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@cstross@wandering.shop @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social There’s even a meme for that…
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I write, therefore I am. I read, therefore you are. The rest follows. Space, science, animals, social justice, silliness, and random thoughts. (She/her).
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@hellomiakoda@pdx.social @vicfroh@mastodon.social I, uh, may have discovered this fact inadvertently* as a child.
- Hey, I was genuinely curious!
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@acb@mastodon.social @grassrootsforeurope@mas.to @cstross@wandering.shop That was awful. Take a like, dammit.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @markwyner@mas.to @stux@mstdn.social Yes, I think this is Spraying as a Service. 😁🐘
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@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social If I received that message I would print it out in large letters and post it over my desk!
Definitely support using positive feedback to keep yourself grounded, especially when in academia where criticism is the norm.
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@JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt Excuse me, I’m just here to steal “nonbuynary” for personal use. (🏆!)
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@swan_tower@wandering.shop “The Lies We Conjure,” Sarah Henning. Just happened across it in the library. A gathering of witches, a couple of imposters, a murder or three…
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@lerxst @NicolaElle @courtcan I remember the hostage crisis. That Fourth of July, I wandered around one of the innumerable entertainments & fireworks, and even as a kid I felt that there was something really ugly mixing in with the patriotic hoopla.
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@MicroSFF@mastodon.art It’s a castle and a siege engine (headbutt!) all in one handy package!
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@libramoon@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social I just finished Iain M. Banks’ “The Player of Games” (2009) which features a person of the post-scarcity Culture encountering an imperial society whose entire sociological principle was “dominance.” At the end of the book I felt that the U.S., particularly the Epstein class, had been exposed in all their raw hideousness through the medium of fiction.
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@Deglassco My family was friends with Anselme Remy, a Haitian scholar who worked to try to free Haiti from these pernicious U.S. interferences. We were close while he was in the U.S., but after he returned to Haiti, though we were in touch up to the events you described, since then it’s been hard to find out anything.
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@petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art Oddly, the first thing I thought of was “fairy tales”. The bright young warrior in the foreground to me looks like the modern day rendition of fairy tales as encouraging and inspiring stories for children. The dark grim looming monsters, on the other hand, make me think of the much darker folktales that were the original fairy tales. An inspired child of the present ready to take on the looming monsters of the past.
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@xarvos@outerheaven.club @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org OG House had chicks? 🐣
Mental note: I refuse to speculate about the rooster.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai Proposal for new hashtag: #ICETEA, for “ICE Terror, Extraordinary rendition, & Assault”. They love their cute acronyms, right?
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@wikipedia To be fair, it doesn’t move much compared to the “fixed” stars, at least on human timescales.
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@DeliaChristina@sfba.social @eldersea@expressional.social A whole bunch of billionaires are deeply upset that all their wealth can’t buy themselves renewed youth, let alone extended lifespan, and they are DEEPLY in denial, because they’ve always been able to buy what they wanted. 👹
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@TarkabarkaHolgy I mean, I loved the Lokasenna because it’s basically a series of sick burns. 🔥
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@SeanMcSean@theforkiverse.com @kevin@theforkiverse.com See, this kind of realistic optimism is The Way.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Lovely story! I greatly enjoyed reading it, and agree with another poster that you should submit it somewhere like Clarksworld.
You might enjoy Becky Chambers’ “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” which touches on similar themes, though with a different style and plot line.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org I was there for the Cabbage Patch Wars. I saw things I can never unsee.
(Mostly those ugly scrunchy faces.)
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@Zibat@sfba.social At another commenter’s suggestion, I checked the Wayback machine, and most of the original bios are archived. I did find one page that hadn’t been archived yet, so I flagged it for saving there.
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@theresnotime@fox.nexus OK, I swear this is a True Story (tm), heard from my parents and verified by the local paper.
In the apartment complex where I grew up, we had duck ponds. One day, someone from the complex witnessed a car stop near one. The driver got out, seized a sitting duck (heh), and drove off. The neighbor took down the license plate and reported it.
Cops came by the car owner’s house and were told the vehicle owner was not home; he had gone to his job… at a nearby restaurant.
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@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk 16 years later still accurate: Dan & Dan song, “Read it in the Daily Mail”
https://youtu.be/5eBT6OSr1TI?is=wZ648feo8tsfhjO7
The Daily Mail Song
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@Pinchy63@ottawa.place @daycoder@toot.wales @greenpeace@mastodon.social Oh, it is. The U.S. regime (to whom I am a dissident) is fine with war crimes. (And has a long history of doing them, but seldom so publicly.)
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@FallsMom@mastodon.coffee @samlitzinger@journa.host Amusing to me that they thought that the Electoral College would keep the unqualified* out. 😭
- = insufficiently rich