Count Buchla

https://xeno.glyphpress.com/@JoshuaACNewman

:condemned: he/they.
Teacher; graphic, book, & game designer; hacker; cyclist; soundmachinist.
Founder of the Indie Bazaar.

I want a New Good Internet more than the Old Good Internet.

#ttrpg #indierpg #modularsynth #synthdiy #experimentalmusic #alteducation #retrocomputing

Creator of Shock:Social Science Fiction, Mobile Frame Zero, The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE & other games.

Process: Oblique Easel art computer

If you have no bio/posts, I’m not following you & might report you.

Sci Fi Arts + xeno!: https://patreon.com/joshua
Alt Education: https://patreon.com/PunkPedagogy
Stuff I Make You Can Buy: https://glyphpress.com/talk/shop
Admin: xeno.glyphpress.com

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2026-04-28 23:54:58 UTC

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I worked with all three of them! Stilling gave me my kindest evaluation of my Hampshire career, which was basically “You worked really hard, and 90s neuroscience sure has a lot of unknowns.”
(I had many other supportive evals that weren’t “You worked hard, but this isn’t the field for you.”)

2026-04-28 21:26:22 UTC

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My DivIII was a graphic novel about minds and artificial evolution.

2026-04-28 21:23:58 UTC

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You’re a few years before me (F92), but I was CCS-heavy, as well. Linguistics/education/interface design/ALife.
Good to meet you!

2026-04-20 19:38:27 UTC

I’m looking for fellow #hampshirecollege alums, in particular because we have a constitutional difficulty developing or trusting in institutions that are supposed to help us stay together.
Please pass this around so we can find each other!

2026-04-15 02:13:14 UTC

The world will lose something deeply special when #hampshirecollege closes at the end of this year.
Without it, I’d have never found my way.
I taught there, too, founding its game design program curriculum, helping my fellow weirdos find their ways.
You probably know about Lupita Nyong’o, Liev Schreiber, maybe Ken Burns or Lee Smolin.
As a student, I worked on computer interfaces that Apple & Samsung/LG integrated into the interface you’re using now. I had to testify about it, actually.

2026-04-02 16:18:53 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698
Aside from the issue that, in order to make up music they have to make up a Black person, we should look at the fact that this is music made by AI consumers for music consumers.
Art is the byproduct of artistic process, and the bourgeois assertion that art is a commodity — not something that humans naturally do, but are kept away from — has done terrible damage to our civilization.
If you want humans to survive, support humans who make things.
Oh, and kill your music subscription services.
#note174c…eh90

2026-03-01 03:46:11 UTC

For me #retrocomputing is about the time when we dreamed that communication would make us wiser
When we could be free to play with ideas and share them with each other
To play until we uncovered new ways to think as a matter of course
I don’t want my Mac Plus and HyperCard back.
I want to build now what I wanted then.

2026-01-19 00:41:20 UTC

I’m starting to see the adverse effects of AI on #duolingo. I’m studying chess and the exercises are wrong more and more often. Telling me the wrong choice when I’m promoting a pawn, telling me that I just made a pawn sacrifice when I didn’t, telling me to take materiel instead of mate, then congratulating me when I go for the mate.
It’s just weird. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s like having a teacher who randomly lies to you and then goes on like it didn’t happen.

2026-01-17 05:11:53 UTC

#westernmasselectronics this WEDNESDAY at The Quarters, 8-10, featuring me! And I’ve got a great patch to share. Gonna be a real mind-bender.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/908/719/996/110/762/original/088e3f6ebb34baa5.png

2026-01-06 22:17:12 UTC

Went to an incredible house show here last night with @npub1zvz…djkv . Ironically, I shot their whole set sono can’t share it here. But here are a couple of clips of some of the performers!
There was one more, even, that I was too mesmerized by to record.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/850/321/315/372/903/original/531348ab4a02fcce.mp4

2026-01-04 00:00:06 UTC

Today, I got past the mysterious technical problem I’ve been having with the #ObliquePalette and I’m back to building a creative technology out of and for the propagation of hope.
The Oblique Palette asserts that computers are for you to explore new regions of human creativity.
Livepatch in #plugdata. Control with weird controllers or
#eurorack modules.
Send out sound or CV from your patch to other modules and your mad science electronics.
Make it dance with the servo outputs.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/833/883/735/859/768/original/90b17df0367936ff.mp4

2025-11-18 13:21:32 UTC

Has Cloudflare shit the bed again?

