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  • I always very much further that I'm seen differently in France than the US, like physically speaking, and it's always wild to me

    1:16:00 AM 7/29/2025
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  • I've got nearly everything in boxes. Enough to % sure I can do the rest the day before the move and not be stressed. I can feel this nightmare being nearly over and I'm ready.

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    #moving

    5:29:44 PM 7/27/2025
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  • Last night I played Fear and Hunger 2 while hanging out with @PapiKitsune and I kept having to pause to take deep breaths. And he kept saying, "But you haven't even fought anyone yet!" 😹 It's the anticipation though!!! And then I couldn't go to sleep because we played it right before bed. Someone save me from myself. 🤭

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    #fearandhunger #fearandhunger2 #fearandhungerii #videogames #friends #nerdshit #hangingout #horror #cosmichorror

    12:12:21 PM 7/27/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mas.to/@stevegis_ssg/114915584540081985

    @stevegis_ssg :cwy: :catjam: :scremcat: :catPOWER:

    9:45:27 PM 7/25/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mas.to/@stevegis_ssg/114915393990339345

    @stevegis_ssg I've just got to make it through the next week and I'll be moved in. I took off Thursday, Friday and Monday of the week after. In retrospect, it would have been better to do Wed to Fri but worst case scenario I spend Monday catatonic, rocking back and forth and I'll be right as rain to be a Productive Member of Society by Tuesday.

    9:36:55 PM 7/25/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity/114915173151120744

    @RationalizedInsanity And thank you for the clarification

    8:04:31 PM 7/25/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity/114915173151120744

    @RationalizedInsanity Oh I'd never ask if someone had anything. Their diagnoses aren't my business. My business is to respond to what's in front of me. If I think someone needs help, I'll try to help. Otherwise, you know, let's all just live our lives. In the example I cited I saw she kept going about her business, which if she needed help, I don't think she'd have done so easily. But yes I agree, sneaking up is no good. The way you describe is like pointing a finger, not lending a hand. No good

    8:04:19 PM 7/25/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/114915152889853529

    @RationalizedInsanity This is a long windup to ask 1) Is the asking the problem or the intention behind the asking? 2) In the case that it's the asking, what could a person who has no education in neurodiversity be expected to do? Or even someone like me, who knows a lot about how my brain works, knows other brains work differently than mine, but could never pretend to really understand it is for others. (2/2)

    7:56:21 PM 7/25/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity/114915052866193749

    @RationalizedInsanity I once saw a woman who maybe had tourettes at the library. She would occasionally move and make sounds in big ways and then continue on. The first time it genuinely scared me. (I think b/c it's an otherwise very calm environment and I'm easily startled.) I never asked if she was okay because besides the little hiccups, so to speak, she seemed fine. And I also know what neurodiversity is. I'm not sure if everyone does and I wouldn't be surprised if someone asked. So: (1/2)

    7:54:38 PM 7/25/2025
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/114915112820669777

    I think my deception comes from him smiling at me as he squirted a red sauce into the container. I assumed he recognized me and it was harissa sauce. I was mistaken and only with your thoughts and prayers will I even get over this

    7:46:11 PM 7/25/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1753465376/

    I think my deception comes from him smiling at me as he squirted a red sauce into the container. I assumed he recognized me and it was harissa sauce. I was mistaken and only with your thoughts and prayers will I even get over this

    7:46:11 PM 7/25/2025
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  • TO THE GUY WHO DID NOT ASK WHAT SAUCE I WANTED AND GAVE ME KETCHUP*, YOU ARE ON MY LIST. I HATE KETCHUP.

    *If he hadn't insisted on speaking to me in English, I wouldn't believe that his stereotyping me as an American.

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    7:42:56 PM 7/25/2025
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  • Me right now. I'm not doing well.

    https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=a+fire+alarm+that+doesn%27t+cause+an+autistic+meltdown+

    8:01:15 PM 7/22/2025
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  • I've been wanting to play Darkest Dungeon for like days but I am so at the end of my rope in life that I think it could literally set me over the edge if I have a party wipeout or something.

    #darkestdungeon #videogames #mentalhealth

    7:12:59 PM 7/22/2025
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  • In reply to: https://indieweb.social/@jautero/114866767278001813

    @jautero @kris_of_pnictogen Exactly. The way I feel about it is that we're going to move into something new pretty soon and we need to start thinking about what we want that to be because other people with less than solidaire intentions have a very clear picture of what they would like.

    6:56:43 AM 7/17/2025
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  • In reply to: https://meow.social/@kris_of_pnictogen/114866732339669453

    @kris_of_pnictogen Yeah so naturally: Abolish management 😉

    6:41:44 AM 7/17/2025
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  • In reply to: https://cambrian.social/display/98bbe454-6568-786d-2614-44b789782633

    @lori I don't really agree with the French, at least in so much that work has to be torture or punishment. I think what I was trying to get at is that we should start dreaming of a society where work is not intrinsically torture.

    I haven't heard of the lost cause. I'll have to check it out!

    6:27:29 AM 7/17/2025
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  • In reply to: https://meow.social/@kris_of_pnictogen/114866593476797453

    @kris_of_pnictogen Of course anyone who tells you work, as we conceive of it today, is play is bullshitting you. But the point of bringing some fictional societies into the discussion is to show maybe there are other ways we could conceive of work. To think and redo work in which it's no longer work really. I think humans like to do things. No one enjoys idleness unless they're tired (in which case they're probably resting, which if work is doing, it's also work... They're doing something).

    6:21:13 AM 7/17/2025
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  • donthatedontkill replied to https://mycabinetofcuriosities.com/notes/1752690570/

    @kris_of_pnictogen Of course anyone who tells you work, as we conceive of it today, is play is bullshitting you. But the point of bringing some fictional societies into the discussion is to show maybe there are other ways we could conceive of work. To think and redo work in which it's no longer work really. I think humans like to do things. No one enjoys idleness unless they're tired (in which case they're probably resting, which if work is doing, it's also work... They're doing something).

    6:21:13 AM 7/17/2025
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  • In EN, the word "work" comes from "do." In FR, "torture." Think about the difference in perspective. I do. It comes up as a US leftist in France, trying to communicate my ideas. In Pravic (I recently finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin), same word for work & play. In Ecotopia, the protagonist remarked on how work and play seemed to go hand in hand. Think on that. It's a koan, maybe.

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    #leftism #ursulakleguin #buddhism #english #french #etymology #koan #thedispossessed #ecotopia #zen

    8:29:29 PM 7/16/2025
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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

20.62 hours