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Would it be weird if I started having conversations and discussions between my two accounts? I mean, if I started to responding to some of my kolektiva posts from my beige.party account, and vice versa? I could have whole conversations with myself! 🤣

Could be funny, could be lame. I guess it would depend on how I did it. But it's almost tempting.

The one thing I would never do is boost or like a post on one account from the other. Frankly, I don't boost or favorite my own posts •ever•. I know that you CAN, but it just feels cheap to me!

I wish there was some kind of a guide to the etiquette of Mastodon, and to online posting in general. Wouldn't that be cool?

#mastodon #Etiquette #SocialMedia

Quasit 2h ago

I wonder if I should try to divide my posts somehow between beige.party and kolektiva? I mean the accounts.

Not sure how I could do that. Obviously I have my political posts, my book posts, my random babbling posts, the occasional very rare role-playing post...

Quasit 2h ago

Kevin Russell 20h ago

COME ON, overthrow the whole damn thing, dont wait.

LOOK.

"Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers"

Theyre building bots to take your jobs, your money, your water, your country.

https://gizmodo.com/power-prices-in-eastern-u-s-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers-2000759230

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers

A new report calls the impact significant and "irreversible."

Gizmodo

Quasit 2h ago

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱12h ago

everyone needs beans to hold

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

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Quasit 2h ago

@imalcolm @troberts

Did you ever watch The Goodies? I was a huge fan. Saw them on PBS in the '70s and the '80s. Of course they weren't available on VHS, so I did what I like to do: rebel rouse. A bunch of us were planning to get recordings from England and convert them from PAL.

But it never quite came off.

Remember the Dave Allen sketch when he was a priest In church, and the candle-thing became a Dalek and started shouting "EXTERMINATE"?

Yes! I remember as a kid my dad talking about how great it was, and then finally seeing it (while still a kid) on the ABC a few years later and totally agreeing, but that was the one and only time, so really looking forward to revisiting it this week. 😁

I've been on a bit of a "comedy from my childhood" kick lately (Dave Allen, Goons, etc.) and when I saw 'The Plank' on the DVD spine thought, "Surely not..." but then pulled it off the shelf and saw the cover. 😎

Quasit 3h ago

Ian Malcolm 12h ago

My rainy Sunday arvo op shop haul. Two DVDs ('The Plank' and S3 of 'Get Smart') and four books ('Bulldog Drummond', which I've been meaning to read for decades; 'One of Our Thursday's is Missing,' by Jasper Fforde (already have in softcover, but this is a lovely mint hardback); and two books by Eric Idle, 'The Road to Mars,' (novel) and 'The Greedy Bastard Diary' (travelogue/memoir).

Not bad for $12. 😎

#Books #DVD #PhysicalMedia

Quasit 4h ago

I get email notifications for everything that happens on both of my Mastodon accounts.

The beige.party notifications are sent from "Beige Party Admin". Unfortunately this immediately makes me think that I am being punished or reprimanded or that my content has been blocked for some reason.

Why? The word "Admin". Thanks to the popularity of authoritarianism on the internet, I instantly associate "Admin" with "Petty dictator on a power trip who is about to punish you or censor you so they can jerk off to their power a little more".

It's exactly like when there's a police car behind you with their lights and siren on. You may know that you've done nothing wrong. But you still get that terrified sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach.

#mastodon #authoritarianism

Quasit 13h ago

Abhijit Menon-Sen 1d ago

I just saw a poll about whether you have the right to "poison" yourself with alcohol (and other substances). I was always strongly in the "you can do what you want" camp until I came to live in a rural area that's ravaged with alcoholism, and understood the extent to which the burden falls disproportionately on the women and children in families, and the resulting generational trauma that affects young people's lives.

I don't imagine that banning alcohol (which many people advocate for) is the solution, but I can see that "do what you want" just doesn't work, and *some* solution is needed.

(I actually find the "your body belongs to the nanny state" framing of the poll quite offensive in this light, but maybe that's just me.)

Quasit 15h ago

I still can't decide if I should be posting my book recommendations from my beige.party account as well as kolektiva, but I'm guessing I probably shouldn't. I don't want to annoy anyone by showing up in their feed with the same post twice!

As far as I know, nobody is following me on beige.party who isn't also following me on kolektiva. So I'll just note that the new book recommendation is available here: https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit/116587615500424349

I do try to include download or IA loan links for the books I recommend whenever possible, and luckily the Internet Archive has a PDF of it freely available for borrowing. It's a very, VERY funny book!

Quasit (@[email protected])

Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "Superstoe" (1968) by William Borden I found a LOT of treasures in high school. One of my favorites was "Superstoe", a bitingly witty novel of political black humor. It's the story of a group of extremely eccentric professors in North Dakota who decide to take over America and reform it. Their approach is the obvious one, combining clandestine germ warfare, manipulating one of their former students who became a US Senator, and murders. "We'll join Knutson's staff," Superstoe continued, "and elect him President. He'll appoint me Secretary of State. Then we'll kill him, the Vice-President, and Congress, and I'll succeed to the presidency. Or Ben—you're the oldest. It's your prerogative. We'll have him appoint you Secretary of State. Then we'll reorganize things, and we'll be the first council of philosopher-kings to rule in America. Or anywhere." You might call it The Revenge of the Intellectuals—which seems particularly appropriate in this particular day and age. In any case the intrepid revolutionaries are soon in the halls of power and on their way to reforming the USA...and the world. The book is absolutely PACKED with brilliant, prescient ideas; for example, the internet is effectively predicted along with its use for direct democracy by the public. But one notion that really stuck in my mind was this: "The prison-reform bill provided for the building of new prisons, which would not be known as prisons but as rehabilitation centers. Prisoners would live in comfortable, colorful, fully furnished cottages. Their families or girl friends could live with them. Prisoners would be given vocational training and psychological counseling. Most important, however, would be the facts that the environment would be pleasant and natural and that the members of the communities—as the prisoners would be called—would be allowed to satisfy their natural hungers: enjoy a pleasant shelter, wear ordinary clothes, eat home-cooked meals, and fulfill their sexual needs. If anyone did not respond to this rehabilitation, he would undergo an operation on his brain." And if you were wondering, that operation was a frontal lobotomy. If you have a dark sense of humor, find politics infuriating and like to laugh, I'd definitely suggest giving this book a try. Sadly it's out of print. Amazon 🤮 is listing a used hardcover copy at $1,096.00 (!) plus $3.99 for delivery. Biblio.com has two copies at the moment for $61 and $155. No ebook version was ever released, for some insane reason. But the Internet Archive loans PDFs of the book for free. And you can find PDFs on high seas as well. https://archive.org/details/superstoe00bord Happy reading! 🤓📖 #Books #Bookstodon #Humor #BookRecommendation #QuasitBookRecs

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