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doctorLURK

@doctorLURK@mastodon.social

Post less, lurk more.

Oathsworn foe of the powerful and shadowy Sweet Pickle Relish cartel. Number one dilly-dallying aficionado. Anonymous coward. View the legendary (and spoiler-free!) HALLOWEEN MOVIE GUIDE here: https://bit.ly/3tjZfpz

Core interests & traits as they relate to Mastodon: #MagicTheGathering #Humor #Linguistics #Bookstodon #SFF #JoannaNewsom #Insomnium #TIDAL #Portland / #PDX #PNW #Liberal #FarLeft #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Ally #BLM #Antifa #ACAB

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seachanger, to random
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Mastodon absolutely needs more journalists. We should not have millions of people boosting one another’s ideas without a solid contingent of people in here professionally trained to vet stories, check facts, and use best practices for sharing news. It is, imo, an urgent issue & critical for the ongoing success of the fediverse

doctorLURK,
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@seachanger I hear what you're saying, and I agree that grounded expertise is of utmost importance when it comes to bounding off the edges of objetive reality - but a preponderance of credentialed journalists these days seem to be rather lacking in the "reason and critical thought" department (given how few of them have bothered to leave - or at least diversify away from - Twitter). I doubt that engaging such a group is as critical to the survival of the Fediverse as all that.

doctorLURK,
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@seachanger I wouldn't dream of glossing over the importance of journalism in our society! However, I'm skeptical of the current rank-and-file based on their behavior vis-a-vis speaking harsh truths to the very powerful - too few seem to take principled stands when it matters. Maybe it's a consequence of the whole dysfunctional system, but that's a moot point.

That said, I want to believe more in journalists! I am ready to, just as soon as we stop seeing press releases passed off as hard news.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Well lable me a communist then because Kids shouldn't have to pay for food ever.

doctorLURK,
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@Radical_EgoCom she sure said that like someone who's always had to pay for emotional support. I'd feel bad for her if she wasn't inflicting herself on innocent kids.

Sardonicus, to random
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doctorLURK, (edited )
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@Sardonicus This is so classic, and hopefully the story behind it doesn't detract from anyone's enjoyment of it: it's not a real quote! It was written by editorial staff at the Portland Mercury as part of a gag column called "Frank Cassano's Imbecile Parade," where a question was featured each week, along with a few (again, made-up) answers, each of which was followed by a bit of color commentary from "Frank Cassano" (again, the Mercury's editorial staff) at the end.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/comedy/2018/05/23/20043995/frank-cassanos-imbecile-parade

eniko, to random
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Our stove top has touch controls. It's ridiculous. Ah yes, I will touch the glass top of my stove with my fingers while using it, thereby risking injury or at the very least having to put my finger on a greasy stove top. Because when people cook on a stove top, grease splatters out of hot pans all over. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea? For the love of god just give me some fucking knobs

You know what knobs are also good for? Going instantly from any setting to any other setting. With this touch interface bullshit if I wanna turn off one hob from the highest setting without turning off all hobs I have to plonk my finger down and wait for it to slowly cycle down from 9 to 0, going through all full and half digits on the way

If this is what a "luxury cooking experience" feels like I don't fucking want it

doctorLURK,
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@eniko With you 100%! When the time came to replace our busted clothes dryer, we spent an extra ~$200 to get a "commercial" dryer with two rugged manual knobs, one mechanical plunger-style Start button, and nothing more to fiddle with. We've never regretted it, and we certainly don't miss the worthless electronic bells and whistles that seem to plague all "home" dryers these days. We see the price less as "paying more for fewer features" and more as "paying more for usability and reliability."

doctorLURK, to random
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Don't forget that it's possible (and normal, even) to care about more than one thing at the same time. "How can you talk about X with Y going on" may be appropriate for an immediate life-or-death situation, but it's usually just disingenuous on social media.

mrawdon, to tech
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This #FollowGraph tool is theoretically interesting, but almost everyone it kicks out for me is in #tech. A few #ScienceFiction writers, a few celebrities (no thanks), and basically no one from #ComicBooks, #ProgressiveRock, #Webcomics, #MagicTheGathering, or #AudioDrama.

Basically it seems like the non-tech groups of people I followed on #Twitter have had negligible adoption of #Mastodon.

https://followgraph.vercel.app

doctorLURK,
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@mrawdon If it helps, I saw this post because I follow the #MagicTheGathering hashtag, so even though I don't specifically follow you right now, I still see your interest-relevant posts when you use that hashtag!

