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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]

@ PorkrollPosadist @hexbear.net

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Hexbear's resident machinist, absentee mastodon landlord, jack of all trades

Talk to me about astronomy, photography, electronics, ham radio, programming, the means of production, and how we might expropriate them.>

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 12th to January 18th, 2026 - Abolish ICE - "C"OTW: USA

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  • critical support

  • This is probably a bit, but this kind of thing is what I mean when I say people pathologize everything now.

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  • Books? That's called wordslop now.

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 6

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  • The Roc had a long history with an enemies list four or five screens long, but I guess either there is no simulated combat, or these events were purged from the annals as "insignificant figures" (I enabled this option to reduce filesize)

    The Kobold has no history prior to the ambush. I'm guessing these characters get generated for the ambush event.

    She was associated with a Kobold civilization through. A rather uneventful one. (This is the full history of Thlukubuslumis)

  • TIL hexbear is an anarchist + communist unity project (???)

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  • We hate imperialism here.

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    Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht - Novo General Megathread for the 15th-22nd of January 2026

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  • flatpak is far better for both users and maintainers.

    flaming hot take.

    Flatpak is nice for application developers because it allows them to bundle all the specific library versions they want, and they don't need to worry about individual distributions. It is not as good for end users because a system with hundreds of flatpaks installed on it will have tons of duplicated libraries at various versions. It is good for distributors insofar as they don't give a shit about integrating thousands of packages into a cohesive system and are content to let every dickhole with a Github account to spin their own binaries (most of them do give a shit, but they all have limits).

    (don't take me too seriously, please)

    If you have the choice between a Flatpak and a distro package (which you frequently do on Fedora), prefer the distro package. It will share the same dependencies as the rest of the system. E.g. if a bug gets fixed in ffmpeg ALL the packages using ffmpeg will be fixed. Of course, there are always a handful of packages where you don't have a choice and you need to use snaps / appimages / flatpaks, but it is best to keep this limited.

    There is an eternal conflict between application developers and distributors. Application develops want to use whatever is most convenient for their specific situation. Distributors often need to overrule this to ensure everything works together reasonably. An application developer might desire to use the most bleeding edge version of a library, or an extremely old version. They need the dicipline of distributors to be like "no, this experimental library breaks 80% of the rest of the package repository" or "no, you should have upgraded from GTK+2 ten years ago."

  • does anyone else feel like their Algorithms swap between hopecore and blackpill just enough so you don't get burnt out and stop scrolling or are inspired to do something else with your time

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  • This website is the only website with an algorithmic feed I look at any more. Mastodon is strictly chronological, and I have a browser plugin which disables the non-chronological feeds on X. I occasionally check a couple friendly subreddits, but it is an insignificant sliver of what I'm looking at.

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 6

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  • Some legends

    In which Doubledee oversees the destruction of a number of priceless artifacts

    :

    (there are a couple more)

    In which Porkroll agrees to steal shit:

    (rate limited, I have a couple more)

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 6

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  • File looks good. (on version 53.10 now FYI)

    These things are never fun if everything in the fortress runs smoothly and the population remains pegged at the cap. If we wanted that to happen we could just play Animal Crossing instead.

    Rolling fire and webs in one year is a hell of an ordeal, but an ending population of 155 is far from doom territory.

    I have been waiting over a month for someone to finally explore another cavern layer and you finally did it (no magma unfortunately, but there's a tunnel down to layer three!), so thanks! We are one step closer to the treasures of the deep.

    Also, I guess I'll spoil it now that I'm dead. It was ME! I stole the trinket! My character was corrupted. A visitor tried to intimidate him, failed at the intimidation, but apparently he was like "no this place fucking sucks I'll steal shit for you anyway."

    Somehow improve mood. The way things are going, I feel like a tantrum spiral is right around the corner.

    You might have a point here

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 6

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 6

  • All those trump memes on twitter and Newsom folds under the slightest bit of pressure. Lmao if he becomes dem front runner

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  • My man had a direct line of sight at Ben Shapiro's neck but there are still no holes in it.

