Val but a Cenobigbite @Valerie_Elysee@awoo.space

One of the most frustrating things about callouts is the way the people propagating them abuse the sense of urgency and import that people inherently have. They tend to fall apart under the most basic scrutiny, but the emotional charge of the accusations is often given as self-evidential to the claims and they're often designed to force people to make the mental shortcuts so that they _won't_ use due diligence.

Callouts (specifically the kind that are not grounded in reality) are just a form of emotional blackmail designed to guilt people who do not immediately subscribe to them. They're used primarily by people looking to farm social capital and clout. It's simply another form of abuse that is difficult, if not impossible, to counter and disperse.

Snake, this is a squeaking mission

The existence of a minotaur suggests that there is an even larger maxotaur.

It's That Time Again

i'm looking at paying off some of my paypal credit by february 15 because there's only so long you can wait before those lyft rides and food orders stop being interest-free. if i can get just $150 within the next month then i can make the minimum deferred amount. $300 by march would be a stretch goal but literally anything helps!

https://paypal.me/trwnh

liberapay if you prefer: https://liberapay.com/trwnh

I want more video games where you *are* a lizard person, instead of having to *fight* the lizard people

I propose a personal challenge for 2019. Nothing major, but it might give you a little bit of perspective.

In 2019, try your best to avoid as much media as possible that is based on IPs created before, say, your date of birth. (For me, that would include “Star Wars” as well as Marvel and DC films.) Also try to avoid reboots, remakes, and “rebakes” (remakes disguised as reboots).

#FindNewStories and give them a chance. 👍

@lugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQD3fadSF6k

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I made a screensaver for my new e-ink tablet this morning >..>

symphony of the night is great because it has rotatingskull.gif as an enemy #AGDQ2019

@nilaky @sc @hax @lugh @masklayer @tom

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honey.church literally defines itself as an "anti-mogai exclusionist lgbt instance."

It's an instance dedicated to LGBT folks who hate other LGBT folks.

Hate groups deserve to be de-platformed. ✊
#MastoAdmin

*twee cheerful ukelele commercial music*

ever have one of those mornings when your life is out of balance? why not try...

*choir of doom*

KOYANNISCOFFEE

get loopy get weird
Sit back let go
Change

Or, howabout, imagine if police departments began creating profiles of people based on their interests exposed through internet data collection, and started pre-emptively monitoring and surveilling people who are "prone to crime". You can immediately imagine how this might be used to enforce hierarchies and systemic abuses.

It is, of course, one thing to educate people on how to migrate to and use technologies and platforms that _aren't_ selling us out; moving large communities over from Discord to e.g. IRC is incredibly nontrivial from a social standpoint.

The other part is we need to make people aware of how dangerous this data goldmining is for survival under capital. The only real example I can give is how insurance providers can, and probably do, use purchase data to hike premiums on at-risk people.