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thee-achilles · 2 years
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🍬. | astrology observations & drabbles.
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💥. | these are only observations i have made. please take them with a grain of salt. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE OR POST ANYWHERE ELSE. if there is anything you’d like to add, let me know! <3 |💥
🍬. | made by a libra sun, libra rising, and leo moon. :)
🧞cancer moon natives have special connections to their grandmothers. my brother and cousin have cancer moons and they speak so highly of their grandmothers and love them very much.
🧞mars square moon vs. the need to throw something when angry 😀 like calm down, honey, the world isn’t ending because you lost your favorite pencil 😀 (this is particularly a callout. shhhh.)
🧞not an observation, but i love gemini moons. heavily makeout with me under red led lights you absolute bafoons.
🧞libra placements are SO GOOD at playing dumb. too good. especially with our airhead stereotype?? come on, y’all. use it to your advantage, or don’t use her at all. 🙄 #girlboss or something idk.
🧞if someone’s jupiter is the same sign as your venus or vice versa, prepare to be spoiled. 🙄 it’s most likely as a “i got this because it reminded me of you” type spoil. gift giving is a love language with this aspect.
🧞pisces placements and their infatuation with the color purple. i have not met one pisces placement who does not absolutely adore the color purple.
🧞harsh jupiter-sun/asc. aspects may have been put down for showing their happiness/telling people about their accomplishments. they develop a tough shell at an earlier age. people may have thought that they were bragging or being arrogant for talking about what caused their happiness. :(
🧞while moon in 11H may be into activism, they have to learn to not be TOO involved with it. by “too involved,” i mean like neglecting their emotional well-being for their community. you can be mad. you can be angry. you can WANT to fight, but just PUHLEASE take care of yourself, and don’t put all of your well-being into it.
also, moon in 11H, don’t become emotionally attached to your opinions. others have differing views that are bound to come up.
🧞6H stelliums may have been late bloomers and if they have lilith in the 11H, they were most likely bullied for it.
🧞moving from that sad stuff, virgo & aquarius placements have amazing hairlines. that bitch never moves. she is cemented. she is the moment.
🧞venus in the 4H 🤝 “just chilling” as a love language. GOD they are SO respectful and they put your needs before theirs?? they don’t need to do that all the time, but they’re so considerate. the boyf has this placement, and his venus is in taurus too. :) (HOW IS HE SO HOT... AND RESPECTFUL-)
🧞venus/moon in the 9H may like listening to music in other languages! french and japanese are big ones i’ve noticed. :)
piggybacking off of this, they may also like “old timey” music like crooners, soft jazz, etc. they have such a charming music taste.
🧞children with both cardinal suns and a cardinal moon are SO BOSSY BAHAHAHA i was with my libra sun, cancer moon three-year-old cousin and he was telling me what to do while i was making him his lunch. like.. boy if you know how to do it, why not do it yourself, damn. 🙄😒
🧞leo placements and the irresistible, pulsating, primal urge to have a heated makeout session with each and every one of their besties. but, “bestie vibes only‼️😜”
🧞sagittarius risings are the hardest to point out- at least physically. i’m surrounded by so many and ???? i literally wouldn’t have guessed ???? also most that i’ve met have had a pisces sun, and a few with a virgo sun. y’all are mad sexy.
🧞capricorn moons are so??? OH MY GOD. love them. they’re the manifestation of perfection. they give such amazing advice, they’re amazing friends, they’re amazing beautiful, they’re just amazing. cap moons, please know how amazing you are. tell it to yourself in the mirror RIGHT NOW. 🤬‼️💪😾💥🥊
🧞pisces placements aren’t all about feet, guys. 😐 society 🙄 putting them into a box 😒‼️ anyways, further pushing them into that stupid little box, a lot of pisces placements i’ve met get feet injuries uber easily. like cramps, weird toe injuries and such.
they also may hate feet and obsess over cleaning them?? my brother won’t even let my put my feet on his bed without a proper shower. 😐 love you, pisces/5H stellium big bro. 💪😻
🧞 mercury in rx are SUCH GREAT ACTORS and singers too! they’re voice is soothing and just really great at tapping and channeling that mercury power. bonus if they have a prominent moon/venus. :)
🧞gemini, virgo, pisces, aquarius, and sagittarius placements are all BALLERS at chemistry.
🧞aries placements are stupid good at algebraic math.
🧞jupiter dominants have such pretty eyes :)
🧞(#103)asteroid hera in the 1H gives you SUCH a glow omg.
🧞pisces placements also have such weird births, too. y’all just gotta be born on that extra day of a leap year or be born 20+ days late 🙄 was the womb truly that comfy? 🤨⁉️ come on out, you’ll only sell your soul to the government for all eternity. 😈
on second thought, maybe they know where it’s at. i would’ve stayed in too if i knew i’d be procrastinating my SAT vocab essay right now. 😻
🍬. | solar return shit <3.
