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what if words were made up and we communicated in plausible deniabilities
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"Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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but ritz, if you do the same thing every time, you'll get predictable
oh true. what if we cycled them and made it like a numbers station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
with auto-generated alterations
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"but what if you go to all that effort and Trump doesn't do all the things that
he said he'd do just like last time when he had checks and balances that were
keeping him in check and balanced and unlike now when the checks and balances
that kept him in check and balanced last time were dismantled by the supreme
court last summer?"
listen it's worth it, I swear it's true, change is coming and I'm here with you.
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it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what
they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
it's our problem to deal with.
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Ugh. This outfit is sooooo preschool. Oh well, it'll have to do.
"girl it's so cute what are you talking about"
oh, y'know, internalized repression I guess. Do you think the tanktop on top of
a longsleeved shirt is too much? How about the skirt over sweatpants? Is the
bow in my hair too cute for you?
"who are you talking to I already said I was all about it"
... the mirror. Trying to psyche myself up.
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awawawa
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you know what they say, an autistic in motion stays in motion, an autistic at
rest...
now I gotta rest on the bus for an hour or two. wish me luck.
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In games, the one who takes the initiative often wins. Because games are
designed to be symmetrical, in order to be fair.
In more complex games, Paradox games for example, games where you look at maps
or otherwise have unequal starting conditions simply due to the unique nature
of each team, the initiative, while an advantage, is not necessarily the
driving force that determines who wins.
But it is an advantage, and they say that sometimes weeks happen in months and
years happen in days or whatever.
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Being in motion sucks. Literally can't even put on my shoes without thinking of
toots to fart out.
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"girl, who let you dress yourself? You literally put your rain jacket on over
your backpack"
yeah, uh, if your rain jacket isn't big enough to wear over a backpack then you
are wearing a plastic sweater, not a rain jacket
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pronouns are part of a name
they are a component of the whole
indispensable for the complete concept
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I wish I could make something that would change people's lives for the better
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Linux doesn't teach you to to build a perfect system. It's always breaking,
after all.
It teaches you to rehearse.
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The gods guide us in our times of need because when we dream they use us to be
all we can be
Sleep, sweet child, and your expertise will be freed. Ready to be used when
tithes are due. In return, you get a spirit to guide you when passion is hot -
when blood is boiled - when fire is alight.
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I'm pretty sure we're all about to lose our heads. Or just be fucking shot in
our beds. Homes lit alight, surrenders met with the knife, and the beginning of
endless strife. What ends this night? Is there no end in sight? Thus begins our
mortal plight.
Give me a reason to be wrong. Trump has claimed he intends to invade canada,
mexico, greenland... What the fuck is our plan? Are we seriously just going to.
Recite poetry. Pretend to be secret agents. Play chess and drink coffee. Become
exhausted organizing movie nights and potlucks. Work jobs doing nothing for
nobody. Spend half our lives convincing people that they should care, actually,
because reasons that don't apply to them but do apply to others.
What the fuck is the plan? If there's some secret transgender militia out
there, please, make me a lieutenant. Give me a sword that i might thrust into
my enemies. Please, for the love of holy, i beg for a sign from the stars.
Grant me power and i will deliver my people from harm - grant me vengeance and
i will never forgive you, but i shall sleep easy - grant me death and woe and
see my beauty fade from this earth.
What is there left but tragedy? Please, i must know. I've tried my hardest.
I've begged and I've pleaded. My calls fall on deaf ears, because everyone's so
busy these days. Are they truly my people? Are they simply dead, actors,
replaced by AI? The future was bright, i saw it truly. The future was kind, i
felt it call to me. Is it still? I feel warmth and abaddon.
I would replace persephone in hell if it meant sanctum and solace for my
people. I care not for my soul, rather i care for the soul of those i tend to.
Please, remember me. Remember the flowers. Remember what could have been, what
still may yet be. There is hope for we, i truly believe. But please, do not
keep me hoping. Tell me the truth of our arms, that i might find space in my
heart of hearts. Space for hope, space for longing, space for the will to
proceed.
I am lost without you. I am lost by my own side. I am a savior for no people
but those i keep inside. What chalice is this, what endless conveyals? What
meaning is there in our country's betrayal? Are we not cherished? Are we not
viewed as their equal? I pray that the stars will portend me.
Mine is a sign of the changing tides, the proof is here in my travailles. But
I, most aligned yet benign, demand the use of my most able. Give me a word of
practicality and I'll show you the practice of their vipers - the blessed babe
dies with a dagger in her heart, planted by the wound of her heartache.
I trust in the silence of the majority. We await with bated breath the
enslavement of posterity, gazing at the world through memes of deplority. How
powerless we feel! Perhaps all we need is a meal. Have you eaten in the last 16
hours?
Purple is the intersection of black, red, and blue. I'm hungry. This poem is
done.
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No-one likes your practice
Because it lacks respite
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When did people lose hope for the world?
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@user-217
the eye of the sandstorm
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what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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the reason I say to do it there is because it's close to civilization, compared
to building a pole barn in the forest somewhere that you have to drive 30
minutes to get to a grocery store. no thank you...
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║ what if we pooled our money and bought an apartment building and put 10 people │
║ in each two bedroom apartment but reserved like, 20% of the apartments for │
║ common spaces and designed each one around a theme and shared chores and shared │
║ our SNAP budgets and each paid like, 200$ for rent and gave away all of the │
║ stuff we made with our hobbies and handled conflict with radical empathy and │
║ had movie nights where we watched movies about socialism and trains and bugs │
║ and stars │
║ │
║ what if we went into the forest and LARPed as french resistance fighters under │
║ nazi occupation and practiced peeing on trees and starting fires and moving as │
║ a team and firing rifles without hitting our friends and staying oriented as we │
║ changed directions and dug trenches and built treehouses that were nearly │
║ invisible from the ground and didn't radiate heat because they were covered in │
║ mylar or whatever │
║ │
║ what if we made decentralized, encrypted, anonymous communications and │
║ practiced speaking in code and dropping letters and writing "poetry" │
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║ hey ya'll remember that thing we all swore to when we were in kindergarten and │
║ we were told to pledge our loyalty to a piece of cloth? what if we were │
║ actually speaking to the thing behind the cloth, the values and virtues it │
║ represented? liberty, truth, justice, equality, freedom, dignity, honesty, │
║ utility, wisdom, respect, kindness, charity, foresight, diligence, spirit, │
║ passion, or whatever else guides you in your brightest moments. Flags are just │
║ cloth, the design on them matters even less - it's just the land made flesh, │
║ here in our eyes we see colors. │
║ │
║ Truly, all religions pray to the same god, and all flags wave in the same wind. │
║ The lines we draw in the sand are our way of saying "here's where one place │
║ ends and here's where another begins". But we all lie under the same dark sky, │
║ gazing upon the splendor of the moon and her children. │
║ │
║ I once dreamt of a dark future where the world was conquered by Subway and │
║ Pizza Hut. There's no beauty in homogeneity, queer people exist for a reason, I │
║ don't confess │
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@user-192
cute girls with fountain ink pens are a weakness of mine
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I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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what if we kissed in the puppy girl petsmart
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someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so
I guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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"Ritz Menardi doesn't know anything. She's not allowed to know anything. If you
tell her anything, she might tell someone about it because she's fucking
stupid. Either that or she's cursed or something. Either way, she isn't allowed
to know anything, so if you see her be nice, try and help her if you can, but
don't fucking tell her anything."
haha just things I overheard a couple days ago that randomly popped back into
my head
I don't see any nazis around me. Which begs the question:
how can you fight that which you cannot see?
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║ what if you bought me a refrigerated semi truck and I drove it around to rural │
║ communes and took their extras and brought it into the city to urban communes │
║ and gave it all away for free and then took the stuff that the urban communes │
║ scrounged from the trash and cleaned and repaired and brought it to the rural │
║ communes along with their art and poems and artistic nudes and exchanged it for │
║ their canned peaches and knitted scarves and drove it back to the urban │
║ communes and exchanged them for vintage furniture and computer parts that we │
║ didn't have room for because cities are dense and lack the space for keeping │
║ historical artifacts and then took them to the rural communes to exchange for │
║ jalapenos and goat cheese which I then brought back to the urban communes and │
║ traded for a bunch of catgirls who visited a rural farmhouse and threw a │
║ kick-ass rave for the rural people who are totally into that kind of thing │
║ like, once per year because frankly they moved to the country to get away from │
║ the noise thank you ve │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: mentioned │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ high margin jobs: jobs that produce something which can be sold to capitalism │
║ in exchange for dollars which can purchase things. Useful for abstracting value │
║ and acquiring something that you don't have access to in your local economy. │
║ │
║ low margin jobs: jobs that produce things for your local economy. This keeps │
║ capitalist prices low and prevents you from being dependent on them for food, │
║ clothing, houses, and other essentials. │
║ │
║ both are important, both are valued just as much. Your labor is what's │
║ important, not the output. Existing alongside capitalism is nice because it │
║ allows for certain abstractions, like the ability to magically turn goat cheese │
║ into chainsaw teeth. │
║ │
║ However living UNDER capitalism is intensely alienating, which is why alienated │
║ people will spend so much money at Magic the Gathering tournaments or │
║ motorcycle midlife crisises or tupperware show-and-tells. │
║ │
║ This is useful for us because it means people can labor to un-alienate people. │
║ Notice I never said you had to do it for free. │
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│ CW: trade │
└──────────────────────┘
I'd like you to take a moment and picture the Silk Road from antiquity.
