lledra: A little bit o' everythin'

If you're here from Twitter, hi. My account there was suspended for no reason just now, like a lot of others.

In the midst of my crowdfunding, no less 😭

I don't know what's happening but I've filed an appeal. I don't know what else to do at this point.

Go look at the Kickstarter I guess. That's all for now 💙

Five years ago, after a man deliberately drove a van down a busy Toronto sidewalk in one of Canada’s worst mass murders, the country was confronted with a previously obscure extremist movement, which experts say remains a growing threat.

The attacker, Alek Minassian, had claimed to be angered by women who wouldn’t sleep with him and inspired by“incels,” or involuntary celibates.

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Arie Perliger, the director of security studies at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell, said law enforcement agencies now see incels and groups with misogynist ideology as a rising concern.

“The threat is growing,” he said. “It will continue to be a problem.”

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…that could just compile and edit all my patreon chapters of Cities of Steel and Blood into a full-ass book and just…release it. That’s really weird to feel for me, I don’t often FINISH things? And I do a bad job of following up on that kinda stuff. But the fact that I have finished the first book of this little, weird story is weird and humbling. I should do it, but the only factors getting in my way are time and energy. I also don’t have the like, following to really DRUM up the kind of interest that would make the effort feel worth it, sadly. Still, it might be a good idea.