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“”The public library, again. Yes, I’m writing a book, Mr Mitchell, and yes, I hope it’ll make some money. But I’m not praising the public library service for money. I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight. - Philip Pullman
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about me
On RationalWiki
I have been an editor on RationalWiki for over five years. I was a moderator for a little over one. (Before that, I was a mystical bureaucrat; all bureaucrats have since vanished into the waters of the Great Flood.) I welcome questions and I don't often bite the newbies. I also have a pretty high threshold for trolling, and don't use my banhammer very much at all. When banning is necessary, I like to go through a consensus-driven process that culminates in a community vote.
I'm also a tech, and am versed in the ways of MediaWiki. I have a bot running on Python and the pywikipedia library that does menial tasks.
a sample of things begun
Off RationalWiki
To an extent, I like the idea of having a "Unified Internet Presence." And I'm close: I have about three internet selves. One is represented by my real name, one by my standard pseudonym, and the other is... RationalWiki. I like to keep them separate, and precious few people know all three. This is all a pretentious and silly way of saying that I'm not going to say much about myself here.
I can say that I'm a college student in the U.S., a huge classical music geek, a huge gaming and e-sports nerd, and a huge Doctor Who and Sherlock and Homestuck fan. And I will gladly talk about any of these with you if you like. Other tidbits about me can be found to your right, with my userboxes.
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me
"impenitently pastrylike"
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