Nostr notes by Sin Vega

I am gonna need some recommendations for a proven queer-friendly ...

2026-10-19T10:46:23Z

I am gonna need some recommendations for a proven queer-friendly mover/driver who can move my stuff this wednesday (21st) morning in east london,though.

Had someone lined up but they've not got back to me so I'm assuming they're busy

This is for pay, although I do need it to be as cheap as possible. I'll be less pressed in a few weeks, too

It's only 3km (2 miles) and about 1.5 carfuls of stuff, going by last month's move

Listen, if you're a journalist and some guy in the library ...

2026-10-10T14:25:20Z

Listen, if you're a journalist and some guy in the library tells you that your ancestors were ancient metalworkers who "knew secret things" and some of them still live in a city under the sea, and that he speaks 200 languages and then starts listing them

you do not have to email a historian for comment and then publish his entire screed with one sentence mildly questioning it at the end anyway

wait this wasn't a bit taking the piss out of those... no ...

2026-10-05T10:36:33Z

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wait this wasn't a bit taking the piss out of those...

no wait it IS a bit and they're committing...

no wait it's a real ga...

GOD DAMN IT

this country needs more crime. the falling crime rate is a ...

2026-10-04T17:24:52Z

this country needs more crime. the falling crime rate is a falling redistribution rate, and has only made the rich and their bougie collaboraters stronger

East London! Do you have or know of a flat/house with three ...

2026-10-03T18:03:31Z

East London! Do you have or know of a flat/house with three bedrooms available to rent from mid-October?

A lecturer, retraining doctor, and me, a media critic (for 12 years, oh my god) are looking for somewhere as close as possible to the Bow/Hackney kind of area. Two bathrooms (or one and a second toilet) and parking space for a motorbike, and room for a bicycle are needed. We all want to stay for at least a year due to ongoing commitments, and we all want to save money because we're disabled and shit is really goddamn scary rn

Thank you!

I just cut a THIRD knuckle, this time on the other hand 😑 at ...

2026-10-03T15:25:36Z

I just cut a THIRD knuckle, this time on the other hand 😑

at least I noticed it and know what caused it this time: I cut myself on my own medicine tin. The treachery!

I mean, a decade of businesses and people enslaving themselves to ...

2026-09-30T19:01:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…y7wl
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I mean, a decade of businesses and people enslaving themselves to "seo" (ie: the whims of one shitty surveillance corporation) led us directly here

similar with neolib manager speak emails. Of course they think the chatbot is good, they were already regurgitating whatever random dogshit sounded vaguely like it meant something anyway

so much women's clothing, apart from the misogyny of size ...

2026-09-17T18:04:51Z

so much women's clothing, apart from the misogyny of size bullshit, has such fucking stupid names

Guardian reviewing Downfall in 2026 like "1 star, not enough ...

2026-09-09T12:38:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…du9c
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Guardian reviewing Downfall in 2026 like "1 star, not enough focus on how sad and confused all the other lads were after the funny little one shot himself"

Hello! I need a room in East London BY SEPTEMBER for a month, ...

2026-08-23T18:23:57Z

Hello! I need a room in East London BY SEPTEMBER for a month, possibly two. I'm planning to move in with two others soon but that won't happen before I lose this place.

I need it to be cheap and to have wifi, and the basic living appliances - fridge, freezer, oven, washing machine - but otherwise don't really need much except somewhere to put my stuff (piled high in my room is ok).

I will mostly be in my room quietly working and organising the next move, but I am shockingly lovely in person and will be very easy to live with

Boosts / passing on / whatever welcome, thank you

my suggestion for improving society is instead of reporting that ...

2026-08-03T23:52:52Z

my suggestion for improving society is instead of reporting that "CEO says [some clueless fucking bullshit]" , what you do is you shoot that CEO with a harpoon

(sry for dumping, I just... my whoel goddamn life it took for ...

2026-07-25T15:22:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…e7lr
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(sry for dumping, I just... my whoel goddamn life it took for something that a good doctor could have solved in an hour. And I've met a few people who had the same deal)

100% ask your doctor if you can! Or if you're in a country ...

