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hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

I didn’t expect a work conference to prompt me to ask “are the straights okay” but here I am

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

a furry con picking anew theme every year: cute! creative! a way to keep people coming back!

My employer picking a new theme every year: forced! corporate slop! I hate it!

The Crypto Dot Com arena

satire is dead

being in Los Angeles makes me realize just how much I absolutely do not miss living in California at all.

ORD🛬LAX.

now that I’m here: uuuugh

some mountains outside of LA, taken from the vantage point of a 737

This is too much topography. I should never leave the Midwest.

ORD 🛫 LAX

ugh.

A few planes and auxiliary vehicles on a wet airport terminal. The sky is grey

It’s pretty grey at o’hare this morning

We did it but we aren't stopping

Fuck ice.

I do not rant to get out of bed and go to ohare

uuuugh

Probably not. But planitir almost certainly does.

I love my meme of a city (complimentary)

An advertisement for train travel, indicating that fares can now be paid with credit cards. It shows a passenger train and a well-dressed man holding credit cards. YOU TAKE OUR TRAINS WE TAKE YOUR CREDIT CARDS Effective January 10, 1972, you can pay for your trip on Amtrak trains with a credit card in 64 cities across the United States. With more to be added in the future. This marks the first time that a unified credit card system applies to the nation's intercity rail passenger network. Amtrak will accept American Express, Master Charge and the Rail Travel Card. We're pleased that Amtrak can now offer you the two surest ingredients for a pleasant trip. Trains and credit. We're making the trains worth traveling again.

From America, Feb 1972: Train Travel ad from Amtrak

(+American Express Credit Card; Master Charge Credit Card; and Rail Travel Card)

«YOU TAKE OUR TRAINS WE TAKE YOUR CREDIT CARDS»

This ancient page still works and it uses barely any data, it was developed back in the age of the blackberry, it's been more reliable than texting for me usually

www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/wire...

I know I’m responding to an ancient post, but Glenda is a rabbit.

😇

When the chill Midwestern guy who just wants to explain cool technology to you has to call out fascism by name...

A black cat, fangs out, lying on his back atop a pad of graph paper and a MacBook Pro

teefs

if anyone is ever confused by me stating that midwesterners have better politics than dipshits in the bay area…

Great! That’s fantastic! And renewable energy to run it is even better! We can solve two problems at once!

A really massive puffball mushroom I foraged in Cornwall, and which is glad to be living after the year 1983, when it became mandatory in the UK for all front seat passengers to wear a seat belt.

IMPORTANT: When transporting a giant puffball mushroom you have recently foraged, it is absolutely crucial that you ensure the mushroom is firmly strapped into the passenger seat of your car to guard against sharp braking and potential whiplash.

An orange kitten sleeping up against a cinderblock, surrounded by dead leaves and trash.

The same orange kitten, looking up at the camera as he realizes we're talking to him.

The orange kitten is now absolutely demolishing a pile of canned tuna about half his own size.

The orange kitten standing sideways to the camera, standing on a sloped concrete embankment. His head is about twenty percent too large for his body.

I think bluesky needs these photos from the day we kidnapped George (aka G Unit aka Baby G aka Baby Genius aka Orange Baby Jesus) from behind a konbini in Okinawa. Literally sleeping on a cinderblock like some Disney adaption of a Dickens novel. Five years ago last week!

when you think about it All of on line is just trying to find a place to wiggle your fingers and jam the keys

You forgot the part about the abusive deadbeat dad prompting the 4chan guy to start 4chan by banning him from a different forum for posting anime

I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe.

“So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?”

Fuck off.

to be fair I’ve never been to southern california but on paper it seems miserable