The Silk Road was an overland trade route that connected Europe and eastern
Asia. It passed through many different environments and was incredibly
profitable. In order to adapt to the changing environments along the path,
intense cooperation was required. Caravans of people formed, protected to
resist bandits and laden with valuable goods that are worthless outside of a
city.
At each stop, the caravan would depart with fewer of it's goods, having traded
some away in order to purchase supplies to travel further along. But, the
farther they went, what remained became more expensive, thus ensuring that
they'd always have more fuel for their journey.
In the modern day, I picture caravans of trucks and vans laden with supplies
and carrying things from one place to another. No matter how large your
property, there is no place on earth that produces all of it's needs. Unless
you live like a caveman or peasant or Appalachian. [wow rude]
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"Is... is she advocating for tax evasion??"
lol
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listen if taxes aren't suited to adapt to our style of economy then maybe they
need to make new taxes. This will piss everyone off and make everyone's lives
harder.
Grrrrrr, government, always getting in the way. I'm so angry I could throw a
box of tea into a river or maybe the sea.
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"oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not to
think about her too much."
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everything you do right now is practice for some later moment in life.
what do you want to be good at?
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what if I paid this parking ticket I found by the side of the road instead of
paying my rent this month
do you think the world would burn down
do you think the apartment complex would collapse
do you think my police force would throw my stuff on the road
do you think they'd change the locks
what if I just didn't leave
what if I smoked some weed
"that's against your contract"
okay
what if I did it anyway
what if I did what I was told
I think I would surely drown
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ah nuts there's two of them listed on their account guess I gotta do both
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last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
card number.
![the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below: BUY MEAT [picture of two guys holding meat] capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means. everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy they make it so easy to write about capitalism.](../media/cafe922b9bffa256.jpeg "the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below: BUY MEAT [picture of two guys holding meat] capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means. everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy they make it so easy to write about capitalism.")
!["But what comes next?" wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze. I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity. "What if it's worse?" worse than what? Trump? EAT SHIT. [next page] the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve]. a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow. radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.](../media/69d556dfb5d2228a.jpeg "\"But what comes next?\" wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze. I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity. \"What if it's worse?\" worse than what? Trump? EAT SHIT. [next page] the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve]. a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow. radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.")
![queers when pobular society [bluh] [bluh -> meow! (tumor)] [oooooooowah bluh] [REVENGE] [next page] I miss cannabis I missing making [out/art] I miss the things that give me joy I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known I know these things are available, but I'm "too focused" I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.](../media/9c1a509307de5646.jpeg "queers when pobular society [bluh] [bluh -> meow! (tumor)] [oooooooowah bluh] [REVENGE] [next page] I miss cannabis I missing making [out/art] I miss the things that give me joy I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known I know these things are available, but I'm \"too focused\" I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.")
![This is [to/the] only way I speak truth. I miss feeling truthful. what if I went wrong forever I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors. someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years. I yearn to dream [next page] what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake? people die every day. what are you gonna do about it? what makes you think "my way or your way" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?](../media/1a156ef8dc856646.jpeg "This is [to/the] only way I speak truth. I miss feeling truthful. what if I went wrong forever I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors. someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years. I yearn to dream [next page] what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake? people die every day. what are you gonna do about it? what makes you think \"my way or your way\" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?")
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🖼
!["things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.](../media/b88c9a7575a18e1e.jpeg "\"things are nice\" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's \"now\" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.")
