went out for a walk and saw a tonne of bees. pollen is not helping though

making a proper post of this so hopefully more people will see, but Microdose Comics appears to be the new company and bonus harassment alt of Shutterstock founder/AI Guy Jon Oringer (last screenshot from bsky.app/profile/hell...)

Registration is now open for our June Mini-Retreat, a small-group writer community & learning experience with awesome speakers Henry Lien & Sonya Huber, workshops on sustainable writing practices, & much more! wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/june-mini-re... #WritingCommunity #Writers #QueerWriters

May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend

Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word

There was narrative potential in SMTV Dazai's transition from a well-meaning but deeply insecure "influencer" into a zealot once a rigid ideology offered him direction and proximity to power, but having him reveal this by taking off a cap that reads SUCKER & slick back his hair is too goddamn funny.

On Sat, backers of our Patreon can join authors D. A. Hernández, Dei Walker, Alex Bauer, MJ Kiwiana, & Vee Sloane for a panel! If you’re already a backer, I hope you’ll join us, and if not, become one to access this panel, view recordings of past panels, and more! www.patreon.com/posts/may-pa...

The 4K remaster of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is coming in Japanese theaters on July 3, for the 20th anniversary of Mamoru Hosoda's film.

For @aftermath.site: Bambu Lab, a giant in the 3D printing space, threatened a developer for trying to restore their product's functionality using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-ag...

Hey 🧪 + #SciComm: we are seeking speakers, hosts, and chat moderators for our 50-hour broadcast in support of weather and climate science! Last year our 180,000 viewers called Congress more than 30,000 times and we all spent 100 joyful hours together. Join us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

personally i've been losing it the entirety of april and may so i need to log off sometimes i just write shit

our VAs did such an amazing job with the lines us two writers wrote omg i am going to promote this game the second it hits the jam page 🛩️

not my random ass throwaway lines mocking my lead writer while he's crunching himself w adding them 💀💀💀

夜鳥(2024.8)

“Such a game as the gods on Olympus might have played without great loss of dignity.” The early 20th-century game played with a 6-foot, 70-pound ball: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pushball/

OML I still have to finish the ending but I might ask my lead writer to help lol my eyes are going to be done for 💔

writer crunch is. done ❤️

black pen mina

#Reverse1999 #37phia

Happy 10th Anniversary! Today marks 10 years since The House in Fata Morgana first arrived on Steam! Since its release in 2016, the game has continued to be loved by so many people, expanded into multiple languages, and reached farther than we ever imagined. Thank you💞

Day8 立希漂亮漂亮漂亮漂亮 #椎名立希 #MyGO

2026 and a bunch of people are having to find out first hand why fixed capital (materials, tools, machinery) don't really increase profit in the long run, and in the end it always comes down to surplus value produced by the exploitation of variable capital (labour) www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopi...

2-3 dollars is genuinely ABSURDLY cheap for one of the best metroidvanias ever made. Even if you hate it and bounce off of it that's like. the price of a single piece of lettuce at this point store.steampowered.com/app/230700/L...

I see like 11-12 on my iphone se monitor 💔

The 5k will return this July, a month later than usual, to give me a break between rewind & the biggest event of the year. But server members will be getting a writing retreat & fairytale week in June! ficwip.notion.site/ficwip-5k-20...

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

"You're Offloading Creativity To An Algorithm" - Stardew Valley Creator Stands Firm Against AI.

#我只喜欢你的人设 Rose and Renaissance by Zhichu official merch from Choiceisland coming soon

They’re showing that American idolm@s concert live on YouTube for free on Friday night. www.youtube.com/live/R8SaRBk...

My music video for ‘Centre’, a track I wrote for the in-game festival from RAKKA: WAKE 01 - SOOT, has been released! Hope you’ll enjoy it! youtu.be/ZAWMKPta6qI?...

Wanna experience this song within the right context? RAKKA: Wake 01 - SOOT is a music-driven story narrative, and is out on STEAM now! store.steampowered.com/app/3455080/...

so apparently british squirrels have been seen vaping and there is concern that swedish squirrels might also start doing this. anyway here’s pictures of squirrels vaping

For today's writing prompt: a delicious challenge...📝

NEW POST‼️‼️‼️ What is the Fan Thanksgiving referencing? Where's the cablecar they rode? Did you know Buena's trainer is the only one with canonical in-box dialog? You will have to get through me bitching about my native language first, though!! umadacchidensetsu.com/buena-vista-... #UmaMusume #ウマ娘

hey!!! in 48ish hours i'm hosting another week-long "thing jam".. it's like a game jam except your game can instead be a poem or a photo or a picture or a piece of performance art or anything else! it's non-competitive, open ended and intended as an excuse to have fun! 🤸 itch.io/jam/make-lit...

btw this is super early, but if anyone's looking for a writer for the CGDCT Jam that's running this july, hmu. my favorite action film is A Better Tommorow I + II and my favorite CGDCT show is A Place Further Than The Universe (...or Do It Yourself, i guess) 😊

This is the most bluesky shit I've seen all day, but it's early I guess.

NEW POST‼️‼️‼️ Today Fer tries to explore how deliberate Buena Vista's similarities role-wise to Special Week are and then gets sidetracked about manga and bishoujo games and romcoms... Thankfully, I'm sure half of you are here for the tangents. umadacchidensetsu.com/buena-vista-... #UmaMusume #ウマ娘

i finished reading it (yesterday) and the only thing i took away is THERE IS A JAPANESE RACEHORSE NAMED TM PRECURE. buena vista is also a disney princess

omg it's 512 day 😭 i have nothing else to say

Happy signalis day to anyone who celebrates it. Here's my sketch book #signalis

#signalis 512. There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

this just in: one of the most misogynistic sentence you will ever read has landed in the TYVN2 fluxer server. and the server got a new "respect women" rule 😭😭😭

Magical Girl versus Princess! An Actual Magical Real-Life Girl is out now! ⋆˙⟡ #magicalgirl #mahoushoujo #joseijam #vndev #indiedev

schedule derailed; need to read the buena vista post ✨

NEW POST‼️‼️‼️ From Still In Love's tale of tragic love we move onto a tale of pure love. Of two kindred spirits pushing each other to be better as they go towards their goals. Let's talk about Buena Vista. umadacchidensetsu.com/buena-vista-... #UmaMusume #ウマ娘

I can't believe we're going back to this kind of discourse but: Using references isn't cheating Using 3D mannequins and photo references is STANDARD, even for professional artists Shaming people and pushing them to draw exclusively from memory is harmful and can set back people who are learning

tried to draw something with rendered figures and decorative background. not someting i'd do regularly, but it was fun #dragonage