Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

An issue I’m having making the jump from birdsite to Masto for public posts is I want to post too much stuff, including linking in things I post on gallery sites. It all sort of logjams into not posting at all, because I’m worried about clogging timelines with what I made for dinner that day, nightly art, old Art Fight posts, etc etc etc.

In other words, the private community vibe is good, but doesn’t shape itself well to putting art posts on blast for people to follow. So, what do?

One extra note here: I get it if people still want or need to use Twitter, especially if they're running their own business and/or have a need for a public facing presence. It's part of why I keep an account there.

Even so, please please please be careful, consider deleting old tweets (eg, via reputable service), and give these articles a read on how to protect yourself on an increasingly hostile platform: http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/resources.html

And as an occasional reminder: I'm best found on chat applications like Discord and Telegram at this point (as well as encrypted platforms).

If you'd like those contacts, feel free to message me privately -- though my handles are pretty easy to find on your chat services of choice.

I didn't expect keeping Alex Jones was a hill Twitter (through Jack) was willing to die on, after his hate speech was deplatformed from iTunes, Facebook, and YouTube: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1026984242893357056

For those who have tried migrating back or creating a presence there, I strongly urge you to reconsider at this point. Twitter has been increasing its support of hate speech and disinformation because it continues to be profitable for their platform.

I received a card from all of my coworkers this week for my six year employee anniversary. I never expected to be there this long, nor did I expect the overwhelmingly positive messages I received.

Once I got home, I cried.

It's the first time I've had a longstanding group relationship that hasn't, yet, resulted in me being thrown under the bus for someone else's political expediency. And these people really do care.

Thank you. ;..;

I guess this turned into a winding rant when the core message is to continue to be good to each other and that capitalism sucks, y'all.

Even though I'm charged with defending against this kind of thing at infosec dayjob daily, I guess this worldview grinds my gears and makes no sense to me. It's like looking in on an alien civilization that finds all of this zero-sum chaotic nonsense perfectly acceptable, and that nihilism is surely the only acceptable coping strategy to maximize value, sense of self and ambitions and hopes and dreams for the future be damned.

Um. Fuck that?

@Yarideki As in seeking to maximize return from someone (in a zero-sum way) instead of trying to form a lasting relationship. So like how a boss at a megacorp might view their underlings.

While this isn't exactly a subtoot, I'm thinking about this after a minor disagreement with someone I used to know over this comic: https://zenpencils.com/comic/king/

I noted that it's very good at describing how art isn't really about maximizing one's value, but is instead a celebration of existence. To which I received the response that, of COURSE art is about maximizing value.

This was several months ago, and I've still been trying to process how someone can even think that way.

It's taken me the better part of a decade to realize how highly unusual, and toxic, it is for people to be treated as transactional objects. Doing so leads to a sense of nihilism that completely annihilates any sense of self, of the exact form many fled birdsite for to be here.

It's taken longer for me to realize people who were transactional with me weren't really friends, and that I'd much rather be a person than be someone that facilitates those kinds of relationships.

@Soreth (Special shoutout to WD’s very serious instruction manual insert that shipped with my hard drive today.)

@Soreth Read an̖͞d̖͡ ̵̟ͅͅO̗̭̦͇B̮̪̼ͅE̵̙͓͇̣̳Y̘͙̥̯̮̼̖,̰̱͇̣͈̜̩ ͖̜̺̻͇̪̟̕c̣̹̼i̡̯͕̺t̮͎̰̯̱͔̀i̼̻̦͎̘͝z̫͉͓eN̖̲͈̩̙̬:
https://awoo.space/media/JU3Zg2DtQCD9gqwCwPs

@salameleon Kinda, yeah. Having played hard support in solo MM before I quit DOTA, it’s amazing what you see the hardest of hard carries do with proper care and feeding.

@VoxSomniator Oh wow, I had no idea. That's super neat!

@VoxSomniator Fitting, considering the refrain of that song in Bastion is that walls don’t work (the Ura just dig below it). Also, that soundtrack is amazing, and now I’m very curious how the string tracks translate to piano.

This has passed my dash several times. It contains advice on dealing with the constant deluge of depressing and difficult news happening right now without tuning out entirely: https://twitter.com/CindyOtis_/status/1012488916178436096

@mawr That said, I am expecting this administration to deploy increasingly violent suppression between now and November, given they’re already laying the groundwork to do so. Between this and actual nazis at DHS, it’s worth having a plan of action to get as many people safely to the polls as possible.

(And since we do vote-by-mail here in WA, I’m happy to donate to pay postage for anyone that needs it, too.)

@mawr Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Indivisible show one possible (and likely!) non-violent way out of this crisis of democracy. The reach of the propaganda engines and corruption dividing the nation are very brittle, and campaigns on the ground are demonstrating it.

This isn’t ignoring that things will get a lot darker in the meantime (they will). But the number of electoral upsets give me much more hope than the current hellscape on birdsite.