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By: GrokSurf
In reply to Russell.
The official grammarians would endorse your comma after “Myths” (but perhaps not after “Fabrications).” Plus, that’s the way they have it in their title tag.
By: Paul Adasiak
In reply to Anonymous.
First: According to the Wikipedia page on the serial comma, the GPO Style Manual supports its mandatory use. Given FGI’s subject matter, your preference seems appropriate.
Second: The question of whether or not the blog title uses the serial comma depends on where in the page you look. The prominent, white words in the brown box make it look as though the serial comma has been omitted. However, the page is coded to include the serial comma in the Title tag — just look in your window’s title bar for confirmation. In fact, if you search the HTML, there isn’t a single place where “myths and” appears without a comma after “myths”. You appear to have correctly quoted the blog’s content rather than its title’s graphical representation. Well done.
Signal Tips & Tricks
A lot of folks seem to have recently downloaded Signal to organize for Gaza, which is great. I'm here to offer some of my favorite Signal tips and tricks for people who are new to the app or even if you're old to it. (I'm not sure when I first downloaded it; the earliest I know that I used it was 2017. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) I'll provide these tips as if you just need to know they exist to figure out how to use them.
- Anyway, #1: use the desktop version!
- Did you know you can edit your posts? Right click/press on the message for a bit to generate a menu. Fix those typos and autocorrects!
- You can change the skin tone of your emoji set from yellow. (Additional pro-tip for white people: you may be tempted to choose a brown skin tone, in solidarity or to normalize non-whiteness, but despite your intention, doing so reads to many as digital blackface)
- This is not at all necessary, but it's fun. You can create your own sticker set. I did. It's called jennamoji if you want to hunt for it. My friend Milo's zinester pack inspired mine
- If you want to adjust admin settings--group name, group icon, add members, chat colors, whatever, click on the name of the group at the top of your phone or application pane.
- Think about how you want your notifications to appear? Do you ever share your screen? Do you share an office? Does anyone ever see your phone or computer screen? You might want to make your notification content "Name only" or "No name or content." I learned this one the hard way. (Settings -->Notifications)
- You can pin chats
- You can delete messages (see #2)
- Throw the developers a few or a lotta bucks!
That's all for now. I'll add more as I think of them.
free:Books of 2016
Books I read in 2016, in reverse chronological order according to when I read them, favorites starred.
I made it past my goal of 60 books, and then basically didn't finish anything in all of December. Writing up this list I saw a lot of books that now seem like they weren't worth the time, or now are barely worth remembering--somehow I seem to have ended up finshing things this year that I might have let go in other years. But I also read some really great stuff, and it was great to get so many things read this year. I didn't make it to my goal of 25 books by women of color, but I did read 16, and setting that goal did make me really think carefully about how I cho(o)se what to read, what is most promoted at large, and what is suggested to me/in my filter bubble.
- Behold the Dreamers / Mbue *
- Train Your Dog Positively / Stillwell
- Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It / Meloy *
- The Everything New Puppy Book / DeVito
- Dear Sister / Factora-Borchers
- Asking for It / Harding *
- Baise-Moi / Despentes
- Turning Japanese / MariNaomi
- Post-Digital Print / Ludovico
- The Century of Artists' Books / Drucker (re-read)
- A Child of Books / Jeffers *
- Americanah / Adichie *
- King Kong Theory / Despentes *
- The Promise of Happiness / Ahmed