nateb.bsky.social
Here to have a pint and wait for the dystopia to blow over. He / Him
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Lol. The main problem with Bluesky is the lack of "general intrerest" chatter that made Twitter so fun back then.
This guy "NO! This space is for THE RESISTANCE only!"
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I learned new internet slang! Today was a good day.
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I regret selling all my 2nd edition stuff from that era.
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I can't remember how they found my address. It was in the Waldenbooks bag so that was the only clue. Maybe I had signed up for a club membership. It was the mid 90s, I'm sure I paid cash.
They figured it out and mailed it with a note. I still think about that kindness and try to pay it forward.
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Hell ya! We were on a class trip to there and I had bought a DnD book from Waldenbooks then accidently left it at that arcade. I had set it down beside a machine.
I was super bummed. It was a lot of $ at the time.
It showed up in our mail like two weeks later. Alladins Castle granted my wish.
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This makes me sad, I like the idea of my own hosted site just for fun.
But I'm not a cyber security expert and I know 80% of the mental energy I'd put into it would be paranoia about the security.
That sucks the joy out.
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Dang it. Now I'm trying to remember if the arcade in the Sioux City Iowa mall was Alladins Castle. It's been too long.
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I assumed the internet era would mean only the cleanest folks could run for office because everyone's digital past can be weaponized.
Lol, no. Turns out you just have to be shameless.
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Nice Pratchett quote!
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I've always wondered how Jesus got out of the cave.
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That whole ecosystem of "obviously trump and maga are bad of course but I'm terrified my school is gonna trans my kids"...smdh.
Like how in mid 2025 did you miss the whole scooby doo villian reveal that your whole-ass "independent" media consumption was MAGA the whole time!?
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A fellow millennial who I thought was smart is convinced that "MOST teens these days" are yearning hard for trad religion.
Sorry buddy, just like you, it's just a vocal minority of kids who have no idea they've trapped themselves inside a right wing media bubble.
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Our Lady Peace is coming through my town this summer and I'm stoked!
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This tracks so perfectly. 😆
I lived through the OG Nickelback era and even then it was obvious why dudes like it. NB sings about feelings but with a gruff voice. Therefore it's a "safe" way for men to process feelings without their friends calling them gay.
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Yeah he says human population decline is a crisis. He's only talking about certain populations.
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Weed vs Speed?
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I'll revisit this same favorite old forum like twice a year and it's still the same 8 guys riffing on the same topic.
One of them is the resident jerk who the other old timers learned long ago to ignore.
I think if they met irl the chill ones would give jerkman a long overdue atomic wedgie.
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I want to see reactions of wives and girlfriends when told what niche topic their guy argues about with strangers.
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And we can't trust The Algorithm to do the high stakes job of deciding which is signal and which is noise.
So our "media archive" continues growing as an amorphous blob of mostly trash and every week just increases the backlog of "I'll sort through that later".
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So from Stephen Miller's perspective this is a win-win-win scenario.
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I'd be ok with being called Jason but Jason's are never called Nathan and I can't abide that imbalance.
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Too bad it's never "God".
"No my name is...oh wait you got it the first time"
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Great thread! I cringe at where I used to be politically and am angry that I fell for some BS.
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"The corrupt fat corporate fat cats take home their greasy profits while the Common Man starves, hell no I won't pay more, you'll see me in the barricades capitalist bootlicker" if you had no context you'd think this was some Eugene Debs era thing. It's about paying more than $60 for vidya
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So I can laugh at the kids with their entire digital life in the google/facebook/apple cloud who don't know what a file extension is. But then I'd have to explain what actually happened here with this file maneuver like it's so special to understand something so arbitrarily arcane.
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MSoft would rather you never use desktop onenote and instead use the "universal version" and instead put that file into OneDrive and link to it there. You know Onedrive. It's those files that are and aren't local?
OneNote can't even maintain links WITHIN OneNote and they are nudging this. LOL
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This corporate admin resistance to change is good for us as it means we still get to "own" our OneNote files by using the legacy backup function which creates real files on your PC.
So you can drop files in pages and treat it as sort of a data repository you actually control.
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You see, OneNote started as a desktop app and still has roots there even though Microsoft would prefer you don't notice this since it's been trying to make it purely cloud-based since like 2013 but has to maintain the legacy system due to entrenched corporate user workflows.
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Can't just drag and drop the file, you get a link disguised as a file. Can't fool me. Download pdf. Now there's a copy in that download folder. No, the other download folder.
Now you can drag it into OneNote but only the desktop version. What's a desktop version? <gazes into the distance>
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I wise man would seek them out, form an alliance of awesome guys, solve some world problems together. Maybe even form a cult.
Then steal their car after I've gained their full trust.
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WTF I'm from that area and assumed this was fake news but just looked it up. Holy shirtballs.
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It feels like every week I have to actively search for an important email that I'm sure is there but it's inexplicably buried deep in the noise.
Its like they are intentionally forcing me to wade through a bunch of spam to get to the content they definitely know I want to see.
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There's one guy that got a Doctorate in Accounting from Phoenix University to score his sweet Comptroller gig. He's called himself "Dompctor Miller" for years but nobody can call him on his bullshit because nobody has questioned a Comptroller and survived.