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Arotrios

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For Amusement Purposes Only.

Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.

#music #poetry #politics #LGBTQ+ #magick #fiction #imagination #tech

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"Fuck it" is the most powerful and subsequently destructive phrase in the English language, allowing one to ignore consequence in favor of pure action, with the tactic acceptance that you've likely released forces far beyond your control.

For a phrase with so much destructive potential, it's interesting to note that the root of the phrase goes back to sex, the act of creation, and even possibly love. Sex is the effort to produce a child, a force which will, whether you like it or not, grow beyond your control.

"Kill it" doesn't have the oomph. Why not, when it essentially speaks to the same destructive dynamic and disregard of consequence?

Because "kill it" invokes death, which is to put to rest. "Fuck it" invokes life, which is to spark chaos.

Running Spoiler Campaigns Does Not Protect ‘Democracy’ (nymag.com)

Most Americans who oppose Donald Trump agree the threat to democracy is the major issue of the 2024 election. But what, precisely, constitutes the threat? To most Democrats, the danger is that the election will install into power a president who admires autocratic regimes and wishes to replicate their methods by encouraging...

Arotrios,
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Came here to say the same. Lieberman is a snake, and has been using his position as the 2000 VP Dem nominee to undermine progressive policy for more than two decades. I have no doubt he's been bought and paid for by the GOP, I'm guessing right around the time he started rooting for the Iraq war (he was the biggest supporter on the Dem side at the time).

Arotrios,
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If I were a marketing manager interested in maintaining my brand's image, I'd pay to keep my ads off of TwitX.

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction - Anne Charters - 2nd Edition - Compact Version (866 pages) (pdfhost.io)

During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction....

Arotrios,
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TIL Mozilla has a mastodon server. Have an upvote.

Arotrios,
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Stop. My face hurts from all the palming.

Arotrios,
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..or that you're a crow, or what lies beneath the ruins of old Newcastle, for that matter...

But you gotta admit, they're always glad you came. Especially the NSFW accounts.

Arotrios,
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Very nice, congratulations - you've gotten the closest thus far. I won't say more except to suggest that there is a deeper context woven in the Greek....

Arotrios,
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Hmm... It depends on who's asking, how cute they are, and most importantly, their opinion of Eblanian political movements...

Arotrios,
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I watch the Watchmen.

See, by posting this, I'm on the watchlist too. So the watchlist is watching the watchmen watching the watchlist watching the watchmen ad infinitum. If you're asking "watch the fuck?", to explain without using the word watch, I've engaged an infinite mobius surveillance loop.

Side note, by making it to the bottom of this comment, you've all done Dr. Seuss proud.

Arotrios,
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I've said it before, I'll say it again, Kbin is the Jamaica of the Fediverse, a land of special people where champions grow.

Arotrios, to gaming
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Spoiler alert - Karlach's kink is Ray of Frost, leaving at least one gnome mage with slightly singed lips and stars in his eyes.

#gaming

Arotrios,
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This article stinks of an agenda. The author goes out of their way not to mention the term Fediverse (pluriverse? wtf is that?), and they clearly haven't done their due diligence on Activity Pub. Either they skimped on the research or this article was heavily edited afterwards to remove any concept of the Fediverse being a viable alternative to centralized platforms. Doesn't surprise me coming from Business Insider.

That being said, the overall dynamic the article speaks to is valid, as is the discussion it engenders, so have an upvote despite my gripes with the writing.

Arotrios,
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Cymbals are reversed through most of the intro. Sounds to me like they used the low E on the rhythm guitar (single string note) tuned down to D or E flat and then used knob tuning to bring it up into the full E for that first note. Distortion on the guitar is heavy with weight in the low and mid frequencies.

It doesn't sound like a bass to me (sound would be rounder with more depth from the thicker strings) - that's the sound of a long neck guitar, possibly an Ibanez RG series. The low end on them sounds quite close to a light bass.

Star Trek - The Original Series - 1966 Complete (archive.org)

I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She...

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Happy Birthday! I didn't get you anything, but the internet archive did:

Arotrios, (edited )
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Now that's just wrong. Fungoidaphobia and the resulting discrimination against hybrid lifeforms is a real problem, even in today's enlightened Federation, and you should have never suffered empty birthdays as a result.

Family over fungus, I always say. But family is where you find it, and seeing as I just happened to be passing through Orion space on my way here, here's a keg of Klingon blood wine and a barrel of Andorian ale for the party, that is if you don't mind a bit of pirate contraband to liven things up a bit...

Event - Robots, UFOs, and A.I. Converge at the 2023 Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival with 130 Films Online and In Theaters - 10/9/23 to 10/15/23 (brooklynscififilmfest.com)

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival returns for 2023 with 135 films selected for screening October 9 through the 15th. SciFi fans from around the world are welcomed to join this one-of-a-kind event as all films will be made available online for streaming and rating through Brooklyn SciFi's Netflix style festival platform. This year...

