I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Crypto bros continue to be morally bankrupt. There is an a coin / NFT called ā€œGreenDildoCoinā€ and they’ve thrown dildos onto court at multiple WNBA basketball games (ESPN, video). It warms my heart that one of them was arrested. More of that please.

    Polymarket even had a ā€œpredictionā€ on it. Because surely the outcome there couldn’t be influenced by someone who also placed a large bet. Oh and Donald Trump Jr. posted a meme about it

    None of this is particularly surprising if you’ve followed NFTs at all: the clout chasing goes to the extreme. In the limit memecoins can act as donations to terrible people from donors who want them to be terrible. Still I hate how much publicity this has gotten, and how this has manifested as gross disrespect towards women atheletes / women’s sports by the sorts of losers who make ā€œjokesā€ about no one watching WNBA games.


  • Amazon should treat drivers better. I hate how much ā€œhustleā€ is required for that sort of job and how poorly they respect their workers.

    I think my job needs me too much to lay me off, which I have mixed feelings about despite the slim-pickings for jobs.

    I’m also trying to position myself to potentially have to flee the USA* due to transgender persecution**. There’s still a lot of unknowns there. I’ll probably stay at my job for awhile while I work on setting some stuff up for the future.

    That said part of me is tempted to reskill into a career that’d work well internationally (nursing?) – I’m getting a little up in years for that but it’d probably be a lot more fulfilling than what I’m doing now.

    * My previous attempt did not work out. I rushed things too much and ended up too stressed out and unbelievably homesick.

    ** This has been getting incredibly stressful lately.





  • This leads me to wonder: Has he said anything about Rowling, you know, turning out to be a garbage human?

    I couldn’t find anything, though I did find this thread where he ponders if the problem with police is that they just have too much gosh darn testosterone while awkwardly trying not to take a side:

    People, I said ā€œunder 100 ng/dL of testosteroneā€ with intent to thereby short-circuit trans issues because that is the part I care about. The conjecture (though I’d consider it halfway busted at this point) was meant to exclude, eg, a trans AFAB taking testosterone.

    ā€œA trans AFABā€. Lovely.

    Don’t worry though, nothing quite says ā€œtransphobes not welcomeā€ like this:

    And to be explicit, we are happy to host economically literate people in favor of market solutions who politely accede to pronoun requests.

    Well OK maybe they are welcome, but at least they’ll begrudgingly use the right pronouns while they gleefully tear down all my human rights!