2026-07-25T15:22:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…8n02
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100% ask your doctor if you can! Or if you're in a country where melatonin is otc, try taking 2mg about 1-2 hours before bed (I find it either works by then, or at about hour 4-5. It's odd). Don't go overboard with the dose, it won't kill you or anything but it can make things worse.

aaaalso I got mine after starting on adhd meds, so the 1-2 punch worked wonders for me, it might not be as effective alone idk (but the comorbidity is huuuge)

good luck!

this is DSPD and it's the rare "easy and safe to ...

2026-07-25T15:18:05Z

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this is DSPD and it's the rare "easy and safe to treat" sleep disorder. Which I would call a jackpot, except that it will probably take 300 years to find a gp who takes it seriously enough to do anything

Thank you, yes, I know, I WOULD HAVE BEEN PREPARING for ALL OF ...

2026-07-21T11:46:26Z

Thank you, yes, I know, I WOULD HAVE BEEN PREPARING for ALL OF THIS SHIT for over a decade but I HAD NO MONEY and any time I managed to do more than survive for the next couple of months, some comfortable piece of shit destroyed it all and I had to spend another 2 years digging myself out again

the prestige honestly got tiring by the end. I just didn't ...

2026-07-17T18:52:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…8vg9
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the prestige honestly got tiring by the end. I just didn't care anymore about the seventh "but wait" in a row, especially when they didn't really change much about what twats the characters were in the end

you can tell batfash is always filmed by wealthy men because they ...

2026-07-17T14:31:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…t694
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you can tell batfash is always filmed by wealthy men because they do the pearls falling on the ground thing and the mugger doesn't take the pearls to sell them for money

made me think of my favourite onion headline. Editorial ...

2026-07-17T13:33:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…k6q4
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made me think of my favourite onion headline. Editorial "by" John Grisham: "Now that I know about foreshadowing, I'm going to use it in all of my books"

"six people on the fash-infested steam forum and the 20 ...

2026-07-15T15:27:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…0m24
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"six people on the fash-infested steam forum and the 20 people who live on reddit were constantly screaming about how they could break the game by doing something really fucking tedious with this, so we've removed it. I hope the other 99% of you weren't enjoying it and that you look forward to finding out what they'll all agree is 'unbalanced' next week, cos we're removing that too!"

"jumping on heads was removed, and if you mod the koopas so ...

2026-07-15T15:25:30Z

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"jumping on heads was removed, and if you mod the koopas so that they can do it to you, you'll see why"

decades of online multiplayer and wiki shit and minmax optimising ...

2026-07-15T15:21:35Z

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decades of online multiplayer and wiki shit and minmax optimising wankers have wormed so many brains I swear

reading a modding forum where one of the Established Defenders ...

2026-07-15T15:20:57Z

reading a modding forum where one of the Established Defenders (you know the energy) is explaining that a feature was removed because it's "too powerful" and if you mod the game so that the AI can do that to you instead you'll see why

and I'm just begging players and modders to understand that balance is (a) a means to an end, that (b) that end varies from game to game, and (c) balance and symmetry are not the same goddamn thing

and yet, allistics will also deny things and gaslight en masse, ...

2026-07-13T17:19:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…pn6t
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and yet, allistics will also deny things and gaslight en masse, so that self doubt is never going away no matter how often you're right

[EDIT 21st August: I still need this and it is now urgent. I ...

2026-07-13T14:25:21Z

[EDIT 21st August: I still need this and it is now urgent. I think we have until September.

tower hamlets]

Hello

I am looking for a place to live in East London. Ideally an empty one with three bedrooms, as I have two other people in similar situations nearby, who'd all like to move together (we're acquainted, not friends, it's not a drama bomb waiting to go off).

I need to move before September. I've lived nearby for 5 years, but the landlord is selling. We all need to save money so the budget is low, but we're all good for it and excited to make a wee home.

I've been self-employed since 2020, and intend to add a part time day job for backup income (moving has delayed this). The others are in work and retraining nearby. We're all covid conscious and it won't be a party house. I need to be as close as possible to my doctors.

Despite (or possibly because of) my whingeing on here, I am very easy to deal with and would like to just live somewhere and keep working and getting better.

(it's the one about her being a neoliberal and thus ...

2026-07-13T12:48:06Z

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(it's the one about her being a neoliberal and thus fundamentally believing in nothing but the status quo, and so the hero's greatest ambition is to be a cop and the villain is the one guy who tries to s... y'know what, I went and typed it up so

I may never get over how the best headshot I ever saw of those ...

2026-07-13T12:33:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…6ref
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I may never get over how the best headshot I ever saw of those shitty books was a screenshot from fucking 4chan

in one of my earliest job interviews, I said, quite honestly and ...

2026-07-08T20:59:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…n39a
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in one of my earliest job interviews, I said, quite honestly and without even intending to show off, "I just... do what needs to be done, really"

"sin how come you talk about hating landlords so much?" ...

2026-07-07T21:58:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…q32n
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"sin how come you talk about hating landlords so much?"

okay, so first: imagine a mosquito so big it already has more blood than you

tv series about a guy who views rooms for rent so that he can ...

2026-07-07T21:51:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…4wdq
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tv series about a guy who views rooms for rent so that he can kill every landlord

this room is: * in a fucking loft, in london * sharing with 3 ...

2026-07-07T21:50:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…hppe
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this room is:

* in a fucking loft, in london

* sharing with 3 randos

* like 5 hours more than the half hour walk I specified

* advertised with tyrannical bullshit about who you're allowed to have in your own fucking home

* insisting on two things that are explicitly unlawful to require

* "females"

emailing someone to tell them about your room for rent that's ...

2026-07-07T21:44:40Z

emailing someone to tell them about your room for rent that's actually a converted loft in the third heatwave so far before the midpoint of summer is the kind of decision that only a rentworm would make

love how women's clothing sizes are so fucking stupid and ...

2026-07-06T20:27:09Z

love how women's clothing sizes are so fucking stupid and useless even when you're a skinny bitch

also how in those shots absolutely no foreign landmarks have been ...

2026-07-05T02:01:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…7mkc
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also how in those shots absolutely no foreign landmarks have been blown up, because otherwise how would USians know it's egypt if the ship doesn't crash directly behind the pyramids

I remember people giving them shit for saying if you have no can ...

2026-07-02T21:12:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…sru4
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I remember people giving them shit for saying if you have no can opener you can use a knife. Because "you could injure yourself!" and "you can gert a can opner for a pound!"

No, YOU can. IF you live somewhere that sells one (and it actually works and doesn't disintegrate) and IF you have time to find it and IF you can spare a pound, when the entire fucking point of the book was that not everyone can

I had opened several cans with a knife. Yes you could get hurt if you did it wrong but guess fucking what poverty means about how many options you have, and how many risks you're forced to take

Condescending, smug arseholes attacking someone actually trying to help, instead of just clout farm

I need my oven junk because I am fuckin disabled and poor as shit ...

2026-07-02T19:47:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…2dfy
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I need my oven junk because I am fuckin disabled and poor as shit and tired.

I remember some tosser online, when I was travelling for 30+ hours a week to work, lecturing people on "you can make lots of pizza bases and freeze them" and like... oh yeah? so then my section of the freezer is full and I can't eat anything else and I have to fuck around with a half frozen half fresh pizza every night? Or maybe you should shut the hell up about lives that are way way harder than yours"

like yeah actually, I CAN make pizzas. And yes, I am aware many cheap frozen ones are garbage. But they are cheap and they do not take 20 extra tasks or require a fucking schedule, or rely on the randos I live with not stealing shit

I fucking hate the comfortable.I want to rub sand in their eyes

eg sometimes pulpy rubbish can be great art too. Not like the ...

2026-07-02T16:44:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…q6zu
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eg sometimes pulpy rubbish can be great art too. Not like the cynically sharted out sterile corporate shit

there's a kind of snobbish reactionary mirror of that, where ...

2026-07-02T16:42:40Z

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there's a kind of snobbish reactionary mirror of that, where people refuse to recognise art on its own terms if it's at all silly or cheap or has flaws instead of being elite premium high quality in every field

it was invariably stuff like "you can save lots of money by ...

2026-07-02T16:38:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…c726
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it was invariably stuff like "you can save lots of money by buying cheaper brands, or even supermarket versions!!!"

"don't buy four times as much as you need and then throw most of it away!!"

