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Cefr

@Cefr@beige.party

An allusion to my favorite RHCP song.
And pronounced the same way.
Image is a multicolored whorl of water.
Banner is a larger copy of the same.

Will boost BIPOC/2SLGBTQIA+ news regardless of CW.
If this isn't your preference, unfollow.
No fascists tolerated, I won't engage, just block.

I ignore all DMs, followers or not.

Followback not required, just be you.

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theropologist, to random
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Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.

Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.

Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.

None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?

Cefr,
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@theropologist The blowback wave of machismo.

They were never tolerant, they never gained any perspective or understanding. They just shut up and waited. All the men who were scared shitless of MeToo and queer liberation are regressing and bolstering each other to act more openly about it.

Then others who sit on the fence join in.

Cefr, to random
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Not this shit again. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104799/gamergate-2024-sweet-baby-inc-diversity

mentallyalex, to random
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Happy spring forward to those who celebrate.

Cefr,
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@mentallyalex Of which there are five.

(Spring Worshippers? Plenty. Time Change fans? That.)

neurothing, to random Italian
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Hello, people!

We all need a place to stay. A home. Inside a house.

So, what happens when it's the inspiration for musicians and songwriters? How they feel about? Or is just a wider metaphore?

Let's discover it together, with the today's !

Drop five songs about home or houses.
You can use one or another word. They can express wider concepts.
They can even not be present, but don't go too subjective with this. :-)

Stay together into .

Mine in the next toot.

Cefr,
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@neurothing

Depeche Mode - Home
https://youtu.be/DZHs-SRJbzU

Dredg - Bug Eyes
https://youtu.be/JQz_WjTn68U

Devin Townsend - Why
https://youtu.be/fT-uWOVP5q0 (CW: Cartoon Genitalia in the first 6 seconds.)

Nine Inch Nails - In This Twilight (Live, no music video released)
https://youtu.be/BnRBqEa8XZo

Failure - Apocalypse Blooms (Audio Only)
https://youtu.be/wgRxNB-96pA

RickiTarr, to random
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The 30 Question Test given to black voters and poor whites in Louisiana who couldn't prove they had a 5th grade education, during the Jim Crow Era. Who had to take the test was completely up to the discretion of poll workers, so anyone could be singled out, but you can guess who was. White voters who couldn't prove their education were often asked a single easy question. I don't know very many people who could pass this period, let alone do it in 10 minutes.

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Cefr, (edited )
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@RickiTarr I didn't read the Alt text and had a hard time working through the first page, thinking "well, 20 questions, I'd be stopped at #8 for running out of time and arrested for southern voter fraud."

Then I clicked the last square, "The fuck? There's a third page? I'd have to do three questions a minute?!!!"

I'd lose my shit. They'd have to arrest me.

RickiTarr, to random
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No facial hair could be worse than a soul patc....

Cefr,
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@RickiTarr Oreo Dust. Dip his chin in milk, and it'll just fall in.

RickiTarr, to random
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Kids: MOOOM can we please stop at McDonald's?!

Mom: We have McDonald's at home.

The McDonald's at home:

Cefr,
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@RickiTarr Guessing your town has others, like a taco joint just called Bell, a drive in snacks and drinks place called So, a pizza joint called Little, and a sandwich shop called Way?

(Where were they going without ever knowing the Way?)

majorlinux, to random
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This is absolutely the last thing we need right now.

Walmart is acquiring Vizio to better get to know you - Desk Chair Analysts

https://dcanalysts.net/walmart-is-acquiring-vizio-to-better-get-to-know-you/

Cefr,
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@majorlinux Coupled with Fire TVs being bricked with an update intended to curb side loaded apps to bypass ad Playback on power up... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/amazon-bricks-long-standing-fire-tv-apps-with-latest-update/

Looks like today is a great day... To pull the Ethernet out of the Smart TV or factory wipe the TV, not set up Wi-Fi, then use a different streaming box.

(Both send marketers data on you and your habits. But a Smart TV can have a myriad of sensors and features used against you, and if mounted on a wall, can be a complicated and difficult task to remove. A streaming dongle is much cheaper and easier to throw out.)

TodayInTwitter, to random
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Maybe he should change that.

Cefr,
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@TodayInTwitter Well, that’s a silly claim. Musk is a Transhumanist. Once he has NeuralLink copy his mind, personality and soul to a M.2 NVMe drive*, he’ll never actually die.

(*Actual chance of the copy being anywhere near 1% viable may vary.)

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Wife's just shown me this.....

Professional golfer Georgia Ball - a certified PGA pro recording herself practising her swing, as a random man comes up to tell her she's doing it wrong.......

