Picks the Evangelist

Forty-something changeling beatnik stoner, Grail-seeking Jedi padawan, FOSS deacon, junior bit wrangler, grognard DM. Husband, father, dilettante. Fediveteran '17. Been on ksoc since it was Calckey. Matt Berry is my fylgja.

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Picks is a CG Tibbit Artificer, who uses his skills mostly for crime purposes.

Alts: @juggalojedi@nightcity.bar @paladin@tenforward.social

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2025-03-30 06:14:46 UTC

alright i'm moving, heading over to @npub1esu…uspf
my followers should be moved automatically, and you'll be getting requests from me shortly

2025-03-30 05:34:57 UTC

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ah yes the promotional gunblade laptop

2025-03-27 18:37:39 UTC

the guy in charge of deciding if crimes are to be prosecuted is doing crimes?
seems like a check was missed, somewhere. or maybe a balance.

2025-03-27 17:30:09 UTC

the south park movie has aged like really good vinegar

2025-03-27 15:30:31 UTC

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your cookies are useless, you know, I use every ad blocker known to man and God, you have no power over me, please just fall down and save us both some energy

2025-03-27 15:27:19 UTC

"engineers are working on a fix, no ETA" okay cool, I can tell you exactly what the problem is, you forgot a bang on the camera permissions flag, should take two minutes

2025-03-27 14:28:59 UTC

Sir you are a *webcomic*, why do you need to save anything about me at all?

2025-03-26 23:44:04 UTC

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ah, there it is.

2025-03-26 05:49:08 UTC

i generally listen to one of a few albums before i go to bed
these are, roughly in order of frequency
1. conjure one, conjure one
2. blackstar, david bowie
3. moon safari, air
4. the mix, kraftwerk
5. MCMXCaD, enigma
6. magical ring, clannad
7. dummy, portishead
8. in motion, copeland
#music #bedtime

2025-03-26 05:47:47 UTC

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same

2025-03-26 02:09:04 UTC

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where you at? I love sparring greatsword

2025-03-25 18:27:47 UTC

billionaires are inevitably a product of systemic abuse

2025-03-24 23:51:41 UTC

just because someone you don't like did a crime, doesn't mean their political opponent is off the hook for doing the same crime
y'all really out here playing team sports

2025-03-24 02:03:08 UTC

there were rumors of maybe having a storm tonight, so I watered the plants to make sure it would come

2025-03-23 05:28:57 UTC

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(i know i'm technically not doing dialectics correctly, don't at me)

2025-03-23 05:25:25 UTC

thesis: we need degrowth in order to forestall a collapsing ecosystem that will render the world uninhabitable by humans
antithesis: westerners at large will never accept a message that requires them to make do with less
synthesis: ???

2025-03-23 04:53:46 UTC

Okay, so here's what I think.
I think electoralism is a losing bet. Because! We don't get to do significant elections again for *years*, and the window we have to act within is measured in *weeks* (optimistically).
There are lots of great ideas for electoral reform. I'm partial to ranked choice, myself. Term limits. No more dark money. Recalls. Hell, I think Senators should be national, not by state. But it's all totally moot if there aren't going to be free elections anymore, and I'm pretty sure that's where Trump and his goons are headed.
Forget about 2026. 2026 is in another lifetime. You must act *now*. I think anyone who is telling you otherwise is at best delusional, and at worst an agent of the enemy, witting or no.

2025-03-23 04:19:19 UTC

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what you want to do is get yourself some better than bullion no-beef or no-chicken broth. use that as the base. or any of their veggie broths really, they have several

2025-03-22 23:56:08 UTC

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that level of lawyer isn't something one reaches by having principles

2025-03-21 00:48:35 UTC

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you're seeing their strategy in action. it's "let the Republicans hang themselves then clean up at midterms."

2025-03-20 02:46:56 UTC

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life goes on, even at the worst of times.

2025-03-19 22:19:53 UTC

really charging straight into open eugenics I see

2025-03-19 20:08:08 UTC

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these are apprehensible thoughts and feelings. i'm sorry it's a shitty old demon-haunted world we were born into. you shouldn't have to deal with any of this.

2025-03-19 01:51:12 UTC

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what system you running?
i'm in the early stages of cooking up a campaign involving a revolutionary uprising so i'm eager for all the inspiration I can find

2025-03-19 01:09:55 UTC

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you're just the ghost of my childhood aren't you

2025-03-19 00:46:49 UTC

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that sounds fun as hell. I would love to peek at your notes

2025-03-19 00:42:54 UTC

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mind if I tag along

2025-03-19 00:14:01 UTC

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I still think about this book from time to time

2025-03-18 22:17:04 UTC

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boo

2025-03-18 04:53:59 UTC

mneh i *hate* email
at this point i might just have to reverse-engineer the #yunohost install script to make this fkin thing work

2025-03-17 16:41:11 UTC

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see, you get it

2025-03-17 16:21:03 UTC

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if you support hiererchies of any kind you're a tankie >_>

2025-03-17 05:40:05 UTC

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if you care about privacy, librewolf is the way to go. not knocking waterfox, here, btw -- different programs for different priorities.
(haven't tested pale moon or seamonkey yet)

2025-03-17 05:15:14 UTC

I gotta say, the #cherrypick setup instructions leave a *lot* to be desired
everything, in fact, since they just link to the #misskey setup instructions
which also leave a *lot* to be desired

2025-03-17 00:36:08 UTC

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great, thanks for the info!

2025-03-16 21:56:04 UTC

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good luck!

2025-03-16 18:55:53 UTC

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questions!
- what're those corner blocks called?
- why lay the boards atop brick?
- what do you line the insides with?
cool stuff, thx!

2025-03-16 17:41:15 UTC

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Starship is more comparable to the Soviet N1, which they also couldn't make work
Turns out having 30 rockets on a vehicle is pretty hard

2025-03-16 15:09:40 UTC

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yeah without a schematic (or a much closer look) I couldn't guess. you could try jumpering the connecter pins, see what happens?

2025-03-16 15:05:46 UTC

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well the problem is the point of continuity is the tip of the cable, so some of those are clearly broken. if you tack them back down you might get them all making contact again so it's worth a try but I wouldn't consider that a permanent fix

2025-03-16 05:12:52 UTC

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wellll it's a long shot but if you want to try and fix it, each of those "pins" there is one of the wires in the ribbon cable folded back on itself. if there's slack in the ribbon cable, you could potentially strip off a quarter inch of cladding and re-fold the wires, but if you don't have a specialized wire stripper to do the job it would take a *very* deft hand with a *very* sharp blade to get the cladding off. but, i mean, it's already broken, so ...

2025-03-15 16:42:31 UTC

wind almost got my hat
NOT TODAY AEOLIUS

2025-03-15 16:42:11 UTC

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no, they'd all merge pretty quickly

2025-03-15 01:02:39 UTC

letting trump and/or musk take the fall is the actual villains' plan.

2025-03-14 19:30:56 UTC

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dream car

2025-03-14 19:27:37 UTC

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of course, here the worst of it would be borne by the northern, blue cities and states, so trump probably considers this a feature if he's thought about it at all

2025-03-14 18:50:28 UTC

oooh you can make a rss bot in a matrix channel? that's cool

2025-03-14 18:37:38 UTC

I wonder if trump.understands that the US hasn't ever fought a war like the one he's proposing, against a technological peer that shares a land border. not since 1845, anyway.
I shudder to think at the loss of life that would ensue.
we have to do everything in our power to prevent this.

2025-03-14 18:01:47 UTC

can't wait to see someone, anyone, change their minds on fedi
about anything

2025-03-14 17:57:56 UTC

video games peaked in 1997 don't @ me

2025-03-14 15:04:31 UTC

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a news story in the paper in the 80s

2025-03-14 15:02:54 UTC

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maybe the people who use those toilets will be the ones to clean them?

2025-03-14 05:22:39 UTC

staying up to take Communion under the lunar eclipse is probably a bad idea but yolo

2025-03-13 23:43:50 UTC

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the skillset of a demolitions expert covers the other two, if you think about it

2025-03-13 14:33:33 UTC

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a crucial feature not listed here is the ability to sync to your own service (nextcloud, Dropbox, your own self-hosted sync server). you don't have to use Joplin's!

2025-03-13 13:43:28 UTC

just sick enough to slow me down a bit
waiting for the other shoe to drop

2025-03-12 19:14:54 UTC

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please, we should be so lucky

2025-03-12 18:33:40 UTC

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agreed

2025-03-12 17:40:31 UTC

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i'm personally leaning towards cherrypick because antennae are a killer feature. but I can't fully break away from the idea of fan groups being able to schedule events, make pages for their groups, etc, which only friendica really does.

2025-03-12 17:34:50 UTC

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pros of friendica: groups, events, pages
cons of friendica: I hear people find it confusing, no antennas
pros of cherrypick: better AP integration, more like mastodon
cons of cherrypick: fewer features compared to friendica

2025-03-12 17:32:17 UTC

if I were to launch a #starTrek themed instance, which back end should I use?

2025-03-12 13:21:31 UTC

ICE is using your horny against youuuu
#note1nz3…xexr

2025-03-12 12:42:48 UTC

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Objection: the song is past-tense; we cannot be sure the singer was not involved in the kung fu fighting based on his relay of the events post facto.

2025-03-11 22:17:35 UTC

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I'd love to, but...y'all ain't open source. and that's a shame, cus it's a solid product.

2025-03-09 14:32:42 UTC

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oh nooo
what exam

2025-03-09 06:20:48 UTC

the morning comes an hour earlier and i'm even tired so why can't i make myself go to bed

2025-03-06 03:39:03 UTC

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hey uh. do you use the android app? and what nc version?

2025-03-03 15:56:25 UTC

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great idea!
note for those who don't know: modern printers and copiers mark the material they print out with near-invisible, traceable codes, so don't print and distribute anything you wouldn't want to risk being caught with.

2025-03-02 05:50:10 UTC

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crypto i don't think that actually makes any kind of sense. but even if it did, crypto requires a stable society orders of magnitude more complex than traditional currencies. if crypto is their plan then what they're doing right now is *even more* suicidal.

2025-03-02 04:20:07 UTC

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money requires the guarantee of a stable government to be worth anything at all.
destabilizing the government backing the world's reserve currency is billionaire suicide.

2025-03-01 17:27:14 UTC

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bit of a double-edged sword for.those of us who don't have the focus to maintain multiple accounts, sadly, but yes, agreed

2025-02-26 21:39:28 UTC

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the muskrats are gonna be the ones left holding the bag, guaranteed

2025-02-22 18:35:39 UTC

I been sleeping on pimiento for soooo many years

2025-02-21 14:12:32 UTC

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he's got the vibe of being a bit of an oversensitive prick, he does

2025-02-21 13:45:24 UTC

building bunkers is dumb. easily sealed from the outside, easily gassed, easily drilled into.
no, what you want is a blimp

2025-02-21 12:47:15 UTC

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you're not a failure. if anything, the world has failed you.

2025-02-15 21:53:11 UTC

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my kid loves this one. we've been watching through the series

2025-02-11 05:28:14 UTC

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bruv...
you don't have to justify pirating fucking disney, the damage they've done to the commons is already incalculable

2025-02-10 02:51:43 UTC

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no more cake is always cause for mourning

2025-02-09 15:15:20 UTC

I saw someone sharing a link to a github comparing the various #android alternatives out there but I didn't get a chance to click on it and now I can't find it. Anyone have it? #grapheneos #lineageos
plz boost

2025-02-06 20:50:17 UTC

the thing about the court order getting Elmo and his hacker goons out if the treasury is it's too late, the damage is already done. it'll be nice if they comply, I guess, but right now they need to be *arrested* and all their tech *seized*, and the treasury systems rolled back a couple weeks. at a *minimum*.
but none of that will happen, so this is just a patch on the barn door at best.

2025-02-05 05:07:16 UTC

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aye, humans aren't all ugly side. there's beauty among them as well.

2025-02-04 19:33:15 UTC

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"sane" as in "not requiring mysterious new location access permissions in order for a core functionality that shouldn't care about location in order to work but does because Google is evil"

2025-02-04 19:29:38 UTC

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well I don't *want* location data saved with my photos, but file upload won't work without it?
but fdroid build is still sane?

2025-02-04 05:18:04 UTC

been thinking about how history repeats itself, or at least rhymes
and i think it's because humans gonna human
and by that i mean, there's always gonna be a subset who are going to try to grab too much for themselves, upset the balances. fuck everything up
the boom-and-bust of technology busts because the people who are enriched, enstatused, empowered by the tech try to grab more. humans gonna human.
and the crash plays out the same, more or less, because humans gonna human.
plato was right, and i'm right. humans gonna human and that's the crack in every idea of a perfect society. we can aim for fully automated luxury gay space communism but there will always be elmos, there will always be trumps, there will always be some shit-tick who realizes he (always *he*) can get more if only he fucks some people over.
the problem is that this time the tech cycle has gone on long enough to *really* bone us. fifty million years of stored sunlight, gone in a century, spent, and for what? to boil the planet and make three guys richer than anyone, ever.
humans gonna human.
there is nothing new under the sun, says the fucking bible. repeating the same choruses over and over through all time because humans are the *exact fucking same* as they were when they first crossed out of africa.
telling the same stories, singing the same songs, making the same mistakes, because it *cannot* be otherwise.
gonna try anyway. *gotta* try anyway.
humans gonna human.

