Notices by lord goth of doom 🥀 (guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe)

Hey fediverse, I need some advice!! I have 125 GB of images and videos that I'm trying to transfer from my phone to my PC, and no matter if I use USB-C to USB-C or USB-A to USB-C cable, the transfer speed stays the same. Allegedly it'll take 23 hours.

Is there... is that it? Any suggestions? There's so many files (because I use this for personal use as well as social media marketing) that it would be a slog to go through. 😬

I was looking up the origins of the KKK name the other day (like how did they choose the name), and I learned that the KKK operated in Canada. Canadian white supremacists formed their own KKK branch, in part because they were concerned about Eastern Europeans destroying the "Anglo-Saxon" culture of Canada.

I'm not surprised that a racist hate group might spring up in Canada, I'm instead surprised that Canadian PR is so good that the fucking KKK of all groups isn't significant enough to spring up in mention.

no one:

me, pacing around my house for the last two days: they didn't de-extinct shit because it's not a fucking dire wolf 🤬🤬🤬

my upcoming ya book ROAR OF THE LAMBS, which is all about how certain people are silenced and ignored in our society, features a genderqueer protagonist

and what do you know? every video i make about it (that mentions the protagonist being genderqueer) is automatically flagged and must now be reviewed by tiktok moderation before it can go live lmao

me: what if I write a book about how Black queer people are silenced, even when our lives are in danger

tiktok, twitter, and instagram: muted

tiktok ceo making a whole grandstand about how banning tiktok will infringe upon americans' right to free speech but i cannot say the word "genderqueer" on that app without my whole profile getting flagged

i need the irony to stop irony-ing, i'm fucking tired man

@ljwrites I quite like it! I think it's making a comeback

cannot believe my book had been out less than 3 months when it was pirated and added to LibGen, you assholes could've at least waited a year or something

"open access" DID YOU EVEN FUCKING TRY

could've asked, and I might have DONATED a copy, my god

my deepest gratitude to the little gang of squirrels hanging out in the tree by my house - every day they force my cat to patrol all the windows, thereby giving me enough peace for my morning stretches lmao

i'm so tired of Europeans being smug and like, "why would anyone elect Trump," while their countries have their own off-brand Trumps running around, and their moderates are like, "I know he sounds like a Nazi, but I think we should hear him out."

such a superiority complex for bootlickers at best and accomplices at worst

oh yeah, in case you didn't know, i'm not a girl or a woman, i am stardust and ethereal moonlight occupying a confusing human body that i don't particularly agree with.

Hey fediverse, anybody work in web design/dev and want a new client? I'm an author looking for a full website redesign (preferably staying with a Wordpress CMS, 4 page templates, clean, accessible, maybe Gothic flair), and not sure where to get started.

The last agency recommended to me by an author left me with a site using 2MB images for thumbnails on every page, and even after I replaced them and a friend stepped in to optimize, it's still slow.

Portfolios, website links, etc. welcome. OK to share. #webdev #fedihire #webdesign

hello masto, please help! I'm a published fiction author looking for a subject matter expert to talk through the premise of my fourth book, a gothic romance set during a zombie pandemic.

if YOU specialize in immunology, microbiology, and/or public health, I would love to pay you for like an hour of your time!

Attention cat people! 🚨

Be careful with automatic litter robots! There's a model currently being sold by a bunch of different retailers (same device but storefronts can change the branding) on Amazon, Temu, AliExpress, etc. that is deadly.

Here's a review demonstrating on stuffed animals.

cw for discussing pet death https://youtu.be/xepC3-Ia9ho?feature=shared

Hey Masto, I have a banking/money question! I'm a US citizen who lives abroad, and I recently traveled to the US for a camp workshop job thing. The job paid me in the form of a check, but here's the thing: banks in Finland (where I live) do not accept checks. They will not let me cash or deposit this.

Also another fun thing, because I do not live in the US, I cannot typically open a bank account in the US and I actually closed my previous US bank accounts because they don't service customers who live abroad.

Any suggestions on what to do? lol

Hey cryptography enthusiasts, I'm looking for a (relatively easy) cipher to use in the (young adult/teen) book I'm working on. Essentially I'm trying to hide messages (or have hidden dialogue), but it cannot use an alternate font.

For the first draft, I just put everything in Wingdings, but Wingdings isn't compatible with epub (or perhaps, Kindle, idk which and it doesn't really matter). As a result, readers of the ebook wouldn't be able to parttake in the decoding mystery.

Which got me thinking about using a cipher instead, keeping the dialogue in the Latin alphabet. I'm, however, NOT a cryptography person, I don't know even know where to get started, and my book is due....... in a few weeks, so I don't have 6 months to learn. 😭

I hate to gatekeep my favorite awful literary character (Dorian Gray), but Netflix just announced they're making a "modern" adaptation where Basil and Dorian are,,,,,

SIBLINGS.