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🦹🏻‍♀️okay y’all. we know the 2H rules finances, and stelliums there indicate financial struggle, however i’ve noticed that 2H prominence also could indicate a divorce in a SR chart. and with malefic planets in partnership houses too? oh, buddy.
🦹🏻‍♀️having a sagittarius asc in a SR chart could indicate travel.
🦹🏻‍♀️branching off that, jupiter dominance could indicate travel as well. jupiter in the 3H is more shorter distance travel and jupiter 9H is more longer distance travel. you could feel really busy with these placements, too.
🦹🏻‍♀️uranus in the 9H (if well aspected) is like “all of a sudden” getting super good at school. like you start understanding more and getting better grades. your public image in school changes too.
🦹🏻‍♀️my brother’s SR chart has his moon at 5°, his mars at 29° and his jupiter at 17° with his uranus in the 5H.🧍 his asc is also at 0°. truly the coolest SR chart i’ve seen.
🦹🏻‍♀️12H stellium?? in SR chart?? have fun going within yourself :) the divine is also heavily with you. you could be looking into your ancestors or looking to practice something esoteric.
🦹🏻‍♀️(#55555) asteroid DNA conj. IC could indicate a pregnancy/pregnancy scares. 👦 (my my isn’t it the consequences of your own actions-)
there y’all go. a first post. i put my whole anus in this, so i hope you lovely souls enjoyed. stream red (taylor’s version) and anything by fka twigs. until next time. 😈 (don’t steal my shit.)
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Hey beautiful author, may i ask you a question? What do you think of JJ? A lot of different author write different JJ. Are you the one who like to write 'Annoying to everyone JJ' or 'Lowkey aashole but not Bad person JJ' or 'not an aashole but very narcisstic and fun to get bullied 'harmlessly' by others JJ' or simply 'JJ neutral' OR 'I love JJ'? And do you think he's an aashole or not?
Hi, Nonny! Thanks for your interest in my opinion, but whatyou were blissfully unaware of is that I’m an obsessive little perfectionist,so my answer to this question is gonna be long. Personally, I don’t love JJ—I’mkind of indifferent to him. However, I think he’s an excellent, fleshed outrival to Yuuri and an excellent person to compare to Yuuri. I’ll go overthis in three points, which are explained below the cut:
1.     JJ is confident to thelevel of arrogance (note: NOT a narcissist)
2.     One of JJ’s goals is tocompete against and defeat Viktor
3.     JJ is a misunderstood butgood guy, though he’s not that nice
1.     JJ is confident to thelevel of arrogance (note: NOT a narcissist)
This isn’t really hard to see. The man hashis initials tattooed on his back, he calls himself the “king” and skates to anoriginal song about him, and spends a lot of his internal monologue kindof…bragging about himself. Turning our eyes to Yuuri, who thinks he’sdime-a-dozen even after making it the GPF two years in a row and winning the heartof the world’s most eligible bachelor and his idol, we can see the comparisons.
Yuuri is underconfident because he puts alot of internal pressure on himself, keeps setting his personal standardsextremely high—obviously he’s under external pressure, too, but his main enemyis himself. Yuuri’s family doesn’t care if he’s a champion or not, despite whatYuuri may think, and while Japan clearly adores Yuuri, he’s moved to the USAand is notoriously reclusive (though he does read what people say on theinternet). Obviously, feeling like he’s stolen Viktor from the world puts himunder external pressure, but that’s fairly new in his life. On the flip, wehave JJ, whose parents coach him, whose siblings are Juniors skaters that arelikely nipping at his heels, who has a pretty devoted fanbase he interacts alot with—heck, Isabella is one of his fangirls and he’s marrying her—who a bandwrote a whole song about. That’s a lot of long-lasting external pressure todeal with, and I’m going to suggest that a lot of JJ’s arrogance comes from aneed to combat this pressure.
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When he brags, JJ isn’t just bragging—he’spumping himself up, because he’s nervous. We all know that his nervesand pressure got to him in the Barcelona GPF, and that wasn’t some isolatedincident. This has to do with an idea I’ve seen from a lot of people: that JJis a narcissist.
JJ isn’t really a narcissist. Narcissiststend to overplay their achievements and consider themselves superior orspecial. They demand admiration, feel entitled to victory, and lack empathy tothe extent that they take advantage of others (DSM-IV criteria). JJ brags a lot, but he actuallyhas earned a lot of his own achievements—this guy was destroying ice skatingcompetitions, okay? He was favored to win the GPF till pressure did him in, andif that hadn’t happened… he probably would have won. All of that takes a lot ofwork—it’s not weird to be somewhat proud of it. JJ claims he’s superior because,by some skating standards, he is. 
