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@EdCates@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Humanist. Nerd. Introvert. Jaded optimist. Usually cruppish. Server jockey. Dad. World is a fuck. Views are my own.
Profile pic: Man in a gray shirt and green/gray ball cap taking a selfie. His glasses are tinted dark from the sun, and he has a short brown beard.
In the background is a stream, a yellow kayak, and various grasses and trees beyond those. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few fluffy white clouds lazing about.
561 Followers
358 Following
50 Posts
Joined January 25, 2017
Generation:
X
Pronouns:
he/him/his
Politcs (American):
far left
Religion:
no thanks
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@tayfonay@beige.party @Wallflower@beige.party
A quote I saw this morning, because the Internet never sleeps. "Expecting McConnell but getting Graham is like ordering a chocolate chip cookie but getting a snickerdoodle.
"I'm confused, but not upset."
I, too, am an asshole. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social I find it very telling that they had the cadaver covers so readily available. They were running that presentation on wishes and anxiety, and they knew it.
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@riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @acb@mastodon.social @webhat@infosec.exchange it has to be very special circumstances for me to use the self checkout. I'll stand in a line for a pack of gum if I have to. I kinda treat it as a class solidarity issue.
I don't work for that store. I refuse to perform free labor for them. I also don't want to give them yet another reason to undervalue and downsize their current work force.
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @selzero@syzito.xyz counter point: you get *your* fucking priorities straight.
Continuously pushing watered-down, shitlib centrists onto us is exactly what got us where we are. Either they don't win, or win but don't fix things and we get electoral backlash.
So just how in the hell is "vote more centrists harder!" supposed to do anything other than continue the "creeping slide into fascism-accelerated leap towards it from backlash" cycle that it's been accomplishing my entire life? JFC.
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online If the Democratic party fought against the right half as hard as they did against the left we'd all have free healthcare and a pony by now.
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@tayfonay@beige.party "But windmills are such an eyesore!" they exclaimed from beneath the dystopian Martian skyscape caused by their burning planet.
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online And ye gods...as if on cue, this rolls across my timeline.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/28/centrist-democrat-mamdani-progressive-socialist/90681634007/
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social it's not piracy unless it comes from the "Piracy" region of France. Anything else is just sparkling sharing.
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@thehole@dasforum.org @cR0w@infosec.exchange "this domain is actually 14000 crows in a trenchcoat."
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online Thanks! Not my state, sadly, but I've been paying attention to your posts about it because of the national implications.
Looks like standard institutional wagon circling to protect the incumbent. Barf.
I really hope she pulls this off.
RE: @josephcox@infosec.exchange
This looks like a 100% great idea with zero possible downsides. 😛 🙄
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social "yelling at me isn't going to change anything"
Just reflecting your energy back at you, dude. You're the one that jumped in cussing at people and arguing that we have to be willing to help the fascists to defeat the fascists.
Which we've all heard ad nauseum, and is part of what @selzero@syzito.xyz was speaking out against in the first place. 🙄
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@Sempf@infosec.exchange In a meeting a couple of weeks ago my boss announced we were all going to become versed in "AI Ops." None of us specifically knew WTF that meant, so he described it to us.
When I asked, "So it's basically just automation?" he had to blink a few times and recover before admitting that yeah, that's about it.
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@JustaJason007@beige.party @paninid@mastodon.world He _always_ looks like he has the fever sweats.
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@Saltssaltgirl@mas.to
"What can we do to make teachers feel appreciated?"
"Pay us?"
"No, something that really shows we care!"
"Adequate materials budgets for our classrooms?"
"I'm talking about a REAL gesture to show how grateful we are!"
"Smaller class sizes?"
"Pfft! No . . . I know! Free coffee!"
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@sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange Me: "This is nothing but blatant boost baiting!"
Also me: *boosts toot*
😂
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@catsalad
*Neo disconnects from the Matrix needing to flee from drones, but can't get out of the interface chair because there's a cat in his lap*
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@alice@lgbtqia.space Just drive up, meet the follower at the border, and chuck 'em across. Foolproof.
Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social @LeslieBurns@esq.social He hates Illinois nazis and the other kind, too. The not-Illinois nazis.
He's on a mission from god. 😂
I wonder if Pope Leo likes The Blues Brothers?
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@webhat@infosec.exchange
Hells yeah! Say it loud, youngest!
@riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @acb@mastodon.social
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @Npars01@mstdn.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online Current TV person and former party operative Lawrence O'Donnell in 2006.
Also journalist William Greider (the second/additional voice in the video, for the visually impaired).
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=FqRNnIMDkUY
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@rodneylives@mefi.social I'm in the process of moving over to @Tutanota@mastodon.social , myself.
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@Wallflower@beige.party ...and I'll say it again: The fedi is definitely a better place for you being here. Very glad you came back.
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@Wallflower@beige.party Good question. And I could see it going either way, from either state. 😂
In my humble-but-objectively-correct opinion, while Ohio is a red state nightmare, Texas is a privatized, libertarian disaster red state nightmare.
But, I was specifically referring to the whole "destroyed food supply" thing. They really have.
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@minego@pdx.social
What a crap dilemma to have to go through just for groceries. 😕 @riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @acb@mastodon.social @webhat@infosec.exchange
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party Every few months someone will look at my profile (I assume) and it gets boosted again, then there's a little flurry of boosts and likes over the next few days.
Which I think is _awesome_, because I wind up laughing about the stupid meme all over again. Several times. 🤣
"I just need some shrimps lol" has become kind of an untethered punchline for me and my youngest, too.
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@wststreet@ani.work @nixCraft@mastodon.social I guess just assume the food is also slop?
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@Wallflower@beige.party
Wanging: Uninhibited. Fun. Maybe a touch of whimsy.
Chunging: Hell, I dunno. Maybe the result of an upset stomach?
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@wststreet@ani.work yeah, most small places are there because someone is good at (or at least passionate about) cooking. That does not mean they know or care about design and marketing.
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@Wallflower@beige.party And not just any ol' "blue no matter who" Democratic governments. They'll have to have a large enough non-corporate, give-a-shit contingent to actually undo the damage. Fewer Manchins, more Mamdanis.
I'm . . . not optimistic. 😒
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social sat through an Amazon-guided AWS lab where one of the steps entailed installing something by piping curl through sudo. I was dumbfounded that they were encouraging/normalizing this.
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org it did show as "Subscribers Only" for me, but then rendered fine in Reader View.
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@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Yesterday I saw a post defining LinkedIn as "A fan-fiction site where people turn their soul-crushing 9-to-5 into a passionate journey for growth."
Absolutely, 100% on-the-nose.