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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#Monsterdon coxwain: Bro, whut? yeoman: "Uhh bro sez 'head, fer sher!' coxwain: 'awesum!'

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#Monsterdon Heretheycome! Coming down the street! heyhey! the monkees wait, err not yet

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#Monsterdon wait what? location of "the" locust? or the locusts? why? what? who? Quick! Call the grammarican!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#Monsterdon if you'll be my pied piper I can be your long lost, , ,

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#Monsterdon wait! What's the frequency? (kenneth? are you there?)

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#Monsterdon Air Force Air Force's ? Air Forces' ? Air Forceses? what is the proper plural possesive? ???

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#MONSTERDON Oh can I try the alley too? like alleys, me

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#MONSTERDON high freq radio equip & a fast boat? OMG! MeeToo!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#MONSTERDON yup drop the 'big one' that'll totally work

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#monsterdon 2000 gals?

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#monsterdon f*ck! overrun paxton again? sheesh

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#monsterdon note to self: leave 'convertable' top up

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#monsterdon 1 person 3 mo ago vs a whole town? shrug

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jul 27, 2026

#monsterdon man in the moon marigolds?

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Oh, , oh, that hurts @quixoticgeek@social.v.st

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Jun 07, 2026

Replying to @matt@oslo.town

@matt@oslo.town Lol!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 16, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social confess it, me usb, sb, lsb confuses me to this very day it's ok, no need to explain I'll not understand anyway (though I should)

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 10, 2026

Twas a long winter
here at cold comfort,

and absent *any* sanity checking

I had a bad fever dream
a cabin-fever dream

now,
in stage 4:

#cargobike
#solarpunk

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 08, 2026

#bikenitequestions

my e-cargobike failed hard this week

I sorted it
was moisture-intrusion (it's always that)

cost me a day

I am working on having 2 e-cargobikes, because this happens

&
no
bike shop can't help

not in time

i posted unpopular take: bike shops are boutiques,
not truck stops

not to bust on shops,

but in the US?

utility cycling barely registers

We're (the US) a long way from parity:

for folks who use bikes like others use cars

What's your experience?

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @Gustodon@mas.to

@Gustodon@mas.to interesting point No one should have these weapons until everyone has these weapons "Errr, uh, wait, , ahh, , ummm" @RickiTarr@beige.party

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @RickiTarr@beige.party

@RickiTarr@beige.party really bugs me despite following you for *years* I never see your original posts. Healthcare? Yeah huge positive externalities. rather like: government, infrastructure, transit, water, food basics, power distribution, etc very difficult to quantify therefore: by definition not profit centers collective goods, all. supply side? Sure! profit the heck out of it! & let competition reign. we-the-people should never struggle to provide profit on basics. for profit prisons? wtf!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 07, 2026

#CargoBike
#ebikes

CargoBike as Car Replacement.

Yeah
works fine here in the US
*IF*
one has access to a car!

If one relies on day2day transportation, esp for biz?

Gotta have yer wheelz!

y/day
rain day
no work
but a queue building,

hauled e-cargobike out
slapped battery in
hit 'start' button
&
*Nothing*

OhFk!
have clients!
Shit!

sorted it
but lost a day

moisture-intrusion

Not everyone can sort
&
repair infra *does not exist*
no one can help
on your own

bike shops are boutiques

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @pluralistic@mamot.fr

@pluralistic yup

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @cpm@spore.social

@votetanille@socialbc.ca a quick fwiw: I was doing chores on my dusty, old, web host VM, updating the certbot stuff and a url scrolled by that I thought was long-dead here lays my fit & start at hosting a podcast, probably had a reach of a few thousand for the 1st one, the later ones hit a few hundred, with a long tail. but super easy to do just reveal-codes: basic html https://podcasts.eruditium.org

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @adamgreenfield@social.coop

@adamgreenfield@social.coop well i suppose context has some weight.

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @votetanille@socialbc.ca

@votetanille@socialbc.ca ummmm html 'audio' tags around a self-hosted mp3 file? https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_audio.asp if soooo many! folks hit it? Sure look into streaming options

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 05, 2026

funny

am a few yrs into that 'time of life'

where-in my dear departed pappy was causing concerns

&

well past the time when his pa was deeply into crazy-land

...

I read about brain-health stuff

am staring down both barrels at a future I *Do Not* want

not for me
Not for anyone

Me?

despite what 'they say'

hitting my dry-herb vape
&
leaning back
watching the trees.

Can almost 'feel' the bing!, the snap! of quantum wave collapse in photosynthesis

Puritains are the thieves of virtue

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 05, 2026

tail end of the cold war

I seperated from military service

because

of course I did.

late 80s, early 90s?

if anyone asked me
about my life goals?

"I want to be a minor character in a William Gibson book."

&

*No One* ever got it.

sigh

in the 'now, long ago (fsvo) days' ,
had a lot of fun chatting on twtr with GreatDismal

I do miss pre-X

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 05, 2026

Ok

have composed & deleted a few things today without bothering ya'll,

that said:
'I drink,
therefore I am'

Yeah
I mow lawns for a living.

so

I take breaks in the shade &have a cheap beer

Been doing this since 2019, when I became unemployed, & was already unemployable (reasons)

had this client since 2020:
laissez faire 'tude viz 'lawns'

just finished string trimming around the women-children's (2x) backyard play set,
as have done for:
"OMG! 6 fk'n Yrs'

& *Still* use it!

do a good job!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks

@mycrowgirl bittens!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 01, 2026

you may have played with sock puppets once upon a time

or, at least

have been amused by folks who entertain with sock puppets, at least, as a kiddo

that does *not* even remotely imply that socks are sentient

AI?
Same

just stop it

thank you

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · May 01, 2026

sheesh;

Is it pheromones?

