Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

I am still around in lurker mode. Low emotional energy from unconnected life things has kept me in mostly read-only mode. But general reminder that I am still around and okay.

I finally had a chance to upgrade my home server, and in doing so, gave Mastodon-in-IRC a try (via Bitlbee). It’s not complete, but it’s a good reminder that plain text remains a good presentation model for social.

It also sorts birdsite by time when I point it there, which at this point feels like cheating.

@green Thank you! 💜

I am still around. I’m working on smaller art projects and personal things. I’ve also been teaching myself how to PSVR to play the silly FFXV fishing game. They’ve helped.

The world has been hard for me to take lately, and I’ve had trouble communicating past long screeds of internalized anxiety. Pardon that this makes me distant; I’m trying my best.

I hope things are good in your corner of the world, the orthocosm, and your chosen corners of pocket reality. I’m rooting for you. 💖

My Skype was briefly compromised. I flipped its credentials and set it to closed, but if you received a dubious link from me, don’t click.

Interestingly, they may be suffering an incident, so if your account also gets popped, here’s some info: https://twitter.com/goldkin/status/969851164878553088

@Thaminga Recycling my comment from over on birdsite: petition to name the unit of measurement metric units of genderfluid.

This is possibly the most important essay I’ve read in the past year (as in 365 days): http://www.rookiemag.com/2018/01/editors-letter-75/

@mawr @makyo @zetasyanthis Same!

@frameacloud Thank you!

@salameleon tl;dr: people on Twitter are perpetuating a stereotype, and it sucks. -_-

@salameleon To that end, I think the elephant in the room isn't fetish or substance use, but what to do about people who repeatedly violate the rules of the spaces they participate in. And that is the job of con security.

The best cons I've been to have excellent security and are not afraid to pull badges for misbehavior. Leading to more open-ended rules on who gets to participate, instead of trying to exclude every group that might overlap with individuals that are destructive.

@salameleon I think Twitter has, at this point, fallen so far down the rabbit hole of misinformation and mob rule that people will latch onto anything to vent their frustration.

To that end, I think quite a few people still (mistakenly) associate open displays of fetish gear with the closure of RF, as opposed a level of unchecked disinhibition that resulted in severe destruction of property.

There is a balance on both of these, but what I've seen flying around Twitter isn't it.