Arotrios,
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Some of my favs in this category:

  • They Live
  • District 9
  • Alien Nation
  • Robocop
  • Alphaville (have to hat tip @livus for introducing me to that one)
  • Enemy Mine - this one might not exactly qualify, as it starts as high action scifi on an alien planet, but it transitions into a very different kind of story by the end. Dennis Quaid's best performance too, imho, and Lou Gosset Jr is exceptional in one of the weirdest roles of his career.
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han solo. han ensemble

Arotrios,
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@aetataureate Han soliloquy - Never tell me the Odds.

Arotrios,
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@PugJesus weren''t you looking for a spot to perform baptisms?

Arotrios,
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Kevin McCarthy and the GOP right now

Arotrios,
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Well, borked picture posting on kbin wouldn't load the picture properly and now it won't let me delete the thread, so here it is until I can manage to get this post to delete.

Arotrios,
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@Teal explained the context quite well.

Regarding the borking comment, Kbin crashed when I tried to post the image, and it didn't allow me to delete the post, so I added a comment with the image so folks would have some context.

I just found it funny that it was the top post on /r/all when I happened to breeze by the bad place earlier.

The Year's Best Science Fiction - Third Annual Collection - 1986 - featuring Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, George RR Martin, Frederick Pohl, Bruce Sterling and Robert Silverberg (pdfhost.io)

At dawn he arose and stepped out onto the patio for his first look at Alexandria, the one city he had not yet seen. That year the five cities were Chang-an, Asgard, New Chicago, Timbuctoo, Alexandria: the usual mix of eras, cultures, realities. He and Gioia, making the long flight from Asgard in the distant north the night...

Blood and Thunder: The Sound of Alberts (David Field, Angus Young, Brian Johnson) (www.youtube.com)

This two-part documentary looks back to the '60s and '70s and charts how Australia got its own rock 'n' roll sound thanks to the life-long bond between music company Albert Productions and The Youngs. Blood and Thunder The Sound of Alberts is a tale of two families and the music they made. The Alberts - an elegant, well-to-do...

Arotrios,
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Power is a helluva drug.

Attorney General Garland says in interview he'd resign if Biden asked him to take action on Trump (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would resign if asked by President Joe Biden to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position....

Arotrios,
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If the man would rather resign than do his job, he shouldn't have his job.

momo, to random
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what if we kissed in the haunted liminal arctic town i just dreamed about where everyone leaves during winter so it's completely dark and empty for 6 months so the town is left to the bioluminescent ghost deer, and also it's facing the effects of rapid climate change so it floods and also mysterious blocks of rosin have been washing in, along with a recently unfrozen high school friend of mine, but it's ok that it floods because the ghost deer are light enough to skip around on the water surface

Arotrios,
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@momo ...sounds like a kiss electromagnetic, wrapped in the spark of the arctic, a mystery in those months of endless night, as the dark gives way to light...

[News Analysis] GOP waging a "coordinated national effort to undermine American elections," says leading official (www.salon.com)

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers....

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You've got a fresh cup of Camomile waiting at Anna's

Arotrios,
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@some__guy aww, are you and your sock puppets are feeling lonely again? I think it's time to admit you're showing all the symptoms listed here. It's been three months and multiple accounts, bud - it's time to get help - this isn't a vendetta, this is a sad pathology.

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so zlibrary just isn't there anymore like that wasn't a bit

Arotrios,
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@momo ...nonchalantly whistles a pirate jig...

inkican, to scifi

Currently in negotiations with a well-known SF author to do an AMA here on /m/scifi. Any thoughts on what questions you'd like to ask David Brin?

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@inkican Damn - wish I had seen this sooner. I loved the Uplift War and the Postman - if you're still in contact, I be curious if he ever thought about combining the two types of novels.

My particular premise based on this idea (and inspired by both of Brin's works) - AI enhanced neurosurgical nanobots escape into wild species. Following their programming for human cybernetic enhancement, they integrate and enhance the language centers of each infected species' brain, equipping them with wifi to allow them to communicate with each other, and giving them access to the internet.

No one notices at first, but it all goes to hell once the rats learn how to code.

The basic plot is your standard apocalyptic polka, with bits of War with the Newts - the potential for bionic beavers to get busy in this scenario cannot be ignored. Our protagonist is tasked with traveling across America a century after the infection started, in landscape full of new intelligent species now just as technically adept as humans once were at the height of their civilization.

Arotrios,
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@inkican Rockin' - I figure I'll never get around to writing out the idea, and certainly not well, so why not toss it back to the guy who inspired it.

Working title: Dr. Doomlittle

ba boom boom tish

And I'm outta here... thanks everyone, and try the fish!

Arotrios,
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Thanks much! That fixed it for the 13thFloor. FYI, looks like @scifi is still blocked, and they're generally pretty cool without spam issues.

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Awesome - thanks!

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