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Journeyman human being. Sous-Chefs founder. Sacrificed my beard to a respirator against woodworking, PNW smoke and plague, the rest of the hair went on its own.

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@gray17 @aphyr It’s all Turing’s fault. Had to smear W∨X all over the tapes and now all automata is a pile of dirty heaps.


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@vga256 Library misfits are the best misfits


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This isn’t a New Year’s resolution. I’m not going to win it. It’s an infinite game and I’m just committing to play more.



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Love is sharing beautiful experiences with people who appreciate them. Sometimes that’s nothing more than a little comfort amidst pain.

Which is to say, all I’m trying to do here is love you.



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@nazgul Great Again.


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@nazgul Surely all my neighbors in Skagit will be unaffected, right? They’d never endanger the Tulip Festival!


@josephholsten Border Patrol doesn't give a damn about "criminals first" policies. They want big numbers, and farm workers are easy picking. (No pun intended)

When I was a kid, the local Apple orchards would come by junior high and sign kids up to work after school. And up north in Maine, the schools took two weeks off in the fall, so the kids could pick potatoes.

Maybe that's where we're headed again

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@gray17 @aphyr It’s all Turing’s fault. Had to smear W∨X all over the tapes and now all automata is a pile of dirty heaps.


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@vga256 Library misfits are the best misfits


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This isn’t a New Year’s resolution. I’m not going to win it. It’s an infinite game and I’m just committing to play more.



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So this year, I’m going to try to publish more. That means I absolutely will fuck up more.
I’m tired of writing without any feedback cycle to improve. I’m tired of possibly useful work hidden because of assholes on the internet.
But if and when I say something unpleasant or wrong, please say something. No promises I won’t be defensive at first, but I’ll appreciate it later.


This isn’t a New Year’s resolution. I’m not going to win it. It’s an infinite game and I’m just committing to play more.

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But you know who else is bitter about not being iconoclastic, counter-culture, politically-correct enough? A whole bunch of folks who look a lot like me. Some of them even went to DC and smashed fire extinguishers in the face of the thin blue line, because their country is being “stolen” from them.
Hell yes, I’d rather be silently suspected a fool than open my mouth and give these folks credibility.


So this year, I’m going to try to publish more. That means I absolutely will fuck up more.
I’m tired of writing without any feedback cycle to improve. I’m tired of possibly useful work hidden because of assholes on the internet.
But if and when I say something unpleasant or wrong, please say something. No promises I won’t be defensive at first, but I’ll appreciate it later.

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And as frequently as some folks suffer under mansplaining, the spiritual equivalent of “not all men” seems to come from every marginalized group to which I belong, every time I share what I’ve experienced or used to cope with challenges. I’m not jewish, catholic, atheist, poor, rich, chronically depressed, physically disabled, or queer enough for my lived experiences to be those of the group. Maybe not Dolezal, but Modern Warrior’s quote on “passing” feels often unsaid.


But you know who else is bitter about not being iconoclastic, counter-culture, politically-correct enough? A whole bunch of folks who look a lot like me. Some of them even went to DC and smashed fire extinguishers in the face of the thin blue line, because their country is being “stolen” from them.
Hell yes, I’d rather be silently suspected a fool than open my mouth and give these folks credibility.

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This amazes me, because I write almost every day, but post nearly nothing publicly. I’ve never been able to figure out why I find it so hard to “finish”
a piece for others.
In many ways, it’s not just that I suffer criticism badly, but not by rejecting it. Instead, I seem to adopt a solipsistic spite. “Fine, if you don’t like my cooking so much, you can find your own dinner.” As it were. I’ll happily just cook to my own tastes and enjoy it alone.


And as frequently as some folks suffer under mansplaining, the spiritual equivalent of “not all men” seems to come from every marginalized group to which I belong, every time I share what I’ve experienced or used to cope with challenges. I’m not jewish, catholic, atheist, poor, rich, chronically depressed, physically disabled, or queer enough for my lived experiences to be those of the group. Maybe not Dolezal, but Modern Warrior’s quote on “passing” feels often unsaid.

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I just realized why I have such a hard time publishing my writing that isn’t technical documentation.
I hate making nonfiction work public because it inevitably portrays others. Usually in ways they won’t appreciate, or it wouldn’t be notable.
I hate making fiction public because any story worth hearing has characters who are offensive or situations worthy of a content warning.
Put another way, I don’t care about making silent readers happy enough to deal Twitter threads and YouTube comments.


This amazes me, because I write almost every day, but post nearly nothing publicly. I’ve never been able to figure out why I find it so hard to “finish”
a piece for others.
In many ways, it’s not just that I suffer criticism badly, but not by rejecting it. Instead, I seem to adopt a solipsistic spite. “Fine, if you don’t like my cooking so much, you can find your own dinner.” As it were. I’ll happily just cook to my own tastes and enjoy it alone.

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Love is sharing beautiful experiences with people who appreciate them. Sometimes that’s nothing more than a little comfort amidst pain.

Which is to say, all I’m trying to do here is love you.



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