Quasit

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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2026-05-18 16:28:13 UTC

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I'm getting ready to plant tomatoes in about ten days. It's been cold up here (until yesterday), and my local garden center recommended holding off for a while.
I picked up a raised bed that's 4x3". Open on the bottom so the worms can get in. I'll put chicken wire on the top to protect the plants if I need to. The whole thing was rather more expensive than I expected, but I'm hoping it will be worth it.
Tomatoes, marigolds, basil, and garlic; mostly tomatoes, though. Speaking of which, what kind of tomatoes are you going to grow?
My son wants to plant potatoes as well, separately. I just priced half-barrels at the garden center. They're over $100 each! Is that insane? I'm temped to just buy a big plastic crate for $10 and go with that. They say you can even use cardboard boxes, but I don't think my landlord would allow that.
#gardening #tomatoes

2026-05-18 16:23:32 UTC

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I've heard that it's also good to plant garlic with your tomatoes. Supposedly it can improve the taste of both!

2026-04-26 23:45:31 UTC

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It's not a mistake. It's quite deliberate. I don't know what it takes for people to realize that the Democrats are just Republicans in drag, serving the same fascist oligarchs. But deluding yourself into thinking that the Democrats will somehow make anything better is simply pathetic.
They don't do it. They never do it. Even when they have supermajorities AND the presidency, they don't do it. If anything they use their power to advance the cause of fascism even more strongly than the Republicans do when they're in power.
"Look forward, not back". That was the excuse the Democrats gave for not investigating (much less prosecuting) torture and war crimes. They support Israel's genocide of children in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. They enabled the surveillance state well before Trump was on the horizon. Obama gave himself the unaccountable power to kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason—and used that power to kill a 16-year-old American child, along with uncountable numbers of children and innocent civilians in the Middle East.
Democrats are fascists, just like the Republicans. If you can't see that, you're part of the problem.
#politics #DNC #DNChypocrisy #WakeUp #GeneralStrike

2026-04-26 17:13:55 UTC

Stolen from Facebook, believe it or not. Things seem to have changed over there a bit since I left!
#Politics #DNC #DNChypocrisy
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2026-04-17 17:39:05 UTC

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Actually I have a file of more than a thousand book recommendations that I made over on Reddit. You see, I'm OLD reader. And I've been reading since I was 2 years old. I also have a ridiculously high reading speed, and a personal library of around 10,000 physical books. So I don't think this is going to be too much of a challenge!
Also I won't go crazy. If I'm sick or something, I'll take a day off. 🤓

2026-04-06 00:52:56 UTC

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You've never seen the show? It's great! Of course there was also the British movie, but oddly enough I prefer the American/Canadian version. Let's see...
The full series is available on the Internet Archive! I'd recommend downloading it if you really like it, because sometimes stuff gets taken down from the archive without warning. The goddamned DMCA!
https://archive.org/details/max-headroom-complete

2026-04-06 00:38:19 UTC

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Was the joke "Max Headroom" ? I didn't think headroom was particularly British. But I pretty much grew up speaking both American English and British English, so I may not be the best judge.
Also I totally loved that show.

2026-04-05 03:57:03 UTC

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And please note that this slave labor drives down wages for all workers in America. When there's a pool of slave labor that costs pennies on the dollar, employers have every incentive to use that slave labor in place of properly paid unionized labor.
#GeneralStrike

2026-03-30 20:27:00 UTC

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Another ultraprocessed food that they will eventually discover has incredibly negative health effects. Like ALL ultraprocessed "foods"!

2026-03-28 01:56:10 UTC

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They'd make owning a computer illegal if they could.

2026-03-26 21:21:29 UTC

The minute that Trump is gone, if a Democrat manages to get into the presidency, I 100% GUARANTEE that we will hear "look forward, not backwards" in unison from every fucking Democrat in office. There will be no trials. No prosecutions. Not even any investigations. ICE will still continue to exist, as will the surveillance state and the death camps. They'll just get a little less coverage in the media, and there will be more decorum in who they send into the camps. Maybe they will try to have the inmates in the death camps be a little more diverse.
That's the most anyone can expect from the Democratic Party. And Democrats who are expecting anything different have a big surprise coming, although no doubt most of them will stick their heads up their asses and pretend that everything is fine now.
#politics #democrats #dnc #fascism

2026-03-26 02:15:50 UTC

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I've never heard of that one before!

