It's her!! The deuteragonist of my novel, The Sigil and the Serpent! Spoilers: She's the titular Serpent :D And she loves being a firebreathing monster.

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

This age of entitlement over indie media is so exhausting. People want cool things to exist but not get funding to be created. If they don't personally like a piece of media they demand it should not exists at all. It's so fucking stupid. Grow up.

Endless cycle

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

I shouldn’t be surprised by this but I’m earnestly depressed learning about how the Artemis missions going forward are all about integrating with Space X and Blue Origin. Really just feels like the Artemis II hopecore was generated to be co-opted by capitalists.

I would kill a man to live in the tineline where we got a metroid animated 90's show holy shit

The novel I'm querying is heavily drawn from my escape from the religion I was raised in, how it twists good intentions to horrific ends, and is inextricably linked with the fascism eroding the world currently and for longer than I've been alive! So it's pretty central! #pretendpanel

Please PLEASE let Dreamworks' FORGOTTEN ISLAND be a good film and make Pixar eat their words, also enough with the "boys can't enjoy girl movies" rhetoric The boys that "can't" enjoy girl movies were taught & socialized to think that girl-focused movies are inferior and/or unrelatable to them

debate between two sides where one half is right and the other half is up there own ass with grandiose delusions pretending it's the same is not worth happening. every question they imagine should be raised was answered before you were even born. time to wake up and get over it i think.

You remember the Uvalde school shooting and how angry everyone was at the police who just stood back and didn't even try to stop the shooter? That's why so many people who hate Trump also hate the Democrats.

apparently it's #SapphicVisibilityDay??? WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME SOONER??? anyway, the dragon next door is my sapphic ace romantasy and it is ✨on sale✨ #booksky #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world. In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear. Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error. Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political” Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for. There is no “other half”.

It’s a great time to be a white guy who has no morals or idea what he’s doing but really needs billions of dollars for the vital programming of the Center For Shortening Your Lifespan

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

I'm thrilled for the traction Abigail's video is getting. It'd be even more thrilling if folks checked out the fine trans journalists and academics who have been working tirelessly in the UK to get this info out for years. This message isn't new, it's been ignored.

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

posting this 'ol thing again for no reason

Today, I'm celebrating the launch of Flightless! 🪽 My fantasy heist novel is for folks who want a better future but don't see the path forward. Revolution is ours, friends.

If I had to choose a single thought which haunts me most, it’s this. And it has animated me for years. This thing has been growing and metastasizing for almost a decade. And every passing year we’ve grown more hoarse trying to get someone to give a shit.

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I am once again messing with Krita on Android by drawing one of my Pokopia pals. #AltersArtTag #Pokemon

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

the thing I've realized over the last 10 yrs or so is that the stereotypical 'the world isn't fair' is only half true: it's not that the world isn't fair, it's that the rules of the world, on all levels, are fake, and only those who benefit from the perception of a rule believe that the rule is real

Of course, in HALO, it's the barely-disguised-Muslim-analogue aliens that do it, because we could never admit the rot was inside ourselves the whole time

the way Demon's Souls instantly constructs it's whole setting and world view in a moment with "On the first day man was granted a soul, and with it, clarity. On the second day upon Earth was planted an irrevocable poison; a soul-devouring Demon."

Every last thing about the USA seems totally irreconcilable with its infatuation with the word 'freedom' until you realize it's only meant as a brand slogan, like "I'm Lovin' It" or "Taste the Feeling", and that it primarily connotes the freedom to hurt people.

My shower in Malaysia has an option I don't really want to try

We are so, so small. #Artemis

okay the new Hiromu Arakawa anime absolutely fucks, she is fully back in Fullmetal Alchemist mode, 10/10 first episode, everyone go watch Daemons of the Shadow Realm (despite the terribly translated name)

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

I've also noticed this shift, which was inevitable under Trump. At the end of the day, the US has produced a society that can oppose the war, but have no real mechanism with which to end it given the weak political opposition, material consequences of direct action, and broader individualism.

Rightwing dudes: "Women shouldn't be in leadership. Women shouldn't vote. They're not rational like men." Also, somehow, rightwing dudes: "The hand of God teleported me to a Waffle House."

A giant centipede chases you while you while you climb down a massive hole in indie climbing horror game, Idols of Ash! Out now and FREE for a limited time, on Itch: leafygames.itch.io/idols-of-ash Full Gameplay Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJt... by indie dev @leafygames.bsky.social #gaming

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

I will provide no context for this :y

Imagine the morphing animations made by the Scavengers Reign team

🙄 Once you see it, you can't unsee it

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"The world as it exists is just one historically contingent possibility; we can, collectively, create new possibilities and new social worlds. That’s not a radical postmodernist idea. It’s Max Weber."

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy