One time my five year old sister and I went in a hike in the woods and I told her “now if we come across a bear in here, I will throw myself in front of it and you run away!” And she looked me dead in the eye and said “No sorry I called it.” I was like, “what? You want to die? You’re five!” She just looked into the abyss and said, “I have been here too long.” And honestly? Big Mood.
I’m a long-term reader of LGBT romance and I have to say I’m
appalled by what I’ve seen recently in the “queer romance community.” A few
days ago I heard about some whack shit going on in the genre and decided to do
some digging. Now I kinda wish I hadn’t because the transphobic, gaslighting
garbage I found flipped my stomach and tbh I can’t believe no one else has
picked up on this yet.
Evidently, this stuff has been going on for months and
several authors, many of them LGBT, have been targeted by a toxic group of
readers and pushed out of their own genre as a result. It’s horrifying, so
buckle on up y’all cuz we got some serious shit to talk about.
For at least six months (possibly longer, I didn’t go back
further than that because honest to God I couldn’t read anymore of it), a super
vocal but small group of readers using the #getloud hashtag on Twitter and
Facebook have been targeting authors in the space for “scamming” readers in Amazon’s Kindle
program. That “scamming” seems to be a flavor-of-the-week situation covering all manner of shit
that’s not really relevant to this conversation. If you wanna know more, go
surf the #getloud hashtag on FB and Twitter, it’s all there.
There are legitimate discussions to be had about the ethics
behind some of the stuff these authors are accused of doing, but this group
skipped right the hell on past discussing it like adults and moved to
doxxing the authors they thought were doing something wrong to shut them down.
The craziest thing though is that after this group, which I
repeat claims to be a group of allies for the LGBT community, decides
they don’t like an author, they do everything in their power to break into that
author’s social media accounts, email accounts, and anything else they can
break into. Then they’ll either pose as that author using the hacked account
and reveal every other pen name that author has written as, exponentially raising the
risk that the author will be outed, or they’ll just post whatever damning things they find all
over Twitter. I don’t think I need to remind y’all how dangerous that can be
for queer authors using pen names to protect their identities in the first
place, particularly those who are closeted IRL.
But speaking of outing, they did it to a trans author named
Xen, who was previously closeted, most recently. They started by sending
him cryptic DMs using his deadname under a Twitter handle they hijacked that
previously belonged to his abusive ex:
It forced Xen to write a very long post basically outing
himself, which itself led to him leaving social media:
Far and away the craziest part of all this though is that when
the group was called out on what they did theynot onlyadmitted
to doing it, they explained how they did it and revealed that
legal action’s been brought against them in the past for the same thing.
All right, y’all. So yesterday I brought you the garbage going on in the “queer romance community” wherein a group of readers claiming to be allies forced a trans author to out himself after doxxing him.
Since I made that post, if you can believe it, I’ve found even more hateful, transphobic crap in their history. Oh, and the group has doubled down on their assertion that what they’ve done doesn’t constitute hacking and attacked more trans authors for daring to speak out against them.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
I’ll keep this one short and sweet and let their words speak for themselves. TONS of receipts after the cut.
It seems this isn’t the first time this group has outed an LGBT author, another case in which they had no remorse about what they did because they think they’re exposing “catfish pretending to be male authors” (what the FUCK transphobic garbage is that?) and then make jokes about how they’re going to sell courses that teach their methods before refusing to apologize for any of it. See for yourself:
Wow. I mean W-O-W. Tons more transphobic bullshit after the jump.
So, I don’t think I said anything when I reblogged this before because I was on mobile which is not so conducive to writing responses on large posts. However, I’m a Super Official Computer Person ™ and the history of computer security and how to improve it now is something that I’m interested in.
A while back (I want to say 2015 or so?) I read Kevin Mitnick’s book “Ghost In The Wires”. The book itself is not super important (any more than the information about the dude that’s free on the internet is, anyway) but to contextualize, Mitnick is a pretty prolific “computer hacker,” both self described and as described by others. He was, in fact, arrested for the hacking that he did. So what “highly sophisticated” methods did he use to do all this extremely illegal hacking? The exact same thing we see here. Using other people’s accounts posing as them? A crime. resetting someone else’s password, pretending to be them? A crime. “Just using loopholes UWU” to get information about people without their knowledge? Literally criminal, taking advantage of company policy loopholes and people’s good faith is, again, literally how Mitnick did 90% of the hacking that got him imprisoned for years.