Also possibly because if he doesn’tbelieve himself to be superior, invincible, he’ll collapse to nerves andexternal pressure. JJ isn’t a narcissist because he does feelempathy: he wants Isabella to be happy, and fears losing her and the support ofhis parents/country. Finally, JJ definitely isn’t a narcissist because… well…look at his response to losing, or his response to the success of others. Inepisode 8, when Seung-Gil lands a quad loop, JJ doesn’t downplay thisachievement—he claps, and tries to bring it up to the rest of the room (albeit awkwardly,we’ll get into this later). He acknowledges that Yurio wants to beat Viktortoo, and expresses a genuine desire for them to climb podiums together. When JJcrashes and burns at the GPF, he doesn’t fly into a rage over how he’s lost, orfeel he’s been robbed of the medal he’s entitled to: he’s worried he’ll losethe support of the people he loves, and understands that he’s screwed up.Friends, this is a guy who’s intimidated by cinnamon rolls like KatsukiYuuri and Phichit Chulanont—he’s not a narcissist, he’s not only ego-driven, he’sa complex character who behaves like he does for some good reasons.
BAHAHAHA HE GENUINELY THINKS YUURI ORPHICHIT WOULD DO HIM THIS WAY
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Basically, JJ is a normal teenage(YES, HE IS A TEENAGER, THIS ALSO PLAYS INTO HIS BEHAVIOR) guy who compensatesfor a lot of external pressure and nerves by talking himself up. I hatewhen JJ gets made out to be a total jerk—he’s not one, and Kubo made him thatway for a good reason.
2.     One of JJ’s goals is tocompete against and defeat Viktor
JJ states that he wants to take Viktor onagain in the GPF and beat him—of course, Viktor takes the season off, so thisdoesn’t happen, but honestly I think this plays a lot into his behavior.
We all felt terribly for Yuuri when hisidol, Viktor Nikiforov, seemed to have no idea who he was. Well guesswhat? JJ has literally been on a podium with Viktor, the man he aspiresto defeat and probably idolizes at least a little… and Viktor doesn’t really knowwho he is, and doesn’t care. Now, Viktor doesn’t have to care, but imagine thatyou’re nineteen and the guy you admire and want to beat won’t give you the timeof day—that’d suck, wouldn’t it? JJ mostly responds to this by trying to getViktor’s attention in any way he can. We’ll walk through one particularinteraction that is going to lead straight into the JJ is misunderstooddiscussion.
In episode 8, JJ approaches Viktor andYuuri to talk about a quadruple loop. Yuuri, as we know, is already nervous andtrying to get in the zone by listening to his headphones. Viktor is supportinghim, and JJ busts in yelling about how accomplished some other skater is—Viktoris annoyed and rebuffs him, mostly because it could make Yuuri panic.
But honestly, JJ’s intent wasn’t to rile upYuuri—it was to snag Viktor’s attention. Look at this:
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JJ passes Yuuri right by. If he was tryingto intimidate Yuuri, you’d think he’d talk to him, wouldn’t you? But he goesstraight to Viktor, tries to talk about Viktor’s achievements, and hegets brushed off. LOOK AT HIS AWKWARD LITTLE FACE:
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HE IS TRYING SO HARD GUYS. He just wants totalk to skating’s Living Legend, and geez, with his accomplishments, he’searned the right to do so by this point. But Viktor doesn’t want to talk tohim. It’s a little sad that JJ pays no attention to Yuuri, but Yuuri is acompetitor and not the guy JJ wants to surpass, so we’ll let this go.
Yuuri idolizes Viktor, and we all know thatdeep down, he also wants to compete against Viktor and beat him (the Nishigori conversation), though he’shesitant to say it. When he initially interacts with Viktor he is Awkward witha capital A.
I’d like to say that JJ probably alsoadmires Viktor, and has clearly stated that he wants to compete against him andbeat him. When he interacts with Viktor he is Awkward with a capital A. Theparallels go on.
Anyway, this analysis goes straight intothe next section, so onward!
3.     JJ is a misunderstood butgood guy, though he’s not that nice
JJ is not the nicest guy. He calls Yuri feminineand acts like this is meant to be funny, which is honestly the closest to intolerancewe get in this show. He busts into conversations and focuses a lot of attentiononto himself. But you know what? Overall, JJ is a good guy who is nice to hisfans, loving to his girlfriend and parents, and is hardworking.
He annoys the other skaters, but hegenuinely wants to be part of their ‘crowd’—something they deny him. Here heis, about to be rejected by the coolest of the cool, Otabek. Look at how EAGERhe is:
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I,at the very least, was startled when he arrived during the restaurant scene,directed the conversation to himself and drove the other skaters away, and hislast words were “I was just joking!!” JJ is AWARE, guys. So when JJ bragsabout himself and says he’ll defeat others he’s… joking?? He’s… trying to laughwith other people, talk about the competition?
