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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

What happened to Saidit.net?

Saidit.net, although right wing in tone, used to be a very nice site. You could post anything you wanted, of any political stripe. You'd get extremely active and uncensored debate. And, since nothing could be voted down, you didn't have to be extremely popular all the time, as you do on reddit, if you wanted to stay on a site. Since Trump was elected, however, the more popular sites are heavily pre-edited, and if you post anything even vaguely critical of Donald Trump, on any site, you are accused of "trolling", banned from the site, and, the owners are so paranoid they'll actually block any public location you might be posting from, even large ones, indefinitely, lest you might slip through and create another account! Actually, it's kind of fun to force Saidit.net to actually block entire large metro-library systems indefinitely, for fear of having any vaguely anti-Trump posts located anywhere on the site. They'll open them up perhaps twice a week or so, and, then, if you post anything they don't like, they'll block the entire public site again for a while. Try it, you might find it interesting, and fun.

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