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jpaskaruk

@jpaskaruk@growers.social

Neurodivergent Manitoba Interlake settler (Zone 3, Treaty One), musician, grower of consumables, parent of felines and canines. He/Him/Goblin.
Pic is a middle aged bearded white dude in a Bill Monroe t-shirt, looking thoughtful.
Banner is #Hellbert
I do mainly two kinds of posts: my animals, and Jalapeno Takes on politics and whatnot.
If you're not into the opinionating, #BoDoodle and #GorgeyTheGolden will get you just my dogs. Mute my boosts, I do too many.

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jpaskaruk, to random
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Has anyone seeing this ever replaced the resin in a water softener?

Uair, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

jpaskaruk,
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@elysegrasso @deirdrebeth @alexlubertozzi @aprilfollies @_L1vY_ @Uair @bookstodon

One need not fully understand relativity, though, to play with it as a plot device. I can't claim to understand it completely, but I do understand what it does if people travel at certain speeds.

So far I have not seen the term "Hard SF" in this thread, and that's the type of SF that concerns itself with scientific accuracy, and that strain appeared after the genre was established, in the golden age.

jpaskaruk, to random
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I just adore how the techbro media has started using "activist investor" in the same way christian fascists used to complain about "activist judges" (though they don't seem to be so incensed about judges ruled by some bullshit ideologies).

The important thing here is that "activist" be associated with "bad people who want to ruin things".

Call them what they are, @mmasnick - capitalists.

jpaskaruk,
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@mmasnick

Before you get too pissed, there's still the respect of calling you "media" in there. You're one of my daily reads.

But if you really care that much about this random opinion, you seem to have a fairly rosey view of the modern internet and what it has become, imo, with too much assumption that this is the only way it could have gone or should have gone.

Yes, 230 is fundamental to everything, and maybe that is not the self-evident win that you and Jack think it is. Look around.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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The Dead Kennedys singles collection from 1979 to 1982.

Hardly any band has produced more socially relevant songs than the Dead Kennedys

What is your top single from the band?

For me it’s definitely “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”

jpaskaruk,
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@historyofpunkrock

When I stole my uncle's recorded tape, the first song that came on when I threw it in was Kill The Poor, and I come from a rather black-humoured clan, so that tends to be what bubbles to the top for me.

That said, it was a combination of reading the titles "Too Drunk To Fuck" and "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" that made me steal the tape in the first place.

jpaskaruk, to animals
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Inept Yin Yang.

Not pictured: The eye-watering smell coming off . We're gonna go buy something called SkunkOff today on a friend's reco. He is also going to the groomer this week, happily.

Gorgey don't care if his brother stinks.

jpaskaruk, to music
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Jello Biafra + pissed off Canadians = the song you want playing when you hijack a semi to drive it through a police barricade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHrCGcTEeQ

appassionato, to Women
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Serenity

She made them dance.

@palestine



jpaskaruk,
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@appassionato @palestine

https://growers.social/@jpaskaruk/112378070563940064

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

jpaskaruk,
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@Jennifer @bookstodon

Recently active, I have greatly enjoyed The Expanse, @scalzi , Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Becky Chambers, Cixin Liu, China Mieville (sorta-kinda SFish) and I'm finally working though @pluralistic which I should have started on literal decades ago.

I binged all the problematic Golden Age dudes too, and they do seem to be aging like badly-sealed radioactive waste, don't they?

jpaskaruk,
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@todwest @headfirstonly @philip_cardella @Jennifer @bookstodon

I would also trust Taika Waititi with it, if it was up to me, but he's (hopefully I think) developing the other property that I've been pining for since forever:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15843316/

jpaskaruk,
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@LordWoolamaloo @Jennifer @bookstodon

Someone say Babylon 5

Gif of shaggy white dog waking up and looking at the camera with his tongue still blepping out.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Why is this hard? IF JOE DOESN’T WIN, you will have to move if you don’t want to die. Have you heard of WWII?

jpaskaruk,
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@StillIRise1963 @superflippy

Lotta space up here in the Manitoba Interlake, and the water is still mostly good. Assuming I live the optimistic lifespan, I expect to be one of the welcoming ones when caravans arrive, and definitely in conflict with a legion of nimby scumbags.

