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GrymZero
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To the unwritten tomorrows.
FFXIV: Reign Aaliyah @ Hyperion
Previously @ZeroInstall
Opinions expressed are my own and do not constitute legal advice. Unless explicitly stated, I do not represent you.
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GrymZero @grymzero.bsky.social · Dec 9
Starting to get followers outside of old mutuals from the other place so let me just make this clear.
Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine.
I believe in punching Nazis not being a controversial stance.
Black Lives Matter.
All Cops Are Bastards.
If you don't believe in the above, leave.
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judepaw.bsky.social
i'm gonna be so real with you, i have very little respect for you as a thinking person if you use chatGPT for something like erotica or roleplay. like, you're still a human and you deserve some degree of dignity, but i sorta think you're not really all that sentient... kinda like a pig or something
October 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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lluisabadias.bsky.social
Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting
January 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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blueoctopus12.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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thelastsea.horse
For those going "huh?" The picture below is currently circulating.

There are no references, specific survey links listed, or any way to verify the claim.

Please don't boost things like this.
A picture of a discord message that says "@ everyone @ announcements if you recently filled out a survey about Discord potentially getting involved with AI, change your password. That was an account grabber link." Below that post is the following quoted post. "Well, apparently that survey I put was not a real official Discord survey, despite the fact that Discord has used the website for surveys in the past. People are apparently getting hacked. If you took the survey, change your password, posthaste. I'm very sorry everyone =3=; "
January 11, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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tristafae.bsky.social
I’m blowing kisses at all the wols that are tender hearted and full of love, the wols that are brave and kind not only despite the hardships in their lives, but because of them.

Your wols aren’t cliche or boring, they’re my favorite type of character!!!
January 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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antaresxiv.bsky.social
Twillightzebby on Tumblr already debunked this. Here: gist.github.com/TwilightZebb...
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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mutelunacy.bsky.social
hey so this is blatant false information punishing people for doing the right thing. no, it was not a "grabber". it was a reputable survey site that discord has used previously for limited surveys.

nothing can """grab""" information if you dont provide it, which an anonymous survey didnt ask for.
two discord messages that read: "if you recently filled out a survey about Discord potentially getting involved with Al, change your password. That was an account grabber link." and "Well, apparently that survey I put was was not a real official Discord survey, despite the fact that Discord has used the website for surveys in the past. People are apparently getting hacked. If you took the survey, change your password, posthaste."
January 11, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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incorrectffqts.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
grymzero.bsky.social
a man wearing a headband and holding an umbrella says " where we throw our heads back in laughter "
ALT: a man wearing a headband and holding an umbrella says " where we throw our heads back in laughter "
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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dailytobytrivia.bsky.social
The starting melody of ASGORE was inspired by the song "The Fog" from Persona 4, so much so that one of Toby's project files that only contained the initial melody is called "persona4.FLP"
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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sonicmega.bsky.social
Doing my part, as much as it hurts to have to.
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
grymzero.bsky.social
How it feels knowing that my xiv moots have carriage of the Y'shtola Defense Force while I'm at work
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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st4rd1ver.bsky.social
Y'shtola is one of the more emotionally intelligent characters in the game, right up there with Estinien but people ignore that because "she has no growth or arc"
hyodachi.bsky.social Kabuto, pondering the 2026 orb. @hyodachi.bsky.social · Nov 16
XIV community, talk to me.

I have something simple and easy. I wanna know your unfiltered thoughts about your favorite character(s). Let your favoritism unleash.

#wolqotd #xivqotd
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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wired.com
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 5d
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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demoniofleurs.bsky.social
I stumbled upon a thread on the FFXIV subreddit that I encourage everyone who is frustrated with the DDoS’ to read, as it goes over why this is a complicated issue with no real easy solution

