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 @user-1605 
 
 have no fear, people who are annoyed will block you and you'll never know, and
 people who like you just haven't seen you yet.
 
 that's how mastodon works. gotta keep posting until you find your people.
 comment on things, boost things, and read through people's profile pages.
 that's how it works!
 
 this is the place to be annoying, because "annoying" is really just "weird"
 and "weird" is for here.
 
 It takes time, but eventually you'll find someone or three who get you and
 they'll boost your stuff to all their friends who get you and then you'll feel
 less annoying. That's how it works! You can help by boosting things.
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 King Arthur was a deconstruction, a critical piece of work that reflected upon
 the stuff that nobody remembers anymore because it was oral tradition.
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 @user-883 
 
 That's a good point! I didn't realize that. I figured there was an option for
 LAN connections? If so, you can create a virtual LAN using Hamachi or
 something. Does Hamachi still exist?
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 @user-1903 
 
 algorithms exist to find connection in the narrative or emotion between songs.
 It intends to "maintain the vibe" even as it changes through all the music
 that you like. And you'll definitely like all of them, obviously you do,
 because the algorithm is designed to make it so.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 [all they have to do is convince people that you are as your social media says
 you are and they can make you connect to any other being. just... change the
 narrative, toward something you predicted all along. secrets, of bastards and
 infamy, where do your foremost belong?] whoops they're trying to change her...
 you predicted all along the possibility that is within reach by the ones who
 aren't just playing along. hence the eternal armament, the idea that a storm
 of guns would solve the whole world. what if the political violence is just
 the [marketing/psyop]'s point of view of the arms industry? they can always
 sell more guns. what if we just... forced a massive reduction in military
 armament budget in every SINGLE government in the world? there'd be a lot less
 triumph and die-strife if we only had like, 50 tanks. what if we divided the
 military command to each proportion of the populace, and let them vote
 collectively for what to do with it? yeesh... makin' enemies of our foremight.
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 bwa pictures? on the internet? of me? screenshots? do they have any when I'm
 in my underwear? oh haha well okay
Picture of Ritz Malheur
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 humans are most effective when in a cohesive and comprehensive social context.
 
 they don't want you at your best because they are anti-human in nature. Hence,
 the alienation of capitalism.
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
 file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
 down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
 who to blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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 Did you know I'm post-op trans hrt? It means i have a vagina castrated.
 Definitely a big girl, but no periods and injected.
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 The world does not deserve to bear such a sorrowful one as me
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 fediverse software that doesn't notify someone when you boost their post
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 Does anyone else feel like they're at a zenith? The final hours before a long
 road trip? The shattering chrysalis that contains us before we burst forth in
 beauty?
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 Why do I keep dreaming of embarrassing myself in combat situations?
 
 Oh yeah, because all my paladins need me, and I'm a fucking baby. What did I
 do to deserve this upon them. How could they learn from me? There is nothing
 for me to be. I am ashamed of myself.
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 Jumping out of a crib is hard because the mattresses is like a cloud. Don't
 suffocate! Good
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 [0] Here's an idea, an online multiplayer game that charges a 4$ per month
 subscription. 90% of which is set into a pool and used as tournament prize
 winnings. when you enter a tournament, it's free to participate and everyone
 wins something. (maybe calculated by percentile or something?) it's just a
 question of how much. [1][2][3][4]
 
 - official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
 code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
 
 [1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
 letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official* servers
 running) which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta
 like... entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect
 you might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
 money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
 
 [2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no
 more than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best"
 while also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
 
 [3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
 assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
 top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
 performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual
 linear transition.
 
 CW: scary-politics-existential-peril
 
 [4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
 one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
 secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
 they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
 of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
 of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be
 terrible. I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work
 every day and that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but
 just like... not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding
 fathers make the torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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 When did people lose hope for the world?
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 north koreans in ukraine fighting drones. who sent them? who can say. all we
 know is that the machines delight in this type of display. lots of thumbs-up
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 I think my boyfriend is a shapeshifter but he's  too embarrassed to tell me T.T
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 The most expensive is overpriced. The cheapest sucks. The middle option is the
 workhorse.
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 @user-1218 
 
 I don't understand why you wouldn't optimize for versatility and increased
 breadth of expression in our various myradic forms.
 
 I ran out of characters hehe sometimes I use that | break syntax to say "oh no
 the person writing this was killed right before they hit enter!" sorta like a
 silly version of "drums in the deep, they are coming........" from LotR
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 sometimes you need to regress in order to move forward from pain
 
 ... which is why I dropped out of the "Paladin academy"
 
 no I will not elaborate
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 when I go out on walks
 before I set out again
 I wait until my blisters healed again
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 if the paradigm changes, suddenly you might find foes who you share common
 collective woes.
 
 this is a nightmare for your foes, the ones who remain your foes, the ones who
 always will be your foes, the ones who your foes are currently opposed as they
 believe they're doing pizzagate things and snorting child molester bones or
 sacrificing transgender children to anubesiris or whatever.
 