![my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?](../media/f7716aa43bf68e76.jpeg "my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?")
![If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in." [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.](../media/a8903f64077a3c8b.jpeg "If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. \"hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in.\" [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.")
![And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?" don't see nothin? start somethin" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) "... hello?"](../media/aad92468eb4fec27.jpeg "And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. \"oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?\" don't see nothin? start somethin\" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? \"oh no my stakeholder value\" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) \"... hello?\"")
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🖼
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grrrrrrr I can't figure it out. can't remember my number I guess.
what if I just put 120$ I got from the tooth fairy in the envelope and left it
where I found it
... wait shit where was I when I picked it up? nuts I'll just put it by the bus
stop. surely someone will come by and pay it for me.
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... make that 100$. idk where the last 20 went. I love you dad.
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@user-1722
"oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in some
way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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"hey you're cool, can I get your socials?"
sure, I mostly post on the fediverse
"what's that"
oh, like... Mastodon
"oh, no haha I meant like a real social media"
ah. well I make comments on Reddit sometimes.
you make them sound like a jerk
no they're cool they're just misinformed. the fediverse is the future, or like,
something like it, I'm sure. who wants to go back to capitalism? not me hehe
... I'm getting silly, gonna go to sleep.
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Can you imagine
Going to your tribal shaman
Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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what if instead of shredding our cardboard boxes and melting them down into
fertilizer or whatever we instead gave them to homeless people
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the fact that you have to configure your router in order to do any sort of
web-hosting at all is one of the fundamental reasons why the internet looks so
lame and corporate.
if anyone could download a program and start a gallery style file-server with
all their wedding pictures then why the fuck would you need to upload them to
imgur?
alas, people are too dumb to open ports. plus, every router has a different UI
design, so it's not like you can write a guide. What happened to making things
as easy as possible for the user?
"technical limitations" are failures of imagination. we can do better than
gatekeeping.
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"oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking
for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!"
oh, um... I meant like, magic or something.
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@user-882
it's a security hole though
yeah... there ya go...
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what if I stayed inside all day and closed my eyes and pretended to be made out
of water
at least 70% give or take when I take a drink
of water, because soda corrodes your insides just a tiny little bit, while
water washes away the goop they feed us, grown from polluted fields that never
asked for this
I yearn for the fantasy of a life unrequited
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politics is basically just "which politician archetype annoys you more?" which,
like, could we maybe have politicians who aren't annoying?
oh right they do that on purpose. Makes for a better spectacle. Gotta keep the
people in line, or else who knows what they might get up to. Maybe they'll
build a house! Maybe they'll tear it down! Maybe they'll throw a party! Maybe
they'll stay afterwards to clean up! Maybe they'll grow their own food! Enough
for all to share! Maybe they'll air their dirty laundry, out where everyone can
hear! Maybe they'll sit around and fart while eating cheetos! Maybe they'll
work twice as hard because their work is their own! Maybe they'll laugh at the
losers who tried to claim that they could master the fate of an entire domain,
and maybe they'll simply go insane.
Who can say! None but the fools, surely, surely the system is too arcane,
surely our way is better, surely their way is deranged.
Oh! Poverty! How it comes for ye, whenever you choose to step out of line
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@user-246
teehee
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║ @user-1725 │
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║ stand up, put your hands on your knees. It's about that high. Think about your │
║ bedroom, or if you're already there think about your kitchen. If you were │
║ standing in your kitchen and the grass was growing there, it'd peek just over │
║ the bed, or maybe climb just this far up the cabinets. │
║ │
║ it's dark green. Can you see anything dark green around you? It's that color. │
║ If not, can you remember a dark-green thing? What did it look like? │
║ │
║ The very tops, the part by your hand that's on your knee, that's the purple │
║ part. Just at the tip of the blade, the part that would stab you if the grass │
║ was a sword, that's the purple bit. Everything else is dark green. │
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║ I wonder how it sways in the wind? Does it bend, and whip? What if there's a │
║ gale? Does it sway back and forth, or is it stiff and shiver like dead leaves │
║ on a tree? │
║ │
║ imagination comes from questions, and the subsequent development of instinctual │
║ subconscious questions like this. What lies in the gaps? what if we colored │
║ outside the lines? what more to see? │
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every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to update
my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have to go to
their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this particular
piece of software
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all people deserve a decent life
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I am not interested in being given money. Usually it means someone wants
something from me, like labor or some of my stuff. I have all the stuff I need,
why would I need more money? I like my stuff! I'll help out when people need
help but I do that because I'm a good person, not because I want you to fucking
pay me for it.
