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║ I'm going to post a bunch of things all at once, sorry it'll probably clog up │
║ your news feed. Feel free to scroll past in order to get to more varied stuff, │
║ and if you don't like a single thing that I'm saying then feel free to block │
║ me. I wouldn't want to be rude by speaking so loudly in a place that others │
║ could listen to. So, just... skip past me if you don't want to hear me, like if │
║ you're perhaps focused on something else. │
║ │
║ I had a lot I wanted to say and it was really hard to wait to send it until │
║ now! This is the last thing I'm posting for a while, at least until tomorrow, │
║ because I'm a little on-the-fritz; thank you and I apologize for being so │
║ trite. Is that what "trite" means? I've never really used it. Well, it rhymes, │
║ so I guess I should use it. Ah, well, they'll get what I mean. │
║ │
║ wait hang on I can just google it and let google know that I'm not dead but I'm │
║ still googling things searching for interesting things to see and hear like │
║ "trite" or "confluence" or "Alexstrasza" or "Kalecgos" │
║ │
║ anyway,: │
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@user-1171
"gee I never hear from you how would I know that if people like you didn't say
something valuable and important like this"an appreciative someone
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I have this friend who's in a different mastodon ecosystem and apparently he
tried commenting on some of my posts but like, they didn't show up on my end?
how weird. Kinda shattered my perception of this place as a free and open
society where everyone could rely on everyone else to be who they said they
were based on publically available accounts that they share with their friends
who know them by their face and name
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@user-192
no I didn't know that was a thing
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@user-192
"reason not available" doesn't tell me anything except that my experience is
valid
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@user-192
right but it throws into question the idea that what I say is the same as what
they hear.
Especially if they know our IP addresses are coming from different sides of the
country.
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a "follow" list is just a list of people you want to hear from.
Not necessarily people you agree with,
but people you'd like to understand more.
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@user-1174
"yes it fucking is, we helped EVERYONE, and now it's our turn to need help,
because POWER accretes evil. It corrupts, and now it's our sword of damocles.
We'd happily relinquish our title that we claimed for the world in our
brightest and boldest of moments, but we're kinda stuck in this role. And
like... Diversity is our strength, allies are relationships you FIGHT FOR."one
of the occasional US citizens you mentioned
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the only purpose in the pursuit of power is the preparation of a perfectly
powerful penance.
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@user-1177 @mutualaid
whatever happens, know that you are loved. Animals are the most precious thing
in our lives, and we have many opportunities to raise more. Cherish those
heartfelt moments, and yearn for the affectionate tender touches. And know that
you are always their most known.
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║ │ Scotus just essentially made being #homeless illegal. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ In Los Angeles it’s illegal to sleep in your car. If you find │ │
║ │ yourself spending the night in your car, set your phone to stream │ │
║ │ something. If you’re confronted by police, mention you were not │ │
║ │ intending to sleep but we’re watching TV or movie and fell asleep by │ │
║ │ accident. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ I figured this out when I was “watching a show in my car” at one │ │
║ │ point. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ I hope the #scotus that did this spend the balance of their lives │ │
║ │ “watching a show in their cars.” │ │
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@user-1180
in moments of intensity, CWs are often considered optional because of how
important the story feels. It should not be the default to be so open, but
sometimes in those moments it's good when you're not primed and ready for a
subject, to visit other social media presences that you've cultivated across
the internet, in order to see how different people will post.
I try to CW all my posts but sometimes I forget. Or I run out of characters,
and the CW takes up characters, so......
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║ @user-192 │
║ │
║ it doesn't have to be a nazi bar. Imagine if we posted on our own bulletin │
║ boards, and we subscribed to people via IP address (which we'd ping every once │
║ in a while) rather than demanding that our stuff be hosted on someone else's │
║ computer │
║ │
║ ... oh yeah, duh, because then we can't save our social media posts from a │
║ different computer. │
║ │
║ would be nice if instead there was a localized copy of the text that people │
║ were posting / favorited / wanted remembered on EVERY person's computer, like │
║ they were storing 1/3rd of the torrent file of the instance's data. │
║ │
║ like, just enough to be unreadable to any one individual, but if you had like 3 │
║ computers you could get each individual slice and transcribe it into words that │
║ you could read. │
║ │
║ or you could just look at your part, then ask other people for their 2 parts │
║ related to [posts from XYZ user at this-and-this time period] and use them to │
║ populate the local user's feed. │
║ │
║ and you could log on because all of the PASSWORDS are stored and encrypted in a │
║ way that │
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║ all the of the moments of antisemitism are originating in Israel, but they are │
║ not of the people of Israel. │
║ │
║ Like reaped grain laying in a stack, the people of an area tend to share the │
║ same story. │
║ │
║ until someone comes along and nibbles on the ends of the berries, much to the │
║ chagrin of the farmer who's way off in the distance. │
║ │
║ [I say "all" but obviously not "all", rather instead those who emboldened by │
║ the actions and directions of the far-right minority that tends to control │
║ places that do evil things like Israel right now HUH IMAGINE THAT, THAT A │
║ PEOPLE'S COULD BE DIVIDED INTERNALLY BY THE LINE OF GOOD AND EVIL, so thankful │
║ that evil is such a minor role. │
║ │
║ To defeat evil, deprive power, supply kindness. In that order. With force, if │
║ you are strong enough in your convictions. │
║ │
║ I know what I believe to be true, otherwise I wouldn't believe it. │
║ │
║ I know evil when I see it, because paladins are all moral philosophers. │
║ │
║ And morality is the bedrock of ethics, our most cherished of [virtues, │
║ narratives, stories]. │
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@user-1180
the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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@user-1183
electricity powered refrigeration is a *godsend* for food preparation.
Truly one of the most revolutionary advances of our age. And you can run a
freezer on a single solar panel+battery, how neat! They work EVERYWHERE!
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║ hey, you know AP students? Aka the kids who want to learn the most? Why don't │
║ we give them massive industrial projects that require a lot of experimentation │
║ and allowed for various different expressions? Like, "hey wouldn't it be neat │
║ if we had a program that did this-and-this and we gave like, 500 students the │
║ goal of working together to write it? In AP computer science, which is │
║ definitely a class that is taught at a single high-school in the united states. │
║ They learn about Assembly! I can count in Binary on my fingers up to a │
║ thousand!" │
║ │
║ they could legitimately contribute to our broader social condition. What a │
║ blessed virtue it would be to be able to CHANGE THE WORLD AS A TEEN. By │
║ building one of a thousand new cool things that were being developed by │
║ students all over the nation. │
║ │
║ Then, when they grow up, they can use their skills, whether they be software or │
║ OTHER PROJECTS IN THE SAME STYLE FOR LIKE HISTORY AND MUSIC to accomplish │
║ whatever they'd like to do in life. Programming is most useful for noobs. │
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they could vote on "next year's project" in times of peace, or perhaps have
massive brain-storms with chatrooms set up at different tables that they could
pick up a phone and contribute to then wander to another table at, or maybe
even set up structures for who does what. Then they could do things that they
claimed responsibility for, and in doing so they could be judged.
perhaps according to a system like this:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
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@user-570
I fucking miss going to raves
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@user-570
Ha I've only had 3 or 4
I still treasure glowsticks, though.
I used to crack the "survival" ones from REI at night and just gaze at the
beauty of their glow.
I'd listen to quiet electronic music and lay on the floor on my back and draw
figure eights in the sky with them.
Then, I started dancing, and I made swirling patterns with my fingertips and
held sticks of light.
Was also fun to tie them to shoestrings and use them to spin around.
Raves were cool but I never did that there. Not even once.
I mostly just... visited the crowd.
... anyway, cool name. I never changed mine, but if I did it'd be "Briarthief
Triss"
which is totally not a real name, which is why I love it, but can't use it.
Yet.
Someday, though.
I hope.
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║ @user-192 │
║ │
║ ... trail beautification is trail maintenance, and without trails we would lose │
║ our tether to nature's truest reality. │
║ │
║ Thank goodness forest rangers are almost exclusively people who *care* │
║ immensely about natural spaces. │
║ │
║ Otherwise the profit motive would sneak in... │
║ │
║ I would not be as I am if I didn't hike up a mountain with my best friend while │
║ on LSD. If I did it again, on the same mountain, with the same friend, I would │
║ remember every thing that happened on that day and every thought I thought. │
║ Alas, circumstance. │
║ │
║ But yeah building trails teaches you about erosion, and carpentry, and fluid │
║ dynamics, and like... everything else that they earn badges for. │
║ │
║ Like what a report card should be. │
║ │
║ "Little Timmy definitely understands algebra" awards, presented to those who │
║ are worthy. Their worth, of course, being determined by trails set before them │
║ and solved in their own desired paths through. │
║ │
║ Like, writing an essay vs performing an essay. Or researching at a library vs │
║ building a powerpoint pre │
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I completely lack noodles in my home at this time! That hardly ever happened
before! I should go to the store. I wonder why fate won't let me go to the
store these past few months except for like once or twice?
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@user-570
hell yeah.
I never did any drugs at one.
I might have even been designated driver, though I might be confusing my
memories with attending gay bars in college.
Well, gay bar. There was really only one in my town.
And it was a nightclub I guess, open every night of the week.
The people that I was with NEEDED that experience, so I was like "yeah sure I'm
older and more experienced, I'll drive you and keep you safe and hang out with
you if you drink too much because being a kid that tends to happen sometimes
and don't worry I'll watch over you and protect you and make sure that you are
alright until it's out of your system so you don't make bad decisions that have
long-term negative conclusions
... you know, that kind of thing.
now I'm kind of a stoner though lol because it helps me get into my flow.
maybe I should practice "getting into my flow" so I don't need it, but ah well
we'll see how that goes.
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@user-192
so... a highway, that connects two locations that don't FEEL distant to most
people because they drive, but which ARE distant to people who suddenly can't
drive
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@user-1188 @user-1189
Sometimes people need to think about things for a while. Let it marinate so
they can understand it a bit more. Fucking fascists keeping people from
thinking.
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║ @user-570 │
║ │
║ Ah, well, that time period for me was after I came out, so I was already past │
║ the fear of being seen. │
║ │
║ I could only ever really get the "girl thoughts" to go away with, um, │
║ self-directed sexual attention, so I would often do so. Once every day, no more │
║ than once. But... often for hours at a time. It was a LOT, but I resisted as │
║ best I could, the only way I knew how, until eventually my internals would │
║ overcome. │
║ │
║ ... anyway "girl thoughts" were just "my thoughts" I was just too much of a │
║ dumbass to tell. │
║ │
║ Like, I knew I was trans, but *I didn't want that*, because it felt │
║ like *a flaw*. Because that's what I knew, that's what I'd heard, and │
║ that's how it felt, to be denied the consistency of biology and person. │
║ │
║ I would never go back. I love who I am, and I think if I had met me I would │
║ have adored who I'd become. │
║ │
║ I just... didn't think about the future much, hyper-vigilant much? Yeah. │
║ totally. I get it. │
║ │
║ I've never overdone things. At least not to a dangerous degree. It's mostly │
║ just... stuff to me. │
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@user-1192
I think we should assume that Palestine is lost, and use their memory as fuel
for our rage.
They were slain by both terror and war, famine and plunder, prison and lost
borders, and finally, fire from the sky. Now, dust once more, as the stardust
they were is stone forevermore. Tragedy, mercy.
I hope palestinians abroad outlive the children of their butchers.
This sentiment goes for all of genocide.
Those of my heritage, that of the American enslavement and conquerenment, they
are despised by me. That's not all "being an American" can be. We have virtue,
we have honor, and we must respect the liberty, freedom, and democracy of home.
Crucial aspects to living an ethical life, yet now we are assaulted by the very
powers that led Israel's governmental institutions to commit such holocausts.
Fighting terror is one thing.
Collateral damage is another.
They learned the wrong lessons from their visions of the Americans, and look
where that leaves them.
History, it is often said, reminds.
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@user-1195
get_new_unused_UUID(){ if random_num() == is in lists.UUIDs then return
get_new_unused_UUID(); }
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@user-570
I mostly spent my time on Reddit, which was much more isolating than IRC. I
think I must have been drawn there because it felt like home - I was
homeschooled on a farm, and Reddit kept me at the distance of an arm.
it's funny, sometimes meeting a trans girl can make things "click". And
sometimes being friends with one helps you work through things that you just
can't tick
[off your list of things to work on]
habits you can kick? idk sometimes rhyming lies, and you have to break rhythm
or pentameter or whatever.
anyway I've always worn pants. I do dresses on special occasions, but dresses
are hard(er) to ride a bike in. Plus, no pockets, and purses are easily stolen.
At least with a pocket you can feel someone slip the exact same model as your
phone into your pocket when you're least expecting.
... hypervigilance strikes again...
I first transitioned in... 2014ish? I think? I don't really remember because I
had so many more interesting things going on.
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bro I get that you're tired and burnt out but like, why the fuck do you care
about anything else [oh shit cursing mentioned better put a content warning
because people can't handle things]
[I say this with affection because we're on the same side] [also it's rude,
sorry]
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note to self: children are an exception, they are more important than anything
else.
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