AUSTIN FREENET

From: skiff
To: treble
Sent: February 5, after this is posted
Type: Private message

SENT FROM: bellagio
TYPE: public post
TIME: November 9th, 8:52am

As enjoyable as the holiday season can be for some, for others it is often a lonely and stressful time. This is a friendly reminder from the Care and Psychological Department to make mental health a priority. There are various support groups offered at the UMCB, including a new one for those needing a safe space to speak about their experiences from the recent zombie outbreak we had. Those will be meeting weekly on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm. However, if a group setting is not a good fit for you and you're still interested in counseling or any kind of support our department can offer, please reach out for private appointment availability. Confidentiality is of the utmost importance.

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SENT FROM: Mina Kulseth
TYPE: text message to Joel Kulseth
TIME: November 9th, 9:12am

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TYPE: text message to KC
TIME: November 9th, 9:33am

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SENT FROM: bellagio
TYPE: public post
TIME: September 3rd, 10:30am

I have such a light schedule today, with only some afternoon meetings scheduled, that I decided to read the book club book this morning. With it still raining outside I stayed in my pajamas and under the comforter all morning. Can't remember the last time I did that.

For those of you unaware, tomorrow's bookclub selection is The Great Gatsby. I read it for English class when I was in high school, but that seems like a lifetime ago, so it was quite a treat to read it again. I hope it will be added to the new GED curriculum, if it's not in it already, because it's a classic for a reason. All of the imagery, from Doctor T.J. Eckleberg's watching eyes to the green light, it really helps give the story a deeper meaning. I look forward to discussing it tomorrow with my fellow bookclub attendees.

SENT FROM: ms_vaneeden
TYPE: Public post
TIME: 1PM, 9/2/19

As part of our ongoing effort to ensure the safety of the people of Austin, a 24-hour citizen hotline has been created to report the presence of the undead within the city's protected limits. If you personally witness one or more of these creatures in the area, please call [shared contact] to officially register a sighting. In the event that the presence of a shuffler is merely suspected rather than confirmed, citizens are asked to refrain from investigating further. Instead, vacate the immediate area right away and contact us via the hotline.

SENT FROM: boomboom
TYPE: Public Post
DATE: August 5th, 7:45pm

And here I thought Austin was supposed to be civilization. I'll reserve my impressed gasps for when I get a classroom and students.

SENT FROM: blooddiamond
TYPE: public post
TIME: 8/3, close to midnight

Smallish mountain-grown redhead seeks brother by another mother.

Last seen; escaping unwanted federally funded company.

Likes: chess and being irritatingly hard to find.

I know you're here- a little rabbit told me. PM me below with Mama's name.

SENT FROM: shadowed
TYPE: public post
TIME: 8/1, 2:47 PM

So the graffiti that popped up in a couple of places around the city is something I heard about a few times, but today I actually ran across the one in the Capitol district. It looks pretty bad ass up there with those bold colors. Maybe I'm missing something though because I just don't know what the hell it means. If somebody out there is revering handcuffs, man, you're doing it so wrong.

It's just been the two so far, right? I looked around the artwork a minute to see if there was a signature or anything hidden in the design but didn't see one. A patrol came along pretty quick after that so I had to split before they got the idea that maybe I was behind it. And I started thinking -- remember when crop circles were a thing? Popular theories said they were made by aliens landing out in the fields or secret government testing of some classified project, but all the skeptics said that it was just a group of people playing a prank. Maybe this graffiti is Austin's version of crop circles. Could be anyone is responsible, and it will stay a mystery forever.

(But c'mon it's always aliens, man.)

SENT FROM: littlebird
TYPE: Public post
TIME: July 6th, 1:30PM

Has anyone else seen the graffiti on the building in the UMCB district? Is this normal for Austin?

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SENT FROM: Ria Otieno
TYPE: Text to Amanda Van Eeden
TIME: July 6th, 1:35PM

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SENT FROM: Ria Otieno
TYPE: Text to Delia Wallace
TIME: July 6th, 1:40PM

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From: blooddiamond
Type: public post
When: 6/4, around 9pm

Well hello there, Austin. I make it in time for a party?

SENT FROM: heykitten
TYPE: Public Post
TIME: May 1st, 1:15PM

The explosion earlier, do we know where it came from or what it was in response to? I mean obviously I think we all have our ideas or assumptions as to who the culprits are, but do we know why it happened?

SENT FROM: shadowed
TYPE: public post
TIME: 4/2/19, 6:47PM

Who doesn't love a good conspiracy am I right? This place I crash has what's easily Austin's biggest collection of books on the topic of secret government projects, the Illuminati, and anything to do with aliens that you can imagine. No seriously. You would not believe some of the crap that people actually dreamed up and tried to sell as the truth.

So here it is, today's winner:
The CIA has a secret space program. And yeah they totally have space-treaties with extraterrestrials, who may or may not live on Mars. Or it might be that we have a secret base on Mars. The author isn't sure of anything except that something hinky is going on over on the red planet next door. The proof? Well that part seems to have been left out. But c'mon it's always aliens, man.

... Y'all know I don't actually buy any of this BS right?

Type: Public post
From: dixiesticks
When: March 07, after this

three little piggies hiding from the big bad wolf downtown. they huffed and they puffed and they squealed. that's what you get for putting your little piggy hands on girls. who's helpless now?

somebody might want to get them before the zombies do.

revenge is a dish best served now.

From: quidproquo
Type: Public & private posts
When: 3/5, 9:52PM, after this group message

You'd think that after almost three years, my mind would have learned that dreaming about fluffy bacon pancakes and cheese omelets is only going to wind up badly for both of us. (Me and my mind, just to be clear.) I'm no psychologist, but I vaguely recall from Psych 101 something about how the mind tries to protect us from mental trauma or recalling things that would upset us. I've got to tell my subconscious that recalling all of my favorite breakfast foods isn't doing me any favors.

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Private between quidproquo & duende

I was very sorry to hear about Mr. Heim. Can you tell me anything about what happened?

This is strictly off-record, for the record.

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Private between quidproquo & legallyblonde

Be careful. Aizik Heim's gone missing from the UMCB.

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Private between quidproquo & 3dani

I'm not sure if word's gotten around over there, yet, but Aizik Heim's gone missing and I thought I'd let you know. I swear, one of these days I'll have a pleasant reason to initiate contact with you. How've you been, by the way? (I ask that knowing that the answer may be colored by the news I've just told you.)

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Private between quidproquo & callahan

Aizik Heim's gone missing. I assume kidnapping, but that's all I've got to go on right now. Waiting for details; will pass on all I know. The APD's being left out of it, too.

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Private between quidproquo, andhobbes, & sirkay

All A-OK over there?

From: dixiesticks
Type: public
When: 03/04, evening

baa-ram-ewe! baa-ram-ewe! to your breed, your fleece, your clan be true! sheep be true! baa-ram-ewe!

do i have your attention? lovely. some announcements, pardon the length but i have been away for a while. it is so hard to get a phone around here these days, isn't it. not to mention hair dye. you vain little sheeples, you.

i would like to thank my generous friends from the puppy pound who took such great care to liberate us poor souls that shared your fate. i was getting real tired of being beaten for looking at someone wrong
sincerest thanks to you sirs. may your coats stay shiny and life not be ever so ruff for you mutts.

dear ollie. go suck it.

pernell reason. be very afraid of what lurks in the dark. it might glitter and laugh. you and your men like laughing, don't you. this time i have a knife.

to my dearest clyde. i know you are out there, waiting for me to return to you. don't fret, my pet. i will find you. i promise.

now who went and cleared out the treasury? it was my favorite place to get decor for my humble abode. shame on you. shame.

From: Dionaea
Type: Public

Doomsday

The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans
Atop the broken universal clock:
The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.
Out painted stages fall apart by scenes
While all the actors halt in mortal shock:
The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.

Streets crack through in havoc-split ravines
As the doomstruck city crumbles block by block:
The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

Fractured glass flies down in smithereens;
Our lucky relics have been put in hock:
The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.

The monkey's wrench has blasted all machines;
We never thought to hear the holy cock:
The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

Too late to ask if end was worth the means,
Too late to calculate the toppling stock:
The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans,
The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.


~S.Plath

SENT FROM: treble
TYPE: Public post
TIME: 1/3/19, 10:30PM

So far 2019 hasn't been anything impressive.

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SENT FROM: Torrie Reed
TYPE: Text to Alejo Costa
TIME: 1/3/19, 10:35PM

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SENT FROM: Torrie Reed
TYPE: Text to Solomon Reed
TIME: 1/3/19, 11:00PM

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TYPE: Public Post
POSTED BY: mrblake
TIME: 11/4, 9:00am

I'm at a Home Depot that's been pretty picked over, but it's not empty. Taking requests for the next 30 minutes. HEB's down the street but haven't been in yet.

SENT FROM: Strangelet
SENT TO: Public
TYPE: Post
TIME: 10/9, 3:55pm


Test.

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Type: public
From: quivivraverra
Time: September 7, 2018

I have a bit of an odd request, at least considering the circumstances. I am looking for beginners text books, school books etc for languages other than English to torture my children with. French and German would be lovely, I personally am interested in Finno-Ugric languages, even though my chances are probably slim to none on those - Finnish and Hungarian, maybe even Estonian. At this point I would gladly accept Spanish.

It goes without saying that I will do my best to find a suitable trading option.

And, on a slightly official note, to the person that keeps putting up a "suggestion box" just to fill it with notes saying we need a suggestion box... that stopped being funny after the fourth time I took the box down. Quit wasting paper, unless you would like to sit down and listen to me talk about recycling options in this day and age. You are, as the saying goes, why we can't have nice things.

SENT FROM: feelthelovebitches
TYPE: public post

Tell me a joke!