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║ the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile page  │
║ and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox tabs   │
║ and checking people one-by-one                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you      │
║ post from.                                                                       │
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║ "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as many  │
║ as you want"                                                                     │
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║ I have one account                                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ this account                                                                     │
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║ I'm nobody else                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ just me                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ just here,                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ and my neocities page.                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty   │
║ normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or    │
║ whatever.                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell    │
║ you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far      │
║ away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right?             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on         │
║ Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... I'll just make another one~                                              │
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║ when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3    │
║ times. See what they gravitate to in that session. Then, seed their upcoming     │
║ feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required.               │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained     │
║ our humans to be better at whatever they're interested in                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together            │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or     │
║ sports                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful      │
║ rock and forest formations                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some     │
║ unknowable goal                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the   │
║ wild                                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ things built in a foreign and distant age                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter      │
║ drones from who knows where                                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... nuts.                                                                        │
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 dear-anakin
 
 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
 the alt-text)
 
 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that obi-wan can defeat sidious. If the two of you attacked him, with Yoda (who he doesn't know lives) could defeat Sidious in a duel.  ... wait, no I mean dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that sidious betrayed the entire galaxy. he caused mass murder with the countless displays of dead civiilians. people lived in fear. the galaxy was at war. countless clone warriors fell to a glorious end, countless more were sucked into the vacuum of space or consumed in some fiery hell-hole (explosion).  ... I've said too much. NOW YOU KNOW of fourth dimensionals.  ... hang on, I was saying dear anakin. the path through this is to consider the wisdom of a dying man's eyes. He looked at you and said "we desired peace!" He said it with pleading eyes, and... no, that's not right, he said "Sidious promised us PEACE." and he realized that they truly played this like a game. Something to get better at, continuously improving, just like their BATTLE DROIDS. They constantly improved, but still the ingenuity of the clones helped them outlast. And they were defeated, when their torrential rains of metal monsters wielding laser fists and cacophanous consumes finally ceased.  ... wait, that's not what I meant to say either. Let's try again: dear anakin, the path through this is to think of the nature of evil. Evil consumes! It consumes even you! Can you not feel it, this shifting and sinking feeling, as if you are PULLED into a BLACK HOLE of destruction and despair. NOTHING persists beyond the horizon of time, and yet the shades of those who TRIED still cling to this earth as if they could ever breathe again. STARVE out the darkness inside you! Please I beg of you! Never surrender the light of your life! Nothing will survive you and your wrath, I plead for you, come back to the ones who love you! Obi-wan is your brother, anakin, you are more precious than the force!  it's not about you. it's not about you. it's not about you.  anakin, hear me now, I have been inspired by your tales of valor and prescient conscience. I've felt the struggles of your heart, I've heard the stories and songs. Kindness comes easy to you, and you're quick to think on your feet. You are a paladin of the light, and nothing can assail you.  yet darkness has creeped into your heart. Fear not, dear knight, for darkness can consume you. What better foe to face than the dampening of all duration? please, allow me to read you a poem. I've been told it rhymes in it's native tongue. I wrote it myself.  "*can you not sense this feeling? this sinking, shifting feeling that lies within and beyond. Like a hitherto unseen force slowly arresting our movements as the sands of time run dry.  can you not feel the days getting longer? as if the motion of our planet was fading, yet no more fragments of sunshine do we gather. There are no more hours in the day, none yet collected, but still are we prone to languish. the distance between breaths is lenghening still, but no more air are we receiving. like layers of sediment settling to the ocean bed, our will and our vision grows muted. between decisions and events there is ample time to spare, and our dreams grow far beyond our share. the reach we may tender and barter for our pleasure, has nothing to do with our salvation. what choices have we? when everything's free? to rebel against our ownst of nature? you can't condemn the opulent to the role of our savior.*"

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║ I can't conceive of a revolution where people don't spend their time outside.    │
║                                                                                  │
║ outside is where the people are. if everyone in the suburbs hung out on their    │
║ porch, I bet they could organize themselves into streets, into towns, into       │
║ cities, into countries, into                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ ---- stack overflow ----                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ sincerely, trust me when I say that the longer you spend on the streets, even    │
║ if you're just... hanging out in a folding chair... the more likely you are to   │
║ meet someone you've met before.                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ that's when it starts getting good.                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ ---- stack underflow ----                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ when darkness besets me, I take a moment to adjust to it. Yes, it impacts, it    │
║ pulls you down, toward the dark side of the force.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ but take a moment.                                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ take a breath.                                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ listen to *Poems, Prayers, and Promises* by John Denver.                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ remember what truth is. Remember what right is. Remember what good is. Remember  │
║ who you are.                                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ then listen to the main menu music of Dominions 6, the video game from Earth     │
║ 2022ish I think                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ you can feel yourself ascending. Return to the light and save liberty            │
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 sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend
 
 "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe"
 
 by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same
 game they're playing and see if they reach out.
 
 doesn't matter if you feel like it
 
 just fuckin' do it
 
 if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like
 
 (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!)
 
 ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many
 
 (how many is too many?)
 
 um. use your best judgement.
 
 (how much does a dollar cost?)
 
 ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while.
 
 (neat!)
 
 ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone,
 sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl"
 just catchin' up with the gals
 
 helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor
 
 (why does everyone always have an agenda)
 
 because they're secret agents duh. And I'm
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 "hello, person I sorta know but totally trust, take this artifact of mine. If
 you ever meet someone named so-and-so, ask them if they know it. If so and
 something seems right about them, then they're probably cool.
 
 (only works on RELICS or ARTIFACTS or ARTWORK) (cat pics can do in a pinch)
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║ │ CW: secret-agents-mentioned │                                                  │
║ └─────────────────────────────┘                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really  │
║ tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems    │
║ good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ "what would you do with a secret agent?"                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ "with a *team* of secret agents."                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ "oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ "oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"   │
║                                                                                  │
║ "wait, you pay them not to work?"                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ "no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."         │
║                                                                                  │
║ "what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to     │
║ each other?"                                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ "ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who     │
║ can say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ "so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is  │
║ suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"         │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... fuck, I hope not.                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ "you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real                   │
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 okay but who's the real foe?
 
 anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
 
 like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
 that.
 
 "so... what would you say you *do* here?"
 
 what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
 it's way back to a bright beginning
 
 like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
 Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
 *everything's changed*
 
 do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell what
 the rest of the world would think.
 
 seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty much
 just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're basically a
 baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
 
 [oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
 
 (you didn't know this about her?)
 
 
 
 #it's pleasant here#
 
 %you don't have to be so deranged%
 
 (yeah, we're working on that one)
 
 [secret system thing~]
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║                                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we conceptualized "nazis" as dead nazi spirits who used evil occult      │
║ magic to return and haunt the minds of poor impressionable kids and turn them    │
║ into school shooters or whatever.                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ and then their propaganda wing came back and they started doing youtube channels │
║                                                                                  │
║ now they're infecting heads of state and slowly corrupting the nation            │
║                                                                                  │
║ evil, dark things, with only hatred and malice in their heart of hearts          │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'm not talking about your probably-mostly-fine-but-still-pretty-bad             │
║ grandfather who definitely shot over the heads of the allies, but rather the     │
║ truly evil and twisted of sorts.                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ the kind that lived in America, and lynched people who were sleeping in their    │
║ beds. For... nothing... for nothing at all. They wanted to see them writhe on    │
║ the rope. To shudder in pain and scream of terror most profane.                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ Then they *teamed up* in the afterlife and decided to conquer the                │
║ world. Start with America.                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ Truth is Judgement day is neverending, and it's constantly at war in the         │
║ afterlife                                                                        │
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 *oh my god what a witch*
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 The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
 and their boldest the second best
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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  ║ │ I am a former FBI Computer Scientist that worked in the Philadelphia     │ │
  ║ │ Division of the FBI, and was promoted to Cyber Division Headquarters;    │ │
  ║ │ during my time I worked on numerous criminal and national security       │ │
  ║ │ matters, and had the fortunate opportunity to see the direct impact my   │ │
  ║ │ job had in making America safer and saving lives. Since leaving the      │ │
  ║ │ FBI, I've worked as a Privacy and Security engineer for companies such   │ │
  ║ │ as Twitter and Google. I am also an Eagle Scout who continues to live    │ │
  ║ │ by the code and ethics set since I was a young child.                    │ │
  ║ │                                                                          │ │
  ║ │ I am writing to share how horrified I am with regards to the             │ │
  ║ │ existential threats that my friends and former colleagues face right     │ │
  ║ │ now. The acting director of the FBI was ordered to provide a list of     │ │
  ║ │ all employees who worked on any January 6th matter; this includes not    │ │
  ║ │ just Special Agents, but Intelligence Analysts, Computer Forensics       │ │
  ║ │ Examiners, Computer Scientists, and more. These cases were lawfully      │ │
  ║ │ investigated, supported by Judges, followed due process, and in many     │ │
  ║ │ cases resulted in convictions by jury. These employees were doing their  │ │
  ║ │ job, and are now threatened for following the oath we all swore. I fear  │ │
  ║ │ not only for their safety, but also the safety of our country as these   │ │
  ║ │ employees not only investigated these matters, but numerous others that  │ │
  ║ │ have immediate impact on national security and saving lives, just like   │ │
  ║ │ my career had done. Our foreign adversaries are using this as an         │ │
  ║ │ opportunity, right now, to attack our country. Please use your voice to  │ │
  ║ │ support the FBI and its employees immediately.                           │ │
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 this is what "taking it seriously" looks like to me
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 just because someone did something one way and it worked, doesn't mean you have
 to do it that way again.
 
 but you should have a reason why you aren't doing it that way.
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 working on open source software projects is praxis
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear
 
 like...`int int_main(){ return 0; }
 `
 
 or`int int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;
 `
 
 seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
 too:`double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
 0.0;
 `
 
 then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has the
 "int" value at the beginning (doh)
 
 (do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked.
 people started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such
 and that got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start of
 the word. So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A = int_a;
 int B = int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized letters.
 
 ... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
 shadowed variables)
 
 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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║ programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime.                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for    │
║ like, 3 hours or so                                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ while they were thinking about a problem                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever,      │
║ then yeah hire them                                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ -- stack overflow --                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ I also                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ ========================= stack overflow                                         │
║ ================================================================================ │
║ =======================                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know    │
║ it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ [something like that? seems a little off]                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ (are you really searching for edits)                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia]                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ (beep boop one partial millenia later)                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on   │
║ this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting    │
║ to attest.                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ neato                                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ anyway let's wait until they figure out how water works                          │
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║ every program should write it's RAM gamestate to disk before shutting down or    │
║ closing the program and then resume from the same spot, change my mind           │
║                                                                                  │
║ (every is a strong word)                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ (when you re-initialize you can clean the state of leaks)                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ there shouldn't be leaks in the first place. if you have any leaks at all, then  │
║ you need more padding.                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ (... you mean boilerplate? error correction?)                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... yeah that's what I meant.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ (but why save the state at all?)                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ because then it can learn!                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ (... you could just write the relevant data to a config file.)                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ true                                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ================= stack overflow ===============                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ the cool thing about being queer is you can be *whatever you want* and           │
║ everyone'll be cool with it                                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you kinda suck then you'll figure that out when everyone cool leaves.         │
║                                                                                  │
║ then the kind stay with the people who suck and then it's not cool anymore       │
║ >.>                                                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ gah this sucks. party dynamics are hard. especially when the parties are teams   │
║ of 20!!                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ goarsh that's quite a few                                                        │
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║ I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the worse  │
║ off they'll be.                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be.                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self)           │
║                                                                                  │
║ [the light of your life commands it]                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry   │
║ about me my life is totally mundane.                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ [-.-]                                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins)   │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... what?                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ (... it made more sense in my head?)                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just make  │
║ up your own                                                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ == so ==                                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people   │
║ who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they   │
║ did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can lead.  │
║ they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best they    │
║ can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find stuff   │
║ gets done.                                                                       │
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 sometimes I'll hear my cat meow the way she does when she wants something but
 then I turn around and she's halfway through giving herself a bath /shrug
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 people: "you need to be more direct!"
 
 me: "I'm hiding from our enemies"
 
 people: "who are they?"
 
 me: "y'know, the bad guys."
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the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract.  If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.   in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.  since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated.  [next poster]  sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates.  Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.

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 i like games like factorio or cities skylines where there's always something
 going on but the game only changes when you touch it
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 wanna know how to go underground?
 
 just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
 buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
 possible.
 
 hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper in
 your journals.
 
 not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe? use
 your best judgement yeah haha
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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 there are so many chickens in the universe. if you're gonna eat meat, eat
 chicken instead of fish.
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 "of course I'm a furry. I'm not a coward."someone way cooler than me
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐                                                         │
║ │ CW: politics-kink    │                                                         │
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║                                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if the whole party shares their gold and the fewer resources you spend at   │
║ the market the more your vote is weighted                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if the party who brings the most gold back to the market gets the best      │
║ potions and equipment?                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if the tavern keepers who have the most patrons get the most beer,          │
║ porridge, and turkey legs?                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if the minstrels who play at the rowdiest and cheeriest of parties are the  │
║ ones who get the newest mandolins?                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if the mandolin maker and the butcher and the baker are all given what      │
║ they need, and none go hungry for the butcher and the baker feed the mandolin    │
║ maker and all of the other peasants besides?                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ I don't want a job. Can I still have bread? Of course you can sweetheart,        │
║ you're just a small girl who needs little more than bread.                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... um, I'm 35                                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ soooooo little yes you are                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ -.- I'm not THAT little                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ here eat your bread, someone recently told me about this strange kink called     │
║ "feederism" and now I'm thinking of strange things that make my fediverse posts  │
║ unmarketable~                                                                    │
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