2025-02-04 03:54:50 UTC

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bread and circuses. and we've got some bad news about the bread

2025-02-03 22:21:47 UTC

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signed.
also, what's up with the android app suddenly wanting location info? I've asked several times!

2025-02-02 01:39:59 UTC

anime niiight

2025-01-31 20:19:45 UTC

interested in non-infrastructure means of information exchange. #amateurRadio seems untenable due to encryption restrictions and the auto-doxx requirements. #meshnet? #pirateRadio? who has ideas?

2025-01-31 06:17:12 UTC

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it's been my impression, from my limited study of history, that technological development tends to follow a boom-bust pattern. technology develops enabling concentration of power, power overreaches, society collapses (to a greater or lesser extent), technology regresses, repeat.
the pace of technological development is related to the speed information can be shared. the steam engine and telegraph enabled the dissemination of information at absolutely unprecedented speeds, leading to the explosive pace of development we've seen in the industrial age and the attendant absurd concentrations of power. and now we're riiiiight about at the point where overreach leads to collapse.
and, of course, once this collapse happens, that's it for humanity as a high-tech society. we burned up our bootstraps -- it's back to 1850, at best, after this.

2025-01-30 04:02:40 UTC

does anyone know if you are actually legally obligated to show your ID to ICE if they ask you out in public?

2025-01-29 04:12:39 UTC

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I have yet to get past the application stage with any reputable company. i'm over five hundred applications in. I feel you.

2025-01-28 21:37:15 UTC

every time he breaks the law, even a little bit, file articles of impeachment. every time he violates his presidential oath in any fashion, impeach him.
yes. impeach him over the inspectors general. impeach him over the unconstitutional executive orders. impeach him over the emoluments act.
do your fucking jobs. #uspol

2025-01-27 06:31:29 UTC

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misskey has quotes >_>

2025-01-27 06:30:44 UTC

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Nord?

2025-01-26 21:47:23 UTC

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Anyway here's a de-Googled list of Things You Can Do: https://alien-sunset.neocities.org/blog/2025/01-22

2025-01-26 21:37:31 UTC

i'm pretty sure it's a bad idea to do any kind of resisting online -- you're sure to leave a trace back to yourself, and there's a good chance anyone interacting with what you post will get tagged too.
but if you must, then you *have* to not make it easy for them. you *cannot* use any Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, or Microsoft service, including Google Docs, Office365, gmail, MSN, Outlook, Threads, WhatsApp, FaceTime, Instagram, YouTube, and most other popular, wide-reaching services. You can't use Twitter, and given TikTok is soon to be slurped up by Oracle, you can't use that either.
Why? Because you wouldn't go stand out in front of a police station, put up a soapbox, and start broadcasting. You know full well you'd get picked up right away, *as would anyone who came to listen.*
You're not just protecting yourself, you're protecting your audience. Use Cryptpad instead of Google Docs. Use Signal instead of WhatsApp or Facetime. Use Pixelfed instead of Instagram. Use Mastodon instead of Twitter. Using Proton might not be a good idea but it's better than using Gmail.
Effective resistance is going to require eschewing the convenience -- and the reach -- of the tools offered by the enemy. That's just all there is to it.

2025-01-23 04:15:55 UTC

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so did nextcloud bug you to give it location privs this morning?

2025-01-23 02:39:05 UTC

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well I was thinking about it, and actually my answer is broadly the same --
From a D&D perspective, Outsiders are essentially sentient bits of their "source" -- angels are Celestia/Elysium made solid, Tan'nari are bits of the Nine Hells given form, Baatezu are the Abyss in "flesh." I don't think it's even possible for an angel to "fall" in this context, but let's stipulate that there's a "mind" or "soul" that's somehow distinct from the angel's body. In this latter case, the angel would need a new body, made out of their new plane of origin -- so they'd be retyped.
In the Real, demons (per se) *are* "fallen"/rebellious angels. The only difference between a "demon" and an angel is a demon has, through rebelling, severed their connection to Royalty.

2025-01-22 23:04:04 UTC

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a paranoid is just someone in possession of all the facts >_>