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  • I almost got hit by a car today. While in a sidewalk bike lane. He came pulling out of I guess some kind of alley or parking area or something. I braked, yelled in English "Jesus fucking Christ!!!" while staring deep into the pupils of the void, realizing that I was a hair away from the car. I turned my head to see who my would be murderer was. And then he proceeded to chew me out. I was trembling. It happened a few hours ago and I'm still shooken up.

    #cycling #biking #nantes #bikes

    12:07:00 AM 3/7/2026
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  • Adara Astin replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772809081/

    @donthatedontkill I find in my life that a lot of people make statements like that rather than ask questions. It feels imperious, rude and lazy.

    My position is that if they want clarification or an answer, they can go to the effort of writing a question. If they haven't asked a question, I don't have to reply.

    I hope this trend passes soon. I deeply do not like it.

    6:46:54 PM 3/6/2026
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  • So my new pet peeve with the French is how it is now the new fad to just respond to a text message with "Rien compris" ("Understood nothing") instead of asking any clarify question. Often this is because of a typo or autocorrect gone haywire (which happens to me a lot with a keyboard in three languages) but heaven forbid we try to actually put in any effort, right? Heaven forbid we say "I didn't understand what xxxx means." Or "I think you made a typo." 🙄

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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/116181026953158273

    The discussion went well! I killed zero people!

    12:33:54 PM 3/6/2026
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    The discussion went well! I killed zero people!

    12:33:54 PM 3/6/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@ahtynon/116181131168797525

    @ahtynon
    "What are you for Halloween?"
    "Sexy Tilda Reeves. UwU"

    11:32:42 AM 3/6/2026
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    @ahtynon
    "What are you for Halloween?"
    "Sexy Tilda Reeves. UwU"

    11:32:42 AM 3/6/2026
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  • Ahtynon replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    @donthatedontkill ooohhhhh great idea! Neo/tilda in only lovers left alive !! Sexy sleak vampire with a long leather coat!

    9:49:33 AM 3/6/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@ahtynon/116181110360532738

    @ahtynon That's a Halloween costume right there!

    9:45:14 AM 3/6/2026
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    @ahtynon That's a Halloween costume right there!

    9:45:14 AM 3/6/2026
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  • Ahtynon replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    @donthatedontkill ????????????
    Go tilda reeves go!

    9:44:16 AM 3/6/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@ahtynon/116181092919245120

    @ahtynon Me over here like Beetlgeuse, exclaiming "it's showtime!" then tasmanian devil tornado into someone who is a lot more patient and cool-headed than I am. Like Keanu Reeves or Tilda Swenton

    9:42:14 AM 3/6/2026
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    @ahtynon Me over here like Beetlgeuse, exclaiming "it's showtime!" then tasmanian devil tornado into someone who is a lot more patient and cool-headed than I am. Like Keanu Reeves or Tilda Swenton

    9:42:14 AM 3/6/2026
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  • In reply to: https://tech.lgbt/@nanianmichaels/116181072491394550

    @nanianmichaels Thanks it will be rough but if I can get through it without losing my cool more than talking "very sternly and directly", I'll consider it a win

    9:41:08 AM 3/6/2026
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  • Ahtynon replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1772781749/

    @donthatedontkill time to use those acting skills of yours!! Bon courage !

    9:39:49 AM 3/6/2026
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  • Pray for ya boy. He's about to go into a meeting with civil servants to explain what a product owner is and what their job consists of and how to run a user interview in a way that avoids biases and gets the user to tell you what they really need. (Disclaimer: I am not a product owner. I just play one on TV... I mean, at work.) The person I'm talking, as far as I understand, is a consultant in.... running meetings? Honestly, I'm frightened. /s

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    #dev #productOwner #work #softwareDevelopment

    9:22:29 AM 3/6/2026
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  • Saw the movie Gattaca in the theatre for the 1st time tonight. I remembered I liked it and the plot but it was only now that I understood why it resonated with me since I first saw it, around 15 y/o: I saw myself to some degree. Without details, we can say I'm not genetically blessed and for most of my schooling I was considered to be a bit slow. Years later I'm doing things people thought impossible of me. Valedictorian, Fulbright, producing theatre... Few would have imagined

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    #movies #gattaca

    10:23:00 PM 3/5/2026
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  • In reply to: https://bne.social/@peterwyrm/116161223279256243

    @peterwyrm Indeed. Around the time I first got on mastodon, I was doing The Artists Way and I think there's a line or an idea of something in that book that's like, "What kind of art would you do if you didn't have to do it well." And I really liked that thought. You could even frame it more widely: what would we do if failing was inconsequential

    6:29:53 PM 3/4/2026
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  • Sat down and tried to play piano for the first time in over a decade. Man am I rusty. At least for reading music (and off my cell phone on top of that). But I don't feel discouraged. In the course of an hour, a lot came back and my hands still move almost as they should. Excited to see how I'll progress over the next couple weeks before I have to give the keyboard back.

