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Quasit@beige.party

<p>An old Victorian bibliophile and geeky young boy in the same body. I&#39;ve been on the Internet since the mid-&#39;80s. I&#39;m an old school tabletop roleplayer and game master. Grew up among the 0.001%, which is why I hate capitalism and bullies. But I love cats!</p><p>Rrecently I&#39;ve taken up gardening. 🎍</p><p>I&#39;ve been doing daily book recommendations for over 100 days straight now; they&#39;re at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/QuasitBookRecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QuasitBookRecs</span></a></p><p>I&#39;m also <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit" class="u-url mention">@<span>Quasit</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>geek</span></a> <a href="ht

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  • Post #4398989

    The phrase of the day in the mainstream news media appears to be &quot;center-left&quot;. Are you a democratic politician who takes lots of money from AIPAC and loyally votes to send billions of tax dollars to Israel to murder Palestinian children? Congratulations, you&#39;re &quot;center-left&quot;! Do you collect tons of cash from the military industrial complex and vote for every war and military bill possible? Nice to meet a center-left patriot! Have you been proud to raise your hand and...

  • Post #4387727

    Quasit&#39;s Daily Book Recommendations: &quot;Oath of Fealty&quot; (1981) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Age Range: 17 to adult Genre: Science Fiction Here&#39;s a book that&#39;s a bit different: it&#39;s about an arcology. Are you familiar with arcologies? If not, I&#39;m guessing you&#39;re not an architect. An archology is essentially a whole city contained in a single huge building. It includes residential apartments, shops, parks, swimming pools...anything a person could want. In...

  • Post #4299355

    All of the tomato plants are now producing! All but one of the tomatoes are still green, though. It&#39;s getting to be rather a tangled thicket, but I&#39;m nervous about trimming. I think next year I&#39;ll only plant two tomatoes in the raised bed, but I might get another couple of half barrels. Not sure what else I could put in the raised bed along with the tomatoes. #garden #gardening #tomatoes

  • Post #4244481

    Ran into two DNC shills in as many minutes. They&#39;re SO morally superior about &quot;Vote Blue No Matter Who&quot; that it must pain them to wipe their own asses. I muted both of them. I&#39;m really temped to name and shame them publicly, though. #Politics #DNCshills

  • Post #4170023

    The first tomato! From the Grape variety. It wasn&#39;t as sweet as I expected; more tangy, I&#39;d say. But the flavor was strong and good. The next one will be ripe tomorrow. My son will have it. #garden #gardening #tomatoes

  • Post #4139464

    Tippy&#39;s toy collection. #cats #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

  • Post #4075540

    Chapter 1: Aristocratic Appetizers Chapter 2: Elegant Entrees Chapter 3: Succulent Side Dishes Chapter 4: Decadent Desserts #Memes #EatTheRich

  • Post #4074672

    So Adobe is trying to push AI crap on me even when I&#39;m just using it to print PDFs. I want to live on a different planet.

  • Post #4045958

    We have color in the garden today! One of the tomatoes on the Grape tomato plant is turning red! I trimmed off some of the lowest branches on most of the plants—none of which were bearing fruit (the branches, not the plants). I&#39;m still a bit confused about what other branches I should be trimming, I must admit. #garden #gardening #tomatoes

  • Post #4039881

    Recently I&#39;ve noticed (not for the first time) that whatever butter Dunkin&#39; Donuts uses smells like vomit on my lips after I eat it–on a buttered bagel, for example. Other butters DON&#39;T smell like that. #Dunkin #Butter

  • Post #4026396

    Does anybody else have a bunch of used book shops in their dream world? I have several that I recognize from one dream to another, although they&#39;re not based on anything in reality. #Dreams #Books

  • Post #3976478

    If the human race survives, future generations are going to realize that the &quot;heroes&quot; of late-stage capitalism were actually genocidal monsters.

  • Post #3925281

    Quasit&#39;s Daily Book Recommendations: &quot;The Stainless Steel Rat&quot; (1979) by Harry Harrison Age Range: 14 to adult Genre: Science Fiction, Humor &quot;The Stainless Steel Rat&quot; is the first book in one of the best series of humorous science fiction. It starts with a bang–literally. [When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up. It had been a money-maker—but it was all over. As the cop walked in I sat back in the chair and put on a happy grin. He had the same sombe...

  • Post #3924903

    Sysco has acquired Restaurant Depot. The homogenization of American food takes another great leap forward.

  • Post #3887216

    Trump&#39;s speech yesterday made it pretty clear that he&#39;s going to interfere with the midterm elections: seize and spoil ballots (particularly from blue states), station armed ICE goons at critical polling places, pressure states to ignore mail-in ballots, maybe stage some shootings at polling places, perhaps cancel the midterms altogether. So what happens when he does any of those things? Probably lawsuits, but that will take years and the damage will already be done. Democratic leaders...

