On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I had other things to do, here and elsewhere, right?

So there's this lady in Cornwall, Ontario who's looking to find new homes for a whole lot of books...and I'm thinking that I have something in common with her. I'm operating on a much smaller scale - for now, at least - in terms of my virtual yard sale via Facebook Marketplace.

That may have to change. I may need to start officially operating a second-hand bookstore.

One trouble is that I'm dealing with what I suspect is ADHD in my own skull, with trying to work out my housing future, and trying to get and hold onto steadier work. Also a tonne of other crap to deal with on an ongoing basis.

Another is that there's already two such stores within walking distance of my current home. One's operating in connection with the Ottawa Public Library. The other is one of the remnants of the Book Market chain that used to dominate the city. Both are swamped with product of their own, as Myriam Gaudet's Red Cart Books is in Cornwall. Add in the Chapters/Indigo first-hand bookstores at Place d'Orléans and on Innes Road and the situation is more complicated.

Third: I don't think I've got enough product to really get going.

Fourth: financial paperwork that might ensue? I don't even want to think about it because panic attacks.

Fifth: Pandemic.

So I'm likely to just add a relative handful of titles to my Facebook yard sale for now, and put off that bigger question to April. At the earliest.

How are those of us who normally use Facebook coping with the current mess?

How it's apparently happened:

https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1445114374578966530

Details here:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/05/donald-trump-facebook-account-ban-oversight-board

I'm looking at op-ed cartoonist Michael de Adder's latest illustration for the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting: Facebook as a Borg "cube" ship, Australia as the TMP version of the Enterprise...and I am starting to wonder if IDW - the current comics license-holders - and CBS Studios ought to get in touch with Mr. de Adder about...whatever he might have a mind to do.

To make it plain:

Hire this guy, people.

I think I need to keep backing away from Facebook. Too much input from too many sources, too fast.

I've got a second Macbook (not Pro) that can handle the current versions of Firefox (for now). I'm reading about something called "Facebook Container", and wondering if anyone else here is using that particular add-on and what the general opinion of it is.

You might have heard of Mr. de Adder. He's the cartoonist who got blacklisted by every major newspaper in New Brunswick because every major newspaper in New Brunswick is owned by the Irving family oligarchy and they're falling in with the Trump.

Anyway, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting decided to throw in with de Adder as a consequence of that. Here's their opinion of his best work for this year.

Guessing that he's not a fan of Facebook either, although it does help some of his fans connect with him.

...specifically the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Because that document isn't getting enough attention and respect. There are fools who consider the Declaration to be just plain obscene, in fact.

I doubt that I have any such people in my circles here on Dreamwidth, mind you. There were times when I've had to cut off people whom I suspect of feeling that way over on Facebook, and I suspect I left it too long in several instances. That was my failing.