    #music #piano #library #libraries #learning #sheetMusic #playingMusic #instrument #instruments #pianoPlaying

    9:18:00 PM 3/2/2026
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  • In reply to: https://queer.cool/@billzismyname/116160391218674161

    @billzismyname I believe you can make it. I believe!

    5:55:56 PM 3/2/2026
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  • In reply to: https://social.lol/@andycarolan/116160344263013238

    @andycarolan When I see a mention of Dahl I must boost! ♥️♥️♥️

    5:45:19 PM 3/2/2026
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  • In reply to: https://queer.cool/@billzismyname/116160329788240468

    @billzismyname This is very brave and inspiring

    5:44:22 PM 3/2/2026
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  • In reply to: https://bardicperspiration.club/@tiefling/116154698726434694

    @tiefling wow, that is wild as hell! I would have noped the fediverse so hard if I had been in your shoes

    11:42:23 PM 3/1/2026
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  • Found a quick 45 minutes to add a link to my loops profile tommy website and integrate the videos into my unified feed! Always move to be amor to do a quick little update to the site but honestly the code is so slapdash that it makes my eyes bleed. (And it's my own code! 😭) One of these days I'll get around to cleaning it up.

    Https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com

    #loops #indieweb #website #smallWeb #dev #video

    2:49:00 PM 3/1/2026
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  • In reply to: https://ohai.social/@GreenSkyOverMe/116153181358648251

    @GreenSkyOverMe Micheal use trantrum! It's super effective!!!

    11:52:25 AM 3/1/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@ahtynon/116152613278569266

    @ahtynon I'm more concerned about "fascism" became "abuse". An ideology that systematically otherizes and persecutes a part of the population is now reduced to an individual action between two people and that lack of any kind of systems thinking, that atomization (that unwillingness to acknowledge the social organism if you will ;)) is something I find troubling.

    11:20:41 AM 3/1/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.girolab.foo/@johnofrobotz/116151707966608451

    @johnofrobotz Yeah. There's a few thing I don't understand about it. But you know, we all have our own little trigger words that we have associations to and cause us to put up barriers or we get stuck in our associations instead of the person's intended meaning. (I notice a lot of mine come from things my parents would say to me! I'm sure there's something psychological there! Haha)

    11:17:21 AM 3/1/2026
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  • In reply to: https://bardicperspiration.club/@tiefling/116151648167891343

    @tiefling It's bound to happen, I suppose. We can't be all one be cozy gang all the time. But it's so rare now that it kind of hits from left field when it does

    11:15:11 AM 3/1/2026
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  • Man rough night. Came home from a party where I felt really out of place and then someone comments on my last loops video chewing me out like we're back on the fashosphere networks. Like real Twitter like behavior. Some nights you just can't win, amiright... 😓
    Tomorrow I'm hiding our little coffee klatch so wish your boy some much that the sleep will help me forget all this and put me in a good mood that helps put others in a good mood and not whatever I'm feeling right now.

    4:24:00 AM 3/1/2026
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  • I have bad news for certain leftists.

    #leftism #politics #communism #anarchism #anarchocommunism #leftist #Anarchy #socialism #socialist #fyp #morality #ethics

    2:14:13 PM 2/28/2026
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  • Blog posts
  • My Ango: An anti-movational post

    About three months ago I posted this photo, which was a plan for the Fall 2025 Ango[1]

    5:46:00 PM 12/15/2025
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  • Marry me!!! is the last thing you expect at 2am

    I just got home and I need to write about an experience I just had that I'm still trying to understand.

    I had left a friend's house after a nice little dinner and had decided to take one of t...

    1:58:00 AM 6/28/2025
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  • Spiders in the web: Hyperion's Farcasters and Technofeudalism

    SPOILERS FOR THE HYPERION SERIES

    I recently finished the Hyperion Cantos. For those who have never heard of it, you can check out

    8:11:00 PM 5/4/2025
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  • Slump (A poem)

    Wind rushing by my ears
    Branches slap my face
    Speed increasing
    As gravity drags me down
    Into its bosom
    Woosh, whack, whiz
    As I wake up
    To a once hidden nightmare.

    ...

    4:26:00 PM 12/19/2024
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  • A Manifesto? - Part 1: New Ways of Being

    I have an idea rattling around in my head. An embryo of an idea. A little intellectual itch nagging at me. A perpetual refrain when my mind idles and looks for the nearest thing to alight on. A noti...

    4:06:00 PM 10/13/2024
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How I'm Spending My Free Time

Ecotopia emerging

Ernest Callenbach

Cover of Ecotopia emerging

Total playtime in the last two weeks

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