re: Telegram (-)
In the meantime, I've hit block on the one number that popped up as having just joined Telegram. At least the block tools are fairly robust.
Telegram (-)
I’ve been using a burner number with Telegram for awhile now _precisely_ to prevent family from finding my contact there. Please be wary if you use this setup.
Telegram (-)
Despite not giving it contacts access, Telegram has clearly found some way to interact with phone contacts from other services — presumably scraping metadata from iOS itself.
Because of this, Telegram is now uninstalled from my phone until I can figure out what they changed. Be wary that you may experience the same issue.
re: birdsite
Mostly, I'm looking back at the site to see if I can make it work for posting artwork again. Rant yesterday helped me realize I can probably make that work again, though the arrangement is going to be quite different than my 2015 and 2016 setup.
birdsite
Giving artist Twitter a chance again today. I've apparently been off the site since last August, despite having a few folks' feeds up since then to keep up with the news.
Noticing that most of the toxicity that drove me off is now concentrated into an echo chamber of political accounts and their satellite networks of bots, and that it's spilling less into main feed than it was before. I might be able to work with this, though I still heavily distrust The Algorithm.
This is more or less the arrangement I used with reading Tumblr pre- and post- December 2018. I find a small contingent of artists I can follow, set that to be my main feed, then put harder topics in digests that I can read when I can handle them.
meta thoughts, ads
It's so subtle, but do you notice how few people here talk about "the latest thing" on mastodon? Whether that's movies or events or news...
When you take the ads away from folks, they don't talk as much about what the corporations want them to be talking about.
Instead they talk about their lives. Their loves. Their interests. Their dreams.
Hmm.
nice bowsette thoughts
Tbh I like the idea that instead of becoming sex-crazed like in all the comics and porn, Bowsette is just like "oh wow testosterone pushed me in the direction of some really toxic shit and this is so freeing, so much clarity. I'm gonna go open that bakery I always wanted."
And then she's just a wholesome kind trans girl forever and the mushroom kingdom is saved.
fundraising, top surgery (boost with CW)
From @homosexualdalecoopers in https://radical.town/@homosexualdalecoopers/101893659158938765
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Hey! I’ve set up a gofundme to rise money for top surgery! My quality of life is vastly hindered by my chest and I’d be so so thankful for all the help I can get. Even £1 makes all the difference. Thank you 💕
Please share! :)
pol, Barr testimony
Living under a rapidly-consolidating authoritarian regime sucks, and I wish I knew how to contingency plan around it better.
The best I’ve come up with is setting aside some funds to help friends through losing their insurance and incomes, and to keep supporting my reps in their efforts to speed up inquiries into public corruption.
pol, Barr testimony
So he intends to cover up the whole thing, provide enough plausible deniability to help spin the narrative, push this all into the courts, and delay through 2020. Cool cool cool.
I am trying to see how getting him on the record now and subpoenaing Mueller in May isn’t playing an extremely dangerous game of chicken. I understand it’s the correct response to backstop a court challenge, but that kind of doesn’t matter if they dismantle the institutions in the meantime.
A friendly noodle 🐉💖
On stickers and shirts and such: https://www.redbubble.com/people/piratical/works/38161298-dragon-heart
baba is you, late game spoilers
For a puzzle game about box pushing and arbitrary code execution, this pushes the concept really far.
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.