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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Last Notes npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Can anyone recommend some good solarpunk novels or videos for me? I could use some hope. Feels like I'm in the bottom of the Pit of Despair, with no escape in sight! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…vfe6 npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Speaking of book recommendations: if anyone would like a personalized book recommendation, please feel free to ask! I've probably read more books, particularly older books, than 99% of the human race. And my memory for books is unusually good. So I'd be glad to make a recommendation for anyone who needs one. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…qkvg npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Okay, the latest technical problem I'm seeing on Mastodon in the last few days is issues with boosting. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I pirate because I'm poor, and can't afford to buy all the books I want to read. Also, many of those books •aren't for sale• in any format, neither physical nor electronic. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit A lot of sites are timing out before they load today. Yet LibreSpeed says that my connection speed is pretty good. Something's not right here! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit He has a point! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Happy Fuckin' Easter! 🐰 npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…kyza npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I was on the internet for *years* before the World Wide Web was created. Anyone else remember the old days of Usenet? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…kkmn npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit So let me get this straight: Trump is going to declare victory and walk away from Iran. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…nmr0 npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Why do so many people have difficulty differentiating "breath" and "breathe"? One is a noun, the other a verb. You take a breath; that's how you breathe. It's really not complicated! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I stumbled on a free collection of short stories by Mack Reynolds, the mercenary-turned-science-fiction-writer! He focused on the economic and sociological aspects of the future, writing often about (for example) a universal guaranteed income back in the 60s and 70s! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit When the billionaires realize that they *can't* create true artificial intelligence, how long before they start removing brains from children and stick them inside machines? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit The first bunny of spring! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I want to try to grow a few things this spring. But I have no experience. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…nmr0 At the same time, I can't help but have a problem with people who vote for candidates who promise to keep committing genocide. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…t4jl I wonder if this is NIMBYism, or actually based on human decency? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…l70y "Defective"?!? The Democratic Party not only maintained material support for Israel's genocide of children in Gaza, it slammed the door in the faces of their voters who opposed it - and had the nerve to blame the voters for their own failure! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…l70y We do know that the DNC has spent tens of millions of dollars on online agents, and David Brock has played a big role in that. So why do you think that's very unlikely? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…l70y I think a large percentage of them are paid shills working for the DNC. We already know that the DNC has spent tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars on online shills. A lot of it through David Brock. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…l70y This guy REALLY gives way too much credit to celebrities and sports figures. Getting them to squawk is a BONUS for Trump, not a reason to change policy. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd Do you think there's any hope for them? I suspect that in the end, they are going to side with the fascists. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd Of course if we don't get rid of the capitalists, they are just going to bring fascism back again as soon as things quiet down. Or rather, they're going to turn up the heat on the fascism and make it stronger. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…qkvg I'd very much like to know if the national guard is going to protect citizens, or ICE! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I've seen 3D plans for loud whistles. I don't have a 3D printer myself yet, but is it safe to put 3D printed stuff in your mouth? I know that there are ones that use plastic and ones that use resin, and I thought the resin ones were more toxic. But isn't plastic also a problem? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd And "all of us" doesn't mean literally ALL of us; 3.5 percent of the working population would do it. Two to three weeks of a stopped economy will clear out the rich and their politicians like a bug bomb clearing a house of roaches. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd How are Kyle and Krystal entitled to "go for it"? Their lips have been firmly connected to the DNC's ass since day one. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…pfuj npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd I'm not saying yes to ANYTHING except a general strike! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd I don't know, Trump is so full of crap that it's hard to take him seriously at times. Even though he's a psycho narcissist. And there's something more ridiculous about him talking about taking over Canada for some reason. I'm not sure why! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…au2u And if the Democrats should ever get any power ever again, you can rest assured that the first thing they will start squawking is "LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACK!" while refusing to undo any of Trump's policies. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…vqu4 I hope you're right! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…vqu4 What do you think? Will we see a clash between state national guard units, State Police, and ICE? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd Feels Like I'm overhearing half of a conversation on the phone! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…kahw My stupid character was named Two-Ton (or "Teuton", I stole that from somewhere). He weighed two tons and shouldn't have been able to walk on most floors, but he was too dumb to know it. He had super strength and would tie his opponents into pretzels. He also admitted to liking pretzels. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…kahw My favorite superpower was the ability to point out when things violated the laws of physics, thereby nullifying them. For example "How can you fly without any sort of exhaust or Newtonian counterthrust?" npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…vqu4 That makes my blood boil! I'm absolutely sick of all the scams and sleaze we're getting from merchants and corporations these days. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…qkvg npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…qkvg npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Do you think that Trump would be willing to nuke Minneapolis? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Looks like another Anna's Archive mirror has been taken down: the .se one. Others are still up, but I don't know how long they'll last. If there are any books you need, you might want to take a look now. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit What made you pick your Mastodon server? What's good about it? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…x9tq npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit If this were the world of "Fahrenheit 451", what book would you be? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit An electrician showed up unexpectedly today to check our internet wiring. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…zlsl It's COMPLETELY delusional. There's no going back. Either the future is fascist, leading to global extinction, or it's human and post-capitalist. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…gfcd Are you short of food? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I'm curious. If I write a post that's longer than the maximum length permitted on another server, what does a person on that server see? npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Apparently Marco Rubio let it slip that Trump is planning to buy Greenland. We know that some billionaire accomplice of his has been buying a lot of Greenland real estate and businesses quietly for a while now. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…ejm2 npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…r769 npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit "National Lampoon's Doon" (1985) by Ellis Weiner: A peerless, wickedly accurate parody npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit After decades of experience with online dating services, I'm convinced that at this point ALL of them are deliberately making themselves useless. It's logical, by capitalist "logic"; if someone meets a suitable match and falls in love, they're lost as a customer - possibly forever. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…pfuj npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I HATE what Microsoft has done to NotePad in Windows 11. I DO NOT WANT all of my .txt files all opened in NotePad simultaneously! The utility of NotePad was that it was a simple, no-bullshit text file editor. And Microsoft had to go and fuck it up. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit There's a feature that either Mastodon or Mastodon apps really need to add. Or at least, if there's an app that has this feature I want to know about it so I can switch to it. So far I have only tried Tusky and Pachli. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…k62u npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…wldt npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…k62u npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Tippy's Nap. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…p7lw npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…pwgz @nprofile…85jz npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit So what am I supposed to do if I'm grabbed by ICE or DHS or the Feds? My son asked, and I don't know what to say! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…zqpr npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit FOOD SHOULD BE FREE npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit So the point was never that fossil fuels or nuclear were in any way *better*. Renewables are now cheaper than both - by far, if you include environmental costs. And the cost for renewable energy continues to drop. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…mel7 @nprofile…5es3 @nprofile…s0el npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…mel7 @nprofile…5es3 @nprofile…s0el npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit The veil has dropped. The fig leaf is gone. Norms, rules, regulations and even *laws* are meaningless - unless the elite want them enforced. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit The thing that the Establishment can't forgive about Trump isn't that he's a fascist and abusing his power. It's that he took everything they were already doing and made it undeniably obvious. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I'll never again see Israel and the United States as anything but illegitimate, genocidal states. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Wooden clothespins are one of the most useful things I've found for the household. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit A fifty-year mortgage is lifetime slavery. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit After watching Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein", I've decided to reread Mary Shelley's original again. It's been decades since I read it last. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Suddenly my YouTube recommendations are full to bursting with mysterious new political channels that all seem to be echo chambers for the DNC. Lots of talk about "firsts", particularly first women. That they're status quo neoliberal women doesn't come up. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit As an atheist, I regret that there's no hell for Cheney, Kissinger, et al to burn in. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit It's not a ballroom. It's a palace. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit #politics npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I'm up sick tonight, and I saw a post over on YouTube by someone I recently started following there. Because they were apparently banned by Twitter, they asked people to follow their new Bluesky account. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I would like to believe that mutual aid isn't just people asking each other for money. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit The end goal of capitalism is: npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…97n2 npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…pgwc npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I feel as if I should be working out next steps. Trump sends troops to Portland, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and anywhere else he can think of with full authorization to use deadly force against citizens. It won't take long for citizens to be killed; that's the goal. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…mp9f @nprofile…qz4x npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit @nprofile…eeal That's weird to see. I've only ever seen sunRISES over the ocean! npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit I strongly suspect that the Syrian revolution/coup whatever was a CIA project. npub1hf2n6skurjm0mc679879vya386de08s6m2tgwvax58txke3vyagsfdhdmm Quasit Well, I just quit the last book recommendation group I belonged to on Facebook. They auto blocked a post of mine because I failed to include a date of publication for a book that I mentioned in passing.
