Powell Quesne

Bisexual underground text game dev (Gen X) who was swarmed and harassed throughout 2023 while doxed & homeless in Vancouver, 🇨🇦CANADA🇨🇦. 5"x5"x155iq 🏳️‍🌈

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

This account is and always has been operated by the same HUMAN BEING — yours truly,@PowellQuesne, birth name "Paul" something-or-other, formerly known as @Laroquod. As the original author & copyright owner, the aforementioned may reproduce this profile at https://t.co/cVj9QgkGWo.

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

I quit linear creative writing for life, not b/c machines got smarter but b/c people got dumber. A real mob of Canadians decided, for reasons they never bothered to say, I shouldn't make art. They swarm anyone doxed IRL who dares dissent from their orthodoxy. This is their doing.

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

He also swallowed the kooky line that 'AI' can fix Western economies BEFORE its bubble pops. Only way he can deliver is if his recovery happens way faster than it looks like & the Big Bot Bust happens way slower than it looks like. A tiny window but he governs like he has forever

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

Cancelled my blue check. (Takes effect at end of billing: June 22.) Too much economic uncertainty. What if Carney's threatened act of repression happens during my summer break? I could unpredictably lose my chance to stop auto-payment. Best kill it now when I still can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

So the 'Liberals' finally posted the details but there ARE no details. They're just gonna let this vague notion that they MAY kill anonymity at any time hang like a spectre over social media nerfing the ENTIRE info economy. Not exactly the steady economic hands they pretend to be

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

Let's recap. I, an ordinary Canadian male, FINALLY make a move to monetise 'X' and thereby contribute to Canada's economy, and what does Carney do? He makes a COUNTERMOVE that makes it a RISK for me to rely on social media to earn, for up to 18mths. This guy's no economic wizard.

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

This 'protocol device' approach PROTECTS PRIVACY BETTER than making every website check every user and it SHIELDS KIDS BETTER too, at the root device level. BEST, it AVOIDS HAMPERING THE WEST's social tool-use development which is NOT a skill that oughta wait until full adulthood

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

With GENUINE liberals missing-in-action, Western govts are now working in concert to ban anonymity online 'for the children'. If sincere, (unlikely, I know, but humour me here), why not use all that political will to create a 3rd alternative to HTTP/S: a new kid-safe web protocol

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

Ulterior motives aside, BUILD A PROPER KINDERNET and they will come. Non-kid-safe devices can be prohibited to minors AT POINT-OF-SALE. Websites can be motivated by toy & game advertisers to publish kid-safe versions on the kindernet. New laws can surgically target the kindernet.

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

The dark-money-adjacent provenance of 'AI' is no coincidence: it IS a scam on old folks. Not that AI RESEARCH is, but the fake 'AI' tech y'all been putting in charge ISN'T driven by 'the research'. It splatted fully bullshat from the arse of the similarly phony world of astroturf

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

The empty, NEEDY inelegance of America's 250th birthday celebrations -- a milestone of a type that can't be repeated until 2276 -- reveals a nation BEYOND decline. I guess it's hard to fake humility and reverence toward the history of a corpse you're standing over, bloody-handed:

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

Remove the ICE blue & fill w/SPARKLING WATER & the 'Reflecting Pool' will STILL reflect dickriding on the rich bullies who peacock against migration even as they replace American wisdom WHOLESALE w/spam bots trained by the kinds of offshore crews that run email scams on old folks

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

This "It's like" is not even an It's Like. It happened. I breathed too heavy helping my mom eat at a mall. A lone passing cel-cam-swinger took it as a scoff, glared at us, clucked his tongue, rolled his eyes, like what should I do, suck it in for His Nibs? https://t.co/fevZUNQ235

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

You may think I'm joking but this TYPE of literally crazed-&-deranged mob activity is something I've seen happening over and over and over. It's like I can't even breathe in this country without somebody acting as if my entitled lung capacity is an offence to their personal space

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

What would you say if you heard you can't even DRINK SODA freely in Canada b/c if you do it from an extra-WIDE bottle, people may swarm around you, pointing cel cams all at once as if you're mocking them? I'd say the people have become way too 'woke' about their weight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

I see it happening now in malls I once hung out in as a child. I was born in these parts but I just don't recognise the behaviour around me anymore as 'my native land'. People seem to want me silenced, homeless or dead. ANYthing I do can be an offence b/c it proves I'm still here

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

What Trump and Hegseth have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt is that, in times of war, simply being "American" is worth: nothing. Pumping yourself up as a big "warrior" is worth: nothing. Bouffy hair, Christian tattoos, bullying trans folk out of the military: all worth nothing.

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

Trump lost the war and this deal is a surrender so NOBODY on his side can hold Iran to any part of it. The loser cannot hold the winner of a war to terms: that's kind of the point. America went down. Russia will soon follow. It's France/Europe or bust on the nonproliferation file

[Ali Ahmadi @AliR_Ahmadi]

France does this all the time. They did this after the JPOA. They throw a tantrum when they feel excluded. Let them do "we're a great global power" theater and we'll deal with it later.

[Powell Quesne @powellquesne]

BTW how does Pete Hegseth still have a job? Dude was appointed to lead Defense, rebranded it Dept of WAR claiming he'd bring a "warfighting" ethos to the military as if one didn't already exist, and then HE LOST THE FUCKING WAR. I wouldn't put that guy in charge of a virtual pet?