Most of the characters, and a lot ofpeople, think JJ is obnoxious and self-centered. JJ is not. JJ is Awkward. Halfof his interactions are please talk to me, please hang out with me, we’recompetitors! Viktor calls him unapproachable, and I think this is mostlybecause JJ’s attempts to interact with the other skaters gets misunderstood ashim being annoying and bragging. In actuality, JJ is just not all that great attalking to other people. We can blame him for this… or, we can understand that,like Yuuri, JJ can be socially awkward and make mistakes. He looks atsituations, like Yuuri trying to get into the zone, and fails to read themproperly and insert himself appropriately into them.
We don’t blame Yuuri for failing tointeract perfectly with people—we just encourage him to get better, and lookforward to his growth. I think we should treat JJ the same way, and hope hegets some humility, social skills, and a less annoying coping mechanism fordealing with pressure.
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As a final note… I’m just going to say thatthe parallels between Yuuri and JJ are in no way an accident. Good rivalcharacters tend to be good foils, I think. Honestly, having JJ also be engagedand claiming he’ll get married after the GPF– and the resulting pressure hefaces– is a great example of how the narrative compares JJ to Yuuri, and ups therival tension.
Whew. So that’s what I think of JJ. Again, it’sprobably TMI. I don’t write JJ into a lot of my fanfic, because as I’ve said, Idon’t particularly love him or anything. But I think he’s misunderstood bycharacters in the show and by consumers of the show. Frankly, he’s human and agood rival for Yuuri—I love how Kubo made him sympathetic and real. So that’show I would write him, if I ever did.
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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.
Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss. Photo: AP
According to prosecutors, the tragic hoax started with a dispute over a match in the online game “Call of Duty.” The indictment says Shane M. Gaskill, a 19-year-old Wichita, Kansas resident, and Casey S. Viner, 18, had a falling out over a $1.50 game wager.
Viner allegedly wanted to get back at Gaskill, and so enlisted the help of another man — Tyler R. Barriss — a serial swatter known by the alias “SWAuTistic” who’d bragged of “swatting” hundreds of schools and dozens of private residences.
The federal indictment references transcripts of alleged online chats among the three men. In an exchange on Dec. 28, 2017, Gaskill taunts Barriss on Twitter after noticing that Barriss’s Twitter account (@swattingaccount) had suddenly started following him.
Viner and Barriss both allegedly say if Gaskill isn’t scared of getting swatted, he should give up his home address. But the address that Gaskill gave Viner to pass on to Barriss no longer belonged to him and was occupied by a new tenant.
Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in the head, was holding his mom and sister at gunpoint, and was thinking about burning down the home with everyone inside.
Wichita police quickly responded to the fake hostage report and surrounded the address given by Gaskill. Seconds later, 28-year-old Andrew Finch exited his mom’s home and was killed by a single shot from a Wichita police officer. Finch, a father of two, had no party to the gamers’ dispute and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just minutes after the fatal shooting, Barriss — who is in Los Angeles  — is allegedly anxious to learn if his Kansas swat attempt was successful. Someone has just sent Barriss a screenshot of a conversation between Viner and Gaskill mentioning police at Gaskill’s home and someone getting killed. So Barriss allegedly then starts needling Gaskill via instant message:
Defendant BARRISS: Yo answer me this Defendant BARRISS: Did police show up to your house yes or no Defendant GASKILL: No dumb fuck Defendant BARRISS: Lmao here’s how I know you’re lying
Prosecutors say Barriss then posted a screen shot showing the following conversation between Viner and Gaskill:
Defendant VINER: Oi Defendant GASKILL: Hi Defendant VINER: Did anyone show @ your house? Defendant VINER: Be honest Defendant GASKILL: Nope Defendant GASKILL: The cops are at my house because someone ik just killed his dad
Barriss and Gaskill then allegedly continued their conversation:
Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house retard Defendant BARRISS: That was the call script Defendant BARRISS: Lol Defendant GASKILL: Your literally retarded Defendant GASKILL: Ik dumb ass Defendant BARRISS: So you just got caught in a lie Defendant GASKILL: No I played along with you Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house that we own and rented out Defendant GASKILL: We don’t live there anymore bahahaha Defendant GASKILL: ik you just wasted your time and now your pissed Defendant BARRISS: Not really Defendant BARRISS: Once you said “killed his dad” I knew it worked lol Defendant BARRISS: That was the call lol Defendant GASKILL: Yes it did buy they never showed up to my house Defendant GASKILL: You guys got trolled Defendant GASKILL: Look up who live there we moved out almost a year ago Defendant GASKILL: I give you props though you’re the 1% that can actually swat babahaha Defendant BARRISS: Dude MY point is You gave an address that you dont live at but you were acting tough lol Defendant BARRISS: So you’re a bitch
Later on the evening of Dec. 28, after news of the fatal swatting started blanketing the local television coverage in Kansas, Gaskill allegedly told Barriss to delete their previous messages. “Bape” in this conversation refers to a nickname allegedly used by Casey Viner:
Defendant GASKILL: Dm asap Defendant GASKILL: Please it’s very fucking impi Defendant GASKILL: Hello Defendant BARRISS: ? Defendant BARRISS: What you want Defendant GASKILL: Dude Defendant GASKILL: Me you and bape Defendant GASKILL: Need to delete everything Defendant GASKILL: This is a murder case now Defendant GASKILL: Casey deleted everything Defendant GASKILL: You need 2 as well Defendant GASKILL: This isn’t a joke K troll anymore Defendant GASKILL: If you don’t you’re literally retarded I’m trying to help you both out Defendant GASKILL: They know it was swat call
The indictment also features chat records between Viner and others in which he admits to his role in the deadly swatting attack. In the follow chat excerpt, Viner was allegedly talking with someone identified only as “J.D.”
