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The Church of Jeff has always been a joke.
My use of the term came from 1992-93 when my college friends would joke about how I needed to start my own cult.
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Jeff-kirken har alltid vært en vits.
Jeg brukte begrepet i 1992–93, da vennene mine fra universitetet spøkte om at jeg måtte starte min egen kult.
Fresh beigeizen introductory post! 🌱 I moved here from another server, and here I feel like I can be weird but in a benevolent way. Privileged to be here.
A confession to open with: I'm a bit lost lately. Not in a dramatic way. More like staring at foggy buildings disappearing into the heights, seeing the beauty but not feeling the associated eerie melancholy. My life path is on autopoiesis, but not quite clear. It's challenging in a satisfying way, yet my mind is filled with a kind of jaded static. Perhaps I'm at the age of needing to rediscover myself. Or it's just the world being a lot right now. Likely both.
I make my living by making educational journeys happen. I design them from idea to delivery, or support others to do something similar. My background is in #psychology, and all my educational content intersects this science with democratic values and history. All #education should playfully animate curiosity and empathy. It's my way of contributing to nudging the world in better directions. Without heavily investing into emancipating, inclusive educational systems, we are all lost.
When I'm not doing that, I'm playing games - board games, TTRPGs or video games. Numenera is still my favourite tabletop RPG (campaign incoming, wish us good times), exploring Pathfinder, and I'm an #NSR fan with a soft spot for narrative-driven adventures. When it comes to vydia, #Faeria is my competitive favourite (let's connect and play if you're the rare breed who plays it too), while #ULTRAKILL is where I go lately to feel things.
Speaking of worlds being built, I'm currently crafting #Cosmoboros, an outlandish TTRPG emerging from a psychedelic haze. Also some smaller experimental stuff, like a floppy disk solo journaling game.
Occasionally I'll post photos I've taken or strange little stories I've written. I like books and non-conventional comics, so expect some reviews too. I just try to share bits of what inspires me. I tried to trap my shitposting persona to a secret account, but sometimes I can't help myself (not that I'm good at the art).
Full disclosure: I like AI (not limited to LLMs), I think it's one of the most wonderful things we've ever forced into existence, though I do criticise many of the technology's real-world effects.
Human rights are for everyone, except perhaps those who actively work on taking these rights away. Call these people what you want, to me, they are the enemy. Other than that I don't care what you believe in, as long as you are willing to discuss our inevitably different interpretations of the universe with an open mind.
If I need to tell anyone that all my opinions are my own and don't represent that of any other party, then they should also know that everything I say or ever said is a bad joke.
My beliefs are conflicting and I know that whatever I believe in is very likely not how things actually work.
There was a program playing Mexican pop I was listening to as I did some cleaning up around here. Minimal cleaning up. I did, too!
I came back here, sat down, heard 2 words of a song and exclaimed to no one, "That's Hawaiian!"
The program had changed. Indeed, it is.
It was considered culturally important to learn the hula when I was a kid. Now we have a president more likely to call native Hawaiians immigrants, demanding they go back to where they came from like the Nazi he is.
Of course, our parents fought Nazis. They never once voted them into high office to stick it to the libs. As if mass murder is a joke.
My, how easily I digress today.
Credit scores are a joke.
My score dropped when I paid off my car.
My score dropped when I paid off my student loans.
Credit agencies told me to take on more loans to increase my score.
The system wants you to be in debt.
It's a business for them.
They punish you for not owing money.
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