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She/her :blobcatheartlesbian: ex-software dev now writing words for money, fun, and/or survival. I like new people but may be too busy to follow back.

Republicans have campaigned on killing me and mine my whole life, so "Democrats are just as bad" crap gets a fuck off and an unfollow.

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2024-09-20 18:27:02

I’ve written about this so many times I’ve lost track of it. It’s core to the fundamentalist movement, now to the Christian Fascists and Nationalists.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/09/20/christian-nationalists-lying-is-good-if-its-to-win-elections/
#fascism #uspol #uspolitics #politics #ChristianNationalism #fundamentalism
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2024-09-17 23:03:28

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holy shit
(For people forwarding it around:
CONFIRMED The Independent 2024/9/17 - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-elon-musk-x-twitter-donald-trump-b2614525.html )
#uspol #uspolitics #birdsite #ElonMusk #fascism #politics

2024-09-11 06:05:33

i annotated a clip of harris and the pause
#uspolitics #politics #uspol #debate #debate2024
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/117/403/239/990/727/original/593b57c3229b7bb7.mp4

2024-09-10 04:45:35

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(In short, as "AI summaries" corrupt more and more material, I think we're going to end up seeing more and more arguments where people are not reading the article, but instead are just the broken AI paraphrase, and starting fights based on what the LLM got wrong.)

2024-09-10 04:44:11

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(And this might also explain a particularly peculiar response I got to one of my blog posts on far-right fake science recently, where I almost replied "Tell me you didn't read my article without telling me you didn't read my article" but instead just booted the comment.
Now though I'm thinking more that it _could_ have been ordinary twaddle, _maybe_ it was a slightly more sensible response to a nonsense version of my post created by some monstrous AI summary engine.
But even if it wasn't just more AI lies, and he was just an ordinary fuckhead, I suspect that it's a preview to the kind of response I'm likely to start seeing more often as AIs mangle what I write into something completely different.)

2024-09-10 04:39:38

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Yeah, I've been trying to figure out how to get around "AI summary" in email clients too - given how poorly even something as simple as predictive text works on my writing (barely, and rarely to never), I know with as much certainty that I can have that AI summaries will absolutely trainwreck any actual meaning in my messages. It's the kind of thing where I'm thinking, "email may no longer even exist for me" and that's pretty terrifying, ngl.

2024-09-02 19:23:50

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That's also the opinion of the guy I linked - the Nuwave is fine, he used it for years. But if you're shopping new and you don't mind spending the extra money, he feels the newer device is very much worth that extra money, and he had a few different reasons for that.

2024-09-02 18:41:51

Very recently, @npub1j9l…jvxt had a video up on induction woks (while wearing a T-shirt of Mr Delicious, the worst fast food mascot ever, terrifying ty)
Anyway I poked around looking for more videos on induction woks and here's a wok cooking channel talking about the induction cooker Technology Connections talked about and another one they consider better _except for_ the included wok, which is trash. But you can use any real wok, that's kinda the point.
(the wok included with the older Nuwave is actually fine, go fig):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1UYeVxLTi4
And this is the months-later followup saying "yes the newer one is a lot better" but the old one is fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMGXegEXsc
#cooking #wok #induction

2024-09-02 03:01:28

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yeah, this one's like... actually really good? which isn't the first time we've had an actual really good film on #monsterdon but it's atypical

2024-08-26 21:15:54

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...and now it's raining. but only a little.

2024-08-26 21:15:40

it feels like thunderstorm
doesn't smell like it
just feels like it

2024-08-24 19:39:24

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Never confuse "eccentric" and "bot" ^_^
tho' i admit it can be pretty hard sometimes xD

2024-08-24 19:31:45

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Joined November 2022, though.
If that's a bot, it's an incredibly long game.
I honestly don't think so.