Defendant VINER: I literally said you’re gonna be swatted, and the guy who swatted him can easily say I convinced him or something when I said hey can you swat this guy and then gave him the address and he said yes and then said he’d do it for free because I said he doesn’t think anything will happen Defendant VINER: How can I not worry when I googled what happens when you’re involved and it said a eu [sic] kid and a US person got 20 years in prison min Defendant VINER: And he didn’t even give his address he gave a false address apparently J.D.: You didn’t call the hoax in… Defendant VINER: Does t [sic] even matter ?????? I was involved I asked him to do it in the first place Defendant VINER: I gave him the address to do it, but then again so did the other guy he gave him the address to do it as well and said do it pull up etc
Barriss is charged with multiple counts of making false information and hoaxes; cyberstalking; threatening to kill another or damage property by fire; interstate threats, conspiracy; and wire fraud. Viner and Gaskill were both charged with wire fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. A copy of the indictment is available here.
The Associated Press reports that the most serious charge of making a hoax call carries a potential life sentence because it resulted in a death, and that some of the other charges carry sentences of up to 20 years.
The moment that police in Kansas fired a single shot that killed Andrew Finch.
As I told the AP, swatting has been a problem for years, but it seems to have intensified around the time that top online gamers started being able to make serious money playing games online and streaming those games live to thousands or even tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Indeed, Barriss himself had earned a reputation as someone who delighted in watching police kick in doors behind celebrity gamers who were live-streaming.
This case is not the first time federal prosecutors have charged multiple people in the same swatting attacks even if only one person was involved in actually making the phony hoax calls to police. In 2013, my home was the target of a swatting attack that thankfully ended without incident. The government ultimately charged four men — several of whom were minors at the time — with conducting that swat attack as well as many others they’d perpetrated against public figures and celebrities.
But despite spending considerable resources investigating those crimes, prosecutors were able to secure only light punishments for those involved in the swatting spree. One of those men, a serial swatter and cyberstalker named Mir Islam, was sentenced to to just one year in jail for his role in multiple swattings.  Another individual who was part of that group — Eric “Cosmo the God” Taylor — got three years of probation.
Something tells me Barriss, Gaskill and Viner aren’t going to be so lucky. Barriss has admitted his role in many swattings, and he admitted to his last, fatal swatting in an interview he gave to KrebsOnSecurity less than 24 hours after Andrew Finch’s murder — saying he was not the person who pulled the trigger.
from https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/3-charged-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-attack/
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nedsvallesny · 6 years
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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.
Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss. Photo: AP
According to prosecutors, the tragic hoax started with a dispute over a match in the online game “Call of Duty.” The indictment says Shane M. Gaskill, a 19-year-old Wichita, Kansas resident, and Casey S. Viner, 18, had a falling out over a $1.50 game wager.
Viner allegedly wanted to get back at Gaskill, and so enlisted the help of another man — Tyler R. Barriss — a serial swatter known by the alias “SWAuTistic” who’d bragged of “swatting” hundreds of schools and dozens of private residences.
The federal indictment references transcripts of alleged online chats among the three men. In an exchange on Dec. 28, 2017, Gaskill taunts Barriss on Twitter after noticing that Barriss’s Twitter account (@swattingaccount) had suddenly started following him.
Viner and Barriss both allegedly say if Gaskill isn’t scared of getting swatted, he should give up his home address. But the address that Gaskill gave Viner to pass on to Barriss no longer belonged to him and was occupied by a new tenant.
Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in the head, was holding his mom and sister at gunpoint, and was thinking about burning down the home with everyone inside.
