while many gaming communities default to white guy-centric toxicity, @gamesdonequick.com proposes an alternative: welcoming to all, with "trans rights" as a rallying cry. but it wasn't always this way, and old problems still fester. for @aftermath.site's woke week, my months-in-the-making report:

there are some things that our kids do that make me think, “i am so sorry that we are your parents” one is that both of our toddlers will say, in very serious voices, “i’m… super mario.”

it's quite simple. phone is fake computer

quiet thoughts this morning 1. nature perfected the design of the baby. a being that fits ergonomically into your arms from 0-5 years old (maybe more? i have yet to find out), somehow comfortable at every stage 2. before dawn i found myself gazing up at the night sky, longing for magic

i’m still thinking about how miles, quarkimo, and i stepped outside of DNA lounge in daylight and a femme person outside looked at us and said, “wow, so many good-looking people just came out of this place!” can’t believe i got queerleader effected at the club 🌸

my tiny niche gamer complaint is that in animal crossing: new horizons, i wish you could select the footfall sound of your custom paths. i’ve been using only the default paths because i don’t like the rubbery footfalls of custom paths, but my aural beast is definitely holding me back visually.

Deep in a small village, Hyun Sook and I found this 96 year old pavilion that was built as a secret spot for locals to illegally read all the Korean literature and poetry that was banned under Japanese occupation. It's literally a Banned Book Clubhouse!

Small spells for prosperity and compassion.

More and Ziplock are two of the FIFTY (!) designs included in my font sale. Chunky and cheerful! Get them all at a ridiculously low price. itch.io/s/181080/ok-...

ICYMI, last week i released an album that was a passionate exploration of music to hold a listeners attention for it's entire runtime. Skull Honey has helped me complete monotonous tasks by being so silly that my mind doesn't have time to wander #adhd adrianshegstad.bandcamp.com/album/skull-...

i love my friends ‼️ @quarkimo.bsky.social @aiviwave.com @surasshu.com @devinchincomposer.bsky.social @deltaparallax.bsky.social

TONIGHT! if you’re at GDC, come see us at DNA Lounge 💕 we’re playing at 7:30pm!

if you're in san francisco early for GDC, saturday and sunday will be the last two days of this interactive art showcase!

see you next thursday, san francisco! 💕

the other day my 4yo slipped my phone into my pocket and said, “mommy, do you know why you are always losing your phone? i think it’s because you are always concentrating on everything else”

last day to pick up some cute infloresce merch! 💕

v1.117 is live! We rolled out support for Bandcamp embeds. Now you can play songs right inside posts! We're big fans of Bandcamp and everything they do to support artists. Upgrade to the newest app version and give it a try 👇 caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/butter...

dana is incredible, whatever musical needs you may have 🔥

THE TIME IS UPON US. 𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙂𝙀 𝙊𝙁 𝙒𝙄𝙋 𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙔 ~AROUND 2 HOURS OF WIPS NOW FINISHED IN THIS ANNUAL COLLABORATIVE EVENT! Sync-Listening this Saturday, Feb. 21st @ 1PM EST / 10AM PST On Youtube! 🔴 youtu.be/wdYagMRH9bo?...

I had a dream I was studying biology in university (I am a graduated compsci student) and the professor handed us an assignment to do over break and it looked like this

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

i’m music-first, music-only. i didn’t even bother with lyrics until i was a teenager. i was always a freak & now it’s my job to be one, haha 🩵

our first WAM of the year and our FIFTH album overall premiers on youtube FEB. 21! this is probably our CRAZIEST album yet! it’s silly! it’s beautiful! it’s groovy! anxiety-inducing, even! hope to see you at the premier!

To offset the astronomical price of shipping and global systemic inequalities, we can arrange a discount for folks in the Global South if you want anything from our shop. Email us at "hi @ infloresce . com" without the spaces!

🌸 Mini-shop open! 🌸 We've opened preorders for our latest Snowdrop Festival poster! We'll take orders until Feb 26, then print and send them out. All our past posters and stickers are also available! (For shipping to the Global South, please see the next post~) infloresce.bandcamp.com/merch

a moment of downtime while unable to remember where i put my library book

I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to

[III-139] Cresince - Misdirections Jazz harmonies meet blues guitar in this reflection on American landscapes, heritage, and forging your own path. sc: soundcloud.com/iiiypad/sets... bc: iiiypad.bandcamp.com/album/misdir... music & art: @cresince.bsky.social

hold on, sweetie. mom needs to take another solo

chat, i’ve finally figured out the secret to playing piano faster: move your hands faster

laying in bed at 3am, thinking about soup

the older i get, the more gentle my heart seems to become and simultaneously the more passionate, the more i crave soup

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! 🌼🙌🏾 Check out my horror-fantasy comic sometime, Jade Kingdoms on webtoon! I also tend to update when the blue moon hits pfff ilysm www.webtoons.com/en/challenge...

About activism, June Jordan said, “You do something, rather than nothing… You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change. You admit the limitations of individual perspectives. You trust somebody else. You do not turn away.”

Maybe Liam is too wee yet for Spider-Verse, but I ❤️ Miles Morales and Nueva York is covered in snow too! Much thanks to @julioanta.bsky.social for the translation so that I could include both spideys. #Comics4Liam FREE THE CHILDREN!!! Shutter forever these evil detention centers; ABOLISH ICE.

happy black history month 🩷

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i’ve been reading the book “original sins: the (mis)education of black and native children and the construction of american racism” by eve l. ewing it’s been the most challenging and world-shattering book i’ve ever read

No work. No school. No shopping

We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.

bubblesort studios is turning 1 year old in feb and this is how i’m celebrating its birthday—by hosting an internet cafe featuring some of my favorite interactive artists 💓

If you wanted to do one thing to help us help you, please tell any of your chiptune friends who are releasing an album, performing live, organizing a festival, throwing a game jam, programming new trackers or are in any other way contributing to keeping this community alive worldwide to let us know!

I'm a big believer in the idea of decentralization and I'm incredibly impressed with the work done by @rude1.blacksky.team and the Blacksky team to realize that possibility. I was not optimistic about the future of Bluesky at all, but the Blacksky team has shown the way forward. Massive respect

The other is a little essay by me about how (and why) to get connected. If you're impressed with the way Minnesota has shown up, one thing to know is that many of those folks were already involved in community care networks. Find yours now, before the fascist occupation arrives:

Today at @coyotemedia.org we've got TWO mutual aid related things for you. One is a super cute comic about a small group of neighbors who put together a mutual aid swap in their back yard that distributed a huge amount of food, supplies, clothes and more:

more #momposting baby girl got upset with me because i took a cleaning toothbrush away from her. she asked for her dad to comfort her. he picked her up. “it was so much fun to hold the toothbrush, wasn’t it?” “yeah!” “better to have held a toothbrush and lost than to have never held one at all.”

#momposting my baby girl tried to sweep a dust bunny into a dustpan. it narrowly missed the dustpan and ended up next to it. she said calmly, “miss.” then she put her broom down, sat down on the ground, and quietly stared at this bummer of a situation.

in a system that tells us to get ours that tells us the american dream is success for yourself that people with money are the ones who’ve won mutual aid is a rejection of the core capitalist values we were supposed to learn mutual aid is interdependence and interdependence is how we’ll survive

a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?” and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond of course of course mutual aid is an expression of love love is an act of resistance