insubstantial daylight:

-analogy of the day, from Ting: "it feels like ...the sort of feel-good self-fuzzy ...along the lines of sending powdered milk to starving countries who are composed mainly of lactose intolerant people"

-thene elsewhere: Fly quoting my views on fandom.

-also thene elsewhere: you know how every few years you accidentally start a good conversation on the internets? It happened to me on fs a few days ago - I drop one brief comment about the reduction of online activism to shibboleths (with a side order of bisexual whining) and somehow get this entire beautiful thread with zillions of tangents full of stuff about identifier etymologies, ageism, the origin of the tone argument, and some terrifyingly plausible conspiracy theories about how state infiltration of radical groups might be affecting the internet. I think this is my favourite fs thread since December 2009.

-the same sentiment from Keep Smiling With Great Minutes by M John Harrison, which was in a short story collection Z sent to me:

"This song," he told us, "is respectfully dedicated to all those who refused to sign the truce because it was written in the wrong colour ink."