 "oh no don't tell me there's a secret cabal of elites that do satan's dark
 bidding worship"
 
 look I'm not NOT saying that, I just don't really have insight into that
 because it's not my jurisdiction. I'm supposed to talk about computer
 programming and being gay and struggling with meniality and revolutionary
 praxis in the modern day and all that junk and instead everyone's like "what
 if you are chronically interesting and permanently vexxing and seriously
 draining and perhaps a little bit caustic (non-toxic crayons) but always a
 darling and always eternally fair and righteous and valorous and determined
 and also gay"
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 humanity comprehended itself into existence. Not the other way around.
 
 what are humans without humanity? a loosely grouped together collection of
 cells?
 
 no... a loosely grouped together collection of stories and myths, like
 cultural touchstones that shared a common dynam-ic.
 
 ... you mean like, before you were born and after you die how it feels like
 the entire universe is just this huge big massive lie
 
 we are the universe experiencing itself, how strange that it would do so in
 this manner. Humans, of all things. And yet here we are, center of the
 universe, and... what? oh I guess I can't talk about the "and" yet, well
 anyway good luck with your anyways, guess we won't meet up after all. Sure
 yeah no I get it, there wasn't much going on here as far as I can tell.
 Alright yeah peace out, see ya round. Hope we get put back in the same place.
[noooo this is a downside of being psychic, you catch on to people who are having similar thought patterns and then you're so busy thinking about what they're thinking about you don't realize they're walking you into an ideological black hole. But then you get your bearings and realize "oh hey this isn't the story I'd like to play, I think I'd rather just flop"  like, who does that. seriously. what's your deal, me? why do you take yourself so seriously?  my ex says I'm always operating, thinking, and feeling at 100%. well, I added the operating thinking and feeling part... it's the same with   [post is left unfinished with negative 433 characters remaining]
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 "did you know in ancient rome they used to brush their teeth with urine
 because it was cheaper than toothpaste? It's true! We could really learn a lot
 from the old ways"
 
 - guy in the great depression with a piss fetish
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 A humble princess would say: I don't need the best, i just need my favorite.
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 I don't like it when people say "For Ritz" - don't do it for me, do it for
 you! Weirdos. Cuties.
 
 "nobody says that about you"
 
 well duh, not yet. I'm still alive.
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 @user-570 
 
 no! I do on the splash page to my website:
 
 www.ritzmenardi.com
 
 it's literally just a link tho, you don't have to trust me to click it.
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 @user-883 
 
 didn't that guy die in like, the very next scene?? oops spoilers
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 Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like             │
 anticipation but explicitly good] so let's not let them down, shall we?          │
 Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked     │
 for, which is why they did what they did to build the world that we have which   │
 we stand upon as a giant might be upon the shoulder of another and together we   │
 reach toward the horizon. The future is bright! I know it in my heart. I know    │
 what we seek is within sight, so-                                                │
 yeah sorry to interrupt but like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow because    │
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 Episode 5 and 6 of Bubblegum Crisis helped me understand why "A wizard is
 never late. Nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but it hurts less to be despised than
 ignored.
 
 which is why you don't feed the trolls, and always pet the neocats
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 if fedi isn't a real social media site and instead just an AI project, then
 what does that tell you when the most interesting things to read on the
 internet are on fedi?
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 Here's Ritz Menardi's section in the history books:
 
 Ritz Menardi was a witch. She did nothing important and wasted everyone's
 time, while giving lots of people anxiety. She sucks and we all love her.
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 I've found that while working with modern internet technology, parsing json
 and creating http requests are two of the most vital skills you can have.
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 HRT is hard. why do they have to make the needle so pointy?
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 @user-192 
 
 doesn't everyone do that??
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 when you create a ritual, you create a binding memetic understanding between
 you and whoever you share the ritual with.
 
 then, they can validate that it's really you by seeing if you recognize it.
 
 or, even better, one person teaches a ritual, someone else shares one, and
 then that third one is the one that wonders who first knew
 
 thus creating operational integrity
 
 as you keep degrees of separation between the whole host
 
 memes and their byproducts have been the greatest invention of the human race.
 
 who cares if you burn up this planet, the gods'll just give you another one.
 You're too valuable for your innovation.
 
 -- so --
 
 what could you do with infinity dollars
 
 -- so --
 
 in WoW, shamans throw spirits at them.
 
 -- so --
 
 what kind of company would throw someone out on the street
 
 -- so --
 
 if you change your name, you tell the government your name has been changed.
 
 I mostly just tell my friends. Then, I change it when I don't want a friend,
 and tell all my friends.
 
 I like my name. I've had it for
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 I think at this moment in my poetry career I do actually want the CIA
 observing me. [suddenly that makes more problems than it's worth] alright well
 guess that's how it is, pack it up boys my poetry career is [overhyping itself
 momentarily]
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 http://www.cyberlore.com/Majesty/
 
 this is my favorite game ever!! too bad it's old as dirt.
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 @user-122 
 
 hi I looked at your profile and it says you're one of the two people on
 tech.lgbt
 
 why are there so few people? when I joined last year there were so many
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 @user-171 
 
 ha no she's more of a whiny baby
 
 but like, a cool one, who likes to be a predator and hunt things
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 the slower you think about things, the more time you have to write to
 long-term memory. School optimizes this out of us.
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 I'll give ya a hint - encrypt the return IP address WITHIN the packet's data
 package repository area itself, rather than trusting your "router" to return
 it to sender.
 
 YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS SENDING A PACKET
 
 that's the whole point of udp
 
 (actually udp is when it doesn't matter if it got snatched in transit. Usually
 used for more analog data streams like netflix or hulu prime.)
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 @user-1074 
 
 Oh, yeah, there's an election coming up right? I totally forgot
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 who decided to let the abdl witch who is insane chart the course of history?
 
 nobody decided to contrarive.
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 @user-246 
 
 I put a poem, my website, and my favorite project. I think that's enough,
 don't want anyone to know me that doesn't spend time on me.
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 To program in C, or to disassociate into the world of video games, where a       │
 single magical kingdom of heroes and adventurous persons might fight against     │
 the dark of chaos and decay? To strive for order and a semblance of peace, or    │
 to fall to the terrors of the night and ravages of horror? War, in all it's      │
 forms, is abhorrent, yet a fight for survival is honest and just. What perils    │
 have we, the warriors that seek the light? How zealous, how impassioned, how     │
 guided as such~! Perhaps you are misinformed, perhaps your cause is false,       │
 perhaps you derive true satisfaction from imperfect delights - alas, that our    │
 will be universal. BUT should that plight be alight, we'll wander until the      │
 night lit by starlight be cast upon our shadowed form. Absoleth! Thine           │
 countrospect? Didst thou caress thine marked circumspects? fare thee well,       │
 most cherished of adamants.                                                      │
 ... what was I saying? Oh yes I've been working on this program that utilizes    │
 a particularly interesting data structure that- whats that? Oh, it doesn't do    │
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 Did you know that any wifi chip can be used as both a sender and a receiver?
 how do you think you'd get data in and out of the device?
 
 trick is... you don't actually need a router. How fun is that!
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 In response to "you should make a hypnosis trap for trap quest that
 temporarily turns you into an iPad kid"
 
 Gotta cater to the coming generations of ABDL users... But, uh, maybe also
 don't??? For a while? Because they're still kids... Right? Wait until they're
 like 30 before you start making pornography of them, that way the youngest of
 the generation won't see it until they're like 18 or so
 
 (dumbass, iPad kids have more to do with neglect than technology. You used to
 just... Play with toys. That's what kids did. That's all they did! And then
 they made us go to school, eugh. How lame. I'd rather do homework on the
 adventures I played. If only I had thought to bring a notebook...)
 
 
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 @user-1295 
 
 great, see ya soon. don't forget sunscreen.
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--- #54 messages/180 ---
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 The worst thing about the past is:
 A. How much it sucked 
 B. How it's not here anymore
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--- #55 messages/770 ---
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 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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 my life is already ruined. I pee my pants all the time and I got no dollars.
 why shouldn't I be strange on the internet?
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 @user-30 weird suggestion but I had a dream about this game last night and I
 thought you might like it. It's old and on the Gamecube but if you're into
 retro stuff you might dig it.
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms
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 There will come a day when all the things you did under capitalism feel like a
 distant dream. Like all the trials you faced were more human than not, and all
 the suffering artificially imposed and fulfillment delayed. You will think of
 the time you wasted on Reddit and TV and you will weep for your lost years, as
 they spiral out of your reach.
 
 The new days are dawning, yet all of the world is still asleep. You slept
 walked for a while, but could not get anyone to leap. Alas.
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 ... what was I thinking about again? oh yes video games are fun because they
 are a form of play, and all humans love to play. it is natural to their forms,
 just like it is natural to the form of a slinky to slink down stairs.
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 There will come a day when we must spam our messages into every discord server
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 @user-1209 
 
 ha trick question I don't. Not really. Aside from like, a short-story that I
 wrote here:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
 
 (audio book is from youtube, idk if you care about being tracked)
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 the fact that Tolkien is considered "low fantasy" in this day and age is only
 because we've conflated "prevalence of magic" with "thematic purpose" - high
 fantasy is meant to speak to the human nature and spirit, while low fantasy is
 meant to be character drama focused on individuals
 
 high fantasy is beautiful... but "high fantasy" is absurd
 
 maybe you just don't like modern fantasy? go back to your history books
 
 no I want modern fantasy written in the classic style
 
 there's plenty of classics that you've shown no interest in reading
 
 yeah because those are all dusty and boring
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 Verizon is apparently the only "secure" mobile network, though I'm not sure
 why.
 
