March 27, 2019
Testing the Blog's New Bitchute and You-Tube Embeds
For others who blog on mee.nu, the how to-post on this is here.
Pixy has a You-Tube embed as well. It's of fading utility as most of the cool, interesting people are getting banned.
However, most is not all...
...so it's still a useful tool.
For others who blog on mee.nu, the how to-post on this is here.
Pixy has a You-Tube embed as well. It's of fading utility as most of the cool, interesting people are getting banned.
However, most is not all...
...so it's still a useful tool.
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March 20, 2019
Status Update
It appears that our posts are being lost between chair and keyboard and we have decided that this is due to tachyon interference from transmissions emitted by the
Dero from far beneath the Earth's crust in an attempt to break the tyrannical hold
on their third and fourth chakras that is being exercised by the
Shapeshifting Reptoids from Draco who have taken refuge with the
Antarctic Space Nazis in the hollow Earth after having to abandon their
forward operating base in Cydonia after the Greys razed it with
ortillery to prevent the Reptoid's and Nazi's joint (and evil) plan for global
domination from interfering with the Greys' seedy and completely illicit
fetish tourism and surprisingly lucrative manipulation of local (Terran)
cattle futures.
It is possible that the situation may be more or less complicated than that, but further investigation is needed and in any event things are hectic here, so we've decided to conclude this second rambling run-on-sentence with a picture of Grea who is a shining example of the societal virtues facilitated by hybrid vigor (and who has probably appeared in more TV series than any other half-dragonette).
It is possible that the situation may be more or less complicated than that, but further investigation is needed and in any event things are hectic here, so we've decided to conclude this second rambling run-on-sentence with a picture of Grea who is a shining example of the societal virtues facilitated by hybrid vigor (and who has probably appeared in more TV series than any other half-dragonette).
Art by Wataame27
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March 19, 2019
Oh Wow. Look at All the Positive Feedback I'm Getti.....Oh.
Greetings gentle reader, we are working diligently to keep our comments free of salt, water, modified potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrite, pork and.......ham.
So, as I run down the ingredients on a can of SPAM,
I note the ingredients list both pork AND ham.
The world is all muddled,
and I am befuddled
so I'll just throw up my hands and scream "Damn!"
While I contemplate this conundrum, here is a period panorama by Pochi.
So, as I run down the ingredients on a can of SPAM,
I note the ingredients list both pork AND ham.
The world is all muddled,
and I am befuddled
so I'll just throw up my hands and scream "Damn!"
While I contemplate this conundrum, here is a period panorama by Pochi.
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March 04, 2019
Test Post
Testing to see how the blog functions in the New Moon browser, which is the Mac version of Pale Moon.
First lets post an image; something inoffensive like like a modern take on Red Riding H...uuhhh?
Lets see. How about videos? That ought not to be an issue, but it is with Vivaldi. Let's go with something that's stripped of enough context to be SFW and forgotten enough that it doesn't incriminate me in any way.
ã¯ã„。
Will it actually type π now?
Yes!
How about formatting quotes and running animated .gifs? Let's try a reaction shot.
Sweet. But does it support animated .PNGs?
Now lets see if it supports automatic content generation.
Well. Dang.
Tsana by Lansane. Support him on his Pixiv Fanbox page.
Oh fabrijous day! Minx's superscripts and subscripts work in New Moon. (They don't in Epic, Safari or Opera. At least not on my Mac. And Vivaldi's got...issues.)Lets see. How about videos? That ought not to be an issue, but it is with Vivaldi. Let's go with something that's stripped of enough context to be SFW and forgotten enough that it doesn't incriminate me in any way.
Oh crap! The website is still there.
日本語ã§å‹•ä½œã—ã¾ã™ã‹ã€‚ã¯ã„。
Will it actually type π now?
Yes!
How about formatting quotes and running animated .gifs? Let's try a reaction shot.
I’m not going to discuss the relative merits of astrology, but I’m going to say when an entire civilization formed on the enlightenment principles chases after it, things have gone seriously wrong.
Art by Kaku Choushi
Yes. It hasn't been Minx, it's been my browsers.
Though, upon reflection, we probably could have done without the booger bubble.
Though, upon reflection, we probably could have done without the booger bubble.
Now lets see if it supports automatic content generation.
Well. Dang.
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November 28, 2018
Research Papers & Boxes & Boxes & Papers & Research & Boxes & No Sleep For 37 Hours & A Kidney Stone & Boxes & Can't Lift My Arms & So Very Many Boxes
Everything hurts.
No blogging now.
Papers first.
But here is Weiss, with a more pleasant take on the season.
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November 13, 2018
Hiatus (Bumped)
Between my final (as in no more!) term papers and the holiday rush at work I'm going to be scarce for a bit. As compensation I'll leave you with something that ought to be completely non-controversial.
more...
