@researchfairy Oh my god I just got the joke.

Holy crap. Well done.

@ZeirosLion No no, I mean the olllllld N64 game that used voice recognition to have you befriend and play with a wild Pikachu.

And its spiritual successor on Gamecube, Pokemon Channel, where you lived with and watched TV with a Pikachu. Very much slice of life, as I recall.

I know you're tired. It took years of misery and effort to get a sizeable chunk of furries off of Twitter. And I know I'm preaching to the choir here on Mastodon. But we have to take steps protect ourselves and our community in the face of rising authoritarianism.

Start having the conversation with your friends and social groups about moving to a new messenger. I'm looking at Signal as a secure option (yes, it has stickers!), but I'm open to suggestions from more knowledgeable folks.

Quite a lot of us reside in a country undergoing an authoritarian takeover. One increasingly interested in examining your social media for signs of dissent and disloyalty - primarily during border crossings, for now, but likely to expand. Having one of our queer fandom's main communication tools be owned by a far-right sympathizer is immensely dangerous.

Telegram has been drastically increasing its cooperation with authorities globally in turning over user data: https://www.404media.co/telegram-gave-authorities-data-on-more-than-20-000-users/