his way into publishing houses by the sheer force of his brilliance and persistence (and contacts and privilege), so he ends up whining and letting his misogyny flag fly instead of burying it in subtext.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31175359

More pics: https://pixelfed.social/p/wjrii/838255973232132267

I messed up in a million ways, but I managed not to screw it up too badly to be happy with it. It used 35-year-old switches and keycaps. Case is dowel joints, an up-jumped rustic picture frame. This was also my first keyboard build with QMK firmware and then the VIAL config tool. Some lessons:

• ALPS stabilizers are a pain.
• Don't let sleepy English majors design PCBs after midnight. Seriously, the thing barely works for this layout, but should be slightly better for Cherry MX switches.
• One is strangely zen when one accidentally deletes all the PCB design files for such a flawed PCB. Still have the fabrication Gerber, but with half a dozen errors that's very near to useless.
• Don't be a coward with your woodworking. There is a bigger gap between case and keys than I'd like.
• On the other hand, don't be stupid. The pecan inlay on the back may be there to cover up where I sliced right into the dowels joining the frame together.
• Sandpaper and Danish Oil forgive many sins.

More pics: https://pixelfed.social/p/wjrii/838255973232132267

I messed up in a million ways, but I managed not to screw it up too badly to be happy with it. This was also my first build with QMK and then VIAL. Some lessons:

• ALPS stabilizers are a pain.
• Don't let sleepy English majors design PCBs after midnight. Seriously, the thing barely works for this layout, but should be slightly better for Cherry MX switches.
• One is strangely zen when one accidentally deletes all the PCB design files for such a flawed PCB. Still have the fabrication Gerber, but with half a dozen errors that's very near to useless.
• Don't be a coward with your woodworking. There is a bigger gap between case and keys than I'd like.
• On the other hand, don't be stupid. The pecan inlay on the back may be there to cover up where I sliced right into the dowels joining the frame together.

This is gonna be a cluster...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30918089

Definitely not undercover Fundies either. :-)

We would also accept "Ed Zeppelin."

… especially if the neighborhood is filled with little shits with too many electrified toys.

EDIT: Okay, I'm convinced. Regular bikes would actually be a sensible cause here. Let me be a curmudgeon though.

#WhenTaken #427 (29.04.2025)

I scored 775/1000🏅

1️⃣📍1.0K km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥈163/200
2️⃣📍406 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇182/200
3️⃣📍620 km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥈148/200
4️⃣📍1.8K km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈145/200
5️⃣📍3.1K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈137/200

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