2026-10-26T17:03:14Z https://nostr.now Marc "A pumpkin" Godin https://nostr.now/npub10fxyllzjtlmcxadprnrsxpcpnzkd3knm3p42ctldww8ldp9uqn4sj76gqr https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/372/933/734/758/813/original/20e2b8f3d05a036d.jpg https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/372/933/734/758/813/original/20e2b8f3d05a036d.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0ucw7q3z3l9um083qxlxthaajpxt73qjteq2u2av8gwpen9lzz4szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkcd3efs Here&#39;s the thing I can say to younger queer folks now in case they don&#39;t know this: before the internet they told us there were ZERO others like us. ZERO. They told each and every single one of us that we were wrong and alone and didn&#39;t have stories that deserved to be told in fact had stories that could not be told at any cost.<br/><br/>So when they say there aren&#39;t *enough* of us now to defend our rights, to stand up for basic human rights, when they say we&#39;re too few to consider, too fringe, too little too vulnerable, too outside to consider? They&#39;re lying again, still and always.<br/><br/>They want queer people to feel like we&#39;re alone when we really, really, really fucking ARE and HAVE BEEN and WILL ALWAYS be here and if you feel alone because everyone around you says you are, remember they lie. 2026-10-26T23:24:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2qnea74mnp9hp4jm2r9fsgw69kqn8z6pd3sdznxwwat8f3znpklqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkelphay I&#39;m always afraid the lettuce person is someone different, but whenever I see Liz Truss I think Lettuce Person and just go with it. 2026-10-26T22:17:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0pn67cl9c6f6ycjf7ywzysr79ldqpq8mrw5989t34gsardp9ydagzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkht6yh2 The Martian 2 - This Time He Grows Lettuce 2026-10-26T22:14:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyuldwl2nh8s2yse0d6ewzypynxlpc8qcjud9l6uu2psfenne0fgczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwka60m72 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg4samfeez8phuxth4e3hpsm2gtk4htk5lrl64fcd48k4dn878kwsp9t40c'>nevent1q…t40c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>like as in submitting a form for processing. Handling some of the concerns my straight friends have for me regarding my tone when challenging transphobia feels as captivating and fulfilling as processing paperwork in a dead-end office job from the mid-00s.<br/><br/>So this week it felt like a friend of mine submitted extra work (existing with queermisia everywhere) for me to do in a week when there&#39;s already a surplus of that kind of work. 2026-10-26T18:40:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx7dmgjdl0lelx9gpwm4h0420442kvknvz2n278xtzr8769xxntpqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkc5dwk7 No, you&#39;re right, it&#39;s unfair of me to ask my straight friends to submit their transphobia on a week when JKR *hasn&#39;t* been vocally transphobic, my error, that&#39;s true 2026-10-26T16:47:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdlpcw92ucl5lxcmrhz3hja09hysd62vmrmd2feh866a7suvc6hvszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkxxmjdd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstage0yxp983vaqmks8r6qwyk7yy5cwfkuzva77xd7dyvqv3vectcp8u0ea'>nevent1q…u0ea</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No, yeah, dude, fire your whole staff. I&#39;m 100% certain you have the skills to teach your magic box how to do the work of 20 actual humans. Go for it, you got this, champ! 2026-10-23T10:53:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstage0yxp983vaqmks8r6qwyk7yy5cwfkuzva77xd7dyvqv3vectczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk6vcg6r The good thing about AI advertisements is they make everybody who is in charge of an office look like the least capable of mammals. 2026-10-23T10:52:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqc9h05kv80245u274elw6jtus2fzvkcxfj0kr8yr945uuymsceugzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkfgpesq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgaqhmj0est6d5l4ua92eyartdu685pcghhkj0r5xuwna3xteklmgqds9ys'>nevent1q…s9ys</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My advice to JKR is to donate 99.9% of her wealth to queer charities especially in the nations where her actions have caused measurable, recorded harm, and then she can live on what&#39;s left on her megayacht smoking all the cigars she likes for the rest of her life where no one ever has to hear from her ever again. That&#39;s a better fate than any of us will get, and yet she persists. 2026-10-23T10:50:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgaqhmj0est6d5l4ua92eyartdu685pcghhkj0r5xuwna3xteklmgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkhwpsac In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszes53j9fwjyw6qvglxvu5rr4cla9e273x22lmyzkgf5v9yjlz82qlgfyf3'>nevent1q…fyf3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I tried to read one of her essays this week. I got through 2 paragraphs. If she weren&#39;t being so aggressively harmful towards my queer kin, I&#39;d be worried about her wellbeing. 2026-10-23T10:47:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszes53j9fwjyw6qvglxvu5rr4cla9e273x22lmyzkgf5v9yjlz82qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk9vdgfe JKR is a sad, sad woman and I hope she is exactly as miserable as she deserves to be. 2026-10-23T10:43:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp3ryhpmw5ztxcdgvly9t6ayhqcaewu0ndxmquern6n5kzhp050sszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkrr3w94 Actually, CEOs, ignore me, don&#39;t worry about this rage, I&#39;m gonna meditate. You don&#39;t need to worry about this anger until you actually see us bring out the guillotines, I promise. Which we won&#39;t do. You&#39;re doing fine, I&#39;m sure you can build and program enough robot dogs faster than we could build a guillotine anyway, so. 2026-10-19T19:11:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspe7ml9nht3g8nyu4lax0yfjffrtmp8w8c92zz7tarxlm8xx48paszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkhpfe0g Having never been a fan of misogynist white rap artists I have not been surprised when the misogynist white rap artists work together for fascism. 2026-10-19T17:43:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyshc2uk6pvek7kyaudek88dn7mud4r7tzssphhja3l29lpqqrpwqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkruae3z wait...blowing up data centres stops bots? that sounds cool 2026-10-12T20:32:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx24a52nrc3c87jevxv3j8suf0y6tm0qhvgg74ma4vp5myrunhtjczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk5zv3dk One of the people I&#39;ve been most worried for during covid (pre-existing conditions, etc) has covid at the worst time (fighting aggressive cancer) and her spouse has just posted asking for photos because she&#39;s taken a turn for the worse<br/><br/>So yeah i&#39;m wearing a mask in congregate settings. A hearty FUCK YOU to people who don&#39;t understand why I do.<br/><br/>I want my friends to be here a long time you assholes. 2026-10-09T11:28:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8nkv0xcq35kendkynpj2ae4d87ksyhmzqquy0wt0lp5jy4e6exwgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkvr6542 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswywfl2sll9tmjajj9tjk7v3ltcg5lcmftvdehxew84t23tdqsstsjkru0p'>nevent1q…ru0p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;d venture it&#39;s less personally harmful to have your history of sexual assault become public than it is to be sexually assaulted, if we&#39;re keeping score. 2026-10-05T09:18:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswywfl2sll9tmjajj9tjk7v3ltcg5lcmftvdehxew84t23tdqsstszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkngerl8 I guarantee that having your reputation take a hit and losing a contract or a job for having raped someone is LESS scary and bad to go through than being raped, if anyone ever wants to know who to feel bad for in these kinds of situations 2026-10-05T09:16:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdyg9frsgy8nwv3twcdn2424gv2mvrddpq3kk6lrw7mxzv97a9l9czypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkt0lk4n that goose with a knife in its mouth &#34;return the commons motherfucker...return the commons!&#34; 2026-10-04T00:28:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgynn0ae2xhs79sgp0m6krnz8fka8xtlx2zqwqzej0e5v5vyt57gqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkuwp6rc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxy5d45u6kqxzu5tehdpmv0fjy2q8vpfusw3vdlwdzs8qxf9ut3msq2p2ec'>nevent1q…p2ec</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>true! 2026-10-03T16:20:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs86mt7zw73zfjrl78yq03jeyf8qf7kxwzkfgzdx7cxw2sm6hrfl0qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkkm5vul In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvygm9ulke8fu3t4uw7eshmdecymmknpn9hldpuv2sz8x3lfux25gcrhll6'>nevent1q…hll6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh no, not that at all. I sprung fully formed this morning from a cabbage head and all of my opinions today are new and uninfluenced by the vulgar discourse :P I am naive and pure of any meta discussions :) 2026-10-03T15:40:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs28k7yqzqac2dc967le3702j683m4e0naaxz0kak8p0muu0axg5wqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwksngpdl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst50vdfaw40mlv77xwpjy64gfq69uxcnsykmajurupxmj74wp8aws8aa5lv'>nevent1q…a5lv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>have you never played a game of pick-up softball or thrown a party for a friend? Have you never organized an event with peers? Are all of your decisions REALLY mediated through the lens of a hierarchy? Is everything you do because someone ordered you to, and is everything people do for you because you ordered THEM to?<br/><br/>It&#39;s so strange. 2026-10-03T15:35:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst50vdfaw40mlv77xwpjy64gfq69uxcnsykmajurupxmj74wp8awszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkn2k4mf As soon as someone wants to criticize anarchism they instantly lose all memory of every time humans have cooperated willingly and spontaneously through all recorded and pre-history, which is fascinating. 2026-10-03T15:34:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy8pfgptkv0h774egsuk7pm0apz0za09anuqcr08z5fqq39kjedaszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk2m7s7v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszlzdecwksd6u05d2y5hl5vmmkykmguuuczkqjl2qjwqkq5n6ahegdcefaf'>nevent1q…efaf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you DO know a lot of anarchists and still believe anarchism is &#34;everyone for themself&#34; then I am led to consider that you don&#39;t listen to your anarchist friends very well, or don&#39;t care very much about what they have to say. 2026-10-03T15:31:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszlzdecwksd6u05d2y5hl5vmmkykmguuuczkqjl2qjwqkq5n6ahegzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkj8029x Goodness gracious me.<br/><br/>So, if you say something that is a smear and lie about anarchism and I say &#34;gosh you must not know many anarchists&#34; that is me doing a *generous* reading of your ignorance. A more hostile reading would to say you&#39;re willfully and intentionally spreading anti-anarchist propaganda in order to further a fascist agenda, which obvious is a terrible assumption to make. So I err on the side of you just not knowing many anarchists. 2026-10-03T15:30:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9zx8r8us8s0y65gspss7hjq288urvcz620l0clf7uq346fpaghdgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkgaswwf I wonder how many times the magic boxes said the solution to world poverty was to take away all the billionaires&#39; money and the billionaires who own the magic boxes looked at each other and said &#34;that can&#39;t be right, this magic box has gone rogue&#34; and pressed reset. 2026-10-02T14:08:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyuz30zagk2rfgx07xm0x9s7zyv774yxvrk2whzetc95qawmzpy3gzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkdjfmw5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvkyksn44jfdaywqle48253gkgq8jgwjf8gwelhrzuytpckc54q2qyu6l0a'>nevent1q…6l0a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ll know this wave of fascism is over when I see health care workers acknowledge airborne pathogens, y&#39;know? 2026-09-27T18:16:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvkyksn44jfdaywqle48253gkgq8jgwjf8gwelhrzuytpckc54q2qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkspltvl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvx5nsf2f650zy2qv4kd4tzt89sfw0w8xj9yv0h52t6l9ka9vypgqx0xvae'>nevent1q…xvae</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can we get R value under 1? YES<br/><br/>Will we? Sadly the rich people prefer we didn&#39;t. 2026-09-27T18:16:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvx5nsf2f650zy2qv4kd4tzt89sfw0w8xj9yv0h52t6l9ka9vypgqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkejgmye Folks: the idea that covid was inevitable or that we were or are &#34;stuck with it&#34; is a psyop. It&#39;s one of the biggest in history and my hope is the future thinks of us as a very unserious generation. 2026-09-27T18:15:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfhm6msytesapv6kat37fzpqfqpdcljsrfgnxy5gyewv7yzedy3xszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk89tfwm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfeqeuhw9z5xpegs3fy9sghh23sv49px60ftdhy437zv0hyuu0dyce2snzr'>nevent1q…snzr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s probably part of the reason I hate it so much, that because of the scraping and the aggressive way its been deployed, we&#39;re all forced to &#34;participate&#34; in its development. We&#39;re the focus group and I hate it. 2026-09-26T09:32:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfeqeuhw9z5xpegs3fy9sghh23sv49px60ftdhy437zv0hyuu0dyczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkgu4s2t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp5dsuuun7dj6vzptwfj8545x6knkfd36g8xayj3e36jt4z69r2hqh4dhaw'>nevent1q…dhaw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>not directly but as a side-effect. Like natural selection. People intentionally removing obvious AI from their feeds introduces a selection pressure against obvious AI, is how my theory goes, giving covert AI a selection advantage.<br/><br/>But this is one of those things you can&#39;t really do anything about: it&#39;s better to be principled about AI and risk entering a sort of &#34;arms race&#34; than to capitulate instantly and give humanity over to the thinking-machines without a fight.<br/><br/>My real hope is that AI is so resource-intensive to maintain that when the global food system collapses we won&#39;t be using AI for youtube videos anymore. 2026-09-26T08:59:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspy8p3vuwds404cfqjdrc7hmydqr0rr9hjgtcqwmqvh3pd0qpe7wgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkcu9wfj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgc334luvvzz6arf70gstr84ruwyrdw27cwrxu4dqsud272a6ecrq8syla6'>nevent1q…yla6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Trying to be principled on AI has the side-effect of training AI to better fool me, and that sucks. 2026-09-26T08:53:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgc334luvvzz6arf70gstr84ruwyrdw27cwrxu4dqsud272a6ecrqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk04ws8f It sucks that if a creator admits to using AI (and then tries to justify its use) I&#39;ll stop following them but I know there are creators not admitting to using it and I might never know. I&#39;ve made a media filter for myself that blocks honest AI users but allows dishonest ones. 2026-09-26T08:52:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs97yt7d2u5n5kwny75hrevc7jc6qu5wtesq8vhyrzc48yatm9fkhgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk0ssagj I wish all anti-maskers a very terrible day! 2026-09-25T08:35:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs82hrwcru3kzk29t37lr232yt7r9fmcd33v8xmxxhy7hlfs35wvxgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk80uqr4 Tatiana is an example of a decent Canadian, imo.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjrx0vt1lw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjrx0vt1lw</a> 2026-09-22T12:14:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr70zd90kpl02csy3gtdhvj8dk4myg2mcce3swt27q9c3jew372eszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkckp0ck requiring id to get online when governments are moving more and more to needing to be online to get id seems odd. 2026-09-21T09:55:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz8ptk5mq96js837ef89zhcmrmjl40uedrqtj7yq69a9uwvp05q7gzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkq7lzd5 It&#39;s normal to be passively worried about 20+ different things of varying importance ALL THE TIME, right? 2026-09-19T08:37:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqtwnclrw4uasadpjtzqc57686whrkl6ezket7phnffktux9rgm3szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk2f6e3e gosh all these bridge builders failing to build bridges between genocidaires and their victims all of a sudden 2026-09-17T13:08:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8luhzc8lcjhq9wlw95hdjsgwk8re5zf0xqxsgssq9qyl7zellyaczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkx09z99 If you post on your own page or blog or whatever about how Macklemore is an antisemite for what he did in 2014 (I agree, it reads antisemitic to me), and if you&#39;ve got receipts of a pattern, I&#39;ll read it thoughtfully, but I&#39;m not the person to debate it with on my posts, sorry. 2026-09-16T16:21:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9ywnf0heeshd5cu8paqg929a4gmly6n62q3key6nsnra2er5lfxgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk3ke5nl Two things:<br/><br/>a) I *might* be getting a cold (or it&#39;s season-change-o&#39;clock, whatever)<br/>b) all my workout on Monday the bros were welcoming each other back after being sick for a long, long time. none of the bros wear masks. I wonder who cares about health more in the gym, bros?<br/><br/>They might not be related but also, fucking hell if they are.<br/><br/>I hope it&#39;s just season-change o&#39;clock, but I&#39;m gonna put off the gym today (I do wear a mask* at the gym, but that&#39;s so I don&#39;t spread something *before* I know I might be contagious, unfortunately now I know I might be contagious). I&#39;ve been to the gym every day (except planned rest-days) since May, and I&#39;m stocked up on soup, and it is back-to-school time for the kiddoes which means all the unmasked parents are oozing ick anyway, so this is my best option.<br/><br/>Luckily I&#39;m getting back into writing and my abandoned knitting projects, as the weather&#39;s turned cooler, are whispering to me from their corner.... <br/><br/>*not a good mask, but a mask 2026-09-16T10:28:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrtyuz9uwnv0xtt3vn2c3vvupe8urnfuwcc3dcu5594sxcxgkfq9qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk39xtsf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstpd0rp7x08gwlc8q8uffcp5tly60prg5t7pdxg9deghxs3dr9twcsxvpdn'>nevent1q…vpdn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh don&#39;t do that i heard if you saw him in half you end up with two of him 2026-09-15T21:25:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8khp86836s4k7uyuq4qxq47xxupvvypwc7zjvzsfsy5srwdsg50szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkl82ap4 It&#39;s medium frustrating the way some are reacting to the &#34;AI Apocalypse&#34; threat when they have yet to react to the climate change ecosystem collapse threat. 2026-09-14T10:11:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfnnffmhs3fvun2hwr0hw9pu4qg0mehwvj2akdpeu3lcp2j0wpuegzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk5lnxpq Half my lifetime ago the world changed for the worse and we&#39;re still dealing with the ramifications.<br/><br/> But the anti-war folks, the anti-racism folks, the anti-capitalist folks have been correct pretty much the whole time. 2026-09-11T16:31:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8el2jtve8zjplanaj4325cd57uyrfpxmcsf95m4jzu9cxwcy2mxczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkf3ayem Is it Mackle more or Mack lemore? I&#39;ve heard people do both and dunno if there&#39;s a distinction and/or if its just a difference in how different people pronounce it? Does mack lecare? 2026-09-10T18:35:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyhxhzfxx4gr6990rt4k0wnmzkn56l6cxj3sycf2x6qg9yjk20l3szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkmqqvp6 Nothing makes me feel more like a real, functioning adult* like using all of the fresh vegetables I bought without letting any of them go bad.<br/><br/>*which is a lie, btw, no one is a functioning adult have you looked around? don&#39;t feel bad if you don&#39;t use all your vegetables; it&#39;s basically impossible. I wouldn&#39;t even mention it happened if it had happened ever to me before at all, it hasn&#39;t. 2026-09-03T22:39:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs834dp5l6r7nvg8svz4k6zxtvv73w6vy63la82w6ez3vdcs5f9ddszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkjtumnp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfqrugmjdm7xy2dqce0tfdk0krpmytxw82503vhyqn8599wxerpkservyqg'>nevent1q…vyqg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i hope i don&#39;t encounter the news that inspired this post 2026-09-01T11:22:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvmgr90dxf7z3y5nnuqm0mdakazex736gxx95gmq2vwn60epvyh8qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkkgfz3e FOLKS! I almost forgot! In my travels I saw a mushroom and guess what? I took a picture of it for mastodon!! It seemed like a big mushroom and it was in a cemetery so you know this mushroom has kissed ghosts. Look! Look at this mushroom as big as my hand!<br/><br/>A few weeks ago I said mastodon was changing me because sometimes I saw mushrooms and wanted to take a picture, well now I have taken a picture. I am changed. Mastodon has changed me.<br/> <img src="https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/090/809/412/986/050/original/d8cc60fd6cd1fd60.jpg"> <br/> 2026-08-13T23:34:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspc9j9se9lztwhhzr5fu50fe397zpgzy7nml5tgjjy2gasshrja6szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkr2w2xz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2wh8teg6a7drpyqwtcrhprt8r0vyy803zgglmsdc3usg3uegyrfcey0250'>nevent1q…0250</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You go back far enough and if you aren&#39;t a rich asshole your ancestors would want you to hate the cops. 2026-08-11T19:42:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2wh8teg6a7drpyqwtcrhprt8r0vyy803zgglmsdc3usg3uegyrfczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkt9qlxc The thing about ACAB is it&#39;s actually not a phase, it&#39;s as old as cops themselves. 2026-08-11T19:41:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdju5mrezkf4rl57huug2duypch9wmcr7as93v96plzlfl7lph69szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk3uztf0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdk6jkcmw5g37ul6aesfhyahlxjuuc95zpvz5vhecw7uc026lkvc9gzfl7'>nevent1q…zfl7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>walking sticks: *exist*<br/><br/>TERF taking a breather from attacking trans people: Is this the collapse of civilization? 2026-08-07T15:51:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspdk6jkcmw5g37ul6aesfhyahlxjuuc95zpvz5vhecw7uc026lkvczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkuqykgs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0ueax2fx64d8lr8wvgudf6gv3jpx3fv53eaputk2k85an7h6xyuqwfm4vd'>nevent1q…m4vd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe canes are fucking cool. 2026-08-07T15:50:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0ueax2fx64d8lr8wvgudf6gv3jpx3fv53eaputk2k85an7h6xyuqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkrs9fw6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94s7k6yya884zxx6nqfhc9f7czsrzdj24uzth3lc4t6yx406esysndgzl9'>nevent1q…gzl9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You see a person using a cane and you write an op-ed questioning strangers&#39; motives in using canes? Get over yourself. 2026-08-07T15:49:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs94s7k6yya884zxx6nqfhc9f7czsrzdj24uzth3lc4t6yx406esyszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwktaf7du Literally no one needs to have an opinion on other peoples&#39; mobility aids. 2026-08-07T15:48:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2lpa9y52uf99dekzlmsjhflsxefelhxykjaj69ypxjpnzsh9yvqszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkf29gkw I have gymmed at 100% for July. Truly this almost never happens.<br/> <img src="https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/015/173/192/203/152/original/506ba022b54dfac5.jpg"> <br/> 2026-07-31T14:58:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs98m0tl2qp0x9shz9h2mlre570vvjq0yz593wf38shrln28fzdjjgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkg6jenn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrg5a9xw30mn3kyn83czqejt4ekuwe9vmsvcq3kz5w5cf2gz502asre2hnz'>nevent1q…2hnz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like &#34;don&#39;t hate Lindsay Graham, hate 400 million americans&#34; is a hell of a take. 2026-07-13T09:55:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrg5a9xw30mn3kyn83czqejt4ekuwe9vmsvcq3kz5w5cf2gz502aszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkkwsvzt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9cw98rfy5qh4fsvn42qxvdmudr6ahv6jljvxau4zrsx28ftug83ck3u4lw'>nevent1q…u4lw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s a terrible take to go out of your way to tell a queer person who many times in my life, even in Canada, had to suffer the consequences of powerful peoples&#39; decisions whether or not I deserved it. 2026-07-13T09:55:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs96c6dmfst87my9yphag2825thpqswe805e0thrrdjgp6etl5rfxqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk42evms Considering the number of hearts broken by legislated homophobia and bigotry, I&#39;m fine with how Lindsey Graham died. 2026-07-13T09:13:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspjfm32kvza0flsy8cnc5pa3ztle7gp42n659lqygxcn4h25ge0qczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkglngp5 Hey, so, I know I&#39;ve said I won&#39;t boost if you don&#39;t have alt text, I should also clarify I won&#39;t boost if your alt text gives no usable information whatsoever.<br/><br/>Writing &#34;screenshot&#34; or &#34;picture&#34; in the alt text for a screenshot or picture is, like, extra steps for yourself for no reason.<br/><br/>You don&#39;t have to be fancy for alt text but at least *try* to imagine what information &#34;screenshot&#34; communicates to a visually impaired person. 2026-07-08T11:01:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxewly2qt9e0d0d23yznfqs3cnmz84nmn6ngvlda7qahgydxldraczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkqvdp8h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz5gzx80tsz7x95lzdf6rpata2kdpll50rpt8nupjaqlmv34yk48s8jszxt'>nevent1q…szxt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(I&#39;ve had a few moments where it *seemed* like devices were spying on me, but I wasn&#39;t watching for it so it coulda just been my gooey human brain doing goo things. If indeed my devices are spying I might do a little bit more variation in my routine and practice doing important things and having important conversations without it). 