BEST four armed, one eyed, curvy, red headed, plague doctor!
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October 17, 2018
Apropos of NOTHING
That is our story. We are sticking to it.
If one is in an online forum and something involving an issue that is on the borderline of the established rules requires a decision from a moderator, a call by the moderator that is against one's liking does not make the moderator a marxist. It means they are moderating...that is their job. They don't get paid. And on a large forum they are having to make a LOT of calls and do a lot of work as well as tend to their own lives so if one is told to stop pushing the envelope (which will then entice a whole bunch of edgelord shitposters to shitpost on the edge and make the mod's life even harder) then one should probably not go all derp-chan & call them a Marxist. A Marxist is every bit as bad as a Nazi and we ought not to throw these words around higgly piggly. Yes. I know. Some people do. A majority of them are Marxists. They're also dicks. Don't be a dick. I have confidence that one is better than that.
"And I believe in you too!"
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July 03, 2018
Meawhile, Off the Coast of Antarctica
One of The Brickmuppet's Crack Team of 2-D Science Babes ponders Apple updates...
...and alerts your humble blogger to what turned out to be in Every. Single. Screencap.
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June 05, 2018
And Indeed It Does Appear That The Linky Thing is Fixed!
Thanks Pixy!
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May 25, 2018
Notice to Readers
This blog is a test, an experimental transmission from a secret facility.
Far beneath the guano mines of Niue.
When Mee.nu first started up, a number of tech savvy individuals were given blogs to run as alpha and beta tests. When that was successful there was one more step before going live. Another beta test...with someone who was NOT tech savvy. That's where I, the paragon of PEBKAC, came to be a beta tester and one of the earliest bloggers at Mee.nu. Now I understand basics of information technology of course, but I have no formal certifications in the care and maintenance of electro-pneumatic tubes, the complex interactions between isolinear silicon fibers and ley-lines, how such phenomena affect the transmigration of data between Samsara and "The Cloud" or the ultimate cathexsis of these discrete packets of id on a hard drive.
Therefore, it was decided that mine was the perfect blog to run the final beta on.
To this day Brickmuppet Blog is still a test blog as per our agreement, and experiments of various natures are still conducted here preceding any upgrades to the Mee.nu community.
Like spammer mitigation.
Be advised that there may be some disruptions of the blog over the weekend.
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September 19, 2017
That Thar Be Odd
The previous post be cursed.
Probably by sea monsters.
"Avast!"
(Art by Bubuzuke)
UPDATE: Well, it appears that the epic formatting issue in the previous post has been fixed and that sea monsters were not responsible in any way. We apologize for the hurtful, unwarranted and irresponsible speculation.
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September 05, 2017
No!No!No!No!No!
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June 22, 2017
A Clever Solution to the Boycott Problem
Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons and Karl Kasarda on Inrange TV have come up with a response.
It's a reasonable solution. Indeed, being independently wealthy is generally my preferred solution to most problems.
Note that they do have some thoughtful things to say about the implications of demonetization (and internet boycotts in general).
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June 06, 2017
The Killer App of Mu.Nu
I started to mention this in a previous post, but it deserves to be above the fold.
A bit over 10 years ago, after 1021 posts on Blogger, I was about to throw in the towel. Google had bought BlogSpot shortly after I started blogging in 2003, but this was of no concern until early '07 when 2 things happened. There were some system crashes and issues with the image posting system. More importantly The Netroots types began a campaign to file complaints with Google/Blogger about "offensive content" in blogs whose opinions they found uncongenial and report others as spam blogs. Blogger/Google was only too happy to oblige. As a result of that, numerous blogs whose opinions vexed the Netroots were threatened, locked pending review, or just vanished. There had been a similar purge of right leaning You Tube Channels that had happened a bit earlier, (remember when Hot Air was mainly a companion site to their You Tube channel?). That censorious annoyance had been similarly instigated by complaints from the Netroots.
Brickmuppet Blog was protected from this mainly by my lack of talent which placed me near the bottom of the blogosphereic ecosystem and the fact that it's not really a political blog. Still, I did actually get one vague threat from a reader to have me taken down...because I guess getting a Z-list blogger with 6 readers to shut up is a real power trip. Between that and the short lived technical glitches, I was about to throw in the towel. I had been made very aware of how ephemeral any work consisting entirely of electrical zeroes and ones actually is.
However, I inquired about different hosting services and took the advice of Wonderduck and the late Steven Den Beste, and signed up here in Mee.nu as a Beta tester (my utter lack of IT skills being a feature and not a bug in that capacity). Although the very first comment on this blog was a thinly veiled threat, I've been very happy here.
Since then I've come to appreciate even more the absolute importance of the fact that Pixy Misa (the owner, proprietor of Mee.nu) is completely dedicated to free speech. Unless they are spammers, child pornographers or malware-bots, he and his crackerjack team of pixel elves aren't going to screw with any of the 65,000 odd websites hosted here.
Additionally, unlike some other platforms, Mee.nu doesn't have a truth and safety council, doesn't shadowban users, and allows one to type as many characters as one needs to get out a coherent thought (actual level of coherence is the typists responsibility).
Furthermore, unlike some services Mee.nu doesn't integrate seamlessly into every aspect of one's online existence. That may, at first, seem like a bug, but in an age of weaponized empathy...it is not. The other day I noted noted an online poll that concerned a politically charged topic. It required one to log in via a service we won't name (but it rhymes with SpaceCrook). This of course means that everyone in one's feed knows how one voted, and sets off all manner of flags. Rejoice Mr. Parsons! The telescreen has arrived!
But not here in Mee.nu.
Operating from a vast underground bunker hidden somewhere in the guano mines of Niue, Pixy Misa interacts with the world mainly through a surprisingly lifelike teleoperated animatronic in Sydney. Pixy oversees several servers scattered across the globe in places that are not North Korea, China or The Platt River Networks men's room.
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December 24, 2016
Last Day
Art by Itou (Onsoku Tassha)
It will all be over this evening...
UPDATE: I've successfully survived my 24th and most likely final Christmas at UPS.
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December 11, 2016
5 Days Till Exams Are Over, 14 Days Till Christmas
Apologies for the content deficit gentle readers.
As partial compensation, here is some seasonally appropriate cheesecake, topped with sundry varieties of fruit.
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August 28, 2016
Much Like This Individual...
...I've been distracted by trivialities that have caused me to loose focus regarding rather more consequential things that need to be dealt with.
Art by Subaku
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July 26, 2016
Palate Cleanser
Recent posts have been less than inspirational, so here is a study of a serene tropical beach....and a watermelon.
Art by Yana (formerly went by Nekoarashi)
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June 04, 2016
A Test of Testable Things
Well there's been....TALK.
I walked into the cafeteria the other day and noted that all the cool kids were talking, presumably about cool things, so I walked over to say hi, but before i did I realized that they were actually venting about some dork...and then I realized, it was probably me so I hid behind the soda machine before they saw me and then skipped lunch and then I ran home and cut myself checked the blog in Epic, Opera, Vivaldi, Safari, Midori and Chrome and didn't see a problem but realized that the complaint was about IE...which I don't use because it tries to upgrade my Windows 7 into Windows 10...so I just gave up because the day was terrible since I'd already gotten a "D" in English because of something called a "run-on-sentence".
Ahem...
I noted that my page was set at 25 posts per page, I've cut it down to 5. As a stress test, since two other posts have embedded videos in lieu of content, I'll put this animated .gif of a girl passionately explaining why duodecimal is just better.
Let me know if cutting the the page count addressed the issues.
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April 27, 2016
Monotonous Meta Monologue
Hello gentle readers.
We're trying to check out the blogs compatibility with Vivaldi, and double-checking a few things in our 5 other browsers. One annoying peculiarity is apparent right away
Additionally, some combination of keystrokes associated with the "BACK" key reverts the page to the previous page in the tab...thereby dumping the post.
Naturally, this is a break from format and therefore of limited appeal to our readers. Thus, sacred honor dictates that we post this picture...
Because few things over the last several weeks have been quite as refreshing as Blizzard's response to those who feel that the greatest problem in the world is Tracer's epic bodankey.
As to the upcoming game itself, I thin....
Ahem.
While I detect the foeted aroma of sarcasm in that outburst, in fairness, it should be noted that we do count amongst our loyal readers those who are not explicitly catered to by the first image.
To that end...
All nekoboys are 18 years of age or older. proof of age was on file in annex C of section 42 of the basement of the Ministry of Education Truancy Division Sector 8, Orion Arm Local Office Copies Division, Located orbiting Alpha Centauri B Planet 3 Moon 2 Quadrant 1, Sector 81, Spoo County, at the corner of 8th Street and Dogwood Avenue and was retained there until the nekoboys alluded to reached the age of majority at which point such records were burned pursuant to the child welfare act. That is our story, and we are sticking to it.
However, this can digress to an alarming degree since our diverse audience boasts a number with...unconventional interests.
...which would just not be keeping with our format and so that is why we generally subcontract such matters to 4-Chan.
Let's try a quotation now
...might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours—not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini—like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days—and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!â€
― Michael R. Meyer, It Can't Happen Here
Ok...that covers most formatting tools and our ongoing nightmares..
Perhaps that's enough for now.
UPDATE: Does anyone note any oddness?
The banner images are working now. I suspect I have a broken banner in the rotation. I still cant figure out quite what selection of keys causes the page to jump back though.
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