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it's nate!

@natescape.bsky.social

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toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. ui+ux. they/them/any.

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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting, and makes him even more legible to me!

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

Strongly agreed. My history with it has been of people very concerned with the details of devotion and very little will to actually protect the weak (especially and particularly children). Hugely destructive!

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

I would've had the same association - I think growing up, the Presbyterians we would've been in community with would have been Reformed (conservative) which is, as it turns out, not the majority position.

Now when I do worship it's with quakers; very easy to find solidarity with your point!

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 2d

Anna Tsing really cooked here

(from The Mushroom at the End of the World)

Excerpt from Anna Tsing's "The Mushroom at the End of the World"

"What we have is mushrooms, that is, fruiting bodies of underground fungi. The fungi require the traffic of the commons to flourish; no mushrooms emerge without forest disturbance. The privately owned mushroom is an offshoot from a communally living underground body, a body forged through the possibilities of latent commons, human and not human. That it is possible to cordon off the mushroom as an asset without taking its underground commons into account is both the ordinary way with privatization and a quite extraordinary outrage, when you stop to think about it. The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditization more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement."

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

I was told straightforwardly at multiple points at my rural central PA fundamentalist elementary school that Catholics are not real Christians (and yea, this guy is Presbyterian, but so much of their belief system is symbolic it feels like the distinction hardly matters)

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

theonion.com/monk-gloats-...

Monk Gloats Over Yoga Championship

‘I am the serenest!’ he says

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

hell yea

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 2d

SO true

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

Loved this one!

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

I love all this shit, don't get me wrong, it's just inherently surreal and comical to navigate identity and experience in late surveillance capitalism

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

yeah I knew a guy who died after being crushed by a ford f150 he was workin on. it means I can play 'wayfaring stranger' real soulful though

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

(sitting in a class of like ten other 2nd graders while a fundamentalist teacher in a jean dress tries to convince us it's not pronounced 'cousint') Someday I'm gonna be able to leverage this for such hyperniche social media cred

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

Writing a bio as a player of Appalachian music is so funny because on the page I have to talk about how magical it was to be surrounded by music since I came out of the womb and the subtext is basically like "oohhh look how blessed I am, I didn't have access to health care"

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

Love dropping a "with all due respect." We both know how much is due, buddy!!

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

You'd be surprised, maybe, how many farmers basically agree with this, if you cared to know anything about farmers

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

the one doctor who episode where flying traffic jams turn cars into generation ships

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

hell yea

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

we LITERALLY live in a society

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 5d

me seeing a new logo shared without context on social media: haha that sucks

me seeing a new logo for like 0.2 seconds in its context: oh that's pretty nice actually

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 6d

Is the decentralization in the room with you right now

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Megan Carnes @magmacranes.bsky.social · 7d

Tell me about some art/music/writing etc you’ve been enjoying this weekend. Feel free to tag the artist if they’re on here! Things in the world are bad but art is still very cool and good and gives me a lot of hope for humanity

(If you post AI slop that’s an instant block 😘)

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · Sep 3

My partner and I (2/4th of SNW) are both trans and attempting to leave the US (I’m also an Arab immigrant). It’s extremely expensive, so please consider buying our game/leaving it a review so that we have some sort of income when we inevitably have to make the jump and start over. Thank you.

Play Spirit Swap!✨ @softnotweak.bsky.social · Feb 3

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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 7d

I grew up among fundamentalist baptists and I relate heavily with this thread. I think about this question all the time, and feel torn between knowing the value and truth of this perspective and feeling like all the bullshit has already absorbed so much of my life.

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 7d

#blessed

ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 8d

Brother Herbert's Big Onion

to the tune of Diarrhea Planet's Ghost With A Boner:
SHREW WITH AN ONION!
SHREW WITH AN O-O-O-O-NION!

it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 8d

Chronic