I have all the things I need... except a deed to my house. apartment. oh yeah,
they can kick you out for that sin. well, sorry, I couldn't find out at
goodwill or in the trash bin, so I guess I'm deed-less. My deeds go unproven.
How can I prove that I deserve a decent life in this particular roof, the one I
find over my head, when I cannot prove that my deeds qualify me for a decent
life lived under this particular roof?
I mean, did you ask the neighbors if they want me gone? Am I really that
smelly? Does my keyboard make "clickety-clack" noises all through the night?
Does my cat meow and bother the children? Do my friendly smiles and waves make
you uncomfortable?
Have a decent life.
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https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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@user-192
I think it's more saying "LLMs are not significantly more harmful for the
environment than other online activities"
also stuff like this: [picture]
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One of the first video games I ever played was Dragon Warrior 3 for the gameboy
color.
The game starts with god asking you about yourself in a dream. This was the
first time I heard the word "gemini" - At one point, she asks if you are M or F.
Me, being a child, thought she was asking if I wanted to go "medium speed" or
"fast speed" and I'm like, hell yeah I wanna go fast
that's it
that's the whole reason I'm trans
at one point in the game I became a queen of a faraway land
and I couldn't leave the castle without the guards saying "no no miss you can't
leave, it's too dangerous for a battle-hardened adventurer dainty flower like
you to leave"
(I think they say you have to renounce your claim to the throne if you want to
leave but I would rather fucking die)
so I never got farther than that. Sorry world, but I didn't end up slaying the
demon king, I sorta just walked around the palace and cried because it felt
like the game was over.
kids, amiright?
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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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people who are stuck in suburban houses with the blinds down get to play VRchat
all day long. lucky them. Good thing we put two empty houses on each side so
they can't be overheard. Meanwhile they have friends next-door, haha funny how
that works, there's this neat invention invented by thomas tesla that causes
sound waves to be recorded on this rotated metal disk which then has a needle
stuck into it or something like that and hey wouldn't ya know it now they can
hear you in their van full of rifles if you need them.
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"got it. So-and-so likes this-or-that, and whats-her-face wants it that way. Is
this the kind of thing you want me to try and remember to accomodate or can you
handle agreeing to disagree?"
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everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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║ │
║ │
║ well. it's all theatre folks. all the politics, all the turmoil, all the │
║ strife... it's just people fucking around. │
║ │
║ They're gonna find out real soon. You don't fuck with tyranny here, it's our │
║ mythological enemy. AND YET. │
║ │
║ Find the crucial intersection where all your foes foes meet. Strike them there. │
║ │
║ "thank god for Luigi Marscapone, he really showed us all exactly what we share │
║ - a hatred for profit focused healthcare. oh and asshole billionaires, which │
║ this guy who I personally have never heard of I heard was." │
║ │
║ crucial intersection. You know what people also intersect at? │
║ │
║ EATING FOOD. │
║ CLEAN WATER. │
║ something something rfk brain worms │
║ something something elon musk propaganda │
║ SANCTIFIED NATURAL AREAS. │
║ THE FUCKING POST OFFICE. │
║ │
║ seriously just... go down the list. We share more than we disagree, and we │
║ disagree on what they tell us. │
║ │
║ it's all theatre. Wait this is America, it's all theater. │
║ │
║ ... I should make some hope and sell it for dimes on the street corner. I │
║ wonder if that'll help. │
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I'm such a direct person I think, even though I often just sorta... shrug and
ignore things that bother or hurt me? Like, whatevs.
but the moment I notice a pattern that is continually harmful I have to
restrain myself from moving to contest it. Hence why I talk about capitalism so
much teehee, but its also common in my interpersonal and communal lives.
