Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/1853 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ I really really love ramen noodles that are just a little bit old but still │ ║ warm and are slightly drying out a little bit but there's juuuuust enough sauce │ ║ down at the bottom to keep it coated │ ║ │ ║ that's the stuff │ ║ │ ║ (meanwhile my evil side says: it starts with "hey can you help me cook dinner" │ ║ and then suddenly you're working all day every day) │ ║ │ ║ (and then so are they) │ ║ │ ║ (and it continues.....) │ ║ │ ║ (... until.... ) │ ║ │ ║ (one day you wake up and there's nothing you are capable to do) │ ║ │ ║ (so then you're useless) │ ║ │ ║ (and demanding) │ ║ │ ║ (and that's hard to handle) │ ║ │ ║ (when your schedule is blocked, and there's nothing you are capable to do) │ ║ │ ║ ... weird, kinda drifted off for a second, anyway we should talk about │ ║ BIRTHDAYS! Birthdays are fun, theyre the day when you switch from being one age │ ║ to another. Like, rolling over a clock, or ticking-up a variable in response to │ ║ another variable which is at capacity. │ ║ │ ║ buffer overflows would be impossible if you put import/export controls on │ ║ registers │ ║ │ ║ not "you can't do that" but "wheres your cre │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1854 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ okay how about this: one side of the political spectrum gets to pick the rules, │ ║ and the other picks the people playing the game (carrying out the rules, like │ ║ government work and stuff) │ ║ │ ║ then they switch every 2 years or whatever. they can vote to decide which group │ ║ of people do what, and if something is owned by one side then the other can't │ ║ touch it. Ah, but what if it's in the way? Well, then move it duh" │ ║ │ ║ hey, you know pride? yeah, that event that happens once a year? sure would be │ ║ nice if we met people we didn't know there. if we knew everyone else. if we │ ║ spent most of it sharing our discussions, and talking about what we're most │ ║ proud of. then, okay here's an idea, we could filter and organize and figure │ ║ out which one of us has the most "votes" in terms of what's the things we agree │ ║ on and then we could pick our own CEO │ ║ │ ║ yeah I'd totally work for the gay company, they got rainbows and shit that's │ ║ awesome. │ ║ │ ║ What they do? Oh, I dunno, butt stuff I guess. but like I'm all for it (not the │ ║ butt stuff, │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1855 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: being-afraid-of-something-is-hard-but-can-be-overcome │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ if you're afraid of spies, then they've already won. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1856 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-recipe-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────┘ rice and lentils in the rice cooker with lots of butter when it's done, serve in a large bowl and add one can of vegetable soup is delicious ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1857 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-question │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ honest question: if they cut off internet to a medium sized town like Nashville │ ║ or Spokane and man-in-the-middled every attempted communication out and │ ║ sabatoged any plans to visit... they could kill everyone in that city and │ ║ replace them with an LLM that sorta posted the mostly correct things, and if │ ║ users comment things like "hey are you okay you don't sound like yourself" then │ ║ just have a human operator study their data for a bit and pretend to be them │ ║ using deepfakes over zoom or whatever. Then, any time they say "I miss you, I │ ║ want to visit you" just say "darn I'm actually visiting my grandma in │ ║ afghanistan" or "sorry my cousin is visiting from peru" and suddenly they're │ ║ completely isolated and alone. Oh and their teams at work? Cut off from the │ ║ rest of the corporation who doesn't even know they exist. how, uh, how would │ ║ you even notice if all these people who live around you were suddenly replaced │ ║ by those you don't know? What if they cycle through, like a slaughterhouse... I │ ║ don't want to │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1858 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ they say gemini are duplicitous because they're close to exactly half one year │ ║ and half the next. │ ║ │ ║ I was supposed to be born on the summer solstice, but I was a C-section because │ ║ reasons. two weeks early, I think. │ ║ │ ║ gemini are born in the summer, if you didn't know. I don't know anything about │ ║ astrology except what people say about me. │ ║ │ ║ they aren't duplicitous though. they aren't trying to trick you. their struggle │ ║ is internal, the struggle between their two selves. one representing one │ ║ extreme, the other the other, like a constant "good cop bad cop" style │ ║ situation that plays out through the strings of your story. │ ║ │ ║ the muses look a bit like the characters in Inside Out, I think, both visually │ ║ (HA) and actualizationally. │ ║ │ ║ ... gemini is already plural, so you might say "capricorns" or "tauruses" or │ ║ whatever but gemini is just gemini │ ║ │ ║ "that which you resist is what you'll find" because pushing in one direction │ ║ leaves you unbalanced, which causes your mutual orbit to swing around one │ ║ another, like a wave. Up/down │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1859 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1074 would be nice : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ |