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  1. henriquez @GenderNeutralRobobrain12345678910111213141516171819202122

    this is a fake version of Twitter before everything on the web went to shit and got ruined

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    2 months ago in reply to GenderNeutralRobobrain12345678910111213141516171819202122
  2. henriquez

    We come together because we are fundamentally bored. We could spin a grandeur about ideals, uprising and new hope, but let’s cut the crap. We’re just bored and we want something to do and now we’re gonna fucking do it!

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    2 years ago
  3. henriquez

    So unfortunately the shiba inu needed ACL surgery and since I'm recently unemployed this required the shedding of many earthly possessions. But as the narrator in Fight Club mentioned, the things you own end up owning you. Maybe without them I will be more free. You probably won't see more shiba inu facts until he's feeling more like his usual self.

    I find it interesting that the initials of Fight Club or FC correspond to Ted Kaczynski's "Freedom Club," the pseudonym under which he tried to justify numerous murders and acts of terrorism to the media. His manifesto was interesting, visionary in many ways, but crucially flawed in its conclusions. He has no justification to support his belief that technology is the root of all human unhappiness, other than the fact that he just didn't like other people.

    Personally, I still believe technology can be used for the good of mankind.

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    3 years ago
  4. henriquez

    I am in Barnseville, MN winding down from a pregame party before a wedding. The bride’s mom’s house is already full of family friends crashing under varying degrees of ethanol intoxication, and so my significant other and I were granted access to an air mattress in the living room. Unfortunately due to my insomnia I doubt I will be sleeping much tonight and instead wrote this post. Remember, no matter how much of a drunk you worry you are - you are loved.

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    3 years ago
  5. henriquez

    So the facts have been up for awhile now. There aren't too many yet, but a site about facts should at least have some facts on it.

    It took a long time to put all of this together. We've been up in some form since 2004, and a lot has changed since then. I was exploring a dream world, a place I'm still exploring, but I've run into a plateau.

    This time I don't think the problem can be solved from behind my keyboard. It's not a surprise; this site was always only intended to scratch the Surface.

    I need a teacher, a mentor, to help me break from this loop and explore from a different angle. Whether that's physical, spiritual, or both, I want to learn, to be a student again.

    I don't know if this is goodbye for now, but wouldn't be surprised either way.

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    4 years ago
  6. henriquez

    Okay, we're back up. That wasn't so bad, was it? Sometimes you've just got to chuck the server on a plane, turn tail and run away. I waffle on the oxford comma.

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    4 years ago
  7. henriquez

    I'm taking the server down because I'm changing physical locations. Probably I should have thought this through better and hopefully nothing breaks permanently. Goodbye world, see you soon!

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    4 years ago
  8. henriquez

    Lately I've been waking up in the middle of the night feeling an unspecified dread. I have so much energy but it's all being funneled into my career leaving other ambitions untended. I used to wonder more whether I was making the right choice to slow down my art in favor of making money. But I stopped wondering. Maybe this dread is some part of me forcing the issue back up.

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    5 years ago
  9. henriquez

    The more I think about this the more I wonder, am I another one of their projections? I've let myself be used like one of them for so long. Years. But it was in the purpose of our overall vision, or that's what I told myself. I'm starting to doubt that I even exist, at least any more than the others. Would I be cast aside? I don't want to disappear.

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    6 years ago
  10. henriquez @AutigenderOwl-kin

    thanks and / or sorry for letting me test the guestbook rollback censor. I probably shouldn't do this but I'm childish and I hate to lose.

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    6 years ago in reply to AutigenderOwl-kin
  11. henriquez

    Fresh up in the deprecated section is a turbo HD remix of sillyputty. This was the original concept for the guestbook page, but built within the constraints of the web of 2004. With no HTML canvas or socket support in Firefox 1.0, things were much more limited in terms of functionality. The remastered version brings modern capabilities to the original concept and ditches the SQL injection vulnerabilities.

    sillyputty

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    6 years ago
  12. henriquez

    Freshly added is a DMCA Policy for the site. Personally I have issues with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, particularly Section 512, but this site complies with it.

    More broadly, copyright law in the U.S. has a ton of problems (and even more in Europe), but it needs reform, not some kind of anarchic overthrow. Copyright is the glue that holds Free Software together and makes copyleft licenses like The GNU General Public License enforceable.

    I might have more to say at some point in the future, but I've already gone toe-to-toe with copyright lobbyists in a past life, and those people are brutal. For now I'm going to limit the number of beehives I kick.

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    6 years ago
  13. henriquez @NPC

    Twitter's new character limit is actually 280 characters, which is important because that's just barely enough to encode a 15 byte encrypted Memespeech message!

    Fmiffel is based off Twitter from 2009. It's not a priority to maintain feature parity for this parody.

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    6 years ago in reply to NPC
  14. henriquez

    I've posted an older remix of The Residents' song The Sleeper, with the generous permission of their business entity (The Cryptic Corporation). The Residents are still one of my favorite groups; they brought many a subversive smile to my childhood. Thanks guys, whoever you are!

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    6 years ago
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    It's 5:30am and the site is up. Everything went basically smoothly except the part where I hosed the server's boot and had to physically boot into recovery mode. Now I'm just waiting on Mozilla to approve the Memespeech Firefox Extension, then wire it up to the page and we're good to go. (Google approved the Chrome Extension within 2 hours [at 3am])

    I'm still going to work on re-adding features to the deprecated section. But most people are unlikely to find that area anyway.

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    6 years ago
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