synlogic

#software engineer
#gamedesign -er
#writer

topics:
#programming, perf & #scalability, #latency, #Golang, #climate, #democracy, #wargaming, #scifi, #utopian, #comedy

consulting:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-MikeKramlich.md

"Slartboz"
education & political game on topics of democracy & climate. style: sci-fi, #postapoc, funny, real-time Terminal-based #Roguelike

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Alt text: profile icon & banner are screenshots from Slartboz prototype

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2024-10-09 17:39:07

respect to this man speaking truth about Hungary's Victor Orban in his presence:
https://x.com/moritzkoerner/status/1844008848719577425?t=OZz-3xDic41jE0Nho1W6Sg&s=19

2024-09-18 16:53:29

wearing the on-call pager will always be a tad more stressful now

2024-09-14 17:58:15

things I'd work on if it paid money:
* help Harris campaign
* dev my game Slartboz further
* revise and greatly expand an old book of mine, The Dread Space Pirate Richard
but alas I cannot afford to spend (any more) unpaid "race to the global bottom" time on speculative projects

2024-09-07 21:58:57

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@npub1f3n…e887 pro-tip: all liquouer is medicine, when a spouse asks

2024-09-06 00:40:28

if you bring a screamer into a restaurant you are scum. an asshole

2024-09-06 00:36:18

unfollowed a spreader of obvious adversarial disinfo. that had a Russian style to it

2024-09-06 00:35:38

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@npub1wrj…62d5 keep in mind that Musk has transformed Twitter into a Russian disinfo firehose
just saw 2 more articles cited with ridiculius coauthor names. I've "seen enough"

2024-08-31 02:28:45

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@npub18gw…xtgt I heard OpenAI created an in-house image compression algo that has the useful (to them) property of stripping away any signs of original ownership rights

2024-08-26 02:03:17

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@npub1vhj…vzwe yep. Signal seems to be the most secure/private comm app avail to public for free

2024-08-26 00:44:46

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@npub1vhj…vzwe good riddance to him

2024-08-20 03:55:24

Warnock with a great one:
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1825731523254882604

2024-08-20 02:30:46

AOC's speech at DNC tonight
just... wow
just... damn girl
*drops mic*
highly recommended. one of the best pitches for the Dem party I've ever seen/heard period
I think her and Pete Buttigieg are future of the party, and orators of first order
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1825712658164887945?t=-XrOD0TTk5gEYaW6EkAfCw&s=19

2024-08-19 20:32:21

fzf is neat

2024-08-19 20:21:47

for $50k I'm willing to jump in and deliver fixes for many of Android's UX anti-patterns (that have been outstanding for many years it seems)

2024-08-15 01:48:45

blocked an asshole

2024-08-15 01:37:53

1. start with a cookie
2. add raisins
#RuinARecipe #HashTagGames

2024-08-15 01:24:30

involve kimchee
#RuinARecipe #HashtagGames

2024-08-15 01:15:20

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@npub1qpu…d95n ah interesting!

2024-08-14 17:40:24

Ukraine should devise a name for the new territory they carved out from Russia. Some ideas:
South Moscow
North Crimea
Putingrad

2024-08-04 03:57:17

Trump praised Putin tonight for the hostage swap.
The rally crowd was silent. Thankfully.

2024-07-29 01:13:53

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@npub1f3n…e887 yeah. and its a shame. there are 2 very different Elons.
SpaceX Elon? love that one. moar of him plz omgbbq

2024-07-29 00:55:33

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and since traitor Musk controls Twitter we can expect him to pull off shenanigans there behind the scenes to control info flow and mass political perception. in event of an EC shenanigan, Biden/Harris attack, or coup attempt
Musk will assist Trump, GOP, Putin. assume that going forward. whatever is worst Musk could do, wise to assume it

2024-07-29 00:50:51

if Trump doesnt win organically in Nov:
* he will cheat
* he will pull off EC shenanigans even worse than last time
* lastly, he will attempt a coup. and it will be bolder and prob better resourced than last time. Since Biden/patriots in charge of DC we should have better defenses than we did on Jan 6th 2021
I have no doubt on all above points. we all should prepare mentally

2024-07-25 17:05:21

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@npub14uc…7un5 if it runs on Mac, Android or in browser and you promise pinky swear it wont 0wn me I'll play it and give feedback

2024-07-23 23:48:20

Fortune reports today Elon #Musk has retracted his pledge to spend $45M/mo on #Trump's campaign
also today:
XKCD endorses #KamelaHarris
I'm calling the race now! lol
#USelection
#vote2024

2024-07-13 17:25:32

approximately 50% of Americans are this dumb and reckless:
https://x.com/arikbeyhive/status/1811664615807549596/
We know this by now.
And they will vote for Trump.
The rest of us must vote Biden, to save the country. Or we will wake up on January 20th 2025 to find out we are all that terrible room behind the door...

