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zakalwe

@zakalwe@plasmatrap.com

Culture Special Circumstances, detached.

pp desc for vision impaired: The N7 (Systems Alliance Special Forces) Seal from the Mass Effect games.

Neuro-spicy. Aspie pretending (sometimes badly) to be human (at least, it often feels that way) while fighting depression and chronic insomnia. Aspiring mostly-SF writer, burned-out IT geek, humanist who wants to see us make at least a token effort to stop enshittifying our entire planet. Is there really anything so incredibly, soul-threateningly terrible about the idea of giving a shit about other people?

Something I said pissed you off? It may be a misunderstanding, I'm far from immune to foot-in-mouth disease. Please check with me before you assume it was malicious. It most likely wasn't. If I don't think you're someone worth talking to, I just won't talk to you in the first place, period.

Follow-backs: If you have something to say, sure. No posts? Nothing to say? What would be the point? In the words of @PatternChaser, "I don't follow back, I follow interesting." I'm trying to keep the signal-to-noise ratio in my feed high. Still, if you follow me and I see it, I will do my best to at least find time to look. I can't guarantee I won't miss it, I'm not awake 24/7.
(And sorry, but don't expect me to follow you if you're posting the same dozen posts, day in, day out, day after day after week after month. In fact I'll most likely mute you.)

Came here to put words into my mouth so you could attack me over something I didn't say? (Yeah, sadly, it's happened.) Just don't. I WILL block your ass. Nobody has time for that shit.

Geek Stuff: I run Gentoo Linux, and I maintain a personal overlay with packages for dev-perl/Tk-MListbox, sys-apps/procmeter3, net-misc/icbm, media-sound/perljammer, app-crypt/sherpa, and app-editors/xnedit. Of those, net-misc/icbm and media-sound/perljammer are my own projects.

#nobot #writer #geek #linux #mysql #Gentoo #nosystemd #science

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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?

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr I have a tendency to steal borrow 'Frell' from Farscape. And I find it hilarious that a common Russian epithet is Блин! Which literally means "Pancake!" Russians use it as we might say, "Oh, fudge!" 🤣

I'm also known to resort to a "Well, bugger" when irritated.

RickiTarr, to random
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One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them.

I'm sorry this was so ranty!

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr 💯👏🏼💯👏🏼💯👏🏼 👍🏼 ❤️ ​:ablobfoxbongo:​

People who think that life in pre-industrial, pre-scientific societies was so fucking wonderful should sell off all their shit, donate all their money to charity, then go live someplace like Borneo or Pitcairn Island AND TRY IT.

Or, you know, they could just STFU. I'd be fine with that, too.

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr people need to remember the case of Albert Alexander, one of the first people to be treated using penicillin. He died, because they ran out of the very limited experimental quantity available ... from a severe infection caused by a scratch from a rose thorn.

Shit like this HAPPENS when you don't have modern medicine.
Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative.

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

🏆🏅 10/10 🥇🎖

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🎵 Post your absolute best of the best, cream of the crop musicians along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
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And now we're flyin' through the stars
I hope this night will last forever

Ain't nobody
Loves me better
Makes me happy
Makes me feel this way...

🍷 Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan + Gin Martini🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Video of absolutely perfect, wonderful Chaka Khan ...and Rufus.

zakalwe,
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@flexghost Right now I'm listening to Within Temptation's The Silent Force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepv_A9FflQ

Sharon den Adel's voice does wonderful things to me, especially when I'm hurting.

zakalwe,
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@flexghost Not drinking. Possibly my first mistake.

But the mention of several great Canadian artists makes me think of Stan Rogers. White Squall perhaps, or maybe Witch of the Westmoreland.

Matter of fact I think I'm'a listen to that right now. Might ease my mood.

Here's a t00b link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxls60aYSZA

RickiTarr, to random
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What is one decision you've made in your life, that you knew was the absolute right decision to make and why?

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr I'm not sure I have ever made a consequential life decision that I have that much faith in. I've made plenty that seemed like a good idea at the time ... but many of those, in hindsight? Not so much.

Then again, maybe I'm just over-analyzing.

flexghost, to random
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Alex Jones owes $1.5 Billion

He has yet to pay a dime

One of his victims, Erica Lafferty, has to crowdfund her lymphoma treatments
Yet he has a yearly spending budget of over $1 Million
And multiple month-long trips to Hawaii yearly

And now Alex Jones is free to spread his lies on Nazi dumpster-fire X/Twitter as he has been reinstated…

On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.

zakalwe,
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@flexghost I want to know why he isn't in prison, and why his assets haven't been seized to pay the judgments against him.

