well that’s creepy as fuck
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Notices by winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2020 19:11:33 EDT 
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2020 15:11:20 EST
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is this fucking satire
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2019 05:57:08 EDT
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the world needs more love, and openness, and commitment, and understanding. not less. never, never less. -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2019 17:29:49 EDT
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it really saddens me how my generation of writers has become infected with the sjw mind-virus. at the same time we've been freed from the capitalist constraints of the publishing industry by the existence of the internet, so many have donned a new set of shackles completely unnecessarily, shackles that keep them from writing anything but bland, terminally inoffensive representation porn that says nothing interesting and conveys no new ideas. structurally it's different from the Hays Code only in that it's a grassroots phenomenon rather than one imposed from the top - it neuters storytelling in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reason.
we don't need more stories about mary sues. we don't need more stories whose every word is shaped by the author's terror of Offending an extremely thin-skinned affinity group that demands constant, unthinking worship and screams "oppression" when they are treated as ordinary human beings. the only characters who are allowed to have flaws, allowed to have complex individualities, allowed to be gritty and complicated and *human* are, of course, the Straight White Cisgender Heterosexual Etc Males, who are the only demographic available to serve as villains.
ironically, in requiring the "marginalized"¹ be treated with kid gloves, this unwritten Woke Code denies them their humanity just as much as the one-dimensional racism, homophobia, and misogyny of decades past. to err is human, as the saying goes - failure and growth and change are what separates fleshed-out three-dimensional characters from Mary Sues, from wish-fulfillment self-insertion like My Immortal or Black Panther.
but setting aside the way this style of writing diminishes and dehumanizes those it aims to lift up, what drives me up the fucking wall is the unbearable sameness of it all. nobody seems interested in telling - or hearing - anything but IEEE-standarized heroic narratives. at a time when the acidic rot of capitalism is gnawing rapidly through the foundation of our culture and society, we should be exploring new kinds of existence, new possibilities, new ways of organizing our communities and our lives, new ways of wielding political power against the decadent, degenerate, transcendentally cruel and selfish bourgeoisie.
"social fiction" - whether literary or genre - can help to radicalize simply by planting the seeds of new ideas. whether it's simple propaganda that aims to communicate the basic principles of marxism in an easily digestible way and show what an ideal socialist nation can be without shying away from the difficult parts (in other words, *not* a simplistic solarpunk utopia), or drama that tells a story set amid radically new ideas, fiction can serve to break people's minds out of the prisons of capitalism and individualism, by helping them imagine what for most of their lives has been unimaginable: an alternative.
instead, we get this wretched, simplistic pap - empty, useless inspiration porn that is all functionally identical and serves no useful purpose, not even to entertain.
we can do better than this.
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¹ scare-quoted bc "marginalized" is not a meaningful term in marxist-leninist theory, and in fact the entire idea exists in contradiction to the basic premise and undermines the goal of proletarian internationalism -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2019 18:44:37 EDT
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i love the unix command line bc it has normative verb-object-subject syntax, which is one of the rarest syntax orders in human language -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2019 07:15:52 EDT
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alright, i am exhausted to announce the first alpha release of nkvd.so, my utility to force *nix software to store its config files in the right place even when it really really wants to pollute your homedir with dotfiles. it's a simple C binary with no external dependencies, and it works by wrapping libc and forcibly redirecting open, stat, and unlink calls to the proper location. it works on glibc and may also work on other libc impls so long as you pass the -D_NO_GNU flag, though i can't test this myself. it is highly configurable via environment variables and only 421 lines long with no non-system includes, so you can audit it yourself to make sure it's not doing anything nefarious to your system (always important with LD_PRELOAD hacks). i hope it is useful to someone. merge requests, as always, are welcome.
the code can be found at
https://c.hale.su/lexi/util/artifact/1b974917835e9b5b
i am going to bed
@lachs0r
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2019 15:53:55 EDT
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tfw you are the dumbest person imaginable
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2019 08:56:04 EDT
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i love our moronic cyberpunk future
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 23:22:50 EDT
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i love this. network architecture designed around telco billing models
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2019 03:08:02 EDT
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wow so apparently the only way you can make gpg let you encrypt a message to a key without popping up an obnoxious prompt that can't be scripted around is to go and INTERACTIVELY EDIT THE PUBLIC KEY to SET TRUST TO "ULTIMATE"
mother of shitfucking piss god it's STRANGLING TIME -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2019 04:32:28 EDT
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if you obsess over archiving the personal tweets of minors forever there is something fucking wrong with you -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2019 04:07:55 EDT
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@luxotek YEAH. this is what fucking gets to me. "well why don't you just opt out" because until today i didn't know you dipshits existed, dipshit! that's why!! because there are a million invasive dipshits out there and we could spend the rest of out lives digging for surveillance programs to opt out of and still not find them all, or you could just NOT BE A FUCKING ASSHOLE. holy christ
techbros expect every single person who touches a computer to have the same amount of skill and experience they do and apparently if they don't then they have no rights i guess. it's infuriating -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 18:53:08 EDT
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friends please do not run tor browser on your phone unless a) you're just using it to get around a local web filter or b) you have literally no other option and have a go bag ready -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 18:47:44 EDT
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a lot of people are about to make some bad decisions, i think
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 02:05:27 EDT
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stop gettin all horned up over rich text y'all
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 01:23:55 EDT
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anyway a grateful thanks to the unsung heroes who maintain youtube-dl in the face of the worst user base on earth, for giving me the ability to listen to chillwave mixes and random sabaton tracks in the background without devoting half my processor to yt ads -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 24-Feb-2019 00:53:24 EST
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the fediverse reminds me a lot of how things used to be in the '90s a.k.a. the golden age of computing
back when we all had our own dorky fuckin websites on tripod or angelfire or geocities, all unique, all human
back before the internet was taken over by soulless monolithic corporations bent on forcing spy cameras into their users' every orifice
back before advertisers had built themselves a surveillance empire to dwarf the NSA's
back when we were all genuine and sincere and *ourselves.* even if we were total fuckin dorks
all of a sudden these little grassroots social spaces are popping up, with unique and quirky domains, full of people who aren't such cowards that they spend their lives hiding behind a curtain of ironic detachment. it's like the experimental chaos of the '90s but tempered by experience and improved by new technology
there's a reason IRC and pleroma are the only ways i actually *like* interacting with ppl online -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 23:09:45 EDT
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the whole queer/millennial/sjw/whatever fetish for anarchy, the identification with ~chaos~, is really really exhausting.
it's just. like. *why.* why are we all posturing about being badass punks, about giving-no-shits, positioning ourselves against order, vilifying peace and calm? for a community that knows firsthand how important communal support is, why are we so relentlessly, obsessively, aggressively individualistic?
we seem to have adopted this aesthetic as a movement because it makes us feel cool or something. idk. i don't get it. i wish we didn't feel the need to posture. i wish we could just let ourselves be who we are.
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 13:53:24 EDT
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the only two genders
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