Christ it has been 7 years, I'm still surprised the forum was even still here. Searched it on a whim and there it was!
I've become subdued and less of an edgy prick since then - now live with my partner in the UK and work as a designer (although I'm currently furloughed, yaaay ). Won't be trolling this time around, kind of grew
out of that. Noticed I'm going grey and there is more important shit to deal with in life now.
Welcome back And especially welcome to the UK. We need as many actual; leftists as we can get here, to balance out those jerks who sincerely believe that we need to adopt the middle ground between the far right and the not-so-far right. Your posts thus far look promising
We are all going grey except for Sir Les (Now known as Al) who contemptuously likens present-day I^2 to a ladies sewing circle . You'll probably notice him swinging by to rant, on occasion.
[EDIT: oh! you certainly did notice him ! That was him posting as ÄLLLIVESMATTER ]
What do you design?
Over the years I have really seen the damage the far-right have done to society/the internet and decided to take up the mantel to oppose them as much as I can. I guess it stems down to how angry I feel over them duping me with their lies, along with many normally reasonable people. Breadtube has helped a lot, same with visiting LGBTQ+ groups and talking to them about the horrors they often face. I've gotten in trouble on twitter for pissing off a lot of TERFs, but I don't think I'm going to stop!
I'm a digital designer, so anything from animation, front end web development to HTML based emails. I also help with with product photography, particularly retouching - used to do the whole lot myself until they hired a dedicated photographer. Kind of glad as it really burned me out of doing it as a hobby for a long time. Even got involved in calibrating a large fabric printer which is nearly worth more than lot of cars, that was... interesting! Being furloughed as made me a bit anxious in case of potential redundancies, have savings for a plan B just in case, but it's still a worry.