2026-03-26 00:44:46 UTC

Okay, Firefox is OUT. What should I switch to? I'll leave out obvious NO's.
If I've left something out, please put it in a comment!
#browser #tech #technology #Mozilla #Firefox

2026-03-26 00:12:21 UTC

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Wow! That must have taken hours and hours!
My grandparents had dentures. As a child I thought everybody ended up having them.

2026-03-25 23:50:19 UTC

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I hope they sedated you for the procedure!

2026-03-23 00:39:35 UTC

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So he's on video, repeatedly, committing a crime in front of the police, and not being arrested. Does anyone have any recourse? Is there some way to pursue action against the police for failing to protect the public? Has anyone tried that?

2026-03-23 00:03:02 UTC

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So what's his story? Is it legal to point guns at peaceful protesters in Portland? I'm assuming this is Portland Oregon, not Portland Maine? What the fuck is wrong with the police that they're not arresting him?

2026-03-17 22:17:53 UTC

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My grandmother lived through the Great Depression. Apparently she used to grab all the condiments she could whenever she went out to a restaurant. The family used to joke about it. They said she'd even pour the contents of the sugar bowls into her purse.
Once there was a terrible fire at a nightclub in our area. A huge number of people were burned to death. When we found that there was a silver ladle among my grandmother's stuff with the name of that nightclub on the handle, we used to joke that she pulled it out of the charred and crispy hand of a waiter! 🤣

2026-03-17 22:06:41 UTC

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I pocket condiments too! For my son. In fairness, the condiment in question ISN'T available for sale in any way. I don't know why. We store the pods in empty plastic pretzel nugget containers.
I should note that I always buy plenty of stuff from the place, and tip generously.

2026-03-16 21:39:38 UTC

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I fought back two times, but I wasn't any good at all. I tended to go blind, somehow. The beatings finally stopped when I decided that I wasn't going to give a damn any more. I wasn't going to cringe and hide. I told the bullies to go ahead and do whatever they were going to do; I didn't give a shit.
That was in my first year of high school, as I recall. I was never beaten up again.
Well, except by my ex-wife. But that's a different story.

2026-03-16 21:08:04 UTC

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Everyone ostracized me, too. I was beaten up several times a day, every day. Back then teachers didn't do a damned thing about bullies. If I'd had access to a gun, I'd have brought it to school.
I read all the time - in class, by myself during lunch in the cafeteria, and during recess huddled as far out of sight as I could get. But they always got me at recess. Hunting me down was one of the favorite pastimes of the many bullies at my school.
In retrospect, it's amazing that I'm not a lot more damaged than I am!

2026-03-16 21:03:32 UTC

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Math was always hard for me. But what I HATED was gym class. I still remember the gym teacher. She would divide the class into two teams to play against each other, and she ALWAYS put all the good athletes together on one team. The "losers" team always got crushed.
I, of course, was always put on the loser team (I'm the kid who was always picked last when kids were picking who was going to be on their team). One day after we got crushed by the good athletes, the gym teacher started yelling at us for being so bad at sports.
I lost my temper.
"Of COURSE the score is always lopsided!" I screamed. "You always put all the GOOD athletes on one team!"
"Oh, and you think *you* could do better?" she sneered.
"Yes!" I answered.
For some reason she decided to show me up. She told me to divide the class into teams. So I did, as fairly as I could. Then we played a game between the two teams.
The final score differed by ONE point between the two teams.
She never said a damned word to me again.
Gym teachers are scum.
#Gym #GymClass #GymTeachers #ElementarySchool #Bullies

2026-03-16 18:25:16 UTC

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Time for LibreOffice!
https://www.libreoffice.org/

2026-03-13 22:03:07 UTC

Just making a note that the Google weather app took a huge leap towards further enshittification recently.
Instead of showing a convenient view of the weather for the next 10 days and the day's precipitation, it now shows a bunch of shitty Google links. Much less useful.
#GoogleSucks #enshittification #weather #GoogleWeather

2026-03-13 21:12:40 UTC

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So...protest is illegal now? Can we say that the First Amendment is officially dead?

