Powderhorn

Powderhorn, 2 days ago

I’m not entirely mobile yet … watch this space. What do tickets run for that?

Powderhorn, 2 days ago

Secured my roll by trading shrooms.

Powderhorn, 20 hours ago

This is such an amazingly beautiful offer that I’m not sure how to respond. Thank you for bringing the burn spirit into the real world … I’m still working on integrating my experience and know I won’t ever be the same person I was last week, but it’s such a massive shift that I want to take my time to understand who I now am and the extent to which some of my mental struggles will be different.

And thank you for the kind words about my writing. It means so much to me that what I enjoy doing can bring others joy.

Powderhorn, 20 hours ago

Fucking amazing. First burn, work goes well. I’m actually happy in my own skin after decades of crippling depression.

Powderhorn, 7 days ago

What the actual fuck. Putting corporations ahead of people is pretty much where fascism lands.

So much pearl-clutching is about what government does while conveniently ignoring what government allows.

Powderhorn, 8 days ago

I’ve been with Mullvad for over a year at this point. This sort of analysis (as well as being able to mail cash) makes me feel confident that I made the right choice to ignore every entreaty (before SponsorBlock) about NordVPN.

NordVPN: We have the budget to pay influencers, and it’s likely coming out of the U.S. Treasury.

Powderhorn, 9 days ago

I have to believe at this point that a serious generation gap exists if there is an audience for this sort of constant monitoring. Because that’s what it is.

Where it goes and whether Microsoft can be trusted are of course very valid concerns, but Jesus tap-dancing Christ, this is surveillance before the data go anywhere. Add that to your AI assistant that works best with the camera on, et voila!

No doubt Google is going to say “hold my beer,” and there’s no pure Linux offramp on the overwhelming majority of Android hardware, so even if you’ve told Microsoft to fuck off …

Powderhorn, 9 days ago

That closing quote is ominous:

“Recall is currently in preview status,” Microsoft says on its website. “During this phase, we will collect customer feedback, develop more controls for enterprise customers to manage and govern Recall data, and improve the overall experience for users.”

I read “so, yeah, we built in all the telemetry connections we swear we’ll never use … just for testing, ya know?”

Powderhorn, 9 days ago

This will certainly gain momentum as awareness of the concept grows. While this is overall great news that we’re coming up with repeatable ways to sidestep the usurious real property market, I’m concerned about same. How long is the window until these are made illegal again and then an engineered recession puts all these buildings in the hands of capital?

Powderhorn, 12 days ago

Poorly thought-out Facebook posts are forever; coverage of city council malfeasance from two years ago, not so much.

Powderhorn, 14 days ago

Fixed the hed. Archive link should be viewable.

Powderhorn, 15 days ago

She felt it was preferable to still having anything tying her to her father. For valid reasons.

The collar is just inexcusable. I hope for the sake of my neck that it’s gotten a bit duller over the years.

Powderhorn, 15 days ago

I’m aware of the cliche. What is why I drove from Portland to Tsawwassen on Thanksgiving night 1999 to catch the ferry over to Vic and bring my Canadian girlfriend down for the rest of the weekend.

I just thought that would be the end of it.

Powderhorn, 15 days ago

Worth noting: this is 90% effective for HSV-1, but not tested on HSV-2. That’s on their radar for research. It’s nonetheless a breakthrough, and the Hutch has pulled off some interesting things in the past, so I’d imagine they’ll get there.

Powderhorn, 15 days ago

I’ve enjoyed milk for the flavour and texture only once: the semester I lived across the street from a dairy. To this day, in the weird circumstance I have milk in the fridge for cooking, I shake it vigourously.

Much of it is about sourcing and practices. Raw milk is not inherently dangerous, and we’d be out a whole world of cheeses if they had to be made from pasteurized.

Powderhorn, 15 days ago

Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying “your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug.”

The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there’s no fucking way I’d be like “oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don’t I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?”

Powderhorn, 15 days ago

I’m not really aware of anyone still shooting porn after 15 years outside of HKJ, and if I’m being honest, I’m not entirely sure she was active yet … it was a different time.

It was also damn near impossible to monetize back then (self-host, find payment processor overseas that took 30% minimum, self-advertise), especially anything outside of male-centric boring shit you’ve seen a thousand times, which led to more of a discovery process and a tighter-knit community for those shooting or appearing in kink.

I’m glad she’s doing OK after just an event, but I never found myself wondering why she didn’t post anymore.