2024-08-23 20:43:50

Looks like mastodon.social has a fleet of incoming trollbots. The typical mode of operation (based on those I've seen from this wave) is to create a new account, reblog a bunch of old posts - mostly political - to fill their timelines so they don't look empty on first glance, then go trolling into replies.
The funniest so far has been the one which posts in Russian because apparently the operator forgot to set the reply language. So _that's_ hilarious.
Unfortunately, this round seems to be hardened against "ignore all previous instructions" so there's no fun - yet - to be had there.
#fediblock

2024-07-08 02:41:02

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that belongs on a mug (or something)
#monsterdon #gargoyles1972

2024-07-08 01:55:47

i kinda like the static under his voice effect
#monsterdon #gargoyles1972

2024-07-06 18:02:06

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Yes, FDR did the same thing when it came to railroad workers, and nobody calls him anti-union.
I'm not saying it was right, I'm saying that for whatever reason, railroads are special, all the way back to the New Deal.
Biden's followed an FDR-ish playbook, only he went out and actually marched with striking workers, something _no_ other president has ever done. And there have been more union successes in the last 3.5 years than the previous several decades.
No, I'm not agreeing with what he did that one time. But there is a bigger picture with a LOT of UNION WINS that some people seem to work real hard to ignore.
(See again: in love with failure)

2024-07-06 17:44:00

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Damn right I'm right. Just like I'm right about winning this if we fight.
One of the things I'm going to drop I think this coming week is some commentary about one of their big memes - "Papa Trump" striding across the landscape with "Daddy's coming home" - the implication being "to punish you."
Which is, obviously, what they want, but which is also about "because you deserve it" and way too many on the left respond emotionally to that with "you're right, we do."
No, the abused child does not, _ever_, deserve "daddy's punishment."
And we're gonna talk about that.

2024-07-06 17:38:20

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I linked to two examples of explicit demands for surrender and I described the campaign.
I could've linked to more, but I figured that was enough time on it. They're explicitly doing it using those words. Any more distracts from the message.
And the message is we win this if we fight.

2024-07-06 17:22:44

I know why.
It's because when push comes to shove...
...they don't have the votes.
They know it.
They know the only way they win is if we surrender in advance.
And we win this if we fight.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/07/06/the-magats-are-demanding-our-pre-emptive-surrender-why-do-you-think-that-is/
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

2024-07-06 00:08:25

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A8: These were the ones I bought two years ago and they're still fine so far.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G95PPPW
#BikeNite

2024-07-04 05:38:46

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oh no it'll definitely do things to your glutes
also the entire rest of your body
but you'll like it

2024-07-04 05:35:52

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i can make a truly consciousness-annihilating vodka chocolate milkshake
if, y'know
you're into that

2024-07-04 05:17:29

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Oh dang I am _definitely_ not.

2024-06-10 02:52:10

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Every Sunday, 6pm Pacific/8pm Central. Follow #MonsterdonAlert for news and voting to select the next film!

2024-06-08 01:52:21

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I would, however, find it funny to build a modern sleeper machine in one of those new-run C64 cases.

2024-06-07 01:12:43

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Last time I was in a sit-down restaurant was right before they all closed down due to COVID. It was the last meeting of our book club. :/

2024-05-26 09:54:44

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There was a real "left libertarian" movement. A lot of it was queer, and a lot of it died before AZT.
The survivors and most of the rest of it either went to the Democrats for survival, with a few going anarcho-leftist of one sort or another.
That left the "right libertarians" who no longer had to bargain with the left and, well, we know how that went.

2024-05-20 04:30:05

big oof
#ai #google #gemini
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2024-04-29 23:53:42

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An informal gathering (including dinner party) with a lot of people. It can be a social group, a group of people from a club - whatever. We used to do "Homeless Waifs" Thanksgivings that way too, since so many of us were queers or pagans (in some cases and/or exvangelicals) whose parents had disowned/disavowed us or whatever too. Those all had donation jars.

2024-04-29 23:47:12

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I am including the donation jar in this. We've hosted a number of larger gatherings in the past with one, and we've been invited to a lot of larger gatherings with a donation jar. It's just something that's kinda always been there.

2024-04-17 00:30:12

“If I fits I sits” redux - he left and came back!
#wildlife #hart #stag #deer #seattle
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2024-04-16 21:53:14

"If I fits I sits, stag version"
#wildlife #hart #stag #deer #seattle
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2024-04-10 00:08:17

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I finally found it! Or at least the one I was remembering.
#monsterdon
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