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@carrideen @RachelThornSub

You can bet it's in the backrooms then!

@Daveography

Do you know what a "Nick Fuentes" is? He's a nazi pod-caster basically. As in "Christians only" and "interracial marriage is evil" nazi.

He's become moderately popular on the right and Tucker Carlson had him on his show. The Heritage Foundation (extreme conservatives) are in-fighting about him. Some are "confused" how this could happen. I'm not.

"I just don't understand what made them think I would welcome this kind of awful thing??"

(See what's been happening with the conservative Heritage Foundation for more on this going on in real time.)

*crying* "Where did all of these awful racist and antisemitic hateful people come from?" *confused crying*

-Guy standing under ten-foot high neon sign that says "WOKE" with a big red bar crossing it out.

@RachelThornSub

It's basically like any scary story that is also a meme. Like "bloody marry" (where you turn off the lights in the bathroom and say her name in the mirror three times and she appears?)

Only this is how these stories grow and spread online. There have been short films and games made, but nothing is the "official" story which is what I love about it.

@blogdiva @streetartutopia

Normally there is a particular point where an artwork like this looks most effective. That's the ideal point to take a photo from... change the angle an the illusion of depth will vanish.

@Twotired

"Inflicting cuteness on the world without regard for the safety of others."

@Mayabotics

They would be one level up from the Very Long House I think.

@dancast

Everyone is feeling so crushed by layoffs. We could really use some new companies with real new ideas, or even just the bravery to try to do something that's already being done just a little better.

But, what a horrible environment to start a company. Unless you start it with the aim of getting it bought. That's how everyone seems to think about it now and I think it's very dysfunctional.

@wonziu

The real reason is more cool. It's a way to kill off the viruses... which is way creatures like bats, that have more variable body temperatures (for mammals) can be reservoirs for many viruses.

@RachelThornSub

People mostly get excited describing and making renderings of these strange liminal spaces. The idea is that you could at any moment glitch out of reality and end up in someplace like this:

@RachelThornSub

It's a modern folk tale based on an old 4chan creepypasta that has mutated into a bunch of stories.

"If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in."

Wanted: #Writing Advice

Have any of you *completed* a novel where there are multiple story lines that thread in and out of each other?

I started writing it in the order I imagined it: so switching when I'd expect the reader to switch, but this has become confusing.

I'm separating the story threads by character and I'm planning on working on them like individual stories for a bit.

Then I think I will weave them back together.

Does this sound like a good idea? Anything I might watch out for?

Pica is getting what she deserves for her many crimes today. #picathecat #caturday #catsofmastodon

@david_chisnall

It's impossible to make money in transportation. People forget this over and over again, but there are social pressures that keep it from being profitable and overtime, the more useful the network, the less profitable it is.

And this is a good thing.

It's also where a government can play a positive role.

What if every company that needs public investment has already raised as much money as they possibly need? What if there simply isn't any real need for more money to go into the stock market? If there isn't a company with a need to buy something, or build something so they can pay dividends in the future when they make a lot of money then maybe the stock market is full.

What happens when the stock market is full?

Anyway it's time to raise taxes and build things with government money.

Consider the rail road boom. In many ways it was similar to what we are seeing now, but at least they were manufacturing trains and laying rail.

What are we going to have when the dust settles?

Data Centers.

Couldn't we at least build power plants instead?

There is nothing magic about "The Market" sometimes it produces competitive circumstances that may drive innovation, sometimes it can distribute resources somewhat effectively. But it can also simply fail to do those things.

There are two major ways that people do large expensive projects: private sector or the government.

The number of public companies has been shrinking. New companies with promising futures are quickly bought out. Gold is up, real estate is up, there is too much money that wants to be invested and not enough opportunities to invest.

The market has too much money not enough ideas.

And not enough of these private sector operations will build infrastructure or really get anything productive done.

@alex @bartholin