picklefactory
@picklefactory.org
Luddite (complimentary). I have no respect for posting as an activity or microblogging as a medium, and no attention to spare for damnfoolishness or bigotry.
DMs off. Instead email admin at this domain.
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picklefactory
@picklefactory.org
· Oct 16
if a few more don't make it onto the mute list every time, can I even say I actually looked at this site?
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from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
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The defense against despair-and-darkness social media ops is simple. Block and ignore. Do not amplify, do not respond.
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The defense against despair-and-darkness social media ops is simple. Block and ignore. Do not amplify, do not respond.
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
Instead post *your* story. Believe what you saw, heard, felt on the street.
The online space is a channel with artificial rules, hidden controls. Engage carefully and win. /🧵
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lisa kudrow from friends.
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
lisa kudrow from friends.
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")
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this site decided to tackle moderation second and we are really gonna find out what that is like quite soon it seems
December 6, 2024 at 8:09 PM
this site decided to tackle moderation second and we are really gonna find out what that is like quite soon it seems
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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You should say what the alternatives are so people understand what you mean by this.
Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social
They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social
Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social
They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social
We knew from the start we can’t get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it’s impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don’t trust us, or don’t like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative.
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You should say what the alternatives are so people understand what you mean by this.
Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social
They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social
Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social
They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social
happy curséd knowledge day to everyone who involuntarily participates
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
happy curséd knowledge day to everyone who involuntarily participates
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Practice naming and shaming collaborators with the presumption of shared contempt. Be matter of fact. Do not anticipate or allow room for objection. Extend the courtesy and charity that your hearers are decent people and, therefore, agree that collaborators are understood to be beneath contempt.
July 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Practice naming and shaming collaborators with the presumption of shared contempt. Be matter of fact. Do not anticipate or allow room for objection. Extend the courtesy and charity that your hearers are decent people and, therefore, agree that collaborators are understood to be beneath contempt.
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Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93).
More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
May 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93).
More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
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You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.
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Historian here slaveholders would hang or put the heads of slave rebels on sticks to line a road as a lesson to others. This performative propaganda by the Trump regime is an insult to the American republic, the rule of law, democratic governance, and human rights.
Stephen Miller lining the White House drive with mug shots of migrants is another sign that he's trying to acclimate, boiled-frog style, us to fascist imagery and tactics.
That's why it's so critical that the middle of the country is recoiling at it:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
That's why it's so critical that the middle of the country is recoiling at it:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
April 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Historian here slaveholders would hang or put the heads of slave rebels on sticks to line a road as a lesson to others. This performative propaganda by the Trump regime is an insult to the American republic, the rule of law, democratic governance, and human rights.
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don't most people want to eat, sleep, fuck, chat with a friend, do something fun? i just cannot believe people want to live in a police state run by the most ridiculous, shrill, smirking phonies you ever saw. not possible
April 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
don't most people want to eat, sleep, fuck, chat with a friend, do something fun? i just cannot believe people want to live in a police state run by the most ridiculous, shrill, smirking phonies you ever saw. not possible
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the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable
March 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable
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i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
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Okay! The complete first chapter of Pipeburn is up in a collected PDF on Patreon and Itchio! 45 pages of cyberpunk biker romance thriller body horror complete with underground fight clubs and mutant abominations;
www.patreon.com/posts/120152...
coelasquid.itch.io/pipeburn-cha...
www.patreon.com/posts/120152...
coelasquid.itch.io/pipeburn-cha...
January 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Okay! The complete first chapter of Pipeburn is up in a collected PDF on Patreon and Itchio! 45 pages of cyberpunk biker romance thriller body horror complete with underground fight clubs and mutant abominations;
www.patreon.com/posts/120152...
coelasquid.itch.io/pipeburn-cha...
www.patreon.com/posts/120152...
coelasquid.itch.io/pipeburn-cha...
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Phew, it's been a long, long trip, but Caves of Qud 1.0 is finally out there.
Hope you all, new and old, enjoy the ride!
steamcommunity.com/games/333640...
Hope you all, new and old, enjoy the ride!
steamcommunity.com/games/333640...
Steam :: Caves of Qud :: Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW!
A monumental milestone, but more to come…
steamcommunity.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Phew, it's been a long, long trip, but Caves of Qud 1.0 is finally out there.
Hope you all, new and old, enjoy the ride!
steamcommunity.com/games/333640...
Hope you all, new and old, enjoy the ride!
steamcommunity.com/games/333640...
six months ago I would have said I found this site's shitposters moderately annoying, though charming. the lesson I have learned in the last week is that is the people who were on twitter right up until now because they couldn't help it who are the real freaks. you goblins need to work on yourselves
December 5, 2024 at 3:34 PM
six months ago I would have said I found this site's shitposters moderately annoying, though charming. the lesson I have learned in the last week is that is the people who were on twitter right up until now because they couldn't help it who are the real freaks. you goblins need to work on yourselves