Heliograph#apropos of nothing, people who don't care about a dystopian future are called #Ohwellians
(*am a borderline #ohwellian by now)
(*am a borderline #ohwellian by now)
(*re the #orwell #orwellian)#related I had that hung on my desk at the time because back then we thought *that year* is bad (*re the #orwell #orwellian)
(*re the #orwell #orwellian)
rusty@Heliograph did I miss something? Was 2017 bad?
@mativity the orange blob had just been voted in, first round
@Heliograph yeah, but the US still retained some controls in place back then. And I had family issues to deal with. Just in retrospect, it all seems mild. Most people I knew still appeared reasonable and sane.