Mastodawn

Hi! Yesterday was my 24th birthday, and I am trying to make this new year of life better as a disabled and trans person who has complex PTSD. I am currently seeking art commissions 🫶
To be specific, I am trying to take care of my partner @magicalgrrrl and our two cats, Max and Lenny, and to find a place to call home. We have reached out to a discord for trans people seeking housing, and are hoping that something works out soon, especially since we have to leave the motel we’ve been staying in soon due to a city ordinance.
This is the link to my commissions, but keep in mind that I’m running a 20% discount with the code SaveBetsy

https://ko-fi.com/lukeorion/commissions

If you boost, and if you decide to get art, thank you very much!

#CustomArt #ArtCommissions #neurodivergent #DisabledArtist #lgbtqia #CPTSDSurvivor #artist #TransArtist #DigitalArt @actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #Spoonie

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

Civil Defense NZ apparently thinks it's perfectly acceptable to fire off another, completely unchanged mind you, emergency alert at 6:30 a.m. this morning.

I'm beginning to think they don't know how to use the system. An advisory isn't an emergency, you bloody plonkers!

#CDNZ #NewZealand #NZ #Rant

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

FieldExplores (Gator Days)Jul 30

Dungeons & Goats - Gator Days

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

Eniko Fox Jul 30

remember when we had a free and open internet

i miss that

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

Show thread

Melody Jul 30

@eniko mhmm.
Imo the idea of age gating is, by itself not bad. There are good reasons for it. My main argument against it is that it's difficult to implement in a good way that causes as little friction as possible (one interaction with an official government service that gives you an anonymous key, signed by that service. And the public key for verification is easily available) (reasons for difficulty include greed, fascism and the current impossibility of sharing such a signed key globally in a browser without an extension, automatically providing some level of possible tracking)

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

The Tor Project Jul 30

🚨 New in Tails 6.18: Support for WebTunnel bridges!
This helps users in places like China and Russia connect to the Tor network – even when obfs4 bridges are blocked.
🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_18/
#Tor #TailsOS #Privacy

New Release: Tails 6.18 | Tor Project

You can now use WebTunnel bridges to connect to the Tor network from Tails.

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

[deleting 15 Aug 2025]Jul 30

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

https://survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

#gender #survey #LGBT #LGBTQ

The Agender Kiwi Jul 30

BrianKrebs Jul 30

New, from me:

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites.

....The gaming sites all require users to create a free account to claim their $2,500 credit, which they can use to play any number of extremely polished video games that ask users to bet on each action. At the scam website gamblerbeast[.]com, for example, visitors can pick from dozens of games like B-Ball Blitz, in which you play a basketball pro who is taking shots from the free throw line against a single opponent, and you bet on your ability to sink each shot.

The financial part of this scam begins when users try to cash out any “winnings.” At that point, the gaming site will reject the request and prompt the user to make a “verification deposit” of cryptocurrency — typically around $100 — before any money can be distributed. Those who deposit cryptocurrency funds are soon asked for additional payments.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/scammers-unleash-flood-of-slick-online-gaming-sites/

Here's what some of these scam gambling (scambling?) sites look like. They're pretty polished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNjqXIq1s5g