 Frankly I don't think any of them are secure, but ah well who can say.
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 Mastodon feels so personal but, like, nobody's gonna invite you to a new
 instance. You gotta go where you think you'll fit in.
 
 change your name! get a new profile pic! make 10 accounts! who cares! nobody
 cares, and that's a good thing! It means you can be whoever you want! wherever
 you want! in whatever place you want! Do you have a catgirl persona? great! go
 mewl with the catgirls and wink at the catboys. Do you have an artistic side?
 great! Mastodon is your new gallery. Do you like politics? there's places out
 there for you! Where you don't even need to CW your posts! (But you probably
 should so that external people can boost you) Do you want a 500 person large
 dating pool for people in an area who want to chill out and have sex? Great
 there's a place for you! No place? MAKE THE PLACE! Be your own administrator!
 Carve your mark in the world and say "this is who and how I wanted to be in
 this 21st century!" History demands it! History demands that we rellish their
 sacrifices! Celebrate, for their sake!
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 where were you when you realized you were the most "you" person that ever
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 github is overrated.
 
 git is underrated.
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 @user-1200
 
 this one's my favorite from that album in these "interesting times" though I
 was particularly partial to Homecoming as a kid
 
 ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts/10-lett
 erbomb.flac
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 "in the modern era, we don't worship gods. We worship the people who deserve
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 @user-138 
 
 omgggggg gimme
 
 I want to put those in my mouth
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--- #72 fediverse_boost/2798 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Your characters realise they have been working for the bad guy all along.   
                                                                              
  #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #authodons                   
  
                                                            
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 Youtube removed my youtube channel because I showed my boobs in one video in
 an artistic and non-sexually gratifying way.
 
 do... do people hate me? Am I meant to be lost? Is it better to lose beauty
 than haunt the future forevermore? who can say.
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 pkill firefox
 
 glances about "I've said too much" gets ganked by skeletons "oh no my internal
 organs"
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--- #75 messages/165 ---
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 I don't want our protagonist being eaten by that thing T.T
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 what do they have that we don't? what do we do better than most?
 
 questions to ask yourself
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 we should put a big ass-mirror in space so nerds with telescopes can take
 earth-selfies
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--- #78 fediverse/1946 ---
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 the art of propaganda is being in the right social media place at the right
 time with the right things to share. Sometimes you have to blend in, that's
 okay. The words are what are important, if you think "huh yeah true, where's
 the lie though" then maybe it'll not be such a betrayal.
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 "always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can
 be taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens
 they shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss
 them, but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me
 the perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be
 forgotten. If you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder,
 and to cherish old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City
 of Heroes, and Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.
 
 resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
 completeness.
 
 resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.
 
 computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
 update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
 worked once, it should work forever.
 
 thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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--- #80 messages/228 ---
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 Wish someone would tell me how much they hate me so I knew to be ashamed
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 the biggest problem with capitalism is that you aren't allowed to invest in
 things that aren't designed to make money.
 
 The best part of capitalism is that they'll never figure out how to charge you
 for friendship or love.
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 social media clients that don't return you to the same spot you were at when
 you hit the back button -.-
 
 but then also make it needlessly complicated to open links in a new tab, like
 obfuscating the location you need to cast "middle click" on
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--- #83 messages/1263 ---
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 I bet the computer bubble pops when datacenters can't find any way to get
 paid. then, they all break at once, and who's going to do stuff with their
 components? ah, what a shame, what if we ssssssocialized them instead "hello
 energy for you because of the cheap rain is more expensive because you're just
 as valuable as the farmers in the [area/desert].
 
 ---
 
 there are millions of people in every city. how many people do you think are
 in a traffic jam? several ten thousands?
                                                           
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 Phones are tools of the enemy. We do not need them. We will not use them.
 
 Break your black mirror. Sever your chains. Learn how to be free. We must take
 care of we.
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 multiplayer matchmaking where every time you "join queue" you instead "host a
 room" and it matches rooms together, not players. That way players always feel
 like they're being joined, not that they're joining.
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 @user-192 
 
 I wonder if anyone's working on a "Wayland for audio" thing to replace Alsa /
 Pulse / PIpewire?
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--- #87 messages/973 ---
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 you know what I want? in this moment? at all times?
 
 to bring magic back into the world
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--- #88 messages/765 ---
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 it's totally normal for post-op trans girls to prefer anal
 
 there's only one way to find out which you prefer...
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 schizophrenics are often quite gullible because they tend to believe             │
 whatever's going on in their emotions.                                           │
 "Just because you have a different narrative than me doesn't mean mine's wrong   │
 or something to "believe", it just means yours has something different going     │
 on. Elsewhere, under the control of where I view."                               │
 truth is, all things are existing, and it's up to us to utilize the quantum      │
 traversal record to travel through time.                                         │
 Honestly, that's really what they should work for, something that could SAVE     │
 EVERY HUMAN THAT'S EVER LIVED IN THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. Why the HECK would you   │
 NOT want to build a time machine??? A time machine IMPLIES vanquishing the       │
 terrors of causality! If you cannot achieve that, you DO NOT YET HAVE A          │
 MACHINE, you have a INITIAL EXPERIMENT.                                          │
 Don't experiment initially. FIGURE IT OUT ON PAPER. too much investment in       │
 experimenting can deprive valuable applications and insights gleaned for the     │
 moment.                                                                          │
 BRB playing mtg-forge using high-res AI-upscaled and randomly-re-artstyled       │
 card game                                                                        │
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 in a battle, your foe's greatest weapon is the screams of your falling.
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 @user-156 alone, as all men do?
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 The truth is 
 
 The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded 
 
 Is that the only way 
 
 To secure peace and love on planet earth 
 
 Is that all the governments 
 
 Of the world must topple 
 
 Or relinquish their nuclear arms 
 
 Each all at once 
 
 And i was too quick to slay my false duke 
 
 Who plays at king 
 
 While i build real power 
 
 While i know nothing
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 @user-1719 
 
 did you see any erections on the nude beach? you must be in the southern
 hemisphere, I'd freeze my tits off here.
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 the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
 so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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 "Capitalism doesn't hurt me, so it's fine!" - most of America
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 acceleration-ism is just "learning the truth faster than they do"
 
 tbh should be more like "learning things to show them" but eh whatever gets
 the job done
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should realize that
 capitalism lied to them. it told them they deserve their money, their wealth,
 their power, their material, their extra fragments of life spent on leisure or
 adventure rather than meaningless toil... but that is a lie. all people
 deserve everything, and nothing, because "deserving" things is an untruth.
 
 
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 "say superfluous on a social media post rn so I know it's you"
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 if there's no conflict, there's nothing to believe in. things matter only so
 much as we hold in them our stakes. [emotional pls you don't have to gabmel]
 
 == so ==
 
 I bet we could
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 whose idea was it to optimize our candy toward the ones with the most sugar?
 
 [wait a minute I got like 4 toots written but not posted, what the heck where
 did they come from? I'm gonna post them without reading them]
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--- #102 messages/239 ---
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 Each of my previous jobs I left because my friends did. I quit of a broken
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--- #103 fediverse/3617 ---
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 @user-1390 
 
 true. what do you want to do with all those bits, hmmm?
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 @user-1268 
 
 that's kind of a big question 😅
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 @user-1224 
 
 thank goodness for that, now we have places to find stuff when stuff becomes
 scarce, before we can make "scarce" a memory.
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--- #106 fediverse/2193 ---
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 @user-928 @user-1013 
 
 Right, like, if you didn't make friends at BLM then how are you going to know
 when and where the right time and place is to be to protest effectively?
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--- #107 fediverse/683 ---
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 @user-495 @user-494 
 
 OH YEAH how neat! All phones are made out of rock and the bones of ancient
 plants and animals.
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--- #108 fediverse/3467 ---
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 I have decided that the internet is a scam and nobody should use it for any
 reason ever
 
 you're just looking for motivation to do a dopamine detox, aren't you?
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 capitalism is the most efficient known method of value extraction, not value
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 @user-883 
 
 the future is what we make of it. it happens both slower and faster than
 imaginable, and it's not evenly distributed.
 
 when I yearn for the future, I find myself drawn to the past - the natural
 world around me inspires me in ways that my computer never could. Just as my
 computer inspires me in ways that a tree, a brook, a cloud alight might not.
 
 though the future may be terrifying, we're here for it together. And nothing
 has changed in our humanity, save for our slight addiction to social media.
 frankly I'd take social media over leaded gasoline any day!
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 I once made Webfishing, but World of Warcraft instead of fishing. Not to split
 the party or anything hehe
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 @user-878 
 
 if their internal structure does not become more complex, it will be
 increasingly difficult to transport vital nutrients from one part of the body
 to another.
 
 therefore, to create the perfect leviathan lobster god you'll need to find a
 way to manually deliver said nutrients. Possibly by a semi-permanent injection
 system, though that may harm functioning in other ways.
 
 I'm sure their top minds are working on this as we speak.
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 @user-815 
 
 America is my home, and I'll never leave it. I'd rather die than relinquish my
 responsibility to uphold the values I believe in.
 
 The current regime is unethical in the extreme, and every year it gets worse.
 But if I go, then who would ever know?
 
 EDIT: just read this article, and this line seemed relevant:
 
 "When the world rushes toward us with all its streaming wounds – wanting,
 needing – do we cover our eyes and shrink away, do we sit and wring our
 hands in despair, do we run and hide, or do we hasten toward it, like we
 hasten toward an injured child, with our arms outstretched?"
 
 https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ever-felt-alien-to-yourself/
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 @user-1589 
 
 oh noooooo did we just invent the axiomatic conflict of society?? ?
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 @user-394 
 
 I'm transfem, but I figure it's the same thing right?
 
 They tell you to get a bigger needle for pulling the hormones out of the vial
 and then switch to a smaller one when injecting, but there's not really any
 point in that. I say get the same kind of needle (the small one) and just take
 a bit of extra time drawing it out. I still use two needles each time, but if
 I use the "least common denominator" then I can have a bit of extra
 flexibility with little downside.
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--- #116 fediverse_boost/5333 ---
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--- #117 fediverse/5162 ---
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 hey, do you wanna hang out sometime and do the things you usually do when
 you're alone?
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 did you know that kids these days don't know how to do thing?
 
 It's true! they do thing instead!
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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--- #122 fediverse_boost/3183 ---
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 @user-346 
 
 Why would someone go through the effort of creating a piece of media such as a
 video essay if not for people like you and me to consume it? What's the point
 of [everything we as humans have built] if not to create the type of
 experiences that we as humans would like to perceive?
 
 Okay I get it sometimes we need to deal with the material realities of our
 circumstances. But those are things to transcend, not things we should define
 ourselves eternally by. Let us work together towards a [near] future where we
 shall not spend a single moment of our lives in a way that we do not desire ^_^
 
 [note "transcend" is a verb, sorta like "transitioning" for a trans person is
 not a singular event but rather an experience that consists of a multitude of
 connected experiences through time that defines our ultimate personality and
 expression method]
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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.
two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview:  One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial.  Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions.  Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you.  Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history.  Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us.  [continued on picture 2] [continued from picture 1]  In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources.  Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society.  [end alt text]
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 I don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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 ... and then things got turned up to eleven
 
 what were they at before?
 
 ... eleven. why do you ask?
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 Such a shame, that the technological progress of humanity since the 90s turned
 out to be primarily computational, rather than mechanical. I want mecha suits,
 damn it T.T
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 @user-935 
 
 if you hit a plateau try doing more reps with less weight - it'll cover a
 blindspot you weren't working on. Then after a while you can do more weight
 again and it'll be easier because you'll have fast-twitch and slow-twitch
 muscles to support it
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 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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 @user-192 
 
 it's in space, duh
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 If you counted the characters in each of my posts and then graphed them with
 grafana or whatever
 
 I think you'd see some interesting things about how often I am at exactly 0
 characters remaining
 
 maybe I'm just curious
 
 I make it an art form
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 @user-1663 
 
 who would you follow instead? don't tell me.
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 the reason drug legalization works is because nobody wants to do fentanyl.
 that shit sucks. it also kills you easier than sneezing.
 
 why bother? legalize them all, or perhaps only the safest and most potent, so
 nobody ever is driven to consume the cheap substitutes that kill!
 
 unless of course they want you dead. sure makes sense to me why the dealers
 who deal fentanyl-laced-whatever are the ones who don't get caught, while the
 legit friendly and heartfelt ones are only allowed to operate in rich suburban
 areas.
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 @user-907 
 
 do you ever think up ideas and then dismiss them because they're too massive
 in scale? Not mechanical complexity, but like... you'd need 128gb of ram to
 run them or something like that
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 ... what
A screenshot of a multiple-choice question labelled "Knowledge Check" (1 point possible, ungraded)  the question is: Which programming language is commonly used in Linux?  the possible responses: HTML JavaScript CSS HTML5
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 @user-192 @user-570 
 
 clearly the positive addresses point toward a location in "memory", while the
 negative values point toward "forgotten" which is a secret second place that
 they don't want you to know about.
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 there is nothing of value on the internet except catharsis
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 the gay urge to hang out with men
 
 the lesbian urge to hang out with women
 
 the trans urge to see other trans people naked
 
 ... I mean, uh... I'm perfectly normal and reasonable look at me being a
 massive qt
 
 ... the queer urge to find your people
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 ooooooo what kind of books do you read?
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 @user-1544 
 
 yep that's like... my whole strat
 
 it totally works outside of the internet, because everyone online is
 politically invested -.-
 
 most everyone IRL is morally invested tho so they tend to follow what I'm
 saying and if they can't find any issues, then they'll believe your
 conclusions.
 
 I've also found that speaking what you believe is more efficient than
 highlighting contradictions in what they believe.
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 @user-1132 
 
 The trick is to phrase your "divine insight" into a question. Like "don't you
 think that perhaps this strange intuition you're feeling might have something
 to do with the subconscious pattern matching capability humans developed over
 long years of differentiating tree-branches and snakes or uneven terrain and
 solid footing?"
 
 then if someone says "what the heck no I never thought that because I don't
 know anything about humans"
 
 then you say "oh well that's surprising, perhaps you should look into it"
 
 and then they come back later and say "how exactly did you know that
 information? It's not public knowledge"
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 In America, we don't use has chambers. Obviously that's a waste of good
 workers.
 
 Instead we just lobotomize people and put them to work doing stuff nobody else
 wants to do. Okay, lobotomize isn't the right word, and first we try
 addressing their incompatibility with media, drugs, and finally homelessness
 if they don't behave and do what they are enslaved to do. Bunch of fucking
 parasites, expecting to be fed for free? Ha! I worked hard to be born into the
 life I have been, can't you unwashed peasants see?
 
 How callous. How vain. While we rest they all are enflamed. Fucking murderers.
 They cannibalize our humanity as they munch on our lost sanity, and the system
 remains ever afloat. It's not right, it's not fair, and until we break them
 our chains will leave us impaired.
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 ... except the fact that now nobody can find me. nuts.
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 @user-404 
 
