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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 
 *study encryption kids*
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 @user-1736
There's a word for the process: Gleichschaltung  "Some officials have referred to the newcomers sent by the White House to federal agencies disparagingly as “MAGA commissars," a reference to Communist Party officials from the former Soviet Union.  They are generally young and many do not appear to have particular expertise or background in the portfolios of the agencies in which they are working, according to three U.S. officials, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.  They said the screeners seem to be looking for even the slightest divergence between candidates and Trump’s MAGA movement and “America First” policies. A negative social media post or a photograph with a Trump opponent has been enough for some applications to be rejected or put on hold for further review.  One official said he and several colleagues from various agencies had been told that even if they passed the initial vetting process to be admitted into the applicant pool, they would still need to prove their bona fides and convince interviewers of their “enthusiasm” to put in place Trump's policies, including by providing references from people whose loyalty had already been established.  This official said one colleague who made it to the interview stage was asked when that person's moment of “MAGA revelation” had occurred." #USPol #MAGA

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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their    │
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we   │
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.                   │
 *who cares* about trans executive orders. *they are our                          │
 enemy*, what else is new? they have power now, and they will try what they       │
 can. This is like taking the internet away from chinese citizens and             │
 instituting a national intranet instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get     │
 estrogen from the store. Who cares? We'll just make our own.                     │
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very     │
 little materially they can do.                                                   │
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll come  │
 for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there to       │
 contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.                                     │
 *you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let         │
 your allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect          │
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 nobody ever tells me to stop, they just tell me to relax. to take care of
 myself. to be whole and healthy. that kind of thing...
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 @user-1201 
 
 and yet you have to answer or suspicious you do appear.
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 @user-1352 
 
 makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
 pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
 
 then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's asking
 for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey do you
 happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I got
 snap hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah I got
 rice, I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is
 hunter2. Oh really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead
 of \"her\" it's ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo
 with a rifle. uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the thing,
 right? some thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
 
 If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
 the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
 the time.
Workplaces are comprised of people they choose. hence, unions are comprised of people in that industry.

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 @user-1692 
 
 I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
 external service all I have to do is point at the file
 
 sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
 
 like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen.
 I just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how
 to do a long time ago.
 
 ... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
 
 huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
 open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue? something
 miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to use that
 program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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 @user-1352 
 
 ... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
 you burn out. cortisol overload.
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Zephyr  —  Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr  —  Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says "use this for whatever but don't waste it" Zephyr  —  Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM "we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need" Zephyr  —  Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr  —  Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr  —  Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr  —  Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr  —   [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]

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 @user-1739 
 
 like normandy beach but for spies. The coasts are perfect landing grounds
 because they're controlled by the fascist's foes. Their deep red sea is
 swallowed by the atlantic and pacific.
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 @user-1352 
 
 and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
 by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
 wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
 constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
 our collectively most honored.
 
 So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
 ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere.
 I am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.
 
 Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
 toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
 as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the         truth or a bullet to the head.                                                                                                                        Either one is fine.                                                       └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                                                          different─▶

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 "wahhhh I wanna play a video game, wahhh I want to do cannabis and make poetry   │
 that doesn't convey secret messages, wahhh wahh I miss my kitty, I hope she's    │
 okay in that one safehouse with all fourteen other cats and their cat-moms,      │
 wahhhhhhh where's my binky it's one of the last things I have from my old life,  │
 boohoo I can't find my shoes, guess someone else fit them and needed             │
 replacements"                                                                    │
 being a spy fucking sucks I don't wanna do that. Gimme something to do on my     │
 home turf or fuck off.                                                           │
 what's that? you live in a safe place? okay then here analyze these documents    │
 and see if there's anything we can use. Here's a problem involving biochemistry  │
 spend the next couple months figuring it out by learning biochemistry from       │
 scratch. Hey can you help set up this workshop machinery, we need mechanically   │
 minded people to turn it into a drone factory. Hey there's this idea going       │
 around for adult babies armed with swords and demon masks, apparently it really  │
 fucks with the middle-aged. They waste time before shooting                      │
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 brb gonna take a nap and play some video games for a couple whenevers, hope I
 was useful
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 I think it'd be cool if strategy games had slightly randomized rules each time
 you played them
 
