=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 @user-1074 
 
 gotta start somewhere! and where better to start than here? someplace people
 are familiar with, because "here", while not shared equally or equidistantly,
 is still common enough knowledge that people can feel comfortable with some
 slight, yet incredibly impactful, alterations.
 
 ... though "comfort" in the short-term isn't always the most important thing.
 I do believe it can be useful sometimes. How are you going to get people to
 consent to something if they don't think it helps them, and how can you show
 them that it helps them if it makes them uncomfortable?
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/1356 ---
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 subscribing to subreddits is kinda like saying "yeah I'd like some of this in
 my life" because then it is made so
 
 following someone on Mastodon is kinda like saying "yeah, I'd like to have
 more of you in my life" and like... if you have too many, then how are you
 going to remember them all? we can only remember about 70 people! that's why
 in-person relationships are important. we need to have a cohesive social
 framework that we know is not developed under someone else's control or
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--- #2 fediverse/456 ---
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 @user-342 
 
 how is that different than speaking your mind into the soup of opinions that
 comprised checks notes the people you went to high school with? (facebook)
 
 Except this time, it's a group of people whose opinions you vaguely agreed
 with (as defined by your choice of the instance you dedicate your online
 presence to) which has it's own defined peculiarities like the ability to only
 show you content you agree with?
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--- #3 fediverse/2352 ---
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 Nobody will tell you what to do, at least not until you ask. Be where they can
 see you, and you'll be given a task. If you can do it, say "BRB" - one moment,
 let me handle that for you.
 
 If you can't, say "good luck", and they'll find someone else who can.
 
 It's okay to pass a task off - if someone says "Here's what I need, gotta go"
 then you say "sure, yeah, I'll get someone on it" - then, go find someone to
 do it.
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--- #4 fediverse/4275 ---
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 @user-1646 
 
 I usually just repost it and say something like: [stolen from reddit] or
 [stolen from one of my followers who didn't write any alt text]
 
 that way if they ever come across your post they'll know what it feels like to
 have a post stolen from them. Like how a blind person, happy to hear-read what
 they originally posted, but aggrieved from the conversation by their lack of
 alt-textual information, might feel stolen from if they happened across that
 originally posted alt-textless post.
 
 there are more blind people that use mastodon than queer people. At least,
 that's what I once heard. Dunno if it's true.
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--- #5 fediverse/6271 ---
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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--- #6 fediverse/6365 ---
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 if you want people to build community, first get them to like the community.
 
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 the world needs more thespians. Sing the song of your heart and no-one will
 ever neglect you.
 
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 why are you so worried about your art? everything you touch turns to gold.
 
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 I've learned more from my friends than my
 [job/homelife/worsckool/churchvan/cultureromp] combined. What are we for but
 learning?
 
 ---
 
 kids can learn from kids. Teach the ones that love you, and they'll be
 followed by the rest. Especially if you focus on them.
 
 ---
 
 "I never knew how to swing an axe until I scraped a knee on a log that was
 hollow. Until then I had been chef-knife chopping with it, with the head for a
 handle."
 
 ---
 
 ... omg what does that even mean why are you so weird
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--- #7 fediverse_boost/4375 ---
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║ │ "It won't be so bad..." *rationalizations galore*                          │ ║
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║ │ "If only they'd listened to people like me when I said ..." (comforting righteousness) │ ║
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║ │ "What more could I have done?"                                             │ ║
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║ │ "This only proves why I was right about ..." (more righteousness)          │ ║
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║ │ "I know nothing. I need to learn more. I must learn from this somehow."    │ ║
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║ │ "I am not surprised." With a thousand yard stare.                          │ ║
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║ │ "This can't be real, there is a conspiracy..." (this is a path to madness)  │ ║
║ │                                                                            │ ║
║ │ "Don't comply in advance." Said in a wavering shaky voice.                 │ ║
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--- #8 fediverse/4220 ---
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 people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that
 when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of
 "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their
 own meaning, which is different to everyone.
 
 So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another
 it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it
 could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this"
 
 same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think
 it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be
 heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing
 
 even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or
 are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster?
 it's too complicated!
 
 ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little
 buttons, it's not that hard dummy
 
 okay but maybe I'm just dum
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--- #9 fediverse/4212 ---
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 if you ever hear random fireworks outside of your house sometimes it's a good
 idea to like... get out of town? and see what whoever else you can meet in the
 next town over is doing.
 
 ... I don't have a car, silly me haha
 
 why do we train homeless people to stand outside in the open and be shamed by
 a cardboard box around their ancle? It's impossible to recover from, it's
 vulnerabilizing, and it's painful. How immoral. How crude. These people should
 not be shamed in this way, they should be respected (unless they're crude)
 
 like, if they kinda just suck y'know? like... they keep starting fights or is
 soooo bad at singing but does it anyway or lacks all decent sense
 
 seriously, he's such a bad candidate why is he even running. It's solely to
 elect vance, who trump will be a blood sacrifice for.
 
 how callous. how vain. to think that such a feast would be left unclaimed.
 Perish the youth, perish the fields, perish in misery harmony and dissaray
 
 [51 characters remaining, but you deserve a CW] 

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 I like when people make fun of me because it gives me a chance to defend
 myself. Simultaneously I don't like when people are mean to me. I like when
 people find me endearing, and point out the ways that I'm different. It gives
 me a chance to say "oh yes this is why I do that" which feels cathartic
 (because it validates my position) but also because it gives me the
 opportunity to improve it (through debate) and it helps the people who learned
 from me because I can improve myself and my only reason for improving myself
 is if the new thing I'm learning is better than the thing I used to do which
 means the people who learn from me are improved and the people who best me
 argumentatively are improving me.
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--- #11 fediverse/2832 ---
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 when people ask what I do I don't say "art" because I'd do that anyway.
 
 my art is precious to me, because it is the most "me" I can conceive.
 
 and like... I can carry it with me to the future.
 
