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"don't go anywhere in this house by yourself. now, if you'll excuse me, i'm going to leave you by yourself."
#monsterdon
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mastodon 4.7.3i will probably fav your animal pictures.
don't paste chatbot spam at me, thanks.
why is everything like this?
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me in 1995: hackers is an unrealistic film because computers don't work like that and thus it is stupid
me now: hackers is an unrealistic film because it believes that good things are possible and hacker culture is on the side of downtrodden and the earth and it's great
what's the thing you have learned the most about just kind of ambiently by being on here?
i think it's fair to say that https://theonion.com/i-work-very-hard-and-i-would-like-to-try-cake/ is at least tied with "guy in philosophy class needs to shut the fuck up" as far as onion articles go. the headline here isn't necessarily better, but as a whole artifact...
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i was responsible for some 3-7 year olds for a couple of hours recently and i may not recover for several weeks
alternatively, maybe the purpose of the system is what it doesn't.
they should invent a kind of glasses that aren't smudged.
i think reading @simple_sabotage@mastodon.social over and over again in these little bite-sized chunks has done something to my understanding of the world.
trying to write php but interesting birds keep landing outside the window
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@darius@friend.camp and like i absolutely should take this as a cue to distribute crackpot newsletters on paper and get way into woodworking, but i admit i've having a real hard time letting it go.
some of you should definitely be in bed
just thinking about how there was this one brand of ballpoint pen that my grandma knew i liked and she'd go out of her way to buy me one when i visited
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@darius@friend.camp this has just crushed my will to write anything in (networked) public, which since my late teens was this whole defining thing about how i saw myself and my work. was i a _good_ writer? i mean, no false modesty here, but who the fuck knows. maybe i was getting better. either way, i was a writer and it was most of my power to do anything in the world. and it's just... gone.
i wonder if one of the benefits of being someone who has lived long enough to be proven comprehensively wrong both by history & personal experience about at least a narrow majority of your core beliefs is that you can start to loosen your grasp on the idea of being right or knowing fuck all
delicious piece of chocolate
(you didn't notice the tiny piece of foil stuck to it when you put it in your mouth)
we built this torment nexus on rock and roll
i always manage to forget the intensity of the "i have been bitten by something" -> "what if it's still crawling on me" -> "i bet it's still crawling on me" pipeline here
i saw a taco bell commercial indicating that they have a version of the crunchwrap with more stuff in it, and i thought well, i know now that i am going to eat at least one of those.
this might be the most directly gotten by an advertisement i have felt in years.
which "falsehoods programmers believe about" list does "a person has one e-mail" go on?
it's kinda remarkable the percentage of the stuff that was taught as best practice when i was starting out programming in earnest that has wound up like this.
any of you in greeley should go look at the giant steam locomotive today:
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actually it's gray and pouring rain in the front range which is kind of glorious.
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it is an absurdity that the pollen helmet does not exist. we can have murder robots and evil rocketship magnates and 90 degree days in february but not a pollen helmet? are you fucking kidding me?
i just want to go outside
shitposting as praxis
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i have this neighbor whose grasp on reality is somewhat worse than tenuous who tells me sometimes how the chemtrails are going to kill every tree on the planet within five years and a) this is obviously untrue and b) this would of course be bad, but i have my moments of thinking "but if there was no more pine pollen perhaps i would be free"
might have to do all the grasses just to be safe
there's this company that, ten years ago, i bought a thing from. specifically, a roof rack for a large van.
(we still have the van, and atop it, the roof rack. it's fine. has carried many bicycles, ladders, etc.)
a few weeks back i started getting e-mails about roof rack sales and such. if i investigate, am i going to find that this company has been acquired and is on its way to being stripped for parts by some kind of evil ownership group?
i don't know if "reverse XY problem" is a sufficiently obvious and pithy name to refer to this by, but it sure could use one because goddamn
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@atomicker@mstdn.ca that line has always resonated, especially given the number of times i've been the one filming it.
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maybe i should instead just live in some sort of a positive pressure tent situation
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lance really isn't getting it with walking through strange doors into empty dark spaces
#monsterdon
"people can't and won't read" remains pretty much undefeated as a general model of the world
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@liw@toot.liw.fi i'll have to try that. we have an ultrasonic cleaning thingy around here somewhere.