"try cooking in batches!"

and at the end was always the big reveal of WOOOOW look how much you saved per month, and the "savings" were double what I have ever spent in my life, because they were having twelve takeaways a month and falling for shit like £6.40 for 200g of premium individually bagged moravian oats

there was this BBC programme in I think the 2000s or early 2010s, ...

2026-07-02T16:35:57Z

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there was this BBC programme in I think the 2000s or early 2010s, about "how to save money on food/shopping" and I fucking loathed it so intensely. And that was before another decade of fascism - sorry, "austerity" - made everything even worse

It featured a "real" couple every episode, and would take them through the ways they could save money. And every episode I saw, these couples were the most bougie money pissing arseholes you've ever seen. So all the advice was this smug, patronising shit that everyone who was poor even briefly already knows, and even a lot of people WITH money are smart enough to know too.

I swear, the number of times I have understood someone's ...

2026-06-29T17:57:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…59zn
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I swear, the number of times I have understood someone's motivations more than THEY did....

but good luck if you pay attention to the stage instead of reading the script

had a very instructive case of this a while back, where I read ...

2026-06-29T17:45:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…8qhn
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had a very instructive case of this a while back, where I read someone's "jokes" as passive aggressive digs coming from anger or resentment or my having upset them somehow

(stirred further by an abuser, fwiw, probably on both ends)

And when I asked them about it so I could apologised, they denied being angry or anything. And then got angry enough that I'd asked, and blocked me

Took me ages to break through my usual "give them the benefit of the doubt" empathy shit and accept that no, I was right, and they were pissed off that I'd caught them out

you know the workers I feel most sorry for during this weather ...

2026-06-24T16:18:55Z

you know the workers I feel most sorry for during this weather are the landlords. I can't imagine how difficult it is for them to get 90% of my income for MAYBE booking a repair guy every couple of years, in this heat

I feel sorry for men who aren' twats, because everywhere you ...

2026-06-23T13:27:13Z

I feel sorry for men who aren' twats, because everywhere you go it's just adverts and media all yelling "Hey, men! You're an abusive, emotionally stunted tosser, right? Well check this out"

On day one, the goose laid one golden egg, so as you can see it ...

2026-06-22T22:28:52Z

On day one, the goose laid one golden egg, so as you can see it will lay two eggs on day two, then three on day three, and if you look at this projection here, give me three hundred billion dollars. No we don't have any costs, we already fed the goose yesterday

found it ...

2026-06-19T12:38:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…3dvv
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found it

I may hold our entire social structure in contempt, but ...

2026-06-19T12:01:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…3nm4
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I may hold our entire social structure in contempt, but "people in your home are under your care" is a core principle of compassion. You don't just leave them to fend for themselves, goddamn you

"Sin I thought you were a hermit" YES EXACTLY. Hermits ...

2026-06-19T11:53:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…lr94
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"Sin I thought you were a hermit"

YES EXACTLY. Hermits are the MOST gracious and welcoming hosts, you oaf, you poltroon

"Oh Sin's always home, she can let them in" yes I am ...

2026-06-19T11:49:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…55g6
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"Oh Sin's always home, she can let them in"

yes I am always home WORKING and you can't just "let them in" ffs. They're people, you're supposed to make sure they're alright and offer them for or five things so they can politely all of them and then you repeat the one they're obviously going to need and they nod and you nod

I don't have time for any of that today AND there's nothing to fucking offer them. I don't even have milk

And yes they probably have their own stuff but that's not the POINT

I know this is unlawful but I don't have time to fucking ...

2026-06-19T11:45:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…wncq
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I know this is unlawful but I don't have time to fucking argue it and also the only people who'd suffer are the workmen who've done nothin wrong

sending workmen round without any notice when you're already ...

2026-06-19T11:44:54Z

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sending workmen round without any notice when you're already way overdue food shopping and have nothing to offer them. Ancestors reaching to strike you down

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2026-06-19T11:41:09Z

fucking rentworms up to some bullshit again

you know which nazis didn't come back and do it again? the ...

2026-05-31T21:14:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…4369
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you know which nazis didn't come back and do it again? the ones that got shot in the face

dreaming of a distant future where I can afford a glass

2026-05-19T11:11:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…kvlz
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dreaming of a distant future where I can afford a glass

oh gosh, no apology needed, I wasn't complaining and it was ...

