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jpaskaruk

@jpaskaruk@growers.social

Neurodivergent Manitoba Interlake settler (Zone 3, Treaty One), musician, grower of consumables, parent of felines and canines. He/Him/Goblin.
Pic is a middle aged bearded white dude in a Bill Monroe t-shirt, looking thoughtful.
Banner is #Hellbert
I do mainly two kinds of posts: my animals, and Jalapeno Takes on politics and whatnot.
If you're not into the opinionating, #BoDoodle and #GorgeyTheGolden will get you just my dogs. Mute my boosts, I do too many.

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glynmoody, to random
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likens himself to Mother Teresa as jury weighs fate in hush-money case - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/trump-hush-money-trial-merchan-jury-deliberation
I didn't know he was Albanian...

jpaskaruk,
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@glynmoody

Sadistic, not picky about who dictators she hung out with or accepted bribes from, elevated to literal sainthood by morons... actually pretty legit comparison IMSO

ergative, to SF
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Hey, friends, I wrote a review of Foundation (the book--the OG!) for Nerds of a Feather.

(Don't click through if you love this book. I didn't much care for it.)

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/05/first-contact-foundation-by-isaac-asimov.html

#SF #BookReview @bookstodon #sff

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@peachfront @ergative @bookstodon

I have never seen anything of a Marxist metaphor in it. Has someone written an explainer of this interpretation?

jpaskaruk,
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@peachfront @ergative @bookstodon

Born when Nixon got re-elected in a landslide, and even raised in red diapers, but that doesn't always guarantee I see what others see. :>

I also have tried three times to get through the whole series and never made it. I have finished many other SF epics, so clearly I just didn't get hooked into the story fully for whatever reason.

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@emeraldzak @bookstodon @peachfront @ergative

This right here is pretty much what I did take away lol

jpaskaruk,
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@karabaic @peachfront @ergative @bookstodon

Determinism is so much fun to play with, even if there is really no way to determine whether determinism has any actual merits.

The recent series Devs is almost kind of a reboot/prequel almost - sort of, "what if psychohistory was developed as a routine on a really big and fast quantum computer?"

jpaskaruk, to animals
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I have been absolutely horrible at taking daily shots, it's been at least a month since the last profille shot of and as you can see, it was a bit of a shock. He is gonna be a BIG boy.

Didn't want to feel left out, but I think he's okay with being left out. The last time I picked him up like that we went and had a shower.

I am holding Bo the black labradoodle in a similar pose as the previous shot of Gorgey. Unfortunately my shirt is also black so we look mostly like a shaggy blob with my head poking out of it on top. But, you can definitely see a look of serious concern on Bo, because he doesn't get picked up like this very often. But he's very trusting when we need to do stuff, so he's putting up with it.
Gorgeous George is curled up on his doggo bed snoozing, and his mouth is wearing a great big smile. His large black toe beans are also on display.

18+ asbestos, to random
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That red stuff is not fucking licorice
It's just not, not any more than a baguette 🥖 is a brownie

jpaskaruk,
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@asbestos

Well liquorice also is not licorice. Checkmate, telf!*

(*Twizzler Exclusionary Licorice Fan)

jpaskaruk, to random
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@lakelaur just sent me this video, we're gonna try it after I get some fresh ice. I'll let yez know.

https://vimeo.com/41298356

jpaskaruk, to linux
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If you are attempting to try out a desktop for the first time because you've had enough of Microsoft's shit but are feeling a need to scream in order to express just how frustratingly weird and annoying this operating system is...

I'm here for you. I promise to do my best to both validate your emotions and guide you towards the knowledge you need to be free.

DeliaChristina, to random
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I'm not gonna jump in on that thread about 'all men' but I am gonna say this:

While it's true that not all men do X, it is absolutely more true that patriarchy socializes ALL MEN to accept or be blind to certain truths about their position, importance, and relevance in the world.

Almost everything all men think of as 'natural' about their status in the world is not, in fact, true.
It was crafted through oppression, suppression, and violence.

It is also true that it takes an enormous amount of deliberate de-conditioning to throw off patriarchal thinking and praxis.

Those for whom 'not all men' truly apply (which is a small enough number to be sad and pitiful) know this to be true.

And so do the rest of us.

jpaskaruk,
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@DeliaChristina @tedel

Cause it's totally her job to change men.

Not our job to be introspective, examine our assumptions, especially when someone is saying something about the obliviousness of privilege that makes us feel uncomfortable.

Nah, more important by far, to insist on not being made uncomfortable, before we agree to discuss any of that.

