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  • I'm having feelings again tonight about my place in the world. I feel so out of place and it's because of ideas I have about the world, humanity, all of us.... And how much that feels in conflict with... just everything around me. And despite all signs, people, whatever telling me I'm wrong, I just can't believe it.... I can't see the way I am or whatever I am as anything other than an expression of humanity trying to save itself.

    #thinking #thoughts #leftism #polyamory #Buddhism #humanism

    1:16:00 AM 9/28/2025
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  • In reply to: https://ioc.exchange/@Avitus/115249350624096090

    @Avitus I do about the same but I didn't include the link, just my username. I'm going to modify it to add the link now! Thanks for the idea! And keep on keeping on!

    8:28:32 PM 9/22/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1758563950/

    @Avitus I do about the same but I didn't include the link, just my username. I'm going to modify it to add the link now! Thanks for the idea! And keep on keeping on!

    8:28:32 PM 9/22/2025
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  • I think it's also worth noting that at my housewarming party yesterday, when any person said I don't know a lot of people on Signal, I would point out about three people (out of 20~) and say "they're not on Signal but everyone else here is." And that's because I proselytized to all my friends, setting lines in the sand about how to contact me and expect a response. Little by little, we win. (I wrote this post largely to tell myself to keep going.)

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    #signal #infosec #privacy #internet #anewworld

    7:59:09 PM 9/22/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mas.to/@stevegis_ssg/115248991252610243

    @stevegis_ssg I tell you what.... I feel this. But for the next several months.

    7:14:24 PM 9/22/2025
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  • I did in fact chant "ONE OF US! ONE OF US! GOOBLE GOBBLE! GOOBLE GOBBLE!" when I convinced a friend to download Signal and join our huge group chat. I may have had a few beers.

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    #signal

    6:57:11 PM 9/22/2025
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  • The irony of a guy at the gym who I perceive as of Middle Eastern descent wearing a "Taliban Hunting Club" t shirt with a skull with a banana. Because I can 100% imagine some right wing gun nut wearing that and thinking of him as the target.

    #uspol #racism #islamophobia #France #us #usa #secondamendment #guns #guncontrol

    9:59:00 AM 9/21/2025
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  • I'm going to bed tonight feeling some kind of way. Life isn't how I want it to be. I'm frustrated with a lot of things and I'm at a point where I have to wait for it to all play out. Again. Sometimes these things happen. But as I constantly get into periods like this, I can only think to look to myself. Blame myself. Which obviously doesn't help how I feel. Anyway, I should probably go to sleep because exhaustion and not respecting my limits is a big part of how I got here #selfcare #life #sad

    9:36:00 PM 9/20/2025
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  • I tried to shave my mess of a face and it didn't go well. In a move reminiscent of Britney Spears, I got frustrated with my lack of agency in life and shaved it all off. Feeling a bit daddy now. Anyway, how you doin' ?

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    #shaving #spiraling #britneyspears #gay #gayman #gayselfie #selfie #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gaydad #queer #queerselfie

    1:27:00 PM 9/20/2025
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  • "The truth about drugs": That there are a lot less people just handing drugs out for free and that pot will not make you a useless blob on the couch. Also your parents have done at least one.

    #drugs #healthclass

    11:34:00 AM 9/20/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@ahtynon/115221891833420106

    @ahtynon @SI44 mais il y aura un autre sûrement !

    8:50:29 AM 9/18/2025
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  • Damn ok. Here's my unpopular opinion opinion for the night: if you see religion and leftism as being antithetical, you've lost the plot, honey. They're, in essence, the same thing. So critique those power structures, but the phenomenon itself, it's your friend, not your enemy. Both are pointing to the same thing.

    #religion #leftism #communism #anarchism #circleoflife #Buddhism #taoism #liberation #liberationtheology #hottake

    11:32:00 PM 9/10/2025
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  • I organized an apéro with my building neighbors. Despites one RSVP and one maybe, I waited an hour and no one came. People just seem uninterested. I say uninterested and not, for example, too busy because I put on the poster to feel free to suggest another date. No one did. I'm a little disappointed but taking it better than I thought I would. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink you know?

    #community #antifa #antifascism #leftism #neighbors #communityaction #france

    6:08:42 PM 9/7/2025
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  • Thinking tonight about how alone and not alone I am. How powerless and powerful I (we?) are in the face of insurmountable odds to save us all. I am facing a tsunami, remembering that I am also mostly water. I have no words of motivation. I cannot weave a linguistic spell to bring hope. But I hope nonetheless.