Is anyone going to be convicted for hacking someone’s livejournal? Yeah probably not, it’s too low profile and no physical harm came to anybody involved. But it’s absolutely illegal and saying that it’s not hacking is like swinging in someone’s face and saying “I technically haven’t attacked you.” Do it to the wrong person in the wrong place and you’re gonna wind up with someone hitting back in self defense and they will be 100% vindicated.
(I will say though make sure to archive those tweets because if this is something that this person has done enough times to enough people they will absolutely be convicted regardless of how pointless the website is. The tweets can most likely be used as evidence against them, but if they delete before the tweets can be archived nobody will have that chance. Screenshots count for nothing really because they can be altered, it’s all about that archiving of the original page.)
Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”
AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE
so that’s the function of a rubber duck
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.
I use this for writing, actually. Explain what I’m doing and what I want to do and the different ways i can get to point B from A, as well as the different problems, amazingly working them out as I explain why I could or couldn’t the different things. I love the Rubber Duck theory.
Former programmer, can confirm. We didn’t have a duck in our office so our other programmer, who I shared a space with, used me as a duck proxy. (For the explaining, not the throwing.)
There was more than one day where I’d casually hear “Hey can you be a duck for a minute?”
september is coming up so here’s your yearly reminder to leave billie joe armstrong the fuck alone
Well of course. We don’t wake him up until October 1st.
His dad is dead, just don’t.
In case anyone reading my blog is unaware, this is a reference to the Green Day song titled “Wake Me Up When September Ends” a song that Billie Joe Armstrong wrote following the death of his father in September of 1982 when Billie Joe was ten years old. The title of the song references his desire to sleep through September in an effort to get some emotional distance from the death of his father.
He’s since been open about the emotional difficulty of having written the song since many people now message him on October 1st to ‘wake him up’ despite the song being a memorial to his departed father.
It’s generally seen as respectful to not try to wake him up. Let him sleep and let him remember his father in peace.
reblogging again because the end of September is coming up. leave him alone.
Reblogging as a reminder to leave Billie Joe Armstrong the fuck alone on October 1st and any day after it if your message is going to contain anything to do with “waking” him up because September will be over.
So that spooky time of the year is upon us and I just want to be sure everyone knows:
I will never post a screamer video on my blog.
I have pretty bad anxiety and I know a lot of my followers do too so I’m making this post just so everyone knows. My blog will be jumpscare/screamer video free for all of the spooky month ahead of us. 🙂
No screamers, ever! We do try to tag everything else commonly triggering as well! Note that a lot of times I won’t watch a full video so if there is a screamer at the end I might not see it!! I apologise in advance if it happens!!
Did you know that about 90% of the world’s nutrition such as fruits, nuts, and vegetables are pollinated by bees? Without the bees to pollinate our crops we will be a on shortage of food! In fact, there are more than 150 different chemical residues found in bee pollen, and the chemical industry have spent millions of dollars trying to cover up that they are not at fault. Since more grasslands and forests are converted into pesticide contaminated mono-culture-farms, bee colonies per hectare and habitat are rapidly shrinking every year.
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Save the bees!
Also side fact 2/3s of all flowering plants are at least partly pollinated by bees
forgive yourself. whether you fail a test, eat too many cookies, say the wrong thing, fail a class, or spend a whole day in bed — learn to forgive yourself. the next day will be better. the next day will be a day closer to your next success. you can do it.
Listen. Cut your own hair. Dye it blue, then shave it off when you’re bored of it. Wear that outfit with those shoes. Paint your nails with all the colors of the rainbow. Get that tattoo. Go to the movies alone. Get coffee, then drink it at that special place you like. Mouth the words of the song you’re listening to on public transport. Put that thing on your wall. Bake. Draw. Dance in your underwear. Life is so much better when you don’t give a fuck
this isn’t 100% punk but dude down to it this is the essence of punk
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