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  • Today at work, discussing AI, at a company wide teams meeting, I wrote in the chat, "Hearing this makes me want to start the Butlerian Jihad a couple millennia too early. And I'm going to start by taking a bat to my friends' Alexas." I thought some people here would enjoy this.

    #ai #dune #work

    11:15:00 PM 7/9/2025
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  • In reply to: https://masto.ai/@LyricalGarfield/114825290726567761

    @LyricalGarfield Will always share anything by the best anarchist band

    11:07:40 PM 7/9/2025
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  • In reply to: https://corteximplant.com/@cobweb/114823547507204771

    @cobweb if I were in Detroit I'd totally meet up. This list of interests sounds like a blast!!!

    10:18:45 PM 7/9/2025
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  • You guys I'm having a rough time. 3.5 months ago I decided to buy an apartment (this is good news) but I'm still trying to get things approved with no move in date still. Meanwhile, my fridge is broken and replacing it now would be an exercise in frustration. Half my apartment is in boxes and has become completely inaccessible because if I don't start early, I'll have a very Bad Time when the time comes to move. And this apartment is just the worst. I'm not coping. 🥲 @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe

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    7:41:27 PM 7/8/2025
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  • I was ordering at a kebab and I saw the exact moment the guy started picking up on my accent and I was like, in my head, "don't do it bro, don't do it!" And then he started to respond in English but quickly switched back to French after half a word. Bro didn't do it! Good on bro! 😊

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    12:30:00 PM 7/8/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/114812680231147548

    Okay. After some French bashing I'll follow it up with a positive thing to say. A dad asked me if I speak French and I said yes and he asked me if I could change seats with him so he could stay next to his family. Despite my accent, he spoke to me in French like a normal person without commenting on my accent or demanding to know where I'm from or other weird but common French behavior, and that made me pretty happy. So now I'm sitting in 7E.

    6:14:20 PM 7/7/2025
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  • I absolutely do not understand it. We are in a big room, waiting in line, and the people behind me have decided to stand next to me like we share the same bed. They are, of course, French. I'm not ready to go back. People in Portugal are so much nicer.

    5:33:00 PM 7/7/2025
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  • @fr I was actually considering going to this soon! I guess this is my sign to take action

    5:24:44 PM 7/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@avlcharlie/114812602001500547

    @avlcharlie I'm afraid to go in. It feels like a trap. Like a door to the fairy realm where they'll trick me into eating a sardine and then I can't leave anymore.

    5:17:02 PM 7/7/2025
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  • They are getting absolutely WILD with it in the Lisbon airport.

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    #airport #Lisbon #Portugal #traveling #tourism #fish #sardines #shopping #strange #weird

    5:09:00 PM 7/7/2025
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  • In reply to: https://beige.party/@pathfinder/114806461376682643

    @pathfinder It's easy to "prefer" something when you can't see an alternative. Is it even a preference? If anything let us all choose again.

    3:18:12 PM 7/6/2025
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  • In reply to: https://beige.party/@pathfinder/114806357319610157

    @pathfinder I mean that could be it. And my first instinct in reading this is to start giving a rational explanation about how of course they can't experience and remember anything if they're using machines for that but then I instantly remember people are consulting ChatGPT like it's some kind of oracle and then realized that those who could understand what I want to say already know and those that don't, won't. I just wish I knew what to say to free people.

    2:49:31 PM 7/6/2025
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  • Okay you know what's cool about riding a cable car? Seeing everything from a birdseye's view. You know what I enjoyed even more? Waving to the people going in the other direction.

    I even saw a woman giving a lap dance to a man while filming themselves. That alone was a hoot!!

    #tourism #Lisbon #Portugal #cablecar #gondola #tourism #traveling

    2:42:00 PM 7/6/2025
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  • It turns out Music for Airports can also be Music for Aquariums. I just left the aquarium in Lisbon. I had to put on music because the noise of the families, people snapping photos more than looking, and the general chaos was just not the experience I wanted. (Also: poor fish.) But Brian Eno saved the day.

    I wonder if this compulsion for photos comes from our society's deep seeded need for owning things.

    #brianeno #aquarium #Lisbon #traveling #tourism #music #nature #fish #ocean #Portugal

    2:08:00 PM 7/6/2025
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  • "I'm more of a Kropotkin girlie than a Lenin guy."

    One of the many political things I've let slip as I travel with my colleagues from an EU consortium. Oopsie daisy! 😅❤️🖤

    #leftism #anarchism #communism #eu #europeanunion #kropotkin #lennin #anarchocommunism #politics

    12:10:00 PM 7/5/2025
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  • In reply to: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/114779097784111966

    @nina_kali_nina I forgot about this! Let's bring this back!!!!

    12:02:20 AM 7/2/2025
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  • In reply to: https://autisticpri.de/@nellie_m/114761924968808930

    @nellie_m I love that way of thinking. What did she compete in?

    12:00:52 AM 7/2/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/114780217531748059

    @nellie_m One day I should write a blog post about the day he died and what I felt and some sightly interesting circumstances around it that one could contribute some kind of meaning to if one were so inclined. (But really I think there's no meaning to be had)

    12:00:13 AM 7/2/2025
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  • In reply to: https://autisticpri.de/@nellie_m/114761929546499391

    @nellie_m I have a friend who actually has a tattoo that says that! We were friends for about a year before we realized we idolized the same author. (And he's from my home state!)

    11:58:47 PM 7/1/2025
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  • In reply to: https://fedi.tiesselune.com/@tiesselune/statuses/01JYVR6842M368P86RJS6PVPM0

    @tiesselune You've successfully communicated the feeling. I know exactly the sensation you're talking about and it was an apt share. Thank you for sharing it with me (and others). ❤️❤️❤️

    11:57:43 PM 7/1/2025
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  • Blog posts
  • 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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  • The dreams continue.

    During my nap, in the dream I woke up from it but not for real. There was someone strangely in my apartment. Seemed kind of lost. I asked who he was and why he was here and he just left. Then I went...

    3:27:00 PM 7/22/2024
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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

3.13 hours