2026-03-12 19:44:31 UTC

I've always preferred to spell "traveling" as "travelling", and "kidnaping" as "kidnapping". Possibly because I grew up reading a lot of books by English authors.
On the other hand, "aluminium" is RIDICULOUS!
#English #Spelling

2026-03-11 22:00:01 UTC

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amazing how quickly they got rid of the right to protest. God DAMN it we really need a revolution in this country!

2026-03-11 21:55:27 UTC

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I'm surprised that that's legal. Can they really ban constituents from seeing them, short of some sort of criminal conviction? What happened to the right to petition the government for redress of grievances?

2026-03-11 21:46:23 UTC

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I can't believe that she is still in office! Maybe you CAN fool all of the people all of the time...

2026-03-09 01:33:54 UTC

Have you ever decided not to follow someone because something seemed off about them? And then you find out that your gut instinct was right, because they turn out to be horrible people who support genocide or something like that? DNC shills, for example?
Yeah. Once again I'm patting myself on the back for having chosen not to follow someone who subsequently proved themselves to be a genocide-supporting scumbag.
I'd have unfollowed him instantly, but I'm glad I don't have to bother. Funny how people like that give themselves handles that seem to indicate that they are anarchists or leftists, but turn into lap dogs of the DNC when elections start to loom!
😁
#Politics #DNCshills #genocide

2026-03-08 18:26:10 UTC

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And stop calling the most blatantly fascist Democrats "moderate".
All Democrats are fascist-enablers. The most right-wing ones are full-blown Nazis.

2026-03-08 03:58:05 UTC

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It's on Sunday nights? Do you happen to know what the next movie is?

2026-03-08 03:46:30 UTC

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there is also moviedon, or something like that. It sounds fun, but I haven't had a chance to participate yet.

2026-03-08 02:04:42 UTC

I want to try to grow a few things this spring. But I have no experience.
I have a small back yard with rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, and birds. I'd like to grow cherry tomatoes and maybe potatoes. I'm thinking maybe in a couple of wooden half-barrels with chicken wire over the tops.
Should I put a layer of gravel in the bottoms and then cover it with landscaping cloth and topsoil? Should there be a hole in the bottom to let excess water drain out? Will I need stakes for the tomatoes? Should they be heirloom?
And what about the potatoes? Bury them in dirt?
Thanks for any advice!
#advice #gardening

2026-03-07 00:26:30 UTC

Someone on Reddit asked what was the point of using Mastodon. Of getting no responses. Of going through the hassle of using hashtags.
I replied:
For the community.
I was on Mastodon for years, and nothing happened. Virtually no responses. Then I listened to advice and started using hashtags - both for my own posts, and for searches.
It made a HUGE difference. I found all sorts of interesting posts and people to follow. The culture was *nicer* - people are much more well-behaved and friendly than they are on Reddit or Twitter. Within a month I found myself spending more time and having more satisfaction on Mastodon than I'd had online for decades.
I can't speak for anyone else. But Mastodon is a growing, lively, intelligent community. There's no algorithm, no ads, which is *incredibly* refreshing. And since it's part of the Fediverse it's linked to many other services - such as BookWyrm, which is a great decentralized replacement for GoodReads.
Not to mention that Mastodon isn't owned by some money-grubbing bastard, and never will be - because it's decentralized.
Jeeze. I feel like I'm an escaped slave sneaking back into the old plantation to tell the slaves that life can be better when you're free! 🤣
#Mastodon #Reddit

2026-03-06 21:12:09 UTC

Am I the only one who pretty much feels like staying home and staying in bed in the dark all the time lately? I'd really like to escape this reality altogether.
Anyone else?

2026-03-06 21:09:46 UTC

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I predict a lot more deaths as a result.

2026-03-04 14:11:00 UTC

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GOOD! Blow the shit out of those data centers!

2026-02-27 16:52:04 UTC

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Somebody gets it!

2026-02-21 04:21:12 UTC

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I noticed the piece doesn't mention whether the officials in question were Republicans or Democrats. Given that it's Portland, I'll bet that it's Democrats.
They are just as much fascists as the Republicans are. Don't forget that.

