Random thanks to everyone keeping the lights on here, not just the system maintainers and improvers but also the social and cultural maintainers and improvers.
The viability of a worldwide network of communities strung together by volunteered skills and labour is still to me the miracle of all this. I’ve been here since 2016 and every day I see the names of people I met when I first tiptoed in.
Kate Bowles
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