Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 00:14:03 JST

@simondassow @catzilla - Oh, it's a methodical run book at this point:

Neurodivergent Gain Friends Method

- Join activity groups that align with my interests (examples, local Hacker Meetup, Local Food Rescue, Local Food Bank, Local Library Book Club, etc)
- Talk to people there as myself, completely unmasked. (This culls the sample size quite a bit - Folks self select to not hang out with me. Makes my job a LOT easier.)
- Of those that remain, note the ones that infodump and move them into acquaintance tag.
- Continue to spend time with acquaintances and if we vibe inter-personally, hang out with them more often (either at interest group, or outside of interest group... say another interest group)
- After enough time, move from acquaintance tag to friend tag. Exchange numbers on Signal, send each other memes and videos throughout the day.
- After having three or four friends, bring all of them together (say at an interest group meeting) and see if they vibe with each other. Now we're a friend group.

If at any time you exhaust your pool, find new inputs and increase your pool again. Run through run book. Rinse / repeat.

I now have a close friend group of five people in my immediate town.

We are ride or die.

I went through an input sampling of about 250 people. I have a lot of acquaintances still. They're chill. I like them and they like me.