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Y’know, a manpack radio isn’t a terrible idea, broadly speaking. The whole thing is designed around the weight of old-style batteries and radio equipment. Get the headphone and PTT working through an RPI or dedicated ham board, and all that weight can be devoted to God’s Own Supply of Batteries.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The bit about naming the new terminal after Trump, well, it’s not like the old one was named after a better guy…

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Institutions (of government, of academia, of media) that regularly act within this framework on a given issue can be categorized as conservative on that issue, regardless of how they may present themselves.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wilhoit’s Law (“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”) applies to social expectations for behavior as well. Out-groups are expected to just take it.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

∼ No Deviant Perversions, Substitutions, Alterations or Fatuous Variations on Kaffeespezialitäten! ∼

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have you heard of the Shrieking Eels, Princess? They always get louder before they…

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahhh, got it. Yeah, I can see how they might not be a great fit for people assembling at home.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stay tuned for more Rawdawg Babies, right after these messages!

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After years of working on aircraft, I can say that Pozidriv are flat-out better and nobody should have to use traditional Phillips anyhow. They have an opportunity to make a better experience for people with the hardware while maintaining backwards compatibility, and I’m glad they do.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How’d you even end up with an S2000 as your first car

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now there’s also Meta, with their habit of, in the weeks before an election, accidentally whoopsie-banning anyone left of Diego Hitlerio de la Junta. Bans which take weeks to get removed.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If I had to guess, until they finally convince the electorate to sell the agency to private equity.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One must wonder if Candlejack got h

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely. Major ElfQuest vibes.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The why is because if there’s no society, there’s no unity, and it’s easier to take advantage of us. I don’t know how we do it, but we need to convince everyone that our society is worth defending. Simple shit like knowing your neighbors, looking out for them, being kind instead of cruel is a start

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s a sunset of the broader problem that we’ve got a significant number of citizens who don’t want to live in a society. Well, they do, because they need a society to live, but they’ve been convinced that they don’t, and billions of dollars annually goes into reinforcing that.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seriously, as someone raised in the ‘80s and ‘90s, I cannot believe how quickly I’ve come around to embracing temperance shit. The very MOMENT the controls were relaxed, all the bad old exploitative systems snapped back into place, and within not even a decade ruined fucking everything.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, as a group they don’t really seem all that interested in learning anything, even if it’s pablum that agrees with their assumptions. The appearance of erudition is socially worthless in this iconoclastic moment.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hell yeah! Your mom fuckin rocks!

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Been rewatching Steven Universe. It’s been a few years, and I finally hit the wedding sequence and am, as expected, a complete wreck.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Living in Seattle, I still miss things about Oregon sometimes, and Bi-Mart is one of them.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah. I guess we can dream, though. It’ll have to hold us for now.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nostalgia makes the constant drum of terror and helpless rage fade into the background, and what sticks around are hazy memories of being young and strong and having so many possibilities. Publishing a couple books, starting a podcast, just the feeling of being in Cal Anderson the day It Happened.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A city that welcomes the oppressed (even if imperfectly) will always reap the rewards. Someday a generation of tgirls will look back and claim Seattle in 2026 was the halcyon era of trans culture. And their kids will go “OK Grandma. Time for your pills” in that annoying-as-shit singsong voice.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

…which in turn requires an unambiguously-known author (or set of authors), which we don’t have for either testament, no matter how much the adherents claim they know for sure. If, a couple thousand years from now, memory of Tolkien is dead but LotR lives on, we’ll really be in a pickle.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God and his angels, and Israel (the people, not the modern state) are the main ones. And, not a particularly good fic either. Major unexplained personality changes from existing characters, new Mary-Sue inserts. That’s leaving off the fandom and what they think about fans of the original.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honestly if they could just cut-and-cover straight-shot through Belltown, put a cheap station there and skip SLU entirely, I’d like it better.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had the Walkman in the upper right, and my dad has (to this day) an older version of the sports boombox.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh shit this is a good point. You can just drive out of town and scream at the sky now.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a sunny take on what happened in “I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream”.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Starting the day off right!

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

5. She still has some of that burrito left over.

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Flaming_Spork @philo.gay · 30/09/2026

they have doomed the world i thought i could make my way in, and they expect me to congratulate them for it

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah but do they blind you when you put them on?

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bugs has finally been outdone.

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Apocynum @pocynum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Before I remembered the name, I was mentally picturing an extremely drunk Iggy Pop saying this.

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