Wichita police quickly responded to the fake hostage report and surrounded the address given by Gaskill. Seconds later, 28-year-old Andrew Finch exited his mom’s home and was killed by a single shot from a Wichita police officer. Finch, a father of two, had no party to the gamers’ dispute and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just minutes after the fatal shooting, Barriss — who is in Los Angeles  — is allegedly anxious to learn if his Kansas swat attempt was successful. Someone has just sent Barriss a screenshot of a conversation between Viner and Gaskill mentioning police at Gaskill’s home and someone getting killed. So Barriss allegedly then starts needling Gaskill via instant message:
Defendant BARRISS: Yo answer me this Defendant BARRISS: Did police show up to your house yes or no Defendant GASKILL: No dumb fuck Defendant BARRISS: Lmao here’s how I know you’re lying
Prosecutors say Barriss then posted a screen shot showing the following conversation between Viner and Gaskill:
Defendant VINER: Oi Defendant GASKILL: Hi Defendant VINER: Did anyone show @ your house? Defendant VINER: Be honest Defendant GASKILL: Nope Defendant GASKILL: The cops are at my house because someone ik just killed his dad
Barriss and Gaskill then allegedly continued their conversation:
Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house retard Defendant BARRISS: That was the call script Defendant BARRISS: Lol Defendant GASKILL: Your literally retarded Defendant GASKILL: Ik dumb ass Defendant BARRISS: So you just got caught in a lie Defendant GASKILL: No I played along with you Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house that we own and rented out Defendant GASKILL: We don’t live there anymore bahahaha Defendant GASKILL: ik you just wasted your time and now your pissed Defendant BARRISS: Not really Defendant BARRISS: Once you said “killed his dad” I knew it worked lol Defendant BARRISS: That was the call lol Defendant GASKILL: Yes it did buy they never showed up to my house Defendant GASKILL: You guys got trolled Defendant GASKILL: Look up who live there we moved out almost a year ago Defendant GASKILL: I give you props though you’re the 1% that can actually swat babahaha Defendant BARRISS: Dude MY point is You gave an address that you dont live at but you were acting tough lol Defendant BARRISS: So you’re a bitch
Later on the evening of Dec. 28, after news of the fatal swatting started blanketing the local television coverage in Kansas, Gaskill allegedly told Barriss to delete their previous messages. “Bape” in this conversation refers to a nickname allegedly used by Casey Viner:
Defendant GASKILL: Dm asap Defendant GASKILL: Please it’s very fucking impi Defendant GASKILL: Hello Defendant BARRISS: ? Defendant BARRISS: What you want Defendant GASKILL: Dude Defendant GASKILL: Me you and bape Defendant GASKILL: Need to delete everything Defendant GASKILL: This is a murder case now Defendant GASKILL: Casey deleted everything Defendant GASKILL: You need 2 as well Defendant GASKILL: This isn’t a joke K troll anymore Defendant GASKILL: If you don’t you’re literally retarded I’m trying to help you both out Defendant GASKILL: They know it was swat call
The indictment also features chat records between Viner and others in which he admits to his role in the deadly swatting attack. In the follow chat excerpt, Viner was allegedly talking with someone identified only as “J.D.”
Defendant VINER: I literally said you’re gonna be swatted, and the guy who swatted him can easily say I convinced him or something when I said hey can you swat this guy and then gave him the address and he said yes and then said he’d do it for free because I said he doesn’t think anything will happen Defendant VINER: How can I not worry when I googled what happens when you’re involved and it said a eu [sic] kid and a US person got 20 years in prison min Defendant VINER: And he didn’t even give his address he gave a false address apparently J.D.: You didn’t call the hoax in… Defendant VINER: Does t [sic] even matter ?????? I was involved I asked him to do it in the first place Defendant VINER: I gave him the address to do it, but then again so did the other guy he gave him the address to do it as well and said do it pull up etc
Barriss is charged with multiple counts of making false information and hoaxes; cyberstalking; threatening to kill another or damage property by fire; interstate threats, conspiracy; and wire fraud. Viner and Gaskill were both charged with wire fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. A copy of the indictment is available here.
The Associated Press reports that the most serious charge of making a hoax call carries a potential life sentence because it resulted in a death, and that some of the other charges carry sentences of up to 20 years.
The moment that police in Kansas fired a single shot that killed Andrew Finch.
As I told the AP, swatting has been a problem for years, but it seems to have intensified around the time that top online gamers started being able to make serious money playing games online and streaming those games live to thousands or even tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Indeed, Barriss himself had earned a reputation as someone who delighted in watching police kick in doors behind celebrity gamers who were live-streaming.
This case is not the first time federal prosecutors have charged multiple people in the same swatting attacks even if only one person was involved in actually making the phony hoax calls to police. In 2013, my home was the target of a swatting attack that thankfully ended without incident. The government ultimately charged four men — several of whom were minors at the time — with conducting that swat attack as well as many others they’d perpetrated against public figures and celebrities.