2024-06-24 13:54:39

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@npub132g…e49p theres a role for it. but yes there are also times when declarative or functional approches are a net win

2024-06-19 21:21:01

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@npub1ra8…9uuc smells like AI startup. living off VC and hype

2024-06-09 03:10:58

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@npub19wd…lx5z *pumps fist*

2024-06-09 03:03:19

Mastodon has reminded me once again I can share high quality craft with the public and it matters zilch. zero. de nada. I keep getting lured into the trap of making effort
effort == BAD

2024-05-30 23:35:54

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@npub17a9…mv9a agreed. they were incredibly brave. I can confirm firsthand that Trump supporters will harass his perceuved political enemies in real life. try to make one's life utter hell

2024-05-30 21:34:31

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@npub1ra8…9uuc dangerous times. we've been in a kind of propaganda war with Russia for years now, Trump's main backers. they'll hit the gas now to try to cause violence and chaos

2024-05-30 21:26:44

any MAGA indivs you know in your everyday lives may be especially dangerous today and over course of next few days
wish I was joking
keep extra eye on them, and extra distance. esp the NRA types

2024-05-27 05:15:13

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@npub1zz9…fcse k. Cream?

2024-05-24 17:00:39

Be The Change You Wish To See In The World... Or Trip And Go Flying!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468101

2024-05-24 16:56:11

A few days ago I was out in public, saw something and thought, "Thats a dumb spot for that. Because its hard to see, unexpected, and someone could easily trip on it and go flying."
But did nothing else and moved on.
Guess what happened this morning?
I FUCKING TRIPPED OVER IT AND WENT FLYING
ouch. & loltears
reinforced a few rules of mine:
1. trust your own judgment
2. be the change you wish to see in the world. if not you then who?
3. develop best practices and ALWAYS enforce/apply them

2024-05-24 11:01:54

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@npub10nt…m0vu I can neither confirm nor deny the relative mafia comp levels. heh

2024-05-24 10:29:46

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@npub10nt…m0vu agreed

2024-05-24 05:48:17

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@npub10nt…m0vu Ferris Bueller film too I think
The Dark Knight also filmed in Chicago. it stood in for Gotham in many scenes

2024-05-24 05:16:00

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^-----
@npub12j8…jxr0
copying you on thread above since you are also passionate on climate issue

2024-05-11 15:03:49

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@npub1txc…ajj9 reminds me of when Apple took away ESC. as a longtime vi user I was pissed

2024-05-10 01:29:09

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@npub1kx2…lznm ncurses FTW

2024-05-09 00:55:46

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@npub1zz9…fcse ah k. yeah my impression is it has less features and polish than Unreal and Unity. but is free and unencumbered
I'm considering using it to make a prototype, anyway

2024-05-05 00:15:59

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@npub1dvt…r7ca Richard Stallman. sorry its an abbrev for him every hacker knew decades ago, so I take it granted haha

2024-05-04 23:52:32

I was unaware of all the virtue signalling & cancel culture drama around RMS. yikes

2024-05-04 20:10:34

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@npub1f3n…e887 my recommendations:
Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Watchmen, ditto
V For Vendetta, ditto
Batnan: The Killing Joke, ditto
The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

2024-04-29 20:14:56

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@npub132g…e49p yeah I liked how G+ had circles. so you could have 1 profile but any number of circles or aspects, name them and have them mean anything you want

2024-04-24 16:50:02

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@npub1mk6…0079 I always loved the look and feel, but their price was... dayum. for most use cases a cheap notebook is sufficient and the saved money can be spent instead on, say, steak or pizza

2024-04-20 14:08:06

I hope to God the #Ukraine bill passes in the US House today.
There are perhaps only a few events that happen in all of 2024 which could have a huge impact on the near future fate of the world. Near the top, obviously, is whether #Trump wins the Nov election for President or not. And whether any of his criminal trials send him to prison or not.
Another is whether the US once again steps up to help bolster Ukr's defense. #Putin & #Russia must be stopped. They're the worst predators in the world

2024-04-03 18:05:57

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@npub1lxk…8x93 you just set a record for rudist jerk I've seen in the Fediverse to date
so
congrats, I guess

2024-04-03 17:59:38

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@npub1lxk…8x93 lol. by that logic, however, all men are single-celled organisms (eg. sperm or ova cells). yet clearly we are not

2024-03-23 15:48:11

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@npub1qag…9gyn Pascal?!

