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garrytansucks.55 on Signal<p>Install <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a>! It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hiphop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiphop</span></a> operating system. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mloc0jh6kV4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=mloc0jh6kV</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/somethingawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>somethingawful</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lowtax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lowtax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fyad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fyad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cringe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gentoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gentoo</span></a></p>
garrytansucks.55 on Signal<p>I am once again asking for all the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemD</span></a> haters, all the decent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifurry</span></a> accounts, everyone who likes to clown on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buttcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>buttcoin</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xitter</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hackernews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackernews</span></a> escapees to come out of the weeds (420 blaze it) and follow! I will follow back.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/somethingawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>somethingawful</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metafilter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metafilter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antibrony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antibrony</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemdbad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemdbad</span></a></p>
garrytansucks.55 on Signal<p>If anyone knows decent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifurry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifurry</span></a> accounts on fedi, please lmk! Let's follow each other, have coffee, perform a Bidenic ritual to summon Dark Brandon <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkbrandon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkbrandon</span></a>, or whatever. I hope the antifurries escaped <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xitter</span></a> just as quickly as anyone else.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/somethingawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>somethingawful</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lowtax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lowtax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antibrony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antibrony</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/furry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>furry</span></a></p><p>As always, TERFs/homophobes, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/4chan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4chan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edgelords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edgelords</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptobros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptobros</span></a> *shudders*, and the like GTFO! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Furries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Furries</span></a> can't have a monopoly on being decent people!</p>
J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@CoachMark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CoachMark</span></a></span> </p><p>I met a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> goon on the job about 15 years ago. We never told each other what our online handles were but we knew we counted ourselves as "goons" and knew the right response for "do you have stairs in your house".<br>It was fine. He was fine.<br>He was a smart, sarcastic, computer nerd, which is what I expected. We were also both from Memphis, TN but no longer living there, so that was also neat.</p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://pxlmo.com/kaziret" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kaziret</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RickiTarr</span></a></span> </p><p>Hell yeah! He was much loved at <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a></p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://retro.pizza/@yatsu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yatsu</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/Geno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geno</span></a> to me is the religion invented by <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> back in the 2000's! <a href="http://geno.agnostos-theos.net/geno.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">geno.agnostos-theos.net/geno.h</span><span class="invisible">tm</span></a></p><p>It started on <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/HabboHotel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HabboHotel</span></a> and moved to <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/CokeMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CokeMusic</span></a> where people had avatars that walked around and interacted. All Geno were gray and we preached of the path and the cowbells and we formed lines and coordinated stuff using SA. A line of 50 Geno might form up and everyone would stop interacting simultaneously, the avatars would simultaneously vanish when they timed out.<br><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/InternetFun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetFun</span></a></p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tooters.org/@Ashley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Ashley</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cfb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cfb</span></a></span> </p><p>This used to be my favorite shirt for the gym! It says "Popular Player" and 00 on the back!</p><p><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/CityNameSportsTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CityNameSportsTeam</span></a></p>
J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:<p>Oh dang.</p><p>I joined the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> one year ago today.</p><p>I had a Twitter account, but never actively used it. Twitter was basically an <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> newsfeed so I just used <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> feeds instead. There was no interaction when I was on it. Nobody cared what a peon like me was doing. The algorithm would gladly bury me.</p><p>Once Elon bought Twitter, I immediately deleted my stagnant Twitter account.</p><p>That also got Mastodon in the news, so I looked into it.</p><p>I'd even sent off a few emails to some instances around various <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBT</span></a> things, but didn't get any replies.</p><p>I found infosec.exchange and thought it might be like a LinkedIn thing where you talk about professional stuff with professional people.</p><p>My original profile was very formal.</p><p>What I found here was not LinkedIn or Twitter or Facebook or Instagram.</p><p>This place feels like a cross between old school forums and IRC with a dash of LiveJournal. I half expect to be able to use <code>/</code> emotes or <code>bbcode</code>.<br>I have conversations here.<br>I make connections that matter.</p><p>I can talk to folks about magick, philosophy, info sec, transgender issues, discordianism, neurodiversity, the environment, politics, horror movies, video games, writing, what books to read, TV shows, the news, sexuality.<br>Really I can generally find people to talk about anything thanks to hashtags and federation.</p><p>I know this place isn't perfect. I know it has massive racism, anti-LGBT, trolling, and spam issues that individual users can't possibly combat alone.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@jerry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jerry</span></a></span> is a great admin and his team does an impressive job moderating. I give him something like $12 a month ($15 minus fees) for the privilege of using this instance and that's honestly not enough.</p><p>I'm glad to be here. I haven't been this involved in any sort of interactive social media since the heyday of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> (I am protected).</p><p>Thanks for attending my TEDx talk.</p>