Professional sports person minding their own business, slow swinging to practice. When the guy pesters her she realises she's got to shut him up so hits the longest and straightest shot I've ever seen on a driving range. She handles him very well but HOLY CHRIST WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DICK!

Cefr,
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@peterbutler @joehill @TheBreadmonkey Some people aren't wired for that, regardless of who they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier

RickiTarr, to random
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So, who should play the Beatles in the Biopics?

Cefr,
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@RickiTarr Depends on the era/tone.

Fun loving? Can't improve on perfection, Walk Hard got it right. Rudd, Black, Schwartzman and Long.

Dramatic? I'd play a different hand.

Lennon: Barry Keoughan (Yeah, would knock John out of the park.)
McCartney: Ben Wishaw (might need rearranging, but Paul's earnestness I think he'd do well.)
Harrison: Jack Bannon (I think he'd hold George's stoic nature down to a T.)
Starr: Tom Ellis (Cast against type! I think he'd have fun as Ringo.)

the_etrain, (edited ) to random
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Worst movie mash-up idea:

Cefr,
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@the_etrain I know Dune is going to win, but still… Interstellar And Confused in Las Vegas…

“We were 15 light years outside of Tau Ceti when the drugs began to kick in.”
“You know the great thing about space, Dad? I got older but you stayed the same-“ “I’m gonna stop you there, honey.”

chargrille, to random
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If anyone needs his mental health evaluated, it's a) the cop who did nothing but point a gun at Aaron's head while he was in flames & b) the people making excuses for bombing over 10,000 children to pieces in Gaza.

The people who want to see Aaron's protest buried, & the slaughter of children in Gaza continue, will talk about only one person's mental health today.

People who protest in this way are not presumptively mentally ill.

Cefr,
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@chargrille X took down the post, sadly

The CNN link also appears to be replaced with a ‘safe for evening news’ video instead, no eyewitness account, nor mention of the video past his spoken words. And the officer pointing a firearm at Aaron disappeared in the narrative. Not surprised.

Al-Jazeera clip on YT before it is removed (it crops out the act when it is time): https://youtu.be/BJpWOikX9jU

I pale at his conviction. Aaron was beyond brave.

Cefr, to random
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Back To The Future if it was shot in 2010:

Marty: “What happens to us in the future, do we become assholes or something?”
Doc Brown: “No, no, no, no, no, Marty, both you and Jennifer are gonna turn out fine. It’s your kids, Marty, something’s gotta be done about your kids! They deny their genders, try to topple patriarchy, stopped having children, and turn away from God!”
Marty: “Doc, turn away from God? Really? I thought you were a scient—“
Doc Brown: ”Goddamn it, Marty, we need to make Biff Tannen President! It’s the only way!”

the_etrain, to random
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Oh well. Looks like viable italics and bold are in play at least.

Cefr,
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@the_etrain @theropologist @Alice @wendinoakland Tusky shows the formatting, but until it's adopted past Glitch I'm not going to use it myself.

Cefr, to random
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I mean, they’re not wrong. Reddit graybeards and moderators are panning the stock plan before the IPO.

This is a world where stocks go up then are divided to punish late buy-in, then stocks are bought back to go private and there isn’t really any rhyme or reason to any of it except a handful of well-positioned folks will make millions and a large portion of everyryone else is paying excessive taxes and getting $32.05 from decades of stock ownership. (Enough for a dinner bill.) And that’s if they’re lucky. They could have worthless stock.

If Huffman thought this would create goodwill, it’s not working. The stocks aren’t being handed out for free, for starters, they’re receiving a “chance” to buy it. It also means for long-term Reddit users who can’t own any stock for various reasons, all of this is meaningless.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/24/24081441/reddit-shares-redditor-ipo-user-risk

Cefr, to random
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Something fun for a change. Here’s me card.
https://nashhigh.itch.io/fedi-cardmaker

RickiTarr, to random
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Can I just say that Homer Hickman is a gatekeeping fuck, and he can suck my dick and balls?

Imagine taking someone's dream job over a curse.

Cefr,
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@RickiTarr @argv_minus_one @Tergenev 100% my take.

Nothing in this communication this enthusiastic kid has done to ruin NASA's reputation would matter weeks from now. Even if it went viral it could have been fixed with "Okay, about yesterday... You're not fired, but here's why that can't happen again... #1..." etc. She didn't learn anything by being fired, I promise.

It's a freaking internship. Most aren't paid, and those that are pale in comparison to a minimum wage job. And 90% of interns will never work at NASA again even if it goes well. All the reason this is a bad look on NASA's part.

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    @Alice

    TonyStark, (edited ) to random
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    I've been very fortunate to find myself in a nice career.