 I have only once given away one of my journals, and it was a wedding present
 to a witch or two.
 
 so yeah I'm an artist, but I'm also whatever you need me to do.
 
 and yes, I of course hope that what you need me to do is what I can do.
 
 because I can't do much more than this.
 
 But I can show up every once in a while,
 
 and maybe make you smile or consider,
 
 and maybe I can ride past on my bike.
 
 but that's the human in me, telling me it's time to move with my feet, and I
 can do little but listen.
 
 ... that should make doxxing me a bit easier. have it it : )
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 there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will
 make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it
 after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how
 are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually
 it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say
 something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP
 looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids
 
 that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect
 
 I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be
 co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person
 partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're
 most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state)
 
 something something cancel culture plus deepfakes
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--- #13 fediverse/927 ---
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 @user-638 
 
 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science
 
 open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to
 best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple
 different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs
 that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded
 and directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead
 just want results
 
 I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with
 making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing
 research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And
 if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to
 design a team.
 
 Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in
 history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-y
 ou-can-think-of/
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║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to           │
║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not   │
║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity?                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we demanded it?                                                          │
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║ --                                                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know      │
║ your presence                                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ thus ensuring it spreads.                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it.    │
║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they       │
║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise     │
║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them        │
║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions.    │
║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to       │
║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~       │
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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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 if a bunch of people are in town for a conference then they should probably go
 confer. I think you can just... walk in to conference centers? you don't like,
 need an appointment or anything. There's often something going on, and if not,
 then you can at least wander around. maybe strike up conversations about
 industries you're in or things that you are thinking about lately or stuff you
 like like plant species or rock types or multidimensional solids or spheric
 sound or... actually that's pretty specific, here let's start with just
 bikeshedding (what does that mean again?) oh it's a cinema style where they
 take something and they put it in a bike out shed.
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║ there are distros that have all the functionality you might need built in        │
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║ why don't you try one of those, ritz?                                            │
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║ "no I've been working on this one too long, plus it's just how I like it"        │
║                                                                                  │
║ yes but your stuff is always breaking. wouldn't it be better to let someone      │
║ else decide what you should and should not be able to run?                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ "that's not ideal, it removes agency"                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ that you didn't want                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ "but with the removal of agency, you imply trust"                                │
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║ there's nothing wrong with trust                                                 │
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║ "yes but trust is built upon experience, not honor"                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ what's wrong with honor?                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ "nothing's wrong with honor but it's important to realize that you can't honor   │
║ or trust someone that you don't know"                                            │
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║ why don't you know them                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ "... because... you haven't met yet?? are you... listening?"                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ do you often feel unheard?                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ "I... what? yeah now that you mention it"                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ is this a part of your "refusal to interact with consensus reality" complex?     │
║                                                                                  │
║ "I don't have one of those, do I?"                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ mmmm, I think you do.                                                            │
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║ "... no I don't"                                                                 │
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║ yes, I've seen it within you.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... anyways~                                                                     │
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║ if you wanna be a leader, do something by hand. manually. in the moment.         │
║ improvizational. try-and-fail-but-try-new-ways-again-next-time. [a type of       │
║ state of mood]                                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ trust that your followers will be more funded, more supported, more approved.    │
║                                                                                  │
║ this is a universal fact - those who are beloved are everyone's best friends.    │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you wanna lead people to the future, you must explore a new state of          │
║ renown. and for that you must be stabilized, built into perfection in your       │
║ honor.                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ don't get it yet? me either. but I'm sure it'll come in handy someday.           │
║                                                                                  │
║ Leaders don't necessarily have to be the best, they must simply have acted       │
║ first.                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ a true communist would be aware of what goes on down the street. They would      │
║ know about everyone's travailles so they could guide one or another to help or   │
║ get de-failed or whatever.                                                       │
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║ notice I said one OR another, that seems important. not sure why, let's          │
║ consult our bravest optimists for a time.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ why do you care about what happens in palestne if you are in current danger      │
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--- #19 fediverse/1032 ---
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 @user-753 
 
 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
 we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
 (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
 a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
 themselves with a single voice.
 
 community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
 but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
 open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
 
 community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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║ modern cowboys don't necessarily say "howdy" or "pardner"                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ they tend to say things like "hello" and "can I help you with that?" or "I       │
║ see. Can you describe the problem in more detail? I'm especially curious about   │
║ the part where you do this thing" or "Heh, it is pretty neat, isn't it?" or      │
║ "Is there anything I can do to help?" or "Oh no! I'm sorry you feel that way.    │
║ That emotion is a difficult one." or "He was a good person. I'll never forget    │
║ him." or "would you like to go to the 2nd hand store and pick up some jeans?"    │
║ or "I made you an egg sandwich. If you don't want it I'll eat it myself,         │
║ though I made one for me as well. Wouldn't want to waste it." or "Hey, this      │
║ part is broken. Is anyone working on fixing it? Yes? Okay I'll see if they       │
║ need any help. No? Alright how about we fix it this way? I can get started."     │
║ or "You are very welcome. Please let me know if there's anything else I can      │
║ help you with." or "well, the ticket backlog is empty, and I'm just about        │
║ going insane doing nothing but stare at my boots."                               │
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