2026-07-08T09:05:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz5gzx80tsz7x95lzdf6rpata2kdpll50rpt8nupjaqlmv34yk48szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkmq6xgw I&#39;m running an experiment: I&#39;m gonna spend a few days talking about stuff I never talk about around my phone to see if there&#39;s a change in the ads I see.<br/><br/>I live alone, so any phone listening to me has a pretty boring time, let&#39;s liven it up!<br/><br/>This week&#39;s sneaky word is: &#34;Lawnmower&#34;. I&#39;m saying things like &#34;Oh, the grass is getting long, I should get a lawn mower&#34; to no one in particular.<br/><br/>Will I see an unbidden lawnmower ad on my socials this week before I get bored with the shtick? 2026-07-08T09:02:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv2m6rj4eye8aj92hhz94p4j2kc8y77k466wz9rlt7gtl8v34hduczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkyrct6v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxjgkdt2rfqk2thspc9acv57jcjn7ktcvc92lp44x6f2aryzsut5qqy2gl3'>nevent1q…2gl3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(I&#39;ve been a not-enjoyer of Seinfeld for, like, 30 years? I thought his show was too mean-spirited for me) 2026-06-26T20:23:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxjgkdt2rfqk2thspc9acv57jcjn7ktcvc92lp44x6f2aryzsut5qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkum4x02 Oh good, if we got rid of billionaires we&#39;d lose Jerry Seinfeld in the bunch. 2026-06-26T20:22:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0ffp0dr7f3etpg7ad9ncstc6aulztwwyz7s0c0dsvqcxhj6x6tjgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwks6d25c Thanks, mastodon, for being so weird and funny and caring and grief-filled and love-filled and wonderful. 2026-06-26T15:03:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs24534rsuaawaqneaa3c3ch8f8lry8aejenntmtfw3d77g0jlyhmczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkq2jg5h email to my member of parliament about fossil fuels because why not.<br/><br/>Dear MP Kelloway,<br/><br/>I&#39;m writing to you on this unseasonably cool late-June morning with 2 things on my mind, those being the heat wave Europe is currently experiencing and Mark Carney&#39;s murderous drive to embed us even more deeply into the fossil fuel industry.<br/><br/>We share this planet, and the deaths in France - including the dozens of drownings of people seeking any relief from the heat - are in part because of Canada&#39;s fossil fuels.<br/><br/>I want to emphasize this: every tax dollar we give to oil companies helps to murder people through climate change. While you in our government and the media are unable to say it clearly, the science is clear.<br/><br/>Let alone the issues arising from pipelines on unceded Indigenous land, the local damaging environmental consequences of fossil fuel exploitation, and the economic consequences of oil dependency in a climate crisis, the decisions of our government to subsidize and encourage fossil fuel expansion is unspeakably evil.<br/><br/>We in the public will remember who destroyed the planet. <br/><br/>Regard,<br/><br/>Marc A. Godin 2026-06-26T12:29:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxvdlmx9vj0h9pa2uvr25jwgfy4xkez0wwwae4yuwkffv6hxlnfdszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkh7es8u Just boosted about it, but yeah, for folks who don&#39;t have hot summers usually: cars are deathtraps for pets and children when it&#39;s hot. Even a few minutes in the greenhouse of a car can cause harm or death.<br/><br/>In the old days the advice was to just crack open a window but honestly I think it&#39;s best to just not leave your kids and pets in the car at all.<br/><br/>I mean, what would actually be best would be a global workers&#39; movement to shut down these ghouls and their carbon-spewing death factories, but until then, be careful with cars and hot weather! 2026-06-26T09:24:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfge0k9q4u8ffx8qvs2ql630zz2vgg8me7wmju2l64gq4p6r5rdxgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk2hhj5q The whole billionaire bunker thing is so fucking cowardly I can&#39;t even handle it whenever I think of it. 2026-06-25T22:44:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrwugxhg8cfsdqqar49we6dp84rc862fzz35hr53tn394sasrmj9czypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk7ec5u0 I get my pension payment tomorrow and I have had no money for approximately forever so today my brain has been in chaos mode waiting for tomorrow when I can afford to do anything.<br/><br/>Through effort and discipline I&#39;ve managed to save enough ingredients to make poutine for supper tonight as a treat for doing my best at budgeting.<br/><br/>Tomorrow or saturday I&#39;m gonna let myself make one medium-inappropriate purchase to really stick it to end-of-july-Marc, who knows what he did to deserve this. 2026-06-25T19:03:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsww5crhr4vma2442kxagypnendps9r5zh2kzgzhyz2wv946tpfm7szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk8cumgv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswpxazantkpfvepf3pkmqsjlg2ta3fksjlyv3mpg4v62tezp8uysgd3t4lj'>nevent1q…t4lj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Okay! Finished it! Lovely little spooky film. <br/><br/>I really, really liked the final scenes. It is hard to evoke supernatural awe in fiction, but for me this film succeeds. 2026-06-24T10:58:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswpxazantkpfvepf3pkmqsjlg2ta3fksjlyv3mpg4v62tezp8uysgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkfkj5x3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp0wjeg0h5ks25kfwcf9hy007ra32unn4kfu4qf6lcnzlspzgnntqguh5u8'>nevent1q…h5u8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(Okay, gonna go back and try to finish this movie again so I can find out what horrible comeuppance our characters will face for their hubris) 2026-06-24T10:16:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp0wjeg0h5ks25kfwcf9hy007ra32unn4kfu4qf6lcnzlspzgnntqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkqa849e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdt225th0g46falmvx35z86k8n55nqhdr9ngfsqvx8eaw7sg6hcwgh8fgq7'>nevent1q…fgq7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(if the violence gets &#34;cartoony&#34; I don&#39;t have the same reaction, but in a slow moving, thoughtfully paced film like this, the injury is too visceral and I&#39;m too invested in the characters to be completely insensate to it. My brain pulls up half-remembered first-aid classes from when I was 12 just in case the characters in the movie want my help. I know how to make a donut bandage!) 