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

@ukrdef Zelensky forcing himself to sit in the same room with these monstrous fascists is possibly more heroic than anything else he's done.

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

@ukrdef Don't give up anything! Any capitulation at all, even allowing Putin the silverware, will embolden him to come back for more when he senses weakness and opportunity.

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

@Salty > The changes will greatly decrease the number of late voter registrations - who usually significantly favour the left. I think I've only ever heard this stated as descriptive fact without an explanation why it occurs. It certainly doesn't only happen in New Zealand. Are […]

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Perrin42 @perrin42.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

Have the writers just completely run out of ideas? They're just refusing plotlines now; in WWII the US was allied with Russia and Germany was on the opposing side. Now we're looking at WWIII, and the US is allied with Russia and Germany is on the opposing side. Can't we get some new material?

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

@fatsam So the affliction runs in the family.... :RedHearts:

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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 · 16/12/2025

@fabio How does this output compare to the distortion caused by human re-tellings of the same information, stories, anecdotes repeatedly over time? One the surface, at least, the result appears rather similar.

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

@hosford42 Oh, you noticed that, did you? I wasn't sure the whitespace was delimiter enough. 😇

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

@safest_integer @hfalcke @ehtelescope > ... humanity collectively looked into the Orthanc stone and drew the attention of Sauron's Eye. This one? mastodon.social/@hfalcke/1157300392…

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

@GreenRoc @hosford42 > There is zero shame in not being able to write alternative texts. Please keep us posted so we can see the art! People wanna see it. You could make people smile.

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

@hosford42 Would you believe I said that just for you, knowing your skillset? 😉

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

@fatsam Certainly... and most of them don't appear to be. It doesn't dissuade me from making presumptions about why they took oligarch bribes if their subsequent (in)actions strongly suggest apathy at best toward the aims of those oligarchs.

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

@hosford42 I'm quite fine with the sailor language, since it's not every third word and is offset by collegiate words and thinking.

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

@hosford42 The apology is unwarranted masking. Take the mask off!

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

@blogdiva > i fucked cancer into the sea #fuckCancer Here's to much fucking [says a colon cancer survivor].

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

@fatsam Taking campaign contributions from oligarchs doesn't necessarily mean that your values align with theirs, and offering such a contribution could merely be greasing all wheels equally, a political fishing expedition. Accepting such a donation could be an act of exploiting *them* in […]

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

@FlohEinstein It's a screenshot, and screenshots don't lie, so of course I see it, too.

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

Rationalization is the result of reason and logic enslaved to a limbic master who should never have been granted the keys to the executive suite.

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

@wei3 @aphyr Didn't like the hybrids with weird beakteeth and leathery tails, eh?

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

@hosford42 I don't have any explanation, either. The mass delusion and/or apathy at work here is more than I can process. The Paradox has reigned supreme for my entire lifetime; I'd like to live to see it END.

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

Second highest personal score in KMahjongg tonight since I started playing 7 years ago. Yay?

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

@hosford42 He'd be much better at it than Trump, then... which isn't saying much because Trump is terrible at it. He reacts like a petulant 5-year-old to any criticism at all; "shut up, piggy!" Can you imagine an alternate history where Reagan said that to anyone, much less a reporter in front […]

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

I don't like having leftover remains of anything we've eaten in the same room with me afterward. The odors constantly ping me! It's very hard to concentrate with those odors nagging me.

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

@hosford42 Does Musk care what anyone thinks when it's not existentially harming him? If he's a narcissist, he's not the same brand as Trump.

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

The one thing that binds Republicans and Tories to the One Percent is: Selfishness. Selfishness that goes beyond the survival instinct it was meant to be. Let's take away their ability to thrive at the expense of everyone else, shall we?

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

@evdelen Disingenuity should be in the common parlance by now.

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

Trump would be homeless if he hadn't cheated, lied, and manipulated his way out of his repeated failures. His life has been a litany of Hail-Marys, and he lost most of them.

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

@Guillotine_Jones My wife would argue against what I wrote if she was privy to it (she has a Mastodon account at my urging, but never uses it in favor of Facebook that I abandoned).

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

@SnoopJ Short run-on sentence version of a longer story: I once went to a birthday party of a coworker, locked my keys in the apartment but still had my spare car key, drove to the party anyway, locked my spare car key in the car, walked to the party anyway, couldn't reach the manager from the […]

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

@evdelen If you have that thought when your consciousness is altered by a shower then I wanna be inside your head when you're high.

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Ev Delen @evdelen.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

The mandatory age of retirement, no ifs ands or buts, including "for life" positions and highly elite positions (politicians, heads of state, heads of companies) should be: The median life expectancy. If those people want to stay on longer (which they do given we're governed by a gerentocracy) […]

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

@hannah In google Earth, the bay beyond Haroldswick is differently named "Harold's Wick". 😆 I wonder who this Harold with the famous wick was? Gotta love Shetland.

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

@Guillotine_Jones I worry that my self-absorption might veer into narcissism. Not only am I autistic, but I've also - and perhaps by virtue of that - spent much of my life alone and inside my own head. I'm most comfortable with what's inside it. I care deeply about principles and the welfare of […]

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

@crk5 Possibly one of the good ones there, I think, in spite of him being Republican. Is he only Republican because it was a necessary door to politics in his home state?

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

I'm going to finally find a Stone Effigy for myself today, dammit! #NoMansSky

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David O'Brien @iamdavidobrien.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

Disability is, as you rightly observe, complex and intersectional, Aaron. Your artist friend is perfectly within their rights to publish their work with no or limited alt text, if that is a struggle. I'd suggest adding a note along the lines of "I find it difficult to describe images verbally" […]

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

My wife: talking in Discord with guild-mates about turning a profit in Final Fantasy. Me: [loudly enough to be heard thru the mic] Filthy capitalist!

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

When a particular social network can bring tears - of feeling accepted - to my eyes, I think that might identify that network as one worth keeping. #Mastodon @autistics @actuallyadhd

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever. - Bernie Sanders

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

@hosford42 Hey... maybe you could find an ethical beekeeper who would want to adopt them and would be willing to absorb any expense?

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

@hosford42 That may not be far from an actual solution? If you make sure they have an external escape plan and then inject the walls and attic with a gas that is offensive them them but not harmful to you, then they might simply be inspired to leave. I'm sure a pro fumigator could do the same […]

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

@hosford42 > (I am still working on getting the colony removed from our attic/walls, for those who are wondering.) Time to take up pipe smoking. 😈

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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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