Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

I see a lot of calls to start new online spaces for sex workers to meet and discuss things because they’ve been kicked off of existing mainstream places

This seems dangerous. Purpose-made places cannot be a haven, they are obvious for the FBI to raid, anywhere in the world. Anything grassroots is going to be much too small to mount an effective legal defense.

I fear all that will happen is people self-sorting into easily-identified pods small enough to jail.

Mastodon is rapidly reminding me that several of my co-workers are fabulous queer people and I should possibly be a little less afraid of what happens if I try to act more like me at my day job

If you serve tea in a coffee cup, is it still a coffee cup, or does it temporarily become a teacup?

Today’s lunch: curry-seasoned deli chicken with mango chutney served on a matzo.

@Jssra Cinnabon: a carefully engineered matrix of grease, sugar, a little bit of wheat, and industrial food perfumes

@Jssra 🐉➡️🛫

The problem with mass social media is that on a large enough platform, there is always someone emblematic of everything you hate.

Smaller platforms are healthier because they don’t train you that there’s always someone to hate and you have a duty to find them and scream at them.

I miss the 90s-Net

Pay to win gaming is a blind auction of people buying commissions they cannot afford from software engineers to write programs telling them how special they are and displaying it to others.

It’s exploiting a niche of people really desperate for recognition, but recognizing it also as bespoke software at the highest levels of Zynga whaledom is... weird

I need a heat rock

When tech industry folks argue that the Facebook/CA thing was “not a breach”, I really haven’t seen anyone make the argument that it’s not *worse* than a breach. Security *breaches* happen due to bugs, technical flaws, accident, and overlooking a thing that needs to be updated.

This was a corporate *decision*, and that’s really much more of a condemnation. As a company, an adequately influential chain of decision makers decided it was okay.

@frameacloud discord.gg , modern IRC w/ mobile notifications, you already have an account (you're a user on my "server", not logged in), with voice channels available. Originally for gamers to chat about games and have virtual servers for groups/guilds/teams/whatever, is sort of becoming a quiet rennaisance of the better parts of IRC culture with better persistence, phone support, etc.

I'm very used to f.lux. I boot my computer, log in, AAAAGH BRIGHT THE PAIN and turn down monitor brightness and it's already at 1 wtf

then f.lux loads and the screen turns slightly orange and I'm fine

@JulieSqveakaroo

Don’t worry...
*hurk*
Be happy!
*blarrff*

Watched pvgna.com videos on Clockwerk after repeatedly losing to Clockwerk picks, spent half an hour practicing double cog blocking the creeps. It’s effective-ish even when I don’t particularly get it right but I should definitely practice this more if I want to try Clockwerk. I’ve been spamming Crystal Maiden for a few weeks, time to try something new. #dota2

@Jacel I am increasingly of the opinions that the Athenians were 100% correct that plurality voting for office produces an oligarchy and the only way to achieve democracy is assigning government offices by lottery.

“Here’s everything you need to know about live bee acupuncture, and why some doctors are warning against it.”

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