Cyrus Draegur

Oh, what’s that?

Palantir doesn’t like it when people know about THEIR dirty laundry?

Wow. Golly. Gee whiz. Color me shocked with a marker that is bone fucking dry.

Maybe they should’ve thought about that before trying to fuck with OUR private business.

Palantir has violated social contract and no longer deserves privacy.

Okay–yes, true, real, absolutely accurate; there is definitely phrasing better than what I used to describe what we want to do. It would also be nice to not be starving to death while doing this work, but my mindset is rather fixated on reinforcing beyond question that this isn’t for anyone to get rich and that we intend to take all possible measures against that kind of exploitative shit. One thing in particular that is objectively better than “a very comfortable life for me” is “a fairly comfortable life for a whole lot of people”.

Damn bruh some boomers and gen-x-ers are such shitty parents that their kids are demoting them to childless…

See, this is why I refuse to have kids. I don’t want a kid to kill themselves as a direct result of my bringing them to this world against their will.

me, my best friend, her husband, and our mutual friends all want to charter a nonprofit llc charity organization whose mission is to aid individuals who do not have stable housing and, through this organization because corporations have more rights than people in this hellscape nightmare world, purchase this particular gorgeous 18 acre plot of land in rural [REDACTED STATE]. there, we shall found our Gay Furry Commune, sharing our roof and walls with those who lack, non-transactionally, although persons who are lgbtq etc we intend to prioritize for assistance–specifically to help them EVACUATE THE UNITED STATES. Or, if they manage to build up the gumption and elbow grease, to metastasize into a gay furry commune branch of their own, provided we can help them locate an available land plot, guide them through the organizational setup, and coordinate the assets.

Housing is so absurdly expensive that we figure even a ‘donate what you can’ (and if you have nothing to give then that is okay) model that brutally undercuts the market by 90% on average will still be enough to balance the nonprofit’s ledger or even expand its mission. Because It’s not that a nonprofit can’t ‘make money’–it’s that it can’t keep money. The funds gathered via donation etc must be earmarked for the work. An organization still has bills to pay and has to be able to hire contractors for specialized work on occasion, they have to have a budget for the pursuit of projects.

Landlords get to keep their ill gotten gains. This organization does not. Its books are required to be transparent, its funds are required to be accounted for, with absolutely no “payouts” to “investors”.

The cool thing about Barq for me, though, is that it functions as a proximity IFF transponder–or at least that’s how i think of it

because it shows you other furries within range. hypothetically speaking, if there IS a “local furry community” you’d want to connect with, some of them MIGHT be on Barq.

Like, by default, any fur you end up talking to on barq is going to be within hanging out / getting food / social activity range.

Just kinda wish it was a little easier to pitch group activities to the local area. I’d absolutely be interested in knowing if there’s any such events happening nearby but as it presently stands i have to actively search through fragnented and static message boards where the proximity feature has no presence, and there may be boards for your area that are not obviously named because the board names are user defined… And frankly, i have too much going on to set aside time for commiting to in-depth perusal on a regular basis where i might not even find out about anything actionable most of the time.

If the fediverse had an optional “see users near me in dirtspace” feature … I don’t think anyone would use it??? I dunno it just feels like the “meeting up with people” task and goal NEED to be compartmentalized to a specific system for that purpose so you can cut it loose entirely at a moments notice without destroying everything…

I use barq!

sadly it isn’t terribly effective because there’s way too much friction when it comes to local interaction

two people have to like each other first before they can even say hi? that’s like … literally the opposite of how meeting people works though???

that isn’t to say that DMs should be unlocked but rather that there oughtta be a localized/proximity public channel where you can just sorta microblog to the void and others who are nearby enough to see it can comment.

i’d call that system “howling”. kinda like the twilight bark from the old animated 101 Dalmatians movie ^_

oh yeah i figured it was something like this, treating their literal captive population like guinea pigs instead of human beings. Of course. It’s what fascists DO. Just like what German fascists did to Jews, just like what Japanese fascists did to the Chinese.

I’m dreading the eventuality that the united states will begin doing it to people it decides post-hoc are “foreign”, like fully fledged citizens it chooses to “denaturalize” because it wants an excuse to murder with impunity they’re not “american” enough…

you’d think there’d be at least one group on earth who would know better than anyone to let this shit slide,
but instead Israel is ROLLING in that shit like it’s a luxurious mudbath at a spa.

utterly hideous behavior no matter who does it, but with added hypocrisy.

evil shit emerges into the world, you look where it comes from… … a fascist police state. yeah, i suppose that tracks. gods how i fucking hate this timeline.