Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@doctorsidrat@fandom.ink they're sort of like conventions, i think some have talks and so on (or these days it's a focal point of where they're doing the official licensing tests), but mostly it's an excuse for a really big swap meet and that is what's really fun

it's a really good hobby still, i think they semi-recently relaxed the morse code requirements on the lowest level license too!

like imagine a big communal garage sale where the parking lot was half "for 20 bucks more, you get a spot here and you can open up the back of your car and sell old tech bits", in an environment where everybody knows at least a baseline about that technology so you can get in to the real interesting shit

plus usually a section for indoor vendors who actually set up proper booths and such

a LOT of old computery doodads swapped and bartered and sold all around

i'm the black sheep of my family in that i am the only one without a ham radio license (A TERRIBLE MARK OF GREAT SHAME, AS I AM SURE YOU'D AGREE). my mom and dad still have some old printed postcards with their handles on them that they'd send to people around the world after chatting, their car license plates for a long time were their ham numbers, etc.

but mostly

hamfests were such great general tech swapmeets

ok either this will elicit uniform confusion, or there's going to be like 15 people going GOD SAME immediately:

y'all know what i miss? like, a lot, actually?

hamfests.

as in amateur radio, not pork products

i should go ahead and plug said friend's instagram honestly - https://www.instagram.com/stitch_n_the_cryptids/

if you like chinchillas and herps, please enjoy this lovely instagram dedicated to pal's lovely pets.

and also the fucking vinegaroon is there i guess, but she's aware of how creepy it is

also she is into lolita fashion so if you want herps occasionally hanging out on that, there is also that! also stitch the chinchilla loves to make bonnets his home it's great

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YOU GUYS

LOOK AT WHAT A DISCORD FRIEND MADE FOR HER PET SKINK https://imgur.com/gallery/hBMlUdL

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CLICK THROUGH IT'S SO GOOD

good morning fediverse i woke up still Fucking Pissed about shitty leftists who want to deny disabled people exist, how are y'all doin'

the best part of star trek is tribbles. do not at me i know i am right

note that i'm remembering tamales exist in a really really good way. i would probably shank somebody for a tamale right now

i mean i have standards. not from frozen. no shanking for frozen

oh god i just remembered tamales exist but it's 2am in the morning and we sure as fuck don't have any

anyway i'm going to watch more stupid shit on youtube to try and forget the innumerable hordes of "radical" "anarchist" etc. dudes on here who are all about politics and political philosophy until they encounter something which they have been using against others, at which point baby will never give up his blankie unless you really really grovel and give him some candy, but he wants his blankie to continue hurting people with waaaa, god give me fucking STRENGTH.

and, quite frankly, of course it's always a fucking vegan. good to know you'll go to bat for a fruitfly while leaving your fellow humans in the dust because those icky disableds need to be out of sight, out of mind, and they're certainly out of YOUR mind because They Don't Exist In The Perfect New Anarchist Radical World :) Now Why Don't You Go Away, Icky Loud Disabled? So Gross!

tldr

fuck off with all that my dudes.

did i pop off there? yeah

however, it's frankly fucking amazing how many people go "i'm a leftist :) i'm an anarchist :) i don't believe in structures that say one human is more valuable than the next :)"

then they show disabled people don't exist in their worlds at all

and when reminded, wow look at all those structures of Good Good Disableds versus Bad Disables (Who Shouldn't Be Wasting Oxygen) that just come pouring fucking forth

@NuclearAnxiety_@anarchism.space until then, don't fucking call me comrade.

don't call anyone comrade.

you're showing you only consider people physically fit enough to fight to be your comrade. you're showing you only consider people BUYING INTO THE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY OF "WORKING OUT" to be comrade.

that's not radical. that's not leftist. that's not progressive.

might as well fucking say you only consider comrades people who have solid gold statues of Lenin, for all of what you've demonstrated here.

@NuclearAnxiety_@anarchism.space anything else is just more hot air.

if you truly want to show people you're different, don't present the same ol' same ol' tired fucking bullshit that has been weaponized for years, and years, and years, and years, and years, and years.

it is not radical to play into the same tropes that the fash know, love, and wank themselves senseless to every night.

it is better to remain fucking silent than push Lebensunwertes Leben as ~leftist and cool~.

@NuclearAnxiety_@anarchism.space if you are radical, be radical. show me you value people for more than physical strength. show me that you understand people are still valuable when they have no physical strength, and when they cannot do the physically demanding job you are pointing to.

if you truly are about radical equal treatment, stop this bullshit "How Useful Have You Been Today, Citizen?" judgment of people based on physical ability. stop putting people in a structure and guilting them to participate.

@NuclearAnxiety_@anarchism.space similarly, if your propaganda is "get strong before your enemies can", and your answer to a challenge is inspiration porn, you're still falling into the idea that Good Disabled People Are Useful.

and you have not gained anything here. you are still peddling the "only Useful get to Live, everyone else is a Bad Disabled" line capitalism preaches loudly.

this is why i have negative patience for such bullshit.