    #hope #thinking #leftism #anarchism #communism #ecology #solitude #loneliness #revolution #love #prayer

    2:58:05 AM 9/7/2025
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  • A friend sent me a link to an AI output of a question we had discussed a few days earlier. I sent him this: https://youtu.be/6ROlMFlbkWE Video title: Signal's Meredith Whittaker says Chat GPT can't be trusted Desc: When Isikoff asked Whittaker a question that had been generated by ChatGPT about a Signal report that didn't exist, Whittaker called the chatbot "a bulls*** engine." "Why are we using a bullshit machine for anything serious?"

    #signal #ai #surveillence #chatgpt #security #privacy

    4:45:48 PM 9/6/2025
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  • I'm finally back home. After missing my connection because of a delayed flight, I had to spend the night in Paris. Then, the flight they put me on got all the way to the destination before they turned back around to Paris because of low visibility. THEN they tried to keep me in Paris another day. Needless to say, I took the train. Anyway, I'm back and like all amazing trips, I'm meditating on what made this so magical and what I can do to bring that into my day to day life.

    #folsom #traveling

    9:30:58 PM 9/2/2025
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  • Last look of the weekend. It's a remix of my street fair look. I was feeling a way about my body so I'm not posting that one. This one however is one for the archives.

    (The second photo is an expression of pain.)

    Happy end of Folsom to the kinksters!

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    #Folsom #FolsomBerlin #Folsom l2025 #kink #gay #fetish #discoelysium #theexpression

    4:11:00 PM 8/31/2025
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  • In reply to: https://fedi.tiesselune.com/@tiesselune/statuses/01K3YG6PQVSMHZ50FYA1J4MXFX

    @tiesselune :underheart: :underheart: :underheart:

    12:11:25 AM 8/31/2025
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  • Lol @ the person who said "oh so you're American but you only speak English" and then I answered him back in two other languages and then he said "but those are the only phrases you know right?"

    I have a degree in translation and interpretation. Including UN-style simultaneous interpretation. 🙄

    I them asked this person what other languages they speak. The said some French and some Irish, which they both forgot.

    Alright.....

    #languages #traveling #tourism #culture #us #usa #Germany #Ireland

    9:20:00 PM 8/30/2025
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  • In reply to: https://woof.group/@elfkin/114728193675032402

    @elfkin mastodon.social/@donthatedontk Not sure if my post falls into the category you're talking about but for me the point wasn't to stop making art but to not let that be the beginning and the end of what you do in the face of fascism. The person's words were "make art because it makes fascists angry" and not only does this take an individualistic and atomized approach to politics rather than a systemic one, it's like, okay, they're angry. And....? What's changed? What did I materially accomplish?

    9:40:08 AM 8/30/2025
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  • Blog posts
  • Marry me!!! is the last thing you expect at 2am

    I just got home and I need to write about an experience I just had that I'm still trying to understand.

    I had left a friend's house after a nice little dinner and had decided to take one of t...

    1:58:00 AM 6/28/2025
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  • Spiders in the web: Hyperion's Farcasters and Technofeudalism

    SPOILERS FOR THE HYPERION SERIES

    I recently finished the Hyperion Cantos. For those who have never heard of it, you can check out

    8:11:00 PM 5/4/2025
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  • Slump (A poem)

    Wind rushing by my ears
    Branches slap my face
    Speed increasing
    As gravity drags me down
    Into its bosom
    Woosh, whack, whiz
    As I wake up
    To a once hidden nightmare.

    ...

    4:26:00 PM 12/19/2024
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  • A Manifesto? - Part 1: New Ways of Being

    I have an idea rattling around in my head. An embryo of an idea. A little intellectual itch nagging at me. A perpetual refrain when my mind idles and looks for the nearest thing to alight on. A noti...

    4:06:00 PM 10/13/2024
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  • The dreams continue.

    During my nap, in the dream I woke up from it but not for real. There was someone strangely in my apartment. Seemed kind of lost. I asked who he was and why he was here and he just left. Then I went...

    3:27:00 PM 7/22/2024
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How I'm Spending My Free Time

Ecotopia emerging

Ernest Callenbach

Cover of Ecotopia emerging

Total playtime in the last two weeks

7.75 hours