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Horrorology / Re: Fear, Loathing, and Horror.
« on: May 21, 2023, 05:44:28 pm »
forgot to post this when I finished it
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forgot to post this when I finished it
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Or Kill Me / Re: Fuck You.
« on: May 18, 2023, 07:30:13 pm »
Got another one done while I was at it
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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
« on: May 18, 2023, 07:20:09 pm »I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.
SO glad to see you. The po'buckers are totally out of control, and we have a ton of black & white film for you to help you manage things.
Good to exist. I may end up using that film this time.
Also you may get drafted to invade somewhere that hits -50. I know you're not for snow but I am not letting fatbergs be the reason the revolution fails.
Sorry, humans cannot survive below 80 degrees. I will have to insist on a full environment suit, and a prybar.
I'll add it to the budget
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Or Kill Me / Re: We've Already Won.
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:54:46 pm »
What's your preferred attribution these days?
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Techmology and Scientism / Re: They Have Altered the Deal...
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:54:14 pm »
just had basically the same experience with my printer. There was absolutely no indication that anything was physically wrong with the fucker, but because it's over 10 years old and was throwing an error code, I had to throw the whole thing out. No buying replacement parts, no bypassing the errors, just huck it in the junk bin. It isn't even planned obsolescence anymore, it's enforced obsolescence. They will literally rip a working object/piece of software out of your hands by any means they can to force the upgrade.
I should have been listening to the right to repair people much sooner.
I should have been listening to the right to repair people much sooner.
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Or Kill Me / Re: We've Already Won.
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:48:27 pm »
I'm churning out some more Holy Nonsense stuff, can I format this one up? Still CC-A-ND-NC
You can't undo what we have done.
Oh, sure, you'll fucking try. You'll kill us by the thousand. But that doesn't matter.
You think being alive is some kind of win condition on this fucked up little marble? How stupid are you? I don't know if you've noticed, but shit's bad and getting worse. You think I'm eager to stick around so I can drown in sewage like the rest of the apes? Hah. Pathetic. No, the only thing that keeps me going these days is spite. I'm suffering, but I'm going to make you suffer even more.
No. The thing you wanted to do was preserve the lie. Make us believe that the world fits into neat little boxes. Make your kids think that they're broken for feeling the way they feel, loving the people they love. But they've seen the truth, now.
You can kill every last one of us and it won't matter.
Everyone knows the lie for what it is.
For most of human history you and people like you have done a great job maintaining the lie, and whilst you could stop us talking to each other it worked nicely. But the truth has out. And here's the thing.
We're not content to just quietly kill ourselves any more.
We're going to make you do it. Knowing it won't change a fucking thing. Knowing that all it means is that sooner or later, you're going to throw your own kids on the pyre too.
You've lost. And that? That gives me life.
So fucking kill me, loser.
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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:44:38 pm »I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.
SO glad to see you. The po'buckers are totally out of control, and we have a ton of black & white film for you to help you manage things.
Good to exist. I may end up using that film this time.
Also you may get drafted to invade somewhere that hits -50. I know you're not for snow but I am not letting fatbergs be the reason the revolution fails.
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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:42:31 pm »I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.
I'll be glad to see more of you again. How are you?
Husband got hospitalized for complications related to long covid, we were genuinely worried that was gonna be it for him for a couple days there. Fortunately he is still The Protagonist in some goddamn story so he's mostly better with the treatment he's on. Work has been grinding me to a paste, I'm trying to figure out how to extract myself from this place but I suck at interviews and there are enough gaps in my general understanding of office politics/professionalism that I am at a disadvantage. Also got documentably sexually harassed by the last head of HR at the place, but there's nothing useful to be done with that. You know, American Dream shit.
Finished Andor and now I have a strong need to DO THINGS. I might want to tag you in on one of the bigger plans if we can secure some moneybags for it, you have exactly the right experience for a couple slots. I'm glad to see you found someone you're clicking with!
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Aneristic Illusions / Completely Innocent Gears
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:32:44 pm »
There is no sin
In editing
Cleaning typos
From forms
Filled out by others
Tidying language
Making clear what was muddy
Shining light on truth
And scraping away
Uncertainty
So long as it is done
Diligently
With care
And accuracy
We must always strive
For accuracy
And so too, is there no sin
In writing down
What is seen
When you are
Where you have been paid to be
So long as it is done
Diligently
With an eye for the truth
Ever striving
For accuracy
In the light of all this
How could it be wrong
To pass along
The evidence of something amiss
To someone who knows
How to deal with it?
Someone who is
Certified
Trained and equipped
Authorized
To handle it
And if you do have the authority
Don’t you also have the duty
To do something?
To intervene?
To protect a person from themselves
To protect the public
From the deranged?
Or simply from the consequences
Of their own poor decisions?
How can there be a sin
In doing everything you can
In service to your community?
Remembering
One must always act
Diligently
And one by one
The pieces of paper
Numbered and notarized
Pile up
Wind up
On the desk
Of someone
Who was given
The authority
Hammer in hand
Parsing
An image painted
By a thousand blameless artists
Seeking only
To do their jobs
Diligently
In a mechanical moment
The hammer strikes
A life ground down
By a machine
Made of a thousand guiltless gears
In editing
Cleaning typos
From forms
Filled out by others
Tidying language
Making clear what was muddy
Shining light on truth
And scraping away
Uncertainty
So long as it is done
Diligently
With care
And accuracy
We must always strive
For accuracy
And so too, is there no sin
In writing down
What is seen
When you are
Where you have been paid to be
So long as it is done
Diligently
With an eye for the truth
Ever striving
For accuracy
In the light of all this
How could it be wrong
To pass along
The evidence of something amiss
To someone who knows
How to deal with it?
Someone who is
Certified
Trained and equipped
Authorized
To handle it
And if you do have the authority
Don’t you also have the duty
To do something?
To intervene?
To protect a person from themselves
To protect the public
From the deranged?
Or simply from the consequences
Of their own poor decisions?
How can there be a sin
In doing everything you can
In service to your community?
Remembering
One must always act
Diligently
And one by one
The pieces of paper
Numbered and notarized
Pile up
Wind up
On the desk
Of someone
Who was given
The authority
Hammer in hand
Parsing
An image painted
By a thousand blameless artists
Seeking only
To do their jobs
Diligently
In a mechanical moment
The hammer strikes
A life ground down
By a machine
Made of a thousand guiltless gears
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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
« on: May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 pm »
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.
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Or Kill Me / Re: Compromise
« on: March 27, 2022, 06:34:32 pm »Let it be known that humans are cabbages sometimes
And greyfaces are jokesters sometimes
That bipeds sometimes drop to all fours
And sheeple are sometimes woke
Let it be known that enlightenment is not a destination
But a way that people sometimes are
And sometimes are not
And this is not a flaw, but a feature
Let us not shit on people for being on a downswing
Or prevent them from moving back
Towards the kind of person
We'd like to hang out with
Let us not place blame except where it is due
Or where its funny
There's almost always redemption.
Even if there's no hope for redemption, you don't need to be the reason someone doesn't redeem themselves. We can always take that step back and let them figure it out or hang themselves.