Nostr notes by Ciggy Bringer of Smoke

Okay, lets do it man, lets start a Birria Paprikash stand!

2026-05-05T20:18:42Z

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Okay, lets do it man, lets start a Birria Paprikash stand!

I added a dollop of sour cream to a taco ramen and... it works. ...

2026-05-05T20:11:15Z

I added a dollop of sour cream to a taco ramen and...

it works.

It's more like an eastern european soup for it, but it works.

Wife getting suspicious Im a clone cause I wore matching socks, ...

2026-03-31T02:49:51Z

Wife getting suspicious Im a clone cause I wore matching socks, and folks, I havent for years except special events. Where she dresses me, full chain of sock custody. And our one ironclad rule is 'no clones' so you see my stress

On the shopping trip list now!

2026-03-09T19:05:25Z

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On the shopping trip list now!

What's everyone's favo instant noodle's or ramen? I ...

2026-03-09T19:01:05Z

What's everyone's favo instant noodle's or ramen? I like the Shin Black but there's a ton to try at M2M and well, I wanna try more.

If there was an authority that was depending on witness to act, ...

2026-01-24T19:12:38Z

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If there was an authority that was depending on witness to act, maybe oodles and oodles of witness would be helpful to make authority incapable of seeing anything else but to act. But that isnt there, an authority against street executions by The State.

Im just saying, the routine falsification that documenting is the ...

2026-01-24T19:09:43Z

Im just saying, the routine falsification that documenting is the start of justice, is actually demoralizing because there isnt an authority that will do anything with your witness but you. And you dont need that much witness to be decided, do ya now.

I think what we're seeing out of MPS is that it (a ...

2026-01-19T19:35:44Z

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I think what we're seeing out of MPS is that it (a resistance) does a helluva lot more autonomically and autonomously when it's collective and not just partisans with a clue that shit is happening.

Pissing off everyone with my wooden 'train whistle' that ...

2026-01-19T19:08:41Z

Pissing off everyone with my wooden 'train whistle' that doesn't alert anyone of goons, but instead lulls them into childhood nostalgia traps. But I had it, and I like it.

lmao, this is my entire TV powerblock these days, all the treks!

2025-11-25T01:27:52Z

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lmao, this is my entire TV powerblock these days, all the treks!

Well, it was a big affirmation march and I appreciate it not ...

2025-10-19T02:07:02Z

Well, it was a big affirmation march and I appreciate it not having to 'work' with hyper awareness and teaming up with medica-y-care folks, but I am so goddamn restless and every single non risky thing feels like a waste of my flavor and appetites.

I do think some folks are being ridiculous about suggested over-opsec for No Kings, and affirmation marches in general. The point is 'how many of us are there like this even' and that includes daring to not give a shit if they can be made and then 'talked to' by suits, or just whisked away one day, or whatever The State will do with it.

Theres always going to be disagreement on what to do, how to do it, but i really do think if it isnt your bag and not your spec, youre not doing them or yourself any favors recommending May 29th Protocols for something decidedly not May 29th 2020 in so many ways. Its about matching the vibe in general and individual takecare with offers to others for masks etc.

This is if youre not gonna go grognard hardass anyway on the what to do and how to do - if theres only a handful of things that will do and nobody is doing them, thats a real fucking way of backseat driving people towards it by starting with their kit, like theyd be future comrades if the state wont nab em for this today? Even if their kit and signage signals an ideological gulf that kit doesnt fix?

Anywho, this is actually about backseat driving for the most part anyway. Let people cook even if you know its kinda meh.

That statue's proportions are hilarious

2025-10-12T17:51:00Z

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That statue's proportions are hilarious

i honestly believe that firmer vocational tracks from college to ...

2025-09-30T04:02:15Z

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i honestly believe that firmer vocational tracks from college to stations of power, with the sociotechnlogical advent of the internet cleaving and shaping social cohorts, is partially in play here

One example for laughs, plz, I beg

2025-09-30T03:36:15Z

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One example for laughs, plz, I beg

Me: '90% of entities in an ecosystem do wrong when left ...

2025-09-17T19:11:45Z

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Me: '90% of entities in an ecosystem do wrong when left entirely to their own development devices, so is there a point to scorekeeping who has done the worst in private comms?'

