Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
I now need to commission enough art to counterbalance that one (well, actually three) people I've commissioned in the past are no longer good people.
My only requirement is that they aren't falling for this bullshit fake woke attitude.
Social media sucks, it turns people into those that feed off of the adrenaline of shittalking those they hate rather than trying to make a difference.
It's fake-woke - like the mystification of spiritual enlightenment in the western world - an appearance of knowing the truth, getting metadata responses ego-stroking this truth, without confronting the actual truth.
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Ingersoll got invited to a pool party! So many critters in this, art is by Arin.
To be fair this comparison falls apart a bit when the internet is about personal privacy and safety, while the shop stuff is more about ... I dunno, consumerism?
Though you could make a comparison again both are about status. Going to the mall's fancy store is about status. Posting about something on Twitter is about status. The locally owned smaller shop or your personal Livejournal... less so.
We have this issue where the Big Congregation Places keep squandering over the Small Particular (and Personal) Places.
They both have their uses, even if some maybe don't like one or the other. But when you *only* have the choice of the Big Place or the Smaller Places, the Big Place is more harmful alone than lots of Smaller Places.
I have been away on a family thing in the town I lived in until I was five. We were walking around earlier, and my parents were commenting how the smaller shops are largely closed down, and everyone would rather go to the malls and stuff. (Or order online.)
I found myself drawing parallels to social networks and the state of the internet.
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tech dystopia
"hmm, the open office thing we're doing to save money is causing focus problems, what's the solution"
"put the cubicles back?"
"don't work employees for 8+ hour days?"
"horse blinders but for people?"
"YES. HORSE BLINDERS. joe i always knew you were the ideas guy around here"
It feels weird sometimes to be consciously aware of how much more I identify with nonhuman characters. Give someone a snout, animals ears, and paws, and I feel... *something* for them more...
It's not like I'm put off by human characters? But... hm...
...... (shitpost)
𝗧𝗼 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲...
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I wonder if one could write a proxy that redirects Twitter API stuff towards Mastodon...
more specifically can I trick my Switch into posting screenshots to awoo
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improving the world is hard and painful and your friends might not like it
I got a Switch and games for my birthday.
First thing I did in BOTW and uh, now what.
[LEVEL UP NOISE]
Sigh, I don't want to be 29... I want to go back in time to when I was 18. or 21. also with a USB stick full of my project data.
and just go "okay lets get it right before I become old"
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Unless you have a very good reason not to, or are publicly known anyway, there is really no need for you to use your real name or photo online.
Back in the 90s when i first discovered the internet, this was common knowledge. Nobody used their real name on forums or share personal information without considering the consequences. Those few who did were promptly told that's a bad idea.
It seems somehow we unlearned this, right when corporations started monetizing that information.
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The show must go on.
Please, just try to be nice. Give everyone some nice vibes.
And to those you don't think deserve it, just don't engage. Because maybe, those people aren't what you think they are.
And they would like some nice vibes too.
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have you read floraverse its really good
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
