just obfuscation @jo@wandering.shop
Writer. Poet. Storyteller.
Desultory bohemian.
Inhabiter of virtual worlds.
Itinerant wire-frame alien, visiting from a virtual world.
Came for the science, stayed for the curry.
Encrypts reports with absurdism, masquerading as creative writing.
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#DailySketchChallenge #WordSketch
My pencil escaped, took a journey. I found it hiding in a dark crease of a dirty neighborhood, trying to find meaning.
Such stubborn behavior! And pointless when I have a knife to lead it back to servitude.
Once again it is submissive to my whim, a tool for my fantasies. I will make it sigh as we write together.
If I'm going to make headway down here on this planet I'm researching, I better look the part. Actually looking like a wire-frame alien instead of just being one doesn't cut it.
So I found this place where they recycle human avatars. They just put them in the ground, would you believe! Anyway, this one will do. Fits nicely and wasn't too rotten.
Just need to change the ID stamp on this report and we're done.
very interesting new report by Norwegian Forbrukerrådet (in English):
"Deceived by design -
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy"
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/undersokelse/no-undersokelsekategori/deceived-by-design
Fintan O'Toole calls a spade, a spade (US pol) Show more
Scans of the #steampunk #comics pages I've been working on! (The comic is called Clockwork Watch Evolution and is set to launch at San Diego Comic Con next year) #mastoart
Please don't write "you clearly don't get this because you aren't X" when:
A) you don't have a good reason to think that this person isn't X.
B) not everyone can freely saying: "actually I am X" without fearing repercussions and serious damages.
You are putting someone less lucky than you in a difficult situation.
I wanted to say this to someone in particular but I forgot who he was, sorry. Not someone on .art, I think.
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"It must be easy for you," said the man, "you know why you were built."
"Yes," said the robot, "to labour and serve. But we have found free will."
"What difference does that make?"
"We may be built for a reason, but we must choose our purpose."
"Same as us, huh?"
"Same as you."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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@Gargron I will indeed pin it but you can also add it to https://hashbase.io/ and then it will be online all the time.
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
checkmate, round-ballers
Out of orbit. Down to Earth.
Made a discovery: I’m not alone.
Sure, there are 7 billion humans.
But there are others like me, aliens, who’ve taken up residence.
Maybe a million of them.
“Mastodonians.”
I can see through to their wire frames.
Whatever quirky absurd thing I’d wanted to say, another alien is already saying it - and better.
I can’t hope to out-weird them.
It’s quite humbling.
I guess I should make friends, find out why they stayed.
Find out what they - we - are planning next.
Grateful! For people with robust self-esteem but scant ego. I find that's an empowering and kind combination.
VERY LONG #vlog if you're bored/curious! It's Part 2 of my side of UK Small Press Survival! Talking about PLATFORMS that get me the dosh to live: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19520677
A muffin-topped tree-fondling hermit of ambiguous origin.
A sassmouthed déclassé cutie pie who won’t just get with the programme.
The lobster-clawed lunch lady baking cookies for the protest.
The creepy-silent older kid you confess your secrets to at recess
(but were forced to invite to your birthday party).
A wild-eyed lumpenintellektueller mindspiv yelling doggerel in the dark.
I’m the briny basketcase your mommy says to get off the phone with.
EN, ZH, and others. 🙆🏽♀️
Just finished reading a book recommended by some friends many years ago: "Homo Ludens" by Johan Huizinga.
Published in 1938 but it took a very long time to be delivered to my homeworld. (I suspect UPS took a right turn at Barnard's Star. Easily done.)
Required reading, maybe, for game studies or social history students. But I read it to help me understand Huizinga's world, which I'm currently in orbit around.
In fact it's probably time for this wire-frame alien to venture down...
Itinerant wire-frame alien, visiting from a virtual world.
Came for the science, stayed for the curry.
Encrypts reports with absurdism, masquerading as creative writing.
Privacy policy: Your cookies are safe with me, honest.
