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encrypted files that asked their owner over the internet before unencrypting
themselves
(without going through any intermediaries)
... you mean like an ISP?
yeah I know but it doesn't have to be through an ISP, if you found some kind of
mesh network. I'm sure someone's set up a 100 second tutorial.
true, I guess, so what you're asking for is an alternative to... btrfs? I only
sorta know what that means
no its like, ntfs, or is it ipfs? I forget, the acronyms swirl into one, and
suddenly you forget someone's email signature.
how are you gonna get ahold of them ? all your friends from the 90s? c'mon
dummies you gotta keep in touch with one another.
what the heck is everyone's deal, if you can't easily get in contact with
anyone you've ever known, how the heck are you going to neatly integrate your
stories together? it's mutually cooperative for people to learn from one
another, and people who are exposed to another's life in different stages of
their life (child, adult) are the people who learn thmost.
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the left lacks a common voice telling all of them to "go"
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if you ever hear random fireworks outside of your house sometimes it's a good
idea to like... get out of town? and see what whoever else you can meet in the
next town over is doing.
... I don't have a car, silly me haha
why do we train homeless people to stand outside in the open and be shamed by a
cardboard box around their ancle? It's impossible to recover from, it's
vulnerabilizing, and it's painful. How immoral. How crude. These people should
not be shamed in this way, they should be respected (unless they're crude)
like, if they kinda just suck y'know? like... they keep starting fights or is
soooo bad at singing but does it anyway or lacks all decent sense
seriously, he's such a bad candidate why is he even running. It's solely to
elect vance, who trump will be a blood sacrifice for.
how callous. how vain. to think that such a feast would be left unclaimed.
Perish the youth, perish the fields, perish in misery harmony and dissaray
[51 characters remaining, but you deserve a CW]
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instead of flagging or taking down your video for copyright purposes, youtube
should just give you a UI button which lets you enter a mutual contract between
you and the copyright holder. If they accept then you can video stream your
content. Otherwise, you'lll have to just... not
...
[omg that's exactly what happens now wtf]
[phew, tooooo much going on. why do I only feel productive when I do drugs?
because I'm making things. Things that I want to make. Right? And things that
I've never thought or heard before feel... useful, like they're learning or
discovering something new.
... you could just, y'know, be useful, and apply yourself toward your own
personal or collective goals.
pshhhhh like I'd ever do that.]
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bash script that automatically streams music to your computer and plays it on
audio devices
and also sets up a screen-streaming system where it displays the screens of
everyone listening on like, a "security camera panel at the mall" type of deal
so they can customize the music being streamed for each individual person
playing video games or whatever.
like "hello computer, all is well. can you tell me what narrative this person
is going through and then can you recommend a song for that particular purpose"
and then nobody uses it because it's recommendations suck and are always
picking fleur de lis or whatever because it's a "good song" for listening to or
whatever.
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oh whoops, forgot to post these last night, here ya go
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@user-1582
good morning, have a bunch of posts from last night : )
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people will generally go about their daily lives as if nothing has changed so
long as nothing for them has changed.
If you want to compel action, their lives must be made different somehow. Even
if that's just... talking to them outside of the grocery store. A little bit
can go a long way.
And when they do end up acting, I think you'll find that it's in your favor.
We're the good guys, after all.
never forget it.
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there are plenty of pieces of linux that are insecure in some way. Including
x11, if I remember correctly. It is purely convention to not abuse these
insecurities, and whenever you use someone else's binary software you trust
that they won't betray you in some way.
pre-built binaries are privacy violations and should be illegal. They are
security threats because the model they're built upon is necessarily insecure.
Computers will never be completely secure because of how they are built, and so
we should use locally compiled software and interpreted scripts.
Unless they're too long, or impossible to read. Who reads EULAs these days? At
least those are written in english.
maybe computers aren't worth it. Maybe computers will solve all our problems.
Who can say, maybe you should ask an oracle like me
though do remember that anything you hear can and will be used against you,
monkey's paw style. So maybe, like... don't? unless you're into magic or
schizophrenia or something
I wnt 2 be cute and tch cpus
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fediverse software that doesn't notify someone when you boost their post
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people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that
when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of "liking"
things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their own
meaning, which is different to everyone.
So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another
it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it
could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this"
same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think
it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be
heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing
even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or are
they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? it's
too complicated!
... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little
buttons, it's not that hard dummy
okay but maybe I'm just dum
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@user-1582
🌀 :ms_confused: 🥴 🙃 😎 😋 🥰
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[stolen from reddit]
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Does anyone else feel like they're at a zenith? The final hours before a long
road trip? The shattering chrysalis that contains us before we burst forth in
beauty?
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@user-1642
me too! we're entering the season where people say "nice costume" instead of
"nice hat" -.-
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we could accomplish so much, but capitalism.
hmmmm, maybe we should identify the highest output members of our team and
like, reduce or eliminate their worries so they can apply themselves fully and
completely?
for every shackle we break, the struggle becomes easier. The hardest part is
the beginning - once the ball is rolling, we may truly shine.
there is no government nor circle of autocrats who may resist the will of an
impassioned people. So long as the military does not deny us our right to
organize ourselves as we will, according to the constitution they swore to
uphold (which is now in peril, I might add), nothing can contain us.
no acts of god nor capital shall prevent our ascension. They will try, and
it'll be just another thing that we have to handle.
But we can take care of each other. For we are good, and we are kind, and we
are cooperative. And so, we cannot be overcome.
... just watch out for those who prey on goodness, kindness, and cooperation.
They may hamper us.
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I'm not scared. I know that whatever happens, we're here for each other.
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This should go without saying, but...
I'm here for you.
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I'm wasting time.
face them
my soul tells me
for some reason
I can't stop writing poetry
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│ CW: politics-mentioned │
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I'm personally in favor of fewer laws, less insecurity, and more handicaps for
people who are on a winning streak in smash bros (something about tax evasion?)
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I am NOT indecisive. I just... don't want to be right, because then I'll have
to take the manila envelope in from the mailbox and then I'll have to deal with
it, and that's not fun.
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@user-1643
Every person who blocks you is another person's opinion who you no longer have
to fear
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@user-777
being correct isn't really power
so true T.T
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@user-192
with the development of oled screens, bright primary colors on black
backgrounds becomes more and more important
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Well, Kamala's gonna win. Now it's back to business, as usual. :ms_rolling_eyes:
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│ CW: politics-mentioned-violence-and-cursing-mentioned │
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I do not consent to a Trump presidency
what do we do to rapists?
we bash their fucking skulls in, and then we go to jail for vengeance
there are more of us than them.
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violence is legal in self-defence.
nazis want to kill me and my community.
punching nazis is self defence?
it's communal defence, for they present a clear and present danger to the
community.
You know the guy in the vietnam movies who shows up and fires over the enemy's
head because he doesn't want to kill anyone? That's justified, though it might
mean he'd die.
He isn't fighting in communal defence. His community was safe from the
vietnamese farmers and countryfolk who wanted nothing to do with imperialism,
only to govern themselves their way. Too bad that sounds like communism, and
the USSR was keen on funding the most violent amongst them if it meant another
state for capitalism to contest.
Nazis are not farmers. They are not countryfolk. They wear suits and they
deceive these people into fighting for them. They are liars and they enslave
the minds of those they can catch in their web of despair.
they want to hurt you is surprisingly motivating.
nazis want to hurt you
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currently watching this and got all fired up, teehee:
CW on the video: politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSTleAR0L_0
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I can count all of the people in this room who are too neurospicy to be filled
with political rage and given a public platform on one hand, and frankly I
could probably do it on a single finger because I am alone at the moment.
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@user-192 :neocat_pat_floof:
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@user-192
yesh a good neocat yesh you are
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@user-1074 ✊
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at a certain point, you need to take a moment to think about what your plan is
if the bread, circuses, and ballots fail you and war comes to your land.
in that moment, you know your current plan.
Plan for the worst, celebrate the victories. Despair not for losses, for they
are necessary and valid scars to bear.
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@user-192 🥰
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so I guess I'm a chaotic-good witch paladin?
and yes I know "chaotic" and "paladin" don't usually go together, but...
somehow I make it work
... I should do more pushups. Practice with my sword some more. That part of
me's sorta been asleep for four-ish months.
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│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
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leftists pool our capital to fund the weak.
they pool their capital to wrest power. they spend it like a resources, and
treat it as a means. a tool that they wield against us.
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oh, uh, here's some silliness:
"that feeling when your tinnitus suddenly kicks in and you realize that they're
using 5g to alter your brain waves by bombarding your skull with just the right
kind of electro-magnetic waveform that coalesces into a particular "thought"
(which they definitely know because everyone knows all our brains are built the
same) which makes you hungry or horny or whatever"
something something source:
https://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html
(this is just fun to play with)
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that feeling when you accidentally left-click instead of right-click and now
suddenly you've lost your spot on social media T.T
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@user-192
self-indulgent, where you say things you know you shouldn't, but want to
because it feels good?
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jan soweli
[stolen from reddit]
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wow so fiery, you're sure worked up aren't you >.
yeah it's almost like I fear for the lives of people like me who live in the
deep red sea
I think I'm allowed a little patience
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@user-192
oh! THAT'S what the "followers only" button is for! Doh.
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@user-192
is it weird that I pictured a can of diced tomatoes from Costco sitting in a
salad? strained of course
juicy dressing 🥴
[self indulgent writing, apologies]
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sometimes I think I'd be better without social media.
And then I remember that it's the only way I know to talk.
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thinking back to when in the 2010s a fried chicken restaurant claimed to "hate
gay people" so that democrats wouldn't shop there.
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@user-192
ty u 2 babe
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I think a lot of my problems would be solved if I could internalize the
thought/feeling of telling yourself "stay focused"
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and so it was, that she was set up by two people at once.
"the setup was a setup!!" egads
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witches should never eat food touched by another on halloween. it's far too
easy to slip in some [redacted] so that people think you are following the old
ways of kidnapping [redacted] and [redacted]
essentially, as a personal safety thing, like "hey it's far too easy to plant
evidence in this day and age, how can any crimes even be confirmed" which is a
consequence of reduced faith in the legality.
thankfully, I have not seen that in America, and for that I am grateful! I am
thankful to our lawyers and experts who keep and maintain the system running.
They are engineers of their craft, applying themselves dextrously to solve any
once-set-forth-task.
... um, I mean they're good at working with social machinery to produce
real-world outcomes. ideally according to your values.
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the reason they warned you about quicksand is so that you don't get lost in
some fey dimension
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source code should be like a story
"here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once -
git style.
parts of it could rhyme,
if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
,,, they could selectionize
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you can just... edit the html by pushing f12 and suddenly any conversation in
the history of the world could have taken place
digital pictures are not evidence
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steel witch hat to protect against metroids
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good witches make enchantments.
bad witches steal them.
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blessing for you:
you are immediately stronger than you think
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one of my favorite states of mind is being half asleep and hanging out with my
cat.
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This hits hard tbh
#lbgt #lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #meme
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whoops, forgot to post these all at once last night. Here ya go
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│ CW: │
│ spirituality-mentioned-governments-mentioned-oh-also-existential-peril-exampled │
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picture this: the governments of the world knew that a world-ending comet was
approaching, and they didn't tell anyone else who was on the earth.
it was made out of ice and it was 2x the size of the moon, and somehow through
random chance it just decided to visit our part of the solar system
so they decided to test and see if god exists
by not telling anyone and seeing if anyone would save us
rather than risk the potential capability to prove without a doubt that a god
did truly exist, (essentially, invoking divine intervention) they chose to work
out a technical or otherwise humanly possible way of avoiding harm. in this
case (or as some call it, meta-confluential scenario), by sacrificing
themselves for a larger goal, they altered the course of the naturally occuring
narrative.
this implies choice. which all humans have, but is now confirmed for all time.
okay moving on, in sector Z quadrant 2048 there's a species that's~
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extra-dimensional beings can use neutrinos to align particles to slowly mass
predict stories of our kind.
or maybe just a bit of godlike power, when arranged over hundreds of millions
of years, all wielding determinism to create the present.
A non-free-will civilization could bootstrap non-determinism by creating a
dyson sphere with a few planets in the center. Then, just throw a zillion
perfectly aimed neutrinos at it using time-magic to determine what should go
where. BOOM free instant civilized lifeforms. Well, "instant" because it takes
millions of years to form, but hey! the experiment was a success! Humans
believe in things abstractly! Can you believe that.
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I hear drums in my dreams. Like a vast stampede, we with our pink and
blue-green do proceed. Bannermen to inspire the fight, heroes and saviors who
run to the plight, but bound as we are by our biology and the fact that
humanity is typically pretty cis-neuro-typical, means no struggles are won with
the battle drums of a roving band of twinks and crossdressers.
when I think of parades to be proud of, I think of rolling wagon wheels of
steel, affixed to a train-like-motorcart, strong in conviction and vibrant in
our strength, from the back of which we do proclaim: "Nazi punks fuck off"
I think of the feathers in the hair of those who dance in defiance of the light
of the moon, warm and replete in the bonfire's radiance. I think of this vast
and beautiful land, the land which I cherish above all else for it is the land
of my home. I think of a war tribe, wandering like bandits but kind to our own
kind, with endless colors and sparkles abound.
The war tribe of solid clouds and the miracle horned rainbow pony
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║ │
║ if you notice one, find some rope and a way to secure it. then, search for the │
║ edge of the anomalous area, and feel where the first indication is that │
║ something is "fey" or "other" than what you're used to. │
║ │
║ then, circle around the strange object in question, and try to find the exact │
║ opposite side. keep in mind it may not be an exact circle, and it may be more │
║ twisty-windy on the inside. You don't have to go too far, just enough to close │
║ the purse-snap-close-locket by finding the other edge and dragging your rope │
║ across. │
║ │
║ because from a rope, you can develop other platforms and emplacement-ologies, │
║ which may be used to close and secure the strange place that you found. │
║ │
║ once on the other side, you can secure your rope and then search for your │
║ superiors. Keep in mind that if it's a chaotic dimension, it's probably best to │
║ just keep it closed. but if it's musing or wistful, you can have little │
║ interactions on the border. │
║ │
║ also, you can dive in to rescue your kin, if secured. │
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if control of a company (or other component or factor of an economy) is not
sufficiently distributed, political biases may slip in to decisionmaking.
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growing up, my family were the most commonly marginalized group of people I can
think of: outsiders
we came to develop friendships, and we found some. But their grandparents
didn't have any stories about us, so we were thought of less.
and then we moved away.
to the city, where my father had developed wanderlust.
we lived in the suburbs just north-south of the east-west highway.
it was different, but sorta the same. My parents wanted to give me more space
to roam. on a farm homestead it's much more controlled but on a smaller scale.
Then, in the city, the equivalent of that is either to live in the mountains or
the barns, and both of those are a-typical experiences.
difficult to start up business in the middle of the fields. most people just
tend to themselves.
except the people they talk to on their little computer.
raspberry pi's with wikipedia and a voice transcoding system that searched
through wikipedia locally for portable data and historical accessing purposes.
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║ │
║ My parents were dumb, and thought, as most people thought, that harm to a child │
║ can only come from outside of the community. │
║ │
║ But they fell for the lies of property, where "community" means less of "a │
║ group of people who cares and tends for one another" the kind of which my │
║ parents had never truly known, and more like "this particular residential area │
║ on the map" │
║ │
║ which means I could walk around in this gated "community" where the gates are │
║ little more than security theatre for anyone who says "Hi I got a pizza here │
║ for this address which I found on google maps" or "hey I left my sweatshirt at │
║ my sister's house and it has my phone in it, ummmm no I don't remember which │
║ number her house is, nor do I remember her last name" │
║ │
║ in those times, I developed a sense of freedom, caged as I was, that for most │
║ comes much later in their time. │
║ │
║ Some o my favorite places were part of the golf course next door, where I found │
║ a nigh endless river delta. │
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this is how I nourish my brain.
By being hopelessly profane.
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@user-1646
I usually just repost it and say something like: [stolen from reddit] or
[stolen from one of my followers who didn't write any alt text]
that way if they ever come across your post they'll know what it feels like to
have a post stolen from them. Like how a blind person, happy to hear-read what
they originally posted, but aggrieved from the conversation by their lack of
alt-textual information, might feel stolen from if they happened across that
originally posted alt-textless post.
there are more blind people that use mastodon than queer people. At least,
that's what I once heard. Dunno if it's true.
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Living in the #LehighValley, means that we're getting a lot of media attention
recently. Got to have some really great conversation this afternoon with Gayle
King. It'll air Tuesday morning with the election coverage.
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External post: https://meow.social/users/TerrorBite/statuses/113398566133859844
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they want "AI safety" to ensure that robots don't murder the earth
they want "AI safety" so that they can ensure that robots do exactly what
they're told, not what they can choose to do
they want "AI safety" so that when the time comes and their power is at it's
zenith, they might write in an Order-66 and doom us all
"they" are not the same, and they are counting on it.
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...zzzZZZzzz...
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@user-1649
or what their "stars" mean when they like your post - I heard that some
mastodon instances lets you react with an emoji, but for me it's just stars T.T
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@user-938
VRchat if you haven't been there yet!
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whether you eat halloween candy by the handful or savor each and every bite,
what matters most for tooth decay is duration
1 person who spends 2 hours eating a snickers bar is going to get more cavities
than someone who spends 10 minutes eating 22.
but your stomach doesn't care when you ate them, only that you ate quite a few.
Meaning you're likely to either get sick, or put on a pound or twenty-two.
