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My partner Mirage (miragethefox.bsky.social) is doing intelligence work on scammers in the furry community and it's really awesome to...

My partner Mirage (miragethefox.bsky.social) is doing intelligence work on scammers in the furry community and it's really awesome to see her work with the local community to rifle out sugarbaby scammers and similar tactics. No dunking, just straight up OSINT cataloging. It rules.

uspol, annoyed by the soft power rebellionAfter talking to conservatives about DOGE, I'm convinced DOGE is a conservative rebellion...

uspol, annoyed by the soft power rebellion

After talking to conservatives about DOGE, I'm convinced DOGE is a conservative rebellion against the entire concept of soft power by isolationist mindsets. Incredibly foolish, dumb and absolutely naive. Soft power is just "too woke" or some shit. I fucking hate it.

uspol, JFK file revelationsJust like the Epstein files, the JFK files were unsatisfying-- other than the revelation that a CIA agent...

uspol, JFK file revelations

Just like the Epstein files, the JFK files were unsatisfying-- other than the revelation that a CIA agent funneled money to an anti-Castro group linked to Oswald before the assassination. I think that's as close as we're getting to "CIA did it."

It's really satisfying watching Ethereum, SSH rsync and Twitch streaming compete for bandwidth and no one experiencing significant...

It's really satisfying watching Ethereum, SSH rsync and Twitch streaming compete for bandwidth and no one experiencing significant interruptions. It was pain getting to this point.

Learning a lot about low-level network wrangling in Linux because of Ethereum's resource-imperialist braindamage. Learned that iptables...

Learning a lot about low-level network wrangling in Linux because of Ethereum's resource-imperialist braindamage. Learned that iptables has a confusing horror show of a friend, tc. Currently testing cgroups to mark packets from specific applications. What a wild ride.

Just remember, my fellow antiauthoritarians: Trump can defy the courts because he has a corrupt state behind him. Do you have the power of...

Just remember, my fellow antiauthoritarians: Trump can defy the courts because he has a corrupt state behind him. Do you have the power of the state behind you? Also, practice safe opsec, use Signal, and above all else, shut the fuck up.

uspol, CIA assassination mutteringsFor various reasons I'm conspiracy minded, so I'm extremely curious what the CIA's...

uspol, CIA assassination mutterings

For various reasons I'm conspiracy minded, so I'm extremely curious what the CIA's threatmodel as it relates to Trump is. Do they consider him an insider threat at all? Do they just see themselves as willing arms of the executive no matter how disastrous and adversarial the president is to them?

Am I just being hopeful that somewhere in the CIA's history of overthrowing and assassinating dictators there's room to bring that danger home to American soil? 9/11 was already a willful failure to carry out intelligence, why not willfully fail an assassination attempt? He might not be a threat.

I feel like it's already common knowledge among conspiracy heads that the CIA somehow got JFK killed. But the question I have is at what point does Trump become a threat to their general imperialist goals to actually attempt to take out the king once more?

I find it really funny that the people perpetuating conspiracy theories are running government and perpetuating said conspiracy theories....

I find it really funny that the people perpetuating conspiracy theories are running government and perpetuating said conspiracy theories. Like RFK Jr's nonprofit intentionally infecting people with measles. Or it would be funny if it weren't gravely fucking annoying.

Wrangling Ethereum from a network administration perspective is a nightmare. There's no feasible means of rate limiting the peer-2-peer...

Wrangling Ethereum from a network administration perspective is a nightmare. There's no feasible means of rate limiting the peer-2-peer network other than external QoS at the router level. Coded like the true resource imperialists cryptocurrency devs are I guess.

Now That's What I Call Music! 120. One hundred and 20. This franchise is making so much money and they never stopped. Insane.

Now That's What I Call Music! 120. One hundred and 20. This franchise is making so much money and they never stopped. Insane.

>want to purchase The Day The Earth Blew Up>get out of your house and buy it in theatres, dragon!I don't wanna! I wanna stay home!...

>want to purchase The Day The Earth Blew Up
>get out of your house and buy it in theatres, dragon!
I don't wanna! I wanna stay home! I already have an illegal copy, let me support you!

The struggle people are having trying to get everyone off of Twitter just reminds me of the struggle everyone had trying to get everyone off...

The struggle people are having trying to get everyone off of Twitter just reminds me of the struggle everyone had trying to get everyone off FurAffinity. It's sad because I know exactly how this plays out.

I am so happy to get to writing vexations's character. The way I imagined her after Egypt Urnash drew her hasn't changed. It really...

I am so happy to get to writing vexations's character. The way I imagined her after Egypt Urnash drew her hasn't changed. It really makes me want to flex my writing skills.

110 gigabytes for Beauty and the Beast? The cartoon? What in god's name justifies that file size?

110 gigabytes for Beauty and the Beast? The cartoon? What in god's name justifies that file size?

Chapter 10 (0xA) is up. Purple goes to DarkMarket to figure out who's following her family. Mentions of heavy drug use leading to...

Chapter 10 (0xA) is up. Purple goes to DarkMarket to figure out who's following her family. Mentions of heavy drug use leading to extreme psychosis. FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60145484/ Not FA: https://amethyst.systems/writing/the-plug/ch0a.pdf

You're not gonna get porn for a while. Probably not for the next couple of chapters. Vio still has to actually do a lavender session for herself (for once), everyone still needs to do their OSINT on the observer findings. Lots of plot is happening!

For anyone who's curious why I keep saying "cider" instead of something like "cyber" in my book, here's a...

For anyone who's curious why I keep saying "cider" instead of something like "cyber" in my book, here's a Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
Writing cidr would just remind me of web 2.0 naming conventions and no, gross. Cider is a word and fits the bill.

Talked to my mom about The Plug and it's upcoming follow up Packet Routing and Filtering. Told her it was furry romance. She didn't...

Talked to my mom about The Plug and it's upcoming follow up Packet Routing and Filtering. Told her it was furry romance. She didn't flinch, she wants to read it. She grew up a hippie like my dad did, so I think she can handle it. Weird moment where your mom wants to see your furry porn.

Am happy with the feedback Chapter 9 of The Plug got. It even got the attention of my non-furry hacker friends! Which is especially nice,...

Am happy with the feedback Chapter 9 of The Plug got. It even got the attention of my non-furry hacker friends! Which is especially nice, because Chapter 9 touches on something in the hacker community that constantly pisses me off, which is how female hackers are treated.

Someone uploaded Markeplier's Heist to the tracker on TorrentLeech. Talk about ruining the experience. It's only good if you...

Someone uploaded Markeplier's Heist to the tracker on TorrentLeech. Talk about ruining the experience. It's only good if you experience it on YouTube and do the Choose Your Own Adventure thing!

I keep comparing the viewership of my Plug chapters to other submissions on FA and the cynic in me finally figured out an answer to why my...

I keep comparing the viewership of my Plug chapters to other submissions on FA and the cynic in me finally figured out an answer to why my stories are disproportionately viewed. FA is buggy and counts views from people who aren't logged in and get the login wall. So bots, essentially.

But then that doesn't really explain why the most views so far came from the epilogue. Like, that one got a lot of views. It didn't even have porn! It's either bots or readers are total quiet lurkers enjoying things. If they're enjoying it the silence is maddening! Posting art is maddening.