Them: “No, no, hear us out; the machine disassembles you at an atomic level”
Me: “& then I’m dead…”
🤡: “No! You’re not listening! It transmits that information…”
🤷🏻♀️: “…my shredded body…”
🤡: “will you let us finish!? It reassembles you…”
🤷🏻♀️: “…creates a new version of me out of the wreckage, got it”
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Me: the transporter is a suicide machine, I will never use it.
Also me: omg fuck this airport, fuck this plane, fuck this no leg room ... beam me the fuck up Scotty
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Oh shit, I just realized your BlueSky account is bridged with Mastodon so I can just repost THAT. D’oh, I am a technical person. 😂
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Mastodon would have a lot fewer problems if there were only two people there lol.
Part of the major issue is that there’s so many people over there that even without the algorithm/feeds you still get swarmed(if you’re a large account)
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But fair warning:
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Here I followed you - consolation prize. 😂
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I thought we called it an Alf hog?
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Well Ty! That was my social media claim to fame on Twitter! 😂
I think both these sites have potential, and there’s awesome people on both, but the humorless prigs on Mastodon needs to lose the HOA attitude (and it’s happening, but slow.)
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I’m not gonna lie, your “hey, I’m gonna be over on BlueSky more than mastodon“ was met with sufficient levels of stupid bullshit that I was like “well, that would be solidifying MY reasons for leaving.”
The post by the guy with the picture of Lucy and Charlie Brown w/Dorsey’s pic on Lucy aged well 😂
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No apologies needed! I’m on both (and you followed me back on Twitter way back for reasons that will remain mystery 😂)
I was impressed (in a negative sense ofc) that the Mastodon folks had managed to have a sufficiently negative vibe that you decided “screw it”.
Figured was worth the ask!
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here.
Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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Read this thread
Happy American Genocide Day to all who celebrate
*not really, fuck you and fuck your fireworks too
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Nothing says #July4 like a juicy slice of watermelon. This delicious fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 lbs. It's 100+ degrees in Bakersfield today. Can you imagine harvesting them in high temps? #WeFeedYou
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"To save our people, we must sacrifice our people. We must sacrifice ourselves, our pride, our vengeance. Be willing to die by the thousands, by the millions for one another. The more we fight for ourselves, the more we will lose ourselves..."
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"We are linked. Our fate is like an image caught in a mirror. If we deny the other, we deny ourselves and we will cease to exist."
- Citizen G'Kar, Babylon 5 S3E9 "Point of No Return"
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Once again, if you're looking to popular culture for your inspiration in this moment, might I introduce you to Babylon 5 and Citizen G'Kar.
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"...The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
- Citizen G'kar, Babylon 5, S3E22 "Z'ha'dum"
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"The war we fight is not against powers and principalities: it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender..."
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This speech really hits harder in Andreas Katsulas' voice.
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the absolute funniest shit about CNN being like "we can't fact check Trump its not what we do" is that after the Rice Truck Debacle incident with my family they were in my inbox(and those of others) running various fact checks and clarifications on that absolutely zero significance event for DAYS
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Happy 4th of July! In the wise words of Ben Franklin:
The Bald Eagle is a Bird of bad moral Character. Too lazy to fish for himself.
The Turkey is a more respectable Bird, though vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would attack a Brit who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.
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Happy fourth
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I have to share this for about a week or until my goals are met and I can afford all my medical care. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but being disabled is expensive and my writing is what pays for it. So unless someone wants to option Adios or something, this is what I have to do
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That was quick, I went to report and it was gone.
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Went to the Naturalization ceremony in downtown Northampton today because my kid wanted to go & it was wonderful.
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Hey Ken, I know you’ve given up on Mastodon, but I figured it doesn’t hurt to ask - any chance you could post this over there? Your account still has 100k+ followers, and this article is Just That Good, IMO
I did retweet(post, whatever) the one you posted last year, but it’s a substack link. 😬
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I’m glad Ken brought this over here - it was a staple for my 4th posting on SM (the Popehat version)