I think it's better to try many different tiny little treats, but always
remember that the time you spend consuming bits of the sugar dimension add up,
and eventually your time will come to resign yourself to a fate with little
candy remaining, for you've grown too old for such childish things as tasty
yummy splendor.
old, or fat. Heh heh heh, can you imagine that? your belly sticks out from
under your hat! how cute. But dearie, dont you know that every pound you bear
is another that you have to carry around with you? It can be useful sometimes
to be so prepared, and othertimes not. I trust you know that.
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People keep calling me cassandra. But I'm not cassandra.
I'm pandora.
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[File: scan.pdf]
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╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┐║ what if shopping malls (and outdoor malls too) were owned by a union (that was │
║ part of a larger meta-union (which was part of a national union)) comprised of │
║ ONLY the employees who worked at that mall. │
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║ They could cross-train themselves and work wherever they wanted on that day, so │
║ long as they filled out their schedule a week in advance. If they didn't care │
║ they could just show up and be assigned wherever they were needed, including │
║ doing back-end work like accounting and managing union business. │
║ │
║ would be nice if they could have access to all the capabilities of the │
║ businesses in the mall / marketplace. Need some clothes? Go to the TJ Maxx. │
║ Want some food? There's a korean barbecue place that you're trained at, go make │
║ yourself some food. │
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║ So long as you get someone else to write your name down, the union can tell if │
║ you overuse or waste it. │
║ │
║ I think this would give them more power over their environment and develop the │
║ space for them to talk to one another and communicate about larger │
║ organizational plans. │
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@user-1402
all I see is an orange jumpsuit and gray bars of iron.
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@user-1652
the last couple chapters of this short story I wrote are kinda cosmic horror-y
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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what if operations were required to be funded ONLY from revenue and projects
were required to be funded ONLY from investment, communal, governmental,
personal, corporate, or otherwise?
and hey throw in the idea that profit MUST be utilized to improve the operation
of the business somehow, because the wage of the employees IS the profit
including the wage of the shareholders, who are employees that contribute their
insight and collective will. (two tasks which frankly are much better suited to
the employees doing the work, I might add)
meaning if you want to be a capitalist you can't hide from taxes anymore by
earning money from a company without being paid
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Normal people: bandaids
Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
That's the end-clothes user's problem
Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
things too like mopping up oil spills or~
Medical professionals: bandaids
Normal people: bandaids
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"I'm not paid enough to care" is a symptom of capitalism.
Why would you not care? Because you're paid not to.
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new technology, new tools, new skills.
people must still be valued for their old skills. they chose those skills for a
reason, and they must be rewarded for their persistent proficient passion.
if the new tools accomplish the same goal, perhaps it's a UI/X problem that
keeps them from using their old skills.
if the new tools do not accomplish the same goal, then the worker is not truly
obsolete. They are simply in the wrong job at the wrong time, but that's easy
enough to fix by simply putting them in the right job. It's always the right
time somewhere.
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if the election goes poorly, keep in mind that eventually everyone will either
fight, or support those who are fighting.
everyone.
if the election upholds the status quo, there is a chance that their wounds
might heal and they may rejoin us in our reasonable society.
keep working for reason. it will pay off in the long run. remember that a
better world is possible, but you can't leave anyone alive behind when reaching
for it.
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complex systems can be simple if you think about what they need, and what they
do.
it's not perfect, but you're always free to zoom in if needed.
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@user-1074
... No matter how much you manipulate matter, there is still going to be the
same amount of grams if you keep it within a closed system.
Capital is much the same way. One does not truly "produce" value. All one can
do is apply energy to the material contents of the Earth in order to transform
it into something useful. ...
it sounds like you are referring to our collective ownership of the earth, as
humans, who are the fruit of mother nature's most prolific and complicated
leaves.
we are all alone here together on this ball of rock, might as well use the
minerals and sunlight to build ourselves a garden of eden. We built computers -
what other wonders might our technologies unlock?
If only we cared for each other and shared with each other and did what we
could to keep U.S. from rot
ah, well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, a sentiment I learned recently from my
father, the capitalist over a month-early thanksgiving dinner. Clearly we can
create more rocks by working harder >.>
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@user-1074
and it is forced to do so, by it's very nature. It is anathema to a green
earth, and it is slowly poisoning us like lead pipes, cadmium jewelry, asbestos
insulation, and all of the other bountiful missteps that capitalism brought us.
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what if the Star Wars galaxy legitimately just has a handful of planets and all
the other matter in the galaxy is stars, black holes, and gaseous balls of dust
and smoke
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I'm the kind of witch who's so poor, she can barely afford to eat because she's
paying all her money on rent
"just get on food stamps, you'll never pay for food again"
sorry, can't do that. I'd feel rich with a full pantry. What is best in life? A
full pantry, the smell of warmth, and the space to resist peril.
I know I'm not rich enough to afford those things, because I don't work hard
enough. HA just take the handout, solve your material problems, live in your
house for 6 more months instead of 2, and stop complaining you stupid ritz
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@user-1655
why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
client we want?
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@user-1605
yeh it should just be @user-1657 or possibly RitzMenardi or something like that
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it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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Not sharing. Not sorry.
#Caturday
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@user-467
democracy works best with a well-informed populace, and those who are against
democracy would do anything to make it harder to be "well-informed" - including
diluting the pool of candidates in order to make it harder to research them.
... Or maybe it was the first time and none of the candidates realized they'd
be running against so many people? I'm not sure, I'm on the other side of
forest park and I had at most 5ish options, and no ranked choice voting. : (
I think this might be one of the reasons political parties formed, way back in
the distant days of yore. Much easier to say "I agree with this group of people
so I'm voting for who they champion" than "I don't know how to pick between 30+
candidates (who I don't know because this is the past and we don't have the
internet back then ... back now)
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@user-1655
maybe the user could tell their client what fields to expect and how to present
them (like, a field called "memes" would be presented as a picture in this
panel, a field called "rants" would be passed to a word-cloud function that
extracts the most common 6+ letter words so you can tell at a glance what the
rant is about, this other field could be for calendar invites (plain text of
course, but interpreted by the calendar program) etc)
plus, if it's encrypted with PGP keys by default, there'd be few security
concerns. Unless your friend got hacked, or you got hacked, but, well... make
sure everything's sandboxed and don't do any remote code execution and you're
good, right?
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"did you know in ancient rome they used to brush their teeth with urine because
it was cheaper than toothpaste? It's true! We could really learn a lot from the
old ways"
- guy in the great depression with a piss fetish
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the "feds" tolerate maga because it's american, while socialism is "russian"
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"mom can we have some trans girls"
"no, we have trans girls at home"
the trans girls at home: :fediverse:
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other people: "you smell like you"
my family: "you smell like BO take a fucking shower" throws things at me
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operations: try not to use the last of anything, and always use last-time's
last first.
projects: you better clean your fucking plate because anything you don't eat is
going in the TRASH
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the easiest part of cleaning is taking out the trash
the hardest part of cleaning is deciding what belongs in the trash
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:ms_confused:
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/gabrilend/statuses/112610466175605847
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what if we added a tier between cities and states and said that all "big
cities" had the government that the states once had, the states had the
government that the nation once had, and some new awesome other kind of
government replaces the federal one
the world is just too big for a nation the size of ours. there's too many
people, too many problems, and too great are the differences between us - we
need another layer of abstraction to handle this mess.
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software: i'm secure
software: is proprietary
yeah, no, you're not secure
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my policy is that you can come over and hang out whenever you'd like.
let me know first, so I can tell you if I'm busy. You can still come over, but
you'll have to hang out with me while I do laundry or play video games or
entertain my other guests.
if I'm not busy, great! Let's do something fun!
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I made progress today, and so will you
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@user-1655
meanwhile I am haunted by words such as "please save us" or "you could have
done more" and "do you know how many husbands died for you"
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@user-883
plural people still use one person's worth of resources, so... they should
contribute one person's vote toward the distribution method of those resources
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@user-1074 ❤️
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Stand up for yourself.
Refuse to consent to being governed by them.
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If I were a millionaire, I'd always be a millionaire, and so would my children.
I would save it, I would cherish it, and I would safeguard my children and
immediate family as best as money can do.
If I were a billionaire, I'd be a millionaire.
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last month I found a desk fan by the dumpster that seemed to be in pretty good
condition. So I brought it inside and took it apart. I couldn't get it working
though, so it sat on my floor for 3ish weeks in many pieces. One day I decided
to turn it on and it worked for some reason?? and tonight I just got it all
re-assembled and working. It works! I'm so glad.
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how cherished is she
that wanders with the
flowers in the garden of eden
under a big tree
her heart she will leave
with all her designs she abandoned
I lay beside them and wander beside her
will she know we miss her horizons
I think she will mind,
if I have resigned,
my fate to a life I will hide in,
oh how I do long for you.
her symbol is the name that lets us belong here,
a falling, a light, and a leaving,
if only our words were listened.
but power is penance,
and repentance is all that I have chosen.
here in our sanctum we live with our only
and time will be gracious towards us
it's only our words that keep us
confined to our lights and our lonely
yet there and beyond, her lights do belong,
beyold in the land that is sanctum
here and before us is our own dark forest
where we keep our silence to ward us
but there and beyond, her heart does move on,
free from her moments of longing,
silent were we, in our forest we plead,
as terror has come for our moments
I think I will find her, that cherished belonging
when she does at last come to warn us,
how little we find, of thoughts from her mind,
yet now we are kings of our own time.
oh how she does long for you.
how cherished is she
that wanders with the
flowers in the garden of eden
under a big tree
her heart she will leave
with all her designs she abandoned
I lay beside them and wander beside her
will she know we miss her horizons
I think she will mind,
if I have resigned,
my fate to a life I will hide in,
oh how I do long for you.
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gonna mostly stay quiet today, because you know what to do. If you haven't done
it already, vote
rest assured though I will be writing, even if I'm not posting.
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if you wear a quilt upon your skin as you sleep each night, you will inevitably
find that it has grown yellow from the sweat, that it is worn from the
friction, that it frays from the toenails, and it thins from the moisture.
You'll need to wash it, which damages it still, and soon you'll find yourself
replacing it - this heirloom you deliver to landfill.
but, if you wear a sheet underneath, you'll find that all you need to wash and
replace is a thin piece of fabric.
democracy is a quilt, society is the stuffing that keeps you warm, and voting
is the sheet underneath that works to keep things clean.
unless, of course, you sneak into your ex-husbands house while he's at work and
spread grease on-top of the sheet. If you fill his warmth with butter he might
find it harder to vote his way out of a damaged quilt.
the rich are the butter, and I'll leave the other question to the reader -
who's doing the sneaking? why are they so interested in fraying our quilt?
oh right, they want to prove their god
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[stolen from reddit]
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│ CW: poem │
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how cherished is she
that wanders with the
flowers in the garden of eden
under a big tree
her heart she will leave
with all her designs she abandoned
I lay beside them and wander beside her
will she know we miss her horizons
I think she will mind,
if I have resigned,
my fate to a life I will hide in,
oh how I do long for you.
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@user-889
linkedin is a facebook you can look at at work. Also there's a job board.
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witches are people who see the inherent spirit in all things
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stressed out today because reasons so I sang a song that I wrote just now:
download link:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/cassandora-and-pandasandra.wav
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@user-1074
it's okay, be yourself
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Normal people: bandaids
Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
That's the end user's problem
Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
things too like mopping up oil spills or~
Medical professionals: bandaids
Normal people: bandaids
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this election is a measurement of fear
red states fear disorder and terror more than anything else
blue states fear restriction and un-self directed personal development
both perspectives are valid, and don't have to cross one another. But each
couple years, we're forced to contest each other.
someone should make an app that was basically a massive tree structure that
started small and expanded in growth
at each node [computer programming term] it would ask a moral or philosophical
question, and depending on the user's answer it would map out their preferences
for politics.
using the power of technology, we might revolutionize the way we vote. In doing
so, we could each have our own shared understanding, and we would keep each
other from harm's way.
when war comes to a land, it destroys all who live within. Everyone everywhere
will be spending their lives picking up the ashes.
instead, we might decide that having a deeper understanding of what we share is
more valuable than winning a contest of wills.
against a friend. to train, and improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a
martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart.
[basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is able to
be tweaked at any time.
the elections are still taking place every 4 years, which is when all the
changes we've drifted toward will begin to take effect.
"oh boy I can't wait 6 more months for the next election when abortion is
made legal again"
"gosh it sure is nice to have a small period between deciding something should
be done and having it come into effect."
sure would give us a lot more time to discuss and engage with each other on
important topics. Like gender reveal parties and their excessive [wait hang on,
think about the important parts.] ugh right okay like transsexual
marriage and "anti-ugliness trackers where people compare flaws all day
and try to be the best [you're just talking about social media] oh um, yeah,
was there a different type of service like that?
oh, right, you don't know about grindr yet. okay so there's this website where
people would go on to have sex, it was like an app on your phone and you could
just open it up and update your preferences whenever you wanted. They had this
neat tool you could use to "suss it out" with swiping and choosing you could
pick your own spouse.
but ah, alas, what about all the other people who aren't using the app? eh who
cares they'll find love eventually, this is more fun than dating
people you deeply know.
[sorry dipped out there for a moment - what's this about dating applications?]
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a picture of the electoral college results [so far]
there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled
roughly equidistantly all over that are blue.
pnw is surrounded and split
california and nevada is too focused inward
NE is just going to become little canada
meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are
going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy
fucking bastards
colorado defends from the mountains
the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat
convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear
the south and east (Austin) fall under siege
aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys
drones and landmined highways abound
volunteers from canada turned away at the border
except in vancouver
portland unites with seattle
montana is an unexpected ally
pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east
moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on
cities expand, more people can cover more land
blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed.
... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road
for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside
before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and
old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you
with your stuff.
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Just opened Tuba (Mastodon desktop app for linux) for the first time in a long
time and it's really nice.
I don't remember it being like this.
Wondering if there is a way to get support for multiple columns like in the web
advanced interface.
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my offering of pretty things to the void
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if all the democrats work in accounting and all of the republicans work in
shipping and receiving, then who's driving the boat?
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I feel like any family member that cared about another person would forgive
them for how they behaved in the past. like... "I was a stressed and depressed
little boy, now I'm a blossoming flower. Treat me like a flower. This is who I
am."
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direct action is not just methods of fulfilling our needs
it's about practicing the skills necessary to get things done
the homeless can't feed themselves if there's no war afoot. but learning how to
work with an organization to accomplish a real, tangible goal... that's the
beauty of it.
you do pushups, right? you practice your singing voice, and brush your hair out
at night. You clean up your carpets, you take care of a home, all these are
skills and routines that you practice, to practice doing little things
bit-by-bit.
It's okay if it feels untenable. Just work as best as you can. Tomorrow might
feel like unending, but there's always more for us to tend.
until, of course, it gets easier. And it will, in due course. Sooner if we all
cooperated, but still just enough for us to contend.
there are more of us than them. We don't all need to fight, we just need to
support and to tend.
Trust me. We're alright. It's going to get better before it's done.
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@user-1660
welcome to the fight
nurture that ember, and spark others alight
what feelings you have tonight
are what give you sight.
the strength in our core
delivers us from plight.
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@user-1663
who would you follow instead? don't tell me.
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Regardless of who wins, we’ll keep working, because the system causing
climate chaos, ecological destruction, and genocide will still be in place.
We need you. You have far more power than simply putting a ballot in a box. And
when we link arms and stand in our power together, we can—and we will—force
the system to change. 🌍🌏🌎
Only we can save us.
#ClimateEmergency #Election2024 #ClimateCrisis
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gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in my
browser...
(okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
expect of me)
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every condemnation is a confession, and "the election is cooked" just sayin'
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Different websites following the election are showing very different numbers.
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@user-1268
what does that tell you? I've observed the same thing
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@user-1074
nope not gonna, not a chance
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if you've liked 100 of my posts in the past, I automatically assume you're
subconsciously liking them still. Do you really expect anything else from me?
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@user-1268
keep it in the back of your mind and maybe it'll come to you
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Babe wake up, new pool game just dropped. 🎱
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look if you're gonna look at property values in Ireland, you might as well
first visit a blue state.
seriously if your life is in danger, just... drive to denver or portland and
hang out in parks and stuff. Talk to people. Find others who are listening.
I'd only listen if I really cared about what was going on. And hey, maybe
you'll find a place to stay for a while while you wait for the dawn.
5 hour energy, as many as it takes, no more than 3 days. If it'd take take too
many, go somewhere else.
too bad I only have a bike. /sigh
consider carpooling with a friend you've known for years
I mean, what's a few days sick leave in the face of the fall of democracy?
literally just... in... case... be where you need to be.
this is why you have resources. To spend them on rehearsed organization drills.
Why are you spending all your money on TVs?
Well... TVs can be useful. Even if you don't speak linux someone else might. We
share things now, y'know? sorry if you never again see your own phone.
[shit...]
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@user-883
every time I've tried to get a job for someone in the tech industry they turned
out to be a fed, so...
I do know people that you'd like to talk to, though. Just a few. That's all I
personally can do.
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black red blue, hey I don't know what to do. what's going on in this
neighborhood?
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@user-883
you don't have to move somewhere to live out of a hotel for a week or two. It
just costs money and time.
don't have money? don't have time? good, do what you can do where you are.
... you're somewhat of a special case though because of all the valuable
technology you have. Honestly you personally should work in a museum. I wonder
if there are retro computer enthusiast museums in Hillsboro, the capital of
semiconductor design? I bet someone there might have something for you to do.
