bay-bull-write

Story maker, wannabe futurist, food enjoyer. Alum of @WeldersDC. (X/100 1-Tweet Tales #microfiction)

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(1-tweet tale #0)
With these 1-tweet tales I aim to make 1) full *narratives* with character + need + choice + consequence (not jokes, poems, gotchas, “what ifs”): beginning, middle & end 2) practicing story in brevity 3) for the joy of myself and whoever likes #microfiction

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@Mikeachim relevant xkcd (though it takes some Time to see): https://t.co/dFlXb5Gh9u

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@Rainmaker1973 51 if you want to get Game of Thrones about it.
(63 if you don't.)
(448 maximally without getting arbitrary.)

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@RobertSecundus i kind of assumed the true Heaven/Utopia is what happens after you step through the door. the Good Place is pre-Heaven

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@simonsarris the first step is stop trying to find a partner, especially with a list

the second step is go be in communities with people that you like spending a lot of time with

the third step is really really like someone there and don't keep it a secret from them

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@gptbrooke Blood on the Clocktower + ludonarrative

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@gptbrooke ask: someone outside my usual circles to read the first chapter of my novel-in-progress and give me their reaction
offer: read/listen and critique or just give encouragement for your writing, music, art project

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@tenobrus @CopiumDeficient @corsaren so in principle, if we had the tech, we could say "this brain's neurons are lighting in a way that we can be certain they are interpreting blue & black, while this brain is interpreting white & gold." in other words, there is some evolutionary thing where blue always = X pattern?

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@tenobrus @CopiumDeficient @corsaren (genuine question) if we look at the neurons of two people looking at The Dress (or anything that people disagree what color it is), can we tell which color they are seeing it as without knowing anything else about the person?

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@tenobrus @corsaren when you see a red thing, do you experience "ah yes, my brain has arranged into the red internal complex state"? a step is missing between "internal complex state" and your subjective experience of 🟥. contrast with e.g. a brain state leading to a non-subjective muscle twitch.

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(1-tweet tale #18)
The gods warred. My patron god was killed and I was left apostate. What good did my former devotion do me now? I sat in the desert, waiting for death. Death came - and said, make Me your god now. It’s Purpose that matters. So I started killing other gods.

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(1-tweet tale #17)
These aliens live on color. Show them orange, they love you, purple, they attack, gray, laugh. We almost feel guilty manipulating them so easy. They come to Earth, multiply. We have to outlaw purple. Then green, red, white… Easier to just put them in charge.

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morality gets arrested at whatever life stage a person first became happy

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@TVachaW sorry to say but you're kind of reinforcing Nick's point

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some people confuse the shit that comes out of you after you eat delicious cake for the cake itself; it is the end-product, after all. and so they think if they can speedrun a pile of shit, they've done the world a service by saving all the time you would have had to spend baking

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@robkroese if you destroy a ship, the result is it sinks; if you destroy a spaceship, the result is it becomes unpowered junk subject to inertia and gravity alone. maybe "bricked" vs "motored", or "hunked" vs "delta"

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i need to put in more work to ensure my "strawberry rhubarb pies eaten" score at the end of my life is in high triple digits

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if Netflix etc spend too much on AI storyteller and video enhancement tools etc, they will force them into your shows (after nobody uses them) to justify the cost

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@TylerAlterman @majamediaco if people don't think of themselves as "organizers" or whatever, a new term won't change that. what we need is a term for "NOT an organizer, just dabbling this one time," to reduce the weight of responsibility. maybe a verb ("this weekend i'm ___ing"), instead of a noun.

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community is just people who give a shit about your stupid shit

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I hate bumping up against the limits of my intellect