2026-05-06T13:00:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…fp6g
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oh gosh, no apology needed, I wasn't complaining and it was clear what you meant. Just inspired a silly fun thought

Thank you for posting the picture! It looks a lovely shape, I hope the colours came out well

this is lovely but it does now have me thinking of ...

2026-05-06T10:10:23Z

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this is lovely but it does now have me thinking of "horse/peace" as an either/or ultimatum

Fantastic timing as always, but my rentworm has had its fill of ...

2026-05-03T14:18:34Z

Fantastic timing as always, but my rentworm has had its fill of my blood and is moving on to devouring whole prey*

if anyone is looking to move to/within east london over this summer, I would very much prefer to have more influence over where I move to than chancing it with randos

*(landlord is selling the place)

also like, making a huge thing of charcoal by putting wood in a ...

2026-04-27T16:38:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…jyl0
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also like, making a huge thing of charcoal by putting wood in a pit and lighting it and sealing it and coming back four or five days later and hooooly shit that's so much charcoal

there is a charm to pouring out molten copper into the little ...

2026-04-27T16:37:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…vz8k
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there is a charm to pouring out molten copper into the little clay moulds you've made for the first time, several dozen hours into the game

just as films convinced old people that they could simply beat up ...

2026-04-27T13:18:55Z

just as films convinced old people that they could simply beat up all the "bad guys" if they got angry enough, games have convinced young people that after a major disaster they could just walk around picking random shit up and a few days later their totally unsupervised crops from their 5 Wheat Seeds would make them self-sufficient

oh I was agreeing with you. any time they ask, the answer is ...

2026-04-17T16:25:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…a470
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oh I was agreeing with you. any time they ask, the answer is "get bent" or just "of course officer! My name is Yvette Cooper"

give them NOTHING

2026-04-17T11:11:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…pk7m
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give

them

NOTHING

I wish mastodon had survived, so that I could reply to this 😞

2026-04-06T20:49:11Z

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I wish mastodon had survived, so that I could reply to this 😞

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2026-03-28T07:25:21Z

i got up at 7 wtf

To-day I did again blunder, disturbing restful neighbourcatte, ...

2026-03-19T11:56:21Z

To-day I did again blunder, disturbing restful neighbourcatte, upon whose dismay I did rest cured meat in hope of forgiveness. Disdainful was proud neighbourcatte of said meat, though it be a rare purchase indeed and shared gladly. In spirit was my gesture understood, and met with entreaties for further, unknown meats, whose supply is of course lacking. I did abandon my intent to bask in sunlight, gaining nothing. Vexatious creature!

(Several rounds of one-way spud-punching later) Lib: "I ...

2026-02-18T16:20:49Z

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(Several rounds of one-way spud-punching later)

Lib: "I disapprpve of these spud punches! Please, cheer for me more, which will shame him into stopping."

Fash: (hits Lib with a hammer)

Lib: "That's definitely improper! Referee! Referee!"

(cut to shot of referee lying dead backstage)

Fash: (hammers lib)

Lib: "Well I believe that is a violation, good sir, of-"

Fash: (stabs Lib)

Lib: "Refereeee!"

Referee: (clearly Fash wearing a referee costume) "Minus 50 points for Lib for stabbing Fash"

Referee: "Alright let's see a good clean fight" ...

2026-02-18T16:15:15Z

Referee: "Alright let's see a good clean fight"

Liberal: "Yes sir"

Fascist: (punches Liberal in the spuds)

Liberal: "Hey! He can't do that!"

Ref: "Actually there's no rule, everyone just tacitly agreed not to"

Lib: "Well I shall honour that noble history!!"

Fash: (spud punch)

Lib: "Sir, assembled crowd, did you know that spud punching is not a legitimate means of-"

Fash: (spud punch)

Ref: "Look I can't stop him but you could punch back, or at least guard your spuds"

Lib: "NEVER!"

"The fatal errors of life are not due to man’s being ...

2026-02-14T13:37:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…3rcy
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"The fatal errors of life are not due to man’s being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one’s finest moment. They are due to man’s being logical. There is a wide difference. "

"Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser ...

