#mush — Public Fediverse posts

i was so surprised and delighted to see BBSes, FidoNet, and MUDs/MUCKs get mentions in the anthropomorphic (furry) culture history documentary The Fandom (2020).

i always knew there was significant overlap between furry culture and networked computing, but i had never fully made the connection. it's so nice to see a real, non-corporate, grassroots culture grown through informal othernetworks. no wonder masto is so furry-rich!

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF9DQQsUcs0

watch here (free):
https://archive.org/details/the-fandom-a-furry-documentary-full-movie

#bbs #fidonet #documentary #film #furry #othernetworks #mud #mush

Are you a fan of #MUD #MUSH #MOO games? You know, text-based games running over telnet? Now imagine that running over #ATproto.

Welcome to @[email protected] , an #ATmosphere MUD game you can play on your browser.

Come and join! atmud.net

#gaming #games (No, I'm not affiliated with them.)

AtMUD

#MUSH (1975)
Sled dogs who work at a medical outpost in the frozen wasteland of Upper Saboonia. This cartoon is a parody of M*A*S*H (1972).
#TVThemeTunes #TVIntros #TVMastodon 📺 🎬

today’s research is a book of collected articles about MOOs. 25 years after the public virtual world boom, it’s refreshing finding that so much good research was done before it all collapsed in the late 2000s

#mud #moo #mush #virtualworld

i've been reading a late-90s book about virtual worlds - some of them VRML-based, many custom 2d and 3d clients, and some MUSHes/MOOs/MUDs

i came across a scientific MUD i had never heard before, and i'm absolutely blown away by its goals and implementation: NAU Solar System Simulation/SolSys by prof Reed Riner at northern arizona university. it was online from 1990 until at least 2017 (and maybe longer?).

there is a little information out there on what SolSys was:

"The Solar System Simulation, originated at CONTACT VI in 1987, was developed into an intercollegiate curriculum at Northern Arizona University by Reed Riner, as an honors course in Anthropology and Engineering. Since 1990, it has included student teams from many colleges and universities around the globe.

The teams represent colonies in a simulated future human community in space. For example, Mars Colony is normally manned by NAU and the Cabrillo College team traditionally inhabits the L-5 Colony near Earth. (See L-5 artwork left by Joel Hagen.) Teams communicate via websites, Internet e-mail and a Multiple User Domain (MUD), a text-based, virtual reality program. Students are directed and encouraged by their local faculty advisors and by a board of professional consultants in the social and space sciences."

https://www.contact-conference.org/c03.html

seriously - a hardcore scientific MUD built around real-life anthropology and space exploration. and entire mud devoted to teaching players how to cooperate in order to accomplish goals together, instead of killing a bunch of shit. how fucking cool is that?

did anyone here play/use SolSys when it was still alive?

the urls went dead when prof reed passed away last year, and the university wiped his webspace

SolSys ran on a modified version of tinyMUD, focused largely on building and communicating. this is its last known homepage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250328124317/https://www2.nau.edu/rdr/SolSys/

dr. riner's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azdailysun/name/reed-riner-obituary?id=58181563

#mud #moo #virtualWorld #mush

*I wonder if AI "slop" feels like slop because it lacks any mediated limits, and can easily, instantly slop any apparent medium into the simulated form of any other apparent medium. #drawings #snapshots #mush #postcredible

Still looking all the time... #art #looking #mind #mush #flavors

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/IcRVy

"Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern."

#xAI #Grok #Mush #X

https://www.ft.com/content/55235da5-9a3f-4e0f-b00c-4e1f5abdc606

Prediction: because of the physical limitations of low earth orbit #LEO - these idiots (#Mush #Bezos etc.) will destroy that #space in no time. Bye-bye #space-based benefits such as #research.

#satellites #orbits #science #technology

@christineburns

Musk runs a pedophile child assault porn site.

Elon Musk runs a pedo porn site that he uses to attract criminals to overthrow the US.

Child porn on twitter is a Musk thug recruitment program.

