when i was eight i caught pneumonia. i did not know that people die from pneumonia at the time, i figured i was just sick. and i did get better. a year or two later i caught lyme from a tick. I was deeply convinced I was going to die in my sleep. in half an hour I turn 40.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Think about what it means to you to demand justice. think about what it would take for that demand to be met. think about what you need to do to ensure that demand is met. It isn't enough to just say the words. think about what you need to do to make it happen.

Our girl is 40 - go say HBD and do something nice for her!! We love you, Helix ❤️🎉👾

I know everyone is probably quite sick of discussing Platner, but I want to say that I have been thinking a lot about his infamous Reddit comments and how easy it was for some people to dismiss his victim-blaming around sexual assault.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

If you're in the twin cities, you can celebrate my birthday by bringing cash to Smitten Kitten, by helping your neighbors pay rent and buy groceries, and protesting the closures of sidewalks and overpasses and greenways. protect our unhoused neighbor.

when i was eight i caught pneumonia. i did not know that people die from pneumonia at the time, i figured i was just sick. and i did get better. a year or two later i caught lyme from a tick. I was deeply convinced I was going to die in my sleep. in half an hour I turn 40.

Goal: 0/400 USD I need help with groceries & an electric bill this week. I started a new job but I won't start getting paid until next month. I'm relying on direct support to make it through the home stretch! I'm thiiirdperson at cash app, ko-fi, venmo, and paypal. Thanks so much if you can help!

Anyone wanna watch us try?? 👀

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

It's out! It's finally out! ♠️ LOOTERS - A Game of Unlicensed Adventure! ♠️ We've been cooking this game of deadbeat adventurers trying to survive in a world of high fantasy for 4 years. I drew, co-designed & playtested the shit out of this game. #DungeonCrawling #TTRPG Links below 👇

If you missed the announcement, Wintry Squama is now available for preorder! Learn about Hekate, her love with Ceres, the disrupted plans for Proserpina and how the colonized kingdoms of the underworld shake at her arrival. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7FJPNC6 cyberneticcoven.itch.io/wintry-squama

plenty a hockey left boys

/glances nervously at what Sony and Microsoft are doing ... hey so anyone wanna demo a cute lil farming sim?

I can't help but notice that you say "every age group" but the listed demographics do not include anyone under the age of 18, which is the demographic actually affected

There's a bunch of people who need to internalize this reality and fast. Because I'll let you know the Republican's project against birthright citizenship is because they want a slave class they can be told they're correct and proper to own and treat as property.

is it democracy or is it just democracycore

The silence that follows an explosion this big is really concerning. At what point did we become so desensitized that scenes like this no longer shock the world? the largest non nuclear bomb in history and it didn’t even make it to western media.

Hate to do this. I'm broke and kinda fucked. I had a MASSIVE electricity bill (thanks climate change!) that's blown half my July pay despite getting paid... yesterday. I also need to fix a wheel on my car (thanks climate...). Legit not sure what we're going to do. Help? $machineage on Cashapp?

get out there and connect with people. don’t let fear bind you to a lonely hermitage. you gotta step out and live. it gets easier everytime you leave home. it’s worth it to be part of a world beyond yourself. we’re social primates; we need this shit to survive.

the carcinization of stardew characters: oops i gave my character floppy long hair and a black tank top and long pants and started on the forest farm again

parenting books like "how to trick your kid into doing what you want them to do so you don't have to hit or yell at them anymore"

MINNESOTANS!!! Jury nullification is legal and good. But you can’t talk about it while you’re doing it, and you can’t learn about it after you’ve been selected for jury duty. You gotta read up now! beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

you would be astonished the kinds of conversations you can have with your kids if you take the time to establish actual trust and communication and accountability with them--not just for their behavior but also yours

update: some mpls pals had a bathroom emergency. they’d been paying rent for months for an undocumented neighbor and had no savings to deal with the repair. but that neighbor was a contractor. so we raised money to pay him to fix it. which paid his rent for two more months. work is done!

i just can’t imagine a better success story for mutual aid and a circular economy. this family does incredible work for community in hard, underpaid fields. their neighbor desperately wanted to be working but couldn’t because of ICE. this gave him a safe space to earn money. my heart is full.

what if the "second party" was a leftist one though

Evernight is the game we're making, but we need money for things like buying more pixels to put in the game, and more bits to put in the engine to make it run. And also rent. Rent too. money pleeeezzzz

Should we have put this link somewhere up there? Yep. Too bad. Here it is now.

A reminder that our lowest content is $3/mo ("One dollar for Helix, one dollar for Lifa, one for Patreon. Okay, however many cents for Patreon. You get it.") to $250 for you rich sickos out there (you know who you are).

Paid subscribers mean fire under our collective butts for paid content, so our first Patreon post in this vein is about the only other person in the demo besides the player.

chat is this workplace violence, I did not consent to being reminded that I am not exempt from being kind to myself

i’m in downtown minneapolis for a rally and press conference in support of the 15 minnesotans indicted by the federal government recently for their anti ICE work

if you're wondering why the main character in Evernight [currently] only walks sideways instead of animating left and right, it's because I can't decide/figure out where tf to put the feet

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

Take the pressure off yourself. It’s ok if you didn’t have everything figured out or worked out yet! Make sure you’re mentally and emotionally healed. Hold on to friendships and relationships you have built.. they get harder to build from here on out. Lead with caution and lessons learned so far

antidisestablishmentarianism

I do not think ANY of the decisions of this court are legitimate no matter whether some lawyers like how they ruled or not. It's the fruit of a poisonous tree. Gotta uproot the whole thing.

very little is more disappointing than learning a game dev framework largely from watching a creator's extensive tutorials, following their progress, and then watching them use AI on stream to answer questions from chat

chat, apropos of nothing, we gotta be much more vocally in solidarity with the Minnesota 15

since I posted this I refined it to work even better in ways I truly don't think I should talk about because it will spoil the surprise, but you should back the @cempoaloon.bsky.social patreon to help fund development

I cannot stress enough how much getting involved in organizing and activism in your community will help you feel better about the state of the world. The stress and helplessness don't disappear, but the work shows you that you *can* affect change and that others *do* care. It helps a lot!

Read a lil summary about Evernight (and help pay @girlnewsie.bsky.social and @hellyeahlifa.bsky.social 's bills if you're down).

oh look it more info about that game we're making, which if you can afford a couple bucks a month would really help us not lose our housing while we build this thing from scratch

It sure is almost July, and I sure am broke from hiding in my apartment from ICE for four months. Wanna help? (It's cool if not, you can still read about Evernight.)

I really dislike crying about hypocrisy because largely the folks doing hypocrisy know that’s what they're doing and they want you to be confused by it. but the scale of these sentences, compared to the sentences from the Jan 6 insurrection, should make you mad enough to do more than post about it.

“Alligator Alcatraz will go down as one of the biggest failures in American history.” After detainees are relocated from ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ environmental group presses forward to shut down the detention center for good, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.