 everything from +/- 5% hp to this particular unit to every airplane factory has
 10% production speed but builds 10 units at once
 
 and at the start of the game each player is given 1 minute to go over the
 "patch notes" and build out a strategy
 
 both of which they can reference throughout the game. Why don't games come with
 a built-in scratch-notepad that syncs to a file on your directory of choice?
 Maybe a small little paint program dropping pngs?
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 don't look back. The world is changing and I know it's scary but we can build
 something for ourselves. Something that works, something that helps, something
 that heals. We can have the space to surround ourselves with ourselves. Fear
 nothing except fear in your allies.
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 everyone always asks "are you doing alright" and never asks "am I doing alright"
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 9 times out of 10 the answer is fuck yes, you're my friend, I support
 everything you're handling. Give me the word and I'll be there, ride or die,
 I'm here for it.
 
 something I wrote a while back:
 
 fucking boss your friends around
 
 it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
 busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
 - oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
 resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a
 \"pizza and weed\" night."
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 don't take on more than you can handle. if your plate is full, don't check out
 the notes by the roadside. Doing so tells all the nearby drivers "hey I need a
 job, anyone got anything for me?" which they'll then drop off further along the
 route to your house.
 
 if you just walk on by then nobody will notice as you head home.
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 if there's a phone number on something, find someone else who wants it instead
 of calling it. doh. extra degrees of separation.
 
 if you think you know someone who wants something, take it when offered.
 opportunists try and find the most valuable thing, but the truth is they're all
 just as valuable and just as worthless in the right context. something that's
 valuable to you is worthless to me, and something worthless to you is valuable
 to me.
 
 everything's worth less once you sit on it for a while... don't be dumb, keep
 track of what's still going on, but also keep your head down. unlike me, who's
 a face, looking forward so you don't have to.
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 what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
 generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
 randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display
 their records. would be cool.
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 if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
 
 if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
 
 if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
 military.
 
 if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
 rebirth liberty.
 
 if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
 
 how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
 another ally to some foreign army.
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 "sorry I can't pay that much property landlord tax. My houses aren't bringing    │
 in that much money. And yes, the new fountain we installed is adored by the      │
 community, we insist on keeping our rent below 400$ per month per resident. No   │
 we won't evict people who can't pay, they deserve such a nice place to stay.     │
 And yes, there's three rooms more, we've got interviews set up with the          │
 neighbors to see which of your candidates they like the most. The potluck last   │
 week was lovely, everyone agreed to form a union and resist the nearby grocery   │
 store oligopoly. Their first demand was that all food should be made free, and   │
 if it wasn't then they were going to sneak in and break things once a day until  │
 their demands were met. We all agreed to pay an extra [number] in taxes to pay   │
 for the quartermaster's supplication [as in, the cost of giving the grocery      │
 store's supplies] in exchange for the right to cheese, bread, and wine.          │
 Tomorrow we're fighting for cell phone rights, and things are looking up I say"  │
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 *kidnapping immigrants*
 
 nothing less
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 fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
 
 their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just a
 hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of militia-men
 who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
 
 [... what?]
 
 don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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 I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of
 the county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the staff
 of *Dolomis the Wanderer* who coincidentally must be carried by the
 last person who fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
 
 ... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
 
 something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
 order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
 incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
 
 ... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh
 well. Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps
 someone else has something...?
 
 ... no?
 
 okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
 
 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
 beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
 
 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
 
 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in the
 soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your own
 instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in a
 pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
 while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
 burn them.
 
 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much, if
 you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 @user-1742 
 
 anything for you!! 🥰 🥰 🥰
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 what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
 house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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 just realized some videos I recorded didn't include the desktop audio. laaaaame
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