Weeping mothers demand he stop.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq587wv4d5go

#mush #grok #ai

vantaMOO grand reopening!!!!!

it's back! after three long years!!! :3

WTF IS A MOO? it's a multiplayer text adventure! think zork with other people, but with more focus on socializing and building stuff and less on killing monsters or whatever

if you're chill i can give you permissions so you can make cool stuff and help the place grow! i hope bringing it back will give me the opportunity to continue learning more python

WEBCLIENT: https://moo.vantaa.black/webclient

TELNET: port 4201

you can connect as a guest too btw!!!

#vantaMOO #mush #muck #mud #moo

#art #mush #mind #look #flavors

« L’Anime qui donne un vrai sens à ta vie (#GTO : Great Teacher #Onizuka) » (via #mush) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vC0HF3MTf4

#Mush #Trump #disinformation

"Trump is disingenuously claiming to have facilitated a rescue mission to bring the astronauts home, accusing the Biden administration of having “abandoned” them. The president’s latest social media diatribe on the return of Crew-9, posted to Truth Social on Monday, is a doozy, filled with nonsensical claims and glaring inaccuracies. We went through Trump’s post, fact-checking the president’s various claims and providing background and context to reveal the true story."

https://gizmodo.com/a-meticulous-breakdown-of-trumps-desperate-attempt-to-take-credit-for-the-starliner-crews-return-2000577445

So, this is a random shout into the void, but just in case anyone looking happens to be interested...

CrystalMUSH is back online, after 10+ years of neglect by me. So... if you played there in the distant past, please come back? :)

Game is up at crystalmush.kydance.net:6886, same as previously.

#crystalmush #crystalsinger #mush #mud #moo #mccaffrey

✨ Heyyyy.... Moi je me demande... Les gens quand vous achetez des autocollants... Vous les collez où ? 😵‍💫🤔
(C'est une vraie question).
✨ Et pour le plaisir des yeux, une petite photo de Coprin chevelu - Coprinus comatus. (De cet automne. Of course.)
✨Et tout à l'heure, un vrai pouet avec des dessins dedans 👌
°°°°°°°°°
#autocollant #illustration #mastodon #mastodonart #MastoArt #champi #champignon #champignons #mush #mushrooms #mushroom #fungi #fungilovers #coprinchevelu #biodiversity #ecology #automne

It's 2025 and it's easy to quickly assume that #MUD #games are dead or at least stuck with the original ones. But nope, MUDs are very much alive! #gaming #MUSH #MOO (P.s. I, too, still play MUDs to this day. 😁)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5vippmbzw7fubmbjwcc3cqq/post/3lh3mw7gan42d

ANALISI CRITICA DEI FATTI ECONOMICI DELLA SETTIMANA CON ANDREA FUMAGALLI: LA POSSIBILE VENDITA DI TIK TOK, EFFETTI SANZIONI ALLA RUSSIA, DATI SULLA PRODUZIONE E PENSIONI https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/01/17/analisi-critica-dei-fatti-economici-della-settimana-con-andrea-fumagalli-la-possibile-vendita-di-tik-tok-effetti-sanzioni-alla-russia-dati-sulla-produzione-e-pensioni/ #datiproduzionenovembre #sanzionianti-Russia #NAZIONALI #vendita #tiktok #Mush

385. THE COMPLETE INTERNET GAMER 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-com... #Gaming #MUD #Netrek #Doom #Descent #CommandAndConquer #PCGaming #Booksky #Book #GameHistory #Retro #MUSH #MOO #TinyMUD

@lowqualityfacts

Who is this #Mush guy. First off, he sounds like a stinky editor, but I don't want to accuse him of that at this time. Gotta give him some latitude. And what is this "X" thing he refers to so often??????

Are there any MUDs that are kind of like some of the modern text adventures where they're running in a GUI window with some still graphics, but still a text based game? (Like maybe art of towns or NPCs).

Or do any have plugins for MUD clients that do this sort of thing? That'd be interesting.

#MUD #MUSH #TextAdventure

« Le joueur qui a réalisé l'impossible sur #Dofus » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzv25TEF1YE (via #mush)

@ingalls Aha! Found a recipe for corn-meal mush (which also includes a little flour, must be a binder), from 1913 (thus the instructions on cooking it "directly over the fire").

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Household_Science_and_Arts/55BLAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=cornmeal+mush+recipe&pg=PA230&printsec=frontcover #cornmeal #mush