"The difference between technology and magic is that technology works regardless of whether you believe in it or not."
"So computers are magic?"
"Computers are magic."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
There are two wolves inside you.
Need a refill on your prescription? Ask your doctor today!
Homeless to sleep 6 ft apart vs. hotels making hearts with the lights of vacant rooms
#lateStageCapitalism
It's a little like being Tony Stark, even if they transitioned to Toni Stark, the Suit still means they're Iron Man.
one nice thing i've found about growing up is that you start to have a lot more valuable friendships with people who value different things to you but for the same reasons you do, which is actually a lot more fulfilling
Pol, mass surveillance
I'd spent my 20s during the George W Bush Administration, when the Patriot Act made a spy state seem a strict eventuality.
Of course, now there's so much info that it takes Giant businesses to analyze it, all data is more or less public, and the only folks who have run into major legal consequences and Hate this new system... Are all the folks who make Hush Money payments, organize conspiracies, and hate when their own words are repeated back to them.
And now? We can socially identify the Shitheads, too! They all wear bright red hats proclaiming their outcast and Other status.
Their very mannerisms give them away.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot