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Stalking and content creation are not jokes.

Now that Christmas is… precipitously getting closer, I’ve begun to buy presents for the boys!

I continue to be exceedingly thankful that I don’t have to deal with a stalker right now. I can confirm that my Portland’s stalker’s Internet service provider was contacted and that they were given logs of the threats he had made on Discord and Twitter, which included linking him to the account that he claimed “wasn’t his” for the longest time, as well as the threats that he attempted to incite other people to follow through on and the false police reports that were made… which were concerning enough that his local police department found a way to get a hold of me to let me know about them, not to mention what had been alleged in them, because they felt that my family might not be safe, and this was someone that they had dealt with on occasion over the years even though he had given them a false name for as long as he could get away with it. But as a result of this, his ISP terminated his service and, by that, his main way of being able to “get” online… I don’t doubt that he’s probably going to find some way to get back online over the phone supposing that he hasn’t already done so, but this effectively means that he can no longer livestream and that he can’t continue to paypig Twitch viewers to pay him money to illegally stream the UFC. That last bit was actually why the previous Discord server of his was shut down, although the UFC couldn’t attempt to go after damages because his only above-water income was SSI and he was the recipient of various means-tested government benefits. But with the way he gloated about how he was “immune from paying taxes”, flouting some sort of exemption that even the IRS called spurious, he is being investigated by them as well and I could genuinely not be happier for him. It’s like he’s pulled up to the finding around part of fucking around.

As for the other person, this was a mentally ill “cat mom” from New Mexico who has been attempting to impersonate a retired clinician for years. I was finally able to make contact with that clinician to let her know that, at least until Kathleen’s most recent Twitter account was suspended, she was continuing to attempt to impersonate this woman. The real Dr. Sabrina Sage (even though that was a moniker she used online prior to this woman’s impersonation) let me know that not only has Kathleen been the subject of as many police well checks as she has been owing to years of staying up all hours of the night crashing out online over this but that the New Mexico Board of Medicine has followed the case as faithfully as budgeting has allowed with there being renewed interest in the case because Kathleen has continued to impersonate that poor woman. Owing to the federal investigation into this woman that recent behaviors of hers have caused them to speedrun, the account that she had used to impersonate this poor woman was finally suspended from Twitter, although that had to do more with FBI investigation than the years of faithful reporting people had done since she’d begun this. I haven’t heard a thing from her or any of her friends and they haven’t resumed harassing and threatening me and some of my new friends, so I consider that a win hoping it stays that way.

I am slowly but surely rounding the corner here!

I don’t feel quite as bad as I felt when symptoms first began to show, but…

“COVID is just the flu”, “COVID is no big deal” is a hot mess and I will not die on that hill.

In the interim I’ve been hosting Among Us games and lobbies for my esports organization which has been a lot more fun than I thought it would be! I didn’t expect quite as many people to still be playing Among Us and wanting to play it, but we’ve had turnout between six and fifteen people per game and I am so here for that.

That’s one down. How many of them are left now?

As far as I am concerned, the mentally ill stalker that I had from the Portland area of Oregon is no longer being considered a threat to my family in spite of the degree at which he described threats of things he would do to us. I’ve had it confirmed for me that law enforcement in his area was able to find him after he spent a few months leading them on a wild goose chase and that he was informed that if he attempted to make any sort of contact with my family members or follow through on any of these threats that law enforcement would swiftly intervene, and he seems to have gotten the message behind that in a meaningful enough way to preclude further attempts at contact (even by way of ban evasion since he has now had numerous Twitter accounts suspended for precisely this), which includes attempting to contact people that I network with as a content creator “to deplatform me” and “to take (my) money away from me”. Based on what I’ve heard from the Portland branch of the FBI and IC3, I suppose Logan will always remain a person of interest with applicable state and federal agencies. They know that he is severely mentally ill. They know that he can not perform any sort of substantial gainful employment due to mental illness to the tune of Section 8 and SSI. (And perhaps the worst thing about all of this is that he can not even attempt to “work from home” because he’s literally stolen if not literally attempted to steal from companies and people that he has tried to work with in the past. His own brother knows that he is mentally ill enough not to be able to purchase or own his own firearm and yet was legitimately strawmanning purchases to him to facilitate this).

This just leaves the mentally ill woman from New Mexico who has been pretending to be a retired clinician online for years to the tune of stealing this poor woman’s identity attempting to illegally practice medicine by giving out medical advice “as a doctor”. I have most of the information that would be needed on her for law enforcement to take action in the event that she or her friends escalate, and over the course of the last few weeks alone Kathleen Crawford (Pollard?) has been showing people how dangerously mentally ill she is. I now completely see why she has been a frequent flier on her city’s police department’s well checks and how she has been having them done as often as she has been having them done. The only thing I can genuinely hope for in this situation is that she is made to seek the mental help she so desperately deserves to get…

One day later, this computer is almost reloaded!

I chose to reload the games on here since the Windows AI (and some of the AI that run in the background of some of these gaming apps) is not exactly the best at organizing games, especially as they relate to crossing multiple hard drives. In our case, that would be multiple external hard drives. I am a lot less reluctant to allow the AI to have control over anything when I’ve seen the overcrowding that can result as these apps, and this operating system, strive to fill hard drives as full as they possibly can with the computer acting surprised that suddenly one or more hard drives has zero bytes when this computer has done this to itself. More than once.

As of the time I’m writing this, everything but Steam has effortlessly reinstalled! This… does not surprise me.

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