Mycotropic<p>When inside your maws are pharyngeal jaws;<br>That's a moray!</p><p>When you're all ciguatoxish and eating you is obnoxious;<br>That's a moray!</p><p>When there's goblet cells throughout all your skin there's no doubt;<br>That's a moray!</p><p>When your dorsal fin extends to your pointy rear end;<br>That's a moray!</p><p>Yup, it's that kind of day.<br><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/OldSAStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldSAStuff</span></a><br><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a></p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@HamonWry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HamonWry</span></a></span> <br>And please never forget that those clodhoppers were trolled in the best possible way;</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxGQUcoJd1M" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JxGQUcoJd1</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p>And that effort included <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> goons because we had a sense of humor back then!</p><p>If anyone wants to write <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/MalheurTheMusical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MalheurTheMusical</span></a> I'll happily share the domain name. I'll eventually die owning that domain name, it's historical after all!</p>
Dan 🦺 Deboer<p>Cultural production on the internet has always been a mystery to me. Like why did <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> or <a href="https://mas.to/tags/4Chan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4Chan</span></a> produce so much before they went straight into the toilet? Same with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reddit</span></a>.</p><p>This makes me think that if some version of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Metaverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metaverse</span></a> ever takes off, the most interesting implementation won't be made by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a>. They may build the most used one, or the most profitable one, but I doubt it will be the one that produces anything interesting.</p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MaryAustinBooks</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tengrain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tengrain</span></a></span> old Internet factoid; that poster "everyone doesn't get to grow up and be an astronaut" with fries in the background was a <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> Photoshop Phriday winner that was licensed/sold/given to Dispair.com.</p><p>At least that's how I remember it using my personal way back machine?</p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@zyk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>zyk</span></a></span> one more zyk comment, my daughter is 18 years old and she was the only person in <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> whose registration date was the same as her birth date. Not just the same month and day, the same year too! My wife squeezed her out and I returned home and registered her account, "zyk" of course, on the month, day and year of her birth!</p><p>I was pretty in to <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SA</span></a> back in the day.</p><p><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/LowtaxIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LowtaxIsDead</span></a></p>
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://eigenmagic.net/@sylmobile" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sylmobile</span></a></span> I logged out and won't log in for a while, I'll see how it goes. I was a <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> person for 15 or so years until <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/Lowtax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lowtax</span></a> went insane and eventually killed himself and I might just be an ex <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reddit</span></a> person now as well. New admin at <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SA</span></a> isn't great and maybe just opening a new reddit account for <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/JWST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JWST</span></a> and some other subs will work, who knows. <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/LicensaTheAPIAndScrewTheUsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LicensaTheAPIAndScrewTheUsers</span></a> is pretty bad though.</p>
Historian Matt<p>How the Tech Are You episode 46</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>- Google rolls out passwordless logins with passkeys<br>- EU allows combustion cars if and only if they use synthetic gas<br>- StabilityAI releases open source 7B parameter language model for their StableLM AI<br>- Something Awful community scrambling as Imgur image purge looms<br>- Discord is moving to more standard handles and some people don’t like it </p><p><a href="https://port87.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://port87.social/tags/StabilityAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StabilityAI</span></a> <a href="https://port87.social/tags/StableLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StableLM</span></a> <a href="https://port87.social/tags/Imgur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imgur</span></a> <a href="https://port87.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> <a href="https://port87.social/tags/Discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discord</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lqasS5BVK2c&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=lqasS5BV</span><span class="invisible">K2c&amp;feature=youtu.be</span></a></p>
AnAffordableWizardsomethingawful, self harm
Mycotropic<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Glitterr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Glitterr</span></a></span> and he's right behind you right now.<br><a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/Slenderman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slenderman</span></a> <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/FearSlenderman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FearSlenderman</span></a> <a href="https://geekdom.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a></p>
Mark H<p>For the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SillyCuratorPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SillyCuratorPrompts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Snailify" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Snailify</span></a> challenge being run by @Curator@mastodon.art on the mastodon.art instance, and a chance for me to remember the days of taking part in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PhotoshopPhriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhotoshopPhriday</span></a> on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a> back in my dim and distant past, a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/zebra" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>zebra</span></a> (photographed on a visit to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ARTIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ARTIS</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Amsterdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Amsterdam</span></a> several years ago) suitably snailified.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photoshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photoshop</span></a></p>
Cyber Yukire: Computer gore, hygiene hazard (NSFW)
Andres<p>I'm sorry, I just searched online for a nyt quote and got a link to <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/SomethingAwful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SomethingAwful</span></a>.</p><p>What year is this? Did I hit my head and just wake up?</p>