❦ CRIME LICH ❦so, grindr's sharing users' hiv status with other companies
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haunting liminality ✅self promotion
this is bleak, a member and co-founder of a bay area photography worker co-op.
i capture light to show the world soulful places, people, ideas, moods, hopes, thoughts, and feelings.
silence is my canvas in making music, voices, sound effects, and audiobooks
important thoughts and observations come out of me sometimes, like today
i give all these things away freely, asking only for contributions from the most capable
a final point i'll make about critically engaging with how you distribute and exercise your resources is this parting thought: gargron isn't the only person who has put or is putting work into this website, but he is the only person getting money out of it. if you can boost his patreon, there's no reason you can't boost mine too.
bleak appreciates your listening. feel free to drop a coin in the jar / boost
but also also, don't get it double twisted. this IS about me and gargron. it's also simultaneously about all that other stuff. critically engaging with the financial world starts between you and me or someone like me. my fucking teeth are falling out and i'm getting evicted on Sunday and my welfare (i am chronically disabled) isn't nearly enough to cover either of these expenses (moving costs/deposits/moving truck etc.)
and like, don't get it twisted. this isn't about me or gargron or even patreon or the fediverse. this is a matter of people with means, platforms, and capability of exerting spare effort towards other goals, and the platforms they interact with, and the level of critical thought they apply to where they're allocating their resources. look at Drew Scanlon's patreon for a mild example. look at, others include hard right patreons sitting at $25k/month.
feeling how much patreon has been coopted by white dudes when gargron's pet project has 10x as much as my combined life and works patreon. seeing how willing people #onhere (here meaning the fediverse) are to boost and share garg's patreon compared to mine or like anyone else who's at risk of dying to poverty
what's actually more valuable to you, where are you going to direct your voice, effort, and money? i'm not the only one paying attention.
as implemented, DMs to an ostatus network that is not a mastodon instance won't stay private. one of a bunch of flaws with the sort of concentric circles model of privacy going on here.
the problem is you cannot systematize centuries of white supremacy away just incidentally.
spinach > forever bitter this place went business as usual after damn near every woman of color was pushed away from the site and that eugen's answer of "build your own instance" was accepted and repeated as though access has never been an issue.
specifically eugen blocked me after i told him i wasn't going to give him a free consultation.