You: "Sounds like you're excusing 90% of entities and want to be one yourself"

They might be blaming an ecosystem because its an ecosystem ...

2025-09-17T19:04:54Z

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They might be blaming an ecosystem because its an ecosystem problem 90% of entities botch on purpose.

Oh shit, oh no, Beka... Borderlands guns are real now.

2025-09-11T16:33:12Z

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Oh shit, oh no, Beka...

Borderlands guns are real now.

It's almost like a tell they consider Fascism legitimate ...

2025-09-10T23:00:54Z

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It's almost like a tell they consider Fascism legitimate power to negotiate with for some ~*odd*~ reason

It really is the gift that keeps on giving (for those of us that ...

2025-08-28T22:27:45Z

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It really is the gift that keeps on giving (for those of us that neither like PSL nor Starbuck's PSL, we couldn't write a more funny confusion)

Okay, good, because one thing that drives me bonkers is when ...

2025-08-25T22:07:37Z

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Okay, good, because one thing that drives me bonkers is when partisans run around flailing over being "Outflanked", like the crack squad of Council Communists of The Democratic Party totally had one pulled over on them while they slept or something...

Beka, pay you a buck for every time you've seen the word ...

2025-08-25T21:52:21Z

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Beka, pay you a buck for every time you've seen the word 'outflank' or 'outflanking' used in the last week, promise to buy me a sundae with the exchange?

The larger collective refusal to eat shit on this material fact ...

2025-08-24T17:42:34Z

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The larger collective refusal to eat shit on this material fact to keep the mythos intact is all part of the cultural replication of America and I fucking hate it. Its like trying to 'move on' from an abcess by caking 10 lbs of makeup on it and applying an Old Glory tattoo - sepsis walking.

The thing about it is that once you put a pin on the American ...

2025-08-24T17:33:15Z

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The thing about it is that once you put a pin on the American Spirit being 'you can buy your way to more liberty' the whole American Project clicks but also explains every abberational and exceptional thing about the larger economic structure, political structure, like this country is a fucking racket calling itself a nation state, bound by a culture that was mostly informed at its inception by slavers and merchants who hit a limit of buying their way out of monarch's rule.

So the artsy folks are continually botching the presentation of ...

2025-08-24T07:10:33Z

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So the artsy folks are continually botching the presentation of an Ecumenopolis cause...

Can we get one on to explain themselves?

It would probably piss some small amount of 'hackers' off ...

2025-08-24T01:46:19Z

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It would probably piss some small amount of 'hackers' off to do something grand thats not hacking and getting media to report it as 'local man hacks datacenter with semi truck'

Driving Mac Trucks into datacenters and insisting im brute force ...

2025-08-24T01:43:42Z

Driving Mac Trucks into datacenters and insisting im brute force hacking them into failure

The notion is kinda John Wick Itis where its like...okay...a ...

2025-08-23T22:03:49Z

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The notion is kinda John Wick Itis where its like...okay...a flourishing underbelly that evades purposeful detection but is discoverable by those searching for a home, with millions of people on it...like, cool thought, but I dont think it can exist.

The audacious incompetency is the thing that gets me.

2025-08-21T00:37:16Z

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The audacious incompetency is the thing that gets me.

i think its precisely because they did exist and ...

2025-08-13T01:22:53Z

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i think its precisely because they did exist and Former-Liberals-cum-Leftists are such materialist dweebs in search of a deductive silver bullet, theyd rather ride pine than repeat a supposed mistake twice.

'Another Goofy popped out within seconds.' And it's ...

2025-07-29T22:01:07Z

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'Another Goofy popped out within seconds.'

And it's like...they got auxiliary goofies at the ready, but no fucking plan to keep the current goofies from the need immediate goofy relief.

Just incredible lines throughout this anecdote.

Look no further than Professional Athletes Who Generate The ...

2025-07-24T17:17:16Z

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Look no further than Professional Athletes Who Generate The Entire Reason Anyone Even Does The Ancillary and Auxiliary Spend Around Sports and how the sheer amount of labor compensation rules them out of proletariat, even if they're getting fucked over on the value they produce for the entity.

It's a great test on structural affinities taking precedent over face value affinities, and there's a little racist tic to all of this shit where white ass managers and managerial wannabees and general serfs who worship power will invoke how 'in the real world, the pro athletes wouldn't get anywhere close to their 47% or so share of revenue before costs, they should shut up' and its like...they should shut up cause all they're doing is affirming class relationships through the proxy of sports, with racial animus being impetus.

