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Fragile Feelings has been released on Steam and Itchio!
It's a sweet, slow burn yuri VN about a shy teacher & a gothic school nurse.
Loosely inspired by Flowers, it's a soothing story which should heal your heart! ❤️

💉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2025700
💉 https://ebihime.itch.io/fragile-feelings

#visualnovel #yuri #indiedev #indiegame

MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free. There has never been another audio format as widely supported as MP3, it’s good enough for almost anything, and now, over twenty years since it took the world by storm, it’s finally free.

https://marco.org/2017/05/15/mp3-isnt-dead

Star Trek Prodigy has been saved! 🥳​
By, of all streaming services, Netflix.

It's a funny old world sometimes. 🖖​
#StarTrek #SaveStarTrekProdigy

https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/star-trek-prodigy-to-stream-on-netflix

#trickleDownTheory

✨📜🖋️✨👀🐲🐯❣️

#October8th #PenQuote #BeKind #HoweverYouCan #Always

As many of you have noticed, being an "antifascist" means you are federally classified as an "anarchist violent extremist" under domestic terrorism laws.

Since your own government has labeled dissent as terrorism, and you a terrorist, it might be time to start preparing for "when it happens here."

What does this mean?

Well, terrorist is a scary word, right? It's a charged word, and that's important. They call people scary words to justify sending their militaries to kill them. They just so conveniently happen to be super funding their domestic militaries as they do this.

We shouldn't fall into false comfort that, because they aren't busting in doors left and right, that they don't absolutely mean what they say, or that they would never do that here. They already do - in targeted communities, SWAT, Parole, ICE, DEA, ATF. Why not you?

You are criminalized, and you need to be planning accordingly.

You need to begin thinking like a criminal and building sympathy for other criminals it you're going to survive the coming decade. Criminalization causes diaspora, forced migration, incarceration, displacement, dehumanization, death.

You should be taking these things with utter seriousness and understand that just because our government is inefficient in helping us doesn't mean it's inefficient. It's two most efficient outputs is violence and death, and they will absolutely come for you before the ink dries from their pen.

Plan accordingly, plan locally, and plan secretly. We are not clandestine because the cloak and dagger is cute and attractive - there are tools for self defense targeted people have used to protect themselves from the government for hundreds of years. Learn them and use them. Think like a criminal.

Do not think because you washed your hands and wiped your ass and showed up to work on time that you're magically safe. In fact, repression normally begins at the soft targets and works its way up to the harder to reach fruit, so you may be shit outta luck on two counts for keeping your hands clean.

Be smart. Be safe. Be dangerous, and plan accordingly.

Check out our linktree for the community antifascist guide and learn about affinity groups, doxxcare and security culture. Safety starts with you. Fight with the tools that work and protect each other.

Patreon got rid of their cute randomly generated fox avatars in favor of weirdo blobs, and in doing so they also deleted the GitHub repo for the old generator and the blog post they made about it

which is just. bizarre, to me

I found a fork of the generator, but it was outdated (latest commit 2017) — the Wayback machine had only the repo homepage as of 2020, but that was enough to get the commit hash for the latest commit at the time

GitHub hasn't GC'd the repo yet, so I was able to pluck that commit off their servers and make an archive of it despite no current repo referencing it

it might still be out of date, but it's better than the random fork i found

the blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20230522195254/https://blog.patreon.com/an-open-letter-to-boring-avatars-everywhere-meet-foxes

the generator: https://git.sleeping.town/mirrors/foxy-moxy

it's funny to me because their new avatar generator has exactly the issues the writer of the original fox avatar blog post was complaining about

Punk and its hyphenates are rooted in rebellion, sure, but one thing that isn't talked about often enough is how they're also rooted in the joy of creation. You and a couple of friends bought some second-hand instruments, learned a few chords, and figured out a way to turn that into a song, and the buzz of that—the sheer amazement—will power you for weeks, months maybe, the rest of your life.

PuzzleScript, the free open source web-based tool for making 2D grid-based games, is 10 years old today!

