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"sorry that probably doesn't make much sense" <- for perfectly intelligible & logical statements relevant to the present conversation

"you get what I mean." <- for unparsable non sequiturs

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heard the words "white smoke" and got excited cause i thought we were talking about torkoal but apparently it's just the new pope. LAME

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You sent an anon ask, but unless you sent it logged out and through an anonymizing tool, someone knows the originating IP address. If you sent it logged in, you may as well bookmark the post because you have already "contacted a security activist" in a way that can be subpoenaed [...]

It's worse than that: tumblr no longer allows truly-anonymous asks at all. If you aren't logged in, you can't send asks period. Hope this anon created and only accesses their account via Tor!

This is a fairly recent change, within the last year or two iirc. I can understand why they did it for more effective moderation, but it should really be a setting you can opt in to. Tumblr may not care about how much my non-tumblr friends can interact with me here, but they still offer custom domains and hosting as a monetization strategy — you'd think they would care more about organizations that want a public-facing blog.

Reading your post about safe anonymous leaking and nodding along and then going "well fuck I hope I can remember this later because if I ever consider it this is a bit incriminating to save in any way, huh"

The more people who use Tor, the less incriminating it is to use Tor.

The more you use things like Tor, the less weird it is for you to use signal and encrypted email services.

The more you use things like Tor and signal and encrypted email, the less weird it is for you to turn off the location on your devices and leave your phone at home when you go out.

It's suspicious as hell if you make a signal account the week before documents get leaked from your workplace. But it's not suspicious to have a signal account.

It's suspicious if you try to delete your google maps history the week after a protest. It's not suspicious if you don't have a google maps history because you don't use google maps.

All of which is to say: I don't think it's incriminating to check in on that post or bookmark it or start doing the things that it recommends because people should be doing the things on that post anyway. We should be using Tor casually. You should have a half dozen or so proton accounts just for convenience's sake. You should have signal, you should have your location turned off on your devices. You should be doing those things because they are good things to do, but doing those things also sets up an environment in which certain behaviors are less likely to be incriminating, or are less likely to be effective correlative evidence.

But also it has probably been a while since we talked about security nihilism around here; the deal is we live in a surviellance state and all of us are burned in some way. You sent an anon ask, but unless you sent it logged out and through an anonymizing tool, someone knows the originating IP address. If you sent it logged in, you may as well bookmark the post because you have already "contacted a security activist" in a way that can be subpoenaed (anon is only anon to the recipient! it is not anonymous to tumblr and courts can demand their records! that is why I said in the post that nobody who wanted to do any kind of leaking should say anything to me off or on anon!)

But also, consider your source: I have a bookmarks folder called "anarchist resources" that I had to remove from the toolbar because clients kept commenting on it during work calls. There is no way I'm beating the allegations.

But! Nihilism! If they want to charge you bad enough they won't need evidence to make it stick! So you might as well bookmark the post and install signal anyway. At least you can see if you can reduce your chances of getting caught!

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In French they say "80 blaze it"

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i wish there was an easier way to tell the difference between an "if it sucks hit da bricks" situation and a "sometimes being an adult means doing things that you dont wanna" situation

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i dont care if mondays rife,tuesday qednesday full of strife, thursday fuck my baka life, its friday im in sucks

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Me, leaning out of the window: You there boy, what day is this?

Squeaky-voiced street urchin: Why sir it's

day!

Me: Then I haven't missed it!

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Poorly drawn Pokemon of Myth

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its important to have a game on your wishlist that keeps going on sale every couple of months and you still never buy it

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Poorly drawn Lunar Duo

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"i'm mr sterling's right hand arm. man." is to say: i am the unutterable wisdom that precedes and gives rise to verbal understanding.

"i'm mr sterling everything" is to say: i am the undifferentiated matrix through which the phenomenon of "mr sterling" is apprehended.

"his confidant. his best friend. his silly rabbit." is to say: the unity of the two, differentiated and undifferentiated, quiescence and clarity, produces a third which is motion, who then goes on reproduce itself indefinitely.

"does he call you that? no." is to say: the name which can be spoken is not the eternal name.

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#1017 🍃 Ogerpon 🍃 The Mask Pokemon

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Let's be a medieval manuscript with mama

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stakataka so cute