2026-06-24T10:14:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdt225th0g46falmvx35z86k8n55nqhdr9ngfsqvx8eaw7sg6hcwgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk63vjp7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswr6cw05ggjeut5vazad6ydhj6jj476z3zyen2kw6h3r7n42z7agg7c5a9m'>nevent1q…5a9m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(I get a physical reaction sometimes to seeing someone else get injured. Sort of a buzzy-shocky feeling in my spine and flesh. I thought this was normal until I read Parable of the Sower where the protagonist has a disabillity called &#34;hyper-empathy&#34; where she has basically a more extreme version - seeing someone get knocked out can knock her out, seeing someone get shot makes her feel like she&#39;s been shot - and now I sometimes wonder if this is my own hyper-sensitivity or if others also feel a physical response when seeing someone *else* be harmed? Who knows. Anyway, today, in this very specific case, it&#39;s extremely annoying because I can only watch like 20 seconds of this movie before I have to stop and look away and think about something else. Ack! Oh well, it&#39;s fine, I&#39;m fine, we&#39;re having fun.) 2026-06-24T10:12:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswr6cw05ggjeut5vazad6ydhj6jj476z3zyen2kw6h3r7n42z7aggzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk9j8jmd Trying to get back into a movie I stopped watching last night but I stopped at a scene where a character had a gruesome injury and my brain is preventing me from getting back into the movie because I get too much squick from the injury, but it&#39;s a good movie! I wanna know how it ends!<br/><br/>(the film is &#34;A Dark Song&#34;, about a magic ritual, and I don&#39;t think it will end well because the other protagonist keeps lying about her motivations and I feel like lying to a spellcaster about your motivations before casting a months-long ritual to summon angels and demons is a bad idea) 2026-06-24T10:07:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdy3v4cvajw8r07vfh92hd7r7jk2qftxc0esyy0f7dsqhvmk9z4egzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkrx3rwa Also, Lefty the crow has been by THREE times today. Just a minute ago ze stayed and ate 2 peanuts on the roof with me making small-talk the whole time (small talk with crows is easy because they don&#39;t respond much and aren&#39;t demanding I say much, either).<br/><br/>I think we are at the point of some measure of &#34;friendliness&#34;, I think Lefty recognizes me as definitely not menacing and maybe even worth spending time with.<br/><br/>Making a crow friend wasn&#39;t something I expected to do when I moved here, but I&#39;m glad it happened. 2026-06-09T20:19:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs96zh6ny9vatccdzm5cha26x5qs9n96vfqs2mvh785sup5t28l6yqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkv4pz6v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfkkgykgtk9sh8lzmj4qe9whdqw7udvr7nkacywt547g8nfqdflycjttqsp'>nevent1q…tqsp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The US government is coercing all of its agencies and any agency that wants government funding to swear allegiance to their fascist gender ideology, like factually, in reality.<br/><br/>But yeah being asked to respect someone&#39;s pronouns was the problem. 2026-06-09T15:33:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfkkgykgtk9sh8lzmj4qe9whdqw7udvr7nkacywt547g8nfqdflyczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk529e5q BTW notice it&#39;s the *fascists* who are forcing everyone to accept their definition of gender - and using law and power to do it. Where you free speech activists at? 2026-06-09T15:32:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs09vp5nlr2kwjqfup6p6p3e0fv9hptfv83n6hwdnupqwwx2mv3mrszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkk9pq8v The thing about asking folks with nazi tattoos to defend their friend who got a nazi tattoo is now we have two guys with nazi tattoos. How does this help. The objective is to decrease the number of guys with nazi tattoos. 2026-06-06T21:10:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstx3x0na84nrgy9yagsrvjyq8zd9t044tvc4kmkwjaeh6agf596yczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkp94mxl If a nation-state wants there to be less hostility toward it&#39;s existence, stopping the genocide and apartheid systems it&#39;s running would be a good start. 2026-05-27T15:22:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstduudygew0ev3cjcmdj3hrwr8ewxqmg4jmsqg0tgrwv79sf3av8qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk9mlv5s Astoundingly the laundry is done. 2026-05-21T13:21:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs03u3g8fn8t578hxpe6wj4hz2yr7qtkhep07gry4ru3wgpmmgcs6szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkn29sql Please, please, please don&#39;t use AI to edit your story. We need YOUR story, not *every previous story blended together with your name at the top*. 2026-05-20T10:44:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswewq4jjuycwrm4lqgnw2s53t99pvnmn9739ww6pv68wzelda8fdgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk58ys50 Ahhh watching a video about the Dawkins AI thing and a little thing that bothers me is the AI saying human consciousness is a point that travels through time, and we don&#39;t know that. We don&#39;t actually know that. My consciousness isn&#39;t temporally linear: I grab impressions from different things simultaneously, I remember my past and imagine a future, my present is absolutely crammed full of Time, *I* haven&#39;t experienced my consciousness simply as a point travelling linearly through time. I&#39;ve gotten drunk and stoned before, for example.<br/><br/>My consciousness, my awareness of myself, my awareness of time and my surroundings is in flux and is contradictory and is simultaneous AND linear.<br/><br/>I kinda imagine, since Dawkins has written legible books, that he doesn&#39;t experience his own consciousness as a strictly linear point always going from &#34;before&#34; to &#34;after&#34;.<br/><br/>Come on, man. 2026-05-08T16:49:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxryqs6tq6hxcfev8p79rmjel2p98fulz9d4wgt9mke64rrqf7r0qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwken0wun Neat! My peanut window is across the parking lot from a Downy Woodpecker&#39;s burrow/nest! They&#39;ve made a little hole in the trunk of a birch tree across the way and I can watch the teeny puff-ball go in and out (watched it come out to take a poop). Anyway, wow! It&#39;s like that show where they take you to celebrity houses, except for birds and I&#39;m into it. 2026-05-08T10:43:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs07hga2xkc3pgfq6yt3tjm095lcepf6uue9xp52symlxtr03tm42szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwknq0z74 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8q9fzlv4945talxcmcyxmlkac2p3cfsnj2d9vjwu354k42s3elshgevjh'>nevent1q…evjh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is why, btw, my brain literally explodes and makes a mess over everything if I ask someone what time they wanna do something and they say &#34;whenever&#34;. 