But some of us are gonna be ready to receive yall, whether it's fascism or mother earth herself who displaces you.

jpaskaruk,
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@StillIRise1963 @superflippy

Won't lie, reading The Lost Cause by @pluralistic reshaped my ideas about the future, where I am, and created the conditions for me doing that toot. It's not exactly an optimistic novel, but it is fecund with mindbombs of the constructive kind and I'm harassing everyone I know to read it now. :>

jpaskaruk, to animals
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Whatever the problem is, my advice is, find a golden retriever.

adhdeanasl, to random
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I bet there’s an account somewhere dedicated to autotuned farts

jpaskaruk,
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@Alice @DemocracySpot @adhdeanasl

As a Canadian I am gonna have to confiscate Neil Degrassi Tyson, he has some outstanding warrants and Mr Jeremiah does NOT handle failure well.

jpaskaruk, to random
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Won't be making the @pluralistic talk in tonight, cause broke af, but that does not mean you shouldn't.

If I had the world's ear for a minute, I'd hand him the mic.

jpaskaruk, to animals
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No, Mr Bond, I expect you to bring tuna. Here. Immediately.

edit: by the way, her eyes are permanently goopy. We have enough trust that I can go in and clean em out but it's back in like ten minutes. This is not the worst of her problems either, but look at her. Just look at her.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's strange to me when I see people get upset about people doing good deeds, and posting it online.

"They're just doing it for attention!"

Yeah, so what? I'd much rather see people doing nice things for attention, than the people who do mean pranks or wasting food. A good deed is still good, even if it's done for the wrong reasons.

jpaskaruk,
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@RickiTarr

I'd like to see people stop using "virtue signalling" as well. Using the phrase is basically "asshole signalling".

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

jpaskaruk,
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@TCatInReality @benroyce @wvlith @GottaLaff

...just a question of which side of the war they like, in some cases. I feel like it's Dems Ukraine, GOP Russia on this one...

jpaskaruk,
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@benroyce @TCatInReality @wvlith @GottaLaff

There's also these things that we sign as nations, called "treaties" that people really should study up on, more generally.

Here in Canada, a lot of white people act like we are somehow being charitable to First Nations people, who are taking things out of our pockets. Their ignorance of the treaties creates this delusion.

It's okay to have feelings about globalization, but it's also a delicate and serious thing on which a lot of us depend.

skykiss, (edited ) to lies
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If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.

Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/fox-news-dominion-lies/index.html

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/09/1103690822/group-aiming-to-defund-disinformation-tries-to-drain-fox-news-of-online-advertis

jpaskaruk,
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@skykiss

This is why anyone who used the "genocide joe" a couple months back tag got a block/unfollow. I know an easily-manipulated bleating sheep when I see one.

jpaskaruk, to random
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I'm not honestly sure it's such a good idea for @pluralistic to keep writing novels. He's giving them too many ideas.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

jpaskaruk, to random
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Ok so I want some nice yellow raincoats with cute little yellow hats for these doggos. My explorations of local pet shops, while not extensive, have been unsatisfactory. I have seen photos of dogs in raincoats like I'm describing so I know they exist.

I don't trust the money exchanging internet anymore, outside of maybe a few Etsy artists, and even if I did I can't find em. Grumble.

They're all wet.

jpaskaruk, to animals
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wishes a good night to all frens

dgar, to random
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jpaskaruk,
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@dgar

I appreciate you doing this here, instead of (or perhaps as well as) some platform that you would stand a good chance of getting the viral money on.

You must be a h̶e̶l̶l̶ heck of a dad cause this is next-level dad humor.

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