But despite spending considerable resources investigating those crimes, prosecutors were able to secure only light punishments for those involved in the swatting spree. One of those men, a serial swatter and cyberstalker named Mir Islam, was sentenced to to just one year in jail for his role in multiple swattings.  Another individual who was part of that group — Eric “Cosmo the God” Taylor — got three years of probation.
Something tells me Barriss, Gaskill and Viner aren’t going to be so lucky. Barriss has admitted his role in many swattings, and he admitted to his last, fatal swatting in an interview he gave to KrebsOnSecurity less than 24 hours after Andrew Finch’s murder — saying he was not the person who pulled the trigger.
from Technology News https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/3-charged-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-attack/
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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.
Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss. Photo: AP
According to prosecutors, the tragic hoax started with a dispute over a match in the online game “Call of Duty.” The indictment says Shane M. Gaskill, a 19-year-old Wichita, Kansas resident, and Casey S. Viner, 18, had a falling out over a $1.50 game wager.
Viner allegedly wanted to get back at Gaskill, and so enlisted the help of another man — Tyler R. Barriss — a serial swatter known by the alias “SWAuTistic” who’d bragged of “swatting” hundreds of schools and dozens of private residences.
The federal indictment references transcripts of alleged online chats among the three men. In an exchange on Dec. 28, 2017, Gaskill taunts Barriss on Twitter after noticing that Barriss’s Twitter account (@swattingaccount) had suddenly started following him.
Viner and Barriss both allegedly say if Gaskill isn’t scared of getting swatted, he should give up his home address. But the address that Gaskill gave Viner to pass on to Barriss no longer belonged to him and was occupied by a new tenant.
Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in the head, was holding his mom and sister at gunpoint, and was thinking about burning down the home with everyone inside.
Wichita police quickly responded to the fake hostage report and surrounded the address given by Gaskill. Seconds later, 28-year-old Andrew Finch exited his mom’s home and was killed by a single shot from a Wichita police officer. Finch, a father of two, had no party to the gamers’ dispute and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just minutes after the fatal shooting, Barriss — who is in Los Angeles  — is allegedly anxious to learn if his Kansas swat attempt was successful. Someone has just sent Barriss a screenshot of a conversation between Viner and Gaskill mentioning police at Gaskill’s home and someone getting killed. So Barriss allegedly then starts needling Gaskill via instant message:
Defendant BARRISS: Yo answer me this Defendant BARRISS: Did police show up to your house yes or no Defendant GASKILL: No dumb fuck Defendant BARRISS: Lmao here’s how I know you’re lying
Prosecutors say Barriss then posted a screen shot showing the following conversation between Viner and Gaskill:
Defendant VINER: Oi Defendant GASKILL: Hi Defendant VINER: Did anyone show @ your house? Defendant VINER: Be honest Defendant GASKILL: Nope Defendant GASKILL: The cops are at my house because someone ik just killed his dad
Barriss and Gaskill then allegedly continued their conversation:
Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house retard Defendant BARRISS: That was the call script Defendant BARRISS: Lol Defendant GASKILL: Your literally retarded Defendant GASKILL: Ik dumb ass Defendant BARRISS: So you just got caught in a lie Defendant GASKILL: No I played along with you Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house that we own and rented out Defendant GASKILL: We don’t live there anymore bahahaha Defendant GASKILL: ik you just wasted your time and now your pissed Defendant BARRISS: Not really Defendant BARRISS: Once you said “killed his dad” I knew it worked lol Defendant BARRISS: That was the call lol Defendant GASKILL: Yes it did buy they never showed up to my house Defendant GASKILL: You guys got trolled Defendant GASKILL: Look up who live there we moved out almost a year ago Defendant GASKILL: I give you props though you’re the 1% that can actually swat babahaha Defendant BARRISS: Dude MY point is You gave an address that you dont live at but you were acting tough lol Defendant BARRISS: So you’re a bitch
Later on the evening of Dec. 28, after news of the fatal swatting started blanketing the local television coverage in Kansas, Gaskill allegedly told Barriss to delete their previous messages. “Bape” in this conversation refers to a nickname allegedly used by Casey Viner:
Defendant GASKILL: Dm asap Defendant GASKILL: Please it’s very fucking impi Defendant GASKILL: Hello Defendant BARRISS: ? Defendant BARRISS: What you want Defendant GASKILL: Dude Defendant GASKILL: Me you and bape Defendant GASKILL: Need to delete everything Defendant GASKILL: This is a murder case now Defendant GASKILL: Casey deleted everything Defendant GASKILL: You need 2 as well Defendant GASKILL: This isn’t a joke K troll anymore Defendant GASKILL: If you don’t you’re literally retarded I’m trying to help you both out Defendant GASKILL: They know it was swat call
The indictment also features chat records between Viner and others in which he admits to his role in the deadly swatting attack. In the follow chat excerpt, Viner was allegedly talking with someone identified only as “J.D.”
