starbreaker @starbreaker@mastodon.sdf.org

If you followed me because I said something intelligent, and expect more of the same, you're going to have a bad time.

I'm only human. I'm just a metalhead with delusions of erudition riding the Dunning-Kruger Express like Slim Pickens astride a falling H-bomb.

I frequently make terrible jokes. I don't always have my facts straight. Sometimes I mistake punching down for punching up.

So, when I say something hurtful, please call me on it. I'm a New Yorker; I can take it.

I don't just do #anarchist and #communist shitposts. Sometimes I write #scifi, too, and put it on my website under a #CreativeCommons license.

For example, there's "Thirteen Cuts", where a young man who participated in a judicial murder takes his first steps toward atonement.

https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/starbreaker/thirteen-cuts/

There's also "Limited Liability", wherein an ambitious businessman gets an introductory lesson in the meaning of terror.

https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/starbreaker/limited-liability/

#mastofiction #creativetoot #mastoart

We will not be free, nor shall the earth be healed, until we have rejected and eradicated the threefold tyranny of church, state, and capital.

All #billionaires are dragons, and I'm not talking about the often benevolent dragons of Asian myth. I'm talking about the cruel and rapacious dragons of European legend.

#billionaires hoard stolen wealth and spread terror and desolation. And it will take more than an intrepid band of adventurers to bring them down.

CHRISTABEL
I'm not comfortable here. Can we go?

MORGAN
Sure. I might come back later, though. I could use a brawl. I haven't so much as decked a dirty cop all month.

CHRISTABEL
Why would you attack policemen?

MORGAN
That's what Adversaries like me do. We watch the watchmen, and kick their asses when they step out of line.

CHRISTABEL
And who's watching you?

MORGAN
Turtles.

CHRISTABEL
Turtles?

MORGAN
That's right. Turtles all the way up.

Barack Obama is canceled. He had his two terms and now he needs to go take art lessons from Dubya.

Hillary Clinton is also canceled, because TERFs should be canceled on general principle.

Also, this is a basic #XML #sitemap.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Generating this using #m4 shouldn't be difficult, either. It should certainly be easier than generating feeds.

The hard part would remembering to update the source files.

However, given the following files:

- feeds/source.m4
- inc/atom.m4
- inc/json.m4

I should be able to use the following commands as long as both files contain the same macro definitions but with different results:

- m4 -P -E -I inc/ -Dfeed=atom feeds/source.m4
- m4 -P -E -I inc/ -Dfeed=json feeds/source.m4

One source and two macro files should work if I can use the "feed" variable to control which macro file I include.

This is a #Jekyll template for an #Atom feed.

https://git.sr.ht/~demifiend/jekyll-website/tree/master/atom.xml

And this is a Jekyll template for a #JSON feed.

https://git.sr.ht/~demifiend/jekyll-website/tree/master/feed.json

It should be easy to generate these using #m4 as long as I don't insist on providing a full-text feed, but the trick would be generating two different feeds from one source file.