dream, friendly/aggressively recruiting group mind
one of the other Stage 1 hosts was a teenage girl who was burbling that she'd just joined for the concert, it was going to be AMAZING, absolutely EVERYBODY would be there, and after that she's just quit! we all laughed at her, very gently and kindly, and I dreamily (because I was dreaming) explained that she was in the group mind now, and there was no going back and away, only forward and deeper...
dream, friendly/aggressively recruiting group mind
the group mind had gotten me with a physical virus, in the early stages of development (one of their "drones" had stabbed me in a fight). by now it was on the second stage of spreading, via memetic devices, both random (posters in public areas) and directed ("go tell all your friends!"). the hive node was preparing for the third stage of infection, which was happening in a couple of days--a memetic signal in a massively popular televised concert.
dream, friendly/aggressively recruiting group mind
like the CW says. I'd been "recruited" into the group mind, but I was still in stage 1, my mind was being integrated but I was still individual enough to feel attached to my body. I came to the local hive node because I was feeling physically distressed, and they cheerfully took me in, wrapped me in a warm blanket (which felt AMAZING), and put me in a quiet room with other stage 1 semi-individuals, and we talked a bit.
TIL There are mini truck garden contests in Japan
The “kei” trucks are barely larger than city cars. The goal is to build the most aesthetically pleasing garden in the truck bed
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/06/japanese-mini-truck-gardens/
and not related to anything in particular but heres another sabertoothed animal and hes really pretty. Critter is gorgonopsid a stem mammal from the permian ( i think)
Art Source
https://www.weasyl.com/~ashryn/submissions/860170/gorgonopsid
A debate on IRC got me wondering: how is "guys" perceived, as in "you guys" or "guys" as the leading word in a sentence...
to me it's gender neutral but to many it addresses a group of men
so, to make a poll: https://www.strawpoll.me/15847774/
Also, this kinda came up, but not everyone using Masto/masto-like sites are tech savvy. Telling me to build my own instance or do _______ as someone who barely understand what it means and entails isn't useful.
Masto discourse is not accessible and some of yall are just hostile and annoying and condescending for no reason whatsoever.
The pro of all of these new instances popping up is that you can build your own communities where you feel safe with people you trust.
The con is that there is less quality control. People of color, women, trans folks, and folks with disabilities and illnesses are constantly harassed when we post on public, a lot of (newer) instances don't have codes of conducts, and we don't have all damn day to keep blocking instances (bc there are so many).
Art Nouveau commission from @givealexahand@birdsite !
Xe are in a pretty shitty situation right now, so if you want to get a commission like this, you could really help xem out! https://twitter.com/givealexahand/status/1003060078260441088
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~