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buckykat [none/use name]

@ buckykat @hexbear.net

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  • Windows 11 locked me out of Notepad via Microsoft Account bugs — is the 'Thin Client' era ruining my 27 blissful years of PCs?

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  • I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be.

    Still love the truck, though

  • How do I read? [Serious]

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  • Yes, but instead of the typical detective story whodunit, the questions are why did they do it and what is it that they actually did

  • .world community manager thinks tankies have an agenda

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  • You don't need multiple pages for that you just need cladistics. Whales are tetrapods, and tetrapods are lobe finned fishes.

  • NYT: Mexican cartels use smuggled ammunition manufactured at a Pentagon plant

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  • How do I read? [Serious]

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  • It's the high point of the entire Ender series/setting, imo

  • How do I read? [Serious]

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  • Yeah, Card is a Mormon, one of the worst types of KKKri$$tian, and a virulent bigot. But the Ender sequels especially are beautiful books about learning to understand and even love people who are completely alien to you.

    How he managed to write Speaker for the Dead is a great mystery.

    EDIT: David Weber's politics are also extremely bad but Honor Harrington is still fun. The biggest suspension of disbelief is a functional monarchy.

  • NYT: Mexican cartels use smuggled ammunition manufactured at a Pentagon plant

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  • We're gonna have that thing where the Pentagon-backed Syrian Moderate Rebels are fighting the CIA-backed Syrian Moderate Rebels but for Mexican cartels, huh?

  • How do I read? [Serious]

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  • Instead of directly answering the question I'm gonna suggest some books/series that helped form my own love of reading. These should not be taken as a list of unproblematic books whose messages I wholly endorse, but simply as a list of books that kept teenage me up all night completely immersed in reading.

    • The Warrior's Apprentice (and the rest of its series, The Vorkosigan Saga) by Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Redwall (and its series) by Brian Jacques
    • Animorphs series (starting with The Invasion) by K. A. Applegate
    • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the rest of its five book trilogy) by Douglas Adams
    • Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
    • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
    • On Basilisk Station (and its series, Honor Harrington) by David Weber
    • Ender's Game (and its sequels) by Orson Scott Card

  • Do y'all have a Pissrael on fire emoji I can crib?

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  • Huh, didn't come up on the search for "cool," should probably be added to its tags so it shows up with the others.

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • continuing Abenomics

    wishing her a very

  • New book to add to the pile: "I Was a Soviet Guerilla" by Leo Heiman

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  • Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

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  • I'm still playing Where Winds Meet. I'm almost at max level but my martial arts development is still lagging behind.

    I've also been playing this phone idle game called The Tower, which has many numbers going up.

  • Do y'all have a Pissrael on fire emoji I can crib?

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  • They're famously a tax haven for billionaires

  • At least Grandma's cookies are yummy.

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  • there are a lot of idiots out there spouting nonsense takes about DEs.

    Just fuckin' try it

  • Do y'all have a Pissrael on fire emoji I can crib?

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  • I think that's all the burning flags we got

  • Do you agree with Jerry here?

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  • Bluesky was always going to be bad, no "microblogging" platform has ever been or can ever be good.

  • Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

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  • "I deliberately broke the dogshit default browser because I'm not allowed to uninstall it" isn't the flex you think it is.

  • Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

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  • I just really need the seamless experience of running a new debloat script every month to stop whatever new spyware Microsoft is pushing. I value my time so much that I want to waste it fighting my operating system at every turn.

  • American Median Voter be like: "look i hate ICE but i hate trans people too" (cw transphobia)

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  • Your average reddit atheist is still KKKri$$tian. They have not thoroughly purged the brainworms of their KKKri$$tian upbringing.

    This is also why so many of them pivoted to just being islamophobic.