AlphaBeta / is on Nostr

Poet. Activist. Storyteller. Handyman for hire in the Portland, OR area (no, really.) Former circus acrobat. Eternal antifascist.

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2024-08-03 23:38:18

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@npub17nm…dm57 this is silly. There is literally no Twitter. Not legally nor elsewise. There is X. Musk's X. So. . . What are you talking about?

2024-03-29 15:19:09

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@npub1gmx…atcq "you don't have permission to view this page"

2024-02-11 18:39:06

I despise the algorithm patois that worsens all our language online.
"Comedian EVISCERATES Trump supporters with basic fact"
"Ben Shapiro DESTROYS college student"
"Nancy Pelosi EXPLODES over migrant issue"
We are talking like this to appease machines, not people. It fucking sucks. It's poisonous, escalatory, and needlessly violent speech.

2023-12-30 18:11:32

New Year's Eve will be the superest of Covid-19 super-spreader events.

2023-12-26 21:46:16

It really bugs me how many Americans talk so cavalierly about an armed civil conflict here. A real civil war, even a relatively contained/short one, would not be an organized Red VS Blue slugfest on open fields.
It'd be an incredibly chaotic, paranoid nightmare of having no idea who might assume you were an enemy and bomb your house or shoot at your car, with emboldened accelerationists carrying out terror attacks on infrastructure, leaving people without power, without water, without communications.
A pants-shittingly horrifying episode of stupid, frenetic, isolating violence from which your stupid little guns would not avail you or those you love. Fuckin' grow up

2023-12-14 01:18:57

So I was trying to solder an end cap on this vertical copper pipe but the main valve does not completely seal the line, so drops of water kept running into the end during blowtorching, making the job literally impossible without a specific and expensive plumber's kit. So I broke off a hunk of white bread and stuffed it into the pipe to stanch the water so I could do the job. The bread will dissolve eventually, not clogging the line, but also this is an end anyway. It worked!
I don't remember ever learning of this trick, but I don’t think I came up with it, either. I must have heard it someplace and filed it away long ago.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/576/128/155/475/294/original/e84c66d51dbc4cfb.jpg

2023-09-23 23:19:52

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@npub1qjr…kgt0 dogs are out of the question according to the owner. He is not chilly; in fact he rejects blankets. I think he needs equine family.

2023-09-23 22:26:26

Goddamn it. Donkey tried to kick Bonk. I shouted and distracted him and he missed, but he can easily kill these sheep. I think he needs a place to go with other donkeys or a horse. He's lonely and sad. It's not his fault. He was separated from his equine family by his caretaker's widow after the man passed away, but we can't force him to be miserable here with no peers and also endanger the sheep.
The poor guy. We've been slowly building trust and now in a moment of emergency I've made him so afraid he won't even look at me. My heart is heavy for him.

2023-06-03 17:19:44

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Hey y'all, WHY ISN'T THIS BEING BOOSTED