Dan Seitz / is on Nostr

He/him, cishet, writer, occasional juggler, non-gatekeepy comics nerd.

Profile pic: A statue in Boston's Back Bay Station with a black balaclava pulled over its face.

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2024-11-06 20:47:09

There's going to be a lot of discourse about what's wrong with young male voters.
I speak from personal experience when I say: They're assholes. That's what's wrong. I'm not being glib either. They expect rights and privileges they haven't earned and don't deserve and are mad they haven't gotten them.
The question is what they'll learn when the consequences of their choices catch up with them.

2024-04-22 23:42:32

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Pretty good indicator of who's going to go all "WHY I AM LEAVING THE LEFT" in like five to eight years.

2024-01-10 17:06:22

Lately I have been feeling ignored at work, and it's probably my biggest source of frustration because I tell somebody something, they ignore it, and then I get scolded about it and it makes even more work for me, which gets in the way of the shit I have to do.
It's disrespectful and it's frustrating.

2023-12-31 16:21:27

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First step is to break it down into pieces and see who's already done the work there. It's what Nintendo does. They call it "lateral thinking with withered technology" and it really deserves a wider audience as a philosophy.

2023-11-27 21:19:32

Congratulations dipshit, you used AI to do black hat SEO via 1998 at scale. Enjoy your site being scrubbed from Google completely in six months.
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2023-11-14 16:33:42

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I mean I've been depending on Elno to murder it.

2023-10-03 20:58:34

Seriously the baller move would be to resign and cut the margin by one. McCarthy doesn't have the spine but can you imagine?

2023-07-07 18:59:04

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I might also argue that it runs even deeper than left/right dichotomies. I was on Threads and deleted it today in part because Instagram has created a very specific and bland online culture built around consumption, reaction within a limited scope, and keeping you on the site. It's a political space in the worst sense, one designed to hide politics and actively discourage any politics.

2023-07-07 17:47:17

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I think this is a possible scenario but it hinges on Threads ever meaningfully federating.
There's also, for the LOTTs of the world, the reverse problem: They start fights, run crying to Daddy Zuck because the mean people won't stop existing, and get told Not My Server, Not My Problem.

2023-07-06 19:37:01

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"Please sign up for this account you will never use again."

2023-07-06 11:20:59

@npub1psy…pasy Signed up for the Patreon. Mostly because Threads reminded me why Mastodon was better. Thanks for your work keeping this afloat.

2023-06-24 13:54:33

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It increased support for abortion rights. The fact that the right-wing has consistently lost at the polls on the topic to the point where in Ohio they're trying to swap around the rules to prevent pro-abortion-choice constitutional amendments tells you how panicked they've gotten.