Simon BB

You know that old guy in Ghibli movies that helps the protagonist on their quest and is seemingly the only person who can operate some complicated yet extremely unspecific mechanism? That's me. I want to be him.

I cannot condone violence, but there are some types of violence I will not condemn.

One of the details that distresses me the most about the atrocities in Gaza, is that Israel seems to be using "lessons learned" from when it happened to the Jewish People. Using more environmental pressures to kill en masse and avoid leaving behind actual death camps. i.e. Famine, cut supply lines

I have a dehumidifier in my basement and it makes me feel ALIVE.

Je viens de réaliser que les Acadiens sont les Hobbits de la Francophonie Canadienne. Les Québécois sont Gondor (avant l'arrivée de Aragorn). Reste a voir c'est qui Mordor...

Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 - Wikipedia

Wow. Cannot help but see parallels between the Secret meeting of 20 Feb 1933 and what modern social media companies like meta and Google are doing in the states.
The entire goal being the dismantling of regulation and removal of corporate limits
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...

Dan Carlin's "Superhumanly Inhuman" podcast on the Holocaust opens with an amazingly poignant, but equally topically frightening context setup of how Hitler operated.

I feel like the lack of understanding of the distinction between "Private Property" and "Personal Property" is a huge barrier to the spread of class consciousness. Dudebros think their big twucks are going to be taken away.

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

Finally getting around to playing Mass Effect again. I missed out on Garrus romance due to being a vanilla MascShep with Liara kid.

Am now playing FemShep and will 💯 get a passionate, incompatible enzyme, tender, allergic-reaction inducing protein, love making session with best-boy

I feel like if a right wing chud walked into a restaurant that had "Whatever, just wash your hands" on the bathroom door instead of genders, they would literally not wash their hands out of spite for the sentiment.

How do you begin to try to have a dialogue with such willful contrarianism?

I imagine telling my younger self about my fears as an adult, and I can only imagine he'd be like: "Dude, the creature in the basement that waits for us to turn off the light is a way higher priority than taxes."

2/2 The use of names, locations, and activities hinting at Turtle Island First Nations is a particular masterclass. Who else would be the best placed at rebuilding after the collapse of western white-supremacist capitalist society? The possibilities and stories to be told are mindblowing.

1/2 Margaret Atwood's epilogue in The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most thought provoking and impactful works of science fiction world building of the last 100 years. The whole book is a topical masterpiece, but the epilogue propels the imagination beyond.

Having the expectation of yourself, such that being abducted by benevolent aliens you would be the perfect representation of what makes humanity good, and then not meeting that is a hard vibe.

Bathroom stall writing that says: "Here I sit, broken hearted. Tried to shit, but only farted. Then one day I took a chance. Tried to fart but shit my pants." Credited to unknown.

In my humble (neurologically layman) opinion, neurotypicality is a myth. There are simply people willing to examine how their brains work and those who don't. Human psychology and neurology are much too complicated to point at one pattern as being "typical".

Are you tired of constantly feeling behind? Do you want your country/nation/city/community to flourish, thrive and have what it needs to be the best version of itself?
Do you think, in general, that humans deserve to live and grow? You are a socialist.
Welcome to the club.

Elon Musk is the worst version of what he once imagined himself to be.

You know what can act as a great defense against AI scams? Your local Patois! Explore your culture, and the cultures around you! No AI can yet reliably switch between two languages and their specific freaky mix like you can! Du Chiac pour mes buddies Acadiens!

Do you know why non-celtic white people are so interested in Celtic culture? It's because it's from before we were "white people". From before our colonialist and imperialist ancestors destroyed themselves. We yearn for the community and connection we destroyed in other cultures, even ours.

Just set up my first Linux system as a home media server. Definitely took a TON of learning but that is also the cool part! The issue is that not everyone has the time or energy to commit to that.

I've been agonizing over what my first post was going to be. Write it out, think, delete. Multiple times. Decided to go lazy and do some stupid meta thing. So hi. I guess.