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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I'm at the point of #writing my latest #novel where I think everything I've written is crap and nobody will want to read it and I'll never be able to work it into anything anybody will want to read. Only the #SunkCostFallacy is keeping me from just deleting the whole thing. I'm not asking for […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

#Diablo 1 must be the worst #church basement social ever found in a #videogame. I mean, nobody even brought any #caseroles !

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

In a #fantasy world where sleep and hold person spells are cheap and plentiful, and soul crystals could imprison repeat offenders indefinitely with no taxpayer expense, why is #capitalpunishment the first go-to for any fantasy kingdom? In a #dnd world where any 3rd-level cleric can cast Create […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

#Summer in #Tucson #Arizona is heavily overrated. On top of it all the AC in our apartment is fucking broken. Please pray for us.

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

This list is titled "How To Tell if You Are in a #HighFantasy #Novel," but it just sounds like an average day in #Utah to me.

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

When #princess #Adora was growing up in the #EvilHorde did she ever wonder why she was the only one of #Hordak's minions who wasn't half-cat or half-scorpion or a creepy witch or a giant spider with pop-out eyes or a snakeman or some other kind of disfigured #mutant? Certainly even before she […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

S. P. Hoctor (me) will be releasing the third #novel in the Jack Dinero Chronicles series, #Christmas in #CreosoteCanyon , in time for #holiday season 2026! Our #ya #teen hero will be facing off against his most dastardly foe yet! When #copyright lawyers trademark #SantaClaus and #DMCA strike […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The new #heman #motu #movie may not have set box offices aflame, but I very much liked it. And this track fucking rocks. This gives me fuel to write my own upcoming apocalyptic novel where heroic #cyborgs and #teens with special powers fight crazed #cultists trying to bring about #armageddon by […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

How come the #Apostle #Paul can say "in Christ there is no male nor female... slave nor free" and then in the same #epistle, say "wives, submit to your husbands" and "slaves, obey your masters no matter what?" And how come most #Christians will follow one of these sets of statements and not the […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

I failed the #LDS #mormon #Church. I ran away as a teenager because I was afraid of serving a #mission. I was told that if I didn't serve a mission I wouldn't be able to hold leadership positions and no woman would ever want me. It was too much pressure for #autistic me. Then I had my records […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

The Stockholm Tolkien Society used to parade through central Stockholm in full fantasy larp outfits on Ascension Thursday. On one occasion, a bystander asked, "What are you protesting against?" "Reality." #fantasy #books #tolkien

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

I love when people use #Romans Chapter 1 to condemn #LGBT people and conveniently forget that Romans Chapter 2 is an extended treatise on #Jesus' "Judge not, lest ye shall be judged." #bible #apostle #paul #epistle #commentary

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I've been dipping too much into #theology lately. But it's not getting me any closer to knowing the answer to the deep questions of my heart: how do I love and serve #God and my neighbor? How do I find a group of #friends who will lift me up in a #spiritual manner? How do I cope in a world where […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Conservative #protestants believe that liberal Protestants believe that anything goes theologically and sin is okay. Liberal Protestants believe that conservatives are too much in bed with the #GOP and have forgotten #Jesus ' command to love one another in a sea of #oldtestament legalism. I just […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Why are #Catholic men all throughout history so much in love with a woman who will never put out? Is this some sort of #medieval #chivalry thing or is there Something About #Mary?

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Perhaps the reason why it took 4,000 years from Adam's fall to the birth of #Jesus #Christ is because it took that long for a person who was sinless enough to survive carrying to term and giving birth to #God . Maybe the whole #OldTestament is the story of God's long breeding experiment to […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

In the words of Christian rock band Petra, IT IS FINISHED! The #firstdraft of my latest #JackDinero #novel, Christmas in Creosote Canyon, is in the can at a whopping 150,000 words! That's literally 3 #NanoWrimo novels worth of content that I wrote in the last […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Why did the #Catholic #Church only do the #Mass in #Latin until 1962? It was a language few people spoke except the very educated. The Church didn't even allow vernacular translations of the #Bible until the #Reformation forced their hand. Did people in #medieval Europe go to church every Sunday […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I wonder how the #BlessedVirgin #Mary felt when #Jesus brushed her off that one time saying "People who obey me are my mother and brothers!" #Luke 8:19-21 #bible #christ #christian #gospel #thoughts

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Sending someone #deaththreats is ever okay. However, I also believe that telling someone that they deserve #god 's wrath and that they will experience #eternal #torture by said god just for existing, I think that is also a kind of death threat. If nothing else it's a form of #dehumanization. But […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

You know, the #protestants broke off from #Catholicism because of the selling of #indulgences, but isn't the #prosperitygospel literally the same thing?

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

@bitwarden Why is the price of #Bitwarden Premium subscriptions skyrocketing by 65% this year?

