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patamystic

@patamystic@sfba.social

He/They. Oakland, CA.

"I have seen the dorfns."

Writer. Poet. Photographer. Visual Artist. Publisher. Surrealist. Male Survivor. Reluctant Yogi. Invocateur.

Old white guy. Bald with goatee. Acne-scarred face. Old-school tattoos. But I am smiling.

Jesus was a lizard.

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patamystic, to random
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i found it!
https://mastodon.social/@splattne/112089164918819273

patamystic, to accessibility
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i’m reading a lot of conflicting info about using on for

speficially about

some guides suggest using detailed descriptions of the person, including background and setting

others suggest too much info isn't helpful and that it's better to simply use the person's name

i’ve been doing the former, but it's problematic describing other people's physical appearance

wondering if there are any resources BY people that may be more helpful than the general sites

i am NOT asking about alt text in general. just headshots

i hate asking for boosts, but this time it would be appreciated

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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Whew! I finished.

https://terikanefield.com/invented-narratives-and-the-outrage-industry/

Everything I promised: How to listen (or not listen) to legal pundits.

It's also about what is dangerous about the entire industry of punditry, speculation, and cable talk shows.

For years I was perplexed by what I was seeing on left-leaning Twitter, political blogs, and partisan reporting. I had the feeling that, in its way, what I was seeing was comparable to Fox: Lots of bad information and even unhinged conspiracy theories.

1/

patamystic,
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@Teri_Kanefield

i like this series of articles, and i somewhat agree with the thesis

but, despite the long list of 'consequences,' Trump is still criming all over the place while also being treated as a legitimate candidate for the presidency. this sure looks like the consequences he's had to face aren't significant or enough

paying fines isn't consequential to people with lost of money or rich backers

shutting down a Trump organization isn't consequential when he can keep on criming through many other channels

this is in stark contrast with how the legal systems treats working class crime, or poverty crime. jails and prisons are full of people whose crimes pale in comparison to the many, rich white men who are institutionally and societally protected when they cheat, lie, steal, and otherwise cause widespread harm

so, overall, the outrage over political and corporate crime is rational and reasonable

patamystic, to Haiku
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@xpt

fascist enabling
apocalyptic accelerationism—
brain eating disease

#haiQu #haiku #senryu #MicroPoetry #flarf #HaikuFlarf #StolenPoetry #appropriation #poetry

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Oh for fuck's sake. My heart sinks when someone posts a link to an article, you go to read it and after a few lines the text starts to fade out. You just know a "sign up to read the rest of this article" thing is going to scroll into view.

Fuck off with that shite.

patamystic,
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@njrabit @llamasoft_ox

archive.is

pseudepigram, to poetry
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winter honeywells
waxing for the waxen god
bee hulls span shoe gum

patamystic,
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@pseudepigram @xpt

patamystic, to xpt
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@xpt

archaic mullet stomped
acclimated helm sprout
calculated mosh permit

patamystic, to xpt
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@xpt

Recadrus, Arse Crud, Arsed Cur, Rude Cars, Crud Ears, Recadrus!

patamystic, to poetry
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@xpt

future undefined blurry fog potential so must be past memories only exist now time travel doesn’t look anything expect to further go weirder gets / AFTER FIVE DAYS UPSTAIRS / feel like lost back long traumatic journey lost social skills ...is risky someone drunk look for blowfish lanterns...

#ExperimentalWriting #flarf #poetry #sublime #SwansPlaying #GetUnderIt #YouSaidDoDo

18+ Frances_Larina, to random
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Artists can now poison their images to deter misuse by AI

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/20/nightshade_ai_images/

patamystic,
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not for Mac yet but good to see it

dannotdaniel, to HashtagGames
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We Will
We Will
BLOCK YOU

I see your #JohnMastodon and I raise you #FediMercury

#FediverseASongOrPoem
#HashtagGames

patamystic,
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@dannotdaniel @timbray

i hate hash tag games but this was a great one

clive, to random
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For some reason the Vivaldi browser on Mac has begun crashing frequently ...

... and for no reason I can detect

I mean there's gotta be a reason, but I can't figure it out!

Anyone else experienced this? Know what's going on, and how to fix it?

patamystic,
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@clive

just yesterday mine started unexpectedly crashing on opening. it started after a Vivaldi self-update. hadda delete and reinstall a fresh copy and it's been working fine since

patamystic,
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@rjmourinha @clive @Vivaldi

i regularly use Firefox, Safari, and Vivaldi because i am constantly running into website incompatibilities with all of them. apparently, there's no universally reliable web browser

can't tell you how many times i fail logging into a site only to then remember, 'oh right, i can only access this site through X Browser'

mekkaokereke, to random
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Oh no! Texas (Tejas) is majority Latiné?! What's next?

The Arid Zone? (Arizona)
The Angels? (Los Angeles)
The Meadows? (Las Vegas)
Colored Red? (Colorado)
Mountain State? (Montana)

This is terrible! Anya Taylor Joy is replacing us!

