Enthusiastic sh.it.head

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How could I make my town a little less lame
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    7 days ago

    Naw, screw that - we need more people trying to make this place fun. If by some chance it is Ottawa, I’m sure they’d find receptive folks at The Dom/House of Targ/Arts Court/The Mayfair/Rainbow/AskAPunk/Tuesday Club/PROBE/One of the festival committees (except poutine and rib)/Spectrasonic/Awesome Ottawa/Canada Council for the Arts/White Rabbit/SPAO/One of the Zine collectives/Gladstone Theatre/Ottawa Little Theatre/Brass Monkey, for some reason/T’s Pub/Swizzles/Enriched Bread/Absolute Comedy/Cafe Dekcuf/that one house in Barrhaven (iykyk)/CKCU/CHUM/probably quite a few others I’m not aware of. Heck, you could bug the Night Mayor, what exactly is he up to these days?

    It all really comes down to what you consider fun. Are you going to have the same degree of options as you would in Montreal and Toronto? No. But if you want fun, there’s things to do, places to check out, people to meet and a not-insignificant number of folks who want more of these.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How could I make my town a little less lame
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    7 days ago

    Off the top of my head:

    1. Start researching your local ordinances and bylaws. Like someone mentioned here, there might be a reason your town dies after 2200.
    2. Think about the kind of things you want to see in terms of nightlife. Does that mean live music? Block parties? Techno night at the clurb? Kink stuff (seriously)? Theatrical performances? Hash and coffee socials (sort of a joke, but thinking through the logistics of such a thing has been my daydream du jour recently)? Etc.
    3. Find others who would be interested in the kind of stuff you’d like for nightlife activities. Start talking $ and logistics - are there any grants you could try and apply for? Fundraising activities? Where are you going to do this stuff? What do you need in terms of insurance? Do you need to address any pesky bylaws, and can start working with your local government to try and tackle that? And so on.
    4. Make a plan and act.

    The big starting point is really just defining one or two things you want to see, and working to get to the point where you see them. In the course of this you might be surprised by what you find (someone mentioned good ol’ Ottawa, ON as an image of the place you’re describing - but there’s actually a decent amount of stuff, both above- and underground, you can find when you start poking around).

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Internet Archive is in danger
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    3 months ago

    Lol, fair. I’m still not well versed in inter-service ActivityPub stuff. I don’t know if you’ll see this or see any of the parent comments here on Lemmy.

    Contingency plans if IA loses the appeal about the library stuff, or in general has something happen that puts IA’s collections at risk of being lost. Any thoughts on the matter? Also cool if it’s not something you want to talk about, I know you don’t speak for the whole org.

    How do we archive the archive?

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's been the craziest moment of your life?
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    3 months ago

    100% agree. It’s a big world out there with people of all kinds, living lifestyles you couldn’t possibly imagine (in both a positive and a negative sense). Those rare moments you get to connect with those people, human to human, are always interesting as fuck.

    Every time I took acid in public, I was a magnet for massive weirdos, but every time it’s ended fantastically well.

    (Can’t responsibly recommend though, there were very real risks of getting stabbed or robbed a couple times)

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's been the craziest moment of your life?
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    3 months ago

    Having an in-depth conversation with a crossdressing or trans street sex worker at 0100, claiming they were thirty but who looked eighteen at most, looking to do tricks for meth money, while I was outside of a bar on karaoke night on acid.

    She showed me her DeviantArt page, which included a drawing of her as a queen on a playing card fellating a shampoo bottle. It was the most fucked up, but interesting drug-addled conversation I’ve ever had. Very friendly, eventually went down a block to another group of people because quote ‘They look pretty drunk’.

    Every part of this sounds made up, but I swear it’s true.

    Edit: For some reason, I think it’s important to point out this was a Thursday night.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
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    4 months ago

    Here is a random list of songs I like, in my opinion under the umbrella of country in one way or another (though some stretch that a little. Or a lot. Don’t @ me, die-hard country fans).

    Some may, indeed, involve beer, trucks, and American Christian propaganda - but pleasant sounding at least. I’m also confirmed to be pretty lame, and that may be reflected in my choices here.

    I also never said you needed to dig deep - some/most of this is like, a fingernail scratch. But if you find something here you dig, strongly recommend diving deeper into the artist.

    Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
    George Jones - White Lightning
    The Highwaymen - Highwayman
    Dick Curless - The Heartline Special
    Eddy Arnold - Cowpoke
    Conway Twitty - Hello Darlin’
    Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die
    Sons of the Pioneers - Empty Saddles
    Marty Robbins - Running Gun
    Willie Nelson - Bubbles in my Beer
    Hank Thompson - A Six Pack to Go
    Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
    Sonny James - Baltimore
    Del Reeves - A Dime at A Time
    Dale Hawkins - Everglades
    Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West - Blue Bonnet Rag
    Tim Carroll - I Think Hank Woulda Done It This Way
    Buddy Emmons - Orange Blossom Special
    Tommy Collins - You Better Not Do That
    The Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real [here’s that propaganda I told you about - still love this song]
    Eddie Noack - Psycho
    Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Jerry’s Breakdown
    Tom T. Hall - That’s How I Got to Memphis
    Roger Miller - Dang Me

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?
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    5 months ago

    I disagree that it’s without merit. Again, OP is not asking the question “Is God evil?” - they’ve come to that conclusion already and aren’t presenting it for debate. They’re asking if there is a term for this position. It’s a fair question, and probably an entry point for them to do additional reading and thinking on the idea (after which point it may or may not be revised). If there was a more even mix of theists, atheists, and folks in between who wonder about this stuff on Lemmy, I’d hope OP would come back to discuss the idea, but that’s not what’s happening rn.

    If it helps, I’m coming at this as someone who believes in small g god - to borrow the Christian idea of the trinity, God the Father does not exist as an independent entity, God the Son is a more interesting discussion, but god the holy spirit does exist - rather than a pure atheist. Happy to yap about that more but it’s kind of off topic.