2025-11-05 16:31:40 UTC

I went to take a picture of the back of the #ObliquePalette prototype 0.5.5 and it came out like this. So I gotta share.
The front, in the second image shows the inputs & outputs. Analog knobs, 3.5mm jacks for Eurorack, pin headers for Arduino (or other electronics) & servos.
(It's for turning computers into machines for making art, fucking around, and falling in love. You talk with it using the extremely powerful graphical language, #plugdata.)
#modularsynt #synthdiy #eurorack #computerart #
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2025-10-29 22:58:07 UTC

Hoolleee shitballs. The #ObliquePalette might be feature complete.
8 analog inputs.
8 analog outputs.
A hardware #plugdata object you program graphically.
(thanks to @npub1g6q…3vjd & the Jumperless krewe) for finding the hardware bug!)
I can now control #plugdata software patches with #modularsynth control voltage or by twisting a knob — and the patch can control hardware with control voltages or by twisting a servo!
Computers are for making art, fucking around, and falling in love.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/115/459/925/903/604/617/original/9e5c3ccc8137bf8b.mp4

2025-10-17 22:39:50 UTC

Prototype 0.5.5 of the #ObliquePalette is in! I’m 75% sure it’ll work, though I’m hunting a comms bug in the firmware.
The honorary bit portrait on this one is Susan Kare, the original graphic designer of the Macintosh, creator of the I-beam and finger cursors, little house for representing “home” in HyperCard — the direct ancestor of the Web —and so many icons we take for granted now.
It’s just barely possible that I will have voltage control of and by #plugdata this weekend!
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2025-10-17 03:05:36 UTC

Holy shit. Is this the guy from Wonder Women?
https://mastodon.social/@StarTrekScreens/115386561470695362
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2025-10-01 15:28:42 UTC

The reason the Nazis didn't invent the atomic bomb is because they refused to use Jewish Physics.
That is, they thought they could dominate the world without the benefit of the truth because it conflicted with their romantic fantasies about astrology, race, theosophy, politics, and a bunch of other fields that they figured they could dominate with ideas that were literally just a dare to defy them.
Fascists, remember, are losers.

2025-09-20 23:58:58 UTC

This kid has great taste in bikes.
(It is my bike)
She returned to it several times, turning the tail light on and admiring the wheels.
According to her dad, she loves wheels.
I let her sit on it and her dad hoisted her up a couple of times. She was shy about me but on the other hand I was letting her play with my bike, including dancing her wooden animals on it and petting it to tell it good night.
(There are more pics but they are facial-recognizable.)
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2025-09-17 18:36:58 UTC

I like living where I live.
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2025-08-28 15:35:30 UTC

#westernmasselectronics this weekend!
I can’t come so you’ll have to enjoy all the electronic sounds for me!
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2025-08-05 17:28:06 UTC

Before and after auto-repair.
Thanks, KiCAD!
(It said that there were some components that weren't designated, possibly because I accidentally deleted and then replaced a couple things. So it asked if I wanted to auto-re-designate. And I said, Sure, WHatS tHe w0rs™ †44T c4N h4p3N/"
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2025-07-12 21:49:26 UTC

Next #westernmasselectronics is July 20th!
Following is August 31!
Bring your machines and ears! Well, at least your ears.
If you’re around Hadley, MA (Northampton & Amherst area) and you like weird sounds, oontzy beats, and a supportive, DIY Punk electronic art scene, come hang!
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/842/465/798/291/013/original/537a4490237f1f59.png

2025-07-02 22:21:24 UTC

Good thing I like soldering. #ObliquePalette
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2025-06-20 04:43:54 UTC

