Χίμαιρα corvids @autistikai@computerfairi.es

me upon seeing any game do something I don't like: that's IT. i've HAD it with you amateurs. im going to show you how it's done.
[procrastinates]

My new e-bookshop is open!

I believe discovery, fairness and inclusivity are at the heart of digital bookselling.

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reverse Monster Hunter where we play as monsters and we attack hunters to protect the environment.

instead of getting better weapons from their skin, we get an improved ecosystem (more animals&plants&clear water etc.) and that makes us stronger. that's the grind, instead of bigger armour you watch your forest flourish more and more. this also attracts worse hunters, creating the difficulty curve.

@DissidentKitty pro-tip for independent researchers: e-mail the authors and kindly ask for a pre-print version of the article.

Many (most?) journals allow "scholarly sharing" and researchers tend to appreciate it when others take interest in their work.

This is not a subtoot but something I see a lot which bothers me:

Don't say "Americans" when you mean "white people while in the United States/Canada." We aren't all culturally the same.

In other news, the spores from silver ferns can give you some pretty gnarly temporary tattoos 🌿

"What is your political philosophy?"

previewing the upcoming findings of the horniness work group

This actually relates to the real world priesthood of Inanna/Ishtar which from contemporary descriptions and poems seemed to have a large amount of androgynous, homosexual and intersex members, and a large amount of it's practices defied gender roles.

It's #folkloreThursday
So let's talk about the Babylonian myth of Ashuhunamir, the first nonbinary person.

After the goddess Ishtar got herself trapped in the underworld, the gods created Ashunamir, a being who was neither man not woman, to seduce Erishkigal, the Queen of the underworld, and free Ishtar.

They succeeded in their quest, but for thier troubles Erishkigal cursed them and all those like them to always be viewed with suspicion in human society, but Ishtar, to counter this, blessed them and those like them with wisdom, prophecy, healing and that they would always be held sacred to Ishtar.

#nb #nonbinary #mythology #pagan