Defendant VINER: I literally said you’re gonna be swatted, and the guy who swatted him can easily say I convinced him or something when I said hey can you swat this guy and then gave him the address and he said yes and then said he’d do it for free because I said he doesn’t think anything will happen Defendant VINER: How can I not worry when I googled what happens when you’re involved and it said a eu [sic] kid and a US person got 20 years in prison min Defendant VINER: And he didn’t even give his address he gave a false address apparently J.D.: You didn’t call the hoax in… Defendant VINER: Does t [sic] even matter ?????? I was involved I asked him to do it in the first place Defendant VINER: I gave him the address to do it, but then again so did the other guy he gave him the address to do it as well and said do it pull up etc
Barriss is charged with multiple counts of making false information and hoaxes; cyberstalking; threatening to kill another or damage property by fire; interstate threats, conspiracy; and wire fraud. Viner and Gaskill were both charged with wire fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. A copy of the indictment is available here.
The Associated Press reports that the most serious charge of making a hoax call carries a potential life sentence because it resulted in a death, and that some of the other charges carry sentences of up to 20 years.
The moment that police in Kansas fired a single shot that killed Andrew Finch.
As I told the AP, swatting has been a problem for years, but it seems to have intensified around the time that top online gamers started being able to make serious money playing games online and streaming those games live to thousands or even tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Indeed, Barriss himself had earned a reputation as someone who delighted in watching police kick in doors behind celebrity gamers who were live-streaming.
This case is not the first time federal prosecutors have charged multiple people in the same swatting attacks even if only one person was involved in actually making the phony hoax calls to police. In 2013, my home was the target of a swatting attack that thankfully ended without incident. The government ultimately charged four men — several of whom were minors at the time — with conducting that swat attack as well as many others they’d perpetrated against public figures and celebrities.
But despite spending considerable resources investigating those crimes, prosecutors were able to secure only light punishments for those involved in the swatting spree. One of those men, a serial swatter and cyberstalker named Mir Islam, was sentenced to to just one year in jail for his role in multiple swattings.  Another individual who was part of that group — Eric “Cosmo the God” Taylor — got three years of probation.
Something tells me Barriss, Gaskill and Viner aren’t going to be so lucky. Barriss has admitted his role in many swattings, and he admitted to his last, fatal swatting in an interview he gave to KrebsOnSecurity less than 24 hours after Andrew Finch’s murder — saying he was not the person who pulled the trigger.
from Amber Scott Technology News https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/3-charged-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-attack/
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15 Years Baby!
15 years!  Wow, to be honest in our first years of marriage I would have thought we wouldn’t make it through year one. It was rough. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t a struggle. Getting married young is hard, mix in no relationship with God, throw a baby into the mix 4 months later and it can be a recipe for disaster. Being married at 18, moving far away from any family you know was hard as well. But I wouldn’t change those first few years for anything. It was tough. We couldn’t just call mom and dad to help us. We couldn’t just go to their homes for help or guidance. We had to do this on our own. But growing up together having to learn and walk through this thing called life together has made us who we are.
There have been many tears, but many more smiles
There have been days of hopelessness but so many more days of faith
There have been days of feeling alone, but so many more hugs
There have been days of silence, but many more moments of laughter and conversation
There have been days of “what-ifs”, but many more days of “let’s go for it!”
There have been times of discouragements but many more times of peace
There have been disagreements, but much more compromise
There was that ONE time we celebrated our Anniversary on the wrong day but many more times we actually celebrated on the right one! (Our first year married we celebrated on the wrong day. We only found out when Jonathan’s step mom Patty called us to wish us Happy Anniversary and we were confused!! Bahahaha we special!)
All in all the good has ALWAYS overcome the bad!
Jonathan is not only my husband, but my best friend. We have shared our fears, our dreams, our sadness, our hopes, or joys, even parenting side by side; which can sometimes be rough when you have been raised differently. We have built a home together! Which most people say can make or break a marriage. I think we broke that mold because we enjoyed building our home. But to tell you the truth the most important thing we could have done as marriage partners is to partner with God. I give all the glory to God when it comes to my marriage surviving. I give him all the Glory when we share the testimony of our marriage with others! 
Bragging Moment: Well because this is my blog and I can! He can cook yall! Just saying. He can build pretty much anything, he is smart, he does laundry, he gardens, he loves me and all my craziness! Ok wait it sounds like I don’t do anything..I do I promise! haha
Happy Anniversary Jonathan! Love ya!
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