I fucking love sports and loathe many sports fans.

the bitter irony is a 'natural disaster' could advance ...

2025-07-24T00:57:43Z

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the bitter irony is a 'natural disaster' could advance the impetus despite the externality, almost making it seem like you're better off being 'blameless weather' than an motived person to accomplish things.

Its a starting point to get folks asking what they can do, and Id ...

2025-07-03T06:42:02Z

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Its a starting point to get folks asking what they can do, and Id be fibbing if I said atrocity hadnt motivated me, but its more complicated once you get it. Theres a group of women in my neighborhood that hold a vigil for the children of gaza and its like, i love them and theyre doing the thing they think will help but its like, im already affected, I need the 200 level courses on how we sabotage boeing and maersk so Israel doesnt get weapons, ya know?

Part of the issue is that there is a threshold of atrocity where ...

2025-07-03T06:21:21Z

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Part of the issue is that there is a threshold of atrocity where it reabstracts itself into something you cant do anything about. I was just griping about how bearing witness doesnt do enough after a certain point but alienate - my angle is more on the 'what do we do about it' and the answer being 'bear more witness and drag others into it' and that being demotivational if you already have been shaken by it - no, you want an outlet to fight back, not pass along the worst things youve ever seen.

Amen Sister, and it can be a huge pain in the ass to collect all ...

2025-06-19T19:57:22Z

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Amen Sister, and it can be a huge pain in the ass to collect all that info if its in disparate places, buuuuuuut, if you ever need that hardcopy to phonetree your way through things, you'll be glad you did it and maintained it when you need it.

"What are we gonna do if the internet gets shut off?" ...

2025-06-18T23:37:46Z

"What are we gonna do if the internet gets shut off?"

Rejoice, then realize our longstanding atrophy, then start at square one with the old school methods that everyone before the internet used to some effect of utility greater than anything I've fucking seen since 1995.

Goddamn, seems like I just need to do enough to become a domain ...

2025-06-18T21:14:35Z

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Goddamn, seems like I just need to do enough to become a domain authority so that I become an omnidomain expert on everything, and people just say I proved shit I alluded to, like soy sauce and yellow mustard being a keen combo

It really makes it hard to stomach other bagels, even other good ...

2025-05-30T15:51:46Z

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It really makes it hard to stomach other bagels, even other good local ones, cause you just know what is possible and the locals ones aren't it.

RIP Lil Queen!!! ...

2025-05-24T23:22:33Z

RIP Lil Queen!!!

All true, but it's like, that's an acute near term horror ...

2025-05-22T22:25:47Z

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All true, but it's like, that's an acute near term horror I'd only be half sorry to observe happening with my own two eyes in realtime.

Like there's no denying that if it were strong enough and wide enough, it'd probably unravel human societies buuuuuuuuuuuuut...

On the whole, we're back in a pre-1840s technological ecosystem which is slightly after our current ecological nightmare started waddling with a log of coal in its diaper.

A Carrington Event would be very bad for us in the near term, and ...

2025-05-22T21:57:08Z

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A Carrington Event would be very bad for us in the near term, and probably be very good for the planet in the long term.

Personally and very selfishly, I wouldn't mind computers never working again.

The fussiest fucking droid in the galaxy and one that just beeps ...

2025-05-17T00:07:07Z

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The fussiest fucking droid in the galaxy and one that just beeps and whistles and does shit as it needs to be done.

Don't tell Han the odds on that one!

Honestly, I have thought about this so many times and how easy it ...

2025-05-12T22:42:15Z

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Honestly, I have thought about this so many times and how easy it might be to impersonate a role I already hold, and just get enough access to deploy something nasty, but of course I overthink the whole thing and want a ticket number it insert myself between and want the SOP document so I can really blend in. Overkill, but it's my dayjob I'm good at so...

Spit in mouth, not kinky, I wanna see if it works like that on my ...

2025-05-09T00:27:57Z

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Spit in mouth, not kinky, I wanna see if it works like that on my coffee/weed stains.

takes of keffiyeh to reveal face tattoo of keffiyeh

2025-05-09T00:17:56Z

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*takes of keffiyeh to reveal face tattoo of keffiyeh*

To put a blunt point on it...seriously, the people that rooted ...

