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Stonekettle Station
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Stonekettle Station is a personal blog at stonekettle.com about politics and culture. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Facebook is both awful and essential: Recap: October 4, 2021”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts from Stonekettle Station on the future of American spaceflight, where the lyrics to a song are posted, and on a 2021 recap of the Facebook outage. Neither comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Don't just embrace the crazy, sidle up next to it and lick its ear.
Most-linked posts?
- Facebook is both awful and essential: Recap: October 4, 20212 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-05
What Hacker News says?
anne passovoy wrote a beautiful song about this, "harbors". you can see the lyrics here[1], though sadly it's hard to find a recording. [1] http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/07/next-step-americas-future...
Comment linking /2011/07/next-step-americas-future-in-space.html?showComment=1311746514874
on “SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow”Submitted When Fascism Comes to America as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's a big deal when Facebook goes down. This is why: https://www.stonekettle.com/2021/10/recap-october-4-2021.htm... People want to talk to their friends. They want to keep up with what their friends are up to. Sometimes they want to do that in ways that you, specifically, aren't a fan of, but that's fine - different people are different. But they want a place they can go and see "Oh, Dave had a kid. Oh, Agnes got…
Comment linking /2021/10/recap-october-4-2021.html?m=1
on “The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time”Submitted Author's Facebook account suspended for criticizing Nazis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banned from Facebook for criticizing Nazis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook is both awful and essential: Recap: October 4, 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critical Path as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recap: October 4th (why Facebook going down is important) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
