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unprovoked

@unprovoked@petrous.vislae.town

Married cat dad, data entry worker bee, union steward. I enjoy snacks, fresh air, speculative fiction, and I spend a lot of time just staring at the sky. You can also find me at https://lincolnite.net/@unprovoked.

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Binder, to random
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One nice thing about hating the Dallas Cowboys is that I’ve spent decades doing so w/o ever learning or caring who’s even on the team.

unprovoked,
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@Binder If I can find my grandfather's old copy of The Semi-Official Dallas Cowboys Haters' Handbook (1984), it's all yours.

Binder, to random
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Considering the possibility that the goddess of California may be Too Generous in her bestowal of the gift of holiday tourists unto my life.

unprovoked,
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@Binder "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it" – a curse upon everyone else, probably.

Binder, to random
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Well, hey, I didn’t spend all those years running Dungeons & Dragons & not learn a little something about Fair Use.

unprovoked,
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@Binder See, I enjoyed playing Rifts because IP could flow in the other direction – we'd hide among downed X-Wings to return fire at Invid invaders. Then one night the whole party was absolutely bodied by Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (my fault; I had jokingly suggested it to the GM, who then gleefully derived their stats from their depictions in the comics – very, very bad for us).

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, what movie/TV show/ book has the best take on time travel and why?

unprovoked, (edited )
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@RickiTarr @Binder Movies: Looper (2012), 12 Monkeys (1995), and La Jetée (1962) – self-contained ecosystems and neatly threaded loops. Books: This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) – epistolary romance, temporal combat, blissful resolution; and The Psychology of Time Travel (2018) – "Era-hopping sex, trauma and therapy … four scientists make a world-changing discovery in a novel that breaks the rules of detective fiction, space and time." (Sarah Ditum for The Guardian)

unprovoked,
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@RickiTarr @Binder Okay, one more book: The Time Traveler's Wife (2003). Crisscrossing timelines, similar to River Song's diary – "Spoilers!" – in that characters try to pin down where they are in each other's timelines. The final scene snapped something in me; I haven't reread the book in 20 years.

unprovoked, to random
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unprovoked, to random
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On we give and get butt pats.

kurt, to random
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"Pessimism in theory, optimism in practice." -- can't remember who

unprovoked,
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@kurt @Binder Lieven De Cauter? https://www.artbook.com/9789462086111.html

unprovoked, to random
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"Our first-ever charity compilation, FADER and Friends is a Bandcamp-exclusive collection bringing together previously unheard cover songs from 44 exceptional artists. 100% of the profits from sales of the album will be split equally between the Transgender Law Center (U.S.A.), Mermaids (U.K.), and Rainbow Railroad (Canada)." https://faderlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fader-friends-volume-1

RickiTarr, to random
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Which cartoon character do you have a crush on and why?

unprovoked,
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@RickiTarr Now: Captain Carter (MCU version). Then: Diana the Acrobat, Tess Darrett, and Nausicaä. Principled, selfless, steadfast. In short, enforcers one and all. (Just my type.)

Diana the Acrobat (from the 1983 animated series Dungeons and Dragons), a Black high school student transported to the titular fantasy realm, stands with her arms folded and looks skeptically at someone or something out of frame. She is wearing a cloth or fur tube top, gold armbands, a gold collar necklace, and bejeweled headband.
Tess Darrett (from the 1984 animated series Pole Position) sits in the driver's seat of her high-tech AI-powered car. She wears a light vest over an open-collar shirt, accented by a red cravat. She is smiling, looking towards someone out of frame, and holding a racing helmet ready to be put on.
Nausicaä, a 16-year-old red-haired princess, scowls at someone out of frame. Her animal companion, a black and orange striped fox-squirrel (exactly what it sounds like) named Teto, perches on her shoulder. From the 1984 feature-length anime Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

unprovoked, to random
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Duran Duran, "Hungry Like the Wolf - Live" Songwhip link: https://songwhip.com/duran-duran/hungry-like-the-wolf-live

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your first experience with the Internet? How old were you? What did you look at?

unprovoked,
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@RickiTarr I was six or seven, playing Star Trek and Dungeon in an Ole Miss computer lab (where my mother was a grad student). Later we got an Apple II Plus and Micromodem II, and I played mostly Dungeon from home.

unprovoked,
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@RickiTarr My full awakening, as it were, came a decade later when a friend gave me a shell account on his dot-org and another friend said let me show you the gospel of ISCA BBS.

