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PatrickoftheG

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Life is a preposterous horror.

Money speaks for money, the devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.

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SirTapTap, (edited ) to Twitch
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I never really formally posted a "coming out" post but I guess to keep people on the same page:

SirTapTap -> SerTapTap (gender neutral)

Any Pronouns -> She/Her

Cis -> Trans

? -> Genderfluid

I've been making little changes for a month or so now, still lots of text to fix.

I'll probably be commissioning a girlier TapTap and some rebranding here and there:
Let me know if you have any #twitch #youtube #discord #vtuber emoji/branding etc tips. No idea what I'm doing

#lgbt #trans #queer

PatrickoftheG,
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@SirTapTap Love you and your work, SerTapTap.

kaylee, to random
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Well I guess sudden hailstorms that destroy your blinds are a common occurrence now, thanks climate change

PatrickoftheG,
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@kaylee Last year I had a tornado warning, and then about a week later I had a tornado warning, and then later that afternoon I had a maritime tornado warning.

I live in Montreal, Canada.

I am not liking this new climate.

DemocracySpot, to photography
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πŸ“· It's whatever you think it is.

PatrickoftheG,
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@DemocracySpot It's a nice gradient.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I agree with the on this one.

Hamas would need to kill at least 25000 more innocent Israeli women and children for there to be equivalence between what it did and what Israel did; oh, and they would need to grow Tel Aviv by about 4 times its natural population, and then starve it and thirst it for six months also. Also while eliminating all its civilian infrastructure.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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A guilt that I carry is this.

I hate cleaning up dishes and tools for meal preparation. I hate it so much that I basically live on disposal plates and cutlery, like a monster. I hate it so much I will prepare mostly just slops to eat from one pot or something so I don't have to do anything.

If it takes longer to plan, get, make, and clean up after than it does to eat I don't want any part of it at all.

My partner? She loves to cook. She makes delicious, happy food that is a joy to eat...

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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Ghost Runner 2 is in the list of Playstation games this month. Definitely worth adding to your library. Sad that there won’t be any more installments in this series.

PatrickoftheG,
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@khalidabuhakmeh I saw the first one and my only thought was I am not even sure I can play this. In the same way that I was hyped for Ultrakill but it's just too fast paced with too much weapon juggling going on for my brain.

PatrickoftheG,
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@khalidabuhakmeh Are you about to seduce me into another Steam purchase aren't you. I didn't know it could be slowed down a bit.

Daaaang.

SirTapTap, to random
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Saw a bumper sticker yesterday "I'm just a (unreadable) trying not to raise and LIBERALS"

imagine hating your kids that much. "None of you better learn none of those facts and medja lit re see. Math was made by the Jews you know"

PatrickoftheG,
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@SirTapTap The other day at work I overheard the term "the Jewish sciences" unironically. I am pretty sure I've only come across that unironically in documentaries about the war.

PatrickoftheG,
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@SirTapTap You know what, I had no idea this was a thing the Christian Science equivalent. You've taught me something new.

rjblaskiewicz, to random
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Something that has struck me as I have been looking for a new place is how few of the homes--whether they are obviously occupied or vacant in their Zillow photos--have bookshelves. They certainly do not seem to be an architectural feature of modern homes.

PatrickoftheG,
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@rjblaskiewicz Having books is great until you have to move your books. As much as I love my physical books, having a few hundred on my phone is almost better.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I do not understand how this isn't a war against the helot class, at best, or pure and applied ethnic cleansing at worse. It's only important government ministers calling for it, right?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-14/ty-article-live/u-s-germany-slam-right-wing-israelis-attack-on-gaza-bound-aid-convoy/0000018f-74c8-dd07-adbf-fffa73560000?liveBlogItemId=1166400525

timrichards, to random
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Disturbing, noticed across theatre and live music too. I wonder if the pandemic shifted many people's entertainment habits to online stuff they can do from home.