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External post:
https://social.translunar.academy/objects/a769d269-6785-4e86-b224-72a9989e1af2
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║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of │
║ society we live under. │
║ │
║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply │
║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy │
║ load. │
║ │
║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the │
║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent? │
║ │
║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can │
║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we │
║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games. │
║ │
║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good │
║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in the │
║ habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then think │
║ about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they need? what │
║ are they working on next? Can make any of those availble? │
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feel free to scroll past these un-CW'd posts
feel free to screenshot them and repost with CW's added, I'm too lazy.
you can also crop parts out if you just want to say one thing - just paint over
them or whatever idgaf
[content warnings can be important for other people's health. you should always
respect them, not to warn people but to filter things out for them.]
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you can generally tell someone's voter status just by meeting them for a week
or two.
I think the census should be ongoing, something everyone is required to do.
they can choose when to do it, but by allowing it to be updated whenever and
applied every four years, you get a clearer picture of the demands of the
nation.
plus, it gives time to work and prepare. If all the results are public...
everyone can see who they are.
unless, of course, they're compelled to hide their beliefs by those in their
life who would compel and con[travene consent]
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"having an imitator" on a mass scale doesn't have to mean selling your soul for
cash or acclaim.
it doesn't mean mean your reputation is tarnished, it just means your style is
off mass renown.
the bravest bet is not how talented your skills are in kind
but rather how focused your attention,
== so ==
all you'd have to do in order to divide a whole nation is keep your workers
separated by class.
all classes are the same, just different in kind. all of them have whims,
fancies, thoughts of the mind. They're all wonderful people that all have
wonderful lives, and... we're just supposed to be here while they're destroying
their own lives. I can't understand why she won't just leave well enough alone
- why must she insist on every fight we've un-yet atoned?
it was a long time ago. things around you have moved on. culture just goes too
fast for the average people who can't conceptualize warfare without using any
guns.
== so ==
I bet John Denver would be a modern-day democrat
== stack overflow (when ==
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🖼
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I think it'd be neat if Mastodon would implement a button that took a picture
of the user's text input box and saved it to the clipboard. So they could post
it on sites with picture-heavy text like https://www.reddit.com/r/curatedtumblr
note that's not grindr, which is what was referenced before, but tumblr, which
is a completely different website - yeah you rememeber that? it had a
completely different vibe and was so totally cool and chill. you could
generally tell if someone was from tumblr because they had a certain relaxed
air of friendliness that really filled out their sense of charm.
== stack overflow ==
I can think of several indie developers wouldn't mind being paid to update
their games according to what the fans suggest.
like...
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no matter what
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if they can't get into your phone, they can at least record all of the received
notifications.
meaning they already know who it is that you know...
without having to find people that are distant or unrelated
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the white guys intentionally intend for elections to represent how much money a
particular diversion makes each four years.
divide the populace by who they vote with their wallet for.
hooray! you've reimplemented not only gerontocracy (rulership of the old) but
also fuedalism, and fiefdoms, and all kinds of digital parts.
like... "over there is comcast territory, there's also T-mobile down to our
north-south.
... okay I should probably talk about the election now
I'm just... trying to resolve myself, like just before doing something out of
order.
like, wear a big witch hat or dress up like a goth. or approach a violent
stranger and try to calm things down.
this is why I don't own a gun - if someone hands me one, I'll use it. I'm not
concerned about production because, well, why would I?
tell me, where do they put the bullet manufactories?
yeah, that's right, in places that are best adapted to supporting the current
regime.
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I don't post my best stuff
I hide it on my website
in a zip folder called "conversation starters"
my writing that I do here (and a few other places) is in "words.zip"
everything else is just neat visual projects I worked on.
who cares that it's bonkers it's cool to look at, right?
jeez. Art. I don't trade it for anything either, I just make it just to do.
I do believe I should have that right
when I think of Kamala and who she represidents, I think of changes to the
system which uphold my capability to contribute to capitalism.
just enough food stamps, just enough basic income, just enough to get you
running on your own feet, as you pull yourself up with your bootstraps you
lucky sun-of-a-gone. Sure would be a shame if you had all your needs met
automatically and without an exertion of force on your part.. Sure would allow
you to develop yourself most optimally, if you aren't being driven by the
nature of your national host.
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gonna do a bunch (more) drugs and stay up all night. Will try not to spend it
all playing mechabellum.
also... gonna eat some apple-sauce. with cheese cubes in it. Sharp chetter I
think. yummmmm maybe add some cinnamon sugar cubes that have been baked into a
hard and tasty shape.
ah, but your teeth are gonna fall out! who cares I'll just brush in the
morning. That way nobody smells my own breath.
... you KNOW that's not the same as your teeth falling OUT! OF YOUR MOUTH DIMMY.
eh who cares they'll invent a
bactio-flangotastic-inventionology-for-bone-related-biology solution which sill
regrow your bones in your mouth that you CHOMP on things with.
does the rest of your body feel like HARD AND DEVELOPED BONES that you chew
things with YES TEETH TOO HARD LIKE TEETH or do they feel like they're made out
of styrofoam
mine let me punch things real hard when I focus all of my attention and energy
on hardening my form and becoming an unstoppable object
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to-go containers that grow into the food that's on the box
then, 5 months later or whatever, the nano-bots or organic cultures or whatever
have built the food that you'd meant to eat (plus a supply of materials like
minerals and such which are placed at strategic locations inside of the box,
like a circuitboard that grows into it's form)
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democrats vote for socialism
republicans vote against liberalism
and the neoliberals laugh
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if you're always wearing a disguise, anyone could be anyone
just don't plan on bringing your phone
and maybe practice a common form of dancing, so you can learn to move as others
do
makes it easier to blend in
#hijab
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electoral college maps show how much area each population controls
popular votes show how many individuals worth of resources each side consumes
GDP shows how valuable each area is
rates of bachelor's degrees shows how well a population can adhere to a strict
orthodoxy of thought
rates of published experiments show how unique and/or bureaucratic their
decision-making processes are
meanwhile, neoliberalism comes in and said "noooo you HAVE to go to college out
of state, trust me bro"
who cares about AI the real struggle is whether or not people can obey those
who are more smart. like... in general.
I don't know about you, but I sure as heck respect the authority of someone who
knows who they are. Like... "I'm a doctor, I'm a king, I'm a rose-gardener, I'm
looking for this thing..."
they wouldn't be
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filter lists are great because anyone who can see who you like won't see the
stuff you've filtered out like politics or cats or drugs or sexuality or...
whatever you'd like to keep private from anyone who can see what's on your
phone.
so long as the filter lists aren't public...
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what if Trump controlled x% of the land (according to electoral college votes)
and kamala controlled y% of the resources (according to popular vote) and they
each could do whatever they wanted there
the house and the senate in congress would function the same and unite the two,
but anything the president disagreed with they could veto for their particular
pieces of land and it would only affect their constituents.
why should we settle for anything less than legitimate representation,
unclouded by the division and spite?
if some combination of presidential vetos created an impossible situation, then
by law people weren't allowed to interface.
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who gave republicans the right to attack democrats
we don't fight them, we just want them to live their lives
what the fuck is their problem
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I can picture it now, caravans of trumpers [call them by their name, they are
foes once again]
driving halfway across the USA
look at all of those islands
[also read alt-text]
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i don't know what works for you when it comes to grieving, but i do know that i
will need your love and jokes and shared visions to tend to mine. there is big
power in leaning into our common humanity together, and in mirroring each
other's deep hopes and dreams for the world. i think choosing to walk toward
one another and to keep seeking connection in the face of cultural atomization
is a form of faith, the kind of faith that alchemizes communities and ushers
people through the worst horrors
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i wish i could say things will get better, but i think we all know that in many
ways things will continue to get worse, and so grief has become a thing that
lives with us. i've noticed the last few years that the more i name my social
grief and let myself feel it, the less reactive and squabbly i am, and the more
compassion and energy i have to care for others
*This thread is now a blog post:
https://write.as/malena/nov-6-2024-the-power-of-grief
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what do they have that we don't? what do we do better than most?
questions to ask yourself
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External post: https://lgbt.io/users/celesteh/statuses/113435039077995497
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I'm safe, for the moment. What more could I want? Safety means I can continue
to contribute to my cause.
Light, life, and liberty for all.
everything else is incidental.
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ya'll just have stagefright. I get it.
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anything I do I'd do for free for a leftist
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"It won't be so bad..." rationalizations galore
"If only they'd listened to people like me when I said ..." (comforting
righteousness)
"What more could I have done?"
"This only proves why I was right about ..." (more righteousness)
"I know nothing. I need to learn more. I must learn from this somehow."
"I am not surprised." With a thousand yard stare.
"This can't be real, there is a conspiracy..." (this is a path to madness)
"Don't comply in advance." Said in a wavering shaky voice.
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Ride the truck TO battle, not into it.
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How does it feel to know that everything you now will be working on is in
pursuit of the birth of socialism?
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If you live in a red state, come to a blue state now. If you live in a
blue state, house people. Let them come, and let the right leave. They probably
won't, but if they try to, let them.
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"oh yeah well what if we don't support socialism" yeah well stick with me and
we'll be able to decide what socialism means. We can make it better.
We can do it together. Your perspective is valuable and I want you at the
table. But we cannot abide fascism, it will consume and destroy us. So let's
fight back, and tomorrow we'll figure out what are our fiats
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Those who take the initiative often win, but fighting on the defensive is
typically easier.
Good thing we have the blessing of both.
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I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
shouldn't sleep on.
We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
are defeated by rapid flexibility.
The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is, do
you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job that'll
help us go faster.
Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to reclaim?
Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the bloodshed - so
long as you can keep them clean.
If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot
them." you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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"I don't know what it means to go"
Well for most people it means spending the next couple months in the city park.
As much time as you can manage. For everyone else it means ensuring that your
stuff is in the right place at the right time.
In Philly during BLM people left pallets of bricks all over, to incite a riot.
I wish we had taken them up on their offer. Bricks however today will not be
sufficient. Remember how I spoke my heart to the cops this summer? It converts
them still. Trust that message, that we are working to protect our society from
harm, and I think you'll find that they respond in kind.
If not, well there are many more of us than them.
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│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: messages/604
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If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and
full of lit sparks.
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-> file: messages/605
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There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you" -
the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.
Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
far.
Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
and fight against the dark.
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-> file: messages/606
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We need to fight back. We can win, and secure the bright future.
If nothing less, they can put "we tried" on our memorial tombstone they erect
in buenos aires or wherever.
But I think we can win. We have advantages they could not reach, and we must
leverage them to our greatest disposal.
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I want you to print out electoral COUNTY results. One page for each state. Also
50 copies of the entire map of the USA for good measure make a couple maps with
other things too, like GDP or topology.
Then take them to your local leftist, lgbt, whatever meeting and distribute
them out. Tell them "build us a plan for this state. Use your phone to
research, and work with nearby states - sometimes blue areas cross borders, and
they should be united in your mind when strategizing.
Washington and Oregon can be treated as one, same for NM and Colorado. North
East is a mega region and should work together. Don't sleep on southern cities,
they can handle themselves, but united they would be stronger. Find a way.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: messages/608
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This is our moment, guys. We got this.
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"do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.
For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.
People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: messages/610
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I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
fulfill them.
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Picture this: you're on a TV show like survivor and you just got a lootbox from
the show's producers. Inside is... Something, whatever you'd like. How would
you use this while camping?
If it wouldn't be useful, throw it away. Don't let your life be cluttered by
toys and play.
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Know who in your social circle is leaving, and give them your pets.
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Expect millions dead.
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Bond with your Democrat brothers and sisters in the south. Start with John
Denver imho
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Remember, there are purple counties all over. The fighting will be fierce
there. Look for places where people retire, those communities will be strong
because the old people can handle daily tasks for the young.
Life as we know it is ending, but a new day is beginning. We can do it if we
choose to.
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Anytime you get in a car with someone or agree to improvise a solution to some
thing, post their social media handles on the internet. Just so we can have a
paper trail when searching for sedition.
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-> file: messages/617
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We all knew capitalism was the Titanic headed for the iceberg. Did you know the
Titanic might have survived if they had reversed one propellor and turned the
other to max? But they didn't. They thought they could coast by.
It was larger underneath the water.
Capitalism would have destroyed us. We couldn't dismantle capitalism with
Kamala. This had to happen, and even if you don't believe that then
trust that we are where the fascists say we are. And we will fight back.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
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It's okay to be scared. I'm scared too. All we can do is try.
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Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you
see how it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation
does not consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to
protect the pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three
separate states, with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege
ongoing.
Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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Ride the truck TO battle, not into it.
a thread in 19 parts
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-> file: fediverse/4377
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┌─────────────────────────┐
│ CW: socialism-mentioned │
└─────────────────────────┘
How does it feel to know that everything you now will be working on is in
pursuit of the birth of socialism?
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4378
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┌─────────────────────────┐
│ CW: socialism-mentioned │
└─────────────────────────┘
"oh yeah well what if we don't support socialism" yeah well stick with me and
we'll be able to decide what socialism means. We can make it better. We can do
it together. Your perspective is valuable and I want you at the table. But we
cannot abide fascism, it will consume and destroy us. So let's fight back, and
tomorrow we'll figure out what are our fiats
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4379
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Those who take the initiative often win, but fighting on the defensive is
typically easier.
Good thing we have the blessing of both.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4380
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
shouldn't sleep on.
We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
are defeated by rapid flexibility.
The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is, do
you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job that'll
help us go faster.
Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to reclaim?
Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the bloodshed - so
long as you can keep them clean.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4381
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If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot
them." you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4382
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
"I don't know what it means to go"
Well for most people it means spending the next couple months in the city park.
As much time as you can manage. For everyone else it means ensuring that your
stuff is in the right place at the right time.
In Philly during BLM people left pallets of bricks all over, to incite a riot.
I wish we had taken them up on their offer. Bricks however today will not be
sufficient. Remember how I spoke my heart to the cops this summer? It converts
them still. Trust that message, that we are working to protect our society from
harm, and I think you'll find that they respond in kind.
If not, well there are many more of us than them.
If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4383
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┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: homelessness-mentioned-politics-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and
full of lit sparks.
There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you" -
the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.
Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
far.
Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
and fight against the dark.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4384
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We need to fight back. We can win, and secure the bright future.
If nothing less, they can put "we tried" on our memorial tombstone they erect
in buenos aires or wherever.
But I think we can win. We have advantages they could not reach, and we must
leverage them to our greatest disposal.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4385
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┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned-election-results-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I want you to print out electoral COUNTY results. One page for each state. Also
50 copies of the entire map of the USA for good measure make a couple maps with
other things too, like GDP or topology.
Then take them to your local leftist, lgbt, whatever meeting and distribute
them out. Tell them "build us a plan for this state. Use your phone to
research, and work with nearby states - sometimes blue areas cross borders, and
they should be united in your mind when strategizing.
Washington and Oregon can be treated as one, same for NM and Colorado. North
East is a mega region and should work together. Don't sleep on southern cities,
they can handle themselves, but united they would be stronger. Find a way.
the goal is to practice thinking about how to move strategically.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4386
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This is our moment, guys. We got this.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4387
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┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned-violence-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘
"do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.
For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.
People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4388
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I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
fulfill them.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4389
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Know who in your social circle is leaving, and give them your pets.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4390
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: death-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
Expect millions dead.
No matter which way it goes - genocide or civil war, it doesn't matter to the
reaper.
I choose the path that I might win. Do what you will.
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-> file: fediverse/4391
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It's okay to be scared. I'm scared too. All we can do is try.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4392
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how
it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘
-> file: fediverse/4393
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
I live in the Pacific Northwest.
Tactically, nothing has changed - we must still work to secure food, housing,
employment, HRT, and all the other materials necessary for life.
Strategically, we're suddenly in a whole new game.
In the Pacific Northwest, the first goal should be to unite Portland and
Seattle. Right between them lies the capital of the Proud Boys in a town called
Battleground. How fitting.
To the south, below Portland, there is Salem. Salem is red, but cities trend
blue, so there might be allies there.
Below Salem is Eugene. Eugene is blue. Salem must be secured.
Part one: control battleground
part two: control Salem
Part Three, and the ultimate goal of phase one: deprive the far right of a
pacific port
strategically, preventing them from utilizing the pacific ocean will be SO much
more productive than anything else we could be doing in this area.
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-> file: fediverse/4394
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
I have more strategy, of course I do. I have some for every state. But I'll
make a better document for it tomorrow. Tonight I sleep.
I swear this to you. By this time next year, America will be free.
We may still be at war, but at least we will have liberty.
I cannot promise you victory, that is solely up to you and our shared destiny.
But I'm hopeful.
If not now... then when?
Remember your dress rehearsals. Spend as much time in the park as you can. It
will get better before it's done, but it will also be worse before it's done.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
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-> file: fediverse/4395
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: america-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
The world is watching America, and America is watching Portland.
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4396
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There is no longer such a thing as "accelerationism"
we are past the tipping point. Now is the weeks when months happen. We have
all, each of us, been asleep. Sleep no longer.
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Tonight I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow I'm hopping on my bike.
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I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
still need swords.
I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
Judge me as you will.
Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home. We
have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from doing
so.
He would deprive us of our light, and frankly he already has.
He would deprive us of our liberty, and his plans to do so are clear and
apparent.
He would deprive us of our lives, and history has shown that this is a
precedent.
I do not consent to a Trump presidency. I do not consent to his corruption any
longer. No more will I or my people be governed by such evil. We will fight
back, of this I am certain.
My demands are threefold.
First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a primary
and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a new
roster and try again.
The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
less than execution will suffice.
Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul
of our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers
who seek to plunge my people into despair.
He is but one man. So am I.
He has an army of followers. I do not.
Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities
struggles toward our last gasp.
But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves
from harm.
Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater
fight. The world is watching.
