Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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Joined Aug 2017
re: uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
@zetasyanthis Yeah. I don’t understand the implications, but I’m guessing this is why so many media folks in his inner orbit are suddenly finding better deals with a D House. Which seems like a blunder unless more fixes are in?
re: uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
@zetasyanthis Caveat: Corsi’s filing document is absolutely bonkers, but the $15k figure corroborates earlier sourcing.
re: uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
@zetasyanthis https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1087773092447961098, which chases earlier reporting (eg, http://fortune.com/2018/08/14/trump-aides-nondisclosure-payments/)
uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
I think this may be one of the reasons the wheels are coming off now, as opposed to two years ago. With power on the other side of the aisle, soliciting silence just became much more expensive. And it seems they didn’t update their corruption to cover for it.
Huh.
uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
Y’know, it never occurred to me that these folks would just... try to rely on a system of bribes and hush money payments to keep their empire duct-taped together.
I get the control over the narrative. But the numbers seem weird: they value silence at an annuity of $15k/mo (source: some of the earlier court filings, plus Corsi court filings). And that... doesn’t seem scalable, when insights into DC corruption are generally on the order of millions+.
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@devurandom@cybre.space If I recall, that connects from Kapp’n’s bus on the left side of the map. Though I may be confusing that with one of the other tunnels.
Goldkin
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An illustration for Lizard Shack on FA! It's rare I get to do 2 character pieces with a background so this was really refreshing to work on.
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If Hbomberguy's stream touched you in a meaningful way, consider supporting @QuestForTori and her game 'Secret Little Haven' available on itch and Steam ! It tells the story of a trans girl living on the internet in the turn of Y2K.
https://ristar.itch.io/secret-little-haven
https://store.steampowered.com/app/827290/Secret_Little_Haven/
@typhlosion Voting OneShot or Wandersong, because the former has been really great to watch on Speedgaming, and the latter is just all around wonderful from start to finish.
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thoughts about hbomb and the fundraiser
cool. seeing lots of takes. and i'm fucking tired and burnt out on this place. my only take about the hbomb stuff?
it shows that there's a groundswell of people who care enough about trans people to throw money, the lifeblood of our capitalist society, at helping trans people in a far more direct way than posting shitty thinkpieces.
as trans people, we tend to condemn cis people who don't understand, noting understanding is their work, not ours. then, when they try to understand, we tend to default to criticizing that as performative. this is fucking bullshit imo.
i really can't bring myself to believe, logically, that this whole thing is performative. for me, as a trans person, this whole fundraiser is giving me an amazing feeling. it seems like, maybe, random people are just starting to not default to hating us.
it's not ideal – ideally, it wouldn't be necessary. but it's setting up a strong precedent for 2019. a really fucking strong one.
We reinforced the gaming table, and it is now unexpectedly acoustic. I didn’t know drum tables are so saaaatisfying.
starting Warframe over on the Switch
I missed the transfer window for my old PC profile, so I’m starting over fresh on the Switch version. And, holy heck has everything gotten polished and extremely pretty since I last played.
Time to go out to the plains and have a blast.
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Sigh. That extension that lets you tag social media profiles as trans-friendly so they appear as a different color in your browser to you is 95% assuredly a data mining operation.
Please don't use it. If you do, don't tag me in it.
Please don't use it. If you do, don't tag me in it.
warframe, old hardware
Update: it’s just barely playable. On the other hand, it plays _great_ on one of our Wavebirds, so that’s going to be a thing.
warframe, old hardware
(Pictured: Warframe being played on a neon-green N64 controller.)
warframe, old hardware
Just because we have the technology does not mean we should.
https://awoo.space/media/X2R7GXtDCaBYaAQYGMs
re: Did something happen on Mastodon?
@XerTheSquirrel Yeah, things are fine. This is an opinion writer trying to grind their preferred axe.
I posted a longer response to it earlier that summarizes: bad takes predicting collapse are generally a good sign a platform is succeeding.
Did something happen on Mastodon?
@XerTheSquirrel Someone posted an opinion piece on DailyDot proclaiming that Mastodon was crumbling, and it was enough of a bad take that it went viral.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
