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Rett
@rettisawesome.com
Writer and musician from the PNW
I did! I stopped qualifying my atheism with quotes from the Bible and knowing their faith more than them. It's a waste and very liberating to just say it like it is to them.

Highly recommend y'all do it too.

Even better when you can highlight some of the absurdity of their practices.
That privilege--the privilege to speak of your religious beliefs as certainties that are incontestable--is given to Christians alone in America. And anyone else knows this and tiptoes around it, reflexively.

But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I produced this album which features grand lyrics about figures such as Emma Goldman, Abbie Hoffman, and the guy who threw his shoe at George W Bush. One of the songs was recorded while we found out Dick Cheney died.

It's a fun time. Check it out.
Felt cute. Recorded an album. Dropped album on Bandcamp for the grand ole price of PAY WHAT YOU WANT!!!!
leftychubs.bandcamp.com/album/dreami...
Dreaming with Ghosts, by Lefty Chubs
8 track album
leftychubs.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Can anyone tell me what prompt they were using? I can't get any fire on GPT-5 do I need to roll back?
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Seems like something got twerked on the YT algo. Was enjoying shorts this time last week and now it's video after video of ai slop that doesn't stop coming no matter how many dislikes I give out or how fast I swipe away.
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My old band, The Monster Addict, is all grown up now. So we got together and played some tunes to celebrate.

youtu.be/HK4Z5zlEf-Y?...
Christopher Lloyd of the Rings OR a False Prophet - The Monster Addict LIVE at Radness Ensues
YouTube video by rettisawesome
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December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
People should know what we sow abroad we reap at home. When these are the seeds we plant, what kinda fruit are we going to get?
Q: What did you see in the second strike?

Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My band, The Monster Addict is coming out of hibernation to pay homage to their 16th revolution around the sun. Loud music hits different when you got actual shit to be mad about

youtube.com/shorts/UzfZ1...
Sludgehammer - The Monster Addict - 2025
YouTube video by rettisawesome
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November 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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PacifiCorp reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 victims of the 2020 Labor Day Fires.

It was a smaller award than previous settlements and far smaller than victims have been awarded by juries, but who may have to wait years for the $$.

tinyurl.com/numsaku8
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Ah. So either he's a liar. Or a complete buffoon with hardly an ounce of intellect to burden him.
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The Chain Story Project just released its TENTH free fiction offering.

Head over there now and, for FREE, you can get my brand new story Blood for the River.

(Please like and share. Sharing is a HUGE help. Thank you.)

chainstorycore.com
The Chain Story
chainstorycore.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My band The Marionberries recorded some live tracks in our living room back in August. The EP, The Other Tapes, is available on Bandcamp if folk and folk-adjacent songs from the beating green heart of Oregon are your thing.

will be on spotify soon too

themarionberries.bandcamp.com/album/the-ot...
The Other Tapes (Live), by The Marionberries
3 track album
themarionberries.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New old server day at Craft Computing

youtu.be/Rz1wyOs9SOA?...
$399 For Eight Nodes - The Perfect Homelab Server???
YouTube video by Craft Computing
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November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The latest android update on my pixel reinstated biometric unlock. Beware of that if you are security and privacy conscious.
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Tonight we talking about NZXT's rental program. the DGX Spark. AMDs Strix Halo chip. And good password security practices

www.youtube.com/live/Rarp8BH...
NZXT hit with Rental PC Lawsuit; DGX Spark Thermals; Strix Halo Gaming Chips! - Talking Heads Ep.407
YouTube video by Craft Computing
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November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc

www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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ZXTune Android app -> browser at top - Josh W archives -> make playlist of classic videogame music

consider:
-it loops seamlessly
-designed to be background so it doesn't distract from the tasks you do while listening
-fond memories of achievement, overcoming obstacles like knocking out mike tyson
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Streaming music is a fantastic convenience. However, I feel like it does more harm than good to the arts. So I exclusively listen to music which I've bought.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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US gov accounts are here to harass people, quote direct trouble

blocklists interface can be a little counterintuitive if you're unfamiliar with them, because Subscribe understandably sounds like the opposite of what you'd want to do, but that's where the option is to block all. it's what I'm doing🥷🏼
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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They are arriving because of the mass mobilizations and they have figured out that Twitter isn't going to be the main space to monitor activity.
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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In late 2020, far right violence was ramping up here in Oregon in tandem with the "stop the steal" nonsense. David Medina, the OR "journalist" who last week embedded w/ Benny Johnson & Kristi Noem, participated in this Dec 21, 2020 invasion of the *Oregon* Capitol Building. bsky.app/profile/seth...
My perceptions of J6 were shaped by living in Salem, Oregon. On December 21, 2020 an angry mob, organized (in hindsight) by local GOP activists, forced their way into the State Capitol, smashing a door. On January 1 those same groups engaged in pitched battle on Salem's streets AGAINST THE POLICE.
Enrique Tarrio wasn’t at J6 because he’d been arrested for a crime committed a month or two earlier. The “stand back and stand by” era featured DC civilians getting beaten up.

I think we simply have a different understanding of the relationship between Trump and the shock troops.
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM