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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

The ceaseless planetary skimming was getting to me. I was moments from giving up and doing something else. The game seemingly sensed my desperation through my haptic grip on the mouse and finally relented. It presented me with the object of all that searching […] [Original post on autistics.life]

A very rare Stone Effigy terrain decoration from the game No Man's Sky, found exclusively on "Ruined" or "Relic" or "Reliquary" planets. It's a stone golem many stories tall, sitting on the ground with its legs bent in front of it, propped to one side on an arm, a rather forlorn pose.

It has still-glowing pale green orbs of shoulder and chest weapons. The eyes of its neckless head also glowing pale green, as if something still awaits command from a master it recognizes (which I am not).

The model is similar to hovering stone guardians that can be triggered when "digging" for fossils (I rarely have to dig) and picking up a "Vigilant Eye"; those are instead quite animated and hostile to your meddling with the old bones of their masters that desire peace. A Stone Effigy is a much larger form and possessed of legs, so... like a Titan of the Empire of Man from the Warhammer universe.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

I got banned for several days from a Steam game forum for confronting (and then blocking) someone who tacitly admitted to supporting Trump and fascism. I had already begun to suspect him of being dangerously conservative from earlier comments, which is why […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Mr. Bufferlow:
"I actually like Trump as an administrator"

Me:
That was all | needed to know, thanks for sharing and fitting the last piece of the puzzle. Now piss off.
[then I blocked him]

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

Fails to investigate and uses hyperbolic words like "cesspit" in a preemptive conclusion that lacks evidence, and then claims to have no bias. Also doesn't understand what "ad hominem" means, or knows and chooses not to admit it.

Ronan
@ronanmcd@mastodon.green
@VulcanTourist ‘it was bias confirmation" says the random who knows
nothing about me but whose bio says "Ad hominem is NEVER acceptable”
Blocked

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

Bias confirmation is an ugly thing, people. Do please try to avoid it....

Sinead O'Connor did a fantastic version of the Foggy Dew with the
Chieftains. | searched it up in YouTube and it came up first.

But also appearing twice in the top ten results despite being in no way
related to the search, was this prick

This is what Google's disinformation platform looks like. Search an Irish
topic, get McGregor, as if that's normal, as if people like him, as if anyone
takes him seriously. #google is a cesspit

@LiamGilmartin @ronanmed

I didn't "hit the Web tab”, it was selected by default, possibly because of
extensions that | use. | tried to select All, but it was disallowed.

When | searched YouTube directly, | did see the McGregor result well down in
the results.

Upon closer investigation, doing what @ronanmcd did not do and actually
clicking into the Conor McGregor link, | discovered that several people had
inexplicably "poisoned" the comments section by mentioning Sinead
O'Connor.

So... the simple reason that the search engine included that page was
because Sinead O'Connor was mentioned in it, even though the mentions.
were nonsensical, and perhaps secondarily because of the spelling and
phonetic similarity between *Connor* and "Conor".

Sheesh... | know that people want and need to despise Google, but not
everything is a disinformative plot. The original post is more revealing of the
posters bias than Google's. It was bias confirmation, pure and simple.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Why isn't anyone highlighting yet another of Trump's many pathological hypocrisies by nick-naming him "Sleepy Don"? He spent years harassing Biden with that mischaracterization; why did he do it? He did it precisely that has been, for all those same years […] [Original post on autistics.life]

"Sleepy Don" in his many sleep-deprived poses (and one strongly suggestive of some neurological dysfunction).

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

@servelan This right here might be what cognitive dissonance looks like. Every photo I see of this man, he looks like he's ready to explode... or kill everyone in the room. Does he have persistent issues with diarrhea, or is it simply cognitive dissonance screaming to get out?

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

I despise Steam moderators. They're not normal or reasonable. The idiots knee-jerked and played right into this histrionic bastard's manipulative tactic.

You have been banned from No Man's Sky Community Hub by a member of Steam Support for your post in "Living Ship Thread":

I made a simple factual statement. It had no ulterior motive that you assigned to it. You have been the one exhibiting defensive hostility, not me. It's why I've blocked you: it's a character flaw that isn't going away unless you introspect to understand WHY you reacted like this, and that doesn't seem likely. Does it have something to do with rigidity of Japanese culture? Not my problem to understand, it's yours. I'm not likely to re-display one of your comments again, so this conversation won't continue.

