The only thing that anarchists hate more than authoritarians is other anarchists!

My boyfriend said I needed to be more affectionate.

So now I have TWO boyfriends!

A series of tubes, you say?

I used to haunt surplus yards as a high schooler in the 1980’s. There were a lot of pneumatic tube components to be found as the world was switching to electronic networking. Pumps, boxes of o-ring seals, tubes and junction fittings.

Running an instance is pretty trivial from a sysadmin standpoint, so I do lean towards smaller entities just running their own, to prevent monolithic censorship.

They can just disable comments so they don’t have to moderate anything. A county could run just a read-only instance that would have a community for every department that needed to do public communication. The road department could post about a bridge closure, the conservation district could promote a volunteer event, and so forth.

Being both already I would tell said genie to take a hike.

No power in the ‘verse. But a large billboard out your best window might do it.

I finally got strong enough to tolerate stimulants about five years ago. The new capabilities are still amazing to me. In fact my life has steadily improved in almost every way.

The big challenge has been to learn to trust my new super powers. This is me, this is who I really am!

For me the ‘searchlight’ feeling has remained and has become the norm. I was able to go through EMDR a couple of years ago and the feeling of personal efficacy increased even more.

The only problem is that I now see how utterly shitty our society is. But I am also strong enough to keep carving out my own alternate path.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all of the joy within you dies, what then?

I’m in love with Stanford Beer and his saying “The purpose of a system is what it does”.

So yes, if most of us are depressed and anxious then that is what the system is for.