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quinn

@quinn@social.circl.lu

Writer, migrant, surprisingly nice in person. Old queer. I would rather be blocked than tone policed. More meme literate than I should be at this age. I mainly shitpost, then sometimes make you cry.

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The worst thing about Europe and the old world in general is the lack of hummingbirds.

Oh sure the murder, corruption, and colonialism is bad, but no hummingbirds, wtf

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Man this is the most wine I've had since Kissenger died.

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Me to my French partner: "OMG OMG a former American president has been convicted of felony!"

My French partner:

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For those curious about the French specifics: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56237818

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My French partner LOVES it when American journalists use the phrase "leader of the free world"

and I defend it

because I'm a troll.

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Well, that's one more thing my dad and Donald Trump have in common.

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I try to be generally polite with randos on social media who have obviously not my politics for the same reason I don't scream at strangers on the bus.

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have a group of people ever hated anything as much as boomers hate their own children and grandchildren?

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Today I realized I could call it "intermittent fasting" and sound cool rather than "a hot mess that doesn't get around to feeding herself before mid to late afternoon"

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looking at british politics you get the feeling that brits aren't really enfranchised before the age of 45 or 50

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#writerscoffeeclub May30. How do you achieve a sense of wonder in your stories?

A sense of wonder is one of two possible responses that emerge from a sense of alienation (distancing from the world-as-understood: the apprehension of something vast or alien that's normally just out of sight when viewed from a mundane perspective).

Of course, the alternative response is a sense of cosmic dread (which is what Lovecraftian horror relies on).

Whether you feel wonder or dread is a matter of tone.

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@cstross When I'm looking for wonder (I am rarely looking to do dread, but it has happened) I usually look to sudden scale changes in the narrative. The looking very closely at a small thing and seeing a universe inside of it kind of twist-and-scale. I think it takes some level of violation of expectation to really get that sense of wonder, there has to be a least a bit of surprise.

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Young people are waking up every day to media about war, genocides, dead children. They are unsure of being able to make a living, scared by debt, violence, addiction, homelessness. They are unsure if the burning planet will even support their lives. They are struggling for secure basic housing after having their lives upended by a pandemic...

meanwhile the NYT:

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I'm just kind of wondering what editor let "legally killed child" through and when the last time they got a full eight hours of sleep was.

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@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis dude find the second hand store the snow birds and skiers dump their shit at and you're frickin golden for life.

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The only good thing AI does is help decipher whale language

quinn,
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@ntnsndr protein folding!

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The only folks for whom house arrest isn't a punishment are those who live in palaces with attached infinity pools and golf courses.

(Silvio Berlusconi fought off the inevitable guilty verdict until he aged past Italy's 70 year old limit for prison: then he served two years under house arrest—in his bunga-bunga mansion.)

Just as fines (with no alternative sentence) are the ticket price of wrongdoing for the wealthy rather than the punishment they are for ordinary folks.
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112451843395290411

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@cstross well, i've definitely known people for whom the stay in house orders for covid were a dream come true. read all the books! talk to none of the humans!

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@cstross fair, fair, but when they do maybe some light hacking here and there, can't say i know of anyone who did that, and then pray for house confinement, even without computer, over having to talk to people 😂

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@cstross i suppose i know a disproportionate number of people who like to commit all their crimes from the comfort of home

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So per Mission Local (https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/what-was-the-plan-understaffed-overcrowded-sf-jails/) 50% of the jail inmates in San Francisco are black.

SF's population is slightly less than 6% black.

So in case you were worried that places like Louisiana or Alabama were the most racist in the nation, put your mind at ease.

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Blue states my lily white ass.

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Yep, there it is
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-calls-to-encourage-emigration-resettle-gaza-at-ultra-nationalist-rally/

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Are there legit AI safety issues? of-fucking-course there are. But they're a lot more Therac-25 than HAL 9000.

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It is straight amazing to me that no one in the ad process at Apple said, "now hold on a second..."

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One thing that's still more fun about Twitter is the batshit insane arguments that sometimes find you. I just had some guys going at me for a while because he thinks Isreal is somehow behind the Sudanese civil war?

And that I should, I think, blame the Israelis for the Sudanese civil war? Anyway, I brought up UAE (who back Hemedti) and then he just kept sending me screenshots of my my tweets with kind of random highlighting, like it was proof of.. something.

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My main historical conspiracy theory is that it's all the fault of the English, except for the bits that are the fault of the French. Well, ok, the Iberian peninsula and the Dutch are at fault as well, but earlier.

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@slothrop they had sooooo many secret treaties back then. just because they printed them in history books like 50 years later doesn't make it not a conspiracy theory, it makes it a successful one.

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