Ban Reason:

This post contains content that is inflammatory and likely to create arguments, rule violations, and other non-constructive replies. This type of content is not allowed on the Steam Community.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

@txtechnician Can I finally insult the Possum now and call them a snowflake? First they accused you of insulting them, and then got round to me. They can't be arsed to show any evidence of why they FEEL insulted merely because people questioned their ideology […] [Original post on autistics.life]

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

> When I access the server's Web UI on the NAS, all it does is demand that I create a server... but it IS the server! Perversely, the SAME thing happens when I try to install Jellyfin on the NAS!

Jellyfin server installed on my NAS, perversely demanding that I select a server when IT is the server!

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

There's only even one other #gamer here likely to care, but I'm planning some rigorously consistent changes to the #drills in #Empyrion, after experiments a couple days ago revealed some unexploited opportunities to make them behave better for casual solo play […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Spreadsheet to be used as a conceptual aid to specific modding of Empyrion (drills).

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

Does anyone else do this? Waste not, want not....

Image of leftover hard soap grafted onto new soap bar.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

@servelan As you read of insanity like this, remember: these people existed ten, even twenty years ago AND THEY THOUGHT EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS THEN. They merely weren't emboldened by a fascist President to speak those thoughts publicly. The danger has been […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Roddy Piper from the movie "They Live" about aliens among us.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

@fatsam I have a whole section devoted to the topic, and it's been rather consistent.

Screenshot of Google News showing segment devoted to tariffs.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

I machined this to lance an inflamed taste polyp that has been incredibly painful for a few days, but even this can't pierce it. Those fuckers are insanely slippery like a greased pig. No matter what angle of attack I use, *boop* the polyp dodges to one side […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Close-up photo of a steel mandrel machined to a very fine point.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

No lazy Sunday afternoon: fixing my wife's Galaxy A14 phone by replacing the fubar (touch)screen which had begun sensing touches that didn't happen. That meant that, if you could manage to even get through the security prompt to the home screen, it would […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Photo of Samsung Galaxy A14 5G partially disassembled.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2025

@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic Does the dialog that transpired in the screenshot equate to "being a dick"? That accusation has been leveled by someone for simple criticism absent any malice. Is criticism malicious purely conditional on how it's received or perceived?

@housepanther@goblackcat.social
goblackcat.com - I Am Worried - Black Cat Blog

@VulcanTourist
Is this where you socialize, or just where you advertise?

@housepanther@goblackcat.social
@VulcanTourist What's that supposed to mean? It's my mental heafth journey that | share with others. Feel free to ignore if it bothers you.

@VulcanTourist
The point is to share it right here, not advertise its existence elsewhere. ft gives you at least the superficial appearance of those who only use their accounts here to advertise their journalism on Substack or wherever. If it was a limit on post size preventing you, that would be understandable, but you have your own private host and can set the post size to however large it needs to be.

@housepanther@goblackcat.social
@VulcanTourist | don't advertise it's existence elsewhere. What are you even talking about?

@VulcanTourist
It's precisely what you did: goblackcat.com is not *here*.

@housepanther@goblackcat.social
@VulcanTourist | have it tied to a different domain. Is that okay with you?

@housepanther@goblackcat.social
@VulcanTourist You know something, disappear.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2025

@housepanther It's precisely what you did: goblackcat.com is not *here*.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

Proofreading is truly a lost art. I wonder how long this "typo" has persisted?

Giant blue fabric wall hanging in the Louisiana Supreme Court emblazoned with its seal but showing the name of the state misspelled as "Louisnana".

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

Even the Veterans of Iwo Jima aren't safe from these assholes rewriting history.

Imagine calling yourself the "master race" and having to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

Hey everyone! She's baaack! Meet spammer Fediverse Chick Nicole!

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

I am never opening another fortune cookie.

"Fortune" cookie: "A good way to keep healthy is to eat more Chinese food."

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2024

Will this invitation to bribery go unnoticed? Donald Trump on Truth Social: "Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS OR MORE in the USA will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including but in no way limited to Environmental approvals. GET READY TO ROCK!"

Donald Trump on Truth Social:
"Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS OR MORE in the USA will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including but in no way limited to Environmental approvals. GET READY TO ROCK!"

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VulcanTourist @vulcantourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2024

Hot date with the twins. Can you guess where they're from?

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