 Watch out, that bag isn't a bag, it's a bag of bags? And what's inside the bag
 of bags, but a bag of bags? The bag bag bags a bag of bags that belong to a
 bag lady (me) who bags bags because bags being bagged is neat, and bagging
 bags inside of bags (for bags) begs the bag question: to bag, or not to bag?
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--- #146 fediverse_boost/5325 ---
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--- #147 fediverse/1607 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 Okay I'll add you to my friends list so everytime I'm thinking about memories
 of people by looking through the people I'm connected with on each platform
 I'll remember you and our short quest to uncover the secret of the
 thing-I-might-have-dreamed
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 Time spent with an animal is never wasted, which is why it's important to have
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 │"Being transgender is a mental illness" is something I've heard a
 lot.       │
 │Online, in media, books, and at universities. But is it really? Well, do
 I   │
 │not feel sick? Genuinely, every day. These words are far less common
 these   │
 │days, having been defeated in the #marketplace-of-ideas, and for that I
 am   │
 │grateful. I don't want to feel sick for my whole life. I'd love to be
 and    │
 │feel normal, for just one single
 day.                                        │
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     but it's never going to happen.
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 │I'm not so attached to my life, here, in this body. Bodies are
 temporary,    │
 │they are the vessel with which we navigate the world. We use it to
 grow,     │
 │change, learn, and create art. Without it, we'd be at a loss for sins
 and    │
 │virtues. but they do not define us, not in our totality. We are the
 light    │
 │that touches the world and for that, we are grateful. To be comprised of
 the │
 │dust of stars is the pinnacle of confinement. Though we are but pinpricks
 on │
 │the map of us, a ripple is emanated with every movement. The hand waves,
 the │
 │light
 bends.                                                                 │
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     So to what do I owe the pleasure?
     . . .
     In what way am I deceived?
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 │Reception is never great out in the forest. Or anywhere far from
 major       │
 │population centers. The networks of our phones mirror the networks
 of        │
 │transportation, creating a web of people - of signals - of light
 and         │
 │information, carving their way through the ephemera that is the river
 of     │
 │time. With distance we can see what once was mystery, and as all the
 words   │
 │disappeared, we lost all our fears and we're left with our true
 forms.       │
 │Centralized Processing Units are a bit like a city - in that respect
 free.   │
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     silence is a virtue.
     the wandering mind is a trail to find,
     with no second chances.
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 │When I was a kid, I had a bouncy ball. I had several, but the one I
 remember │
 │most was black with a perfect white circle - inside the circle, a
 black      │
 │jolly roger. I dreamt once of the arcs it made, as I walked down the
 streets │
 │of cities I never really knew. But as I walked on, an ocean of
 glass         │
 │separating me from a mirror below. The me below would catch the bounce as
 it │
 │dropped from above, and I'd wait to catch it - but dreams are not
 prophecies,│
 │they are but the Mirror of
 Desire.                                           │
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 holy shit I have a lot of laundry to do in the bathtub today. have I really
 not showered all week? ? ?
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 Building community without structure is kinda like being a quest-giving
 non-player character in World of Warcraft.
 
 I don't mean that you stand around waiting for a player to wander nearby
 before shouting at them to do what you want. Not like that.
 
 Building community without structure is more like meeting someone randomly,
 knowing them for longer than a bus ride or a baseball game, and once you've
 decided that they're cool saying "hey there's someone you might like to meet."
 
 If they're into it, then talk to the other person, and see if they want to
 make a new friend. Try not to recommend someone who has a lot on their mind.
 
 If they hit it off, great!
 If not, oh well!
 
 Worst case scenario the coffee shop only sells two drinks.
 
 If you're gregarious enough, after a while you might even have enough people
 for a potluck. Just don't forget to keep adding, and eventually it'll start to
 feel more communal.
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 what was the meta?
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 If there's nothing new under the sun,
 
 then where are all my homies at
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 all of my memories of diablo are of dungeon siege.
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 whenever I meet a bigot I just assume they're soooooo far in the closet that
 they keep getting banished from Narnia and need to come here to complain
 
 like... girl I know you look like a boy, and I know that you're pissed about
 that, but don't take it out on us lmao
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 if you don't see someone doing what you're doing after a while you hide into
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--- #157 fediverse/2967 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 "here's how to get caught. don't... don't do the things in these books. also,
 uh... don't do the things that AREN'T in these books, wink"
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 @user-138 
 
 well, the posts that make it through, battle hardened and tempered under your
 critical-hit gaze tend to be pretty neat ^_^
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 @user-336 
 
 RUINING? You take that back. Vim needs our homosexual energy.
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--- #160 fediverse/5197 ---
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 @user-1770 
 
 so, a public Game Design Document?
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--- #161 fediverse/1453 ---
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 an artist is best known posthumously when their best work is the stuff they
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--- #162 fediverse/1843 ---
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 people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space!
 your life has value!"
 
 also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else
 hate you."
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 "she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."
 
 eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.
 
 "I guess but it still felt strange."
 
 yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
 yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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--- #164 fediverse/6166 ---
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 Computer programming has always been the practice of applied abstraction. At
 what level do you wish to apply your reasoning, and what level do you wish to
 trust others? I have no idea how the Linux kernel works.
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--- #165 fediverse/5055 ---
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 @user-1761 
 
 because swords are expensive and that's not my pond it's private property and
 miss we're gonna have to ask you to leave. no you can't go onto a public
 street naked like that, here's a towel, would you like a ride back to your
 home? where do you live?
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 interview question for the insane:
 
 "what was the worst thing about the guy whose position I'm filling?"
 
 uh, actually she's still here, she just got promoted and we're filling her role
 
 "oh. well, what did she do well?"
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--- #167 fediverse/4170 ---
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 ... wait was I on 61 or 51, nuts
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 @user-346 
 
 I know a guy, but it's onsite since it deals with hardware. Damn. T.T
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--- #169 fediverse/5984 ---
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 I made this the day after my friend weevil slept in my bed next to my massive
 stuffed tiger based on a dream I had
 
 "wow it's so lifelike and realistic
picture of a scary red face on an orange background.
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 @user-889 
 
 don't give up!
 