2024-03-19 15:53:13

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@npub1q9z…hpx4 agreed. in that window 2008 to 2016 is also approx when Putin began a new campaign of ops to undermine the US from within. it correlated most closely with the 2013/2014 window and Ukraine's Maidan uprising, and Russia's puppet (along with Manafort) having to flee Kiev. within a year or so Trump announced he was runing for US President and, surprise surprise, Manafort would be his campaign manager. just like role he played for Putin's puppet in Kiev

2024-03-17 13:13:15

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@npub1e9t…3q57 also the "pandoc" can translate docs in HTML into many other formats. so worst case you can add it to a pipeline under the hood. if your native GUI app can only render format Z then you simple add a task stage that execs pandoc to translate your HTML chunks into Z. caching where makes sense etc

2024-03-17 13:10:35

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@npub1e9t…3q57 some native GUI toolkits have widgets that will render HTML. somewhat. with what fidelity depends on how close to a full embedded browser engine (eg. WebKit) they use under the hood. long ago there was a lightweight HTML rendering widget for Java AWT/Swing apps named Ice, but I dunno if still exists

2024-03-15 18:45:57

anyone know of a FOSS lib equiv to Python's Scikit-learn (sklearn) but in/for Go?
(and to forestall an obvious suggestion which is likely a non-starter for my needs: yes I am aware of idea of wrapping it or otherwise linking out to it from Go, that is my worst case fallback, but avoiding it. ideal is a 100% pure Go source-to-binary solution)
#Golang
#Python
#sklearn
#ScikitLearn
#ML
#stats
#statistics
#math
#FOSS

2024-03-15 01:40:06

#Texas has now banned both #abortion and #Pornhub
not sure if thats a brilliant combo or a crazy dumb one?

2024-03-13 00:28:47

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@npub1kr8…8hcd I'm writing a book on HPC. plan is in published form it will become a resource, I hope. tho not focused on clusters or hobby scale rigs

2024-03-12 15:17:51

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@npub1a8y…kcdp thank you for reminding me of the benefits of slices in Go

2024-03-12 14:55:42

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@npub1tgy…49jx well I tried the official clip on YT first. then fellback to the MSNBC clip there. more trimmed and lacked the forced ASL distraction-bomber

2024-03-12 14:29:23

rule of thumb: in many of the cases where folks put the phrase "men and women" it prob makes more sense to just say people. or folks. or humans. or adults
not out of any desire to be Woke or PC or virtue signalling. just to be more precise and accurate about the "type" of entities you intend to include
eg. saying "The men of the US armed forces are (...)" has the benefit at least of having.point to limiting to men. Whereas "men and women of the (...)" has no point. Just say people or members.

2024-03-05 00:49:59

#SCOTUS #ruling today reinforced one of my own rules-of-thumb, derived after observing my fellow humans for decades:
ENR. It stands for "Excuses Not Reasons"
means that people will ultimately do whatever they truly *want* to do, deep down. and that any "reason" they give is just BS. either to help mentally justify it to themselves, or to the listener. to give it cover. in reality their reason is merely an excuse
excuse, not a reason
ENR
SCOTUS complicit to #Russian #treason of #Trump & #GOP

2024-02-24 01:28:46

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@npub1qz2…lcqj at least you did not make yourself Admiral Taco

2024-02-23 12:55:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 you're prob joking. but Americans are overall more expensive than Indian. cost-of-living in India lower than US

2024-02-22 13:58:53

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 yeah it feels like a rewrite if Twitter by Jack. except with a more open protocol. in theory more open. not clear to me though if as open as Mastodon & ActivityPub

2024-02-22 13:56:57

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@npub17sa…jk70 I dont like idea of giving another company remote access to read all my notes, docs, pics & videos. accident or exploit or gov intrusion waiting to happen

2024-02-21 17:01:12

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^----
@npub1psd…9sr7
Mr. Stross, please consider boosting a toot of mine (upthread from this one)
for credentials/credibility, in my profile there is link to my resume & portfolio on GitHub. I have worked for the US State Department in the past on issues adjacent to what I'm proposing now for me to work on
just looking for amplification
thank you!
@npub1psd…9sr7

