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carturo222

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Reviewer at Hugo-winning, Ignyte-winning blog Nerds of a Feather. Longlisted for the 2022 and 2023 Best Fan Writer Hugos. Buy my book: https://mybook.to/ToClimatesUnknown https://books2read.com/u/3J6KYX

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carturo222,
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@rip_art_bell
I found an outlet for my news sharing habit.

carturo222, to geekdom
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This is your infrequent reminder that I post geekdom news, world news, and science news at these Kbin magazines that you can follow from Mastodon:

@geekdom
@newsdom
@loredom

annaleen, to random
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I am in Paris! Ask me anything.

carturo222,
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@annaleen Setting aside baguettes and croissants and brioches, what French breads would you recommend?

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

Do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades play with their tongue in their mouths constantly?

Licking the teeth etc.

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic

carturo222,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic
I've been known to distractedly chew on my tongue in a way that has been described by observers as obscene.

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

Good evening comrades!

Who are some of your favorite musicians that bring you a huge smile?

@actuallyautistic

carturo222,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Minimalists are my catnip. Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass.

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

Do my comrades love their plushies / stuffed animals?

Are they a big part of your life?

What do they mean to YOU?

Who are your favorites? Where are they from? Is there a story?

Introduce them!

@actuallyautistic

carturo222,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic
In our home, we somehow ended up following the rule that there must be an animal for each trip we go on, and it must be in black and white.

Plush panda, zebra, horse and dog.

bedirthan, to random
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I need ideas for what a Master Barber would do in a fantasy world

carturo222,
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@bedirthan
Help werewolves blend in.

montecook, to random
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I realized today that I'm still wrapping my mind around the Fediverse. For example, if I want a Lemmy account, do I have to have a separate instance from my Mastodon account or can they be the same (and if so, how?)

Any help is appreciated.

carturo222,
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@montecook
To post and read Lemmy content from within a Lemmy website, yes, you'd need to sign up at a Lemmy instance.
Another, more convoluted option is to paste Lemmy links onto Mastodon and reply to them from here, but it doesn't always translate well. Especially creating new Lemmy posts from Mastodon is a headache if you don't pay attention to the order of formatting.

carturo222,
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@montecook Even worse, following a Lemmy instance from Mastodon will inundate your timeline because Mastodon doesn't know how to distinguish between a main Lemmy post and all the replies to it.

carturo222,
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@Tim_Eagon @montecook For Lemmy and Kbin, I've been tempted to try managing everything from Friendica, which does import posts with replies in the proper format.

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carturo222,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic How did you discover your autism?

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    carturo222,
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    @GossiTheDog An AI trained on today's Twitter? Gosh, he really went ahead and built the Torment Nexus.

    carturo222, to random
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    One of the most interesting contacts I made at the Chengdu Worldcon was with César Santiváñez, a member of a group of science fiction writers from Peru:
    https://theconversation.com/peruvian-writers-tell-of-a-future-rooted-in-the-past-and-contemporary-societal-issues-206264

    aldroid, to random
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    i keep pressing ctrl-b but i still can't control bees

    carturo222,
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    @aldroid You need to be bolder.

    slyflourish, to DnD
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    tip: Warn players of the dangers their characters face.

    carturo222,
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    @slyflourish So much this. I've been trying to get other DMs to understand that the job is to make the player's life easier, the character's life harder, and never confuse the two.

    nadinestorying, (edited ) to folklore
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    For the start of both Caribbean Folklore Month and Black Speculative Fiction Month, I highly recommend the anthology Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, edited by the inimitable Nalo Hopkinson, for lovers of fantasy, Caribbean stories, and folklore. Go on and treat your shelf!










    @folklore

    carturo222,
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    @nadinestorying @folklore
    This is relevant to @shaunduke's interests.

    kagan, to music
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    I can never get over the extreme divergence between:

    1. what you'd think a band named "Massive Attack" would sound like; and
    2. what they actually sound like.

    carturo222,
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    @kagan @michaelgemar Acoustically surprising band names include also:
    The Airborne Toxic Event
    Arcade Fire
    The Boxer Rebellion
    The Civil Wars
    Cold War Kids
    Collapse Under the Empire
    Crippled Black Phoenix
    Estampie
    A Fine Frenzy
    The Jungle Giants
    The Killers
    The Kills
    Nothing But Thieves
    She Wants Revenge
    The Temper Trap
    Those Who Ride With Giants
    Volcano Choir
    The War on Drugs
    Wild Rivers

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    I begin to think that we are not throwing enough precious objects into the lakes and bogs anymore

    carturo222,
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    @kissane I don't recommend it. We used to do that in Colombia, the Spanish conquerors heard about it, and it snowballed into the myth of El Dorado.

    Wiswell, to random
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    A podcaster complained that she was hosted for dinner and then the family screened a movie with subtitles despite her thinking none of them were deaf or needing them.

    Look: people don't always disclose their disabilities to you, and they don't have to.

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    @Wiswell I'm a certified translator of English, and even I need subtitles to get what people are saying.

    TheSpaceshipper, to random
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    Andor is one year old today.
    This show is exactly what I'd given up hoping for, from a big IP. I never thought a Star Wars series would be one of my favorites of the year.

    What's your favorite scene?
    (for me, it's extremely hard to choose 🤣)

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    carturo222,
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    @TheSpaceshipper When Mon Mothma chooses to damage her relationship to her husband so that the traitorous chauffeur can report lies to the Empire.

    Chuymatt, to music

    I have a question for you all. What is your favorite cover or covers? No, I’m not talking about where we have another band singing the exact same song. What songs have you heard that were taken by an artist and completely made their’s?

    An example would be hurt by Nine Inch Nails Covered by Johnny Cash

    carturo222,
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    @Chuymatt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV43rJ0a5iA

    slyflourish, to DnD
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    tip: Make NPC names distinct from one another.

    carturo222,
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    @slyflourish Counterpoint: make all NPCs work like Pokemon nurses. All bartenders in all towns are called Stu, all look the same, all are cousins.
    Counter-counterpoint: All bartenders in all towns are the same Stu. He has fourteen part-time jobs.

    carturo222,
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    @ernest @fr0g There's nothing you have to apologize for. We know Kbin is a passion project and we feel the same passion for it.

    carturo222, to random
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    There's normal uncaffeinated, and then there's "almost walked out the door wearing a belt over my belt" uncaffeinated.

    annaleen, to random
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    We often hear the phrase "first they came for the [vulnerable marginalized group], but I didn't say anything ... then they came for me." Simplistic, but we have actually seen this happen repeatedly in history, where a repressive regime starts with soft targets.

    We also often hear "if we don't protect Nazi speech, they'll come for [vulnerable marginalized group] speech." I can't think of any real-life examples of this, though. Can you? Please advise!

    carturo222,
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    @annaleen It appears that the American occupation of defeated Germany went too strict with the supression of anything remotely resembling Nazi speech:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification#Censorship

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Control_Division#Critiques

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