2026-05-06T10:49:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst8q9fzlv4945talxcmcyxmlkac2p3cfsnj2d9vjwu354k42s3elszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkp7cu5q Basically being on time for me involves constructing an elaborate series of mental gymnastics to occupy me between now and the thing I have to be on time for so, like a marble in a rube-goldberg machine, I roll into my little pocket to start the lever as if it was inevitable when really I just started the sequence running last week. 2026-05-06T10:47:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstq37uwqa2ksknkew8spvcm5lm6w7g3g7wqgcngytqlks56st8r4gzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkghv2zm Something I wanna articulate is how precious it is that no one knows everything, and how we depend so much on each other knowing different things to complete our picture of the world. To understand the world we have to engage with it, we have to communicate with other people, we have to be taught by them.<br/><br/>I dunno, I think it&#39;s neat that we all have our own little areas of expertise that no one else in the universe has, and we all have these huge spaces of ignorance or obliviousness, and we have to talk to each other, work with each other, to figure it all out and make sense of it. 2026-04-29T08:54:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspvdel5wy9z2wurkgh6zs3s694v75xwup2hvn3hm8vmwcp03pnaxczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk9d62vd Good morning. Related to scientists, I would hope doctors are doing what they can and are preparing to break the law. I&#39;m sure ethical doctors in the states have been breaking the law for decades while the government holds back public health care, but now the doctors who follow the rules ought to be breaking the law to honour their medical oaths.<br/><br/>Basically, if you&#39;re a professional in a fascist country, you&#39;ve gotta break the law if you don&#39;t wanna be a fascist. 2026-04-29T08:48:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2lv6cc8a88hml0a8q7rnsmhdys5d4n8znjh8f3ck9f9cy7nqg45gzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkk4rpyn If a fascist government fired the entire staff of, like, a science organization, could that staff all just, like, meet at someone&#39;s house for a few months and keep doing their best together as a team collectively doing science? 2026-04-26T09:51:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz2lqk7dhxc573ttu9wffzdvc5d68yx2jp7ytg3a4n5pqxyr73t6szypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk53v6c7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqfq4n5f34d3ajc2v8rynmp6t6x4aslf0jxamj0umnuvfm4937aesr5nxxp'>nevent1q…nxxp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Would you rather meet a dragon in the woods or a strange knigh-?&#34;<br/>&#34;Dragon.&#34; 2026-04-23T13:46:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0cpxuyl0zap6zt63ysvlvar6lgu7thafumakgdardket3hcrpkjgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk20wnkc &#34;The billionaires simply have so much money because that reflects the value they&#39;ve given to society&#34; is the worst take a person could possibly have and still use sentences. 2026-04-19T14:46:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfklusarnusjxt7u752na40d74rv4gp3w5mx6e38j2y6zn08xlm4qzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkj69yes So, fuck 300 years of &#34;naturalists&#34; who believed nature is always red in tooth and claw or whatever, because I just saw a crow tell a blue jay to get a peanut for him and the jay did just that.<br/><br/>I&#39;m out tossing peanuts to the jays, and there are some new-ish crows around who aren&#39;t quite comfortable with me, though one did stay on the roof a second or two longer than usual. But one crow clearly isn&#39;t ready for that.<br/><br/>The jays are a lot more brave, and I&#39;ve sometimes worried they&#39;re hogging all the peanuts and the crows might stop coming. But here is the sequence of events:<br/><br/>1) I hear a crow cawing from the roof overhead of me, very close.<br/><br/>2) I toss a couple of peanuts and land them at the edge of the roof without them rolling off.<br/><br/>3) Jay comes, as usual, grabs the peanut but flies to the fence across the parking lot and leaves the peanut there where the crow sweeps down from on high to get hir nut.<br/><br/>100% this was intentional cooperation. The jay didn&#39;t drop the peanut by accident: after watching them for 6 months I know how they handle things with their beaks and errors do happen but rarely, and unless placed just right on the top of the fence, a peanut would bounce or roll off if dropped.<br/><br/>Anyway, that was kinda neat to see. Well done, all involved. 2026-04-19T10:21:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs96wezz6gxc7vrz3y88t87epru23ep9sceetlmgwrq7mwfd7s7phczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk62644z The correct response to a reduction in oil supply during a climate crisis would be to encourage people to use less oil and build out solar/wind/renewable energy infrastructure, not make it easier for people to keep consuming the oil at the cost of life-saving social programs. IMO. 2026-04-15T11:05:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9zjx52qatfstw5pjxn604d3u9crhm0avuwlgnferjj9rxa2zjdpgzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkckdktf All my homies can say antifa and not get banned. 2026-04-14T23:25:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgsuve6nmg4xa969t6pxhk5f88j3ex350lzh25wq7uw987t36eu4czypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkv7xul5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstt97w9pkaavpg6e2gdq7y9htu73ua8lzp4c2twkv5e0kqxdqtetctpn42p'>nevent1q…n42p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Quite lovely, I was unfamiliar, thank you. &lt;3 2026-04-12T15:30:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvzsfadns29ps4w8rnshhwjfjx2hp8h47f2k23s7gjn9twvenlkagzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkd8ql98 One of my favourite things about being human is you can see a person who appears completely unremarkable, but then you get to know them and they are an entire universe unto themselves. <br/><br/>I think this is neat to know. 2026-04-12T09:25:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv8yr7e89q9yg8lxtu96ymxqq8cfk6yjvl8al33c07jum7mwutqugzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkx7f0dy I wanna briefly touch on something from yesterday, just about the way we venerate &#34;The Enlightenment&#34; as an entirely good thing that &#34;happened&#34; and we should all be grateful for it.