Ready Player One -
Ernest Cline wants you to remember the 80s.
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Wednesday, 17 July 2024
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Those protests in Seattle (and elsewhere) when I was a kid certainly take on a different hue through the eyes of 20 something years of unlearning the bullshit I was taught in school.
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Sunday, 28 April 2024
quote [ Donate to David's Legal Fund: https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4em ]
Best friend shower time is a rare treat.
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Thursday, 15 February 2024
BRB just gonna go unload a couple magazines into my own vehicle like an asshole.
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Saturday, 3 February 2024
quote [ Demetrio Trujillo, 42, indicated in federal court documents filed Friday that he had been hired for the spate of attacks by Solomon Peña, whose run for a seat in the New Mexico state legislature in November 2022 ended in defeat. ]
Well this isn't at all a sign of impending civil war or anything...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2024
quote [ ATF Director Steven Dettelbach is the latest public official to fall victim to a swatting incident, according to law enforcement sources. ]
Looks like several other high profile people got swatted this holiday season
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Listen, Liberal -
Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
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Thursday, 26 October 2023
quote [ At least 22 people are dead and 30 more are wounded following a mass shooting event at two locations in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night. ]
This cracked off last night, about 15 mins from where i lived last year.
Gunman is still at large. None of my friends there are going to work today
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Saturday, 30 September 2023
quote [ On the third day of rioting, the government gets tired of waiting and blocks access to Facebook in Mandalay. The block works?the riots died down. And the Deloitte guy?s inbox suddenly fills with emails from Meta staffers wanting to know why Facebook has been blocked.
[?] in 2016, it was time to get way more people in Myanmar onto Facebook. ] A long and escalating read ? people complaining about the premise of community moderation should keep in mind what unchecked spreading of hate can lead to.
This being the 1st of 5 planned parts, here's a TL;DR in a series of Mastodon posts. thumb via Clawmarks tumblr.
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Wednesday, 27 September 2023
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"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks" - some guy.
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Tuesday, 12 September 2023
quote [ Who could question that corporations and banks had the right to make decisions that could cause unemployment? Foreign direct investment was a privilege, not a right. ]
Oh wow, and here I thought Coca Cola was bad
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Tuesday, 25 July 2023
quote [ More than 200 Pacific workers have been left in limbo after their employer Linx Employment agreed to end its participation in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme amid worker treatment investigations. ]
"Just the modern world we live in."
Lyric - John Williamson
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