www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...
Title: Irrational Attackers and you: A (potential) explanation for why you keep getting 90k'd Is this actually a DDOS? Or does SE just have bad servers? There is no reason to believe it is anything other than a ddos attack In the last few weeks FFXIV has been kicking people off NA servers with 90k errors, this is confined to NA, and even if there have been some on EU/OCE/JP, it is orders of magnitude less common. There is no logical reason to assume the server software is different in each region, and since it it possible for both JP and NA to visit OCE, that is vanishingly unlikely. Earlier today, when world first racers were getting 90k's they tried to data center travel to Materia to raid. The 90k errors then stopped on NA, and started on OCE. Once they gave up and returned to NA, so did the 90k's. This is as close to evidence of a ddos attack as anyone who doesnt work for square enix can get. That also means it is provider agnostic, as NTT America does not operate in Australia. So that's the "how", now for the "why" In threat modeling, there are two kinds of attackers, rational, and irrational. Rational attackers are great (well, in terms of prevention), they are easy to understand, and can even be worked with at times, they are typically limited to actual hacking/unauthorized access attacks, but a rational attacker ddos could be "im ddosing you, pay me 3 million in bitcoin and I will stop" This isnt very likely, as typically those demands are public to put pressure on the target company, but it is possible if they just sent SE the ransom directly... but again, unlikely. An irrational attacker is FAR more likely, this doesnt mean somebody who is completely insane and has no reason, but someone who cannot be negotiated with, they just want to break things. If a rational attacker is a burglar breaking into your home, an irrational one is a drunk teenager trying to throw a rock through your attic window. In this case, I think its pretty clear whats going on. It is someone (or a group) that does not care about money, with no public ransom, and enough resources to repeatedly crash isp nodes (often multiple at a time) they are burning money to bring servers down for no gain. They are also willing to risk felony cybercrime charges (which this definitely counts as). Now the big question, how do you stop an irrational attacker? You dont. You hope they get bored or lose interest. There are some over very high profile mmo ddos incidents, with the most recent famous one being the WoW hardcore classic streamer guild "OnlyFangs" Whenever they pulled a raid boss, the wow servers went down, it was 100% predictable, there were no exceptions. This wasnt because their guild was specifically cursed and making the servers crash, there was just.... a guy(s) who wanted their characters dead. This only stopped after the streamers decided to stop playing hardcore, because it was hurting the game for everyone. Possible culprits Literally anyone with money, I suspect based on timing its someone who really wants NA to lose the world race? but it could also just be someone who wants to hurt FFXIV's reputation, and messing up the world race is the easiest way to do it But why is it only ffxiv? It isnt, its just that taking down any game costs a lot of money, so its very rare, even if you are just running a server for a few friends, you could be ddosed, it would just cost them far more to kill the server than it costs you to run it. There are obviously DDOS solutions, but they really only work for website, and the solution for something that needs server connection is an active and ongoing problem, its (part of) why so many competetive games switched to peer-to-peer hosting, if you kill the host it only affects that one game, not the entire server. Some more recent examples of non-ffxiv games taken down by ddos Albion online, basically unplayable for several weeks in early summer last year after a mass ban of rmt accounts World of warcraft earlier this week, im not sure why, but blizzard publicly acknowledged the cause on the launcher League of legends also earlier this week, actually no clue on this one either edit: they forgot to renew client license, they did get hit with one ~3 months ago though that also took down steam None of this is confirmed, I am just a third party with no insights into SE internals, using my experience with devops and cybersecurity to put pieces together
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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syrstorm.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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elidibus.amaurot.social
new year new reminder to backup your client settings
January 8, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
man the video is circulating so

settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs
January 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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en.finalfantasyxiv.com
"I'll blow you to smithereens!" 💣

The man you love to hate with a fiery passion, Light-heavyweight Arcadion fighter: Brute Bomber, voiced by Timothy Watson!
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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en.finalfantasyxiv.com
"Let's put on a lovely show for the audience, hmm?" 🐝

The adorable but deadly, sweet but poisonous, Light-heavyweight Arcadion fighter: Honey B. Lovely, voiced by Anairis Quiñones!
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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en.finalfantasyxiv.com
"I hope you're ready to be ripped to shreds!" 😼

A rookie on the rise with razor sharp claws, we present Light-heavyweight Arcadion fighter: Black Cat, voiced by Merryl Ansah!
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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grebuloff.bsky.social
you know what. it's fine if my gposes are garbage because I don't touch a shred of AI so it's pure garbage from the heart.
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
grymzero.bsky.social
My retail traumatized ass: So if I get all my work done my reward isn't just more work? I'm not going to be asked to go like sweep the floors or clean the windows or something?
I genuinely can't parse this mentally.
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
grymzero.bsky.social
Me to my coworker: So what do we do if we manage to finish all these files
Them: Oh we just chill
Me:
a man wearing an orange shirt with the word dreamcast on it
ALT: a man wearing an orange shirt with the word dreamcast on it
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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lightblooms.bsky.social
ra'tika for wolshtolas is that song that's like "i can't believe that it's finally me and you and you and me, just us, and your friend STEVE 👹"
January 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM