Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Doing my best to keep it together while the world seems much too scary. It isn’t much, but it’s something.

Keep warm out there. It’s cold and stormy and gray right now. Share the warmth, if you can.

@Aradia Our tulips have also started to come up, so it seems to be a quorum.

@Kyresti In all seriousness however: I can see why BD spends so much on their fab and has a dedicated medical grade silicon supplier. None of that stuff is cheap. @..@

@Kyresti One of the amusing sliders to play around with: upload a model to Shapeways, then see what it’s like to print in their most expensive materials.

Not that I recommend printing in copper, solid gold, or reinforced steel fill (ow, ow, oww), but they’ll happily quote very high numbers at you for what it would cost.

@zetasyanthis @Soreth (💜)

@KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social A motion I now use is substituting bullet jump for quick melee strike (which I’d been using previously for equipment-locked sorties). It’s taken some getting used to, but it prevents zoom from being taken away from snipers or inadvertently homing ground slamming.

It’s especially weird right now with PC on melee 3.0 and console 2.0, since I keep forgetting they also changed how the next weapon key and blocking work.

@mawr ... I may need to scribble on the rules sheet of my copy of Rampage/Terror in Meeple City now, for the next time folks play.

@leafnoodle Yeah, for one-off, I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

@leafnoodle As already mentioned in thread, only likely happen due to profiling, unlikely at US-CA border, but it helps with peace of mind.

@leafnoodle I personally carry a burner phone when traveling through international checkpoints. Here’s what I recommend: https://www.oukitelcentral.com/phone/oukitel-k10000-pro/

Load it up with just the services you intend to use when traveling, set short cache policies, wipe and expire access as needed.

I especially like how I used “in case of trouble” in some old service notes, because the whole Bastion soundtrack is amazing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jU9EFTMhbY

TFW going through your own old documentation from 3-5 years ago, and your brain remembers exactly what media you were reading or listening to when writing the prose.

@Soreth If it’s any consolation, the “we talked it out and they listened/mutual understanding was reached” dream seems to be... not uncommon? I’ve had it for different people and different events.

It seems to be one of the ways that trauma heals.

@mawr ... at what run-length of "anananananana" does it become Batman?

This is a really neat way to teach folks how privacy works in the digital age: https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1102970732890316801

tl;dr: using only Google, visit a public place and see just how many folks you can de-anonymize, as a lesson in how to protect oneself (and in this case, legal clients) from the same process.