GottaLaff, to random
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OMFG.

Via Anna Bower:

The former President of the United States is selling pieces of the suit he wore for his mugshot in Fulton County, Georgia, where he has been indicted for his alleged attempts to overthrow the results of a democratic election.

zakalwe,
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@GottaLaff You couldn't make this shit up in a book. Unless it was to illustrate that a character was crazier than a sack of rabid weasels.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Via Kyle Cheney 1/

Shaye MOSS now describing her joy when --after 5 yrs as a temp --she was hired as a perm election worker in Fulton County.

"It was like winning a golden ticket in Willie Wonka," she said.

"I loved my job so much," she said, choking up.

Q: What does date Dec. 4, 2020 mean to you

MOSS: "That was the day that everything changed, everything in my life changed. The day that I changed. Everything just flipped upside down."

"Crazy lies were spread about me & my mom"

zakalwe,
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@chemoelectric @yacc143 @PandaChronicle Or, you know, we could dangle him from the ceiling and .... 🤣

zakalwe,
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@GottaLaff Does this violate her plea bargain?

(Or am I losing track of who's copped a plea and who hasn't?)

flexghost, to random
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“Free speech!”

“Freedom of religion!”

“Wait! …not like that!!”

Republicans are in meltdown mode as The Satanic Temple set up a monument in the Iowa Capitol

Every year Christian groups push for more Christian displays in public spaces

Every year The Satanic Temple reveals the inherent hypocrisy in only allowing this for Christians

You can hear Christian protests to the ideals of

“Wisdom, justice, rationality, unity, empathy…”

Sounds more reasonable than your guy.

HAIL SATAN!

Video of satanic protestors opposite angry judgy Christian protestors on a consecration to baphomet

zakalwe,
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@flexghost Never forget who we're actually talking about here. Think about the names. Think about what Lucifer means.

Christians invented Satan to threaten people with. But he's the Light-bringer. Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and gave it to Mankind.

It's just as sound a position as theirs.

(One of my favorite books is Michael Moorcock's The War Hound And The World's Pain, the plot of which begins with the Ritter Manfred von Bek being subcontracted by Lucifer to help him find the Cure for the World's Pain, the mission on which Lucifer was originally sent by God and is finally near to completing.)

God on the other hand kicked mankind out of Eden for daring to touch the Tree of Knowledge. Your call ...

skykiss, (edited ) to random
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🚨 report: major anti-Ukraine conference will be held in Washington, DC Dec 11.

Heritage cesspool will bring together Hungarian dictator Viktor Orbán’s team & Republican congressmen to strategize how to end US support for . This was always the end-game.

Heritage are running Project 2025.

Remember Johnson's Paris conference last month? Orban's policy advisor was there with him.

European & American neo-fascist "libertarians" have been in bed together for years. US Evangelicals have joined. Here's part of the speaker list for 2022's NatCon III: Peter Thiel & his proteges + Orban's advisor Balazs Orban (red), people tied to in blue/green.

-ties: Kevin Lynn, a faux-left anti-immigrant activist, brought the now-convicted Rachel Powell to the Capitol. Amanda Milius directed "The Plot Against the President", then was hired by Chris Miller. Wilfred McClay reps Hillsdale College, which tried to overturn the vote.

Pro coup autocrats, wanna be dictators.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/10/hungary-viktor-orban-republicans-ukraine-aid

🧵

zakalwe,
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@skykiss I can't comprehend the kind of naïvete it takes for these chumps to believe that Vladimir Putin is going to be their best friend forever, rather than that they are nothing more than his useful idiots of the moment.

Impossible_PhD, to trans
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Recovering from cPTSD can be a difficult journey--but it can be the difference between surviving and thriving, for many trans people.

This week on , we'll be Holding the Girl with @JoscelynTransient as she shares one of the most tender moments I think has ever been published on SGW. Come join us to learn more about recovering from trauma, EMDR therapy, and why it's important to take the time to heal.

https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/holding-the-girl

zakalwe,
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@Impossible_PhD @JoscelynTransient yeah. At the time I didn't know — and wouldn't begin to suspect for over another ten years — that I have Asperger's. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 46. Getting that diagnosis finally was eye-opening. It didn't help the world make sense, but for the first time I understood WHY so much didn't make sense, and that I wasn't going crazy, I was not imagining it, there really was a "secret" communication channel between other people that I didn't have access to.