    I know many people who haven’t had the same path and the weight of student loans is financially drowning them. I'm truly happy that this will do something to give back to people who put so much in, but can’t break out from underneath the system.

    This kind of policy won’t be coming from Republicans. Joe Biden has my vote.

    150,000 more student loan borrowers to receive debt relief beginning Wednesday:
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/150000-student-loan-borrowers-receive-debt-relief-beginning/story?id=107395007

    Cefr,
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    @TonyStark I'm in the camp of "I'm lucky enough to have paid my student loans off a decade ago."

    This is great. Less students under soul-crushing debt and able to benefit from their ambitions. 👍

    RickiTarr, to random
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    AI is scary, and it can do a lot of scary things. It is also amazing, and can do things like get a Covid vaccine out faster, help people with disabilities, and help us figure out problems faster, and more efficiently. AI is a tool, and like all tools can be used as a weapon. Should we stop progress, because of the possibilities?

    Also never ever ever forget none of this happens in a vacuum. The rich and powerful would love for you to be distracted by a tool, instead of the people wielding it. We cannot always control the rate of progress, but we can vote for people who want to regulate it.

    Cefr,
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    @RickiTarr Disinformation is rampant on the topic.

    Supporters conflate AI as several technologies that have little to do with each other. The most famous one (LLM) lacks any awareness past a query, and also cannot come to any conclusions of its own. Nobody has any answers for Generative AI relying on millions of artists' work, with AI proponents suggesting, "maybe corporations developing AI should be exempt from IP theft laws" as a fix. AI leaders are pressing the government to ignore actual problems to form committees and task forces on anticipating AI's dangers which nobody can conclusively establish that we are under any threat of at all... past what they seen in Sci-Fi films and read on TV Tropes.com.

    Opportunists (scammers) are buzzwording AI for everything. They're not Macros, it's AI. You're not programming in the cloud anymore, you're engineering AI. (Which the cloud itself is an abstraction for "somebody else's computer.") Good bye thin clients and kiosks, hello AI Terminals. CEOs are taking sales claims from corporations selling AI as a cover-all for every work problem. It is carte blanche to encourage layoffs while raising prices. (A practice which never ends well for any business.)

    As for me, the only question I have is simple: "The bottom fell out of NFTs pretty damn rapidly in less than three years of its existence. How long is this crap going to last?"

    I have yet to be convinced it's a tool past idle curiosity and niche situations. The stance of "this will be everything for everyone" is betting a lot on innovations that have yet to happen at all.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    How do you feel about physical touch? I mean this is the broad sense, not necessarily in a sexual way, but you can answer however you wish.

    Personally, I enjoy it a lot, and find it comforting, but only from really specific people. If strangers or people I don't know well want to hug me, it's okay, but I won't seek it out. I think handshakes are weird. Hey, you want to hold hands with a stranger for a short amount of time for some reason?

    Cefr,
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    @RickiTarr I grew up in a touch-starved family with seven siblings and a stepfather who was sent to jail for sexual abuse.

    I've had women, both romantic interests as well as friends call me out on the lack of touch on my part. (I'm not on the autistic spectrum, I try to do what a romantic partner asks but no further than what I'm told.) I don't seek any treatment nor try to learn what is appropriate with strangers and society, I am what I am.

    I don't touch people by default. That makes me a shit dance partner. I'm fine with that.

    "No Sir, I Dont Like It." Horse from Ren & Stimpy.

    Cefr, to random
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    In case you need it (likely not) further proof Dave Ramsey is an asshole. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dont-pass-math-homebuyers-call-130700730.html

    Even following his advice still won't buy you a house playing by his rules, because it's your fault you don't earn $11,000 a month. This is a rich bastard who gets his joy teasing the poor with relief then slapping them for not being rich.

    This isn't learning via tough love. This is ridicule and humiliation of the masses as entertainment. Get debt free on your terms, not his.

    Cefr, to random
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    I think I found the real origin of Beige.Party.

    Same as prior image but zoomed in to Sunday: Fondlebum BEIGE The Crucifixion Pyjamas Pavlov & The Dribblers Harpsichord of Death Arrogant Sandwiches

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It has been a minute since I've done a music question, and it seems like a fun day for it, so:

    What is your Pump Yourself Up Kickass Song?

    Here's one of my favorites:

    https://youtu.be/3CGxxJeQ6Tk?si=1cVMNoZWQzNOSpOA

    Cefr,
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    @RickiTarr Silversun Pickups, "Panic Switch"
    https://youtu.be/HfUJIpJV25g

    Brian's always been a rock star, also Nikki in her shy years corrects Dave Letterman at the end, and it's hilarious. Joe has the keys on lock, looking stylish.

    But never take your eyes off of the drummer.

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