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Quasit

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An old Victorian bibliophile and geeky young boy in the same body. I've been on the Internet since the mid-'80s. I'm an old school tabletop roleplayer and game master. Grew up among the 0.001%, which is why I hate capitalism and bullies. But I love cats!

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Jack Reacher-Around


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There should be an award for the best alt text of the month. Or the year.

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Work in progress sketching a raven from reference with black ink!

Photo of a sketch in progress. The photo reference of a crow/raven is on an ipad at the top of the photo. Below is a sketchbook page with the bird partially sketched in black ink.
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@joyousjoyness Is it just me, or is the raven smiling slightly in the sketch?

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Why is some comedian damn near completely taking over my feed?

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@FediTips Thanks! I'm not following them, but they're being boosted by an account I follow. That seems to be an automated thing; the account auto-boosts anything with certain hashtags.

I'd rather not mute the boosting account, but if the spamming account keeps showing up in my feed I'm going to mute them for sure!

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The double luge seems like someone has just persuaded another person that something that doesn't exist exists. Oh no it's totally real just lay on top of me, mmmm, that's good, just like that, now we slide down this long bumpy tunnel hnnnnrgh don't mind that, that's all part of it. Look at their faces!

Double luge. Two people laying flat on a sledge one on top of the other both facing same way looks sexual. Wearing power ranger clothes.
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@TheBreadmonkey Don't forget, the Olympics were originally all-nude!

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ArgumentativeMonotheist parricc sounds like you've either been reading Thomas Aquinas, or should read him.

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ArgumentativeMonotheist You might also enjoy "The Quest For Saint Aquin" (1951), a classic science fiction story by Anthony Boucher. It's available free online.

https://sdfo.org/gj/stories/thequestforsaintaquin.pdf

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ArgumentativeMonotheist I first encountered it in "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1". It was used by the Science Fiction Writers of America to honor science fiction stories which predated the Hugo and Nebula.

Boucher was an outstanding critic, science fiction author, and mystery writer. In fact, the first major mystery convention, BoucherCon, is named after him.

He was also quite a religious man.

You might also like "The Devil's Day" (1980) by James Blish. He was another devout science fiction author who wrote some brilliant works that included aspects of religion.

Does Anyone Know of Political Activist Leaders that Speak Like Later Years of MLK Jr. about Evils of Capitalism, Freedom & Etc., No Matter which Party It Comes from, But Without Religion of Any Kind?

This morning I watched ‘Free Speech’s ‘Democracy Now’s The MLK Jr. episode (every MLK Jr. holiday, they have a MLK Jr. special episode) with his speeches, it was awesome, but at the end I was thinking to myself are there any Atheist Political Activist Leaders that Speak Like Later Years of MLK Jr. about Evils of ...

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PanaX @GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeing@piefed.social Chris Hedges has written and said some very good stuff, but he is an ordained minister and definitely a Christian.

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@GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeing@piefed.social Oh yes, he frequently mentions his time at the seminary.

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CannonFodder bearboiblake
What does "not voting effectively against Trump" mean?

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CannonFodder

By your logic if I had voted for Harris, I would be complicit in her agenda: the genocide of children in Gaza.

Besides, do you really think she wanted to win? She knew that supporting genocide was losing her the support of her base, but she stuck to it like glue anyway. I don't know why she had such a hard-on for dead and maimed children, but that was HER decision.

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How can I find protests to attend in my area? Specifically the Boston-Providence area?

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It occurs to me that I should possibly introduce myself in this new year.

I've been on Mastodon since 9/11/2000, but only started using it heavily over the past six months or so. Hashtags made a big improvement to my experience here.

I'm the last of the Boomers, almost literally. But I've been an early adopter when it comes to technology ever since college; I was on the internet back in 1986, and I created my first website in 1996. It's still up.

I'm a hardcore bibliophile. I grew up before the internet, and without much TV; my parents read to me all the time, and I learned to read by around two and a half years old. I've probably read more books than 99.9% of the human race.

When it comes to reading, my favorite genres are science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, humor, books for children and young adults, and books that have entered the public domain. But I'm fairly eclectic. I tend to prefer older books, and did even as a child.

I love to write, but my muse doesn't send me fiction or poetry anywhere NEAR as much as I'd like.

My memory is a bit freakish. I'm not eidetic, but apparently my memory is unusually good - particularly when it comes to books. That's made it easy for me to recommend books to others. Before I left Reddit I accumulated a file of recommendations that I'd made that includes nearly 1,000 books, and I still add to it when I can.

I have a huge amount of experience reading aloud, particularly to children. Not to boast, but it's something I'm very good at.

I love tabletop roleplaying, and have been running campaigns for over 40 years now. The games I run are based on literary worlds or my own imagination. The focus is generally characterization, exploration, and interaction rather than combat.

I'm a supertaster AND hypervigilant, thanks to an abusive upbringing. My senses of smell and taste are incredibly keen, and I tend to notice things more quickly than most. Except my hearing is starting to degrade a bit with age, sadly.

I'm shy and/or demisexual. A straight cis male. I should probably be on display in a museum!

As the single father of an adult son who takes after me to a frightening extent, right down to red hair, geekiness, bibliophilia, and atheism.

Lastly I'm an anti-capitalist. Very leftist, or more accurately extremely opposed to the entire political and economic system of capitalism. I grew up with the children of the 0.001%, and really loathe them all - from experience. I know how they think. I stand with working people and immigrants.

Wait, I forgot to mention: I love to laugh.

That should do it!

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IronBird harrys_balzac

I can't help but wonder how those churches survive!

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harrys_balzac IronBird

Reminds me of my uncle for some reason. He belonged to a tiny little church and dragged his wife into it as well. I used to say that he believed that he and the minister and possibly his wife were the only people who would be allowed into Heaven - and he wasn't too sure about his wife and the minister.

At his funeral his minister got up and gave quite a speech. In his southern drawl he invited us all to rush up to him, get on our knees, and accept Christ as our personal Lord and Savior.

I grabbed my father and my son fiercely to make sure they didn't go up in a spirit of comedy (my family has a strange sense of humor). Luckily I didn't have to struggle too hard. But everyone just sat there looking at the guy. My people are polite, but they aren't going to give up their own beliefs for ANYONE. Not when an entire nation tried to exterminate us for our religion!

(Although I should note that I'm a long-time atheist. But that was MY decision, no one else's.)


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Okay, it seems to be the whole damned INTERNET that's slowed to a crawl today. Which brings to mind something unpleasant: Senator Joe Lieberman. I distinctly remembering that he insisted that the government have an "OFF" switch for the internet, and I'm sure that bill was passed. I'm sure the government will pull that switch the minute their power is really threatened by the people.

Which brings up another memory (my brain does that a lot): a very cheap box that used wifi and bluetooth (and whatever else was available) to be plugged in at your home. These boxes would form a mesh network that would interconnect, establishing an internet connection that wouldn't be subject to the whims of the big carriers and the government. I saw an article about it more than ten years ago; at the time I thought it was a brilliant idea. Of course nothing seems to have come of it.

I do know about the alternative mesh networks that are available, but I don't know much about them. If they're open-source, I suppose they'd be better than nothing...but last I checked, they formed their own network rather than connecting to the actual internet.



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themaninblack

Not dead enough!

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Look, I'm a prison abolitionist. But A) the fascist exception still applies to prisons; you can't treat nazis like normal people because they are not normal people and they very clearly and openly mean to destroy everything and everyone you love and also B) you have absolutely no intentions of abolishing the prisons anyway, and if you were we'd be having entirely different conversations.

I'll settle for prison, but I'm open to a rocketship to the sun, if I'm being quite honest here.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites

It comes down to this: they are endangering the entire human race. The life of every man, woman, and child on this planet (as well as all the animals and plants) is immeasurably worse and in immediate danger because of the psychopathic greed of the elite.

Humanity has the right to defend itself.

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Picked up my copy of by @pluralistic from in this weekend. Wish he was headed this way on his book tour.

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I picked a copy up at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge. To my surprise, it was signed!

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

If you turn off the money tap, the rich nazis paying for all of this will scream, and the entire movement will collapse in short order.

