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dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:24:40 JST 
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@shmibs @eris @nik @wizzwizz4 hopefully jesus is returning soon -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:22:49 JST
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@shmibs @eris @nik @wizzwizz4 ok what is your suggestion then -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:19:41 JST
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@shmibs @wizzwizz4 @eris @nik im not sure i understand what you are getting at -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:10:50 JST
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@nik @shmibs @eris i only care about village size, anything greater than that is doomed imho -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:10:49 JST
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@eris @nik @shmibs i think you lose the ability to meaningfully create compromise above that size -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:10:48 JST
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@eris @nik @shmibs or at the very least: i'm convinced a well functioning commune/village is possible, im not convinced a well-functioning anything above that size is possible -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:10:47 JST
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@eris @nik @shmibs unless you think something like aggressively hierarchical and authoritarian is well-functioning which like: fair enough, but i dont -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:10:45 JST
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@wizzwizz4 @eris @nik @shmibs yeah my current politics are basically arising out of reform and revolution both being completely unimaginable to me and wondering how to move forward from that (basically, a sort of non-identitarian improvisational separatism or something like that) -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 02:39:50 JST
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@shmibs @eris @nik as long as theres an asterisk after 'communism bad' where i get to talk for several pages about my confusion over what people actually mean when they use the term in 2021 im in -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 02:35:12 JST
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@eris @nik yeah i was gonna say if it wasnt anti-communist i am like eagerly on board with most of that -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 02:35:10 JST
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@eris @nik or if it wasnt operating under the belief that democrats are commies somehow -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Friday, 09-Jul-2021 00:18:03 JST
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@shmibs can i read your essays anywhere? i like your writing style -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jul-2021 23:24:10 JST
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since i like homosexuality in early computing, randomly stumbled upon some gay erotic hypertext poetry that could potentially predate 'caper in the castro'https://archive.org/details/william_dickey_hyperpoems_volume_2history of it seems extremely interesting > William H. Dickey, who died in 1994, was born in 1928 and brought up in the Pacific Northwest. He was educated at Reed College, Harvard University, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Later, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University. He published fifteen books of poetry, including Of the Festivities, which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1959, More Under Saturn, which was awarded the California Silver Medal for Poetry in 1963, and The Rainbow Grocery, which won the Juniper Prize in 1978. He was also the recipient of the 1988 Bay Area Book Award, fellowships from the NEA, and a Creative Writing Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the Dreaming: Selected Poems was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1994, and The Education of Desire appeared posthumously from Wesleyan University Press in 1996.> While a professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University in the 1980s, he became interested in the potential of early personal computers to expand the boundaries of poetry. The California Association of Teachers of English cited him as "Friend of the Machine."> Beginning in 1988, Dickey used the HyperCard software on his Macintosh SE to compose what would become fourteen "HyperPoems." None were ever published in his lifetime. Plans for a comprehensive posthumous edition (prepared for publication on floppy disk with technical and editorial assistance from Deena Larsen) ultimately went unfulfilled. With the exception of a small number included on a CD-ROM with The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2002), the poems lay inert and unread and mostly forgotten until recovered from Larsen's laptop at the University of Maryland by Professor of English and Digital Studies Matthew Kirschenbaum in 2019.> The availability of the HyperCard Online emulator at the Internet Archive (in Dickey's own home city of San Francisco) finally offers us a platform. All fourteen of the HyperPoems appear here with the permission of Dickey's literary executor, Dr. Susan Tracz.> Most of the work appears to have been composed between 1988 and 1990. Integrating images, icons, animation, and sound effects with typography and text, the HyperPoems address many themes critics acknowledge as central to Dickey's print oeuvre: history, mythology, memory, sexuality, the barrenness of modern life, and (over and under all of it), love and death. But they also represent an important technical progression of his poetics, one with clear roots in the ideas about poetry he had forged through decades of mindfulness about the craft.> Three of the poems (those in Vol. 2) may fairly be called erotica, and represent unique documents of gay life in San Francisco at the height of the AIDS epidemic. They are certainly some of the very earliest (and most explicit) digital creative works by an LGBTQ+ author. -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Friday, 02-Jul-2021 08:40:08 JST
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@shmibs im not sure what of many things you are referring to but i didnt "write" any of this per se -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Friday, 02-Jul-2021 08:40:07 JST
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@shmibs but regardless im aware. dont wish to feel regret but im feeling "regret" around something like "systems of engagement i ended up plugged into" or something -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Friday, 02-Jul-2021 07:32:27 JST
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“The powerful want to say that we are entering a dangerous new era where ‘people disliking things en masse’ has coalesced into some kind of crowdsourced [weapon], firing on arbitrary targets from orbit and vaporizing their reputations,” she wrote to me in an email. “The use of mass social sanction gives the less powerful a weapon against the more powerful, so long as they can mobilize loudly and persistently. This is not new. Shame and laughter are vital tools for freedom.” At the time of writing, Isabel was not yet ready to be out publicly as a trans woman, and there was a shortage of information out there about her. This lead readers to become suspicious of the story, and many read it as a right-wing transphobic piece, assuming that the author was a cisgendered male (which was not the case.)Her star rose even higher after Beyoncé sampled her well-known TED talk, “We Should All Be Feminists.” Sophie. Karenn. Georgia Girls. Neana. Millie & Andrea. What do these electronic music artists all have in common? They're all men. The question many people asked when “Attack Helicopter” was published was: What were Fall’s intentions in borrowing a transphobic meme for her title?it eventually spilled over to cis sci-fi fans who boosted the concerns of trans people who were worried about the story.Neither Sophie nor A.G. Cook's image appears alongside their work, and so the age-old cultural construction of woman as body and man as mind remains intact.many people began to worry that Fall was somehow a front for right-wing, anti-trans reactionaries. the feminine—sweetness, beauty, passivity—and encouraged to believe that they're their greatest asset at the same time as being their biggest crime. As Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie highlighted during a TED talk last year: "If a woman is getting ready for a business meeting, she has to worry about looking too feminine, and what it says, and whether or not she will be taken seriously." “More abstractly, more emotionally, I have stopped trying to believe I am a woman or to work towards womanness. If other people want to put markings on my gender-sphere and decide what I am, fine, let them. It’s not worth fighting.”Fall was channeling that ironic reclamation, but readers were quick to jump to their own conclusions. Many only read as far as the title before assuming Fall was either transphobic herself or a trans person intentionally using the meme to make a point. There was no Isabel Fall Twitter profile. “When the story was first published, we knew nothing about Isabel Fall’s identity, and there was a smattering of strange behavior around the comments and who was linking to it that led people to suspect right-wing trolls were involved in this,” says science fiction author Neon Yang. They were publicly critical of the story on Twitter. “In hindsight, they were probably just drawn by the provocative title and possibly did not even read the story. A few people insisted to me that the controversy began with honest but negative readings of the story by people who felt Fall had missed the mark, before mutating into something worse. One unstated assumption made here is that only trans people should write about trans experiences, and therefore, Fall should have identified herself as a trans woman directly in the bio attached to the story. On the other hand, by appropriating and objectifying stereotypically feminine identities while obscuring their own, the men of PC Music and Sophie are literally colonizing the female body and using it as an instrument for projecting their own agenda. Sounds familiar.Suspicion of her motives in writing “Attack Helicopter” spurred an almost immediate attempt to figure out her real identity, which fueled suspicion that she was trying to hide something. She was accused of being an alt-right troll or a Nazi. I have also heard people say, ‘We deserve to know if Isabel Fall is someone with a history of writing things that divide queer communities.’ One criticism above all got to her: that Fall must be a cis man, because no woman would ever write in the way she did. And because this criticism was so often leveled by cis womenIt’s about the way the world treats us, and I think if you’ve lived in the world as a man with the privileges that the world accords to men and then sort of change gender, it’s difficult for me to accept that then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning as a woman and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.…I don’t think it’s a good thing to talk about women’s issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don’t think that’s true.It’s really fucked up to call yourself SOPHIE and pretend you’re a girl when you’re a male producer [and] there are so few female producers…I think it’s really good music. I probably shouldn’t have said that.Nope.The page you're looking for doesn't exist.Back to the homepageWomen spend their whole lives being battered by this maddening catch-22: their social worth is measured by a femininity that, it turns out, is not really regarded as of much worth at all.“In this story I think that the helicopter is a closet. ... Where do you feel dysphoria the hardest? In the closet. Or so I have to hope; I have not been anywhere outside it, except for [in publishing ‘Attack Helicopter’], which convinced me it was safer inside,” Fall says. “Most of all, I wanted people to say, ‘This story was written by a woman who understands being a woman.’ I obviously failed horribly.”“It ended the way it did because I thought I would die,” she says.This kind of nuance gets completely worn away on Twitter, home of paranoid readings.(Fall also issued a limited-edition ebook of the story under the title “Helicopter Story” last fall, to qualify for an award — not the Hugo. The ebook was not nominated.)https://timeflayer.com/arc/heli/index.htm -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 28-Jun-2021 00:48:36 JST
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this is how you all look to me, you all goofing around on the federated timeline -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Monday, 28-Jun-2021 00:48:28 JST
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deadly animals -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jun-2021 04:47:53 JST
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@shmibs i need to rate more books before it will generate recs, because i only wanted to rate things as i read them and not retroactively rate things i remember from a while agothe 'similar books' recommendations are pretty mediocre but occasionally good and occasionally awful enough to be funnyi remembered a few people from my days on rym and following them and looking at their friends' libraries has been the most helpful. found hilda hilst through one of them which was the best discovery in a while -
dog (rats@alt.suicide.holiday)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jun-2021 04:41:06 JST
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@shmibs i have mixed feelings abt it but i did remake a goodreads because i wanted more recommendations https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/135228003-phoebe
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