in less awful fuckin angrymaking news, i've been playing Sky: Children of the Light on Switch lately (it's by the people who made Journey, flOw and Flower, so, you know, nice and chill, pretty experience, though more social and multiplayer focused than Journey... despite having many of the same story beats), since it was recently ported to the Switch from Mobile. It controls better by the looks of things, but oh my god nintendo your onscreen keyboard SUUUUUCKKKKSSS
https://www.patreon.com/posts/54185302
Here's a free playtest for a new (upcoming) mythic fantasy role playing game. This is what my role-playing game THE PIT eventually turned into. I hope you enjoy checking it out - I'll post updates sporadically for this here and elsewhere.
Attached is the game and a .zip of some materials (sheets, etc). They are a bit provisional but check them out.
people are complaining about windows 10's built-in 'anti-virus' program which regularly keeps automatically removing legitimate files leading to broken applications, which, if true, is exciting, as it means microsoft have finally achieved parity with linux distributions' built-in 'package manager' program which regularly keeps automatically removing legitimate files leading to broken applications
the push to re-instate Queer as a slur is TERF agenda because its easier for them to figure out who the "wrong" sorts are by neat little labels. Queer is too inclusive and too covert and they HATE it.
so using Queer is a real schrodinger problem. you're either the right or wrong type but they can't know which until they look in the box and it drives them up the wall.
good. die mad about it. i'll die queer.
This makes me wonder about the cosmetic part of buliding cyborg bodies in Ghost In the Shell.
Are there people who specialize in buttcheeks? I mean, seriously.. crafting the human-like parts of high-end prosthetic bodies has got to be a really important thing, with great attention to detail. Careful sculpting. Picking the right formulations of synthetic skin for different parts of the body depending upon how they wear through normal use (joints that flex a lot, joints that flex once in a while, parts of the body where skin stretches, and so forth) has to be a thing.
Which means that there are artisans who spend incredible amounts of time designing, modelling, sculpting, and stress testing the visible components of buttcheeks.
i am being informed that there is an actual iOS update today addressing a zero-day: 14.7.1
URGENT PDX housing request, boosts appreciated!!
HEY SO UH
i have less than a week before i'm supposed to be out of my current place (homeowner is selling it in August) and I STILL do not have a place lined up so if anyone has a room, or heck. even a couch in the PDX area (or Beaverton) PLEASE let me know ASAP because I don't know what I'm gonna do otherwise!!
thank you so much in advance. i'm sorry for asking you guys this over twice now but i just need all the help i can get...
new blog post!
# Software From Another World
> We undermine not only unions, but every aspect of the worker's life: AirBnB spikes rents, Uber disenfranchises drivers, a thousand streaming services reinvent cable, Amazon fucks everybody, and so on. Despite any niche expertise, these are companies made possible by software, by the lending of software labor to capitalist ends. We can choose to deny them, if we stand together.
https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/software_from_another_world.html
Congratulations to those in São Paulo who burned the statue of Borba Gato, a 17th-century perpetrator of colonial violence.
To quote our comrades in Brazil, "If monuments still honor slavers and rapists, it is because the system they built is still standing." Let's take it down.
I have a few reflections and advice on the 5-year anniversary of coming out as transgender:
1. The best piece of advice I got: "Your transition belongs to you." There are no true rules in this. You don't even have to transition, and you certainly don't have to transition to anything established, or understandable to anyone else.
There are no objective body schedules or social milestones. You are free to make up WHATEVER you want. And you are free to push for your standards to be respected and assisted. Transition belongs to you.
Outside of hard-and-fast medical numbers and safety guidelines (real physical safety, not gatekeeping bullshit), you'll encounter invisible rails attempting to direct your experience. It's alright to oppose this, and to call them out. But the core of your experience is your own, and that can't be taken away.
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(boosts of this thread are ok)
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.