Notices by :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social), page 10

One of my huge fucking problems with 'awareness' articles, is: 90% of the time, the info is fucking bullshit to grab attention and doesn't actually make people aware of what they need to know.

This fucking shit, with that headline, loads people into guarding against 'suspicious links'.

It's not the link, it's people gaining your confidence - the link isn't 'suspicious' because you're trusting that person by the time they hit you

'her son, Mark - himself the victim of a Facebook marketplace scam a few years ago - says his mum is savy with computers'

I'm sorry, you're just gonna drop two hits in one fucking sentence like that? Her son fell for a scam and then his mum isn't on alert for this kind of shit going forwards?

There's a LOT of advertising over the 'hi mum' scam. Specifically aimed at her demographic

Hell, the fucking person they're using (ABC presents issues as case studies so they can surface the same article with a new face a week later), got hit TWICE, once by sms and once by email, and just... No?
'once she transferred the money, she realised something was wrong' (paraphrased)

Ok, but then...
'not long after, she was contacted by a scammer by email and after following the prompts she effectively gave them access to her computer and banking'

So, she went through a LOT of steps

There was a Swedish metal band, twenty years ago, called The Ring.

Of course, they did Tolkien metal.

So hard to find to listen to, they only did one album and obviously the SEO on it is bad, but... It's so good.

None of this, btw, is me railing scam victims. I know a few.

It's me railing the bullshit advice people give that's reductionist because they can't conceive - despite talking to victims at the time - that they might trust someone enough to fall for shit.

They think it's a single click on a single link, or one simple thing, rather than (often) a long, slow process.

Like, $10 on the fucking table, if I drop a slightly weird looking link, right here, a BUNCH of you wouldn't consider it 'suspicious'

Because (for better or worse), you trust me.

So 'watch out for suspicious links' as a thought terminating neologism is dangerous itself.

I am fuckin tired and grumpy (minor burnout from not running the game I'd prepped for, to the detriment of stuff I wanted to do), and just *pinches bridge of nose*

I do not have the filtering capacity to not tell a coworker to fuck off right now

Lunchtime jenga time

Good morning folks

Apparently one of them, who is renowned for his shitty ethic, told his boss he thinks I'm not as productive as I should be.

This is someone in the support department, where they're in a rolling state of burnout and have turned into a circular firing squad.

Same dude also seems to monitor other people's toilet breaks.

Good morning folks

'some people in my party want to go megaracist' is not a 'behind closed doors' thing.

Push them out, you fucking cowards.

#auspol

'one liberal mp told this column that some wanted the party to emulate One Nation...'

Name them, then, dickheads.

#auspol

Ok, so, hear me out...

Kale: huh, haven't seen those before, I wonder wheth-
Kale: *remembers he's on a scavenger mission on a derelict*
Kale: FUCK *shoots rapidly*

'No Man's Sky is such a chill, relaxin-'
BIOHAZARD DETECTED

#NMS

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

#NMS

Salvage operation? Hostile lifeforms detected?

Who the fuck do you think I am, @worthlessbums or someone like him?

#NMS

I mean...

#NMS

Speaking of #NMS player names...