I wrote a little about the occasion on Cohost:
https://cohost.org/draknek/post/3075528-puzzle-script-is-10-y

Feeling Boo-tee-full. Endearing and wonderful art from Nick Maskell.

Some information coming out of the antitrust lawsuit against Google:

"Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution. If you don’t get the results you want, and you try to refine your query, you are wasting your time. This is a twisted shopping mall you can’t escape.

Why would Google want to do this? First, the generated results to the latter query are more likely to be shopping-oriented, triggering your subsequent behavior much like the candy display at a grocery store’s checkout. Second, that latter query will automatically generate the keyword ads placed on the search engine results page by stores like TJ Maxx, which pay Google every time you click on them. In short, it's a guaranteed way to line Google’s pockets."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is finally out today on Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch! This is a remaster of the cult classic FPS from 1994 made by the Developers of Incredible Power at Apogee Software, and I had the incredible good fortune to be lead developer on Ludicrous Edition.

If this looks a bit familiar, the game has been available on Steam and GOG since the end of July, but the console versions were just released last Friday. 🙂

http://getludicrous.com/

Hey friends and fellow pirates, hackers, punks, and oddballs! This is a call for assistance!

One of the most elusive films I don't have a physical copy of any longer, and have been looking around for for *ages*, is Terminal City Ricochet, a dark, dystopic black comedy from 1990 that was directed by Zale Dalen, and stars Jello Biafra as the villain, Bruce Coddle, who's keeping people hooked to TV to exploit them and sell them useless junk. I had a copy of this movie on a bootleg VHS, but it got destroyed by water damage. Alternative Tentacles used to sell this on DVD combined with its soundtrack, but it's been long sold out on their website, and believed to be long out of print.

I've checked every site I could possibly check for physical copies. On eBay, I only find the soundtrack. Discogs, same thing.

I know that there's a rip on YouTube, but it's 240p only. Yes, I have it, but it's not really preservation quality.

There's just one torrent I found through 1337x.to, but the torrent constantly halts at just under 60% complete, and only 2 seeders have it but drop interest in seeding at that mark.

This is where getting my hands on the DVD comes in. If I can get the DVD, I can make a 480p rip, which is much more watchable and guaranteed to be cleaner quality, and in doing so, I can share it with friends through all the conventional means (file sharing, sneakernet, media servers), as well as upload it to sites like the Internet Archive, where it damn well deserves to be.

This movie is a prime example of why it's so important to #keepcirculatingthetapes, and why piracy is not a bad thing at all in the end. So if anyone has a DVD copy that they're willing to share, or is willing to help buy me a copy of the movie on DVD so I can preserve it, let me know, or send some money to my Ko-Fi to help me save up to get that (knowingly) pricey aftermarket copy!

#punkfilm #moviesharing

https://ko-fi.com/lambdacalculus

Moonring, my FREE Ultima IV style retro RPG is out now on Steam. I hope you enjoy Caldera as much as I loved Britannia!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

@bob @glennf Nice! Inspired me to dig out the official icons we drew for Cartoon Network all the way back in 2004! 🥰

since bandcamp's future is uncertain i'm bringing back blamscamp (by @suricrasia ). it lets you make an in-browser player for your album that you can put on itch.io! it's pretty easy and straightforward to use and works just fine. you can sell music on itch BTW

Setting aside the whole "we hired a cop because they used a bunch of raspis to do cop stuff, hashtag heart eyes" problem, this whole "it's a lot faster, costs more and you need to worry about cooling now" edition raspi definitely feels like they've lost the plot.

The libre.computer and orangepi people are still doing good work in this space, if that's your jam.

https://libre.computer/
http://www.orangepi.org/

not a bad time to point out our old thread about what you can learn from playing Sokoban games and why it's worthwhile (this used to be on Twitter but Cohost is the canonical copy going forward)

https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/365371-sokoban-and-on-and

Holy shit looks like the WGA pretty much got *everything it wanted*, including structural change.

UNIONS WORK.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba