HONG KONG FUCK YOU (USA/MEX), Shackles, Verminate, M*U*S*H

Coorparoo School of Arts, Friday, May 1 at 06:30 PM GMT+10

THE TIME IS NOW.

HONG KONG FUCK YOU are coming to FUCK Down Under. Hailing from Mexico/USA, the low-IQ champions bring their unhinged blend of industrial noise, punk, and powerviolence to the East Coast of Australia. Fuelled by the chaos of three bass players and a drummer.

Ripping through the east of Australia starting in, Melbourne on the 23rd at Last Chance. Hitting as many places as they can all the way up the coast before finishing in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast.

You’ve been asking for it. Now it’s happening.
Don’t miss it.

TICKETS

https://brisbane.askapunk.au/event/hong-kong-fuck-you-usamex-shackles-verminate-mush

She knows what she wants
natural, free, zest woman
intense yet soft love

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Challenging the Waves - Aobram

mush my porridge please
mornings rue overmorrow
hearth and heart beckon

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@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 2 March 2026 is:

#mush

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

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today’s research is a book of collected articles about MOOs. 25 years after the public virtual world boom, it’s refreshing finding that so much good research was done before it all collapsed in the late 2000s

#mud #moo #mush #virtualworld

i've been reading a late-90s book about virtual worlds - some of them VRML-based, many custom 2d and 3d clients, and some MUSHes/MOOs/MUDs

i came across a scientific MUD i had never heard before, and i'm absolutely blown away by its goals and implementation: NAU Solar System Simulation/SolSys by prof Reed Riner at northern arizona university. it was online from 1990 until at least 2017 (and maybe longer?).

there is a little information out there on what SolSys was:

"The Solar System Simulation, originated at CONTACT VI in 1987, was developed into an intercollegiate curriculum at Northern Arizona University by Reed Riner, as an honors course in Anthropology and Engineering. Since 1990, it has included student teams from many colleges and universities around the globe.

The teams represent colonies in a simulated future human community in space. For example, Mars Colony is normally manned by NAU and the Cabrillo College team traditionally inhabits the L-5 Colony near Earth. (See L-5 artwork left by Joel Hagen.) Teams communicate via websites, Internet e-mail and a Multiple User Domain (MUD), a text-based, virtual reality program. Students are directed and encouraged by their local faculty advisors and by a board of professional consultants in the social and space sciences."

https://www.contact-conference.org/c03.html

seriously - a hardcore scientific MUD built around real-life anthropology and space exploration. and entire mud devoted to teaching players how to cooperate in order to accomplish goals together, instead of killing a bunch of shit. how fucking cool is that?

did anyone here play/use SolSys when it was still alive?

the urls went dead when prof reed passed away last year, and the university wiped his webspace

SolSys ran on a modified version of tinyMUD, focused largely on building and communicating. this is its last known homepage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250328124317/https://www2.nau.edu/rdr/SolSys/

dr. riner's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azdailysun/name/reed-riner-obituary?id=58181563

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