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Chilidog Garand

@chilidoggarand.bsky.social

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He/him. Pleasantly morose Linux nerd. Raiser of black flags, reader of books, and hammock enjoyer. Klout Score: 980 Career Score: 78 Social Aura: Sausage Psychic Resonance: Mild

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · Jul 15

Intently trying not to be That Linux/Open-Source Guy in other peoples mentions is hard. Know that if I slip up and become That Guy in your mentions, it was from a lifetime enduring enshittification and learning hundreds of neat little ways to avoid getting trapped by it.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

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Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Graham for Maine.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 17h

I have drawn art for multiple TTRPGs. I do it for a love of the game, because I feel like these games deserve illustration and I know how important it is for getting these games sold.

It also does not pay nearly well enough, and I can't blame my clients for it.

THIS INDUSTRY DOES NOT PAY WELL.

🏅🥈David, the Table Top (they/them)💛🤍💜🖤 @theinkedknight.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should BECOME possible to work professionally on tabletop games.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

it's a thing you will need to understand and evolve on. you'll need to decide between coalition-building and fascism as the choice between future realities at the moment.

i recommend Adam Weaver's essay on Especifismo as a good starting point to understanding our way out.

Especifismo

Adam Weaver Especifismo The anarchist praxis of building popular movements and revolutionary organization in South America 2006 This is the final version of...

theanarchistlibrary.org

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

... and generally doing their opponent's job for them to shoot down someone who does not align exactly with their ideology as they will actually doing anything that matters.

i'm sorry that class-conscious working class people come from a variety of backgrounds and beliefs that evolved over time.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

leftist ideologues do this too, let's not be hasty. i see it happening even now. they fall for the same tricks that US counter-intelligence has been pulling for almost a century. both kinds of ideologues will spend twice the amount of time forming committees and "generating awareness"...

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

the current liberal ideologue clings to the 2012 status quo as an anchor even as it pulls them under, and it's an anchor they'll often happily tie themselves to at the first suggestion of their opponent that someone is not pure of past deeds.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

the difference in a subscriber to an ideology versus a person who came by a political philosophy through lived experience is simple: an ideologue wants to see rightthink and wrongthink and nothing between. a candidate must emerge from the womb with the right ideology and have never done wrongthink

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

not because of the ideology but because these are political alignments which most closely reflect reality.

but before that? yeah, a lot of us had gnarly views that we later forsook. those ideologies didn't align with reality either, and we walked away from them because of that.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

and maybe we treated with the GOP for a while, or with the Democrats, but the flaws in ideology versus reality still remained in those camps. ideologies break down under scrutiny, reality does not.

so a bunch of us became socialists, demsocs, socdems, communists, anarchists, and other stuff.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

there's a great number of people like me, and i know because i meet them constantly, who thought of ourselves as libertarians in the Ron Paul sense of the word, and came to realize the reality of the libertarian ideology was flawed and absolutely not going to work in our favor.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

it's laughable to me, a member of the poorest and most trodden-upon generation of america, to suggest that anyone came to the views we share out of the womb. most of us came to understand our politics as a culmination of our life experience, where reality finally outweighed dogmatic ideology.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

furthermore you're falling victim to a classic dividing tactic that they've been using since the 60s, using oppo research to divide a specific platform's supporters based on a candidate's history.

i swear to god the undoing of america will be clinging to a pre-trump status quo as the intended goal.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 16h

it never fails to surprise me how badly people misunderstand the stakes and want to litigate things like it's still 2012, like we're talking Obama/Romney again.

there will be things you don't like about people who are your allies. not all of them came to their political sensibilities all at once.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 1d

a very good political strategy is to make sure almost everyone has as little as possible to lose as you can get, while making sure a gilded few are able to build giant gold statues to their own vanity. this will certainly end well for the political regime and ensure a long and healthy rule.

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 2d

I found this program that not only disables all the AI bullshit on your home PC, but makes sure Microsoft can't re-enable it.

linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Linux Mint Installation Guide — Linux Mint Installation Guide documentation

linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 2d

I'm wavering between reliving my old MUX days and feeling quite anti-social atm, but have a feeling I will break before the night is over.

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 6d

Also why did I decide the correct course of action was to do a Buffalo Bill tuck-and-waddle while I walked around trying to find my clothes?

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 6d

Hello dream interpreters of Bluesky, please tell me what it means when you have a dream you woke up naked in a convention hall surrounded by a bunch of concerned people after being roofied at a World of Warcraft con.

Important to note I have played about 10 minutes of WoW in my entire life.

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 6d

OpenAI just acquired us.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 9d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 9d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8d

I may be quite the moron, yes, but so have sense enough to compass raw sarcasm when I see it, which for others among us, seems to remain very much aspirational.

It's Not Easy Being Me! @somemotherstorture.bsky.social · 8d

Antifa stands for antifascist. Are you just stupid? There is no organization named Antifa. Kristi Noem will pay for her crimes against humanity. She can't be pardoned for state crimes.

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Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, and to piggyback on this one, that kingpin's arrest is the fucking basis of the plot for like 3 seasons of the show.

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 8d

How about a show based on experiences with a specific cop, who has a character named after him in the show, but then later appears in the show as a completely different character?

(Yes, I just finished The Wire, I will not be disguising my joy, thank you)

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 8d

What other show do you know features a character who sometimes appears to guide people where they can do the most good, but is played by a former drug kingpin, one who was arrested by one of the show's writers, with that arrest being reported on by one of the other writers?

Chilidog Garand @chilidoggarand.bsky.social · 8d

Fuck the lore of your favorite cartoon. Fuck the canon of your favorite anime.

The realest iceberg is The Wire. You take just a peek behind the curtain and the depths are incredible. I'm not just talking about the story, I mean the actors, writers, production, all that. It's mind-boggling.

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