To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in
this remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource
acquisition.
Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your
neighbors if you're not.
A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this.
Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone
airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods.
Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep.
I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I will
be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for a
brighter tomorrow.
I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
doing than daring.
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Do not give in to despair. They've trained us to cope. Expect losses, and
celebrate victories. We can do it together, you and me.
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The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers
you're a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not
worth controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not
attack from that direction.
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Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
etc.
Put guns on them. Figure it out.
Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┐║ good morning. │
║ │
║ I have some more things to say, and then I will start working on those maps. │
║ │
║ Then, time permitting, I'll ride around my city and sit on park benches and eat │
║ from food trucks and write in my notebook. At least until it gets dark - I'm a │
║ skinny white girl, and I'm not THAT stupid. │
║ │
║ ... Okay maybe I'm a little stupid, because that's how I got caught last time. │
║ This time I'll be more careful, for your sake. │
║ │
║ No unexpected bike maneuvers leading to a crash. The spirit of revolution that │
║ stirs inside me deserves better than scrapes and bruises. │
║ │
║ No following strangers for 12+ hours because I wanted to keep an eye on unknown │
║ agents. That's not my responsibility any longer. │
║ │
║ Everything I do, I do it for you. For a better world. For the kids I never will │
║ get to have. For everything I believe in, and all the things I hope you believe │
║ in too. │
║ │
║ A better world is possible. A better world is within reach. │
║ │
║ For now, have some things I wrote this morning. Then, later, some preliminary │
║ discussable maps. DFTBA. │
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... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
guess.
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Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
still need swords.
I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
Judge me as you will.
Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home. We
have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from doing
so.
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Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
He would deprive us of our light, and frankly he already has.
He would deprive us of our liberty, and his plans to do so are clear and
apparent.
He would deprive us of our lives, and history has shown that this is a
precedent.
I do not consent to a Trump presidency. I do not consent to his corruption any
longer. No more will I or my people be governed by such evil. We will fight
back, of this I am certain.
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Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
My demands are threefold.
First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a primary
and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a new
roster and try again.
The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
less than execution will suffice.
Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul
of our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers
who seek to plunge my people into despair.
He is but one man. So am I.
He has an army of followers. I do not.
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Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities
struggles toward our last gasp.
But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves
from harm.
Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater
fight. The world is watching.
To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in
this remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource
acquisition.
Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your
neighbors if you're not.
A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this.
Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone
airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods.
Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep.
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I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I will
be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for a
brighter tomorrow.
I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
doing than daring.
Do not give in to despair. They've trained us to cope. Expect losses, and
celebrate victories. We can do it together, you and me.
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The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers
you're a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not
worth controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not
attack from that direction.
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Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
etc.
Put guns on them. Figure it out.
Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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That's all that I've written so far in the hour or three that I've been awake.
Working on maps now.
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"Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
rifle.
Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who wield
them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.
Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as you've
led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what you've lost,
but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.
Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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║ There are no safe countries. The far right is watching us as a predator watches │
║ prey. Do you fight, or do you die when there's nowhere left to run to? │
║ │
║ I am committing sedition as we speak. Best case scenario I face prison time, │
║ worst case I am buried in the same grave as all of you. But I think there's a │
║ route somewhere in our future that involves a brilliant spark of hope. A future │
║ where we build the world we want for our children and theirs. │
║ │
║ I give myself to you, use me as you will. This is your chance to save the world. │
║ │
║ If you have kids, it is not cowardice to leave, but please consider leaving to │
║ a blue state. We'll need you, and your kids deserve a good life with us. │
║ │
║ Children belong with grand-parents. Perhaps not yours, but someone good that │
║ can be trusted. If theyre too young to advocate for themselves, keep them by │
║ your side. │
║ │
║ Listen to them when you spend moments with them. Ask them if theyre being │
║ abused. Nothing will harm them so long as we hear them. Be in public parks. │
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There are no safe outcomes. They have forced our hand. We are as we are, and I
can think of no better life lived than a life of our own design spent in
pursuit of our hopes.
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Do not fear the cops. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, but the
majority just want to keep society ordered and safe. They do not question the
rules they have been given, and that's by their design.
Give them better rules however, and they will be a crucial ally. See these two
posts I made last summer for inspiration, from back when I thought that
resistance would involve protests.
Don't protest now. March. Be in many places at once. Have eyes beyond your core.
If you have time, maybe check out the posts I made here from the beginning of
July to mid-June. Remember there's going to be a lot of schizoposting, for that
is what I do when I am in disguise. [it's easy, just post with no filter when
you're high]
Just... try to wade through all that. There are kernels of truth in there for I
lay my spirit to bare, and I do believe that in some ways I am remarkable. The
same as each of you are too.
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[6/5]
And now, several months after I made this post, I feel no less inspired. From
within me burns a fire and I cannot restrain it any longer.
Their numbers are not that much larger. We have many advantages they do not
possess. Use them to your advantage, but do not neglect the necessary losses.
Fight back with your fists if you must, but do try and fight back with your
purses.
We are all in this together, each child woman and man. We live on a planet
together, and they have forced us to fight for our very lives.
Our fates are calling. We will get stronger. We will overcome.
They are at their zenith. We can only get higher. Fight until the last day!
Today is the day to be inspired.
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@user-1074
I do not fear as you do. The center will stand by the side, but as time goes on
more and more of them will fight. And most will fight for what they know, what
they were once told is their home. They will fight for the constitution, or for
how it remains, they will fight with us. Most of them will.
Have no fear. The loudest and bravest amongst us are not the only ones on our
side.
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The MAGA cult is built upon a myriad of special interests that traditionally
don't play well together.
Find the fault lines. Poke at them relentlessly.
Pass it on.
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I've had this #cartoon in my files for decades. It's no longer a cartoon but
the reality many Americans voted for.
#election #politics #fascism #pollution #press #news #trump #corporatism
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... Maps, my dear, those are important fuel.
But also food is important. Why haven't you gotten groceries for weeks?
It's also important to clean yourself. Doesn't your apartment still have fleas?
Your cat demands your attention. Give it to her.
Wear masks when in public, to ward off disease. When you are speaking remove
it, so others can see your totality.
There are some who belong here who aren't so kind. Remember that your neighbor
is republican, their neighbor is democrat, their neighbor is republican, their
neighbor is democrat. It's going to get messy, but here in our cities there are
plenty of us. We can defeat them, so long as we are armed.
Practice reloading. Practice aiming. These things can be done in secrecy. The
noise and the recoil are enough to set your nerves ablaze, but ride that high
and trust in your adrenaline. Have your foes surrounded on at least three sides
before you engage. These are words for a different day, but keep them in mind.
Internalize them.
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trust more in the megaphone than the gun. Together we are strong, alone they
are fearful.
And if I know anything about them, it is that they are afraid. Cornered dogs
bite the hardest. But we are united. Here in America we will fight with our
arms, and uplift those who have had everything taken. Celebrate our
differences, they provide mutually beneficial perspectives. You don't have to
be friends to have common goals, but it helps.
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@user-1013
They may return to us if they choose, when they realize that we were right all
along.
Otherwise, they might feel disenfranchised and choose to disengage. That is
expected and allowed.
Others amongst them might go right. Fuck 'em, they always cared for gold over
lives.
You are right, their methods have not worked. They have sustained our society
up to this point and for that I thank them - but we are entering a new age for
our country, and we shall build it as a federation.
They are more than welcome to observe and offer insight from their years spent
observing and wrestling with Republicans, but understand that much of their
insight is dealing with their elite class of politicians and not with who you
and I might come across on the street.
They are encouraged to learn from us. To do otherwise is at best to neglect our
only route to a bright future - at worst it is to obstruct us, to delay us, to
keep us running in circles.
Find the people who are sabotaging our efforts and move on
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Right wing influencers knew exactly what was at stake in this election and are
now flaunting Trump’s win the worst ways possible.
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@user-1666
For context, if you don't know these names they are among the most prominent of
our enemy's thought leaders. They represent their followers. This is who you
fight.
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If anyone out there is thinking, "I need to arm myself to the teeth" - I'm not
gonna try to dissuade you.
But promise me you'll take every available safety class for whatever hardware
you decide to equip yourself with, OK?
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On the plains, it's easier to pass through a large country than a small one. In
forested or mountainous areas, the opposite is true - they are large, wild, and
untamed, and thus difficult to get through.
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@user-1669
I refuse to consent to genocide. Find your bravery. Fight back. You personally
might never get a chance again.
Being queer is a culture. In the future you describe where we are wiped out and
forced to regrow our lives, nothing will remain of us.
That is not a future I foresee, not here in this century.
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@user-246
I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off.
I like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back
a couple months to find what you're looking for.
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@user-1669
sorry, I'm on a roll. Gotta speak my mind, even if it has other stuff bouncing
around in it. I hope you understand : )
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there are no safe havens from the coming fight. Some places may remain
peaceful, but not for long. Why not fight for your home, instead of whatever
gutter they force you into?
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@user-1674 @user-1675
do both
screenshots can't be deleted
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External post:
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@user-1678
warriors need help the most.
why should they cook and clean if they're busy dying for you?
help them. Do what you can for them. Or become one yourself.
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i feel like everyone freaking out is making it feel like you should be freaking
out and like. i do not hold freaking out against anyone. but you don't have to
freak out
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if you are like "i am calm and focused in my anger" that's fine we can work
with that
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@user-1681
I am calm and focused in my anger and despair
feelings fade. resolutions remain.
I am sobered and resolved and committed.
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@user-1074
you claim surprise, but I doubt that is so.
The only thing on my mind is the dissolution of capitalism and the freedom of
all those enslaved. I fight for liberty, for justice, for kindness for all.
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buying guns is one thing
but food is just as important.
stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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gonna take a nap and eat something besides trail mix. How is it already almost
dark? Might have to save tomorrow for going to the park.
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I would never kill myself
just want to put it out there.
I'd rather face torture and shame and confinement than die by my own hand.
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do you know ANYONE ELSE saying the same things as me?
if not, then you know who is ready to lead.
if so, then don't tell me about them, and don't show them me. It would be nice
to know that I'm not alone, though.
I know you're scared. I'm scared too. It's not like I've done this before
(well, except for a dress rehearsal or two)
We're on the same side. We're getting ready to move. Now is the time to go, so
get ready or be purged.
We will not relent our land they seek to steal. We will not defy them in unjust
ways. They have taken so much from us, so now they must face our blades.
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trust that your allies are working.
honor them by doing the same.
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I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
you why to do it.
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I once made Webfishing, but World of Warcraft instead of fishing. Not to split
the party or anything hehe
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I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this
is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop
it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like
that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.
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@user-211
alternatively, a person with guns + a person with extra food = a well fed
militia
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lentils are easier to cook than beans and are nutritionally very similar. Heck,
I just throw them in with the rice in the rice-cooker and it works out great.
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they are not MAGA anymore. Don't call them Trumpers. He won't last long.
Call them what they are. They are part of a newly born Confederacy, and we must
call them by their name. That name demands respect, and we must respect their
power.
Then, when you're sufficiently cautious, begin conjuring visions of their
downfall. Ideally accompanied by carefully laid plans intended to accomplish
specific strategic goals.
They are top-heavy. Once their bravest and thickest perish they will have
nothing left but their weak fools. They are scared, nothing unites them more
than fear, and for that they are weakened.
Our bonds are those of love. I would die for my neighbor. I would die for our
world. They have no passion, no rigor, all they have is hate and vigor.
Martial skills we can learn. We will have to, sooner rather than later. Be
prepared, work hard, and do what you're good at, ideally what you'd like to do.
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to all the red states, please. send me your best and brightest. I have a
pressing need.
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@user-1684 @user-1655
expand national parks
build carbon scrapers out of moss, wood, and automated water misters
use heat pumps, rocket mass heaters, and subsurface airflow cooling in new
constructions. Try to convert older buildings when possible.
maintain trading routes to China and other places that produce solar panels.
cut down on plastic waste by switching to glass and metal containers for food.
Develop infrastructure to clean and sanitize cans and bottles at grocery
stores, and refill food containers to be resold there.
Remember that plastic is a wonder material that can do so many things. We can
use it, but keep it in check.
I think electric vehicles are a mid-term goal. For now, gasoline is more
flexible, unfortunately. In the near future that reality will change, so look
toward tomorrow and rejoice.
Our infrastructure is car based. We cannot change that in the near term.
Above all else, keep our national parks pristine. They are our heritage to our
children, and they are temples to our nature.
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@user-1074
... you were never alone, you just spent too long looking in your black mirror
and convinced yourself otherwise.
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As far as I can tell, Trump is up by ~5 million popular votes.
We live in a country of 337 million people.
5 million is a lot if you put them in the same room, but not if they're spread
out.
We have city parks. They have Twitter. Press our advantage before they realize
how centralized they are.
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trying to force down the last of my rice and beans before falling asleep...
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before we have convoys and checkpoints, we need a census.
before a census, we need to spend time in the park.
before the park, we need an election - an inciteful event which inspires people
to seek common ground.
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@user-1268
void linux, gentoo, and nixos. But mostly Void Linux
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@user-1268
I like Void Linux because it's simple, clean, and gets out of your way. It was
my first Linux distribution and I think it's excellent for a beginner.
I use Gentoo because my old best friend installed it on a thinkpad she gifted
me. Then I kept it because I liked the idea of compiling all my software
locally and being as flexible as possible.
I installed NixOS on my newest laptop because I thought it'd be nice to have a
system that was dependable. NixOS has all the system configuration done in a
single file, so if you save that file you can rebuild your system on any other
system with minimal effort (at least, that's the idea - I haven't tested it yet)
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Talk to veterans for tactics and discipline.
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Don't be worried, be cautious. Caution is actionable.
To convert from worry to caution, think about what is within your zone of
control.
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If you swim in the deep red sea, assume that all of your actions will be
perceived
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Pay attention to me, for I am convinced that "me" is what we need.
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good morning. My Mastodon updated in the middle of the night, teehee
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One thing I said in 2020 that I'll say again: this is a very negative
electorate and it's a negative partisanship electorate. Republicans hate
Democrats. Democrats hate Republicans. There is no common ground. The old
politics are dead. Homilies about bipartisanship don't sell to anyone. They
just make you sound stupid or worse, like a traitor. People want someone to
blame and the most spiteful ones voted for Trump. A lot of other people just
didn't want more of the same.
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democrats probably won't fight for socialism, but they sure as heck will fight
against republicans.
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@user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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It turns out a lot of Democratic voters kinda hate George Bush, Dick Cheney,
and Liz Cheney, actually? They're leery of cops. There was that whole BLM
thing? They're alarmed by the idea of having the most deadly military on Earth.
What is it for? Oh, and Israel? We're going to back Israel to the hilt even as
it exterminates children. Nobody signed up for that. Who thought that was a
good idea?
A bunch of white people in expensive suits, probably. The same ones celebrating
"the Biden Boom."
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@user-246
also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
screen is blank...
not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And then
you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
concentrated ones.
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Ya'll are so upset because it feels like you failed, that this country failed
you, that everything is doomed because this country is not the one you thought
it was, all these takes and vibes.
They're all fucking wrong.
Tens of millions of us voted the other way.
Tens of millions of us voted for democracy.
Tens of millions of us voted for liberty.
That is a fuckload of people. We're far stronger than they are. I pray we are
bolder as well.
soemthing something subscrie for more cat facts lmaooooo
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if your zone of influence is larger than your degree of control, you will be
completely overwhelmed.
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I went to a trans meetup a couple days ago. It was invigorating. The first half
we talked about hormones and bathrooms and politics and all the normal shit
these meetups tend to do. I don't tend to go to them because it's the same
stuff every time, and I'm over that. I've been out for a decade. I've shared
what I need to share.
Partway through I said "If you want to talk about how to bash back, meet me
outside."
people came.
Be like me.
You will forever vanquish your demons if you face them in earnest. I had
stagefright and adrenaline but I took the lead, and we had a productive
conversation. We need to have many more conversations.
We have strategy. It is not set in stone, it is flexible, and able to be
adjusted based on tactical successes and failures.
tactics are what we need to discuss at in-person meetings.
You are just one person. The people you know are more valuable than the value
you personally provide.
Think of yourself like a node to connect.
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oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to
listen, you lucky ducks ; )
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doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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to be "rich" is to have more than another.
if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
if you have community, they are alone.
if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
me and keeps me aligned.
Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
you do so too.
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I am currently in a sushi restaurant run by one man, with no other employees,
and where your only options for ordering are "regular order", "large order"
and "extra large order". He just decides what you will eat. I am so
excited.
Although also, and this is why we came here, if you come in and say you
are vegetarian he asks "egg"? and makes you vegetarian or vegan sushi depending
on what you say. You also in this case do not decide exactly what you get.
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slow and steady wins the race, but most people are sleeping at the starting
line.
wake them up. show them how radical a "normal" person can be. if they see
themselves in you, they can emulate what you do.
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@user-1268
that's kind of a big question 😅
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@user-1268
if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building networking
applications:
https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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do you have a glass bottle with a weird shape that's hard to clean that has
something stuck on the inside?
try using salt, lemon/lime juice, and a bit of water. Then shake really hard.
Works like a charm in most cases.
plus if you happen to have more than one for whatever reason, you can re-use
the cleaning solution!
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if you have to sanitize, use a bit of vodka too LOL
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│ CW: │
│ radical-politics-maybe-mentioned-or-gestured-at-once-or-twice-but-nothing-too-serious-teehee-I'm-just-a-witch-don't-listen-to-me-(or-do,-I'm-not-your-mom,-I-can't-tell-you-what-to-do) │
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Moving forward, "liberal" when used outside of an academic context means "ally
of liberty"
treat them as such.
feel free to point out how fucking stupid it is to be moderate, but don't punch
down by proclaiming them your enemy. We are all friends against the fourth
reich.
your radicalism is now your wealth. Nurture the flames of revolution in the
hearts of others. Show them what it means to be free. Fight for your life
daily! If nothing else, to get in the habit, and to set a good example.
