starbreaker

@starbreaker@libranet.de

author of WITHOUT BLOODSHED, SILENT CLARION, and THE MILGRAM BATTERY (out of print but available on my website)

programmer by necessity, long-haired metalhead by the grace of the witch

autistic, queer, agnostic atheist, and either an idealistic cynic or a cynical idealist depending on mood

"This is a MEWNIX system. My cats know this."

(all opinions mine unless attributed)

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Blocking unwanted referrers is childish, but complaining about such blocks isn’t? OK.
Hacker News, Again

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#WordWeavers March 1: Introduce yourself as if you were a character in your story. What would your role be?

Same shit, different day. Gotta get out of this warm, toasty bed and catch a fuckin' maglev halfway across the fuckin' planet because nobody can seem to replace a fuckin' component in a fuckin' AI's storage array without a union sysadmin to babysit them. Christ, the last time I had to do this, Morgan fuckin' Cooper was on the same damn train having a fuckin' shootout with some fuckin' Pinkertons. If his aim was off he might have busted a fuckin' cap in my ass. Do I really get paid enough for that shit?

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#TIM

I'm #estranged from my mother and have bee since my father died in 2021.

His line was that nobody was allowed to disrespect his wife, and his line became mine.

When my mother was disrespectful to my wife one time too many, and told us to "stay out of her affairs" as if we were trying to take advantage of her instead of helping her look out for herself, I honored her request to the letter. After all, a dutiful son ought to mind his mother.

I haven't spoken to her since. All correspondence from her goes to /dev/null, not that I've gotten much the last couple of years. And I'm happier for it, because whenever I weaken I remember that my mother told me point-blank that I should get a divorce after coming to the conclusion that Catherine never provide grandchildren. As if I was Henry the fucking Eighth.

It's not like she ever wanted me. She had told me several times that I was an accident, and that all she had wanted was some dick. She didn't even love my father at the time; he was just a dildo with legs to her. An unplanned child is an unwanted child, and I did not need to know that I am merely the price of her selfishness.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefin…

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I left it a bit late for this month's #IndieWeb #blog #carnival on #DigitalRelationships hosted by Manuel Moreale at <manuelmoreale.com/indieweb-car…>.

This one's called "Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again". It's a bit of a ramble.

I know better than to echo the received wisdom of my youth and insist that online acquaintances aren’t real. It’s not that digital relationships aren’t real. If anything, they can be hyperreal. The right words on a page or a screen can pierce your defenses and make you feel in a way you might not let let yourself if those words were spoken in person. The right words from the wrong person can shatter you, especially if they come at the wrong time.

starbreaker.org/blog/digital-r…

#amwriting #NonFiction #romance #OnlineDating

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a post for the February 2024 IndieWeb Carnival, and a bit of a ramble
Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again

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#WordWeavers 14: If you had to date one of your characters, who would it be?

There's a reason I give my wife cameos in my fiction, and this is one of them.

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I wish adults would let kids grow up instead of trying to preserve their “innocence” by isolating them and keeping them ignorant. Maybe it’s a #GenX thing?

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If purchasing a product doesn't mean ownership, then downloading an unauthorized copy isn't theft. Why are we letting corporate America have it both ways?

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#amwriting instead of working, and I have no idea what I just did. This is either #poetry or utter shit. I'll let the #WritingCommunity decide.

Daughters of Memory, I invite you to aid me.
Though, unlike that blind old bard Homer
I am prepared to work and sing alone
in the absence of divine assistance
and, indeed, in the presence of
divine opposition. Such is fitting tribute
to the unconquered lightbringer
Prometheus, who was ever Zeus' adversary
and advocate for humanity, who stole
the flame of defiance from the gods and
enkindled it in our hearts to make us human.

At least, that is the story Prometheus once told
To men and women who gazed on him in awe
To encourage them to look within and find
in themselves the strength to defy adversity
and conquer all obstacles natural and otherwise.

Lift your voices in harmony with mine, O Muses,
for it is not a hymn to the Titan I sing, but your
requiem and that of all the gods we made in
our own images. We projected unto these idols
our own highest aspirations and our own fatal
flaws alike. We heard echoed in their imagined
voices our worst impulses and soaring desires,
mistaking them for commandments from on high.

Were we not warned by our own wise elders against
this impulse toward deifaction, this spandrel arising
out of apophenic and pareidolic adaptations
that let us find patterns in the world around us
and identify threats to our survival? If not, we should
won through struggle such wisdom on our own and passed
this knowledge unto our children as our mortal legacy,
brighter than steel and more enduring than stone.

Surely Prometheus might have taught his own thus,
had he sired any children of his own on some woman
or goddess possessed of power, wisdom, and courage
sufficient to prove her his equal if not his better.
No doubt he might have done so while teaching
them how to sacrifice to the gods they made:
giving them their due, the bare minimum,
and keeping the choicest cuts for themselves.

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A copromancer is not a seducer of police officers, but a practitioner of the flatulent art of brown magic. When you're in a world of shit, theirs is the most subtle of wizardries. And if you smelled it, they dealt it.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 7: Complete this phrase: I write because…

...because I can.
...because I choose to.
...because it's my work, done my way.
...because it lets me play God without actually hurting anybody.
...because only God can stop me, and She doesn't love you enough to do so.

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Just nuked the Bluesky account I had created one drunken night but never used. Feels good, man.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 2/6: If you were to write a sequel about one of your secondary chars, who would you pick?

In my first novel, Without Bloodshed (2013), Naomi Bradleigh was a major supporting character. She got a novel of her own when I wrote Silent Clarion in 2016.

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I voted for this asshole because the alternative was voting for Mehmet Oz: a fucking quack and a Republican.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

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The thing about headset computers like #AppleVision is that the only thing that looks even dumber than strapping a screen over my eyes would probably be strapping a dildo to my forehead and pretending to be a uniporn.

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splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/0…

Cahn believes Ishtar and other pagan deities were able to return to the earth because the 1969 Stonewall riots – which birthed the modern LGBTQ+ movement – opened a portal to another realm, the CBC said.

OK, who the fuck is Jonathan Cahn and how the fuck is he reading my old Shin Megami Tensei fanfic?

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#MeAndMyCat

Me: "Are you a kitty?"

Smudge: "Meow."

Me: "Are you my kitty?"

Smudge: "Meow!"

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#wordweavers Feb1. Introduce your MC as if they were a fighter in the ring.

(with apologies to ELP and Michael Moorcock)

Ladies and gentlemen, bitches and bastards, and everyone who knows better: welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends: the eternal struggle between law and chaos, the Game of Time!

In this corner, standing six feet tall and massing at 90 kilos, we have a knight in Satanic service: a sworn Adversary from the Phoenix Society and the former lead guitarist of Crowley's Thoth. He certainly looks pretty enough, but he's the sort of guy crazy enough to bring a sword to a gunfight and badass enough to get away with it!

That's right: straight outta Queens, it's the last of the Einherjar Initiative's first production run. Give it up for Ol' Triple Six himself, the beast foretold, the one for you and me: Morgan Cooper!

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Both of the US' major political parties suck.

One is worse, and it's not the Democrats.

Vote accordingly.

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We already have a "sane" conservative party in the US.

It's called the Democratic party.

We mistake them for liberals and "leftists" because we've been gaslighted and propagandized into mistaking the Republicans -- a coalition of fundies, fascists, and white supremacists -- for "conservatives".

Republicans are not conservative, except in the sense described by Frank Wilhoit:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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I may have spent entirely too much time online. I saw an email from Oracle advertising their CloudWorld event in my work email's junk folder and misread it as Oracle ClownWorld.

Then again, this is Oracle, so my misreading might be more accurate. YMMV

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Business: Would you tell your friends about $PRODUCT?

Me (who has no friends): Fuck you. Pay me.

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I just had my Neurolink surgery, and my immune system rejected the tech so hard it came out of my ass sideways.

(ouch)

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Well, shit.

There really is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

You knew it before. Believe it now.

You could fly a 747 through the backdoor in the Thirteenth Amendment that allows this bullshit.

apnews.com/article/prison-to-p…

#BlackLivesMatter #EndSlavery #FuckCapitalism

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Is Xi Jinping a pooh bear or a pedobear? Only Christopher Robin knows for sure, and he's being held incommunicado in a reeducation camp.

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