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It’s pretty, and it’s progress, but it ain’t right!
The channels of the #ObliquePalette are allocated wrong. Some of this could be a firmware issue, which is easy alwnoigh to address. But it also looks like there might be missing traces on the PCB, which I can test with more jumpers.
#modularsynth #plugdata #synthdiy #eurorack #experimentalart #robotics
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/713/862/422/390/665/original/c89aff6442a83c91.mp4

2025-06-18 23:03:26 UTC

The #ObliquePalette 0.5.4 is on my workbench!
Fingers crossed that errors are small and easy to track down!
There looked to be errors in KiCAD that…don’t actually seem to be on the board? I hope that’s true!
Fingers crossed for #modularsynth control of a #plugdata patch and the patch being able to turn that back around to control servos, #synthdiy , #eurorack , or other #experimentalart & #robotics things by the weekend!
“Computers are for fucking around, making art, and falling in love.”
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2025-06-18 02:42:14 UTC

Pencil to 1/4 inch adapter
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2025-06-16 02:30:54 UTC

#westernmasselectronics is fire tonight.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/690/610/502/610/103/original/84160fbf43ff024c.mp4

2025-06-12 18:53:32 UTC

Thanks to @npub1tw4…uc70 for setting up this month's Western Mass Electronics!
This Sunday, 7-10 at The Quarters in Hadley, MA!
Come play a set or just chill and eat fried things* while Techno, Punk, Experimental, Drone, and…whatever that was… all thunders through the sound system!
*The Quarters' food is amazing and just as good vegan as not.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/671/904/922/399/532/original/ad7a15cfe4dabb77.png

2025-06-05 03:54:26 UTC

#MobileFrameZero at Cangames! https://www.tumblr.com/bryanharryrombough/785454058210197504/mobile-frame-zero-at-cangames-2025
It’s important to fight giant robots.
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2025-06-05 01:24:59 UTC

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On a personal and dramatic level, this would have been a huge improvement. Divorce shouldn’t be a huge deal in the Federation, and if she wanted to keep studying Bajor’s ecosystem while being primary parent, there’s all of a space bus ride away from Dad.
Coulda given Miles some episodes on Bajor, which coulda been neat. He doesn’t get to do much of the space anthropology stuff.

2025-06-05 01:21:39 UTC

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Because it would make her a less dreary, whiny, flat character who exists only as a foil for the most improbably abused character in all the Federation.

2025-05-20 22:22:11 UTC

The Black Centipede #modularsynth in its current form.
On the left is the Rad Dog Eurorack case, for generating signal and taking outside mic input.
On the right is the Voice Nodulator grain mangler/pitchcompressor, for examining sounds closely.
At the top is a repurposed and hacked computer power supply that feeds all segments power via those big chonky, coiled cables.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/542/492/175/581/529/original/d80f040b5a23ebce.jpeg

2025-05-20 21:24:53 UTC

Western Mass Electronic Music this Sunday the 25th of May!
I’ll be doing some collaboration with @npub1zvz…djkv , who’s also the evening’s featured artist!
I’ll also be bringing the Black Centipede with its Rad Dog and Voice Nodulator segments, if you want to hear what they sound like.
(They sound like you’re the belle of the ball at a robot sex party.)
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2025-05-19 04:33:27 UTC

I have an antiproblem where this grain mangler I’ve built, the Voice Nodulator, solves all of my experimental music problems.
It takes crowded, too-fast, high, flat sounds, then stretches them out until you can hear structure, harmonics, & stereo spread.
I’ll be playing it and a little #eurorack of chaos called Rad Dog along with featured artist @npub1zvz…djkv
around 7-10 on Sunday May 25 at The Quarters with the Western Mass Electronic Music scene.
#synthdiy #modularsynth
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2025-05-17 16:48:02 UTC

Emphasis, FDA’s stupid AI told to do stupid things by stupid people.
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2025-05-02 14:08:08 UTC

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Funded by Bezos and CEOd by Amazon’s consumer operations boss, so I assume it will be selling your organs within a week of purchase.

