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PatrickoftheG

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Life is a preposterous horror.

Money speaks for money, the devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.

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PatrickoftheG, to random
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Haiti has a troubled relationship with slavery, what with being full of slaves who were liberated thanks to the French Revolution and then reenslaved, and then freed themselves, and then made to pay reparations.

This Memorial Day, I ask you to remember the soldiers who died in the Marine Invasion of Haiti a war ::checks notes:: about invading Haiti and reinstating slavery again to build infrastructure for the United Fruit Company.

9/11 never forget they hate us for our freedom.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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Special thanks to the nice mattress store for not asking for my e-mail address.

SirTapTap, (edited ) to Twitch
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I never really formally posted a "coming out" post but I guess to keep people on the same page:

SirTapTap -> SerTapTap (gender neutral)

Any Pronouns -> She/Her

Cis -> Trans

? -> Genderfluid

I've been making little changes for a month or so now, still lots of text to fix.

I'll probably be commissioning a girlier TapTap and some rebranding here and there:
Let me know if you have any #twitch #youtube #discord #vtuber emoji/branding etc tips. No idea what I'm doing

#lgbt #trans #queer

PatrickoftheG,
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@SirTapTap Love you and your work, SerTapTap.

PatrickoftheG, to Canada
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What's your favourite RCMP scandal, ? Others can play by adding in fun incidents involving their gendarmerie too.

Once upon a time in Alberta, there was an Albertan farmer who complained about the pollution from a nearby oil site. He complained a lot. He might have even tried bombing them. The oil company didn't like him.

The oil company convinced the RCMP to bomb their infrastructure, which they did, so they could pin it on the farmer. The horsey police did so

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rcmp-bombed-oil-site-in-dirty-tricks-campaign-1.188599

PatrickoftheG,
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Bonus Points: You'd be surprised as the number of times someone at the RCMP thought up the words "let's do a bombing" or "let's pay someone to do a bombing" and everyone stopped, saluted the flag, and declared this a fine tool for use in their arsenal. It's frankly ridiculous. So many times.

PatrickoftheG,
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Here's a question you might be asking yourself.

How can we take the Inuit, get them to give up their Inuit ways, and make them live in modern settlements? Why not a campaign of assassinating their sled dogs for ::checks notes:: health and safety?

I do not know why police love killing dogs so much, it feels very international.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Eskimo_Dog

PatrickoftheG, to random
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A thing I find funny about Americans and the American mindset is that they truly believe, if the other guy wins, or the courts decide, all those regulatory agencies will go away.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, they don't really exist right now if you have the money available to play the game. All the fight is just so that the players won't even have to pay the right bribes in the future. Pardon me. Not bribes. Campaign donations and PACs.

https://undark.org/2024/05/22/beef-climate-friendly-usda/

PatrickoftheG, to random
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Even cows know better than to trust the average man.

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-reveals-cuddled-cows-therapy-animals.amp

bynkii, to random
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Before anyone gets too weepy, allow me to remind you, or inform you, that the “mom & pop/independent” vet clinics have paid vet techs utterly shit wages for the work they do for decades.

Anyone trying to act like the techs are treated well now and will be hurt so badly by this is at best ignorant and at worst the vet who runs their own clinic and pays their techs shit.
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112485111728167135

PatrickoftheG,
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@bynkii Reminds me of the privatization of funeral homes under national chains.

Ladies, gentlemen; the people who have been extorting you for thousands and thousands of dollars, at your time of greatest need, to mutilate a corpse, have been bought out by people who are going to do the same thing for slightly more dollars.

These people are universally fuckers shed no tears.

kaylee, to random
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Well I guess sudden hailstorms that destroy your blinds are a common occurrence now, thanks climate change

PatrickoftheG,
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@kaylee Last year I had a tornado warning, and then about a week later I had a tornado warning, and then later that afternoon I had a maritime tornado warning.

I live in Montreal, Canada.

I am not liking this new climate.

DemocracySpot, to photography
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    PatrickoftheG,
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    @DemocracySpot It's a nice gradient.

    PatrickoftheG, to random
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    I agree with the on this one.