2026-02-14T13:36:04Z

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"Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations. Only what is fine, and finely conceived, can feed Love.

But anything will feed Hate. "

"But you, like myself, have had a terrible tragedy in your ...

2026-02-14T13:35:49Z

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"But you, like myself, have had a terrible tragedy in your life, though one of an entirely opposite character to mine. Do you want to learn what it was? It was this. In you Hate was always stronger than Love. There was no struggle between them at all, or but little; of such dimensions was your Hatred and of such monstrous growth. You did not realise that there is no room for both passions in the same soul. They cannot live together in that fair carven house.

reading him tell himself that "you loved me" and ...

2026-02-14T13:32:20Z

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reading him tell himself that "you loved me" and murmuring aloud "no he didn't, girl"

"The gods are strange. It is not of our vices only they make ...

2026-02-14T13:30:54Z

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"The gods are strange. It is not of our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. But for my pity and affection for you and yours, I would not now be weeping in this terrible place.

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2026-02-14T13:30:07Z

uh oh I opened the full version of de profundis again. help. help

wow that's the wankiest thing I've said in a while. ...

2026-02-13T11:11:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…pldt
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wow that's the wankiest thing I've said in a while. Anyway I'm glad you're taking care of yourself x

that good stuff can come from surprising places! Grapple them ...

2026-02-13T11:11:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…r0s2
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that good stuff can come from surprising places! Grapple them unto thy soul, etc

yeah. I am still struggling with trusting anyone. which makes ...

2026-02-13T11:03:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…38rn
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yeah. I am still struggling with trusting anyone. which makes building the support you need impossible. But when the last several calls came from inside the house, I dunno how else to be

I am slowly being taught that the ones who post big are often ...

2026-02-13T10:44:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…qnw8
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I am slowly being taught that the ones who post big are often frauds, and the ones who come through are mostly quiet people you barely know :|

sorry you've been let down

okay, put it this way: if people had told you, upfront, that in ...

2026-02-09T23:07:43Z

okay, put it this way: if people had told you, upfront, that in order to use this chat thing you'd never touched before, you had to send them a copy of your passport and let them fucking scan your face and use their spyware to try to guess your age

you fucking wouldn't have. No you wouldn't. You've just chosen to refuse to look at what they've fucking done to you

special thanks to everyone who opposed ID cards, but is fine with ...

2026-02-09T19:46:30Z

special thanks to everyone who opposed ID cards, but is fine with random online businesses from all over the world, and any corporation that buys them out in future, and every "third party vendor" they contract, and their 768 "partners", and every government organisation who asks, and god knows how many randos working for all of the above, all having copies of their ID that they special promise not to keep probably

the x-stein files. every week, mulder insists there's a new ...

2026-02-07T03:31:43Z

the x-stein files. every week, mulder insists there's a new monster, scully scoffs, they investigate, find the facts, scully shoots another rich guy in the face, the world gets a little better

everything takes so goddamn long and so much WORK now. Even when ...

2026-01-29T16:33:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…vfxh
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everything takes so goddamn long and so much WORK now. Even when you're TRYING TO SPEND MONEY, something you hate doing because you really really can't afford it and agarghrgh

alright, fuck this, I'm just going to shoplift from them ...

2026-01-29T16:30:57Z

alright, fuck this, I'm just going to shoplift from them instead. They clearly don't want my money so

reminded me of the chryssalids: "I told you it was a bad ...

2026-01-29T15:04:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…fyp3
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reminded me of the chryssalids:

"I told you it was a bad thing to let her marry that fellow. There’s a type of woman who isn’t content until she’s made herself some man’s slave and doormat — put herself completely in his power. That’s the kind she was.’"

it was striking to gradually move away from there, and then leave ...

2026-01-16T14:09:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…mdg8
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it was striking to gradually move away from there, and then leave completely... and then interact over the next few years with people still there (or on the blue reskin, whatever).

Even in non-public spaces, the way they'd immediately leap on during a friendly conversation to try to be more righteous or have a better Take or pick some pedantic fuckin nano-hole in *conversation with their own people*

I'd say this was the cruellest disconnection, but it would be ...

