my empire of dirt

words, stories, videos, ideas, art by @RoboAnt

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HACKED [PHOTOSENSITIVE]

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Every time Im on social media. Maybe I'm just old now. I hate facebook. I hate TikTok. I hate Instagram. Live your life, no one else cares. I don't post as much as I used to because I just don't care enough to post. Not that I was a heavy poster to begin with. I just occasionally post to twitter (X) when Im alone at a bar, think of an amusing one-liner, or some spicy take. All of which Im sure have already been posted a million times before mine. A whisper into the void.

I'm trying to have experiences. I value them more than anything else.

on Tumblr drafting up a eulogy. Because google docs now count against your storage.

I miss but also glad I deleted my old livejournal. Youtube has some value as How To fix things, information, piracy, same with some Reddits, but other parts of it, not so much.

Log off, de-friend, hide likes, block, disconnect, signal jam, delete your profile, and go have real life experiences.

[fukkingdeath]

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Time comes for all

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Frame 313

check dates, when was it posted, time stamps, time codes, frames, frame rates, geo locations, shadows, sun location, time of day, reflections in glasses, buildings, architecture.

Conspiracy theories. Everything / Everyone connected.

Don't flatter yourself, this post, blog, video, story isn't about you.

Boom, kill shot.

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my empire of dirt turned 10 today!

My Tumblr is 10. Wow, I remember I made it because Tumblr™ hosted a Pitchfork Fest after party at Bottom Lounge and you needed a Tumblr to get in. It was also a day after I got jumped walking home late at night. After p4k, I went to Neo to dance. I was walking home, literally 5 or 6 houses down from my house, when I was blindsided and jumped/robbed for my ipod touch. (Maybe they thought it was an iphone)

Anyway...

Here's to another 10 years, hopefully I'll update you more.

🐜

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my heart hurts

not in a heart attack way, tho that is probably how I will go in 10 to 20 to 30 years, but my heart hurts in how much I miss you

i ache

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Hacktivists and ANS UL40

My dream is there is some hacker person or group out there, while yes jailbreaking the new iphone is all nice and good, but would use those skills to help the less fortunate and root the ANS UL40 phone. 

For those who might not know, the ANS UL40 phone is the “free government phone” phone given out to those without the means to own or pay for their own cell phone. Its a bloatware, adware, malware rats nest of an android phone. Prone to overheating, and a quick dying battery. Most of the problems I believe could be solved if a clean version of Android or Android Go could be installed.

My firsthand experiences with the phone, I believe some kind of adware is running in the background at all times, generating clicks for whomever is subsidizing phone so they can generate ad-revenue so that’s how they can get their money back from making the phone “free” 

The less fortunate shouldn’t be unwillingly converted to a click farm for some corporation. If a Hacktivist group out there could make a tool or a simple enough tutorial, or point me in the direction of one would be fantastic. I know others have run into this same problem. 

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Submission

I’ve submitted something. I haven’t done that in ages.

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Photo: @leightonic

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Next Chicago mayor candidate, put this on the city sticker and you’ve already won! 

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scary stories

Walking alone thru an old abandoned graveyard. Each head stone a date. An entry. Covered in webs. Linking to each other, thick, almost opaque. double u. double u. double u. dot. 

A web of lies. No one is here anymore. Friends died or dead. Maybe. Do you honestly know who you’ll be buried next to? Inactive.  

May 24th, 2007. the day I died. Over 10 years ago.

It was a short life. Burned at both ends. Created February 6th, 2003. Jesus. 

I’m afraid to read what I wrote. This is a totally different person, I’m not the person who was buried. 

Yet I know him. I see him. I see him today in the faces of others, those that are lost. I purged him and his words. 

old websites on a dead server. 

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Application

I’ve gotten more writing done now, applying for jobs and writing cover letters than I have in years. Sad but true. Forcing my hand. 

Writing that maybe only one other person might see. You are my audience. 

Words for One. 

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current mood.

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11 years ago today...

Fuuuuu

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aunt ant aunt

I know I haven’t written here in forever, but I have to. To get this out, and its a form of therapy. 

She is my family. My whole family. I really don’t consider anyone else my family the way that I do with her. Since my mom passed and after and even before she was always there. She was the one who gave me my taste in music. Encouraged me with whatever I wanted to do. Stood by me and helped me. Now I’m deathly afraid. 

It was mimicking the way my mother passed. And I can’t lose her. Not now. I need her. She needs me. It kills me not to be with her right now. She will fight and she will pull thru. 

The house feels so empty without her. Im alone. An only child, I know loneliness. But this is different. One can me lonely in a crowded space and feel no different. But this is loneliness in a familiar place. Loneliness at home. Home where you’re supposed to feel safest of all. I’m safe but it feels anxious. Like something horrible is about to happen. A fire. A burglary. A flood. But worst of all, with her not here, I’m just waiting. Never-ending waiting. Waiting for her to come back. Waiting to feel safe again. Waiting for this place to feel like home again. 

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Birthday Status

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i cant sleep

what is sleep?

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see

when you close your eyes and see pulsating lightning bolts but its just really your veins in your eyelids.

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Here’s a Ninja Turtles short I worked on last year! This thing got premiered last week at the San Diego Comicon, and it’s great that it’s finally getting seen!

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#TeamDon