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Update to my life situation blog post: Dates for help with benefits applications and the meeting with repair contractors. It's still a long process with no income but at least things are moving. karohemd.dreamwidth.org/2368074.html Donations: paypal.me/karohemd Please reskeet and thank you!

Can anyone recommend a good, affordable flex nib fountain pen?

Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage. frvr.com/blog/call-of...

If Rockstar's refusal to play fairly with a union stops GTA 6 in its tracks I will never stop laughing.

I think I'm going to be opening up for commissions in the next couple weeks. Here's one I did almost a year ago. The request was "Darkwing Duck vs. Duckula."

Who wants some CHEAP BOOK LOOT? Right on, I've got your back - behold: Here's what's newer, older, and super-cheap on promo from around the internet today...starting with IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST but including GRAVE RESERVATIONS and MORE: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/novembe...

I believe this is the only live-action depiction of that artistic trick in comic books where you just paste a plaid pattern across an entire suit.

This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!

it's too bad I am not independently wealthy because I would be so good at being independently wealthy, but having to pay power bills and buy food is really interfering with all the stuff I want to do to help people lolcry money is wasted on rich people.

When one of us is attacked, we all roll initiative! Join us tomorrow, Nov. 15, for a charity D&D stream to raise funds for immigrant/refugee organizations in CHI, PDX, LA and DC, in support of our neighbors who are being harassed, assaulted and abducted in the name of immigration enforcement.

Update to my life situation blog post: Dates for help with benefits applications and the meeting with repair contractors. It's still a long process with no income but at least things are moving. karohemd.dreamwidth.org/2368074.html Donations: paypal.me/karohemd Please reskeet and thank you!

hey, so this fetish of mine may be a little weird and niche, but... I think writers and artists should have security and proper compensation and treatment

Apparently techbros can't understand the messaging in Black Mirror.

I'm live on Twitch! Grim Does Beat Saber - !mermaids - 1 hour stream - Requests open! use !bsrrules in chat for details twitch.tv/grey_area

A landlord on the Today programme just described landlords as “a race of people who are being targeted”. Parasites playing as victims.

Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.

As promised, I've bundled together everything I've released on itch for @morkborg.com. 7 adventures, 2 pamphlet adventures, 2 soundtracks, and a short story for £50, or 34% off everything (because it makes the £10 adventures £6.60 and that's fun). itch.io/s/167473/mrk... #ttrpg #osr

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

There were rolling bin strikes throughout the 70s which left the streets groaning under piles of rubbish.

1.) My sweet wife puts on a “Sleep Meditation” track narrated by some Scottish dude 2.) Proceeds to immediately fall asleep 3.) So now it’s Lachlan gently intoning *just at me* for the next 60 minutes: ”ACH NAE, YA WEE NUMPTY!!! FALL ASLEEP YA DAFT FOOL!!!’”

BBC Introducing is now promoting AI music. We're so fucked.

Did you know that you can get all of my Wretched & Alone games in one bundle for just £30? Now you do. itch.io/s/159400/wre...

Dear Chicago Manual of Style: Is the correct plural form doofuses, or doofi? Please advise.

It’s Stranger Things season baby 📺 Original track by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein #strangerthings #nostalgia #80s #synth

Reposting this, because it's the best alt text I have ever written.

Blog update: I have beem granted Settled Status/Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK! This means I can apply for benefits which will be another huge (mental) hurdle to get through. Until this is done, I'm still short on funds so any help is appreciated: paypal.me/karohemd Reskeets appreciated.

Apart from anything else, "barely legal" means legal. A fifteen-year-old is below the age of consent everywhere.

Alt: A photo of Columbo with a large pad of paper edited behind him. On the paper it says "Columbo" in all caps down the left side as a mnemonic device. C - compliment suspect, O - offer support, L - look around, U - under-dress, M - mention relative, B - be hyper-vigilant, O - one more thing.

Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself. Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi. Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data. Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation. You can't make it up.

Software notification: "We've made it easier to--" Narrator: They didn't

Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏 www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...

The BBC could really redeem itself to much of the public by re-commissioning Robot Wars

"There are two kinds of people in the world. Some would like that everybody was doing well. The others would like that everybody else was doing worse than them. Once you've understood that, a lot of things suddenly make sense."

I can't wait that long!

At 16 I did a part time job in a new supermarket. I asked who counts the people. Blank looks. "For the millionth customer prize," I explained. A colleague explained they just pick a photogenic person for a news story. That's when I realised there will never be justice.

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

I'm going to be releasing a game for ZineQuest in Feb. I'm looking for any podcasts, streams, blogs or the such where I could big it up (either with the new game as the focus or as an aside to another convo). If that sounds of use to you, please hit me up!

Americans might not understand it, but in many cultures it’s considered bad or even immoral to be a child rapist

Using AI generated media for your cover makes your whole book look like churned out slop.

All of them

Gary Lineker should replace Robbie Gibb on the BBC Board.

This bullshit is going to lead to the ban of kitchen knives, isn't it? At least mine are good enough that I'm not going to need to buy any more, even if I ever have the money to do so again.

UK and Denmark residents, heads up!

It's incredible that the story in the headlines today, about Wes Streeting is not that he has finally agreed with the treasury how he is going to sack tens of thousands of nurses at massive expense to the NHS. news.sky.com/story/thousa...

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

I'm 2 followers off 1.5K. I'd have more of that if I didn't block all the suspiciously lady-only-following accounts, but it would be nice to reach the next milestone. So if you're interested in TTRPGs, sketching, memes and snark, I'm yer woman. Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.

THIS is the thing. THIS is what we need every government in Europe to wise up to and act against. The chances of our UK government doing anything to inconvenience the international far right by defending & bolstering our institutions against it? Roughly zero.