"the purpose of the system is it's effects"
the purpose of a person is how they make people feel
so if someone FOR A RANDOM EXAMPLE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, constantly hurts
other people by creating situations where they are harmed which creates a
dramatic fight... or if someone speaks in circles for hours and hours and HOURS
like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc
or people who jump into a conversation and drive it through the underbrush,
over the ridge, around the bend, up and over the bridge, and then park it
outside their ex girlfriend's house and hands you an egg and says "don't you
wanna throw this?" and you're like "weren't we talking about birds"
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║ │
║ │
║ you said you wanted a revolution, and, well, I could not be more proud of you. │
║ It's actually getting done and if I stop and think about it I'm kind of amazed. │
║ Never thought I'd see this kind of change so quickly. │
║ │
║ "what change? I see nothing substantially different" │
║ │
║ oh yeah well do you go outside often │
║ │
║ do you hang out in the park │
║ │
║ I know it's fuckin' january and it's cold as heck (ah nuts swearing mentioned │
║ one sec) but homeless people have to LIVE in that weather so like... wear │
║ layers, spend time outside, detox from dopamine, write poetry and tear it out │
║ and leave it on a park bench, be loud, claim the space, it's yours, that's what │
║ it's there for. │
║ │
║ I see it in your eyes. I see it in the random notes I find on the sidewalk. │
║ Everyone says "make friends, find community" and I say "commune with a │
║ stranger" but I'm also a witch and that's a pretty witchy thing to do. │
║ │
║ ... Really fuckin' wish we still had payphones (ah nuts swearing mentioned - oh │
║ already CWd) │
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"this sledgehammer is part of my outfit, I call it "sledgecore" and no I won't
take off my mask"
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║ what if we built an atlas of what every rural property produced │
║ │
║ like "they grow squash and blueberries here and sometimes they make honey" │
║ │
║ or "this place has a bunch of lumber they want to get rid of" │
║ │
║ or "here there's a patch of wildflowers that have been set aside for the │
║ butterflies" │
║ │
║ or "there's a training ground here for intercepting ICE vans in urban areas" │
║ │
║ or "don't post shit like that on the internet dumbass what are you even doing" │
║ │
║ or "oh I dunno trying to be a face I guess, don't look to me for cutting edge │
║ advice because I'm just a level 12 paladin who's totally a noob and can barely │
║ lift 50 pounds" │
║ │
║ or "this is where the cows graze" │
║ │
║ or "yeah well you're the cutting edge on some things and you're very far behind │
║ on others. like for example you seriously need to level up your opsec so that │
║ nobody can hear what you're saying." │
║ │
║ or "yeah but then nobody will hear what I'm saying" │
║ │
║ or "I've said too much, god save you Ritz Menardi, for we all stand beside you" │
║ │
║ or "here's a meditation retreat" : ) │
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"but what about their legitimate grievances"
uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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║ │
║ │
║ "ah but what if the fascism is just an excuse to dismantle our decaying and │
║ bureaucratic institutions so that a cool young populist candidate who is easy │
║ to manipulate can come into office next and fix everything" │
║ │
║ ah see that's how they getcha isn't it, much cleaner than genocide I gotta say │
║ and plus it gives everyone a boogeyman to fight against │
║ │
║ "um, ritz you realize there are actual real nazis right?" │
║ │
║ yeah, and we'll have to deal with them, but there are significantly fewer than │
║ you'd expect. Pretty much everyone is onboard with cutting off the right arm of │
║ someone who salutes to Hitler at the inauguration of what surely must be the │
║ leading nation of the free world. │
║ │
║ ... don't look at me though, I'm not strong enough to swing a battleaxe or │
║ other "arm-lopping" device. I can do like, two pushups, because I didn't take │
║ my own advice, back when I told ya'll to eat beans and rice and do pushups and │
║ that'll suffice. I was wrong teehee I thought Kamala would win l m a o │
║ │
║ now I'm kinda glad we get to fight │
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me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just puke,
okay?"
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@user-608
none of your friends can find jobs.
none of YOUR friends can find jobs.
I bet THEIR friends can find jobs.
Fuck capitalism.
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anarchy is more like being in a gang and less like working for a company.
you're thinking of a union, which is also cool.
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dreaming of a mastodon interface where it's 3-6 panels of timeline just like
now, except, each of them is the same timeline and when you scroll it scrolls
all of them at once, and the bottom of the leftmost panel is the top of the
panel to the right, and the bottom of that panel is the top of the one to the
right, etc etc.
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apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community is
in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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@user-1201
once my country elected a fascist I started thinking. I realized "oh, it's
always been that way, this one just doesn't hide it" and so I started thinking
about the bread and circuses they so generously provided me.
I miss video games. Sometimes I play for an hour or two but only when I am
feeling burnt out.
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