Kysh (Sekka) 🐉ΘΔ (she/her)

@draconic.one

actual dragon scifi writer airline pirrot shrk fur sk8r artist furry since forever https://foxprints.org/ https://shark.community/@sekka/ sekka@discord SekkaShark@telegram

it is so annoying when people are trying to "help" me with a tech issue. I want to tell them just to take their paws off, give me five minutes, and it'll be fixed. I don't need tech-support, and IT can't do anything for me unless something's broken on the backend.

Ephemeris releases in four days. This is the final eBook cover. I'm anxious. I hope people read it, and I hope people enjoy it. But once it's out there, it belongs to the world, not to me any longer. I can't protect it or improve it. It must fly or fall on its own.

The cover for an eBook entitled "Ephemeris." A purple starfield spreads above mountains with a soft purple alpineglow. A city lies in a flat area beneath, with mountains rising up again in the foreground. Part of the city is viewed through the lens of a combat visor that has informational projections for the viewer, describing various targets, mission priorities, communications settings, and squadmember locations. Across the cover is the silhouette of a black dragon in flight, viewed from below, wings spread. Across the dragon from wingtip to wingtip is the title: "Ephemeris" in white, fading to silver, with a line through it as if a particle beam. In the background, dropships are visible entering the atmosphere, and there's an explosion in the city below, labeled as "TARGET #01A", with a seven minute timer displayed in red. The operational status page in the visor says DROPCON: HOLD, with hold struck through, then OVERRIDE (ASH). Below, in a bulleted list, is displayed: INGRESS: IN PROGRESS (underlined), - TAC HOLD: DEPLOYING, - COMPROMISE: PENDING, - EGRESS PENDING"

Hey there! In advance of the release date for Ephemeris, I'm offering a few free copies of my upcoming book (and the rest of the series) in eBook format. If you're interested, please message me. ^_^

I hate marketing. I just want people to read my stuff. It's not about money, it's about telling stories and having people enjoy them. I don't know how to reach people anymore. My engagement has dwindled to nothing. Hashtags don't work, word of mouth isn't working ... I'd welcome advice.

1. Anti-trans ballot initiatives are spreading across the United States. In 2026, it appears that five states: Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Nebraska, and Missouri will send such referendums to voters. Allied organizations are trying to fight back. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives Spread In Five States, As Some Opposition To Them Grows

The fight pits billionaire money against transgender people and allied organizations in five states.

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Modern courts (mostly fourth circuit, unsurprisingly) is consistently holding that any and all of your devices can be searched or confiscated during border crossings with no suspicion of wrongdoing. They sell it as catching criminals; believe that at your peril. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.

arstechnica.com

Time to purge follows. It's depressing how many people I'm following who never followed me back, or who unfollowed me. Oh well, they're all gone now. Hopefully my timeline will be cleaner now. ^_^ Depressingly, many of them probably went back to twitter. BlueSky is like yelling into the void.

TL;DR: Tech sucks now because late-stage capitalism demanded pure money goals quickly over any form of the real inspiration to create genuine value that used to lead to long-term profits, and that's ruining useful tech and just about everything else in our civilization.

Why is reddit so full of racist, misogynist, bigoted crap? Is this reflective of society, is it being seeded, or is it some form of automated hate-pump? I can't believe the overt bigotry that has been emerging lately.