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BleydhDu / WolfSteax on Twitter / Bluesky! - Cornish/American - he/him - • Creator of the Topscar Beasts • Art tagged #my art. (I'm 21+, no minors!)

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Howdy / Dydh da, I'm Ash.

Or Wolf or Steax. Any will do.

(transmasc, queer, he/him, taken)

I go by Wolfsteax and BleydhDu online!

I'm a Cornish-American artist and my art is tagged as #my art.

I'm the creator of Topscar Beasts which you might have seen floating around. I make custom beasties for anyone who'd like to buy one!

I draw furry, horror, character design, and other art.

Enjoy your time here!

Stuff I post about: OCs, Outer Wilds, RDR, Cult of the Lamb, Zelda, ENA, Digital Circus, Current Events, Shitposts, and probably more I'm forgetting.

CORNWALL IS A NATION.

FREE PALESTINE.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

RETURN ALL NATIVE LAND.

DO NOT TOLERATE GENOCIDE.

PROTECT QUEER CHILDREN.

STAND TOGETHER, STAND STRONG.

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it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.

Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

  1. There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
  2. Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.

Thank you @just-call-me-zinnia for finding it!

Tumblr people!! I've figured out a way to delete GDID from your computer!

I also made a PDF version!!

Please do me a favor, reblog for reach!! This went through several days of research and testing!! THANKS

You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.

Refusing to connect to the internet doesn't help. You have to open a Command Prompt (Shift+F10) and typing start ms-cxh:localonly (and pressing enter) during installation when you get to the sign in/create stupid ms account screen

For comprehensive deets, tomshardware explains

Unless there's really really specific reasons to subject yourself to windows, please consider installing linux mint instead.

Revlog to protect someone! ^_^

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snaxle-deactivated20260531

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

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snaxle-deactivated20260531

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird