MissConstrue

Why, I remember when this was all just Arpanet.

AKA: I contain multitudes. OG SpiderFarmer,
DuckiDeva of the Aquatic Temple. Quack!

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. Your life matters.

End Colonialism. Free Palestine.

Praise Bob!

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2024-08-09 17:17:18

I have thoughts about #NoahLyles, #covid and the #olympics.
He tested positive on Tuesday. The American coaches and medical team knew he was positive for Covid, but the still did not implement masks or isolation.
They intentionally exposed other athletes and their teams to a potentially deadly virus for no reason other than we wanted another medal.
Is it amazing that Noah ran like that with covid? Yeah, it absolutely is. He’s amazing. But he was also a contamination vector that should have been in isolation.
Covid isn’t over. There are mitigation protocols, which when followed, significantly reduce the risk to the sufferer and everyone around them. Protocols were ignored, in the most careless bullshit American way possible. And media is celebrating this, like a premier athlete being taken away by wheelchair (without masks) is a triumph of some sort.
Fucking exceptionalism will kill us all.

2024-08-09 04:45:16

Ok, so anyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of drugs. Both pharmaceutical and recreational. Doing hallucinogenics changed my life. I did as much cocaine in the 80s as you would expect a hot young bartender in the nations top gentlemen’s club to do. (I believe the measure is Heroic.) I have smoked pot for 2/3 of my life. I tell you those stories, before I tell you this one, because it’s important to note that I am not a nervous nelly when it comes to experimenting and experiencing euphorics. I’m all for euphoria.
But this Feel Free shit? This is some scary Neal Stephenson level gas store crack. Founded by a dude who went to prison for embezzlement of millions, but did something and got witness protection. Anyway, he popped up as this supplement guru and is selling some prime Enshitification of drugs.
https://youtu.be/SOs1U5IOMWI?si=KWdkHKaRWvASoQFl

2024-08-08 02:22:50

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From the NYT: Condé Nast’s Owners Set to Reap a $1.4 Billion Windfall From Reddit
The Newhouse family, which controls the Advance media empire, ... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/business/media/reddit-ipo-conde-nast.html
Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., a former Condé Nast chief executive who remains on the board of Reddit, also owns nearly 50,000 shares in the tech company, according to public filings.
I do stand corrected on a point: Conde doesn't own Advance. Advance Publications is the parent company of Condé Nast. I had that flipped in my head.
Here's wiki on Advance : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
So Advance still holds majority, controls the board, and is responsible for the business operations.

2024-08-08 01:48:38

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sure, but shareholders are not owners, per se. Example; I own a non public corporation with a million shares of stock. If I ipo, I would retain enough shares for controlling interest, and only the shares I’m willing to sell would become public offer. This why companies will do buybacks or release previously private shares, but as a rule x number of shares exist, and thus pricing considers the available shares.
Conde owns controlling interest in Reddit. And the original founder has a 33% share of all of the non tradable preferred shares.
Large investors often have a seat on the board, and can sometimes drive direction via shareholder votes, but corporate direction is defined by the business and not shareholders.
(Cite: I’ve been on multiple IPO teams)

2024-08-07 23:17:49

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yeah, they’re still owned by conde though. Just like Dow is traded, but owned by Dow chemical. The management of Reddit is under the umbrella of their editorial division Advantage, who is responsible for the day to day business operations.

2024-08-07 22:48:48

Books by Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur and Sarah J Maas are among 13 titles that the state of Utah has ordered to be removed from all school classrooms and libraries.
12 of the 13 titles were written by women.
Implementation guidelines say that banned materials must be “legally disposed of” and “may not be sold or distributed”. PEN America Freedom to Read programme director Kasey Meehan said that such “vague” guidelines will “undoubtedly result in dumpsters full of books that could otherwise be enjoyed by readers” and that while they stop short of “calling for book burning, the effect is the same: a signal that some books are too dangerous”.
#bookbans #utah #women #bugfuckinsane #gopisweird
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/07/utah-outlaws-books-by-judy-blume-and-sarah-j-maas-in-first-statewide-ban

2024-08-07 21:52:17

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I’m not surprised. They got bought by Condé Nast, yes?

2024-08-02 21:59:21

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Isn’t that illegal? She says with the optimism of someone old enough to remember when laws were enforced against rich people.

2024-07-31 19:59:01

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oh, I thought palettes were treated with arsenic and we were not supposed to use them near anything that might be food.

2024-07-31 19:35:31

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Question: I want to start composting, but cannot build a containment unit atm, have you any tips for starting a free range (heh) pile?

2024-07-31 03:33:32

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oh, that’s extraordinary!

2024-07-28 18:13:32

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I will say, my trans daughter and I had to negotiate the word dude, in that I am of a specific generation and geography where dude is a gender neutral term for any person you happen to be speaking to, of, near, or just as an exclamation or exhortation. What the actual fuck dude, is a sentence I have uttered towards my female cats. 🤣
Removing dude from my vocabulary was no more going to happen than removing fuck from my lexicon was going to happen. 🤣
That said, I am more aware of it than before she came out, and don’t use it to address her or anyone else I think it might offend. That’s just polite.

2024-07-23 20:02:18

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oh, I love the grackles. They’re so curious and pretty clever. Although my crows and mockingbirds generally chase them off before they can form a swarm.

2024-07-23 20:00:41

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I’ve had to go into downtown Dallas more times in the last week than in the last four years, it’s madness out there!

2024-07-23 19:59:35

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wow, what a great shot! Good timing, good lighting, just good all the way around! 🥰

2024-07-23 18:02:39

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yeah, I’m about the same age as you. Even in my “full makeup” years, I’ve always been too GenX and lived too far south to wear “real” makeup. It’s hot and sweaty here. 🤣. When I say makeup I mean I’ll make my eyebrows show up and see if I can find some mascara. 🤣

2024-07-23 17:54:23

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I’m actually about to sit down and remember how to do makeup. I haven’t worn any since the pandemic started, but I figure I might take a picture later, and it’s best not to frighten the nice people. 🤣

2024-07-23 17:34:00

Today, in the realm of utterly irrelevant to the chaos of this timeline, I am going to have three feet of hair cut off. (Donating the hair if usuable for wigs for kids). It’s been a long time since I’ve had hair I could brush with one pass. I’m kinda nervous, which is absurd. I haven’t worn it down in years. It’s too much hair, it tries to conquer small spaces and take hostages. I’m worried there may be a whole colony of pictsies hiding in that up-do.
In any case, I have a picture of what I want. I have an expert recommended by the brilliant @npub1sem…9awy. I have a Xanax and an exit buddy who will come get me if I can’t stop weeping. It’s all going to be ok. 🤣🥳💃

2024-07-22 18:42:56

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I do not know how you are accessing it, but I have never seen green. On the web, mine is black and white, and depending on which mobile app I use, they are either white with black text, or black with white text, and colored links.
Here's how to change the settings when using a web browser:
- Click the Preferences icon, it looks like a gear wheel, and should have Preferences printed next to it.
- It should default to the Appearances tab. If not, you can select it from the list on the right side of the window.
- There is a drop down list called "Site Theme", from which you can select a number of options. Hopefully one of them helps!
I hope this is helpful, and the site becomes usable for you!

2024-07-21 23:04:30

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Me too! When in Uni, I was in debate club, (because of course I was), and as a philosophy major, I could argue some really random stuff pretty convincingly, but the guy who was a law student who grew up to be an amazing attorney, could clean my clock in a debate...his skills were astonishing. Lawyers who plan to work in a courtroom are some convincing people!
That said; debate rules don't really apply when debating someone like Trump. He's not going to abide by the rules of order, he's not going to try and make sense, he's just going to gish-gallop around being Trump, and debating him as a debater is like trying to hurt jello with an arrow. It just seals up around it, like an orange eldritch horror.
@npub1d29…0dff

2024-07-21 22:40:49

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You bastard!
:blobcathearthug:

2024-07-21 22:30:50

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I stand by my opinion that this was a putsch organized by the billionaire class, and trumpeted by their entirely captive news media.
I'm terrified right now.

2024-07-21 07:54:20

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Right? One of my friends jokingly said that we could make millions with a pac, and the other said, No…the real money is fleecing billionaires with a 501c. I mentioned the difficulty in 501c and they scoffed and said as long as we made it look right wing, we d probably not go to jail. 🤣. (Dear 3 initial agencies, this is a joke. I am not planning fraud.)

2024-07-19 04:43:25

Ok, you’ve never failed me before, I believe in you now, Hope me ObiWan, you’re my only help! Internet Detective Squad: Activate!
What is this thing? Both sides are identical, the center is a cushion that is attached to the silver flat pieces. There is a join at the rear, and the front compresses and there’s a pin like thing that pops up when the front is compressed. It’s about the size of a silver dollar, maybe a skosh bigger. It’s making us crazy that we cannot figure out what purpose this ever served, or why it is here, or from whence it came.
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2024-07-18 06:57:04

I’m going to test the auto delete of old posts after 3-6 months, except for some of the cartoons and things that have resonated with people.
But surely for small servers, it’s got to help to dump old stuff, especially media files that nobody will go back for, yeah? Have any of y’all ever gone back months and months on someone’s feed? Especially someone who prolifically posts random stuff? I premise that the answer is no in the majority of cases.
I dunno, opinions?

2024-07-17 00:05:17

So, #America, the Social Security Admin is changing their login process and account management, and the deadline to fix it if you have a pre-2018 login is fast approaching.
They sent emails. Infosec people have spent the entire time the internet has existed telling people NOT TO CLICK LINKS IN EMAIL...so of course they sent an email with a link.
This really is the stupidest timeline.
https://blog.ssa.gov/changes-are-coming-to-how-you-access-social-securitys-online-services/
#SSA #SocialSecurity #BadProtocol

2024-07-15 18:08:14

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Dental care in this country is abysmal. I’m suffering the effects of limited care as a kid and young adult too. It’s just awful. I’m sorry you’re experiencing it.

2024-07-14 19:33:10

Mood.
(edited to add alt text. doh.)
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2024-07-14 06:02:43

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2024-07-14 05:29:36

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Right?!

2024-07-14 04:48:05

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yeah, I posted a follow up saying that I was wrong, it probably wasn’t staged, just an amateur with a low caliber bird shot. Honestly, the Left never has good assassins. I guess the cia only trains the Right.

2024-07-14 04:38:09

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Ok, maybe it wasn’t staged. News is saying an innocent was killed and the gunman. So, I was probably wrong.

2024-07-14 01:11:49

Omg, the Trump story. Jeezy creezy, low rent, low caliber, reichstag attempt, is badly choreographed. And his wwf-style fans are going to eat this up, yum. It could not be more kayfabe unless Dwayne Johnson himself was the shooter.

2024-07-12 19:25:24

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Do Not come back to the States. Use your 20s to sort out immigration to somewhere rational like Holland or Denmark.

2024-07-12 06:30:33

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oh, I’m pretty sure my mothership is near there, wherever there is. 🥰

2024-07-11 18:26:55

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I have so many stories! He was a really huge part of my life for years. He did so much, I don’t think I ever thought “oh Mike can’t do that, he’s blind”, it was always “I bet Mike can do it!” he waterskied with us, and would sometimes even drive the boat in open water. My step dad was a deep sea captain after he retired from racing, so we were in open water frequently. Funniest story, we were in nascar pits, and I (about 14) was trying to convince an owner that they really wanted me to drive for them, and he said if I could talk Mike around the track, I could have a turn. Damned if Mike didn’t listen and make it around the entire Daytona track. (Although saying turn left, ok turn left, left… didn’t take a lot of skill on my part. Heh). The 70s were wild man. 🤣.

2024-07-11 02:16:47

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when I was growing up, my stepdad’s best friend was blind. Had been since birth. That never stopped him from going hunting with the guys, or doing any of the other stupid shit Florida men do. 🤣. When they were out “hunting”, in 15 years I never saw them bring a deer back, mostly they just went up to the cabin and got drunk without wives and kids. But we have such great stories about him driving the jeep, and the one time he shot a duck, out of season, by accident, in front of a game warden, who let him keep the duck because he was amazed a blind man shot a duck. 🤣

2024-07-11 02:04:40

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Like you, I have an autoimmune disorder which can flare from “I feel meh” to “if someone does not bring me an opiate, I will die”, I wear braces most of the time, and sometimes need mobilityaids like a cane. But I’ve never used the term disabled to describe myself. Quite possibly because of the semantics. But probably because I was a gymnast trained by Russian coaches, and working through the pain is a thing I’ve done since I was five. Tape it up, rub some dirt on it, you’ll be fine was the motto of my youth. 🤣

2024-07-10 22:05:22

See this? It looks like an innocent clump of Johnston grass. Look closer and you’ll see the devil’s own fidget spinners; fire ants! Swarming, winged armies of pain. You know what you shouldn’t do? Run over it with a big ol’ cub cadet without a catcher. You know what else? If you jump into pond because you’re covered in fire ants, your work boots become mafia disposal units, and you will sink. Also, ponds are slimy. So so slimy. And deep. Not too cold though, so that was nice.
In other news, I’ve given up yard work for the day and will now be showering forever. Send benadryl.
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2024-07-10 18:26:45

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Witness the palpable disappointment in the press corps when Biden rocked his NATO speech. Are they talking about how well he did? They are not. They are now focused on teleprompters, and why Joe should step aside because he uses a teleprompter. Because no other President or candidate in the history of the world has ever used teleprompters or speech notes.
I mean, I get why Joe isn’t exciting. But even my Palestinian family is voting for him because the alternative is hell. Why the media is so in the tank for trump I fail to grok though.

2024-06-25 18:46:01

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I have the greenest of thumbs when it comes to tropicals and difficult plants. A tomato? I have tried and tried and tried, and cannot keep them alive.

2024-06-23 22:57:38

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cool, thanks. I just had a print done by…canvaspop, had to go look it up. Quality was outstanding, price for a one off wasn’t too bad, but they don’t have the infrastructure that FA seems to have in place. Like, a buyer couldn’t go browsing around my work, it’s a transaction from me to the print shop, then me to client, or drop shipped in this case to them, with me trusting the quality with fingers crossed. 🤣

2024-06-23 18:06:39

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How have you liked Fine Art as a print on demand service?