 I know that feeling!
 
 it is defeated with persistence!
 
 don't give up!
 
 you can make it!
 
 there's always tomorrow!
 
 so don't give up!
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--- #171 fediverse/297 ---
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 @user-214 so you know where to find what you need to know
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--- #172 messages/911 ---
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 literally zero secret messages in the game titles. I just feel like playing
 one or another because of the *gameplay*
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--- #173 fediverse/2116 ---
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 a program that bundles another program and compiles it during it's normal
 operation in order to derive a certain purpose which is quickly overwritten in
 memory, so you can't get the full picture of what it does.
 
 like, a fast moving function that's never really clear in it's purpose.
 
 because it changes a lot of things that don't really seem to matter,
 
 like a constant wrestling match over the nature of the computer program.
 
 which would you rather? a dance, or a death-splatter?
 
 yeesh, where's my cat, I need something to cuddle.
 
 she's been distant from me, lately.
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--- #174 fediverse/2559 ---
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 @user-1056 
 
 my ex would absolutely fall in love with you
 
 like, in a good way. he's a good person.
 
 he did just break up with me, though. so maybe wait a bit before I hook you up
 if you're into that.
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--- #175 messages/52 ---
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 "I came to the conclusion that I would really rather be known as the person
 who wears diapers than the person who needs diapers and doesn't wear them."
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--- #176 fediverse/358 ---
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 @user-266
 
 digital literacy is literacy, and most people don't read books
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 opponent doesn't realize that it's a personal failing to be hateful smh
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--- #178 fediverse/4906 ---
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 @user-763 
 
 use the gameboy as a database
 
 there's a 0 percent chance that any network spy guys would be able to see
 what's stored on a gameboy cartridge. truly the most remote of classes of
 places.
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 @user-138 
 
 me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
 
 [a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
 
 ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
 
 [they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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 @user-1074 
 
 what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
 want to try a different sort of socialism?
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--- #181 messages/170 ---
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 If "objectivity" is a comfortable lie we tell ourselves to make things make
 sense, then nothing is fundamentally real, in the essential sense.
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--- #182 messages/782 ---
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 The truth is 
 
 The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded 
 
 Is that the only way 
 
 To secure peace and love on planet earth 
 
 Is that all the governments 
 
 Of the world must topple 
 
 Or relinquish their nuclear arms 
 
 Each all at once 
 
 And i was too quick to slay my false duke 
 
 Who plays at king 
 
 While i build real power 
 
 While i know nothing 
 
 Some day i will be eaten by crows. This is what it means to be buried where
 you fall. This is my fate as all warriors yearn for. To be eaten by crows
 implies that you are either a coward who fled a fight, and i know I'm not, or
 you fought to the last for a phyrric defeat, which is honorable. But shouldn't
 it be better to fight for victory? Ah, but the gods cherish the fools who face
 death with glory, and i am cherished still.
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 How does it feel to know that everything you now will be working on is in
 pursuit of the birth of socialism?
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--- #184 messages/598 ---
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 How does it feel to know that everything you now will be working on is in
 pursuit of the birth of socialism?
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 Diaper skill reduces your chance of leaking. It's on a scale of 1-10 but
 there's beginners luck so your first 5-10 diapers will never leak.
 
 Boys with penises and girls with them can get 9 points of skill to reduce leak
 chance over the lifetime of the diaper by 90%. Girls with vulvas and boys with
 them can only level up to 6.
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--- #186 fediverse/1857 ---
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 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...    │
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--- #187 fediverse/4036 ---
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 everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing?
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--- #188 messages/185 ---
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 The only reason a media streaming website would require you to log in before
 expressing it's purpose is to capture and use user data in a way that may may
 not be aligned to your interests.
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 um I mean:
 
 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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 why do some boys hate girls so much even when they're in boy bodies? T.T
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 waking up in a cold sweat to the hallucinated sound of a World of Warcraft
 battleground queue popping...
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 when I get up, 
 I feel as if 
 if I got up 
 my bones would leave my flesh behind 
 to look for work to find
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 @user-570 
 
 Yeah! My name there is RitzMenardi
 
 EDIT: errrr it might be just ritzmenardi
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 @user-883 
 
 There's no lie in this poster
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 @user-246 
 
 sunlight, as a new daybreak dawns?
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--- #198 messages/545 ---
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 The worst part about being sober is knowing that nobody misses your old self
 but you.
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 the worst part about learning history is that I feel compelled to play video
 games about that era instead of reading more.
 
 stupid dopamine addiction. stupid capitalism, getting us hooked on mental
 drugs. stupid Paradox Interactive, making really addictive dopamine generators.
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 Most of my magic is based on communicatuion. Why the fuck doesn't anyone want
 to sit down on a bunch of drugs and attempt to figure out telepathy with me?
 It's literally all I want! Though I can't say it's all I'll ever want. I'm
 sure I'll want more, but like... It's not that hard, conceptually, so... Let's
 just fucking try it please?
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