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

I have no idea why I'm so depressed that I'll never be in full #communion with the #Catholic church unless my spouse goes in front of a #priest and presents as their birth gender long enough for us to have our #marriage validated. I had no concern about it before. In fact, I was perfectly okay […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

I want to love #God in a way that doesn't involve me abandoning my #transgender spouse. Is that a #sin?

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Today I learned that if I want to become #Catholic but my spouse does not, I will be unable to partake in the #Eucharist or be a Catholic in good standing unless we have our #marriage annulled and then we remarry in the Church. Until then we're technically living in #sin. Only problem is, my […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

It was so much easier to #debate #bible stuff when it was more like "How many #angels could dance on the head of a pin?" than "What misquoted, misinterpreted Bible verse will the #christofascist #regime use in their bid to start #WWIII and ignite #armageddon?"

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

If Joseph had to go back to #Bethlehem to be taxed because his family was from there, why couldn't he have stayed with relatives? Why did #Jesus have to be born in a stable? Could he and #Mary have not made hotel reservations in advance? Joseph was a carpenter in #Galilee, which was a different […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

I'm struggling with intense feelings of #nihilism tonight. I dare not call it #depression; I don't feel worthless, I feel like everything is worthless and we are all specks of dust floating around in an uncaring universe. I am scared to die, but even more scared to live. If you see this, please […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll > What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy? > To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy. > To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

I wish I could believe in #God. It seems preferable to what the evidence supports, which is that we're just monkeys that got too smart for our own good and now we're at the mercy of our terrible, terrible #machines. In fact, I think eternal conscious torment in #hell for worshiping God […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I'm starting to believe that the #Calvinists were right and humans exist in a state of total #depravity. There were only a small amount of elect, and those who believe they are elect are merely deluding themselves. The message of #Christ has been so diluted by the desires of evil men, twisting […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I doubt I will get any sort of nontoxic answer to this question, but how can you be #Catholic when the entirety of the clergy from the parish priest to the Pope, is either a #pedophile , covering up for pedophiles, or serving an organization that condones pedophilia? I know, that's almost like […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I swear, I look up one video on #youtube about #hispanic #Christmas traditions and now every other video on my feed is a long confessional from someone who converted to #Catholicism about why the #Protestant denominations are wrong about the #Eucharist. Why do I continue to click on these […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

I'm tired of the boot stomping on my face forever. I'm tired of watching the world spiral ever closer to madness and death. I don't want to live anymore. What is there to live for anyway when everyone's a sociopath looking to make a quick buck and everything is an enshittified piece of AI slop? […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

So what real effect does removing #i486 support do to the #Linux kernel? I mean, most current Linux distros don't even come in a #x86 32-bit version anymore.

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Writing my #Christmas #romance #novel has made me realize that all of my #MarySue #wishfulfillment #powerfantasy dreams involve having the luxury to offer #charity to those in need, strengthening #community bonds, and finding a #thirdplace for teenagers to hang out with in a nonjudgmental […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of #laidoff #techworkers would love to hear this, that is, if they can access the Internet from the burgeoning #tentcities of newly #homeless tech workers growing to monstrous proportions outside of #seattle and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

After three months of toiling in front of a hot computer, my third novel, Christmas in Creosote Canyon, is now ready to start editing! #Obsidian says it is now about 80,000 words long.... I kind of wanted to make it a novella sandwiched between my second and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

According to #obsidian, I have written over 1 million words in my various #writing projects. It's too bad that only about 200,000 of them were worth publishing. Well, 300,000 once my third #novel is ready. I wonder if a ratio of 3:1 written words to published […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

#TodayIFoundOut that the Heaviside layer, the name for heaven in the #Cats #musical, is an actual part of the earth's atmosphere. Remarkably, it is an ionized layer that reflects radio waves back down to the surface, allowing for long-distance radio broadcasts […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Why is the #usa sending people to the #moon when the economy is in shambles, millions of #Americans starve, gas is $5 fucking dollars a gallon, we still haven't gotten any #epstein convictions, and a mad dictator is inching us ever closer to #nuclear #Armageddon?

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Linux Is Best @linux.mivatter.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

People do not see the bigger picture. If an operating system is required to implement age verification but does not or cannot, it would be illegal. People have been arguing that our elected officials do not know how Linux or BSD works. I believe they know exactly how these systems work, and […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

When I say I want to go back to the #past, I always mean that I'd want to go back to an idealized version of my past self based on what I know now. I would not want to relive my #adolescence the way it was, for instance, being #paranoid that a magic man in the sky would strike me down for […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Wow. This is about as shocking as when I heard that Stephen Hawking visited #Epstein Island. #CesarChavez was a hero of both #Arizona and the #Latinx community. His contributions to the labor movement were unequaled. But does every man with any shred of authority become a #sex #predator? […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14… « If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these […]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Remember when computer-generated voices and AI pop idols were cool and cute and a completely new and exciting music genre and not the constant background noise of our horrifying computerized dystopia? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Man this is a bop, even a decade […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto, two vocaloids in the style of anime pop idols, sing on the track "Triple Baka" by LamazeP. Image is not mine.

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