Seriously.

Homeless cat & his old dog companion

zero'd in on me

spun wrenches on his '03 ford F150 for an hr

water pump & hoses

then trying to sort the clutch lockout so he could start it.

(it's dangling under the dash)

his 'trigger-finger' is way worse than mine

How do these folks know me?

I don't *like* this

It freaks me out

Sure
glad to help?
certainly

Me?
gave up on cars long ago

Cars
Ruin
Everything

Why can't we have nice things?

Fucking Cars!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social

@Remittancegirl be assured (just me talking here) that any big push to just 'give up' isn't grass-roots rather, the opposite of that

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @mike@social.chinwag.org

@mike https://spore.social/@cpm/116352982181540352

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win

@futurebird option 5: 'nostalgia' can be a trap

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea that's a TopTip! thanks muchly

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @ascentale@sfba.social

@ascentale #BikeNite #CargoBike #SolarPunk A8: My (not really a) booth at our local earth&arbor day event. I waffled over attending at all for too long. My portable PVsolar charging system is taking 4x longer & 2x expensive, and thus isn't beyond the Proof of Concept phase. had hoped to have it done, and therefore was embarrassed to even show up Jamaican Food Kitchen took the place across, blasted tunes, served up awesome food & had fun, so I thankfully, was ignored. whew! @bikenite

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @davep@infosec.exchange

@davep@infosec.exchange Cool gotta buddy he scavenged a whole bunch of rear-projection TV fresnels from 'the curb' on move-out (univ town, us) played silly games like pouring liquid nitrogen on some polycrystal pv cells & hitting'em with focused sunlight in the spirit of "Let's see what this baby'll do!" (aka, hold my beer) impressive outputs! fairly he's a nutcase. nuclear engineer by training, builds jet-turbine testing jigs in his backyard shop for his daily bread. i should stop by & see him

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @cpm@spore.social

@davep srsly arco 85watt panels cost nearly a grand & folks buying pallets of them, paying in cash? duh that *was* the market

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @davep@infosec.exchange

@davep remember the periodical: "Home Power Journal" ? ceased publication about a decade back? Gobs of info on 'guerrilla solar' installations, before folks tossed in the towel and started adapting codes to permit the tidal-waves that were here anyway? Sure. Greenies with bottomless pits of $$ were buying these staggeringly-expensive panels, inverters, etc But: Seriously folks: what market force created these warehouses of solar power goodies? & where were they located?

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @davep@infosec.exchange

@davep indeed no argument kinda always was. look oil cos, utility cos *love* pv solar, telcoms as well. can deploy anywhere, provide current relative to the ground state, which is a massive win for galvanic corrosion, and a host of other annoyances that plague built infrastructure. No matter the per-watt cost. why they invested but they have no interest in 'us' using it truth: pacific nw pot growers kept retail pv solar alive for decades there's a fun story there

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @davep@infosec.exchange

@davep well sure. our electric utility outfits can shoulder a lot of this as well. they love their coal plants. every grid tied array *reduces* grid loading. where's the fun in that? The fun bit? every installation I worked on in .WV yrs ago the linecrews? the reg 'blue collar' folks? who did the final tie-ins? Into It! Excited about it. the khaki&poloshirt white hardhats with the clipboards? eh, , , not so much.

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @cpm@spore.social

@davep Just for fun: The Solarex Solar Breeder in Frederick, Md Shortly before demolition I social engineered my way onto the abandoned grounds one afternoon. I remember it's construction. Was to be the 1st of 5 nationwide Nope was to be located upriver near Berkeley Spngs, WV where the silica came from but 'investors' wanted it near DC 1st, ARCO(defunct), later, BP, made sure it went nowhere.

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @davep@infosec.exchange

@davep I've un-tagged Charlie,Am sure he gets plenty of noise in his feed. That said; yeah the article is kinda trash that whole 'unexpected!' thing. said so yday no, not unexpected, modeled and anticipated well over half century back. pv solar is a win, always was. even solar heat harvesting is very real & productive, and always has been old & hard to find expose' on early days of solar: Ray Reece's "The Sun Betrayed" https://archive.org/details/sunbetrayedrepor00reec it's an old & ugly story

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross yup argi-solar or agrivoltaic are real things, does work, intercropping is real, shaded forage is good livestock management, (increased dairy production, reduces stress, )etc etc wholly desertified landscape recovery mixing solar with cachements is well under way in seriously depleted chinese landscapes, blah blah I just can't argue this stuff with folks who can't get their heads around it. So, I don't bother.

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @eff@mastodon.social

@eff overdue i get it but yeah overdue

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @jik@federate.social

@jik *Clear Your Cache(s)* Early & Often!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @kimu@wandering.shop

@kimu@wandering.shop Yup this happens has happened for me a few times, phones as well. & it feels good recommend

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @brianbilston@mastodon.online

@brianbilston Bring It!

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cpm @cpm@spore.social · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town

@lambdacalculus yes plz & thnk you

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