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All we need is a filter so that the sky looks like a TV set to a dead input. Which.. these days probably means more ads.. stupid smart TVs.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 3h

That could be so supercool. I mean his backstory's dark, but.. it's the sort of dark I could see resonating with people going through changes and having to live with them.. navigating restrictions, too.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 4h

Jack Hawksmoor.. for kids?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 5h

I can only imagine the average for comics being higher. Still, there's that strong natalist streak that tries to see everything outside the mainstream reduced to 'child-friendly' content.. as if Space Cadet and Lucky Starr were the only acceptable science fiction, for example.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 5h

In a lot of ways they're trapped in the 'product for kids' mold just like animation and comics.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 6h

This is what happens when they act out once and nobody responds inside of 10 seconds.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 9h

This sounds like the remake of Fist of the North Star we deserve, even if it's not the one we want.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 12h

Ah. I had some hope going on there, admittedly.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 20h

So did you ask her to the dance?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 20h

Which I'd be OK with if the religion inspired people to help others in the here and now and create beauty. As it is, that whole 'Effective Altruism' sounds like waffling to defend raw selfishness.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 23h

I know how difficult that must be.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Powwow prices, in other words. I think I've seen $12, but that was in a reuseable cup. There's probably a more general term for the markup that happens when you have a dedicated audience that's going to have disposable income.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, it is Stearns County.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That'll make Mom sad. She liked their single serving pizzas.. one or two a month, but she liked them.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

L'audace, toujours l'audace! Go for it.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Barring no 'wait for a few hours while coal trains roll by' delays, but that might just be Empire Builder problems.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That would be the point, of course. Once all the people who'd complain about the mass graves and folks in chains opt to move out, it gets easier to set up a monoculture and pretend that the 13th through 20th centuries never happened.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Especially since the response to both is similar also.. don't agree to anything, don't make any sudden moves until you have to defend yourself, and get as much distance between you and them as possible.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Like.. show me a conscious AI that I can verify isn't a Mechanical Turk or Clever Hans scheme from some wannabe Delos D. Harriman and sure, I don't want to kill them.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What's a good way to say "I agree with the ideal you're proposing, and I'm willing to be cautious about it up to the point where doing so enables con men to further their schemes, at which point I'll happily smash the entire setup into dust"?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Really glad somebody else remembers that scene, and yes, that is what comes to my mind also.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I knew there was a reason I hated simulationist theory in college. Well, that and the similarity to 'how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' as regards day-to-day utility.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would guess 'actively looking forward to Simon Legree cosplay while planning to build an exact replica of Tara using slave labor', since $150,000,000 is barely the entry point for a project like that.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Agreed. While there should be witnesses (if a government is going to do violence it needs to be transparent and open about means, motive and opportunity) they can be on-site and compensated for the experience.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So darn cool. It's a little Indo-Euro-centric, I know, but I still have a massive soft spot for Esperanto. I'll probably never be fluent, but.. they were willing to be permanent second place so that people could talk without one natural language being dominant.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And yet it's the center of a massive hub network. So many eggs in a basket just to keep planes constantly moving.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not really.. we've got a long history of resisting anything that might wind up with our leaders facing criminal procedures or our military facing war crimes tribunals. Almost a solid century of resistance and chicanery, escape clauses in treaties, that sort of thing.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As my Russian professor put it in 1996.. "Slava(we took names in Russian class, I picked Vyacheslav), Soviet Union is here."

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Darn skippy, cursed. One leaf flutters in the wind anywhere in Illinois and you're delayed 2 hours. I.. might be bitter because KORD regularly turned 8-hour shifts into 16-hour shifts because _somebody_ had to be in the parking lot to handle customers.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Plus it's no doubt similar to the 'Twilight effect' (probably a better term there).. make the primary voice unlikeable and the reader will more easily insert themselves in the story, which means they get invested.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Got to continue the cycle of abuse somehow.. it's the only tradition they seem to uphold.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Or apologize for the salt in their bed?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Third, maybe fourth CD I ever bought (Mystery Girl, Tuesday Night Music Club, a classical CD with Scenes from an Exhibition). Hit the bonus track before I knew those existed.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Got to fill the time between ads for Krugerrands and survival food buckets (I.. haven't ever really watched Fox News so those are ad guesses) somehow.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can't look at that face and see 'Wisconsin'. New Jersey, maybe. All the beer cheese soup in the world couldn't fix that.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So how heavily was this Betts fellow invested in a firm that made and sold cast-iron cookware? I'm at the point now where I look for the Wakefield/Carmel Healthcare connection first and foremost.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

UC Davis.. they're going to plunder and burn the RAH Archives?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Where's Seanbaby when we need him?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Algospeak? Got to get through keyword mutes and parental controls somehow.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had an odd moment. I was on the Rochester, MN subreddit and had to stop myself because I'm used to BlueSky's posting style and I couldn't be sure that referring to 'strange fruit' would get me banned or not.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did any of the stations from GTA Vice City survive? I have fond memories of Flash FM and the realization that the DJ voice actress was a DJ in the Cities.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Much like with fandoms, that demographic wants to be the sole caretaker of a dying concept, with nothing passed on (and certainly not to BIMPOC or LGBTQ2S+ folks!) until they're out of the picture.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They'll 'just ask questions' until the answer suits them. 'Course, is that suitable answer 'government-supplied Manic Pixie Amish Farmgirls at every incel's bedroom door' or 'Lord Moneybags adds another tween to his harem, as is only right and proper'?

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Guessing if I poked around linguistics BlueSky a bit more I'd find an elegant term to describe the process of expert jargon having its meaning warped once it hits the sociolect.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Plus there's usually something available to watch for free (if you don't mind 2 minutes of ads every 5 to 7 minutes of content).

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

10 years or so. The gallery/workspace was less than 10 years old when I worked there.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1980s, I think? I worked security there 2003 to 2006 or so.

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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now I'm curious if Mean Guns counts.

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