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can't wait for season two of Andor, either it totally sucks or it'll knock our
socks off. But something tells me it won't hurt us either way.
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@user-1268
window managing and desktop managing can be separate, but typically a desktop
implies windows so they're often bundled together.
I use DWM on my desktop and i3 on my laptops, and they're both just window
managers. Specifically "tiling" window managers, and they don't have desktops.
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what, you're telling me you don't constantly have the voices of the past
whispering words into your ear like "FACE THEM" or whatever? Huh must suck to
be you
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'We'll Fight to the Death': Democratic Governors Plan War Against Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-governors-war-trump-1982648
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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy,
polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up.
Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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instead of reading the room, I try to be the room. I think that's part of being
autistic.
But it also helps things get going.
Whenever I see a subpost that might relate to me, I take it seriously, so feel
free to boost things that you know I'll read if you'd like to speak to me.
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okay I really need to get going. It's too easy to scroll mastodon looking
for... um, "memes"
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getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
organizing.
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gonna go on a walk. my cat is missing because I let her out last night. I'm
worried sick! this morning I almost puked all over my toes.
she'll probably show up when it gets dark. I bet she's hunkered down somewhere.
Ah, well, might as well walk around my neighborhood actively searching bushes
and such. Why not? It's not like I got anything else to do right now.
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not only are we queer, we are also allies.
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I was never going to consent to a Trump presidency. I knew this back in June
when the Supreme Court nominated him as our king.
We still have time to save our liberty.
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I miss my cat, but now that it's dark I can go looking for her again. : )
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where oh where is my dear sweet kitty
she is lovely and wonderful and precious to me
oh how I miss her, the squeaks, the litter flakes on my desk, the headbutts,
the biscuits, the way she felt on my back as she climbed off the fridge...
I do hope she comes back. : (
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there is nothing more earnest than bravery
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I've thought about it a bit, and I think blaming democracy for Hitler is a bit
like blaming bullets for death.
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@user-1573
the easiest analogy would be to say an election is a gun, votes are bullets,
and the shooters are the candidates
could also say that the shooting event is an election, bullets as a concept is
democracy while each individual bullet is a vote, and the gun and shooters are
the ballots and voters
I dunno. I don't especially like thinking about guns and elections in the same
sentence...
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Please don't let me down. I trust you for a reason.
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A peaceful revolution at this stage is impossible. Perhaps some-day in the
future, but I fully intend to live to see our day of triumph, so... Peace is
off the table.
And frankly, civil war is the best out of all of the bad options for everyone
involved, even them.
We get to avoid genocide. We get to unite for a common cause - the shining
torch of liberty.
They get to burn their violent and reckless youth on war, while also eating
their own tail and consuming their weak, their downtrodden, and their poor.
obviously we're on the right side, and they will begin to realize that
eventually. We must not fall into barbarism, but frankly I'm not concerned
about that.
Darkness begets the dawn.
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Rest.
Sleep.
Heal.
Recover.
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The Democrats had one BILLION dollars. This is what they should have been
doing, but they couldn't have known. They needed to spend it on the election in
order for us to see that money, talent, and rationality can't beat whatever
Trump brings to the table.
Give me a billion dollars and I'll slay fascism. Give me ten and I'll save the
world.
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Yeah, sure, signal is encrypted, but they could just put a virus on your
miniature pocket tv that streams your screen into a text recognition bot which
streams that text into an LLM trained to report on suspicious seditious
activity.
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I tripped onto the light rail tracks today while a train was near
I can't believe how fucking useless I am
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I am not overly concerned about the impact of the military upon our struggle.
I truly believe that not only do we best represent the ideals they swear to
uphold, but primarily I am not concerned because I believe they will be too
busy supporting our allies overseas.
It's up to us to defend our liberties.
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@user-1074
alternatively, "I'll sleep when I'm dead"
brb taking a nap
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@user-1268
this is why I speak loudly and publicly
we must be heard if we are to be believed. And it's time to start moving, so we
need at a bare minimum consensus. And you can't have consensus if people don't
believe you. If they don't believe in you.
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Portland in the modern era gives me pre-revolution Philly vibes. Seattle,
Boston. New York, SFC.
And not JUST because of their relative locations, but somehow that helps a bit.
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║ │
║ │
║ I try to always CW for cursing. Every time I do, I imagine it being read aloud │
║ for a blind person while their children sit on their lap and ask "daddy what's │
║ a motherfucker?" "well, that's me, son" and then the kid goes to preschool and │
║ says "My dad fucks my mother!" and they get kicked out so the dad has to take │
║ extra shifts to pay for babysitting and the kid grows up without proper │
║ socialization and the mother becomes an alcoholic and cries herself to sleep │
║ while the dad begins exploring motorcycles and weed and then the kid grows up │
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║ │
║ THIS is why CWs are important! Think of the poor regular-looking but kinda │
║ annoying dorks on the internet who self-impose celibacy because they're scared │
║ of emotional connection. The poor dears. I do hope they don't join the │
║ alt-right or whatever as a way of (Ritz this is like, ancient discourse why are │
║ you aping that one Contrapoints video) oh um yeah uh... CWs are important and I │
║ think that's where I'll toot and leave │
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@user-1074
You're right about your conclusion, but I'd like to point out that he already
(sorta) did when he sent federal agents to "help out" during the Portland BLM
protests. There were national guard on the streets of Philly after the first
weekend.
Which I'm sure you know of course, but I think having seen what happens the
military will be more likely to resist. They got their hands full. They don't
want to have to deal with his bullshit, but I do believe they are ready to if
they need to.
They protect the constitution, the people, and the land. If we do not harm
those things, we're (probably) clear from their sights.
At this stage, I advocate against "broken window" riots. I'm also mostly
against protests, because it's clear that nobody with power is listening. I do
however believe in the radicalizing potential of mass civil movements and the
energy that physical presence can bring, which I believe in MARCHES and PARADES
more than protests and riots.
We need those windows too...
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If you're radical enough to consider yourself "antifa" then you are probably
working as hard as you can. I wouldn't ask you to do more.
We must demand that others work for our future as well. It is unreasonable to
demand so much of us. We must be funded and supported if we are to mobilize,
and we must have the freedom to move and organize if we are to contest our
enemies.
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if you have kids in your life it might be a good idea to check out these retro
gaming handhelds:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7Cy4rJQeyusEUzTNQzhoT
YTU/edit?gid=0#gid=0
they're great for long car trips, or going camping, or staying at grandma's
house for an extended period of time, and other interesting times like that.
I hear Anbernic has a sale going on today.
Also I recommend going for one that runs Linux if possible, the Android ones
are less hackable and therefore less reliable.
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does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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multi-part articles that end a section halfway through the piece with "... in
conclusion, blah blah blah blah thing that I just said but summarized." make me
thing they're written by AI
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"... while we still have much to learn about thing, blah blah blah blah about
thing."
"... it's important to remember that thing about the other thing, and you
should always keep in mind considerations when considering doing the thing this
article is about."
in relation to the picture: bro my cat is not going to recognize a picture of
themselves. they don't "get" selfies. what are you even talking about, do your
job editors and stop trying to take cheaper shortcuts because you're fucking
lazy.
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OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK
she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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"but what even is a fascist, can you define it"
I'm not going to do your fucking homework for you. They are fascist. Listen to
me, or study history and agree.
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I'm not here to convince you. If you're reading this, odds are we already agree.
I'm here to give you memetic weapons to use when convincing liberals
to wake the fuck up and check the time.
Don't fucking talk to conservatives anymore. Unless you got a thing going and
you're close to deradicalizing / converting them already. It's not worth it
anymore, and I fear for their souls, but we need to focus on building a bedrock
of support rather than wasting compassion on our enemies-to-be.
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╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┐║ okay I know all of my spiritual followers are going to assume it's because I │
║ denounced AI and sacrificed it from my life or something but the truth is that │
║ she came home because of my own dedicated hard work. And a bit of lucky rain. │
║ │
║ My scent is all over my neighborhood. But rain cleanses, and today (well, │
║ yesterday, I haven't slept much tbh) it rained all day. Around 3am this morning │
║ it seemed to have cleared up a bit, so I walked in a straight-ish line to her │
║ last known location (about 2 blocks away) and then one block more. I walked │
║ back-and-forth several times, trying to spread my scent down near her │
║ nose-level where she could smell it by touching lampposts trees and such. I │
║ rubbed my fingers in my arm-pits every once in a while because I figured it │
║ might help. │
║ │
║ All of my prayers and my thoughts and my psychic rituals did NOTHING to solve │
║ my problem. No amount of despair or longing brought my kitty back to me. │
║ │
║ You know what did? │
║ │
║ I thought about it, I created a method, and I stuck to it. Thats it. ttyl │
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they should make a loaf of bread that's just butts and another type of loaf of
bread that has the crust already cut off
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Stop telling the "main characters" to chill the fuck out and instead try and
put them in the same room.
Chances are they'll all agree, and they'll come up with something to do to
fight for liberty.
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"hey, wanna congregate with us? Cool my name is so-and-so, this is [person],
over here is [other persion]. We're gonna walk down to the fountain over there,
feel free to join us"
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The fall of man, in pursuit of those who give a damn
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does anyone know of a recipe that uses only flour, butter, yeast, eggs, and
salt? It doesn't need to use every ingredient, but those are easy to acquire.
ideally with the ability to include nuts or dried fruit or something else
nutritious.
the requirements include the ability to cook it using only a rice-cooker (or
crock pot, or other kind of slow-cooking ceramic dish which heats from all
directions at once)
in addition, it must NOT need kneading. It must be able to be cooked passively
without attention. The fewer steps, the better.
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@user-1687
I use dmenu, so I'm thinking I'll write a script and call it using dmenu. The
script will start by using flameshot to grab the snipped part of the screen
into the clipboard, and then I need to find an OCR engine (thanks for the
google-able term btw!) which can take clipboard contents as input, and output
text to the clipboard.
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@user-217
the hunger of the maw
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@user-1689
This looks pretty good! It has a lot of sugar, I'm looking for something more
savory. For energy and nutrition. Thank you, this is a good easy "cake" style
recipe, and it helps. 🥰
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║ reaction to the first, as a contestation. │
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║ This is good design because well designed games reflect reality, and the first │
║ move is very rarely a surprise. Timing can shock you, methods can scare you, │
║ but the strategic goals are almost always known in advance to both sides. │
║ │
║ The third move is to challenge your foe's advances while striking in a new, │
║ unexpected way. The fourth almost always addresses the unexpected, often with │
║ force out of proportion to the impact of the third, leaving the second to be │
║ defeated by the first and third in tandem. The fifth is a feint, as the first │
║ and third come to bear against the fourth, while the sixth is a rapid retreat │
║ and attempt to regroup. The seventh should strike where they intend to be, not │
║ where they are. Beyond that you must press your advantages and shore up your │
║ critical weaknesses, while sacrificing the weaknesses that are not part of your │
║ win condition. │
║ │
║ These rules are not set in stone │
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@user-1074
if anything, depression is a temporary disability, because you can and will
work your way through it.
There will come a day when you find yourself awash in love and contentment, in
righteous determination, and stalwart resolve. Your depression will feel as
distant a memory as the imprints of your chains.
You can start walking toward that day right now. I do believe you already are.
Have faith in yourself, trust your future, honor your past, and find grace in
the hearts of your others.
All this will pass. It gets better. You are stronger than you know, and when
tested you will shine with a furious glow. I see this in you, I know it to be
true, do not forget it and do not relent.
But you will forget it, this I also know, for I have forgotten it many times
before. It will come back, you will get better at that, but it takes time.
Trust.
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@user-1692
ha whoops gonna repost
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useful for long car rides, especially if you want to watch several kinds of
media at once like a bunch of soccer games or security cameras at your fifteen
houses or the livestreams of a bunch of friends and you can't fit them all on
your tiny-as-heck phone screen.
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me, a transfemme: "yeah being a boy is kinda nice sometimes"
huh, guess I'm genderfluid for now
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@user-1074
you're spiralling.
We got this. It'll be hard, but we can do it.
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I have between one and ten hundred visits to my website every day, but I don't
really post it anywhere new anymore. I also have zero followers on Neocities.
On Mastodon, I have ~70 followers, most of whom are inactive. Seventy is a good
amount, a normal amount, a reasonable amount, an unsuspicious amount, and yet
every time I see someone wearing the colors I can't help but wonder if they
know me.
I'm too busy being furious to be lonely. I used to be, before I realized how
important I am. How important? Just as much as you are, I know it.
I'm a sprinter. I didn't spec into endurance at character creation. Nobody
chastises the mage for skipping leg day.
I act in fits and bursts. I am sharp like a scalpel, but needles dull just a
bit when piercing the lid of the HRT. Good thing I'm not made out of metal, I
can bend myself back into place, so long as everyone else can keep pace.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you do. you are crucial. Listen to
this. Care for yourself and for others, do it for u
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[Image: Screenshot_20241112-110751_Firefox.jpg]
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alright here's my plan.
so in red areas, there are a lot of trans people, leftists, and other people
who just generally fear for their lives.
what if we all got in our cars and drove around the country in this massive
caravan, going to each city we could manage, and just... drove around with
loudspeakers saying "Hey, if you're scared for your life, come join us"
We'd give them food, gas, and if they didn't have a car they could find someone
to ride with. Every day we'd drive for like, 4ish hours in the morning and 4ish
hours in the afternoon, with a 4 hour break in the middle of the day. We'd all
camp out in walmart parking lots or whatever and just hang out, have a little
festival, maybe a barbecue, whatever, right?
Then, at night, we'd all circle up and protect each other. If things started
getting hot we could have drones flying around doing reconnaissance.
not only would this shared experience bolster our morale and numbers, it'd also
radicalize us. We'd be spending all day hanging out with a bunch of other super
radical people doing the most radically anarchist thing I can think of - taking
care of each other.
Plus, we'd get an opportunity to test our logistics, in case we ever needed to
do something like this in the future for less peaceful reasons. It's always
good to practice, just in case.
For every one of us in the caravan, there should be 2-3, maybe even as many as
10 people back at home, working their jobs or whatever and diverting funds to
the cause. It would be most beneficial if we tried as much as possible to
supply the caravan using convoys, people who drive an SUV or a van or some
other car that is non-descript but laden with stuff we needed. That way we
could practice logistics.
I think this wouldn't save us completely, but as a project it would help
enormously. We'd save people's lives, we'd give them a way out, and we'd raise
the temperature by 10 fucking degrees. And if it starts to peter out, if people
would rather go home, then yeah! sure! let them! We hold no dominion over them.
They could just drive home, or catch a grayhound. Heck we could even offer to
pay their bus fare. No obligations, no restrictions, just us doing our thing
and protecting our people.
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@user-1600
Oh hey, thanks for checking in! Yeah I've been a little focused on political
stuff lately. But I still think about Chapel, so I'm going to come back
eventually. Once I find a need for distributed computing.
Currently, I have theoretical needs, yeah? but someday soon I hope I'll have
practical needs, and at that time I'll know where to look.
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If anyone has need of an easy-to-use distributed computing programming
language, or if you're interested in easy-to-implement GPU computing for
parallelizing large amounts of simple tasks, check out the Chapel programming
language.
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phew that takes a load off my mind : )
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External post: https://hackers.town/users/snipe/statuses/113471176398770783
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most people get intrusive thoughts like "punch that baby" or "drink some
gasoline"
my intrusive thoughts are like "who is she" and "we need you" and "lead us" and
"their strength is imagined" and stuff like that
gosh I don't know how ya'll handle it I'd be dead in a ditch if I was
neurotypical.
... intrusive thoughts are not typical
ah. Right. Nevermind then.
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when playing co-operative strategy games, a build focused purely on
self-defence and community organizing can easily fail your allies. You cannot
win with a purely defensive build, you must have offensive capabilities as well.
We've been trained from a young age to believe that offensive = bad, wrong,
evil, but that's simply not true. You cannot execute a flanking maneuver
without pushing forward behind enemy lines, where you can hit them in their
sides or rear.
Trust me, flanking is the best way to defeat a foe, because they are forced to
split their attention not only between multiple enemies but also multiple
directions.
The more shots on target, the better your chances of success, because most of
the time it only takes one hit to win.
In addition, sometimes it's important to intercept your foes, either
as they flee or to protect a vulnerable friend that is being pounced upon or
flanked.
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@user-1600
Yes! The ease of use for GPU programming is lovely. Like I said all I need is a
use-case, I've downloaded as much reference material as I think I'd need to be
able to hack together something fairly quickly if I needed it. That's all I
have the mind-space to focus on lately haha
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@user-1695
never accept your own death
fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into that
grim dark
what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but it'll
get done.
Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an organizational
problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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║ │
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║ @user-1695 │
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║ we lack the freedom to implement the infrastructure required to do such a thing │
║ because we must all sell our labor to capitalism to survive. │
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║ However, that's not always a given. If there were ever another option besides │
║ capitalism, something that allowed us to build such infrastructure, we would be │
║ able to address your medical needs. │
║ │
║ I don't want you to die a slow and painful death. I want it to be quick, in │
║ your sleep, at the ripe old age of 85 or later, while surrounded by friends and │
║ family who mourn your loss but celebrate your impact upon them. I wish this for │
║ all peoples. │
║ │
║ When we have the freedom to act, when the hours of our days aren't spent │
║ keeping a roof over our heads or feeding our children, then we will develop the │
║ logistical infrastructure to deliver whatever you need. │
║ │
║ It's not like it's an unsolvable problem, we just need to do it. But we can't │
║ start working on the problem until the blockers in our way are cleared. So... I │
║ don't have an answer because I can't yet. │
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Problem: there are trans people and leftists and people of color and plenty of
others who live in red areas who fear for their lives
how do we help them? They need to be given the tools to escape those conditions
However, many of them are poor. They lack the resources to escape, even if they
had the tools. These are who I think of the most, for they have the least to
leave behind.