2024-02-21 16:27:18

The #US is in dire danger of collapsing into #dictatorship. If #Trump becomes #President again
I want to build, launch & operate a web app which will try convincing more folks to NOT #vote for him. I MUST try!
However it would require me to put a LOT of time and work into it. And I CANNOT afford to do that for ZERO pay. I got bills to pay: need to eat, keep roof over my head, etc
You can HELP me do that by sending me a donation
I can take #donations via CashApp here:
https://cash.app/$mk2022akmar/

2024-02-18 20:53:36

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@npub1psd…9sr7 why?

2024-02-14 19:40:05

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@npub19cw…533p its called sudo. lol

2024-02-10 16:26:20

I have sympathy for Israel. And the 1,500 souls who were minding their own damn business on October 7th, in peace, but were then raped, tortured, murdered or kidnapped that day, by Gazans from Gaza, in a surprise raid and without any formal warning in advance
I have *no* sympathy for Gaza since. oh boo hoo hoo...

2024-02-10 01:40:26

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@npub1dct…6tng I believe it can be literally read from like a serial device. its been a few years but I once wrote Python to open a serial socket connection to a camera via a USB cable, to write messages and read them back. in Go should work similarly
unless you meant say mount as an external filesystem?

2024-01-22 02:25:16

#Chiefs
#Bills
#football
#NFL
https://s3.toot.io/system/media_attachments/files/111/797/226/148/351/603/original/5ae25d601e823923.jpg

2024-01-18 04:38:15

Trump poses a danger to the US in a way very similar to that of Hitler to the Germans of the 1920s and early 30s. a terrible populist luring millions toward a collective doom
we are in extreme and urgent danger until and unless hes put in prison, for good
#Trump
#Hitler

2024-01-11 18:31:28

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@npub10cm…36ex giving advice and sharing my expert opinion after decades of experience and analysis is *not* gatekeeping :-)
gatekeeping is if I built a gate and stood guard by that gate and allowed only certain people thru it.
anyone in my world is free to make or use GUIs or CLIs: their choice
I'm doing the equiv of saying "eat healthy. eg. bias to eat natural foods, as much as can" not that I forbid candy or ice cream or prevent their consumption at gunpoint. that would be gatekeeping ;-)

2024-01-11 16:37:02

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@npub10cm…36ex totally get that. I've made and used plenty of GUIs. I did say there were niches and use cases where they were a net win
still an anti-pattern avoid where we can, when reasonable alternarives avail. precisely because GUIs are also notoriosly riddled with terrible user-hostile quirks, oftentimes "laugh out loud bad" ones
as a maker even if I know a GUI may be helpful for some of my endusers I always build the guts under a CLI/API first and encourage others to use it instead

2024-01-11 15:59:50

GUIs are an anti-pattern
* avoid making new ones when you can
* avoid doing work to upgrade or support legacy ones
* avoid them as an enduser
There are some niches and narrow use cases where GUIs *are* a net win, if not utterly necessary. Obviously, I hope.
For everything else? Bias to and reach for (first) CLIs, REPLs, TUIs, APIs, etc

2024-01-09 19:38:50

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@npub1vfh…e0hv I was shocked that they had so many employees that 25% was 1800. mean its an SDK. a digital blob. yes they some talented software engineers on payroll. but 7200 people? even 200 programmers total feels like more than enough to do everything needed to make and ship the Unity SDK

2024-01-08 19:05:52

I miss the days when a rainbow was just a rainbow
now any use of it online is assumed to have a very specific sexual and also political meaning

2023-12-20 15:31:43

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@npub17ha…t8va he was once given a book thats a collection of Hitler speeches, titled like My New World Order. he has confused the issue by once referring to it as Mein Kampf but it was not agreed. I do agree that M.K. is too meaty/long for his reading skills and attention span
I am confident hes studied Hitler's techniques however. or the Russian gov helped train him to apply them. the Cold War era Soviet KGB also studied what made Hitler effective during rise and early string of successes

2023-12-18 19:51:18

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@npub10cm…36ex Trump is an evil man, and a traitor, but I do recommend you delete your tweet. since Trump is also an ex US President its important that only fully legal processes are involved in any justice related to him
I do wish the wheels of the US legal system would move faster, however. he poses a Hitler like threat to our democracy