2025-04-28 19:49:18 UTC

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Here’s the patch that’s controlling the servo in the above video, which is the thing that’s so exciting: the #ObliquePalette can control servos and #Eurorack with #plugdata.
(In theory, it can also receive those signals, but I did something wrong…)
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/417/320/249/259/095/original/950c6af93c3dd1be.jpeg

2025-04-28 19:46:36 UTC

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The #ObliquePalette analog outputs are working, voltage and servo alike!
Inputs seem to have an electronic error. Trying to figure it out.
Servo current draw might be too high through basic USB even with power capacitors. There’s a connector to add a separate power plug, too, but I’m pretty sure the answer is USB-C PD that will additionally give the voltage range to be fully #Eurorack compatible.
It’s really exciting to see #plugdata outputting position and voltage to the real world!
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/114/417/220/000/145/833/original/a2a5cf5b21efa2f6.mp4

2025-04-28 17:06:57 UTC

Let’s get this solder party started!
#ObliquePalette prototype 0.5.3 is now in hand! Gonna solder up one input & output first to see if things are working. My record so far is that each time more things work, so it’s feeling pretty good here.
I already think I have obsolete resistors on here but they shouldn’t affect testing.
There’s also a single missing user-facing legend, easy to fix in the next version.
But now. Time to stop procrastinating and get some parts soldered in beyond the μC.
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2025-04-07 20:31:34 UTC

Next nationwide demonstration, April 19!
#handsoff
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2025-04-06 15:13:49 UTC

3.5 Million people were marching in the streets of the US yesterday.
That’s 1% of the entire population that came out.
More than the populations of Vermont, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined.
Almost the entire population of Austin, Dallas, and Houston together.
The 1963 March on Washington was 1/14 the size. Adjusted for population, yesterday was still SEVEN Marches On Washington.
It was as though the entirety of Mongolia went marching.
#handsoff

2025-03-29 18:32:53 UTC

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Is there a hashtag so I can follow this project more closely? I love it.

2025-03-19 17:08:23 UTC

Adafruit is killin #Marchintosh.
https://mastodon.cloud/@adafruit/114189836401513762

2025-03-02 19:19:09 UTC

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I’m a teacher. I have to introduce my kids to the idea that computers are something you can use and control for your purposes, and no one deserves your attention or labor without your consent.

2025-03-02 19:18:25 UTC

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I’m literally trying to build a new thing. Different set of axioms, a computer that’s made for humans to be expressive and exploratory artists.
Analog inputs and outputs including servos. Interactions are through graphical programming. It starts off behaving like a musical instrument instead of a machine that cuts costs for your boss.
The first product is a peripheral, the #ObliquePalette . Then, a whole #ObliqueEasel computer designed to sit on a workbench or with other instruments.

2025-02-21 13:50:53 UTC

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The Madonna one is a scan.
Definitely Jim Morrison.

2025-02-13 22:13:40 UTC

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Wow. Are they really beetle-iridescent?

2025-02-10 00:49:15 UTC

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It wants to be a synthesizer.

2025-02-07 17:13:42 UTC

Do a bad job for the Fascists.
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2025-01-24 19:14:53 UTC

It's been a while since I was actively excited about a new computer.
I'm actively excited about the @npub1sl7…lnx3 Reform Next.
It's Open, repairable, modular, and looks cool af in its raw aluminum (I GUESS you can also get it in a brilliant aubergine or black).
It runs off replaceable, standard LiFePO4 cells & you can mod it with other battery chemistries without changing the charging board.
The modularity is really approaching LEGO/Eurorack/ISO bike standarrd levels.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next/updates/technical-deep-dive
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2025-01-02 17:58:43 UTC

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Good call.

2024-12-21 23:15:41 UTC

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I get that the Torment nexus AS WRITTEN is bad, but it’s inspired me to build something I’m calling Ormentay Exusnay and my version is good because I am a disruptor and have reached Series A venture capital funding so I am very smart.

2024-12-06 03:28:30 UTC

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Oh, cool!
You can try heating stuff in front of it and see if you can identify chemicals!