Way to put her in her place, brah. You are a beacon of progressive thinking, and no lie.

A coach in a Hockey locker room (from Letterkenny) screaming ITS FUCKING EMBARRASSING

jpaskaruk,
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@RustyBertrand @tedel

Cute animals. Look at them. Loooooook.

(or read the alt-text, I do my best)

celeduc, to random
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US politicians, the courts, the media, and even unions are lining up to knuckle under to another stolen election like 2000. But preparing for a general strike is a way to counteract this seeming near-certainty, to prepare for the worst, and most importantly to change the narrative of helplessness. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-will-you-do-if-the-election (via @pluralistic)

jpaskaruk,
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@celeduc @pluralistic

A single general strike would accomplish so much, right now.

Binder, to random
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Fruit Luips savory brassica aphrodisiac

jpaskaruk,
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@Binder

Friend of mine in high school was a Froot Loops maniac and had a box from Mexico, the box said Fruti Lupis

virtualbri, to ai
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Y'all see that these AI generated "movies", "videos" and "commercials" are straight up garbage, right?

jpaskaruk,
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@virtualbri

There's a scene in the most recent True Detective season where they're in someone's room and there's a couple of posters that are supposed to be metal band posters, but are very obviously GPTshit

They're jarringly obvious. It's embarrassing. Probably placed there at the insistence of whatever C-level was running it.

jpaskaruk, to random
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@pluralistic

I know what your least favorite audiobook platform is, but what's your favorite way for [Canadians] to buy audiobooks from you?

jpaskaruk, to random
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Section 230 does not protect community on the internet, anymore than electric cars will save the environment.

protects the ability to monetize community through algorithms.

jpaskaruk, to random
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Ok so I'm off Starlink now and our fibre works well enough to host a small instance from our place, I'm pretty sure - enough for Laurie and I anyways.

Default plan is to run Mastodon and see if I can tweak it to my liking, cause boy do I hear a lot of rumours and innuendoes about the various Fedi server projects. This one is run by nazis, that one is dead but still in use, I dunno.

How does one keep on top of the state of Fedi servers? What should I use for a two-person instance?

jpaskaruk, to random
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Has anyone seeing this ever replaced the resin in a water softener?

Uair, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

jpaskaruk,
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@elysegrasso @deirdrebeth @alexlubertozzi @aprilfollies @_L1vY_ @Uair @bookstodon

One need not fully understand relativity, though, to play with it as a plot device. I can't claim to understand it completely, but I do understand what it does if people travel at certain speeds.

So far I have not seen the term "Hard SF" in this thread, and that's the type of SF that concerns itself with scientific accuracy, and that strain appeared after the genre was established, in the golden age.

jpaskaruk, to random
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I just adore how the techbro media has started using "activist investor" in the same way christian fascists used to complain about "activist judges" (though they don't seem to be so incensed about judges ruled by some bullshit ideologies).

The important thing here is that "activist" be associated with "bad people who want to ruin things".

Call them what they are, @mmasnick - capitalists.

jpaskaruk,
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@mmasnick

Before you get too pissed, there's still the respect of calling you "media" in there. You're one of my daily reads.

But if you really care that much about this random opinion, you seem to have a fairly rosey view of the modern internet and what it has become, imo, with too much assumption that this is the only way it could have gone or should have gone.

Yes, 230 is fundamental to everything, and maybe that is not the self-evident win that you and Jack think it is. Look around.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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The Dead Kennedys singles collection from 1979 to 1982.

Hardly any band has produced more socially relevant songs than the Dead Kennedys

What is your top single from the band?

For me it’s definitely “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”

jpaskaruk,
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@historyofpunkrock

When I stole my uncle's recorded tape, the first song that came on when I threw it in was Kill The Poor, and I come from a rather black-humoured clan, so that tends to be what bubbles to the top for me.

That said, it was a combination of reading the titles "Too Drunk To Fuck" and "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" that made me steal the tape in the first place.

jpaskaruk, to animals
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Inept Yin Yang.

Not pictured: The eye-watering smell coming off . We're gonna go buy something called SkunkOff today on a friend's reco. He is also going to the groomer this week, happily.

Gorgey don't care if his brother stinks.

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

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@todwest @headfirstonly @philip_cardella @Jennifer @bookstodon

I would also trust Taika Waititi with it, if it was up to me, but he's (hopefully I think) developing the other property that I've been pining for since forever:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15843316/

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@LordWoolamaloo @Jennifer @bookstodon

Someone say Babylon 5

Gif of shaggy white dog waking up and looking at the camera with his tongue still blepping out.

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