At the time I just thought "Well, this doesn't seem to be doing very much." It didn't occur to me that that was because it wasn't even working.

And I can't even come close to overstating the importance of that realization "I'm NOT going crazy, I'm NOT imagining this, it is real."

zakalwe,
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@Impossible_PhD @JoscelynTransient ........HUH.

Thank you. That is the first time I've heard a good clear ... explanation? description? of the sort of experience EMDR can be, when it works.

The unfortunate part is that it convinces me even more strongly that it doesn't work on me. (Or possibly on my particular flavor of neurospicy in general.)

skykiss, to random
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McGovern: "This is breaking news for everybody. Our Republican colleague Don Bacon just a few minutes ago told a group of reporters that there are 'probably not high crimes or misdemeanors that Joe Biden has committed' yet he still plans to vote for this impeachment inquiry.

Democrats just asked Republicans to add “open & transparent” to their impeachment resolution of President Biden & every Republicans voted “Nay.” The secrecy, lies, & lack of transparency are the point because Republicans have NOTHING on President Biden. This is pathetic.

Let's be clear, Republicans were asked whether they could add an amendment that would add the words “open & transparent” to their impeachment inquiry of Biden. All of them said NO. Tells you everything you need to know about this “impeachment effort”

zakalwe,
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@skykiss This isn't an impeachment, it's a smear campaign.

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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Let's be honest, if it were raining men, a lot of us would be crushed.

zakalwe,
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@Saltssaltgirl Personally if I were among them, I'd be heartbroken.

And probably everything else broken, too.

tristansnell, to random
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BREAKING: Trump violates DC gag order by calling Bill Barr a "coward" in speech last night, when Barr is a likely witness in the DC federal criminal case against Trump regarding January 6.

Interesting to see if Jack Smith and DOJ raise this issue - and how court decides it.

zakalwe,
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@tristansnell What does this poltroon have to do to get thrown in prison, beat a court clerk to death in the courtroom?

Gustodon, to random
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I think it's time for them to redo the Bible and this time they should make Jesus more like Jason Bourne.

zakalwe,
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@Gustodon I think he needs to be more like Samuel L. Jackson.

"YO, motherfucker! What exact part of LOVE THY MOTHERFUCKING NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF did you not motherfucking UNDERSTAND? And who let all these motherfucking MONEYLENDERS back into my TEMPLE?"

Miro_Collas, to random
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Blow to Biden as poll shows Trump in lead for 2024 presidential election | US politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/trump-biden-poll-election-presidential

He has only himself to blame.

zakalwe,
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@DavidMHarlan @chiclet @Miro_Collas Even before then they were firmly on the side of the oligarchs.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Say something positive about the person who posted above you.

zakalwe,
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@BlackAzizAnansi knows where it's at.

johnshirley2024, to random

[oh jeez, sad and just...well the poor fools, is all I can say...and this could lead to First Church of AI...]

Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead

Some people are using artificial intelligence chatbots to create avatars of departed loved ones. It’s a source of comfort for some, but it makes others a little squeamish.

free link https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/technology/ai-chatbots-dead-relatives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.YdTP.VP358fNjmVGo&smid=url-share

zakalwe,
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@johnshirley2024 I got nothing, as soon as I start to think of the sheer level of self-delusion involved.

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    zakalwe,
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    @messaroundmarx @DrALJONES One of the more perceptive things Chomsky has said IMO.

    MarkOnArt, to DigitalArt

    Something fun for this fine #Caturday - hope you enjoy it too!
    Prints and other products here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/the-colorful-cat-constellation-mark-tisdale.html

    #DigitalArt #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #colorful #BlackCat #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

    zakalwe,
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    @MarkOnArt Isn't that the Cathead Nebula? ​:nekowave:​

    zakalwe, to random
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    "If your holy book tells you how to treat your slaves, your holy book is disqualified as a source for moral code."

    (original source unknown)

    zakalwe, to random
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/technology/epic-games-google-antitrust-ruling.html

    A jury ruled on Monday that Google had violated antitrust laws to extract fees and limit competition from Epic Games and other developers on its Play mobile app store, in a case that could rewrite the rules on how thousands of businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system, Android.
    After deliberating for a little more than three hours, the nine-person federal jury sided with Epic Games on all 11 questions in a month-long trial that was the latest turn in a three-year legal battle.

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