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datn

@datn@xoxo.zone

Living in the wilds of Berlin. Peripatetic reclusive. Working in the wikiverse. Writing, biking, movies, community.

Novelist: Durance Vile.

Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/datn

Matrix: @datn:mozilla.org

Previously @spanner.works, @mastodon.social, @hact.org.

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datn, to random
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oh, the faux-butthurt mods at Stack Exchange wrote me a sad and vaguely threatening email about my having deleted my answers from their site (which i did because they partnered with OpenAI).

i revised and expanded my initial response ("go fuck yourselves") and hopefully improved upon it. i'm still mad tho! time to take a walk.

datn,
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@annika yeah, I got "You cannot delete this accepted answer". I just deleted what I could and then scheduled my accounts for deletion. fuck every single one of those disingenuous assholes.

datn, to random
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TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD

datn, to random
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whenever i see a post describing a beautiful tourist destination, i find myself craving the flipside: a detailed account from a longtime resident, not necessarily slagging off the tourists but just providing the rest of the story.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, I was on a long drive yesterday, and put on some pump me up music, so I didn't get sleepy. I just put something on YouTube, and I ended up in the group of music that I would call Peak Mid to Late Millenial. For perspective, I'm one of the Gappers, not quite old enough to be Gen X, but also feel too old to be a Millenial, although I suppose I technically am, just an Ancient one. ANYWAY, this music, on the surface, sounds like bubble gum pop dance music, the kind you dance in "da club" to, but as I was listening, I realized most of the lyrics had a trend that broke down basically to this:

Get your friends together, drink heavily, have sex, party, DANCE, GO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, because we will all probably die young anyway.

Most of these songs are probably between 10-15 years old, and honestly probably really caught onto the zeitgeist of the time. Hope didn't work, we are still caught in a shit conflict none of us want to be in. The world is actively burning, and no one in power wants to save it. We make less money than our parents and their parents, we'll probably never get to own a home, we'll probably have college debt forever, if we could even afford to go. Might as well party your life away. I do wonder if Trump was a pretty big slap in the face about how bad it could really go, because this Apocalypse attitude seems to be changing a bit, or maybe Gen Z is just rebelling against their sad grunge Gen X parents. LOL

Either way, that was some kind of a ramble, share your thoughts on this, and listen to a peak representation of this musical phenomenon. It's kind of a banger.

https://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48?si=e9ZwpiRj9A5Q9hfT

datn,
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@RickiTarr don't forget, we grew up believing the world would end in nuclear fire in a matter of years.

datn, to random
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fuck the New York Times for using the passive voice to erase the identity of Katherine Maher's social media attacker, right-wing sleaze Christopher Rufo.

fuck the New York Times. okay?

datn, to random
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good morning fellow breathers

vernissage, to random
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As you may already heard Vernissage will became independent platform (backend and web). One of the Fediverse 🌎 part like Mastodon, Writefreely, Pixelfed and others.

For this reason I would like to change current Vernissage for Pixelfed client name. Something that you will like and connect with Pixelfed 😉.

On this occasion, please send me your suggestions on what the new Vernissage for Pixelfed could be called. This is an app created with ❤️, for you, and you can create a part of it.

datn,
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@vernissage FedGallery? Photo Tour? PixPosition? Deflex?

datn, to random
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hey, I'm in San Francisco

datn,
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@skinnylatte thanks! I'm from here so this is a reunion tour :)

datn, to random
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people posting things saying "look at this toxic shit I found on a site you deliberately avoid" are eventually going to get unfollowed or blocked. mind blowing that people should, of all things, CURATE toxic shit into my feed.

datn, to random
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listening to a podcast hosted by two dudes more than ten years younger than me, and they're learning about Skibidi Toilet* for the first time. perhaps there's some hope for me yet.

*DO NOT ASK ME WHAT SKIBIDI TOILET IS

datn, to random
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it's time for the "sorry I'm trying to delete it" trend to end. drives me batty

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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I need book recommendations for something I won't be able to put down.

I enjoy suspense, but not gore, multigenerational novels, autobiographies, time travelish books, but not science fiction, historical fiction, & some fantasy.

So, what ya' got for me?

datn,
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@Saltssaltgirl how's about these?:

Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (historical time-travel novel)
Ducks, by Kate Beaton (autobiographical graphic novel)
Bathing the Lion, by Jonathan Carroll (bizarre suspense-ish fantasy, very hard to classify)

I'm loving the other suggestions! glad you're finding stuff that looks good.

datn, to berlin
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one of the strangest and most unexpected things about living in is that, even in 2024, occasionally you get an urgent warning about the city preparing to disarm a WWII bomb.

MachineLordZero, to gaming
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Hey, can anyone tell me some games where you start off in a trashed base, or even just ruins, and you've gotta fix it up?
Bonus points for sci-fi, NPCs who'll move in, and town management.
Prefer not first person perspective, but will still look at

datn,
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@MachineLordZero Stardew Valley and Graveyard Keeper both start in fixer-upper states, though they're not SF, of course.

datn, to random
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does xoxo.zone have a policy or strategy in place regarding the Bluesky opt-out bridge(s), @annika ?

datn,
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@annika thank you for the response!

datn,
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@annika thanks a million for the update! very reasonable.

datn, to random
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thank you @annika for keeping this server up to date. <3

the_etrain, to random
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My favorite thing about Dukes of Hazzard was how they'd shout "IT'S DUKIN' TIME!" when they finally got the drop on the bad guys.

datn,
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@the_etrain my favorite thing was how they drove around in a car covered in swastikas and death's-heads

tess, to random
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iRobot facing "death" because it only has 46% of the market is bonkers to me; capitalism has forgotten what to do with a mature company.

"We sell vacuums to half the population" is no longer a valid business model, evidently.

datn,
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@tess did capitalism ever know what to do with one?

datn, to random
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i would like to do a podcast with someone. topic: knowledge i have that will probably die with my generation. tip: we don't have to be the same generation

datn,
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@arratoon this sounds like reasonably fertile material for an interview! if you're interested I'll write up the format that is floating in my head.

datn, to random
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seven years ago I stood in my kitchen in Portland and decided I had to change my life, get out of tech. now I live in Berlin, and this weekend I self-published my first novel.

guess I have good instincts sometimes!

https://elaboratefiction.com/

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