<br/><br/>I wanna first off say I&#39;m not a historian or scientist, just a guy who reads and has opinions. History especially has lots of wiggle room for interpretation, so grain of salt.<br/><br/>The first thing you gotta understand is the Enlightenment couldn&#39;t have happened without the age of exploration. The drive to open up new lands for exploitation was a major motivating factor in technological development: both clocks and telescopes/astronomy had huge applications to navigation and many governments funded advancement in fields that brought in prestige and advantage over competitors. If I recall correctly there were cash prizes for inventors to make an accurate clock that worked on ships, that made a telescope more powerful than the telescopes in Italy or whatever.<br/><br/>The other thing that happened in the age of exploration was Europe was exposed to the World: food crops from the Americas and the far east *transformed* agriculture in Europe, and the non-hierarchical structures of many Indigenous governances influenced thought in Europe - it&#39;s impossible to overstate how much North and South American social organization influenced the structures we have today.<br/><br/>And, I want to just briefly mention that every culture has a &#34;scientific method&#34; - all humans ask questions, design experiments, observe results, and adjust their knowledge base accordingly to ask new questions. The foods of the Americas weren&#39;t &#34;stumbled on&#34;: we know they are the result of generations of intentional selective breeding. Democracy as practiced by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (upon which some of the US&#39;s democracy is built) was developed *intentionally*.<br/><br/>The cultural exchanges we often think of as Europe&#39;s age of exploration were NEVER one-sided, the knowledge and expertise traveled both ways.<br/><br/>And, finally, let&#39;s talk about the wealth transfer. How Europe&#39;s &#34;Age of Enlightenment&#34; was built on the gold, silver, animal pelts, natural and cultural resources stolen from a whole world. While Europe&#39;s nations were getting rich, the rest of the world was battling invaders who lied and stole. It wasn&#39;t poor people doing science in the Enlightenment, it was the class of people who directly benefited from the exploitation of people and lands far away.<br/><br/>So, it&#39;s a fraught thing to glorify the Enlightenment without contextualizing it.<br/><br/>That&#39;s all. Make sure you take your grain of salt. 2026-04-12T09:10:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswwwqrrtvv3trf2ynp2zwqzecrcnvjn94f03u4evnqw6hm98vx0ugzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkguf29u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0ed5fsz0rpfdyuk8tawkllr2dxnas6x70rmp3730d6vegv6ehhagyunzl3'>nevent1q…nzl3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh, last thing, specifically genocide and colonialism ARE products of the enlightenment. The machinery of concentration camps, citizenship measures, borders, and so on are all innovations that can only arise the way they have in a rational society. They&#39;re enlightenment expressions of how to colonize people. Harsha Walia&#39;s &#34;Border &amp; Rule&#34; is dense but goes into this, and also Andrea Pitzer talks about this kind of thing to. 2026-04-11T14:23:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsydgglgrg6qt0sw9n3h6uc0kqcwutee6g4m4c7c9ugcjcav5hwq8czypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkvk69r4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxwvuqa64zk5n7qqdm4ty5vxyr4uj8ttyllqf0l778e8wewg5t4dqxgvaed'>nevent1q…vaed</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For 500 years Indigenous people have been told they don&#39;t use the land correctly. Religious people tell them they worship the wrong god, and secular people tell them they don&#39;t have agriculture or engineering. 2026-04-11T14:16:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxwvuqa64zk5n7qqdm4ty5vxyr4uj8ttyllqf0l778e8wewg5t4dqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwklcy7wh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0ed5fsz0rpfdyuk8tawkllr2dxnas6x70rmp3730d6vegv6ehhagyunzl3'>nevent1q…nzl3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wanna echo Skuppr here, you have some reading to catch up on. The &#34;Enlightenment&#34; was many things and one of those things was an engine for enclosure of the commons at home and extraction and colonialism abroad.<br/><br/>A large justification for residential schools, dispossession of land, the &#34;enfranchisement&#34; process, and even today&#39;s paternalism justifying oil pipelines through unceded Indigenous land requires the logic of the enlightenment. 2026-04-11T14:15:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2u3m2nnspu49vy8qcjc3dqvzazrc5crqardvlepyq6ft73suemjczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkdm04um The three freedoms, as I understand them from &#34;The Dawn of Everything&#34; by Graeber and Wengrow, are:<br/><br/>1) Freedom to refuse<br/>2) freedom to leave<br/>3) freedom to do things differently.<br/><br/>We&#39;re doing that here on mastodon. 2026-04-07T10:36:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq2vjpm8a7wa4n7utjzczqt368w6futzfrnpl7p3ha76psr65jlsqzypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwktg2lw3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg84ch6rfu9dta4wt8t8qy0v7y3ltcfvpa59uzs5kyh0glvxk2kjslttlqj'>nevent1q…tlqj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I replied to it if you check my &#34;posts and replies&#34;, I said something like &#34;cultural enforcer&#34; is silly&#34; it&#39;s scottjensen at something something. 2026-04-06T16:26:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv067pzufzam2dh4ygkq8sa2f36eklz773eqdp9tn49wd6em4uwzszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwk55q4gf Apologizing for his poorly worded post while making more poorly worded posts.<br/><br/>Am I a &#34;cultural enforcer&#34; now? Wow, and I didn&#39;t even have to try! 2026-04-06T16:20:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswdmklhkjzumhm46fc7z9kmfmaxh46ts0wen3aty4nccw4ztuzxaszypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkkfqd57 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfycd9jhkrjgruxshqdmruwtec88hde09kew9ghxpn4puwc24pqlcny2sj6'>nevent1q…2sj6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(but note: I want reporters to just report, news to just news, I want the rumours to be done by NOT news until news can debunk or confirm) 2026-04-06T13:20:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfycd9jhkrjgruxshqdmruwtec88hde09kew9ghxpn4puwc24pqlczypaycnlu2f0l0qm45ywvwqc8qxv2ekx60wyx4tp0a4ecla5yhszwkcmnklg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsve3jvu8mglx2cwwu3gjqhsun0n4m79ytlhjezr99k0ygj764jvngq9fgx4'>nevent1q…fgx4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The rumours help whet my appetite for the real thing. 2026-04-06T13:19:23Z