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Getting Let's Encrypt to work with seventeen virtual domains only took me three hours. Not bad. But at least now the Orrery is HTTPS-protected. That's something.

@22@octodon.social I would put StackOverflow in the seedy bucket after some of the run-ins I've had there. =x.x=

@DialMforMara Your feelings are valid, your thoughts are real. We will eventually be free.

@fluffy@queer.party @vahnj Immediate safety over long-term safety, please. Always. Just, let's try to not forget about our long-term goals as we work towards our short-term survival.

@vahnj @fluffy@queer.party That's fair, and I don't want to create a situation in which people who need help can't get help. I just want to call attention to the ways in which our systems of support are hurting us so we can look for better alternatives. No ethical consumption, poison or starvation, et cetera, but... at least we can try, maybe.

@vahnj @fluffy@queer.party Not that I want to hamstring anybody, but Paypal puts monty into Peter Thiel's pocket, and I can't think of a bigger quisling in the modern era.

@DialMforMara Society isn't going to change until the people who have the freedom and the safety to inconvenience themselves choose to do so so that the people who don't have that choice aren't forced into a lie.

Still fucking sucks. I've wanted to work in health care for ages, but every hospital and medical group ultimately gets its funds from Uncle Sam, and the only drugs that fucker trusts are from R. J. Reynolds, E. J. Gallo, and B. M. Squib.

@swordzart@monsterpit.net Changelings/Metamorphs.

The Symphony, a race of crystallometallic beings that communicate via harmonic vibration and sound.

The Forgotten.

tfw you turn down a phone screen for a job you really fucking want because they're a federally regulated business and have mandated drug screening laws and you're a marijuana legalization activist in your off-hours.

Patreon; Liberapay 

@adeptomega @makyo My handle is literorrery but I won't be able to finish setting it up until later.

@indi @makyo ... I wouldn't, but only because I wouldn't presume to force anybody else into the SubGenius label.

@irisjaycomics @makyo I need to do my research into Gumroad, and I'd be happy to provide Content, but all I have is words.

patreon stuff 

@inurashii The short form is that the Patreon charging changes hurt small-dollar donors the worst, and as a result a lot of creators who rely on small-dollar donors are looking for alternatives so their patrons aren't spending thirty to forty percent of their pledges in service fees instead of going to the creators.

@Sparf You're under no obligation to drop all boundaries and barriers. You're still allowed to say "hey, you said a lot of hurtful stuff back then, and I'm happy to have a path forward, but my trust has been badly hurt, and you're going to have to be as patient with me as you're asking me to be with you."

Activism 

@jakebe As a start, an acknowledgement that they understand how we got into this mess. Until we can actually talk about the systems of power and privilege without people taking _personal_ umbrage at _systemic_ injustice and reframing attacks on _systemic_ abuse as threats to _personal_ liberty, we will never actually fix the system.

Of course, that also requires people in various minorities to stop using systemic abuse to justify making personal attacks, too. So, this cuts both ways.

First-World Whinge 

I wish I could get paid for my words and my struggles to find the meanings within them, instead of my tech bulldada. I feel like my words are of so much more value than my tech noises, but my tech noises have ended up being worth so much more than my words. The world often feels very hollow to me because of it.

Dieting 

@weird_hell@cybre.space That was spur-of-the-moment. Though I am presently stoned, which has a tendency to take my normally-low-filter pluperfect prose and exaggerate it. =n.n= I do pride myself on my writing, though. =n.n=

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