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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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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/

jynersolives, (edited ) to VideoGames
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Question: in where you can set your character's looks, do you try to make them as much alike to you as possible or do you play out your phantasies?

datn,
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@jynersolives "fantasy me" these days, but before I got old and swollen I always did "real me"

datn,
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@jynersolives part of the reason i play video games! "look at that guy move! zero knee problems"

larsfrommars, to random
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ive been watching these for an hour now and they arent entertaining at all

datn,
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@larsfrommars you are not the target audience. the crackers effectively entertain wheat without fail. side tip: they also work on rye BUT NOT SPELT

datn, to random
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I missed the Assange Talk at by an absolute hair -- I made it into the hall, but standing was so crowded I decided to watch from outside, only to find that it was not being streamed or recorded. sigh

tess, to random
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One of the advantages of being on Mastodon is that I get a lot of practice reading continental European languages.

I'm starting to almost get the hang of Dutch.

(Almost.)

datn,
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@tess apropos of little, I have long said that Dutch is German spoken by someone with a profound hangover.

datn, to random
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protip: don't look at the ceilings of train station restrooms

datn, to random
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now downloading about 20 years of listening history from last/libre fm via my new crush, listenbrainz

datn, to random
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how did I lose all my Mastodon.art follows?!?! @welshpixie I missed you! I'm sitting here and I just realized I hadn't seen a post in a while.

what is afoot :(

heliomass, to Montreal
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🛤️ “The Dividing Line - Can Montreal's Dangerous Rail Underpasses Be Fixed?” https://heliomass.com/posts/112-the-dividing-line/

I’m struggling to get some interesting posts out this month, so here’s a rerun from earlier this year.

datn,
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@heliomass consider also archive.today!

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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I remember the Bush II presidency. Both of them. Nobody...nobody seems to recall the tension back then because it's been ratcheted up so many levels since, but Bush was not well liked.

datn,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 don't worry, some of us remember. you know, he was a war criminal so, like, it stuck with us.

datn,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 @passenger every time Michelle Obama chucks him on the shoulder and says, "great painting, W.," I remember that Guantanamo never closed

RickiTarr, to random
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Show me the most 80's thing you can think of!

datn,
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@RickiTarr there are two Eighties, just as with every decade: low Eighties (1979-1984) and high Eighties (1985-1989).

Tiffany Darwish (high Eighties)

datn,
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@RickiTarr 1979 is special and has been curated into the low Eighties because nothing that happened in the Eighties could have happened without 1979.

datn,
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@RickiTarr also the high Seventies were already full

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    datn,
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    @lzg @matasar I want an "AI Auto Piolit" to tell me what to do. sounds sexy

    datn, to random
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    oh. the test printing of my novel arrived already. I have rarely seen anything quite so beautiful

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I, admittedly, curse way too much, but I just adore a faux curse. When I was a kid, one of my Mom's friends was a very proper Southern lady. Instead of saying "They think their shit don't stink" she would say, "Some people think they poo poo vanilla ice cream".

    What is your favorite faux curse?

    datn,
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    @RickiTarr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjv7FYrX78o

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Let's talk about ATTRACTION! Talk about anything you want on the topic, but here's some things I'm wondering about:

    Do you think we have any control over who we are attracted to?

    Have you ever been attracted to someone, and knew it was bad when you went in?

    If so, how did you get out of it?

    Do you think attraction is instant or something that can grow?

    What do you think attraction is a product of?

    datn,
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    @RickiTarr I think we can act to quell attraction if we try really hard and do so in time. I was attracted to someone really bad for me, and it took me forever to stop seeing her. I swear part of it was the evil concoction of essential oils she wore, but of course mainly it was just unhealthy impulses on my part. I finally drew a boundary and walked away, but I'd be a liar if I said I never... well... you know.

    datn, to random
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    Female Relative Killed by Charging Forest Animal

    datn, to random
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    perfectly happy for the broader culture to fill to bursting with stuff I don't like, as long as my continued deliberate ignorance thereof doesn't count against me in salary negotiations

    datn, to random
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    now come the frenzied analyses of Kissinger's career that, if they had come 30 years ago, would really have helped most folks continue to ignore his war crimes, which is what they want to do and therefore what they would and will do no matter how much info you throw at them

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is your Mandela Effect Memory?

    If you aren't sure what I'm talking about here's a reference:

    https://www.scienceofpeople.com/mandela-effect/

    datn,
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    @RickiTarr M. Emmet Walsh being named J. Emmet Walsh. i bet a friend $10 that i was right about it at a time when i really didn't have $10 to blow and really could have used the money, that's how confident i was about it.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is a word that you had read, but after hearing it spoken aloud, you realized you were pronouncing completely wrong in your head?

    Mine is pretty Embarrassing, and is just one of many!

    MISLED! I'm not even sure how to type this out for it to make sense, but it was something like:

    Myz-ulled

    datn,
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    @RickiTarr mine was "demerit". I was stressing the last syllable. my ex's word was "chaos". she thought it rhymes with "cows" -- "shaows".

    datn,
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    @RickiTarr "misle" would rhyme with "reprisal"

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