2025-04-18T19:27:22Z

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To put a blunt point on it...seriously, the people that rooted for the fucking cops against us in 2020 want us to trust them, be with them, just hoping they won't call the cops even as their organizational unit for these protests 100% have and will if you make an actual fuss with some teeth?

Mars Attacks without Slim Whitman As Savior!

2025-04-14T20:33:26Z

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Mars Attacks without Slim Whitman As Savior!

So the 3 body problem is a macguffin

2025-04-14T20:30:52Z

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So the 3 body problem is a macguffin

Someone owes me 10 bucks if Rod Beck was the pilot.

2025-04-04T20:39:36Z

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Someone owes me 10 bucks if Rod Beck was the pilot.

Students Against Administrative Cowardice forms overnight

2025-03-29T03:47:55Z

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Students Against Administrative Cowardice forms overnight

Ahp ahp ahp I don't see "Ciggy Logic" which is ...

2025-03-27T17:06:24Z

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Ahp ahp ahp I don't see "Ciggy Logic" which is actually borrowed heavily from 'Aesop and Son' which is basically 'Unconventional form fitting solutions that are wrong to expectation but solution none the less'

Liberals are going to be out 500 million dollars from their own ...

2025-03-06T21:48:57Z

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Liberals are going to be out 500 million dollars from their own donation pockets before they go 'oh shit' and then they'll be like 'ah well, sunk cost, Newsom is actually decent'

there is something to a 'let em do as they will within limits ...

2025-03-05T02:12:29Z

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there is something to a 'let em do as they will within limits because we can more capably soft contain events announced as events' rather than face an insurgency that just goes for it without any warnings.

Don't organize a thing, just do a thing and get away with it ...

2025-03-05T01:36:47Z

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Don't organize a thing, just do a thing and get away with it over and over then, got it.

i wonder when first uptakes like that happen - when were you like ...

2025-03-04T05:38:27Z

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i wonder when first uptakes like that happen - when were you like 'there really is something to this' after a first or few impressions.

I had that with Bach and it was a ton of sources exposure but yeah, church itself with the pipe organs doing Bach service and a half, and Wendy Carlos' seminal album. There really is something to it, hahaha

See, toons as this cultural lexicon of the writers and animators ...

2025-03-04T05:30:04Z

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See, toons as this cultural lexicon of the writers and animators is amazing for basically capsulating what was known and referential for future generations. Intentional or not, it does it where the range of reference gives you an idea of the team and what captured their fancy and intrigues.

Bugs as Valkyrie on the cartoonishly proportioned horse always got me, but I also got a payload of 'this is opera, this is a specific kind of Germanic Opera' and its like, whether youre fan of Wagner or like Bugs in drag cause there has never been coyer, its a cultural artifact of appreciation and reference.

same same same same SAME

2025-03-04T05:10:25Z

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same same same same SAME

now Im intrigued!

2025-02-25T04:11:29Z

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now Im intrigued!

Beka, can we take a sidebar on 'vocational training as ...

2025-02-22T00:04:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…ggd5
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Beka, can we take a sidebar on 'vocational training as individual self saving device in a society' and how sizzle industries come and go as the word gets out that they provide a superior self saving, then get flooded with new fish who heard the word, and are now stuck in a hierarchy with low turnover?

Cause I got Docs, Lawyers and Software Devs on my list now.

thats why in professional circles Im a Quaker known as Best ...

2025-01-29T03:52:34Z

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thats why in professional circles Im a Quaker known as Best Possible Problem Solver

Would that be Bijal?

2025-01-13T23:48:02Z

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Would that be Bijal?

yeah! I was seeing arial coverage tonight where its just growing ...

2025-01-09T03:14:17Z

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yeah!

I was seeing arial coverage tonight where its just growing and glowing and growing. Some folks on the news absolutely led with 'staring into hell' feelings of shock and loss

I do gotta say, 2025 opening domestically with what looks like ...

2025-01-09T03:07:21Z

I do gotta say, 2025 opening domestically with what looks like the mouth of hell revealing flaming tooth after flaming tooth as it consumes parts of LA...

Is a wee bit literary fablish

It is kinda bananas Israelis are going abroad to boast about how ...

2024-12-21T22:54:53Z

It is kinda bananas Israelis are going abroad to boast about how much theyre getting away with genociding and love it with the Israeli State then having to deploy localized propaganda and extraction to incident, and some pathetic Liberals are still the only ones left with a line nobody believes

I get it to some extent even as a dude - anything about ...

2024-12-17T21:03:41Z

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I get it to some extent even as a dude - anything about partisan/underdog struggle is instantly resonant, partially putting myself there already but also expecting far more harrowing and dramatic shit to happen in the future. It's a kind of 'this is how it might go and you gotta brace for this potential if you couldn't previously imagine it', and we can now half imagine it.

line up a couple jobs in non profit social services, theyll be ...

2024-12-06T02:36:40Z

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line up a couple jobs in non profit social services, theyll be insurrectos with a heart in 2 years

For a second I was like 'what is the Ghost Busters Baddie ...

2024-12-02T19:29:04Z

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For a second I was like 'what is the Ghost Busters Baddie doing with a small dog' and then I was like...wait a second....wait a freaking second, this is Silence of the Lambs shit.

Makes sense in doing whats needed to be somewhat functional but I ...

2024-11-20T19:09:32Z

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Makes sense in doing whats needed to be somewhat functional but I still can only see someone with a sack full of onions being clobbered entirely by the door opening on them as they walk up the stairs. Nevermind clumsily falling down the hole.

Itching to see if that door can be reframed like 4 feet to the left or something. This just aint gonna sit right with me, lol.

Absolutely losing it how they'll construct a kind of ...

2024-11-20T18:59:02Z

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Absolutely losing it how they'll construct a kind of 'skirt' but a flush cellar door was too much of an engineering feat, unlike the hard skirt.

OH. MY. GOD. (this is a particular type of shitpost I admire)

2024-10-09T18:02:40Z

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OH. MY. GOD.

(this is a particular type of shitpost I admire)

The past 4 years have only really emphasized that pols aren't ...

2024-10-04T18:01:24Z

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The past 4 years have only really emphasized that pols aren't bound by anything people think they're bound by, and we spend a helluva lot of time metagaming what agents (we don't actually influence very much by any vector or conduit) should do, and then coming up with some plays to put pressure on them to do it (using a set of presumed incentives we think matter to them but don't seemingly do matter in outcomes or actions)

When talking about politicians and what they do or should do, I ...

2024-10-04T17:48:08Z

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When talking about politicians and what they do or should do, I don't need to have that convo. That should reasonably be between you and the pol, except you purposefully are gated away from that shit so you're left to banter with me who is not going to play along in some one sentence idea of what pols should do.

Working on shutdown expressions to end a conversation, and trying ...

2024-10-04T17:41:28Z

Working on shutdown expressions to end a conversation, and trying to condense 'you need to talk to people actually involved with this, pity then that they refuse to talk to you, so you wound up with me instead and hate it' is not happening.

Really, the only longevity is replication of idea to any medium ...

2024-10-01T00:19:27Z

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Really, the only longevity is replication of idea to any medium that exists, including cultural consciousness so a specific recording might not exist, but the song lives on.

Yeah, I got scare stories about the longevity of tape and CD back in the 2000s and it's really kind of interesting how ceaseless replication across medium is the trick, not preservation on specific mediums.

So when are we playing Greensleeves on our recorders?

desolation

2024-09-28T01:44:49Z

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desolation

me pointing at you off in the distance as you do your thing ...

2024-09-27T22:06:03Z

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*me pointing at you off in the distance as you do your thing*

"That there is a bonafide engineer, stand back and appreciate for a moment"

Now starting a campaign on masto to tell the fixated masto dweebs ...

2024-08-31T05:47:33Z

Now starting a campaign on masto to tell the fixated masto dweebs to post better content than masto fixations because garden variety social media users dont wanna read that shit and wont.

One Carmelo Anthony gif would do better numbers than 'heres the problem with masto and the fediverse comeptitively in the ecosystem'

Writing "Why Quakers Make Good Anarchists" tongue in ...

2024-08-30T19:35:15Z

Writing "Why Quakers Make Good Anarchists" tongue in cheek to raise the question of why cohorts outside of aware and actualized secular Anarchism somehow do just fine by themselves and others outside of themselves and seem to like one another more.