  • Fury Grows Over Democrats Who Won't Back ICE Funding Freeze | Common Dreams

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  • This emoji was clipped from a photo taken inside the Capitol on Jan. 6th, so it also has that connotation.

  • apparently if you get a speeding ticket they just give your fucking phone number to a registry

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  • If it's a matter of losing your license, it might be worth mounting such a defense instead of losing your ability to commute to work. Doubly so if you have a CDL and driving is your work.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 12th to January 18th, 2026 - Abolish ICE - "C"OTW: USA

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  • The bribes dry up.

  • Young Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democratic and Republican parties, a new poll shows

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  • The thing is they build up this control, and every time they squeeze they piss it away. They squeezed during the George Floyd uprising. The Silicon Valley platforms censored the Blue Leaks across the board. They banned this community for it's uncritical support. What happened? We slipped through the cracks. Sure, we might not be agitating on their platforms as much any more, but we're free. We're able to discuss and analyze the state of affairs much more clearly now. The same thing happened with the Russia-Ukraine war. They cracked down hard, flooded the zone with war propaganda, banned a lot of sources of information which weren't toeing the line (to be clear, they deliberately leave the cranks alone every time they do this). People signed up for Telegram and continued following their sources there instead.

    The genocide in Gaza is somewhat unique, because a lot of the primary sources there are explicitly proscribed as terrorist organizations to begin with. There was no r/Hamas or r/PFLP to ban. No funny memes for mujahidin teens Facebook group. The horrors of the genocide were broadcasted much more organically, in bits and pieces from thousands of personal accounts. If anything, it is much more difficult to censor something like this compared to a centralized news organization, website, or internet forum.

    Every time they do one of these crackdowns, they are eventually effective at limiting the flow of information on the mainstream platforms, but it is a phyrric victory. The Internet itself is too porous. Every time they crush a community on Reddit, it turns into one on Discord, one on Matrix, and two on the Fediverse. All the while, it is too easy to grab a clip from one platform and post it on another. The actual social networks involved change with every crisis too. If they are effective at rooting out everyone involved in radical environmentalism, they will still be starting from a very elementary level on police abolition, or BDS or regime change in one country or another. The surge of gestapo freaks in Minneapolis has activated a whole new wave of people recently who were not and did not need to be on their radar before. And this dynamic will continue playing out as well.

    We need to be careful about falling into early 2000s style Internet utopianism, but despite their methods being more sophisticated than ever, they definitely don't have this shit under control, and they won't until they start arresting people by the busload for posting.

  • Young Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democratic and Republican parties, a new poll shows

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  • I'm optimistic in this regard. I think the future you're describing is already here. Their grasp on social media is stronger than ever, but they've overplayed their hand. It grows more clear every day that these platforms are nothing but tools of social conditioning and control. The popular resentment for these platforms rivals the political parties themselves, and likely exceeds that of the traditional media. I mean, how's Mark Zuckerburg polling lately?

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    Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025

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  • Should be enforced on streets with pedestrian traffic, not open highways.

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    Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025

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  • Hell yeah

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    US Regime Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter, Seizes Electronics

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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    Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025

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  • The Lord works in mysterious ways.

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    just ordered my first gun using klarna pay-in-4 god bless amerikkka 🦅

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  • Real "they'll sell us the rope" hours.

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 5

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    Los Prisoneros - Latinoamérica es un pueblo al sur de EEUU

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    The World’s Memory of the World: Disco Elysium and its fictions

    thebaffler.com /salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 4

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 3

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 2

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 1

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    Introducing: Fortress Fridays

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    (F-Droid) An experiment in automated building from source, 15 years later

    f-droid.org /2025/11/24/an-experiment-in-automated-building-from-source-15-years-later.html
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    It happened again

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    WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S UNREACHABLE?

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    Dick in a Box

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    Truth.social to enable ActivityPub federation next week

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    Apropos of nothing (ACDC - TNT)

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    Why the Hell Does Android Even Exist Anymore?

    fireborn.mataroa.blog /blog/why-the-hell-does-android-even-exist-anymore/
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    I'm working on a process to convert a Mastodon instance into a Misskey instance

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    ORMs are stupid. Get rid of them.

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    I forgot how to make fire stop happening.