Quoting Tim Bray, Humanist Plumbing, ongoing, 2025

What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.
— Tim Bray, Humanist Plumbing, ongoing, 2025

2:16pm on February 13, 2026 from Appledore, South West England, United Kingdom


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