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I'm totally against the death penalty except for people who send a message starting with "Hi..." and disrupt my thought process causing me to write this while I'm furiously waiting for them to type their next message...

....which also turns out to not be the end, or even a complete thought, but just the second in a string of messages slowly fleshing out what could have been sent in one go.

(The only thing worse being when they wait for a response after the initial greeting)

unprovoked,
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@Binder @KatS @vidar Someone just came by my desk – while I was shoulder-deep in clerical muck – to apologize for not letting me know they would be away from their desk... two hours ago. That is, they came to tell me they composed a DM but didn't hit Send before going to their meeting. Took me four passes to find my place and finish the interrupted task.

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You know those magic eye posters that were everywhere in the '90s? I feel like if we want to get rid of AI copying artists, we just need to go back to that being the exclusive medium people work with for a bit. Maybe we can mix and match techniques - a magic eye poster that contains a buffer overflow. Find Waldo somewhere within this picture but first solve this P vs. NP problem.

unprovoked,
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@monkeyninja @Binder Do you want Snow Crash? Because this is how you get Snow Crash.

kierkegaank, (edited ) to random
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Who narrates your biopic?
(Male version)

unprovoked,
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@kierkegaank @Binder Bronson Pinchot. His reading of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by @pluralistic haunts me still.

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    unprovoked,
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    @Binder Mallrats (1995, directed by Kevin Smith)

    unprovoked, to random
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    Mon Laferte, "El Beso" Songwhip link: https://songwhip.com/mon-laferte/el-beso

    richardinsandy, to Bloomscrolling
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    The milkweed in our parking strip has gone to seed, so time to collect and spread some seeds.

    unprovoked,
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    @richardinsandy @Binder This reminds me: my previous job was with an organic certification agency. A particular requirement is that seed sources are documented. One farmer submitted his annual renewal application stating that his milkweed source was "from God" (wild-harvested, we'll assume), and included a resplendent seed pod with his paperwork. I couldn't upload the pod, so I took some photos for his digital file.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is a small indie type movie, that you think never really quite got its due?

    My Choice: Sanctuary (2022)
    There's a kind of movie I love that is basically black box theater, a room, a few actors, very little in the way of effects, all the weight of the movie is on the acting, directing, and writing, and this movie delivers that. I guess you would call it a sexual thriller, but it's about perception, power dynamics, and intentions. It keeps you guessing until the end, and even then...it's on Hulu if you have a subscription.

    unprovoked,
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    @RickiTarr Kontroll (2003), which I describe to my partner as "that Hungarian subway movie that I want to show you." https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/film/kontroll.5912

    Binder, to random
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    I'm so old that I remember when instead of stfw for information, we'd send a SASE to Pueblo, Colorado & wait.

    unprovoked,
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    @Binder In this way, ZIP code 81009 is forever engraved on my brain, much like OH TWO ONE THREE FOUR.

    unprovoked, to random
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    The reigning queen and jester.

    An orange tabby cat with white "mask and mantle" and belly nestles in a yellow blanket. He has orange eyes, white whiskers, and a birthmark on the tip of his nose. Sunlight streams from the right, through a window not visible in frame, leaving him half lit and half in shadows.

    unprovoked, to poetry
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    Looking forward to the slam tonight. (I won't read, but maybe some day.) Wish I'd stayed asleep while it still was raining this morning. Random: I miss being on the radio.

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    "I'm a grower, not a shower," she says of the fungal fruiting bodies she's cultivated in the damp dark cavity where her vital organs used to be.

    unprovoked,
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    @azedand2knots @Binder Love this as a prequel/sequel/AU to Bradbury's "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!"

    Binder, to random
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    Encrypting my notes from the kids by writing them in cursive.

    unprovoked,
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    @Binder My 8th-grade science teacher said he did this in college – using shorthand.

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