  • Post #3873481

    If you&#39;re looking for something to watch, try &quot;Ultraviolet&quot; (1998). It&#39;s a British TV show about a cop who gets drawn into a secret world of leeches called &quot;Code 5&#39;s&quot;; they manipulate society and prey on human beings. As part of a small cadre that is run by a priest and loosely connected to the Catholic Church, they hunt down Code 5&#39;s and eliminate them–to the extent that they can. Code 5&#39;s can&#39;t really die. You may have guessed that &quot;Code 5&#39;...

  • Post #3852234

    I seriously assumed that this was a post from The Onion at first! #politics #hegseth

  • Post #3773369

    Apparently the photo of a beaming, magically rejuvenated Senator Mitch McConnell in the hospital with his wife is an AI fake. I swear, my book recommendation of the day is a COMPLETE coincidence! 🤣 https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mitch-mcconnell-hospital-image/ #Politics #MitchMcConnell #AI #FakePhoto #QuasitBookRecs

  • Post #3758083

    I grew up believing that the future would be better for everyone. The ultra-rich stole that hope from all of us. I want it back.

  • Post #3724681

    I remember the first time I saw Platner. He gave an impressive speech that hit the right notes. But I immediately noticed the polished production values of the video. It was •too• on the nose. Whenever I see something like that, I immediately wonder who&#39;s funding it. The Democrats can never resist spending extra money and polishing up the ads when they are running a fake leftist. Always look for signs of wealth! Also, I have to wonder if almost ANYONE who runs for office is a potential...

  • Post #3661481

    Do you think that Donald Trump would consider you a communist? #Politics #Poll #Trump #Communist

  • Post #3631960

    Don&#39;t know if anyone has noticed this, but when there&#39;s a popular figure on the American scene you often see look-alikes pitching stuff in TV commercials. For example, there was a guy who looked and could sound a good bit like Ronald Reagan; in the 80s he was in demand for advertisements (he was also in &quot;Trading Places&quot; as a stock exchange guy towards the end). There was a sudden influx of AOC look-alikes in ads a few years ago, too, and I still see some sometimes. Now I&#39;m...

  • Post #3601564

    I got curious and looked up &quot;Vote Blue No Matter Who&quot;. That led me to some discussions for liberals and Democrats. AMAZING how they manage to completely eliminate the whole issue of genocide from their minds! It simply doesn&#39;t exist at all to 95% of them or more. How can they do that? What&#39;s WRONG with them? #Politics #Genocide #VoteBlueNoMatterWho #Democrats #Liberals

  • Post #3577494

    There are SO MANY THINGS on the web that I wish we could have back again! • Original Google Search • Original YouTube • Original Google Photos with unlimited storage as they originally promised • Original Gmail with unlimited storage as they originally promised • Google Plus • Anonymity Anyone want to add to this list? I&#39;m sure there are lots more! ...and WHY didn&#39;t anyone sue Google for breaking their unlimited storage promises? #Google #YouTube #GooglePhotos #Gmail #GooglePlus #Pri...

  • Post #3563238

    Who is this &quot;J.R.R. Tolkian” clown, and who did he blow to get the novelization contracts for Peter Jackson&#39;s magnificent Lord of the Rings movies? Couldn&#39;t they have gotten a •decent• writer to write the novelizations? Tolkien got so many things wrong that I can hardly keep track of them all. Who is &quot;Glorfindel&quot;, and why does he take so many of Arwen&#39;s best lines? Why did he leave out Aragorn having given up the throne in the beginning? What about Aragorn&#39;s wild...

  • Post #3478450

    Israel, in the glorious magnanimity of its enormous heart, has finally decided to recognize the Armenian Genocide–only 111 years after the fact. Actually Israel and AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League vigorously opposed recognition of the Armenian Genocide not only within Israel, but also in America and other Western countries for DECADES. Apparently they felt that that would deprive them of the &quot;specialness&quot; of the Holocaust. So this sudden turn-around is simply a preparation for...

  • Post #3430346

    Quasit&#39;s Daily Book Recommendations: &quot;Space Cadet&quot; (1948) by Robert A. Heinlein Category: Juvenile/YA to adult Genre: Science Fiction I&#39;m trying to avoid really well-known books with these recommendations. For example, I love &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; (1954-1955); if this was the world of Bradbury&#39;s &quot;Fahrenheit 451&quot; (1953) I would BE TLOTR. But as an old reader, it&#39;s hard for me to judge what books modern readers are likely to know. &quot;The Lord...