2026-02-13 20:56:54 UTC

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I didn't realize this was going to turn into a doctrinal argument.
Personally I just want capitalism to end, and the human race to survive. Beyond that, a humane society which helps every person make the most of themselves. And provides everyone with the necessities of life.
I don't know what that would be called, but I hope we get there.

2026-02-12 18:52:31 UTC

Fighting the fascists in the streets is starting from a position of weakness. I suspect it's what the regime wants.
A general strike, on the other hand, hits the oligarchs at their weak point: numbers and money. That is, OUR numbers and THEIR (stolen) money. If enough of us stop working for them for even a few weeks, they'll crumble and run. Without a functioning economy, they're nothing.
They'll do anything to stop us from a general strike.
But we can feed and care for each other during the less-than-a-month it would take to win our freedom from them.
Think about how you can help other workers when the time comes. Prepare a little, if you can. Every little bit helps. An extra can of food or a handmade first aid kit put away on a shelf against The Day we take a stand can be a lifesaver when the oligarchs clamp down!
#GeneralStrike #Fascism #Politics #MutualAid

2026-02-09 22:02:34 UTC

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Thanks, that's great to know!

2026-02-09 21:24:09 UTC

Does anyone know if editing a post and adding a hashtag works? Or are hashtags only "registered" (or whatever) when a post is originally made?
#Mastodon #Search #Technology

2026-02-08 01:15:07 UTC

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still four or five years before it enters the public domain, I believe. Maybe a little longer than that. And the movie will take a few more years.
Unless we have a revolution and this fucked up copyright system goes away first!

2026-02-05 01:21:32 UTC

I wish my server had the option for basic text formatting like italics and boldface. I hate having to use ALL CAPS or *asterisks* or _underscores_ for emphasis!
#Mastodon #Formatting

2026-02-04 00:37:36 UTC

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered because Donald Trump is trying to cover up the fact that he fucked children.
#Trump #PedoPresident #ReneeGood #AlexPretti

2026-02-03 02:13:12 UTC

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Again, why is it legal to use toxic gases on the public? Including children? Why isn't there a law against that?
#BanToxicGas #BanTeargas #Politics

2026-01-31 04:58:19 UTC

As I get older, I become more and more of an immigrant in this world.
I come from a land called The Past. It was very different from the way things are here, in The Now.
#philosophy #immigration

2026-01-31 04:49:34 UTC

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I wonder how long it will be before they change it from a subscription model to a mandatory universal rollout?

2026-01-31 03:21:26 UTC

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Is that one of the Freeplay arcade bars?

2026-01-28 02:58:47 UTC

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There's no shortage of bootlickers ready to jump all over anyone who points out the truth!

2026-01-27 16:28:44 UTC

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Power corrupts EVERYBODY.

2026-01-27 05:05:55 UTC

#GeneralStrike #memes #Politics
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2026-01-26 03:06:42 UTC

We're just short of 16" (40cm) of snow at this point, with another 10 hours of snow to go.
#Snow #Weather

2026-01-25 21:53:14 UTC

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I assume that you will be shadowbanned there shortly by the new owners?

2026-01-25 19:55:01 UTC

Open request to the users of Mastodon: if you use an acronym, please spell it out the first time you use it in each post. You know what the acronym means, but Mastodon is huge and there are people all over the world who may be reading your post. Telling us that some alphabet soup did something means nothing if it just comes out as alphabet soup!
It's standard practice in journalism and writing to fully write out the words of an acronym the first time it's used. Please think of your readers.
Thanks!
#Mastodon #acronym #ACriminalRegimentOfNastyYoungMen #grammar #usage #courtesy

2026-01-24 17:16:47 UTC

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I can only theorize. But maybe local and regional communities could organize themselves democratically, and then network or federate on a nationwide and worldwide basis?

2026-01-24 06:00:52 UTC

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Whatever comes next needs to be decided by the working people of the world. The oligarchs are driving the human race towards extinction.
We need a world based on human values and human happiness, NOT on profit for billionaires and corporations.

2026-01-24 05:32:50 UTC

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Both parties serve the same oligarch masters. The Democrats are just more hypocritical about it; they're tasked with blocking any possible leftist movement.
No politician is going to ride in on a white horse to save us. If we want to live, we have to save ourselves. The Dems will try to pretend that they've been leading us all along and then tell us to lay down and give up in exchange for a few token gestures. Don't fall for it.
The system is terminal. It ALL has to go. And that includes both parties.