2024-11-25 23:09:50 UTC

#fediblock these chuds for their I-pooped-in-pants-does-that-offend-you level antisemitic dogpile.
mugicha.club
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annihilation.social
parcero.bond
seal.cafe
poa.st
decayable.ink
shortstackran.ch
nicecrew.digital
federate.net
shitpost.cloud
merovingian.cloud
clubcyberia.co
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asbestos.cloud
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2024-11-25 19:46:53 UTC

It's, like, ”so weird" that Christians claim to be so pro-Jew, and yet vote the exact opposite way as Jews.
It’s almost as though they think we're a function in their marketing program, not people.

2024-11-24 19:21:15 UTC

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This is not the good take you think it is. The purpose of the conversation is to understand how people perceive and create in symbols. Solipsism blocks the conversation.
"Is it Art" is a bourgeois question about whether something that someone else created will appreciate in value for its new owner. Your ”answer" is in the same vein, just saying that The Individual is the arbiter of something that ultimately is an expression of cultural, not individual, values.

2024-11-24 14:30:24 UTC

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Yeah, this remains an interesting question.
When a rock looks like a face and you put it where all your frends’ faces show up, does the contextualization make it art? What if you put it on a pine cone that looks like a rib cage?

2024-11-23 21:53:02 UTC

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Additionally, in true Fascist form, it disrespects truth. The second piece, Comedian, by Maurizio Cattelan, is a mockery of the fine art market (the original was eaten while the latest copy went for $6M to a Chinese cryptobro), and IS DONE BY A MAN WITH NO ART DEGREE.
It's a joke ten times better than this cruel, ahistorical meme that's designed to make you long for an imagined glorious past so that you will kill subhumans for the powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork)
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2024-11-23 21:46:19 UTC

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It's not only blatantly false (Van Gogh was a wealthy, family-supported art dealer who studied art extensively before he ever bought his first brush, Leonardo was fully inside the art educational system of his time), but is also solely in the Fascist anti ”degenerate” argument.
This is a Fascist post, @npub1gzc…8jaw.
(See: https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-styles/a2941-the-rejection-of-modern-art-as-a-form-of-fascism/)

2024-11-08 21:48:35 UTC

Shabbat shalom.
Eat comfort foods with people you love.

2024-11-05 16:17:11 UTC

Go vote. Then get yourself a coffee.
If the quality of the #espresso I just pulled is an omen, we will do well by humans today.
https://cdn.masto.host/xenoglyphpresscom/media_attachments/files/113/431/244/050/501/392/original/e71fede8b935d5f0.jpeg

2024-10-24 01:57:05 UTC

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Looks like you might gotta unfollow that account.

2024-10-13 21:11:38 UTC

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Imagine the GPU uses battery faster? Or does it offload stuff from CPU more efficiently?

2024-10-13 19:25:53 UTC

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Am I correct that this is a part of optimizing battery efficiency? It’s what’s been holding me back on ordering a Framework 16. I’ve been hearing that there’s only about two hours of work time on the battery under Ubuntu.

2024-10-10 16:51:06 UTC

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This isn’t yelling. This is me doing my duty of pointing out Fascist propaganda because it’s an easy mistake to make. They make it easy to do.
You’re leaping wildly to the idea that I’m behind US support for Israeli genocide.
Introspection is useless it can be followed with action. Your post has two possible responses if it lands: someone “protest” votes for the blatant Fascist who promises to gleefully exacerbate the problem, or they refuse to vote, to half the same effect.

2024-10-10 16:36:52 UTC

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I didn’t call you Fascist. I said you were reposting propaganda. It’s the kind of mistake we make on the Internet.

2024-10-10 13:19:04 UTC

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This isn’t true. There are substantial Federal resources being allocated. The GOP, including Florida’s Senators, have been trying to stop it, then saying what you’re saying.
This is Fascist propaganda.

2024-09-21 21:37:28 UTC

Zappa hits the nail on the head about Reagan and the enduring damage (perhaps fatal) that he did to our civilization.
We've been trying to build a world without slavery, with systemic equalities and respect for each other's differences, with which we can build progress together.
And Reagan literally told everyone they'd be RICH if they cut it out, then literally gave the country cocaine while empowering theocratic Christian supremacists and pan-American Fascism.
https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/762220703605047296?source=share