    Hamas would need to kill at least 25000 more innocent Israeli women and children for there to be equivalence between what it did and what Israel did; oh, and they would need to grow Tel Aviv by about 4 times its natural population, and then starve it and thirst it for six months also. Also while eliminating all its civilian infrastructure.

    PatrickoftheG, to random
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    A guilt that I carry is this.

    I hate cleaning up dishes and tools for meal preparation. I hate it so much that I basically live on disposal plates and cutlery, like a monster. I hate it so much I will prepare mostly just slops to eat from one pot or something so I don't have to do anything.

    If it takes longer to plan, get, make, and clean up after than it does to eat I don't want any part of it at all.

    My partner? She loves to cook. She makes delicious, happy food that is a joy to eat...

    khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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    Ghost Runner 2 is in the list of Playstation games this month. Definitely worth adding to your library. Sad that there won’t be any more installments in this series.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @khalidabuhakmeh I saw the first one and my only thought was I am not even sure I can play this. In the same way that I was hyped for Ultrakill but it's just too fast paced with too much weapon juggling going on for my brain.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @khalidabuhakmeh Are you about to seduce me into another Steam purchase aren't you. I didn't know it could be slowed down a bit.

    Daaaang.

    rjblaskiewicz, to random
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    Something that has struck me as I have been looking for a new place is how few of the homes--whether they are obviously occupied or vacant in their Zillow photos--have bookshelves. They certainly do not seem to be an architectural feature of modern homes.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @rjblaskiewicz Having books is great until you have to move your books. As much as I love my physical books, having a few hundred on my phone is almost better.

    SirTapTap, to random
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    Saw a bumper sticker yesterday "I'm just a (unreadable) trying not to raise and LIBERALS"

    imagine hating your kids that much. "None of you better learn none of those facts and medja lit re see. Math was made by the Jews you know"

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @SirTapTap The other day at work I overheard the term "the Jewish sciences" unironically. I am pretty sure I've only come across that unironically in documentaries about the war.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @SirTapTap You know what, I had no idea this was a thing the Christian Science equivalent. You've taught me something new.

    PatrickoftheG, to random
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    I do not understand how this isn't a war against the helot class, at best, or pure and applied ethnic cleansing at worse. It's only important government ministers calling for it, right?

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-14/ty-article-live/u-s-germany-slam-right-wing-israelis-attack-on-gaza-bound-aid-convoy/0000018f-74c8-dd07-adbf-fffa73560000?liveBlogItemId=1166400525

    Cassandra, to random
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    It’s hard not to touch rotating belts…

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @Cassandra I thought it was just me.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @Cassandra It calls to me in a way that things shouldn't call to me.

    timrichards, to random
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    Disturbing, noticed across theatre and live music too. I wonder if the pandemic shifted many people's entertainment habits to online stuff they can do from home.

    Opera Australia posts $4.9m loss, as shift to musicals draws audiences

    (maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/culture/opera/opera-australia-posts-4-9m-loss-as-shift-to-musicals-draws-audiences-20240513-p5jd3w.html

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @timrichards North American example, but the pandemic torpedoed any desire of mine to go sit in a large audience and watch something. Not even the on-going plague part, which obviously isn't good, but more like the realization that I had only been going out to these things out of habit.

    And that a giant screen at home, with recliner, and a good sound system is all the glory and none of the pain of a crowd of people.

    Also, rent keeps going up but my pay doesn't, can't be helping.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @timrichards Small groups of friends can always just come over and watch a movie with my partner and I, though. Is the giant audience of strangers really that important a part of the process? I suppose maybe for a concert or something.

    Not having a giant audience also means never dealing with people shouting, children running up and down the place, people talking on cellphones or eating entire cheese and onion pizzas a meter away from you.

    PatrickoftheG,
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    @timrichards The last time and my partner went out, we remember the price of two popcorns, two drinks, and a thing of cinema candy being like $35 (Canadian), more so than the tickets themselves. I wonder if that's also a factor, because if you're going to do a movie, might as well do one with the fixings at home for a tenth of the price.

    Maybe I just aged out of the demographic who likes going to movies regularly.

    Maybe it's me who has changed.

    PatrickoftheG, to random
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    No, it's not.

    Most websites aren't even worth surrendeeing an email address to read an article, even if it only takes ten seconds to block them afterwards.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68977522

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