pshaw … I can put a plastic straw through a potato

Closet Land (1991)

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)

Estonia – yes, I’d have a hell of a time with the language, but EU citizenship and politics that don’t sound completely fucked are really appealing

skip the DSA and go straight for IWW

(paraphrased) “The user of the illegal service may fund the activities of criminal organisations, says Executive Director Jaana Pihkala from the copyright organisation TTVK.”

as opposed to paying the even more criminal publishers scalping the rights and screwing the creators

just 99 red balloons left …

“correlation IS causation” says the guy who likes to hang out in charnel pits with his pet hawk

“It doesn’t look like anything to me.”

so now it’s unevenly cooked

there are MANY types of horror and fear – at best, horror games might desensitize you to jump scares … but not a heck of a lot beyond that

so heavy it became an existentialist philosopher

yet

https://emojipedia.org/wilted-flower

• Codeberg
• sourcehut
• radicle
• self hosted

Master Control Program!

the Internet and the Web are fine – Web 2.0 was where things started going wrong – the cancer that begat the parasites of Web 3.0, crypto coin, and LLMs feeding off the twitching remains

that’s what happens when you let corporations bribe lobby your politicians

(change the ‘x’ to ‘xcancel’)