Opera Australia posts $4.9m loss, as shift to musicals draws audiences

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/culture/opera/opera-australia-posts-4-9m-loss-as-shift-to-musicals-draws-audiences-20240513-p5jd3w.html

PatrickoftheG,
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@timrichards North American example, but the pandemic torpedoed any desire of mine to go sit in a large audience and watch something. Not even the on-going plague part, which obviously isn't good, but more like the realization that I had only been going out to these things out of habit.

And that a giant screen at home, with recliner, and a good sound system is all the glory and none of the pain of a crowd of people.

Also, rent keeps going up but my pay doesn't, can't be helping.

PatrickoftheG,
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@timrichards Small groups of friends can always just come over and watch a movie with my partner and I, though. Is the giant audience of strangers really that important a part of the process? I suppose maybe for a concert or something.

Not having a giant audience also means never dealing with people shouting, children running up and down the place, people talking on cellphones or eating entire cheese and onion pizzas a meter away from you.

PatrickoftheG,
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@timrichards The last time and my partner went out, we remember the price of two popcorns, two drinks, and a thing of cinema candy being like $35 (Canadian), more so than the tickets themselves. I wonder if that's also a factor, because if you're going to do a movie, might as well do one with the fixings at home for a tenth of the price.

Maybe I just aged out of the demographic who likes going to movies regularly.

Maybe it's me who has changed.

Cassandra, to random
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It’s hard not to touch rotating belts…

PatrickoftheG,
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@Cassandra I thought it was just me.

PatrickoftheG,
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@Cassandra It calls to me in a way that things shouldn't call to me.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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No, it's not.

Most websites aren't even worth surrendeeing an email address to read an article, even if it only takes ten seconds to block them afterwards.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68977522

PatrickoftheG, to random
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"The IDF did not directly deny accounts of people being stripped of their clothing or held in diapers. Instead, the Israeli military said that the detainees are given back their clothing once the IDF has determined that they pose no security risk."

This is, for sure, the most moral army the in the world, yes sir.

Fantastic there's no power in the West that will turn down the money they make from letting this continue.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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The need for protopia fiction:
"Protopias are achievable. They present a realistic, better tomorrow."

"Murdoch could not find a single YA show or book that portrayed a positive vision of the future, at least not a plausible one that didn't involve superheroes or dragons."

"Really, the last time we dreamed about a better future was Star Trek," she said. "It was 1964."

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1240026582/dystopias-are-so-2020-meet-the-new-protopias-that-show-a-hopeful-future

PatrickoftheG, (edited )
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@CelloMomOnCars Does Ian Banks get no love because it's actual post scarcity utopia and not a half-assed Star Trek version?

Beside the point.

Nobody is writing anything positive because we know that steady upward trajectory we've been having for ever is about to come to a vicious end and nothing we have is sustainable and none of our politicians are up to the task of saving us.

PatrickoftheG,
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@CelloMomOnCars So do Star Trek's replicators?

Edit: Which is not the point.

I like Star Trek, genuinely do, well, at least most of Star Trek I liked. It's just not very utopian or post scarcity, which it doesn't have to be.

oblomov, (edited ) to history
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Imagine being a Middle Ages or earlier person during a solar storm like this one.

EDIT: to clarify, I mean people living far enough from the pole for auroras to not be common events.

#aurora #history

PatrickoftheG,
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@oblomov Probably a lot less special than we think, given they would see these things more than we do more often from a lack of light pollution. Most of Europe is North enough to see these on the regular anyway.

The real question is, imagine showing modern city dwellers a proper night sky.

PatrickoftheG,
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@oblomov That's fair enough. I know Aristotle spent some time writing on them and the Romans did too, I am just not sure if it was down in Southern Europe or from there knowledge of outside of there.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I like this building.

I think it's a pool. I should come to this hood more often.

PatrickoftheG,
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@SabiLewSounds Thanks Sabi.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I wonder why Canada doesn't actually favour a two-state solution to anything? Wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the layers of amazing settler colonialism, would it?

https://montrealgazette.com/news/national/canada-abstains-on-palestine-recognition-at-un-open-to-statehood-before-peace

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