Don't say I don't have a plan; I do. And it's a lot better than "trying to reason with nazis who have declared war on reality and are openly threatening to start digging mass graves." You don't LIKE that plan, but it doesn't change the fact that I have one and you don't.

Trump is not going to surrender to your witty signs and cosplay dissent.

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So...general strike.

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Jeezus christ how many of you out here are feds?

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Do the feds even know that Mastodon EXISTS?

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Well, I hope I'm not one of them.

I mean, I know I'm not a fed. But I hope I haven't been posting stupid, too.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Like, brey, how do you think this story ends? You have, at least, I mean at LEAST 75M actual fucking fascists in a body of about 350 million people. How do you think this story ends?

Cause we've been literally "letting the slavers off the hook" since the fucking Civil War and now look at what you've won?

How does this end? And if you think about that question seriously, you'll realize that neither you, nor any of your sign-waving homies have an answer except "convince the nazis to cut it out."

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How do you tell actual, committed Nazis from stupid people who just follow the loudest voice backed by the most money?

Or does it matter?

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My thought is that the stupid ones might be turned into class allies. 75 million is a HUGE number to have to fight.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Okay but I mean you libs (progressives included) DO realize you can do the exact same thing to the entire private sector, that you just did to Disney for Jimmy Kimmel, until they not only stop supporting and enabling the fascist agenda but actively start working against it, right? Newspapers, TV Stations, Tech companies, the list is almost endless, you just need to find creative ways to cost them money - which of course, the capitalists will claim is criminal.

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They can't stop a general strike. They don't have enough soldiers to stand next to even a meaningful FRACTION of workers and aim guns at our heads.

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What happened to happens to dozens of innocent in every day. Where’s the coverage? Where’s the ?

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Charlie Kirk served the interest of the oligarchs. The people of Palestine are slated for death by the elite, probably as a test run for what they are going to do to the rest of the people of Earth.

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Lol; our bunker buster bomb is good for 60 meters. Israel itself is saying Fordow is 90 meters underground.

You ain't getting that facility, without troops on the ground; and Israel knows that. They're literally inviting us into a ground war they don't have the army to fight, by telling Trump to do something stupid they know won't work.

In-fucking-credible.

“Who is the superpower here?”

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Good point. And I'm hoping that Iran has made allowances for all possibilities, and has more secret underground facilities elsewhere.

I would also like to see Israel and America punished. Although there's no punishment severe enough for what they have done.

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I know liberals know their leaders are minions courting fascism and burning the world for capital, because every time I talk about the intrinsic relationship between fascism and the current (open) Pig Empire plan to keep boiling the planet no matter how many people everyone (including said "liberal" capitalist leaders) knows it will kill, they immediately want to argue with me about voting.

I don't bring up voting, they do. So it's not that they're ignorant; they're complicit.

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I'm at the point where I just block them. I'm not wasting my time, and that's all they want to do.

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Can you hear me in the back? In addition to A) enabling a racialized genocide, B) funding a violent, racialized police state, and C) promising to hunt down migrants better than the GOP, continuing to support fossil fuel based capitalism on behalf of nazi billionaires who are boiling the planet when you literally know it's going to kill billions of people in what can only be recognized as MULTIPLE genocides, is in fact, pretty fascist.

I'm not here for fascists. Go bother someone else.

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Not to be a grammar Nazi, but a mullah is an Islamic cleric. I think that the word you were looking for is "moolah", i. e. money.

Of course the ironic thing is that once they kill enough of the working class off civilization will collapse. At which point all their moolah will be nothing more than green wastepaper and discharged electrons in dead computers.

Our duty to the human race is to put an end to the ruling class before they kill us all.

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    @gerrymcgovern What's the time frame for a nuclear power plant to become safe for the environment? And what is that time frame if the plant isn't shut down properly? Do we really want to bet that our technological civilization will survive for all that time? The US military is already projecting the collapse of much of America's infrastructure within the next 20 years. Do we want to have a bunch of abandoned power plants contaminating the environment of our descendants?

    Particularly considering that renewables are now more efficient and far safer?