Preach it brother. Enlighten the unwashed (m)asses.

This is the right answer. Of course marginalized groups tend to colonize new communities, because the big platforms, both because of their top-down structuring Nd because of the people who are on them, aren't always welcoming.

This is different from Voat tho. Voat was explicitly made to be a "free speech zone" i.e. a "let's say nazi shit because nobody can censor us"-space. The fediverse's idea is simply not to be dependent on centralised platforms, it says nothing about the content. If it happens to be left leaning, it's because left leaning people tend to care more about stuff like right to privacy and centralisation.

That's exactly why we do drugs

We should start cutting off heads right now tbh

Pope John Paul II.

I was working catering in the Vatican for some conference, and they kind of forced me to go to the audience with the Pope. Sort of shook his hand, but he was already late into Parkinson's.

I watch my son walk to another kid with a ball and nonchalantly ask: "wanna play?", and I feel a tear swell up.

Same. It's not intrinsically bad, it was abused, but often useful

All of a sudden? Yeah, if over a century of critique counts as "all of a sudden"

I could never wrap my head around the concept of "karma farming"

Yup. I got banned from a sub for using the verb "to Luigi" (someone)

Kos, or some say Kosm

Annihilation is a good book, but the hype it got is much more due to:

• the fact that it arrived at the peak of the new wave of interest for Weird lit,

• its (again, very timely) environmental spin to weird fiction,

• the fact that Vandermeer worked a lot to present himself as THE authority on Weird fiction, with his articles, collections, prefaces to reissues of older books and so forth.

I've used Calibre for so long, it's just a great piece of software

Same. If I could still use boost I would probably go back often, but the official all is so incredibly, profoundly user unfriendly that I just can't

It's called "describing the reality of capitalist economy" not "being a communist"

Oh no, they are not means. They are retribution.

Pathologic 2. Eastern European absurdist psychological "horror". Definitely what you are looking for.

Recording. An audio interface can be found for dirt cheap, and you can learn the basics of a DAW in a day or so.

Then find a drum base online, and play on top of it. You make mistakes, you delete your take and do it again. Forces you to practice, to put on the table all the techniques you know, and also to think about the overall structure of a whole song.

I am 3/4 thorough. It's very good although VERY drawn out. I mean, I read the book a long time ago, but in this series they REALLY tease stuff for an unreasonably long time. It's, what, at least 15 episodes before the idea of aliens is even spoken out loud?

God yes. Fuck shorts. That format should be banned from any platform