2023-12-18 18:36:32

Trump is the OJ of Presidents

2023-12-17 01:51:49

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@npub15rz…5ytj agreed. I do think the 81ish era Basic and Expert sets were my fave. balance between polished enough but not yet as complex as AD&D. and I despise the Woke era which came decades later

2023-12-07 00:57:09

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@npub1tf4…nzuj agreed
in a way Trump has been wielded like a pretty smart weapon against the Achilles Heels of the US. an imperfect one because Trump is a lazy bumbling fool. but we've long had several gaping holes in our national security -- all centered around the office of the President itself -- and it seems an Enemy finally arrived on a single weapon and bundle of techniques to exploit them. in league with willing *traitors* among the Republican party, and many Fox News types
we are in danger

2023-12-04 13:52:32

We're in a dangerous time
Why? In about 14 months from now there is a scarily non-zero chance Trump becomes President again
If he does, there is zero doubt in my mind he WILL attempt to devolve our country into dictatorship
At a minimum he WILL abuse ALL the powers of the Executive branch he can get away with
Since he would sit atop the FBI, CIA, NSA, State, IRS etc then *any* info those agencies have on us could potentially be used to harm us or come after us -- if Trump wishes, solely
ACT

2023-11-30 15:40:48

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@npub17a8…0lrs @npub1sdt…96z3 agreed on Obama
and Obama admin's biggest win was prob the ACA, a huge step forward for American's healthcare
his biggest negative legacy, and one we cant blame him for directly, is that he was prob too naive on Putin's character and Russia's reformability. and his holding of the Oval Office, as a black man -- and a strong smart well-spoken American leader and role model -- might have been a trigger which infuriated Putin, Trump and many racist American whites

2023-11-30 02:15:46

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@npub1sdt…96z3 and Obama got it. I am a huge fan and we were lucky to have as Pres. but was a joke he got one everybody knew the real motivation behind it suspect
Kissinger only nominated. Obama actually got it. Kissinger at least did work on war/peace issues at biggest scale of impact, due to Vietnam and China alone. Obama was talented and a good man but had NO accomplishments worthy of the prize

2023-11-28 15:43:53

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@npub1ypg…8pc9 I am literally talking about the phenomenon of *unkind* people online who make public forums toxic. describing them not advocating for them. it sows anger and hate over time. we ought to find ways to de-program folks and help stamp out cults before they get too strong and reach a critical mass
note I said a subset/segment of liberals -- not all. just as a subset/segment of conservatives can be bad, but not all

2023-11-28 07:08:21

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@npub1ypg…8pc9 agreed. there is a subset of folks on the so-called liberal left who behave like cultists: prone to demonizing anyone they see as daring to utter IncorrectOpinions per their holy propaganda set. it feels like its been happening wifh increasing frequency in recent years. it turns many online forums toxic. thankfully the most rabid practicioners offen put indicia in their profiles which tend to coincide with the de facto cults in question. so sometimes one can block/mute in advance

2023-11-13 05:55:19

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@npub1enx…35rg @npub1qll…r5q8 theres plenty of evidence Russia has helped him and vice versa. the pattern is clear that he was recruited by them and at some point became an "asset" if not an agent of Putin

2023-11-12 03:15:17

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@npub1qll…r5q8 Trump is performing to a playbook I believe that Putin's gov has given him. to undermine the US from within

2023-11-04 03:12:13

Four Weddings and A Funeral: When The Title Alone's An Emotional Rollercoaster Ride
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 03:07:24

Debbie Does Dallas Though Her Real Name Wasnt Debbie And It Was Not Actually Shot in Dallas. (Ok, Fine, Sexual Deeds Were Done)
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 03:04:13

A Clockwork Orange: Kubrick's Dark Masterpiece, Though Features Not A Single Orange or Even A Clock?!
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 03:00:23

Titanic: How Bigger Boats Can Be Just As Risky As Small Ones (Jaws)
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 02:57:31

The Dark Knight: But He's A White Man At Night How Dark Can He Be?
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 02:54:40

Superman: He Said Anyway, Ladies, But Once in The Bedroom Boy Did He Disappoint
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 02:37:25

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Not That Anyone Could Tell A Difference
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 02:28:12

Gone With The Wind, Though When It Shifts I Bet It'll Come Back
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames

2023-11-04 02:25:13

To Kill A Mockingbird, Though Admittedly Not That Hard
#MakeABookOrMoviePetty
#HashtagGames