CPAPs can be about this much, y'all. Do what you can to help @gnomedic.bsky.social breathe. They're a part of the pen community around them and do trades etc- let's have the #writingcommunity or #fountainpens help out if possible?

I think there’s another possible explanation here that white masculinity is based in domination, which leaves little room for true intimacy and consensual relationships. They trade away their fulfilling relationships in their pursuits of power.

I'll never pass up an opportunity to recommend bell hooks to people. Some men are lonely and miserable, because we crawl into a bitter cage of our own making, pull it closed, and growl and bite at the fingers of anyone that tries to open it. Yes, other forms of loneliness exist. But a lot is this.

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

Just mentioned Sword World and the history of Japanese-inspired (or flat out licensed) games. And one of those things is: D&D might be what we in the US think of when we hear #ttrpg due to its dominance, but that is NOT the case worldwide.

#HelpFolksLive2026 #MutualAidRequest Encouragement welcome. I know things are tough but if I've helped you smile or learn something, I'd appreciate it. 🙏 More job searching posts to follow. www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ke...

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

excited to announce our new platform for content moderation and community management at scale. this replaces ozone for us. built by @rishkebab.blacksky.team hand in hand with our T&S team.

Don't think #accessibility impacts you? I was at a hotel. Hotel Internet login requires that portal redirect-enter room number situation. None of the links worked. It was not keyboard accessible, even had issues on mobile. No Internet. Because of lack of accessibility. #InclusiveDesign

This article is darkly fascinating as an example of how transphobia infects your entire ideology. The core argument is that we should not believe people when they say they are trans, were sexully abused or have a mental disorder.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

Looks like they do indeed disable autosave if your 365 subscription expires, which is definitely asshole behavior. And autosave only works if you're saving files in OneDrive? Confusing. I miss the old days of boring, non-AI-bloated Office.

Somewhere there is a nuclear family comprised of a cis woman on T to heighten her sex drive, a cis man on T to impress his buddies, and a transmasculine teenager driven to wander the icy wastes for his crimes against God

I just created a new wishlist on Registry[.]Blue! Right now there are not that many items on it, but contributions towards living or any of these items (subs/licenses) would be immensely helpful. General Wishlist

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

In Thirteen Down, the hand motion that people are doing when they are cheering for the orc contestant is actually just ASL for orc. Thanks to @michellefranklin.bsky.social , the author of "The Orc who Saved..." series, for demonstrating the sign. #writingcommunity #booksky #orc #asl #signlanguage

We need to raise the remaining $2590 to cover for the rest of this month + rent and utilities for next month. Everything helps!

And their "Content Creator" degree will be obsolete by the time they graduate.

If a (relatively) small non-profit anime convention can provide ASL interpreters for talks (panels), your professional conference should be able to do so as well. #accessibility

think about age gating for "adult content," think about anti-trans laws, think about period tracker data being turned into abortion tracking data, think about all the times and ways gender and bodily autonomy and consensual sexual activity between adults has been criminalized. You Do Not Want This.

Hey y'all? If there is one place you absolutely Do Not Want profit-motivated surveillant "AI" bullshit to start creeping in, it's your interpersonal sex life. If you're a tinder user, don't just Not Accept this plan to have "AI" scan your photos to make a profile of you, actively & Loudly reject it

When I was in grad school, I announced my engagement to my ex-wife. A male prof cornered me at the celebratory toast and demanded that I explain whether this meant I didn't like dick. Biss is not an aberration. Biss is common. And Biss should not be sent to Congress. Happy Women's History Month!

Basically feminism for the past 250 years has been a struggle to establish that women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights, and among those rights are life, liberty, and bodily autonomy.

Believe Dolores Huerta. Believe the other victims of César Chávez' abuse. AND: Beware the motivations of any who want to dismantle United Farm Workers because one of the co-founders was a rapist. Bin his name, support the community, continue fighting for the workers, their children, their future.

they literally renamed the entire company after this

So let me get this straight…you have a charismatic, deeply religious political opponent preaching that we should love our neighbors and practice a kinder politics and your solution is to…murder this person? History says that might backfire but OK

Still looking for work, at that. -.- So, uh. If you want to send a care package or hire me, let me know.

Genuinely, I ask you, cis folks: how are we supposed to live in society under laws like this? Where are we supposed to work, how are we meant to get groceries? If we can be arrested at any time for simply setting foot in a restroom, how do we exist in society? What would you do?

(and if you do hire your trans friends, ffs stand up for them. you can't just let the workplace bully be an ass and then say "but we like dave")

Now is not the time to ask your trans friends if they are okay. Now is the time to send your trans friends care packages, find them jobs, and ask your doctor about a HRT prescription you don't actually need.

I am ... wondering how International Studies/ Intl Business students are doing right now, to add to this.

This kinda reminds me of how we keep getting told men are pretending to be trans in order to attack women in toilets. Or that trans women transition in order to do so, and this is why they should not be allowed in the ladies. Except there's no evidence for this. At all.

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

Preferences > "Accessibility" > "Enable cloud-based auto-tagging for #accessibility" (Adobe Acrobat CC) It impacts tags like <p> (paragraph text) & alt text. Alt text is context based. The setting can overwrite any existing alt text & adds more work in correcting it.

Anglo-saxons: Heroes are fragile things. The constant urge for glory and war will lead to nothing but a dead, buried heap of old metal. Celtic epic: Rage and hypervigilance are a path to the doom of all around you. The land has its own rules; do not ignore them. Be very careful what you promise.

It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West" Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure. Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.

Requiring people to shell out for passports and birth certificates to “solve” a problem that doesn’t exist is a modern-day version of what they used to do down South. It must be stopped. trib.al/tU0uxnD

If you want to appreciate the Sinners' cinematography win and learn a lot about technology and who it's for, reading up on how traditional film treats black skin is going to be really eye-opening if you've never taken the journey.

The Nature study on LLMs' "emergent misalignment" this year shouldn't have surprised me—but it was still jarring.Turns out teaching a model to cut ethical corners in one domain causes it to cut corners everywhere. Introducing Part 1 of Godwin's Ethic. mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law...

Attention to people living in Illinois, Chicago: you have until Thursday to register a formal message to the state legislature that requiring age verification to install Linux is a horrible idea. This doesn't require writing anything, just filling out a form. Click through this quoted post:

These motherfuckers are convinced they're smart because they're rich, and then say shit that's tantamount to "René Descartes didn't exist." Stupidest fucking timeline.

more folks should know about this BS: A federal appeals court said West Virginia’s policy denying Medicaid coverage to people seeking surgical treatment for gender dysphoria is *not discriminatory* bc it bans trans-specific healthcare for cis & trans people alike ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds. In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

Folks, this is important. lifehacker.com/tech/change-...

If you ever go visit Rome and go see the spot Caesar got got, it's a really great bonus that it's currently a sanctuary for feral cats like this one, who get to laze about in the crumbling remnants of a fallen empire. As we all do, these days. D7200. May, 2024.

"make your own comic/videogame if you don't like it" and then ten years later payment processors said, "not like that"

CAESAR The ides of March are come. SOOTHSAYER Ay, Caesar; but not gone.