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Cyber-rat in a boring dystopia | Malware Enthusiast | ICS Tinkerer | Wannabe Threat Analyst | dysfunctional internet communist

My toots are reflective of my addled mind and not of any employer.

Cyber Security PhD @ University of Bristol Cyber Security Group focusing on ICS and threat intelligence.

Header Alt: Cyberpunk city art by Deathburger. A street in shades of yellow and orange, covered in trash and broken machinery. In the back there is a person spraying graffiti over a mural with his mate sat in a trolley nearby.
Avatar Alt: A big ol white rat being gripped and staring at the camera like they've done something wrong

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eating berries i probably shouldnt have
@q unfortunately fireball is too cool and the protagonist has to maintain a degree of relation to the average reader
@huronbikes @da_667 yeah but all the beers are called weird pseudo-latin things like 'bellious gurglous'
@ainmosni yeah but also lamer
I think that's my biggest gripe with the harry potter series, even as a kid I could see that for a soft magic 'anything can be done if you learn the words and flick the wrist propely', all the magic is shockingly bland.
@da_667 virgin 'disarming spell' Vs chad 'pumped all my experience into making a hydrogen bomb'
Writing my totally original fiction novel where a boy goes to magical school and learns like one spell that he somehow solves 90% of problems with throughout the series.
@gsuberland No sense crying over milked keyboards

"But Jacob! You can never know for sure where your money is going!"

That's true, but giving your money to someone who ends up being outed as donating to the Orphan Obliteration Fundā„¢ļø is quite a bit different to giving money to someone who preempts receiving your money with "I am totally going to give any money I get to the Orphan Obliteration Fundā„¢ļø".

My opinion on liking problematic media is that its OK so long as the creator isn't actively using the income to fund a bigoted pressure group that seeks to ruin the lives of folk who just want to be left alone.