2026-01-23 03:15:17 UTC

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I guess these guys aren't too bright, because there's no way to kill off millions of people without huge unintended side effects. And I have to believe that there's at least a reasonable chance that people will start waking up when mass deaths are happening around them.

2026-01-23 02:03:38 UTC

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I've never seen them come out in winter. There are hawks around here; I'm afraid they might catch the rabbits if they came out to nibble. Maybe if I put it in a dish among the trees...but I guess I need to buy rabbit food.

2026-01-23 01:52:16 UTC

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I worry about the animals too. There are rabbits living in a patch of woods in front of my place; I wish I could help them!

2026-01-21 13:12:00 UTC

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That's the edition I remember: the good cover. Incidentally, a YA librarian friend of mine tells me that Heinlein's juveniles have been dropped by most libraries; kids haven't been reading them.

2026-01-20 21:11:22 UTC

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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.
It takes two parties to make a fascist state, and both of them belong to the oligarchs.

2026-01-20 03:40:35 UTC

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I hope you're right!

2026-01-20 02:01:30 UTC

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What do you think? Will we see a clash between state national guard units, State Police, and ICE?
I strongly suspect that the state police (at least in most cases) as well as city police forces will be on the side of ICE and the feds. Not so sure about the national guard. But in the end, it's the people who are going to have to be the deciding factor.

2026-01-20 00:26:55 UTC

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Good to know! I lived in Malden for years. I miss it!

2026-01-19 23:43:52 UTC

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Why not? It's a great movie, and apparently a lot of people haven't seen it!

2026-01-19 23:26:52 UTC

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What the heck. Turns out it's on the Internet Archive. Ladies and gentlemen, "The Day of the Triffids"!
https://archive.org/details/TheDayOfTheTriffids
#InternetArchive #Movie #ScienceFiction #Horror

2026-01-19 22:46:40 UTC

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Am I the ONLY person who remembers "The Day of the Triffids"?!?

2026-01-18 05:28:32 UTC

I know there are a ton of Linux enthusiasts on Mastodon. Question for you: How is support for indie games on Linux? What about Steam and GOG?
Just wondering. Thanks!
#Linux

2026-01-17 04:15:24 UTC

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That makes my blood boil! I'm absolutely sick of all the scams and sleaze we're getting from merchants and corporations these days.
Just curious, though: why do you use a bank instead of a credit union? My credit union is usually pretty responsive when I get ripped off.

2026-01-14 20:17:04 UTC

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It wasn't an execution. Executions are the legal killing of a person for a crime, after due process (although I don't believe that the State should have the power to kill).
It was murder. Just murder.

2026-01-13 17:48:02 UTC

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Collapse is inevitable anyway. I think we need to reconsider ALL of the assumptions of society and capitalism; they've led us to the brink of extinction.
There must be better ways.

2026-01-13 17:20:19 UTC

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And yet people survived before the invention of money.

2026-01-13 16:56:36 UTC

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Just because we've lived with money all our lives, doesn't mean we can't live without it. What if the necessities of life or part of the natural right of every human being? What if you could know that you would be able to get a meal whenever you were hungry, shelter whenever you needed it? Would that be so impossible?
The oligarchs take approximately 97% of everything the human race produces. Get rid of the oligarchs, and we are suddenly in a state of such abundance that the painstaking tracking of every bit of food, shelter, water, energy, and communication becomes more of a waste of effort than anyone might want to deal with.
I'm not saying a money-free society is inevitable. But I AM saying it's possible.

2026-01-13 01:04:50 UTC

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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.

2026-01-13 01:01:53 UTC

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But I don't WANT markets and finance to continue to exist. Because if they do, we won't. Survive, that is.
As for civilization, of *course* capitalists believe that civilization can't exist without money and markets. That's what they think civilization IS.

2026-01-10 20:47:01 UTC

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The DNC is a fascist organization. They brought us Trump. And then they brought us Trump again. And they will bring us Trump a third time if they can, all while protesting that they really don't want to and raising as much funds from their donors as possible.

2026-01-09 22:54:18 UTC

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I like the idea of a permanent vigil. I think we need a lot more of those, all over the country. Or all over the world.

2026-01-09 22:23:24 UTC

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I wonder if they stop anyone from trying to protest the genocide in Gaza? DNC organizations tend to do that. They want all protests to just be against Trump, not against the whole fascist system.
If so, they are part of the problem. Not the solution.

2026-01-09 22:14:55 UTC

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Aren't they just another astroturf "progressive" group sponsored by the DNC?

2026-01-06 23:32:00 UTC

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I have a feeling we should be organizing NOW.

2026-01-06 19:34:32 UTC

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Considering that the NSA and (presumably) other intelligence services and corporations have been recording not only every phone call, text, and email for decades, AND
There's every reason to believe that every cell phone, tablet, laptop, robot vacuum, smart TV, doorbell cam, or any device with that sort of capability is constantly recording video and audio and all of that's being stored, AND
Those recordings include therapy sessions, clandestine calls, murders, child molestation, etc. etc. etc., THEN
There's more pages and videos of blackmail material in the hands of the murderers of humanity than there are human beings on Earth.
#Politics #blackmail #Surveillance

2026-01-05 16:46:17 UTC

Okay! As part of my attempt to avoid using YouTube, I'm thinking of listening to radio. Unfortunately my radio is broken. Can anyone recommend any radio websites?
Or, well, anything else that I can play in the background while I work? I'm good with news, music, OTR, whatever.
#Recommendations #Radio #OTR

2026-01-05 16:24:22 UTC

When I click on a Mastodon link from within Mastodon, they sometimes get opened in a new browser tab on the home server of that link. I'm logged out on that server (naturally), but even though I'm still logged in on the *original* tab, I can't comment or upvote on the *new* tab.
Why? That kind of breaks Mastodon!
#Mastodon #Fediverse

2026-01-04 01:22:03 UTC

I wish that somebody, ANYBODY I knew personally in the real world was on Mastodon! I asked everyone I know on Facebook (which I've otherwise abandoned) if they're on, and to join if they weren't, but none of them did/are.
My SON won't even join it! He's still on Reddit.
#Mastodon #Angst

2026-01-03 23:11:40 UTC

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.
So instead the services use sophisticated algorithms to keep good matches dangling just out of reach, teasing users with the possibility of love if they would just pay for premium.
In other words, it's classic enshittification.
So I definitely support the idea of a nonprofit Fediverse-based dating service. I don't have the technical skills to be helpful with that (maybe I should try to learn?), but I'd certainly sign up!
FediMeet, FediMeetCute...there are definitely some possibilities.
#enshittification #Dating #Fediverse

2026-01-03 03:01:45 UTC

It occurs to me that I should possibly introduce myself in this new year.
I've been on Mastodon since 9/11/2000, but only started using it heavily over the past six months or so. Hashtags made a big improvement to my experience here.
I'm the last of the Boomers, almost literally. But I've been an early adopter when it comes to technology ever since college; I was on the internet back in 1986, and I created my first website in 1996. It's still up.
I'm a hardcore bibliophile. I grew up before the internet, and without much TV; my parents read to me all the time, and I learned to read by around two and a half years old. I've probably read more books than 99.9% of the human race.
When it comes to reading, my favorite genres are science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, humor, books for children and young adults, and books that have entered the public domain. But I'm fairly eclectic. I tend to prefer older books, and did even as a child.
I love to write, but my muse doesn't send me fiction or poetry anywhere NEAR as much as I'd like.
My memory is a bit freakish. I'm not eidetic, but apparently my memory is unusually good - particularly when it comes to books. That's made it easy for me to recommend books to others. Before I left Reddit I accumulated a file of recommendations that I'd made that includes nearly 1,000 books, and I still add to it when I can.
I have a huge amount of experience reading aloud, particularly to children. Not to boast, but it's something I'm very good at.
I love tabletop roleplaying, and have been running campaigns for over 40 years now. The games I run are based on literary worlds or my own imagination. The focus is generally characterization, exploration, and interaction rather than combat.
I'm a supertaster AND hypervigilant, thanks to an abusive upbringing. My senses of smell and taste are incredibly keen, and I tend to notice things more quickly than most. Except my hearing is starting to degrade a bit with age, sadly.
I'm shy and/or demisexual. A straight cis male. I should probably be on display in a museum!
I'm the single father of an adult son who takes after me to a frightening extent, right down to red hair, geekiness, bibliophilia, and atheism.
Lastly I'm an anti-capitalist. Very leftist, or more accurately extremely opposed to the entire political and economic system of capitalism. I grew up with the children of the 0.001%, and really loathe them all - from experience. I know how they think. I stand with working people and immigrants.
Wait, I forgot to mention: I love to laugh.
That should do it!
#Bio #Introduction #Bookstodon

