I can understand, disagree, and not be a dick about it. Please work on that last one. I genuinely love to talk about this stuff, but it’s no fun confrontationally. Enjoy your dead, sterile, static zine shrine if that’s what you want. Those butterflies are too beautiful to ever exist again, you’re super special for having witnessed them, good thing they’re pinned in your shadowbox. My “point” here is that this world and that culture is a beautiful, living, evolving, ever-changing Thing still very much available for you to participate in. Come out and play, or not! There was a “post your lab” thread in the selfhosting comm here just a couple days ago that should’ve been able to melt your jaded old phreaky heart, wires going everywhere, scavenged gear, tunnels and proxies and containers, people learning and sharing and experimenting and helping each other out, punk’s only as dead as you let it be

Here’s a ww2, Vietnam, and modern interpretation to get you started. I wanted to include the original, but turns out he’s just a regular dog lol

As best as I can tell your point is to enshrine a medium best known for how accessible it is into something precious. I spread my first lil xeroxed pamphlet in 1992 and last one (so far) a couple years ago and genuinely from a place of love hope to see you do the same rather than sneering at “posers”. It’s way more fun to participate than judge and I earnestly want that for you. One person didn’t make monty python, but they absolutely made your favorite zine and so can you :)

Fuck it, I don’t care if he’s old. Bernie’s Ghost 2028

Heck yeah, happy cruising :)

Buddy fucked up lil “challenge coin” trinkets have been a depressingly common part of military/law enforcement since forever, the burden of proof here is light as a feather. There are galleries of em ranging from relatively banal tough guy “devil dog” marines stuff with their absolutely ripped fursona to unquotable “n-word lynchers” shit with nooses etc from southern police/sheriff departments. This is a weird one to call out

I know it’s a typo but “worst case Ontario” is absolutely becoming part of my lexicon

Hello! Heed me op, got your fix right here. There’s a goofy filler neck that comes off sometimes, a couple people have marked where it’s supposed to be with red squares. It’s gone though! There will be a hole in the top/side of the valve cover there with lord knows what field expedient solution plugging it. ~Mine~ was a chunk of radiator hose that came up to the original location with the original cap jammed back in it to retain convenient access, but we can’t all be the world’s greatest shadetree mechanic. Here’s a video of some nerd actually fixing it with factory parts like a big dumb loser with way more money than me, just to help you find it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNaJr_PD97g

If you tried to make them today, you would just be a poser.

False. Idolizing that snapshot and discouraging human output misses the point entirely and is the worst poser take on the subject I can imagine. Curated sips of ancient counterculture are just pretentious self indulgence if you aren’t drawing inspiration, and disparaging those who would actually participate is extra gross. Go make a zine about how much you love old zines, it’ll be fun

Let’s be wildly paranoid lol

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I obviously reject the original framing and was really hoping to hear your answer. That a system supports a life you find worthwhile does not mean it is inherently worth supporting.

How would you respond to a system you currently depend on that you recognize needs to change?

Maybe it’s all the drugs (did more than enough, long ago) but I’m genuinely unsure what you’re trying to say. It doesn’t take a lot of institutional support to get high and listen to music, I get a vague sense you think I’m supporting something and find that hypocritical. Care to elaborate?

It ranges from “present a thesis about our ideology” to “password optional”. You can run your own instance too. The whole federation thing is a pretty cool concept, I suggest looking into it a bit vs just thinking of this as a reddit alternative. Yeah there are apps and frontends pretty much identical to reddit, but it’s a very superficial similarity

Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees? I have found you can find happiness in slavery

Yes these are Nine Inch Nails lyrics, they slap. Op needs to do a lot more drugs

This is slander to excrement, a nutrient rich componenet of the cycle which sustains us

I think your provider would probably be willing to exempt you from their AI processing shit if you talked to them, given the good relationship you seem to have built. Raising your concerns like that could benefit other patients in their care as well, depending on how well you articulate them and how receptive they are

I like that this take is right next to the much more reasonable gentle test hump guy, the contrast makes it seem even worse

This guy fucks