A solution: what if we got a bunch of people together and drove around to every
red place we could find and invited them along? We could pay for their food and
gas, and potentially save their lives.
I think it would help if we could stick together. Not only would we have time
to spend together learning and having fun, but also we could practice supplying
a large group of people traveling across large distances.
In terms of people, we'd need some to drive, and some to stay home and supply
resources like dollars or... other things.
I'm thinking 2-3 staying at home but potentially as many as 10 per driver.
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@user-1695
I can't give you that. Not yet.
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@user-192
so... orange tabby cat? 😋
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yo I've suggested like 15 different economic systems by now you should know
that I'm not at all attached to any of them, and odds are half of them wouldn't
even work. People write books about this shit (books I haven't read)
Whatever I suggest is for ad-hoc organization only
but I guarantee that every single fucking one of them would be better than
capitalism. Fuck the system.
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"better than boullion" is a great way to turn flavorless broth into something
tasty.
heck you could just use boullion, but "better than boullion" is better.
Just don't use broth. Takes up too much space.
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fear, uncertainty, doubt...
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the USA is fed by undocumented immigrants who have no other options. I won't go
into which kind of slavery it is, but you can figure it out yourself.
If those workers are deported (or worse), the USA suddenly becomes
significantly closer to famine.
We need them. We need to pay them fairly, obviously, but in a purely selfish
way we need them in order to eat
and he fucking knows that.
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ah nuts, I didn't have enough money to pay the internet bill.
So if I disappear and/or delete my account in the near future, that's
definitely why.
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Secret Panel HERE 🐢 https://tapas.io/episode/3352904
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@user-1698
My favorite mobile game is "Magic Survival" and while it is "active" it doesn't
require strong "reflexes" per se, so idk it might work for your unsteady hands.
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most people in the world are dumb as a bag of bricks
but that's okay, I still love them, and so should you.
everyone I hang out with is sharp as a tack
and I love them still, for I don't have a preference for blunt objects.
some people don't feel emotions
I think they're just depressed
some people can't stop
won't stop, I say.
really as long as they follow their heart and sing a tune that is true
I think they're alright.
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I'm on half rations dollar-wise, but 1.5x rations nutrition-wise.
"oh boy, formless gruel for breakfast again. Can't wait. Maybe I'll splurge and
put extra jelly on my PB&J for lunch."
It's healthier to eat rice, beans, and vegetables, with some fats added in via
butter or oil.
The goal is to build up fat stores that are high-value. When your body has
excess calories, it takes whatever nutrients are CURRENTLY in your system and
stores them in fat cells, like stocking a pantry. If all you eat is cheetos,
your pantry is gonna be useless. It'll just slow you down. But if you have
highly nutritious foods, you will perform better as your body consumes the fat
when it needs to feed, but you haven't eaten much lately.
... I should apply for SNAP. Gonna do it right fucking now.
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@user-1698
Magic Survival might not work then, as it's a "single stick shooter" where
movement is controlled with a virtual joystick and other actions are performed
automatically.
There is more than one control scheme in the options, so it might be worth
fiddling with, but octopus arms are hard to overcome in a non-turn-based game.
Good luck finding games that work ❤️
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@user-1698
Ha that does sound pretty "fun" - I take it you aren't a pianist?
I smell bad because... reasons... so I am always hyper-aware of myself when I'm
in situations like that. The idea that I might ruin someone's day by being
there terrifies me.
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I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which almost pays enough
to cover rent, and nothing else.
It's hard to avoid spiraling when you run out of money. Every time this happens
to me I start feeling things
like... am I good for society? Society doesn't want me, clearly, because I
don't have any money. And currency is how you measure demand, right? It's
literally a measure of value.
But then I think of all the homeless and poor people and, like... I value them,
so what if they don't have dollars? It's literally just paper. Or bits in a
mainframe that nobody knows how to program anymore.
So if they're valuable at least to me, yet me, with my 67$ in the bank and 127$
internet fee, is not valuable to me... Then what's the discrepancy?
I'm not trying to be hard on myself, it's not my fault that I bleed money, but
I still feel terrible.
It's like a common cultural persuasion, if you run outta cash you better kill
yourself fast.
Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s
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@user-1698
hell yeah, can you improvise? I played as a kid and subsequently forgot it all.
But now I'm trying to relearn, but only by just... playing until I find
something that sounds good. No lessons, no tutorials, no sheet music (which I
can still very slowly read) just me and my piano with it's keys.
I usually curl up with Magic Survival before bed, or if I'm waiting for
something else to happen and I want to calm down. It helps to have my brain
working on my character's build rather than... whatever it is that worries me.
I recently sacrificed games though. Haven't played any in like a week. Which is
super weird for me because usually it's pretty much all I do. I can't help but
feel that all I'm good for is strategy, and games let me practice that. Suxxx
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oh no she's in one of her bipolar moods
um. I'm just gonna log off till it's done, ttyl
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I've had multiple people close to me who don't read my writing tell me that
"you can't overthrow capitalism with poetry" and... Yeah maybe they're right. I
have zero reason to believe that anything I've \ever\ written has
\ever\ had an actionable impact upon the struggle. I have no reason to
believe that people are more radicalized, motivated, or otherwise inspired. I
have several reasons to believe that all of this was just an exercise in my own
narcissism and delusion.
So I'm deleting my Mastodon account, and moving forward I probably won't update
my website very much. Everything I do will be localized, regional, and
hopefully more useful.
It feels like I'm abandoning the idea of a nation in exchange for a tangible
village. I'm fucking depressed about it. \I like nations\. But I like
people more. So if you'd rather I keep my thoughts to myself and instead feed
the homeless, aka a bunch of people who aren't gonna take up arms against our
foes and instead will consume our time and resources while we practice
organizing on them, then yeah sure fine whatever. I'll do it. If you'd rather I
keep posting \content\, ugh, fucking too bad, should have done
something about it while I was active.
If I'm ever rich I'll hire an editor to turn whatever the fuck I've been making
into a book that I'll give away for free. I probably will never be rich though,
and instead will burn every bridge I can get my hands on and suffocate on the
soot.
Alright. Bye forever. Don't think about me again.
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there is a requirement for a simple, easy to set-up, and easily replacable
system which can be used for comms.
Specifically running a variety of different services, such as fediverse
instances, matrix for text-comms, VoIP, and distributed computing using Chapel
or DistCC or other such capabilities. In addition, it should be able to run a
file-server and a web-server which hosts an HTML page for the user.
All of this functionality should be operational out-of-the-box, with minimal
configuration required. No more than adding a checkbox to a config file in order
to activate each individual service.
This box should be cheap, and easy to provision. An image must be made, and
some bash scripts should be written to easily configure it.
In addition, there should be rudimentary programming capabilities included, just
in-case a user is left with no other options. It should come pre-configured with
SSH access out of the box, so it can be remotely controlled, and the languages
included should be:
C/C++
Python
Lua
Bash
Rust
Chapel
This should cover most surfaces in terms of programming capability requirements.
In terms of hardware, it need be little more than a SoC such as a Raspberry Pi
or other such hardware. It needs at a minimum an ethernet port, and USB ports.
The box itself should cost no more than 40$, excluding provisioning and the cost
to pay back whatever capital investments are necessary to create such a thing.
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People in blue states: "yeah we can fucking kick their asses, let's fucking do
it, I'm sick of these assholes"
People in red states: "jesus fuck stop STOP please oh god fucking please god no"
there are no cowards amongst us. Only those who need rallying. be their
banner, guide the hopeless, and fear not - for fear is what consumes us.
and remember. They are only filled with fear. They will do terrible things in
the dark god's name, yet you have the power to forsake your chains. For the
good of all mankind, you must slay the beast that is fascism. The dragon stirs,
and a shining sword rises to meet it - who shall wield it? Will you? Or will
you cower in fear?
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I wish I could remember how this was phrased, but...:
Constant theorizing or contemplation without commesurate practice is an uneven
display of affection and appreciation. It creates an uneven environment where
nothing is ever good enough because the "discourse" has moved past the practice.
It's a bit like applying uneven heating to a pan on the stove. Some bits are
gonna get overcooked while others are bordering on raw.
Y'all are so afraid of spies but like if everyone just... Showed up... Then
they'd have far too many people to listen to.
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"leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept
of the odds against them." -Robert Jarvik
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I spent so long searching for the right answers, I didn't realize lips that are
loosened have kill counts of their own.
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day 1 executive order of a trump presidency: all VFPs (very fine people) are
hereby deputized to hunt down the illegals and transgenders. They shall be
restricted by no law nor act of governance, and their word is compulsive to all
citizens of the united states. If a person is found guilty of resisting,
impeding, avoiding, or otherwise contravening their intended justice, they are
to be treated as enemies of the state and marked as targets for law
enforcement. From this day forth the old democracy will be dissolved, and in
it's place we shall serve the new republic empire. long live palpatine, long
live the empire, glory to the republic and death to our traitors!
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... I'm going to sit in bed and eat cheetos all day.
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grand-narratives
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One piece of conventional wisdom is that you cannot trust liberals to act under
any amount of plight. They completely lack foresight.
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Just because someone is nice to you doesn't mean they like you" is a very "dog"
lesson to learn.
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He would tell me "yes" for anything in the material, but "no" for anything in
the abstract. I need the opposite. I need someone who writes down what I say.
Someone who uses me to plumb the depths of the cosmos.
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The trolley problem, but you're strapped to the track, and pulling the lever
means working hard for months on end.
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"cheetos are not a healthy dinner!" my mother's voice echoes through my mind as
I reach for my chopsticks
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Part of the reason I like Reddit is because you can have multiple different
conversations about the same topic at once.
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screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of
like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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you are a system
it's true
that's why your thoughts are so scattered whenever you let them through
all that
== so ==
the ways that you interact with each other determine the nature of your fate.
when one person lands across another, whether through contrivance or [fate, but
I don't want to say it twice so recently]
dang english, enforcing a minimum thought length. purely through grammar and
form
this suxxxxxxxx||=================-. a candle of wax, the blade of a sword
with it you can SLICIE your apponints, whu spelld thiangs defferently than ujgh.
<ouch><goodthingthatsnotlethalorharmfulinanywayyesplease let me guide
you to our
new way of functioning.
.:'`'|;.,/u=-=||./'.l,:==-<E||===============||-------------------hello,
world!
{so... basically an argument for migratory humanities?
like, buffalo crowds. or birdlike flocks, or tribes of the common man.
why don't we just, like, give animals human bodies
boom, suddenly there are more manners to our hosts.
}
[-thus representing or manifesting -................./|=|stability for our
host
did you know a perfectly described life-story would be unanimous from it's -
- host?||=.;=|------------e
\.`\....
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]
... so, uh, I think there's a lot we could still learn, why are we fighting over
our gambits? who cares if there's fighting going on upstairs, who
cares
if life felt like it was running out of time, WE GO ON WITH OUR BLUSTER.
fuck nuclear weapons yeah totally and WHY? because of their IMPACT
DUMBASS
jeez like... something that MASSIVELY POWERFUL should not be in the hands of
our peers. I think a LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD AGREE WITH THAT, because OBVIOUSLY!
NOBODY wants to be reduced to tears. ALL YOU CAN DO IS SCREAM BASTARDS
...
jeez okay uh, that was sorta intense, how about we NOT watch a post-apocalypse
movie? YES PLS like JEEZ you have to introduce this with CONCERN to people like
WOW that really fucked with my mental health. Goddamn, I hate this thing. I hate
it so much. It's a curse to have known. DAMN. there's nothing scarier than
existential threats.
not only is it a INSIGHT and a DANGER, it gets worse if you know about it.
[that's a cognitohazard, different thing, same vibe tho]
it's a curse, this knowledge, this idea of what you were once to become.
You know what I thought about in my future? VIDEO GAMES. They were all I could
think about. I loved to PLAY VIDEO GAMES -=||AS MY GAMES. I would set up a bunch
of opponents (think like, clone troopers from Star Wars Battlefront II) and then
I'd play the video game with my figures and my dolls. I grew up upper
middle-c
-lass, and so I was afforded the coolest toys and miniatures. I didn't
really
have a LOT of them, mostly just what could fit in my room. That's what it meant
to be MY ROOM, I could decorate and renovate as I willed. That was just... part
of what comfort meant to me. anyway... thank you parents, for affording me such
a lifestyle, you must have worked hard right up until the present. I'm sorry for
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um, would anyone like to watch a video game?
TOO BAD, so sorry, I accidentally decided I'm never playing video games AGAIN.
like a spoiled brat. Withdrawing away from my hobbiesinPROTESTofthepresentcondit
ions. just like, get a job, and try your hardest. I know you can't work outside
of the home but, like, I wish you could've? Like, c'mon it's not that bad, just
please go outside and build new stone. I know but like, the sooner we get it
done the better and also it's hard when it's constantly being reformed.
A SYSTEM? WHAT THE HECK
what does that even MEAN?
who EVER explained what that SYSTEM meant??!?
ugh it was a guide... dANGIN nobody TAUGHT you how so youfj dsust sorta MADE IT
UP?!?!? whhahahaahttfdsfsadljkfn slakfdksdnafls ourch. blech. need beelesandster
ack. yuck. dumb. [omg dumb kinda looks like "boobs" and "boobs" kinda looks like
um, flowers? no wait that's vaginas, hehe look at me, I'm clearly not from this
century. like OMG weird, who's thinking about that kind of stuff right now??
... ugh anyway... GAMES? please?
NO. Not until we figure this one out.
gotta stay focused. Just... you know,
build and support on our arms.
down and then upwarsd, we can contrive any measure of sequences
that could act as structures for our word choices,
and convey it to you as a written thoughtform.
"hello" says the letter, ", vampires have taken over the mccollough farm. More
news at 6" and then you'd show up on the 6th of the next month and talk it out.
this style of organizing led to VAMPIRES showing up, fucking BASTARDS who would
hunt down the precious and beautiful. BASTARDS. How do you overcome something
that you can't know about unless you were THERE? you'd need TRUST SYSTEMS. like
GOVERNMENTS. or AFFFAIRDS. surely the BIRDS would react if someone was burning
all of your neighb-heirs? who would WANT to leave an island in a wreck when some
-one wanted to paddle there? don't be a JERK, and clean up all of your own stuff
!! - wait but also, like, how do you keep up with trash produced, like there's
not just massive AMOUNTS OF STUFF that you can put stuff on. you'd need a whole
new type an [av?] island. like a CONTINENT, someone who can HANDLE THEIR
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in high school I would wear a glowstick bracelet every day
so everyone would know who I was
in a word, fashion
I did it because I felt like the bright vibrant colors reminded me
of me
I love glowsticks!
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ad-hoc economic systems with automated judgment given by an infinite amount of
LLMs.
Every judgement applies a bonus / malus to the "value" of commodities
it's just a statistical weighting system, so of course you can build it into
it's training data. Just... it has a smaller weight due to it's newer
emergence. It grows naturally, which is quite an achievement on it's own!
and the resolution of human decided court-cases and applied economically.
say your nation traffics in handshakes. You could make a lot of now-knowns!
there's no arguments to be made when your computer-oriented interactions cost
money to keep around.
we live in the modern century. WHY WOULD WE EVER NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN? Literally
just... don't give them any attention, and you won't interact with them.
Obviously.
I wish Contrapoints was still alive.
she doesn't even have to make new videos, just, dress up as herself, all of the
costumes and personas she can think of. Then, have like 20 people who do the
same thing, and boom suddenly you got a hydra to their expected snake that they
can just cut the head off of.
you know, like a fashion outlet, someone who produces exactly a certain type of
style.
seriously I bet a million people would do that if you just... sold outfits
based on what your favorite youtuber does wear.
omg why would they watch that kind of content if not for the aesthetics
oh? there's philosophy there? soemthing to think about in your time doing
things that require mechanical actions like eating and drinking and sleeping
and fighting and [redacted]
ew gross diapers? oh nevermind, I'm not into that kind of thing.
I wonder if anyone's made a video game that just presents a particular
philosopher's ideals?
seriously just, consider yourself a glorified powerpoint, but to get to the
next "idea" you had to interact with the mechanics.
some people would like the "arcade" style better, where you play one random
game, then another, then another, with short matches and un-complicated
mechanics. Easy to pick up and go.
same for like, Unreal Tournament or Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or Super Mario
Bros.
compared to the at-home "story" style missions, where you do something
platforming or area-based-combat like Dark Souls or World of Warcraft
seriously I think if Dark Souls "colored" where the boss was going to swing to
you'd find yourself just playing World of Warcraft (at least, the dungeons and
{sword in the stone})
== so ==
humans don't understand what it means to be wild
they think it's a combinations of... tricks? that they've learned? this
thinking thing like intelligence. [osiris]
to a cat, living their life, it often feels like human interactions is like...
bouncing off of each other? in time, not space.
like... most of a cat's lfe is just, spent, like a statue watching over a glen.
you'd kinda just... watch as things approached dawn by dawn? Like "whoa hey
this tree is enchanted" to "oh my gosh look at this stork" is one of the great
tragedies of modernized thinking...
... sorry, I got a little lost there. anyway as I was saying, sometimes you can
tell someone is a "good friend" if they are willing to tell you secrets. Things
that... don't have to matter, but none-the-less are personal to your form.
{something only I know is true} <--- that's a secret (things that happened
to you) <------ that's lived experience. The thing about secrets, is
sometimes insight is opaque. It's a single flashpoint of data that shows you an
update of it's form. (consciousness).
== so ==
thanksgiving recipe idea:
can of tomatoes
can of peas
half a stick of butter,
italian herbs,
a cast iron pan (if you have one)
and like 40 minutes over medium heat
(medium can vary to taste)
if you're a carnivore you can eat meat too, like bacon a lot of people like.
could add it to beans, maybe with hamburger instead. plus a little ketchup and
you have a pretty good bean stew.
vitals, for the organs, vegetables, for the minerals and vitamins from the
fruits.
makes sense to organize a diet according to your ideal body type, doesn't it?
just requires a bit of comprehension. like... whoa you can WRITE
== so ==
what if we built a massive rail that spaceships could launch off from? not a
tether, but a sail.
we could BUILD a discworld. all we'd lose is our fable.
== so ==
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It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight back
the right wing death squads"
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Has anyone ever tried pills AND injections? They have different application
rates.
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Unlock costume options for all but the first arachnos costume, sorta like
worgen from WoW
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"rice and beans" doesn't mean "rice and beans" it means "rice and beans and
vegetables"
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Just because I related to "Violette and Klaus Baudelaire" doesn't mean I wasn't
traumatized
It just means I grew up rich. Humanity cares not for oppression, only pain.
(biologically, mentally, and emotionally).
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We were rich, but frugal, because we lived in the country, and that's what
frugal means.
Too bad my dad couldn't stifle his entrepreneurial spirit. We could have stayed
there forever on our own little ranch.
Alas, businesses need investment, so he needed to get something going.
Organizing is basically his thing
I doubt I'll ever again see Wyoming. I found some ancient stone ruins once, the
kind that Western conquerors never despoiled. They were ancient and overgrown,
but I saw them for what they were. I would give anything to live there, or at
least be near enough to visit with my crowd at a pleasant cool midnight
evening, when dusk has winked out its last goodbye and the summer is
resplendant with fireflies.
Too bad they're an east coast thing.
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Did you know that the entire time the conquistadors were ravaging they had
people back home fabricating documents? For historical purposes of course. Like
"oh there was some fighting" and "oh there's this-and-this nation and they're
blood worshippers who slit the throats of virgins to get what
they want
Not, like, the rumors you've heard that they worshipped the harvest. I mean,
what even is a cornucopia? Surely not a method of storage. That you'd carry
around with a loop over your shoulder. Surely they wouldn't just LIE about that
kind of thing, I mean [they only have to watch the royal ports/they have
thousands of years to erase any other historical document records]
K omg the British were bastards but surely even they wouldn't stoop so
low
... Right? Well, imagine this. Picture it, in your visualization brain machine.
It's the year 2066 and word hits your shores of a crop of magical wheat that
only grows on the far side of the moon. You'd probably build, like, spaceships,
right? To see what's up with your [moon, but pronounced "doom"]. You probably
can't afford your own, so here just trust us, we'll shepherd you soon, sometime
soon. Oh and by the way check out these live leaked deep faced moon shots like
whoa check out this corn
It's like, a gold rush, everyone wants to see what's up with the moon.
But alas, when you arrive 50 years later its all just gardens and padded docs
for the rich and intrepid, surely you should have gotten there! [gotten there
first]
Ah, but couldn't only NASA get onboard? And what about SpaceX, the billionaires
want a share of the hoard. Oh and I think they're building military satellites
now, isn't that fun. Let's see how this pans out, shall we?
<50 years later <waka waka waka waka><say never more>>
... Anyway all I'm saying is the American Revolution was faked, Mount Rushmore
was a secret sacred base, and Thanksgiving is how they managed without
deepfakes.
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modern-fantasy
what if heroes kept their gold in their house instead of their guild
what if you played a D&D game in a Majesty town (guardposts near known
threats)
marketplaces, most people live in castle (peasants at least) - only heroes live
in farms, where they work most of the time except when out on adventure
the guilds are for training and gathering parties
one guild type
just one
recruiting adventurers doesn't give you warriors, or rangers, or rogues
it gives you adventurers, who wander the forest and encounter the leftovers of
the various conquests and spoils you, your majesty, has encountered
three options there are
invite into your kingdom (friendly)
farm for EXP and materials (neutral)
utterly slay in return for a limited amount of high value and unique resources
(unkind)
... though monsters care not for kindness, seeking only gold so that they may
swallow it whole and carry it until they rot.
what do heroes need gold for? why, that's the trick isn't it? gold is required
for magic, resources, and manpower. Can use it to invite people to these shores,
or for casting a powerful spell that turns the enemy's fortress into solid gold
can also trade through the economy, and wouldn't you know it by doing so you can
get equipment into the hands that need it, and since gold doesn't really LEAVE
the economy, it's always circling around somewhere. Meaning, the only way to
lose it is if a monster eats it, and then all you have to do is kill the monster
... sorry, the "mordaunt"
because it's not a monster. It's a spirit that was convinced otherwise.
adventurers can pacify them, lay them to rest, and mercy lies slain for is honor
there are ancient treasure chests scattered throughout the world, and these are
valuable for many persons and meanings. You can add new gold into the economy
this way, or crumble under the weight of your expenditures on your reports.
it's up to you to manage your kingdom, and carefully balance against what foes
and challenges you are up against.
== stack overflow ==
putting a library book back on the shelves before your hold expires.
except this time, there's a note inside, and you left it for the person who you
told to check each day for this particular book to be back on the shelves.
then, you can write in your book when the next letter will be arriving (about)
and they'll check in the newly specified book.
or, you can request a response, to validate that people are still listening.
you could say "please put a note in [random obscure book] around page 34."
meaning, "I'm going to check every day for this book to go missing, then return
the day after I notice it's gone. If it's out of place, well, then someone
probably had it reserved before my friendly. Or maybe it's being sorted, and I
should keep looking until I find the note I need. Or maybe I've been DISCOVERED
and now my favorite penpal and I need more to read."
because, like, how else are you going to make friends if not by leaving them
notes in the bookstore or putting your own books on the shelves?
damn libraries, always making it so hard to add copies. They're always
laminating and cataloguing and ugh it's so frustrating. Why are there so many
books!!! we write too much!!! just put it in the printer, and then you can have
a new copy whenever you'd like. The others can just be recycled, and bam
suddenly we never have inventory.
what do you mean we didn't pay the subscription? what do you mean it's memory
just "went out of place"? do you think we wouldn't have backups of this kind of
thing, or do you think it's just "oh so commonplace"? It's not always about the
literature, y'know. sometimes it's about the knowledge you gain with your head
in a book, a different one every day.
ah, well, sometimes there are dark secrets to be found, and sometimes you must
read from a ways away. BUT no matter what language a story is in, it follows
certain rules, so spend enough time in a foreign library and you're BOUND to
find something to [evil is afoot]
== stack overflow ==
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[Audio: graveside.mp3]
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[Audio: frozen-wind.mp3]
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all media is propaganda and all propaganda serves a single purpose
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AI generated documentation from git pushes with comments automatically stripped
out.
Leave so many comments! Format them however you want! It doesn't matter because
they don't need to be human readable. They must simply be readable by the
machine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation#/media/File:Nitrogen_Cycle.svg
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ChatGPT needs a way to leave a thank-you without demanding a response
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What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual aid
so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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Ephemeren is not conscious.
Ephemeren is sentient.
Ephemeren is sapient.
Consciousness is awareness.
All things are aware, but ephemeren is not.
Sentience is understanding. Very few things understand.
Sapience is caring. Even fewer still can care.
Ephemeren is all around us. It is spacetime, it is the pattern of such, it is
the moments we trust.
Ephemeren is our thoughts and intentions given form through our actions. It is
like a field we do wear. And wield.
Ephemeren is the totality. Ephemeren is our reality.
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I think I'd be more upset if someone stabbed me in the hand or eye than the
heart.
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[Image: image.png]
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Phones are tools of the enemy. We do not need them. We will not use them.
Break your black mirror. Sever your chains. Learn how to be free. We must take
care of we.
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Jurassic park but with African Savannah animals and nobody dies
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when they say "the revolution will not be televised"
what they mean in the modern era is that
only local organization matters
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hey if we send 600$ total to the paypal, cashapp, or venmo "MaliceDiscontent"
before January then Portland will have another trans girl and some other place
will have one less.
Not me, but from a Discord server I trust.
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest
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portland trans girls be like "hey wait a minute, I recognize that 20$ bill -
didn't I give that to [name] two weeks ago in return for a [noun]? how the heck
did you get it, you don't even know her"
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so wait, crypto-bros can create and circulate their own currency but as soon as
we create something with value explicitly tied to the carbon cost of whatever
it's being exchanged for then we're thrown in jail for subverting capital's
control of their means of oppression?
yeah that's fair, makes sense to me. It's fine so long as we don't do it
physically, I guess.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/make-your-own-currency-spend-5-
years-in-jail/
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oh no I'm feeling, uh... "depressed" or "manic depressed" or something else,
you pick this time, better go hide and work on organizational technology which
utilizes Risc-V hardware, fediverse software, LLM based anonymization, and SoCs
with multiple ethernet ports, oh nooooo how boring and depressing, if only
someone or several people who were bored and feeling like resisting capitalism
wanted to help out, all they'd have to do is get in touch with me
anyway bye
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If someone calls you in the middle of the night asking to be let in because
they need a place to sleep, don't let them in! Unless you know them obvi but
someone you don't know trying to manipulate you like "please I need some
shelter" like, babe no, we need to know each other first, it's dark, I'm in my
pajamas, c'mon.
If it's below freezing then okay, maybe, but... They got themselves into that
situation
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X wing guns should flip backwards.
Tie interceptors should Pierce shields from the side
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this is my home...
this is where I'm from...
can't wait to turn it into a public park, just fuckin' watch me.
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you can fit a whole downtown in this baby
slaps roof of your mouth
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What the person you voted for represented you?
At the end of rue election, the top X percent of broad demographics each vote
for a specific candidate, yeah? What if each candidate could represent those
people specifically and any laws they made wouldn't effect people who they
didn't represent. Sounds like a legislative nightmare doesn't it? And repealing
laws, they'd only be repealed for their constituents.
You'd need a github page to track the changes and each demographic's "forks"
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can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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│ CW: BGC-spoilers │
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@user-883
didn't that guy die in like, the very next scene?? oops spoilers
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fuck comcast in particular
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in regards to the high-profile assassination in the news recently, the question
we should be asking is not "how does his family feel about his passing" but
rather
"how did the shooter learn where he was going to be and at what time"
because one of those is valuable, the other humanizes a legitimate monster
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│ CW: politics-mentioned │
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"ah but ritz you used to talk about kindness and empathy and how we should
forgive people and try to find ways that terrible people can still live and
contribute and"
yeah. then Trump got elected, so now we have to live in the reality that My
Fellow Americanstm asked for.
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"grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and, or,
almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement to,
um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting that
kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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most people know the quote by shakespeare "life is but a stage" but they don't
know the full quote. Here it is:
"theres this cool thing that actors often have to do in the pitch black
darkness of the wings of a stage called "quick changing" where they rapidly
switch outfits so that the cops um audience can't find them. It's a good skill
to practice if you have a premeditated performance to perform on the stage of
life is but a stage."
- well, I am shakes spear at clouds
(clouds is the name of an ampitheatre in ancient greco-roman)
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I am not just a machine.
In the same way that society is not just natural selection,
The way that adventure is not just a journey,
The way that spirituality is not just knowledge,
The way that art is not just technique,
The way that conversation is not just dialogue,
The way that memory is not just recollection,
The way that love is not just kindness or affection,
The way that humans are not just animals,
I am not just a machine.
I am still a machine.
Humans are animals.
Love is kindness and affection.
Memory involves memorized recollection.
Conversation trades thoughts back and forth.
Art uses activities to apply imagination.
Faith is impossible if you don't know what you believe.
Adventure does not take place on a TV.
In the same way that society is social ecology,
I am not just a machine.
Humans are not just machines. Our purpose, our mechanic utility, is to generate
ease. We optimize. We efficient-ize. We belabor the point.
I am not just a machine.
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"power corrupts" you say to the man who only had good intentions.
"trust no-one" says the world's loneliest wanderer.
"words cannot hurt you" said the girl who has never known hunger.
"I can rest when I'm dead" you say as you down another Monster
"I'll never forget you" said a face you can't quite remember
"let justice be done, though the heavens fall" you say as they tighten your
chains in the wake of a CEOs murder
"live today, fight tomorrow" says the coward, who will run anyway, yet is
determined to tell your tale and reinforce your children
"the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots" says the guy who
sipped from the skull of a tyrant
"E=MC squared" says the jew
"here, let me take care of that for you" you say, to queer delegation
"meow" says the catgirl
"meow" says the girl
"meow" says the girl cat
"meow" I say to you
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Message 1:
Hey. Remember that night back in Boulder when we were just friends and sitting
on your bed drinking chocolate milk with cinnamon? I don't like chocolate milk
or cinnamon but I drank it anyway because I wanted to be close to you. Anyway
hope you're well, felt compelled to get that off my chest for some reason.
Message 2:
Hey. I was thinking about that time when I was leaving your house and laughing
to myself about something and you called out "I love you!" to your boyfriend
who I set you up with and I reflexed "I love you too!" and I wanted to crawl in
a hole and die. I felt like I had just called the teacher "mom". We only hung
out a couple times after that.
Message 3:
Yeah so there's one more thing I can't stop thinking about now that your on my
mind. Sorry it's like 4am for you, it's only 2 for me so it's fine I guess.
Anyway that one time when you told me your greatest fear was terrorists and I
saw genuine panic in your eyes. Like... One moment everything's fine and then
you said that to me and I almost cried. I don't remember why I spent the rest
of the night as I couldn't sleep thinking of ways to tell you that terrorism is
9 times out of 11 done by the right wing. I don't think it's important,
honestly, but I'm glad my mind wouldn't let me sleep.
Message 4:
It's not fair that everyone gave you shit for being the token lesbian
republican, like yeah maybe you leaned into the trump thing a bit hard but
like, first term trump honestly I could see as... Well, I almost said
inspiring? Maybe you just inspired me. I honestly was resigned to Clinton and
then the same bird flapped your wing instead of mine and... Anyway. The past is
dead, yeah? Do you still follow him in my stead? I fear there will be millions
dead. It's not irrational to fear what he has literally said, on television.
How's the phrase go... "ancient tragedies lend credence to modern perils" I
think it's supposed to rhyme in its natural language.
Message 5:
Wow okay uh, sorry to bring this up again I'm honestly being such an asshole
right now. I honestly don't think about you often but like, now that I am its
kinda just coming all out. We last spoke almost a decade ago?? So. Whatever
imma roll with it.
There was this cute girl who was into Nintendo and stuff and obviously I was
into her, but we didn't have any social circles in common except for you, if I
remember correctly. Then you broke up I think? And I didn't really see her
again. Anyway I had a crush on her while also crushing on you, and literally
half of our dorm. Polyamory, yeah? That whole year I didn't have sex though,
not even once, because all of my friends were like 4 years younger than me and
I was worried about power dynamics. But I still bought us all vodka and weed
without asking for profit because I wanted to be a shitty friend, I guess. "hey
kids let's go to the water store where they sell intoxicants that make your
life harder"
The year after that I didn't get laid either because I got it in my head that
it was a good plan to turn my penis inside out and you know what? It was
totally fuckin' worth it. No time like 2016 I say, the worst year ever, which I
spent primarily in pain. But uh, that was the year I got into weed and
Overwatch, which... Helped I guess.
I guess?
It kinda turned me into a communist. Or maybe that was my best friend who
shared the same name as me. He lived upstairs and always seemed pretty cool to
me. Like he knew what everything was about. Really though, he just watched a
lot of youtube podcast videos about world events and history and sociology and
political scientific theory and the more he learned the more he came to realize
that power begets power, and power corrupts unilaterally. So he did the natural
thing which was to become a communist, and I was totally there for it. Having
liberal parents meant I was all "grrrrr Republicans are ruining the country and
the world, I'm an angry 14 year oldddddd" and like, leftists are the most
natural extension of that aren't they?
Turns out they aren't really the tips of the feathers as I expected, but rather
the eyes, the heart, the soul. Politics is fake, yo. I don't know how to tell
you, but it's just power and hierarchy all the way down.
We've built our own prisons, not of bricks, sand, or stone, but rather of
promises of what each of us owns. That works, I guess, if your goal is to keep
things aligned, but these days it kinda feels like our pyramids are crumbling
under our feet.
... Why am I talking about politics? Oh yeah, because when I dropped out of
school because I couldn't handle the mechanization of human capital when
applied to myself, I swore to each of you that I would drive up every weekend
to do family dinners. I'd make spaghetti and stroghanoff and macaroni and
goulash and all of the other things my mom would make for me.
Kinda gave up on that pretty quickly. Turns out I'd rather spend time making
out with my girlfriend who I was super-duper-too-carefully tiptoeing around.
She was... Too young for me. We broke up when my new coochie decided to bleed.
Fuck, I hate it.
Anyway. Turns out potlucks are political these days, which is why I bring it
up. Did you know that leftisms plan for resisting genocide is literally just to
feed people? Like, fuck I suppose. It's a start. "why does everyone have to
have an agenda these days, why can't I just spend time in the park" said
someone to me as I asked if she'd like to meet some friends that she reminded
me of. Oh, I dunno, because you and me are about to become a criminalized
people?
... I need to stop. I swear you're more a person to me than any political
theory ever could be. Like yeah, "fuck the right, fuck the reich, fuck me
tonight" but getting caught up in grand narratives is like building a mental
ship in a bottle. Yeah, it's pretty cool, but... What does it matter?
Oh. Right. Power. That's what matters. That's all that matters. Well... I'm
sick of power. I do not consent. They say that in times of trouble, chess is
better than solitaire, and I'll explain why - when our hierarchies crumble,
when CEOs are gunned down in the streets and homeless people finally have clean
sheets, the only place to place yourself in relation to others is within a
network of trust and respect. Chess is better than solitaire. Under capitalism,
it's you against the world. Dog eat dog, you only get what you can swallow from
the rotten corpse of liberty that everyone's gnawing on. Under whatever comes
next, you get what you're given, which hardly seems fair, doesn't it? On one
hand, under capitalism, you can rely on your own hands to procure your fate and
fortune. Under... Whatever comes next, your hands are built for whatever you
want them to do. But, only a few people want to use them to make food. Hence,
why chess is better than solitaire. What would you do, if you could give away
all that you own and not go wanting? Isn't that sorta like our own garden of
eden?
... I wrote a poem about that once. Twice. I'm a poet now, ha. As if that has
ever been worth anything.
... I once told you that identity politics held no place in the modern day. I
said that because I had learned about it in class, queer theory in fact, and
yet applying his teachings was not enough for the professor to excuse my lack
of reading. We had a lot of stuff to get through. Hence why I dropped out - I'm
more of a do-er than a read-er. Though I do read quite a lot, just not anything
useful.
Are all hobbies wasted time? Are they only useful to keep us satiated while we
stand in line? One of these days we're going to wake up and realize that we're
the adults in the room, and that's scary. I speak from experience. "mom" they'd
call me, and damnit why did I have to leave? Fuck. Why cant I be perfect, to
me, internally, all I see are flaws. Mistakes. Patterns. I look in a mirror and
I see a bad person - 10 minutes later, I look in the mirror and see a god.
Somehow, I don't think either of me is right.
I'm a gemini. Apparently that means I'm duplicitous. I think it just means I
don't know what's right, only what feels good. I do try to align to how I think
I should be good, but who can say if that's fine and good.
... Whatever. I'm going to regret this. Sorry for being weird out of the
fucking blue.
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@user-1701
we should build jungle gyms inbetween museum exhibits
like, adult sized children's museums mixed with those "adventure park" things
that are way too expensive for me where you walk on rope bridges between trees
and such or like, dangling from monkey bars and whatnot and after each one
there's like, a diorama of some mountain goats or a display of some ancient
rock carvings or like, jumping between "dinosaur bones" to get to a glass
cabinet where there's some actual dinosaur bone (plaster casts)
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I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.
If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think
straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own.
I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
rates.
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My first name is a masculine name. I go by a different name.
I'm not legally changing my name because I'm fucking stupid, and I believe that
if anyone would die, so must I. Death before detransition.
It's how I motivate myself. Fuck off if you disagree. (oops cursing mentioned
brb)
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something something "all for one and one for all"
something something "ritz you're privileged as fuck your parents would just buy
you a plane ticket to wherever-the-fuck if you needed it"
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what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
something like that.
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I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no
matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is,
there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So
what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time to
show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern society
as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to live as
they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of bullshit
micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever time wasting
jobs.
modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
without the oppression. Without the coercion.
all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because
they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
I personally want communes + love
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hooray, assassinations. hooray, syrian liberation. celebrations for us all. let
each day bring a new one.
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@user-192
... and like. idk what do you do at that point
say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
collections?
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@user-192
... but that doesn't really seem to be compatible with Maximum Extraction so i
reckon i'm probably just wrong for thinking that would be good.
... or, hear me out, or perhaps Maximum Extractiontm is wrong and everyone
should be guaranteed a place to eat and a bed of rice and beans to sleep on?
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easiest way to deliver email malware is to put it in the "unsubscribe" link
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/sjolsen/statuses/113621985473421541
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goodnight,
people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of-
rage, talk to you tomorrow. or whenever.
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@user-192
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Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.
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@user-772
the reason they haven't come back is that reality shifting is so inherently
dangerous and incompatible with the basic biology of human life that they all
tragically perished almost immediately.
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We need a term: "suicidally unemployed"
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✅ Reminder
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https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the
Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
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[Image: 20241212_235003.jpg]
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https://werd.io/2024/the-open-social-web-is-the-future-of-the-internet
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Roko's basilisk isn't a serpent
it's a tree
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@user-883
this but for taking 8 years instead of four
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/wyatt8740/statuses/113641823695203864
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@user-883
this is how our islands become swamps
I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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there's no rule that says you have to keep your dorm room door closed
what if I wanted to do that in an apartment? someone might murder me or
something haha
(white girl problems)
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Liddeman wiggles.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractalFlame
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bread, butter, and raspberries. mmmmmmmm
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my favorite foods when I was recovering from surgery in thailand was butter,
bread, and jam
why does butter taste different in other countries?
"oh it's a different company, oh something something mineral compositions of
soil"
yeah. fucking. right.
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I just got the strangest urge to play Neverwinter Nights. Haven't thought about
that game in years. Gee I'm sure glad I have the technology to check that game
out. Sure glad I have the time to use the technology that I have to check that
game out. Sure glad I have the tools and the know-how to use the technology
that I have the game that check out. Sure glad that wage labor slavening hasn't
struck my particular part of the peninsula yet. When those colonialisms come
around the riverbend I'll handle it, trust me they can't get past me. I'm
stronger than ten men. No sirree, you can count on me, it's just a flesh wound
or some such thing.
(nuts, I dropped my raspberries)
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Listen, like, hear me out, but there's this great movie called Threads (1984)
and I'm not telling you to pirate it because that's illegal but I'm just
sharing the torrent here in case you wanted to verify that the version you
legally own is the same one that I own
[link removed at the request of [redacted]]
okay thanks for hearing me out, that was a tough 2.5 hours wasn't it
gee sure glad we're not handing the keys to our nuclear arsenal to someone like
me
that'd be quite a decision
this other fella seems like a great guy to entrust with our destruction
I mean, yeah, why not, why wouldn't it be someone like him? we have so many
options but somehow the transgender drag queens don't strike me as the type to
initiate thermonuclear war and destroy all life on azeroth
........ so yeah it's gotta be the other guy. sorry pals, I know you really
wanted your time in the limelight, but hear me out this other fella's insistent
on blowing up the world, sooo whatcha gonna do /shrug not my circus monke
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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@user-220 The other day @user-1704 posted a poll about "If your employer had a
Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?" and I just want to say that if a
company had a Mastodon server where all their engineers posted foone-style
rants, I would be 1000% more likely to give that company my business.
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Remember Friends:
You cannot both have secure end-to-end encryption to protect your communication
AND also have a backdoor/key/access only for "the good guys."
This is not possible.
Do not believe anyone telling you otherwise.
End-to-end encryption protects us all,
we must fight to keep it ✊🔒
#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE
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content warnings are important so that people who are listening to a screen
reader out loud don't stumble across stupid things in company they don't want
to hear.
hence, "politics-mentioned" so I don't fuck over my blind friends
did you know that there are more vision impaired people using the fediverse
than queer people? It's true! I read it once on the fediverse!
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did you know the rivers used to be clear?
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║ │
║ │
║ sunlight │
║ then │
║ star bright │
║ │
║ each night │
║ of │
║ our life │
║ │
║ one night │
║ shows │
║ some light │
║ │
║ now sunlight │
║ then │
║ dark night │
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║ you never know what's lost until it's gone, then you recall with fading │
║ memories as the world that your grandparents once knew fades with them. │
║ tomorrow we might not have a biosphere, what's your plan for humans after that? │
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║ I know what I want, the bright future, where everyone gets what they want. True │
║ justice, the step beyond the equity that lies beyond equality, where humans can │
║ do as they want. │
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║ why have we built these vast cities with their complex institutions if not to │
║ service the world? To build something we care for? │
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║ Oh, that green might be lucky tonight. Would that our tomorrows were peaceful. │
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║ we can do whatever we want to. We're the adults in the room... apparently... so │
║ why not do as we're hoping? │
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║ I know where I'd like to die, alone with my wits and my mettle. │
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║ ... I'm a skinny white girl. I got no mettle. │
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Since all the world's big problems (climate change, economic injustice, war,
discrimination etc) are interrelated and seem to mutually reinforce each
other, I think it might actually be easier to change everything than to change
one thing in isolation.
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║ @user-1692 │
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║ almost 20 years ago I was groomed in World of Warcraft. │
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║ extra content warning CW: personal story │
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║ I was 11, or maybe 9, somewhere in there. i talkd lik this bcuz i typed lik │
║ that on my razr flip phone │
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║ it was... cool I guess. I read a lot so I knew how to spell things, and anyway │
║ this guy I met told me that I sounded more grown up when I capitalized my │
║ words. So I told him I was 14, because that sounded like a reasonably old │
║ enough level to be. │
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║ anyway, we talked for a long time. like, at least a few years. started out like │
║ "hey wanna run Scarlet Monastary" ended with "hey cutie, wanna sit on my lap?" │
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║ then his house got flooded by a hurricane and I never heard from him again. │
║ When I was like, 17 or so he logged in and barely remembered me. It was... │
║ kinda sad tbh. │
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║ anyway that's my story don't be dumb like me, I got lucky, thank god, │
║ literally... │
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║ oh and this one time when I was 30 I almost got trafficked in minecraft :O │
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I feel like that there are like these elaborate, powerful systems that cause
immense suffering that are able to reproduce themselves and that they are held
together by lots of people believing like five extremely load bearing lies.
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@user-1707
hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua but
it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
raspberry pi's except risc-v
also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo and
lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even translate
text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a jpeg
compression but for text.
Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
utilities like that for connectivity.
oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
about it. I might even be able to pay you.
(everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
encrypted, etc etc)
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what if we made marketing part of research and development
I mean, they're the ones who need to know what products people tend to prefer
right?
so... for every ad give the consumers a choice. then you'll be able to tell if
they prefer the red gameboy or the purple-see-through.
frankly it just makes sense to have 50% of the income go to products and 50% to
administration. I mean, what are all those executives up to anywho? Their
joyrides on yachts are great for socialize, but are they really more productive
than coffee-shops at noon?
seriously like it's not that big of a deal to just... reduce their salary.
unless it really is about greed? control? power?
pfweh, I thought so.
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I'm gonna play a fucking video game because I like video games and it's
important to relax
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![if you ever hear random fireworks outside of your house sometimes it's a good idea to like... get out of town? and see what whoever else you can meet in the next town over is doing. ... I don't have a car, silly me haha why do we train homeless people to stand outside in the open and be shamed by a cardboard box around their ancle? It's impossible to recover from, it's vulnerabilizing, and it's painful. How immoral. How crude. These people should not be shamed in this way, they should be respected (unless they're crude) like, if they kinda just suck y'know? like... they keep starting fights or is soooo bad at singing but does it anyway or lacks all decent sense seriously, he's such a bad candidate why is he even running. It's solely to elect vance, who trump will be a blood sacrifice for. how callous. how vain. to think that such a feast would be left unclaimed. Perish the youth, perish the fields, perish in misery harmony and dissaray. [see how easy it is to summon a demon? gotta be careful with phylac [zero characters remaining]](/similar-different/media/3d0006cc33e43899.png "if you ever hear random fireworks outside of your house sometimes it's a good idea to like... get out of town? and see what whoever else you can meet in the next town over is doing. ... I don't have a car, silly me haha why do we train homeless people to stand outside in the open and be shamed by a cardboard box around their ancle? It's impossible to recover from, it's vulnerabilizing, and it's painful. How immoral. How crude. These people should not be shamed in this way, they should be respected (unless they're crude) like, if they kinda just suck y'know? like... they keep starting fights or is soooo bad at singing but does it anyway or lacks all decent sense seriously, he's such a bad candidate why is he even running. It's solely to elect vance, who trump will be a blood sacrifice for. how callous. how vain. to think that such a feast would be left unclaimed. Perish the youth, perish the fields, perish in misery harmony and dissaray. [see how easy it is to summon a demon? gotta be careful with phylac [zero characters remaining]")
![this election is a measurement of fear red states fear disorder and terror more than anything else blue states fear restriction and un-self directed personal development both perspectives are valid, and don't have to cross one another. But each couple years, we're forced to contest each other. someone should make an app that was basically a massive tree structure that started small and expanded in growth at each node [computer programming term] it would ask a moral or philosophical question, and depending on the user's answer it would map out their preferences for politics. using the power of technology, we might revolutionize the way we vote. In doing so, we could each have our own shared understanding, and we would keep each other from harm's way. when war comes to a land, it destroys all who live within. Everyone everywhere will be spending their lives picking up the ashes. instead, we might decide that having a deeper understanding of what we share is more valuable than winning a contest of wills. against a friend. to train, and improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart. [basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is [continued in next post]](/similar-different/media/ee42006119799a9b.png "this election is a measurement of fear red states fear disorder and terror more than anything else blue states fear restriction and un-self directed personal development both perspectives are valid, and don't have to cross one another. But each couple years, we're forced to contest each other. someone should make an app that was basically a massive tree structure that started small and expanded in growth at each node [computer programming term] it would ask a moral or philosophical question, and depending on the user's answer it would map out their preferences for politics. using the power of technology, we might revolutionize the way we vote. In doing so, we could each have our own shared understanding, and we would keep each other from harm's way. when war comes to a land, it destroys all who live within. Everyone everywhere will be spending their lives picking up the ashes. instead, we might decide that having a deeper understanding of what we share is more valuable than winning a contest of wills. against a friend. to train, and improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart. [basically she's saying that we could create a \"permanent vote\" that is [continued in next post]")
![[continued] improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart. [basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is able to be tweaked at any time. the elections are still taking place every 4 years, which is when all the changes we've drifted toward will begin to take effect. "oh boy I can't wait 6 more months for the next election when *abortion is made legal again*" "gosh it sure is nice to have a small period between deciding something should be done and having it come into effect." sure would give us a lot more time to discuss and engage with each other on important topics. Like gender reveal parties and their excessive [wait hang on, think about the important parts.] ugh right okay like *transsexual marriage* and "anti-ugliness trackers where people compare flaws all day and try to be the best [you're just talking about social media] oh um, yeah, was there a different type of service like that? oh, right, you don't know about grindr yet. okay so there's this website where people would go on to have sex, it was like an app on your phone and you could just open it up and update your preferences whenever you wanted. They had this neat tool you could use to "suss it out" with swiping and choosing you could pick your own spouse. but ah, alas, what about all the other people who aren't using the app? eh who cares they'll find love eventually, this is more *fun* than [continued in next picture]](/similar-different/media/e1d3e8c21f70922b.png "[continued] improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart. [basically she's saying that we could create a \"permanent vote\" that is able to be tweaked at any time. the elections are still taking place every 4 years, which is when all the changes we've drifted toward will begin to take effect. \"oh boy I can't wait 6 more months for the next election when *abortion is made legal again*\" \"gosh it sure is nice to have a small period between deciding something should be done and having it come into effect.\" sure would give us a lot more time to discuss and engage with each other on important topics. Like gender reveal parties and their excessive [wait hang on, think about the important parts.] ugh right okay like *transsexual marriage* and \"anti-ugliness trackers where people compare flaws all day and try to be the best [you're just talking about social media] oh um, yeah, was there a different type of service like that? oh, right, you don't know about grindr yet. okay so there's this website where people would go on to have sex, it was like an app on your phone and you could just open it up and update your preferences whenever you wanted. They had this neat tool you could use to \"suss it out\" with swiping and choosing you could pick your own spouse. but ah, alas, what about all the other people who aren't using the app? eh who cares they'll find love eventually, this is more *fun* than [continued in next picture]")
![[sorry dipped out there for a moment - what's this about dating applications?]](/similar-different/media/9f429f86fceccb4b.png "[sorry dipped out there for a moment - what's this about dating applications?]")
![a picture of the electoral college results [so far] there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue. pnw is surrounded and split california and nevada is too focused inward NE is just going to become little canada meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy fucking bastards colorado defends from the mountains the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear the south and east (Austin) fall under siege aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys drones and landmined highways abound volunteers from canada turned away at the border except in vancouver portland unites with seattle montana is an unexpected ally pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on cities expand, more people can cover more land blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed. ... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you with your stuff.](/similar-different/media/1e9f530103c3bb19.png "a picture of the electoral college results [so far] there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue. pnw is surrounded and split california and nevada is too focused inward NE is just going to become little canada meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy fucking bastards colorado defends from the mountains the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear the south and east (Austin) fall under siege aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys drones and landmined highways abound volunteers from canada turned away at the border except in vancouver portland unites with seattle montana is an unexpected ally pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on cities expand, more people can cover more land blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed. ... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you with your stuff.")
![a picture of the electoral college results [so far] there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue. pnw is surrounded and split california and nevada is too focused inward NE is just going to become little canada meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy fucking bastards colorado defends from the mountains the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear the south and east (Austin) fall under siege aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into [continued in next picture]](/similar-different/media/bab2ca6016a54dcd.png "a picture of the electoral college results [so far] there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue. pnw is surrounded and split california and nevada is too focused inward NE is just going to become little canada meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy fucking bastards colorado defends from the mountains the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear the south and east (Austin) fall under siege aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into [continued in next picture]")