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doctorLURK,
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@yerald @bookstodon In between newer books, I've started doing this with Raymond Fesit's #Riftwar saga. It's been great fun so far!

tchambers, to RedditMigration

#RedditBlackout organizers aren't fooling around and many have shifted into full on scortched earth on Reddit and to #RedditMigration mode:

doctorLURK,
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@tchambers I don't even use Reddit, and never have, but I'm always here to watch users destroying an enshittified platform - it's extra-meaty entertainment. Boosting!

alternativeto, to privacy
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is raising concerns as it has been discovered that the browser is sending every picture viewed online to Microsoft.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/edge-sends-image-you-view-online-to-microsoft-and-raises-privacy-concerns/

doctorLURK,
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@alternativeto I forcibly ripped MS Edge out of my Win11 PC back in January. It's amazing how deeply enmeshed Edge is with the rest of the OS - I had to find a handful of replacements for things like Picture Viewer, and I had to tear Windows Update's proverbial throat out, too, or it'd keep reinstalling Edge without my permission. Removing Edge has also caused some other weird (but avoidable) bugs.

Nevertheless, as time passes, I become more and more convinced that I made the right move.

molly0xfff, to random
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binance going with the classic "we were just moving fast and breaking things!" defense

via https://nytimes.com/2023/04/26/technology/binance-crypto-crackdown.html

doctorLURK,
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@molly0xfff There isn't a mom alive who'd let "Everybody else is doing it" fly as an excuse. Seems like Binance might need a stern but caring mother figure to guide it out of the shadows!

oliphant, to random

If that WSJ article is believed....

Tucker got fired for being too much of an asshole.

... Yeah, I'm not really sure I buy that, either.

doctorLURK,
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@oliphant The WSJ, as a general rule, is never to be fully believed when it comes to reporting on American political figures (whether politician or partisan TV personality).

evan, (edited ) to random
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How many times have you left your native country?

doctorLURK,
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@evan Fun question, though these results say more about the average Mastodon user's economic status (and possibly age) than anything else.

doctorLURK, to random
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Sometimes I think about how had one of the best stories of any PS2 JRPG, but nobody really remembers or thinks about it. The Barows and Godwin families were both such interesting factions, and the depictions of courtly intrigue/skullduggery were excellent, especially for the time and medium in question.

It's a damn shame how many creative works never get recognized the way they deserve to be. There's just too much stuff to laud all of it, I suppose.

doctorLURK,
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@straadin Funny; because the first two were so rare for so long, I've actually only played 4 and 5! I liked 4 all right, but it never really swept me away. 5 was like a revelation by comparison.

doctorLURK,
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@straadin Wow, lucky!

doctorLURK, to space
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Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies In the Sky is my favorite post-rock band #SpaceX

atomicpoet, to random

This is how the New York Times describes Mastodon: “a Twitter clone sliced into communities”.

I don’t think that’s a good description but maybe I’m quibbling.

Nevertheless, until Mastodon supports groups, I don’t use it for the communities. I use Friendica instead for that feature. In fact, I don’t think most Mastodon users realize that’s possible on the Fediverse.

But maybe the New York Times is referring to servers as “communities”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/technology/personaltech/tiktok-twitter-facebook-social.html

@fediversenews

doctorLURK,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews I'd bet even money that the NYT didn't even bother to do a few minutes of research on that little blurb.

doctorLURK, to random
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Grunge was fine and all, but imagine if the '90s had kept going in the Body Count/Pretty Hate Machine-era Nine Inch Nails //Johnny Mnemonic/Tank Girl direction instead!

...What I'm basically trying to say is that the '90s didn't respect Ice-T enough.
#90sMusic #90sMovies #IceT

A screenshot of excerpted text which reads "...proved to be a watershed series of events. Emerging on-stage covered in their [then] trademark corn-starch, other groups appeared too clean and too keen to entertain, NIN’s appearance alone placed them as a band apart, bringing Reznor’s private war and their internal conflicts to the stage. ICE-T played guitar with them for Head Like A Hole and at the end the band trashed all of their equipment. Their performance..." Source: adamsteiner.uk
Cinema still of Ice-T in the 1995 post-apocalyptic comic book film Tank Girl. He's wearing heavy prosthetic makeup that gives him the appearance of a human-kangaroo hybrid. He is dressed in a jersey top with a long-sleeved white shirt underneath, a metal necklace, and a black bandana tied back on his head.

doctorLURK, to politics
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Hello! Here's my intro, since we're doing that at the moment.

I'm a cantankerous, self-doubting 41-year-old cishet (m) digital marketer/digital marketing skeptic. If you follow me, expect only occasional posting. Favorite things to post about:

#politics (far left)
#jokes (dumb, absurd, and/or mildly inappropriate)
#magic (the gathering)
#DeepThoughts (with or without Jack Handey)

I've also been a (non-exclusionary!) nerd all my life, but I'm not really interested in competitive fandoms.

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