beach days

glorfindel trying to live a farm life as a shire farm wife would be doing NUMBERS on ao3 let me tell you

we should all be using 'girls' as a gender neutral term for a group of people instead of 'guys'

happy trans day of visibility to the homies please stand for the flag 🏳️‍⚧️

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

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reckon it's time to throw my harry potter books away. I adored that series and it was such a big part of growing up. I thought I'd be able to re-read at some point but considering how much harm that horrible woman is causing to the trans community I can't stand to have them in my house anymore

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

unfortunately I can delay it no longer. I'm fucking installing windows 11 on my computer

Pueraria suffocata, known as smotherwort, is the fastest-growing species of plant. This vine of the kudzu family can, under ideal conditions, spread 10 meters per day. People living in areas where this species is invasive are advised to close their windows at night to avoid accidental asphyxiation.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

You need to remember the damage of bans like this isn't just the overt bigotry of the act itself, but a sustained effort to create a tapestry of lies/laws/myths all working together to paint the image that a trans person excelling or even just existing healthily in society is somehow unnatural.

Hey would you like to read a page and a half about a ray of sunlight shining into an abandoned hallway in which a family of herons has built their nest rendered in the most arrestingly lovely prose you've ever read, then flip over into some absolute Bugs Bunny type shit? Have I got a book for you

So hey! In more concrete terms: I got hit by the Epic layoff yesterday. - Looking for Senior/Principal/Lead-ish roles around Level Design, Technical Design, Systems Design, etc. - Strong preference for US/Seattle/Remote Site is a little rough from the last time around, but: andrew-weldon.design

we should all read gormenghast. we should all be reading more gormenghast by mervyn peake. everybody get more gormenghast now

the gormenghast books are about two horrible weirdos named like Wartslough and Festerbrew sitting in some decrepit castle room saying "exactlyyy" back and forth, forever, and it's the best thing ever

get scruffed #controlresonant

some folk are more at risk than others but there's no way of being individually safe. there's only all of us protecting each other or nothing

we should all read gormenghast. we should all be reading more gormenghast by mervyn peake. everybody get more gormenghast now

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

Nik is an utterly fearless writer, in the running for one of the funniest people I’ve ever known, and without a doubt the greatest boss I’ve ever had. Fortnite would not be Fortnite without him. It is beyond stupid that he was laid off today. If you’re smart you’ll snatch him up for your team now.

If you need a QA/Test Lead for your team with 9 years of experience in the industry, including live service and single player AAA titles, please hit me up. I have worked on titles like Destiny 2 and Fortnite, and would love to be your test team's best advocate and process improver. somnifery.com

my one and only dune take: the box of all evil that you put your hand in from dune can only be withstood by the bene gesserit who are all women right. and paul. so I'm going to need a 500k retelling of dune where paul is trans on my desk by the top of next week

any time I bump into a coworker at the office and they ask how I'm doing

family is… us and all the blonde girls we saved along the way

Thank you Resi 9 for giving us old man Leon 🤭 my interest was instantly piqued oops xD #ResidentEvilRequiem #LeonKennedy

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

Hey folks, there's a Games from Ireland event on Steam right now, which is the very first showcase of Irish games on Steam, and features a variety of neat titles made wholly or partly in Ireland! Just in time for St. Patrick's Day! Everyone go check this out: store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesfr...

was gonna post that I'm quitting my job so I can focus full time on loving leon kennedy, and then I died in the game so hard that leon ragdolled across the room and I immediately shut my playstation off. never mind I guess!

got a new laptop from IT bc the old one was dying. asked if they had a sticker I could put over the cop!lot button so I never press it. they gave me this

my residents? evil. my requiem? nine.

živio feminizam! živio 8. mart!

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Saw a couple one day and they dressed like this and i think it suits them too

girls. I fear I have to ask. is it that people have been intensely googling me recently for mysterious reasons OR is it that the alerts on my 15 year old academia.edu page have only just started working properly. like what the hell is happening

In summary: AI rots critical thinking, hallucinates, is shaped by the hyper-wealthy pedos that own it, its data centres guzzle water we can't spare, it will help lay off millions, we can't trust photos anymore & it keeps recommending nuclear war. But yeah, nice memes, dipshits!!

happy twin peaks day 🌲🥧☕️

get weirder 🫵

Good morning

The lost art of shutting the fuck up

dreamt @themountaingoats.bsky.social had a podcast that was a mix of monologues and spoken word fiction. one of the fictional lines jd said was "sorry to hear about your dad dying. they can't figure out how it keeps happening." and upon waking it feels more like a @planetoffinks.bsky.social line

i often think about this review

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

happy year of the horse to the homies. here's my favourite horse content: a concept album about a race of robotic horses falling into an existential crisis. it's also about angels fighting humans but the horse stuff does really stick with you 🐴 🤖 yeprocrecords.bandcamp.com/album/are-we...

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correct! every post about fixing a broken games industry that involves [specific games industry tweaks] and not [destroying a speculation-mad executive class and using their bones for compost] is just wasting everyone's time

But good news guys!!! Everything is totally cool and fine cause some people’s wages went from 9 dollars an hour to 11 dollars an hour !!!! Wooo hooo

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