Quite frustrating that Itch only lets you see Jams going on a couple of months ahead of time. I was really hoping to see what's available a bit further out to see if there was something I could arrange time off work for later in the year. But presently I can only see the very beginning of August.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

The EHRC code of practice frames appearance based gendered assumptions i.e. assumptions around what are masculine and feminine traits at the centre of how you determine biological sex. It's not just that the code is segregationist and harmful to trans people. It is also hideously patriarchal.

I can't stop myself from thinking about and refreshing that Early Day Motion page every few seconds — my heart is in my mouth and I just can't settle down. The clock keeps ticking and the horror keeps building.

88 signatures so far - if you live in the UK PLEASE email your MP about adding their name - it will take you less than 5 minutes with the form below. Yes, even if your MP is a transphobe - it's good for them to know how many of their constituents disagree with them.

Truly freeing feeling for an online video to open with "You've probably already heard a lot about [niche controversial thing]" and, in fact, having never heard of [niche controversial thing]. Logging off is good for the soul.

An indie developer is working with Jacob Geller to explain the subtleties within their new game’s narrative to media illiterate players. paletteswap.site/dif...

Oh boy, a new month hannahl.co.uk/blog/apr-may...

DAILY AFFIRMATIONS -I HAVE MY KEYS WITH ME -I AM AN ADULT AND DID NOT FORGET MY KEYS -I DID NOT LEAVE MY HOUSE WITHOUT THE KEYS TO MY FRONT DOOR -I AM NOT LOCKED OUT OF ANYWHERE

"The EHRC Code of Practice is unworkable" is not an incredible gotcha. Horrible things can be made workable. I don't care that it's unworkable. I care, and I will not be mincing words, that it is pure evil. It is a mass violation of human rights, and the introduction of a sick regime of segregation

Laughed at this image for 10 entire minutes

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

The Guardian profited off stigmatising us and is now perhaps eager to profit off lamenting the tragedies wrought by that profiteering. Still, making such a statement now is better than continuing to vilify us when such vilification has grown to outlandish, unbelievable proportions. One cookie.

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

Desperately wish the only thing that I was feeling down about today was the fact that the GMTK jam for this year got announced on the one weekend I'm away for.

HS2 expected to cost £102.7bn - or more if you purchase on the day you travel.

Anyway, related to the previous thread. It was real fun finding this morning that even the most accurate AI chatbots based on 'frontier' models fail at really basic fact-finding tasks more than 20% of the time, and almost all fail at least one in three times in standard benchmarks created by OpenAI

I wanted to put together a 'little' AI statement for my website, basically amounting to "It sucks, I hate it, I don't use it" but detailing the why of that. Anyway I've been working on this on-and-off since the beginning of April, am probably only halfway done, at 4204 words, if I'm optimistic.

Being the designated Computer Person in every workplace (and now literally being the paid-for Computer Person in my current workplace) has shown me very clearly this isn't the case. People don't even change mouse sensitivity; you think they're going to spend time on an entire app? Nonsense belief.

Americans messaging me elated because “King Charles announces trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy” - sorry, the monarch does a speech written by the govt at every state opening of parliament, they’ve pledged this like 10 times before, it means nothing and this govt won’t deliver.

I couldn't possibly comment as to why, but as a trans woman I suddenly find myself feeling quite suddenly lighter this afternoon. Specifically as a trans woman.

Not even pastoral jobs. We’re talking skilled textile workers who Worked From Home, set their own hours, managed their paid work around their householder work. They controlled their working conditions, kept their children to appropriate work, and made more money. THAT’S what industrialists broke.

The UK retains 22nd place with a score of 44%, two points less than last year. Drawing on last year’s Supreme Court decision, a High Court ruled that trans men cannot be automatically registered as a parent of their children, causing the country to lose its point on automatic co-parent recognition

Can't prove this but maybe the reason for Attenborough's longevity is that whenever Paddington arrives to shepherd his soul on, he fends him off with his powers of nature narration. "The perplexed ursine psychopomp withdraws, his hunt unsuccessful. Perhaps a 1970s bass player will make easier prey."

Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

cis-identifying people

I probably can't speak about the results of these local elections overall (although one could probably take a solid guess), but what I will say is: Heinous excuse for 'local' elections. Everything was "Vote X to keep Y out!". Nobody spoke about or campaigned on local issues at all in my area.

every election in my household we have a tradition of cutting up all the political leaflets and junk mail we’ve received and making them into an incomprehensible political statement of a collage. Joined this year by the very dear corin, @camashred.bsky.social and @furry.grejurn.org ❤️❤️

when i talk about mastodon people are like "but what when instance admins start drama" and i'm here to point out bluesky only has 1 instance and these are its admins at work

You're not supposed to use the 2-in-1 shampoo because it violates the Unix philosophy

Caught Sonic queueing up for his Vasectomy

Reason number 126 that I wish there was a viable alternative to putting all our eggs in the Steam basket: Still haven't learned how to release hardware and/or run sales without the entire store and/or payment system and/or entire network going down

Things I wanted to do today: - Continue a drawing - Play FFXIV Things I ended up doing: - Reinstalling my entire OS because NVidia screwed up their drivers horrible AGAIN and my rollback tool decided it also wanted to break and render my system unbootable in any way other than read-only

few feelings greater than infecting an entire friend group with your own linguistic idiosyncrasies. got the whole squad saying fench toat

ALL OF EXISTENCE... BENT TO MY WILL..! *rotates the stage 90 degrees*

I've been playing Legends Z-A recently, and in spite of all its flaws (we are talking about modern Pokémon, after all), it's been a really enjoyable experience. The battle system definitely needed more time in the oven, and the city not being well realised feels like a huge wasted opportunity.

I'm not doing my usual monthly blog post for April. It wasn't a particularly notable month, and nor do I particularly want to spend time dwelling on and writing about month where I've been very emotionally diminished. I've not even been able to push myself into my usual drawing the past few weeks.

i load into the savage raid and my healer says "I'm using tilt controls!"

I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game 1. Explore the Psyche of Man 2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here 3. Lesbian Bartender

I hate that "If you don't feel like doing something, just force yourself to do a small portion whilst telling yourself that you're allowed to crash out early if it's still too much" actually works. Deeply unserious species.

I've been pondering why trains are my least favourite form of transport. It might be because they're disgustingly expensive. Or because changes are stressful. Or because they're always late, cancelled, and overcrowded. But I think it's really because trains are the one place we refuse to queue.

I think today is probably the first day since I got consistent that I didn't feel like doing my dailure gesture drawing exercise Anyway, turns out that ignoring my protests of "I'm real tired" and "I've had a bad day" and "Oooh my brain ain't working right" was good for me.

Sometimes I think I'm a right little freak, and then I'll jump on a bandwagon and realise that I'm actually remarkably normal. grids.fun/t/about-me-v...