2026-01-12T17:24:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…c6xl
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I'd say this was the cruellest disconnection, but it would be a lie with such a great smile showing

"this browser extension forces search engines to only show ...

2026-01-09T14:54:50Z

"this browser extension forces search engines to only show results from before 2023!"

a better idea: don't use any search engine that doesn't obey OPERATORS

this is fuckin ancient technology guys. Any search engine without it is dogshit and intentionally treating you with contempt. Even google used to do it before it fully ate itself

people really want to believe hitler was some special evil ...

2026-01-06T13:41:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…vl03
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people really want to believe hitler was some special evil genius, and not a completely unremarkable arsehole whose chrysalis form has always existed in most people's lives, waiting for the right conditions

"watch as I cleverly undermine the dictator who wants to be ...

2025-12-29T21:05:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…hqss
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"watch as I cleverly undermine the dictator who wants to be the centre of everyone's attention by breathlessly repeating his every gibberish word"

As someone with zero training or education in journalism, the ...

2025-12-29T20:45:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…ax9r
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As someone with zero training or education in journalism, the last twelve years or so of watching financially comfortable, incompetent hacks repeat the same basic mistakes over and over have been extremely frustrating

they know it's bullshit but they still believe it. It's ...

2025-12-29T20:35:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…80my
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they know it's bullshit but they still believe it. It's not about belief. It's about performance. Even internally

that concept alone makes the book possibly the most important story of the last century

people reference that book so goddamn often but almost never seem ...

2025-12-29T20:33:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…35ll
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people reference that book so goddamn often but almost never seem to get what was actually most important and frightening about it

the active destruction of language so that "even if there is rebellious spirit, there will be no words with which to communicate it".

Doublethink, most of all. The act of fervently believing false things, knowing full well they are false, and simultaneously denying that you know you're doing it. Even saying the term requires deploying it

I think often of that bit in 1984 where the guy speaking to a ...

2025-12-29T20:30:10Z

I think often of that bit in 1984 where the guy speaking to a crowd swaps the target of the Hate mid-sentence, and they all immediately reverse position and declare that the decorations they just put up themselves were put up by enemy saboteurs and angrily tear them down

Very glad I read that one so young. Gladder still I wasn't forced to in school

My guess for why this one persists: it's fun to faff around ...

2025-12-29T11:42:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…4429
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My guess for why this one persists: it's fun to faff around with a wobbly stick. It's very simple "magic" with no skill or work needed (fake work in scamming people still takes effort, typically). And there's not yet a non-bullshit way to do what it pretends to, so magical gibberish sneaks back in

I don't think it's going anywhere, unfortunately

Inadvertantly exposed to an american comedy film from the 1980s, ...

2025-12-25T18:21:04Z

Inadvertantly exposed to an american comedy film from the 1980s, before they had researched funny

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2025-12-25T02:34:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…h6e5
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it's technology! cloth and sewing and embroiding and ...

2025-12-24T18:37:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…3sdp
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it's technology! cloth and sewing and embroiding and knitting, they're all some of the most important and powerful technologies we ever found!

they're a great publisher, which is to say they love to step ...

2025-12-01T13:13:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…p3vy
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they're a great publisher, which is to say they love to step in when your game has already found its audience and take the credit. Also you get a free mandatory forum full of nazi fuckwits that you can't ban

but The Algorithm!!!! (all bow)

2025-12-01T13:10:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…stnw
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but The Algorithm!!!! (all bow)

You're absolutely right, Jonathan! Global Thermonuclear War ...

2025-11-19T22:02:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…mav4
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You're absolutely right, Jonathan! Global Thermonuclear War is a popular game with thousands of ways to win. You're really onto something amazing here and I think the doubters just aren't able to understand the paradigm shift you're bringing the world with these insights

old world: "if you talk the computer into contradicting ...

2025-11-19T18:38:48Z

old world: "if you talk the computer into contradicting itself it will say 'logic error logic error' and shut down"

new world: "the computer is entirely non-sentient and understands nothing so it will constantly contradict itself but we're putting it in charge of the nukes anyway"

capitalism is so efficient it can now manufacture a dozen ...

2025-11-18T14:17:44Z

capitalism is so efficient it can now manufacture a dozen unnecessary economic collapses per lifetime