Reminder, most Latiné people are white. Relax.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-now-outnumber-non-hispanic-whites-texas-census-data-shows-rcna90869

Boxer Canelo Alvarez. He is a white man with pale skin, freckles, and red hair.

patamystic,
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@mekkaokereke such a great character whose arc went from hero to anti-hero to hero

patamystic, to random
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"Elon's interview was candid and profound," Yaccarino wrote in a memo to employees of X (formerly Twitter) yesterday. "He shared an unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective and vision for the future. If you haven't watched it, please take the time to absorb the magnitude and importance of what we're all a part of."

#LOFL https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/xs-yaccarino-calls-musk-candid-and-profound-after-go-f-yourself-tirade/

skykiss, to Ukraine
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Facts republicans hide from Americans.
"#Ukraine" funding actually includes over $50 billion that is spent in the USA for jobs and increase production, creating manufacturing jobs. These maps depict just a portion of that sum, and do not reflect either total defense spending by state, or the total amount spent on procurement & investment since Feb 2022.

The top recipient states:

  1. Arkansas - $2.344 billion
  2. Arizona - $2.076 billion
  3. Pennsylvania - $1.978 billion
  4. California - $1.527 billion
  5. Texas - $1.478 billion
  6. Florida - $1.114 billion
  7. Alabama - $945 million
  8. West Virginia - $932 million
  9. Massachusetts - $876 million
  10. Ohio - $808 million

The top per capita recipient states are:

  1. Arkansas - $770
  2. West Virginia - $525
  3. Arizona - $282
  4. Iowa - $239
  5. Alabama - $186
  6. New Hampshire - $161
  7. Pennsylvania - $152
  8. Massachusetts - $125
  9. Mississippi - $115
  10. Missouri - $113

Arkansas taking the top spot on both lists.

#SupportUkraine 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

patamystic,
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cause the US is one big war machine. news like this is not secret. but nobody likes to talk about it

the two colors on our flag, red and blue, are the colors of blood

patamystic, to random
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"As Grandin writes in Kissinger’s Shadow, the Cambridge-to-Washington set was not prepared in 1970 to accept that the U.S. had the right to destroy an enemy “safe haven” in a country it was not at war with and to do it all in secret, thereby shielding a war from basic public scrutiny. After 9/11, those assertions became accepted, foundational pillars of a War on Terror permitting four presidents to bomb, for 20 years, Pakistanis, Yemenis, Somalis, Libyans, Syrians, and others"

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

liztai, to writing
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I just got mad on #Substack Notes. This is not a good sign 😂

I think this article captures what I have feeling lately about the damn place.

Notes has made the place more competitive, cliquish and social media-ish.

But what made me 🔥 is when established writers lecture me about how I should think or behave as a writer "to be successful".

I hate condescending remarks.

#Writing #Writer #WritingCommunity

https://open.substack.com/pub/discussioncandy/p/the-elite-capture-of-substack

patamystic,
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@liztai @clive

substack's feature set is great and it would be a useful service for me to promote my tiny lit journal, but even more important than that, to create a community of contributors and readers. i used it for several months

but the company has done so many awful things, and because so many awful people use it, i quit

i tried Ghost for a while but it's too much work, and lacks a lot of features, and it's expensive for my budget

now trying a Wordpress Plugin, The Newsletter, which seems really great, but very complex and doesn't integrate with user comments

i miss substack, and wish there was something like it run by nicer people

patamystic,
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@liztai @clive

sorry for that. just based on this one comment (the longer one linked to), you seem really smart, thoughtful, and considerate. it boggles the mind that some people find that threatening

patamystic,
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@clive @liztai

yeah, i think you're right. what i like most about substack is that it includes mechanisms that can help with discovery, but the cost of those mechanisms is too high, and I don't mean monetarily

for years we've been seduced by the promise of discoverability and reach by social media, when the reality is we walked willingly into their algorithmic traps where we then become harvested as data. crude analogy, i know

it felt like i gave something up (discoverability) when moving from substack to ghost, but now am coming to accept that discoverability was/is a chimera. the power imbalance between big tech money and end users will never be fair

another crude analogy that comes to mind is staying in an abusive relationship through gaslighting. it's never worth it

shellsharks, (edited ) to random

What makes someone a “reply guy” to you? A poll for science…

(This poll allows* multiple choices. Boost for reach plz 🚀)

EDIT: Trying to redraft to fix multi-choice issue.

patamystic,
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@shellsharks

you forgot 'all of the above'

(says the reply guy, if you didn't get the joke)

ajsadauskas, to bluesky
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With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?

Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?

If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?

Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?

@fediverse

patamystic,
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@ajsadauskas @fediverse

i'm not qualified to answer regarding the tech, but the more interoperability we can achieve between all platforms, the better

patamystic, to random
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the fact that we humans will someday be extinct brings me some small comfort

evacide, to random
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This feature is a personal attack on all Eastern Europeans.

https://news.yahoo.com/googles-phone-adds-smiles-photos-090006417.html

patamystic,
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@evacide

i finally get what Quakers mean when they say hell is right here on earth

kcarruthers, to random
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Number of #LongCOVID Cases Could Be Vastly Underestimated

“new research suggests that may be an underestimate and that far more people may be suffering from long #COVID without ever having tested positive for the virus. Researchers found a significant proportion of patients in their small study who had never tested positive for COVID-19 but who were having symptoms of long COVID nevertheless showed evidence of immune responses consistent with previous exposure.”

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/995895

patamystic,
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@kcarruthers

isn't that the new #patreon logo?

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