2026-01-02 23:09:34 UTC

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They'll wake up when they can't have sex anymore, I suspect. Or not without risking pregnancy.
But even if that doesn't do it, they will DEFINITELY wake up when they and their children start to starve. And that time will come. The elite are too greedy to let the peasants eat.

2026-01-02 21:02:37 UTC

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I'm just waiting for the SCOTUS to reverse Griswold v Connecticut. Take away birth control, and the people will REALLY wake up!

2026-01-02 00:41:06 UTC

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2025-12-29 22:55:33 UTC

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> Yes, but within that, a Universal Basic Income is still an important attribute of humane economies and, arguably, of all future (AI) economies.
The problem is that income can always be stolen. But if people have the right to food, shelter, power, and communication (including the internet) as basic human rights, that's not something that can be stolen. They're hungry; they go get food from their community. If a thief wants their food, what's the point? The thief can go get food themselves (they're human too), in which case THEY'RE NOT A THIEF!
And if the purported victim somehow has their food taken, they can always go get more. If someone is grossly abusing their right to food, the community can always meet democratically and decide what to do about it. They can always choose to expel the malefactor from their community; they're free to go elsewhere for their needs.
What do you think?
#PostCapitalism

2025-12-29 21:56:19 UTC

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Universal Income is meaningless if inequality continues to exist. The elite will just increase the price of everything to take every penny of that UI, plus more. The nature of capitalism and the billionaires who control it is to keep every worker on the ragged edge of desperation and starvation.
Our only hope is to wipe out inequality COMPLETELY. No more billionaires. No more rich people AT ALL.

2025-12-29 19:25:17 UTC

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Don't fall into the trap of assuming that everything is because of Trump. We've been stampeding towards fascism for decades, under both parties. Our oligarch overlords want fascism because they fear the people. Pretending that everything will be fine once Trump is gone is completely delusional.
It doesn't matter who's the President, ultimately. What matters are the people BEHIND the politicians: the billionaires and the big corporations.
My fear is that most liberals will simply close their eyes and go back to sleep once Trump is gone. That's what the oligarchs want to happen.
The system is terminal. It all has to go if we want to survive as a species.

2025-12-29 18:49:51 UTC

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Police are nothing but gang members with a license to kill.

2025-12-29 17:49:46 UTC

What would you do if you didn't have to work for a living, but were expected to use your skills or abilities to contribute towards the social good? For at least a few hours every week?
I can think of a number of things that I'd like to do:
• Cook for others
• Read to children and adults
• Build bookcases and other simple structures
• Teach basic computer skills, spreadsheets, word processing
• Edit and rewrite
• Act
• Run tabletop roleplaying games
...I'm sure there's more, but I'm not entirely used to thinking this way!
#Politics #Economics #PostCapitalism #Skills

2025-12-26 22:40:38 UTC

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Not enough people are talking about dismantling prisons.

2025-12-26 21:47:12 UTC

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I know. It's just that I have no way of knowing what hashtags to use. For example, say I post something about chess. That's not too hard; I'd use the hashtags "chess" and "games", at a guess.
But there are some hashtags which aren't necessarily obvious unless I stumble across them. "OldPeopleOfMastodon", for example; I had no idea that that was a thing!
And what about "BookRecommendations" versus "BookRecommendation"? I guess I could try typing both and see which one has a larger number of recent queries, but that doesn't help me find hashtags which have entered common usage on Mastodon. Is "SuggestMeABook" a thing? "ChildrensLiterature"? I have to imagine hashtags and then search for them in order to find out. That's really not a good approach, because not everybody is going to be able to imagine appropriate hashtags. It seems to me that since hashtags are so important on Mastodon, there should be a searchable grand list of hashtags across the entirety of it, along with frequency of use.
Does that sound crazy?