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Dan Jones@danjones000@microwords.goodevilgenius.org (2026-05-29 12:13:56)
She doesn't say the tools can't dismantle the house, but that they won't.
I think the point is that the master builds. Construction requires mastery, skill, and experience. But any brute can destroy. The master builds, but they don't destroy.
@evan@cosocial.ca @majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com
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Jessamyn@jessamyn@glammr.us (2026-05-29 12:12:58)
@evan I've always taken it that way. The master's tools can never dismantle the master's house by definition. He's not the master if you're at the house-dismantling stage with his former tools.
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:56:37)
That might be the key to it -- the Zen riddle at the heart of Lorde's quote. The master's tools can never dismantle the master's house because by the time we get to the house-dismantling stage, they're not his tools any more. They're our tools, or nobody's tools -- a mob's tools, the crowd's collective tools.
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:53:59)
Or maybe it's just the nature of the game. After all, the white bishop can't capture the white queen in chess, no matter how well-positioned it is.
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:51:28)
But maybe the quote is about some kind of metaphysical incompatibility between the master's tools and the task of taking apart his house. Maybe the axe stops magically mid-stroke mere millimeters from the columns. Or maybe the tools themselves have a will of their own -- animated household objects like in a Disney film. "Nooooooooo," squeals the sledgehammer plaintively as you lift it. "That's my *owner's* house. I could never hurt his house! I wuuuuuvvvv him!!!"
:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:48:15)
なら更新とかで点くことありそう
:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:47:43)
完全にoff？スリープ？
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:@hongminhee@hollo.social (2026-05-29 11:47:01)
Okay, I need to add support for Video objects to Hollo so that users can share or like videos posted on PeerTube. I can't believe I'm only just thinking of this now!
:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:46:38)
ライ麦畑
:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:46:06)
㍂
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:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:43:39)
と思ったら普通に値段シールに書いてあったわ
2019年
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:43:07)
He might also buy a lot of dumb tools that he doesn't need for anything, just because they look bad ass. He might have an awesome post holer, really big with oak handles and brushed steel with his initials in it. It's no good for tearing down a house though.
:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:42:48)
見つけたから買ったけどいつ頃のだろこれ
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:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:40:57)
Aliの通知がサイレントモード通過してきて殺意
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:40:40)
@bignose @majorlinux that doesn't explain the meaning inside the metaphor. If we're talking about a literal master, his literal tools and his literal house, why the fuck wouldn't the tools dismantle the house?
:hosimiya_mion::star_stroke:@hos1miya@misskey.0sakana.xyz (2026-05-29 11:40:30)
🥔👀👄
warabi餅@w4rabimochi@misskey.io (2026-05-29 11:40:28)
おちんぽするぞ:blobcat_dotadota_walk::blobcat_dotadota_walk::blobcat_dotadota_walk:
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:39:33)
Another reason might be that he doesn't buy tools to use them; he buys then to show off to his rich friends and selected underlings. So he might have a really high-end saw, but he's never bothered to take the factory edge off or sharpen it, so if you tried to use it to saw through a joist, it'd warp or just take ffe.
佐々木/네코가와@nounashi7298@social.nekokawa.net (2026-05-29 11:36:04)
最近ドライアイ気味かもしれん
ずっと目がしばしばする
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:36:02)
One reason might be that he only does hobbyist rich guy things with these tools. Like he builds ships in a bottle, or paints birdhouses to look like the heads of American presidents. If you tried to dismantle a house with the long tweezers he uses for setting up the rigging on little bottle sloops, well, they're just not going to do the job.
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🦉@aaa (2026-05-29 11:32:52)
@arce
In the mention feature, there may be room for improvement.
the mention requires using [at]adele@social.pollux.casa, not @adele. However now, there's no way to tell if the mention was successful...
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bignose@bignose@sw-development-is.social (2026-05-29 11:32:37)
The quote is taken from the title of an essay, so that's not a great surprise it's the only text people repeat.
“Lorde’s message is clear: in order to create real change, we must reject the systems and structures that uphold power imbalances and instead create our own tools and methods for dismantling them. This requires a deep understanding of the ways in which power operates and a commitment to challenging and transforming it.”
https://literarysum.com/deconstructing-power-analyzing-audre-lordes-the-masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-masters-house/
@evan @majorlinux
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:31:29)
So maybe the quote isn't talking about the tools if the whole enterprise, but the master's *personal* tools; the ones he keeps neatly in a workshop in his home. Maybe these tools would not dismantle a house. Why not, though?
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bignose@bignose@sw-development-is.social (2026-05-29 11:31:09)
As so often, @evan, this historical quote taken out of its historical context does not completely encapsulate the meaning.
A more complete quotation of Audre Lorde's words:
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
@majorlinux
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:29:06)
But maybe there's something in here about a rich and dominant man that might make his tools inappropriate for house-dismantling.
Let's consider a man who owns an estate, maybe a farm or ranch or something. If everything there belongs to him, does that include all the tools, too?
On a big enough property, there'd have to be tools for demolition too, right? Sledgehammers and axes and various explosives or whatever?
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:23:47)
It'd make more sense if the person's profession was one that used vastly different tools than would be required by the dismantling process. "The printmaker's tools will never dismantle the printmaker's boat." "The stonemason's tools will never dismantle the stonemason's newsletter."
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🦉@aaa (2026-05-29 11:21:54)
There is no roadmap. I don't want to make this "tiny"ap very big by adding too many features.
But There is also no plan to quit.
I use tinyap for everyday use as a main social media, and please let me know if you have any feature requests or issues!
Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:20:53)
Reminded of the Audrey Lord quote by @majorlinux: "For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house."
This is a weird quote because it doesn't really follow within the logic of the metaphor. Why wouldn't his tools dismantle his house?
Reply to @andypiper@macaw.social
Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-29 11:16:43)
@andypiper oh no! Well, one trick is to stick some info in the metadata section.
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Andy Piper@andypiper@macaw.social (2026-05-29 10:56:18)
@evan
is the nodeinfo repo still maintained? That has never been clear to me. I have unmerged PRs there from 2+ years ago. YMMV!
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