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The box was full if various treats—which I am now snacking on along with a slate coaster with my profile photo etched into it (and the caption "#1 Pick"), as well as a stuffed kangaroo made of recycled bottles, and a handful of trans buttons.

Thank you again @anyia for the amazing gift 🥰

@anyia pop! That middle lock was really interesting to pick, and holy shit that key!

I ended up using a long flat windshield wiper insert to slide under the far end of the lid, reach across, and poke the levers from the side while using a bent bike spoke to lift the lid slightly so I could make the levers bind.

Today I received the coolest, most thoughtful gift. Twice.

My day started out when a friend traveled from far far away, and dropped by to bring me a package on behalf of @anyia, whom they had just visited.

It was a beautiful *handmade* puzzle box, with three interesting locks built into it, and a *four-page* letter of appreciation—the amount of effort they put into making me feel special is extraordinary 🥰

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Then, a couple hours later, a package arrived from my girlfriend. Inside were two lever locks. One from the 1830s, and one from the 1920s that is stamped with "Mastodon" 🥰 The 4-lever lock is now the oldest I'm my collection, and the Mastodon lock is the first 8-lever lock in my collection.

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And finally, a couple hours after the package arrived from my girlfriend, I got to meet a new friend from Mastodon in person for the first time—which was its own present 🥰

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So today I got to add five unique new locks, several good memories, and a new friend to my collections.

It was a good frickin' day

#Gratitude #ThreeGoodThings #GetLovedNerd

Why reactive moderation isn't going to cut it, aka, "The Sucker-punch Problem".

Imagine you invite your friend—let's call him Mark—to a club with you. It's open-door, which is cool, because you like when a lot of folx show up. Sure, it might get a little rowdy, but they have a bouncer, and you've never seen things getting out of hand.

So, you're busy dancing when a new guy walks in wearing a "I Hate Mark" shirt and promptly sucker-punches Mark. You didn't see it happen, but Mark is upset and tells the bouncer, who kicks the guy out.

A few minutes later, the same guy walks back in and sucker-punches Mark again. Same result. Some people in the club say they'll tell the bouncer if they see him come in again.

Mark wants to leave, but you tell him it's not that bad—after all, you've never been punched, and you didn't see Mark get punched, so maybe he's just being sensitive.

A different guy walks in wearing a "I Plan On Punching Mark" shirt. No one tells the bouncer, because they've never seen *this* guy punch Mark.

He sucker-punches Mark. At this point, Mark is pissed and yelling about being punched.

The club members talk about putting up a "No Punching Mark" sign, but the owner is worried it'll hurt his club's growth.

Another Mark in the club proposes they turn away anyone wearing an anti-Mark shirt or espousing anti-Mark rhetoric at the door, but this gets shot down for the same reason as the sign idea—then someone sucker-punches him.

By the end of the night, your friend Mark is beat to fuck and says he'll never come to this club again. In fact, he's going to tell anyone named Mark to stay clear of this place.

The next time you go to the club, half the folx there are wearing "I Kill Marks" shirts, but there aren't any Marks there, so it doesn't come up.

I've been sucker-punched every day, for the last three days in a row by some of the most vile hate-speech and imagery. The accounts are using open registration servers and signing up with variations on the username "heilhitler1488". I fully expect it'll continue as long as we have open registration servers.

And no, username pattern blocking alone won't fix this, it'll help a little, but mostly it'll just make them wear a different shirt while they sucker-punch us.

#OpenRegistrationHurts

Happy Halloween from my front yard.

I set out to try my speed-picking tournament software I wrote a couple days ago. The goal? 20 different locks picked in under 10 minutes

So, here's a video of me picking 20 locks in 5:47

Plus another 9 in in 1:19 as a victory lap

Aside from the locks in the victory lap, there were no more than 2 of each model of lock. 8 locks had security pins (BEST, Ace, Brinks, and some of the Masters), 2 had tubular cores (Kryptonite, American), two were warded locks, and the rest were standard.

Thanks again to #RedTeamTools and @deviantollam for some of the tools I used for this challenge (the tubular pick, warded pick, and one of the turning tools from RTT's starter set).

I'll attach the screenshot of the software with the lock times in a reply.

#Locksport #Locks #SpeedPicking