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might as well be my theme song for 2023

youtu.be/aVtDV8zLdeY?si=U6VnPW

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having to do a lot of adulting lately. and humaning. at the same time. it's fuckin' exhausting.

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Keith D Johnson

2/ "A few good billionaires among the saboteurs don’t justify their existence. That’s why in Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, billionaires are eliminated as a #climate hazard, their fortunes whittled down to $50m if they comply.
Robinson wrote: “There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth’s available resources were divided up equally among all 8 billion humans, everyone would be fine. They would all be at adequacy, & the scientific evidence very robustly supported that people living at adequacy, & confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier & happier than rich people.”
On a thriving planet, human beings should be human scale, but the super-rich are on another scale altogether, giants trampling underfoot both nature & our efforts to protect it."

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1/ Rebecca Solnit wonders whether one planet can support so many billionaires.

"Billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life. Disproportionately older, white & male, they function as unelected powers, a sort of freelance global aristocracy who are too often trying to reign over the rest of us. Some critics think that the supergiant tech corporations that have spawned so many modern billionaires operate in ways that resemble feudalism more than capitalism, & , certainly, plenty of billionaires operate like the lords of the Earth while campaigning to protect the economic inequality that made them so rich & makes so many others so poor. They use their power in arbitrary, reckless & often environmentally destructive ways." theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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fedipact commander :gw2pact:

here's your periodic holiday reminder that FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY

they're a queer hate organization. don't fucking donate to them. only shoplift from their stores. tell their solicitors to eat rocks

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@anthracite the imminent threat of nuclear war growing up felt both very real and very remote. i recall my mother telling me that with the Boeing missile plant so close to where we lived, we'd be the first to go; which i guess was supposed to be comforting. i'd like to think that both sides in the Cold War didn't think the other side was crazy enough to pull the trigger; but the truth lies in a very scary gray area and it's more likely we all came close to being reduced to irradiated ash many times over, and will never know.

i don't miss a lot from the 90's, but i did enjoy about ten years of feeling like existential doom wasn't hanging over all of our heads. it was nice.

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for reasons i cannot explain, i have now subjected multiple people to watch "After Last Season" twice.

am i history's greatest monster? or am i training the psychic warriors of tomorrow, strengthening their gray matter against the incomprehensible horrors that await us all in the future?

only time will tell. someday, you will all thank me.

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Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:

It's time. Who's with me?

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finally, after hours of back-breaking labor, the tree is up...i'm going back to bed

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Daniel Carkner🥀

Pls resist the siren call of conspiracy theories & spreading them during a conflict already full of purposeful disinformation and propaganda from state & non state actors. Let's remember how 9/11 Truth stuff circulated among left & right and turned so many bright people into cranks over time.

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Decolonize Your Bookshelf🧡

I’m not above this shameless plug:

I know many are recommending many Indigenous books for folks to support and learn more about the community.

Consider purchasing those books through an Indigenous bookstore such as my own instead of the huge corporation. (Libraries are a great option too!)

Http://PaperbacksandFrybread.c

#Indigenous #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Books #Reading #AmWriting #Bookstore #Diversity #Native

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also, BwanaDevil's doing free prints this week of Wednesday Addams in the "Burn Your Village To The Ground" scene, if you're interested.

www.bwanadevilart.bigcartel.com

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i love getting recruitment emails for jobs i've already tried to get and failed somewhere in the process.

"Company (X) may want to hire you!" mister email, i can assure you that they have stated otherwise in no uncertain terms.

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a yearly tradition. please boost.

youtu.be/qnGnj_e6gBw?si=N570AK

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Matt Blaze

36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Head

I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.

Pure art.

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gently slatey

Yeah thanks we already know about the cop problem here

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(rude humor, possibly triggering) 

so i'm late to the 100gecs bus--full disclosure, they're part of a musical movement that, logically, should instantly kill people my age and wither our bones into mummy dust, so i guess being aware of them at all means i must be accruing Zoomer points in the Algorhythm (trade 'em in at ZoomCo for hoverboards and a Tiktok Haircut!)--but i misheard one of their lyrics and i think my version's better.

in "Stupid Horse," Laura Les sings "stupid horse / i just fell out the Porsche / lost the money in my bank account" but i heard the middle part as "i just got an aborsh" which, and correct me if i'm wrong here, is both a fantastic way of abbreviating "abortion" and also cheekily on-brand for gecs. "can't go bowling tuesday, i gotta aborsh."

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Psy Chuan :therian:

so apparently google have added a little bit of JS to youtube that adds a delay for loading, but only if your useragent is Firefox.

old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comme

you can fix it by adding this line to your uBlock Origin filters.

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)

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@checkervest hell to the yeah

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current enjobulation status:

* in holding pattern for swanky job for which i have been interviewed four times (fucking FOUR!!!111!) decision-makers are on holiday until next week, feels like close to a sure thing but having to drag out the wait like this is excruciating

* possibly ghosted by super-cool IT job in academia; i may not have been 100% qualified but i know i aced the interview and i was kinda hoping this one would come through because i think it'd be more fun than the first job

* on deck for panel interview (#3 for fuck's sake) for Job I Don't Really Want because it's tech support, BUT there's a clear escalation path to eventually working in Cybersecurity there, so i might have to bite my tongue and play the long game

* flamed out of interview for other academic IT job since it would primarily be for Macs and i have a primarily Wintel background. i hate hearing "i don't want to waste your time" a few minutes in to one of these things because there's no way to pull out of the skid and you might as well close the laptop and go back to bed at that point

* recruiter contacted me for possible admin position with Evil Baby-Killing Military Death Merchants but it would only be 6 months and i'd get a Secret Clearance level out of it, which is the keys to the fuckin' kingdom where security jobs are concerned. my conscience is making its case known. i just don't fucking know anymore

sick of the grind. feeling socially withdrawn and tired all the time. no good news to bring to the table for thanksgiving. tired of constant gnawing anxiety even when i'm feeling okay.

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