#WSPit is coming up on February 25th! This is a hype event run by @wipsnips.bsky.social! This year, it is open to ANY stage of writing from WIP to Published! So, mark your calendars and get those pitches ready! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #AmWriting #AmAgenting #LitAgents #Writers

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God, I hate dealing with constant computer crashes. I know it has something to do with my GPU, as nothing else turns up anything and it freezes or black screens not long after anything particularly intense… but I’ve reinstalled the drivers and it doesn’t seem to be overheating.

every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

you should write because you love your story so much that it's all you can think about, and you should also get so pissed off at a video game that it makes you write a novel

if you’re not a creative i think you likely don’t know how much almost all of us in the US are constantly struggling or how much MORE GREAT ART you would get if most of us weren’t constantly worried about not being able to eat or pay the bills imagine valuing art and artists! IMAGINE

I wish on every TERF what they wish on trans people

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

It’s making people insane, stupid, violent against themselves and others. It’s eroding any remaining broad social consensus about empirical reality. It’s weakening already wobbly democracies. It’s poisoning people. It’s impoverishing people. It’s traumatizing people. It’s dehumanizing people

I want to live in a world where it is as common to challenge bigotry as it is to say bless you after someone sneezes.

i really am so sick of this whole “fascists are just poorly educated and we can win by showing them our humanity.” shit. here’s the thing, right? it shouldn’t matter if some asshole is transphobic because they have been brainwashed by the media… the levers of power shouldn’t exist to enable them

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Trying to remember if there was another time in US history where a group of people were punished for the act of writing

Part of why I wrote my current main novel was frustration at seeing so many different games/anime/what have you where a character got a power-up that transformed them... And they just... don't really address it?? They don't think about how weird it is! #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children. Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles. Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent

I'm tired of the lesser evil. These hoes wanna live in Omelas or something? Can't we just have a good candidate who doesn't have a forsaken basement child to prop them up? I just want someone who doesn't chum up to types like Charlie Kirkn't, and wants people to be able to live somewhere.

Transphobia is recycled 90s homophobia.

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This is pretty much the foundational reason for a LOT of things. Why don't we have as many cool music scenes anymore? Why does art and creativity in general suffer? Why is everyone so depressed an anxious? An economy based on asset appreciation is inimical to the things that make us human.

I love dragon posting! My dragon lad here was drawn by @droolingdemon.bsky.social! Top notch action poses :D

the Black Panthers were right

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is words to goddamn live by

Don't get me wrong, many of us literally just want to make enough to have a decent quality of life. I'll give my books out for free if/when I get there. But I've seen too many get lifted by community support just to milk that community dry the second they build some capital. You see the patterns.

When your studio's publicly traded, you don't make games, you make shares. You do what makes money first and foremost and that is going to drive every single decision because the singular destination is minmaxed margins. Perpetually in a state of "only next quarter exists", number can NEVER go down.

Some of today’s Democrats aspire to return us to some pre-Trump “normal.” But for millions of Americans, that isn’t nearly good enough. The country needs a Democratic Party that seeks to create a new and far better “normal”—and that’s willing to fight the people standing in the way. trib.al/dU41NLe

this is gonna get me yelled at but I think that, with the exception of specific learning needs or medical accommodations or other noteworthy circumstances that require a different environment, homeschool should be illegal ✨👍

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel! The Owl House: The Long-Lived King Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

The idea that every exploitation, bigotry and gentry delusion has to be endlessly indulged and debated is part of what got us here.

This applies to so much right now. We do not, in fact, need a discussion.

this is so good. everyone read foreach Right Now

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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

#Febchantment Day 10 Summoning a Sigil is relatively simple: it only requires you to focus hard on your own unique symbol, and it will follow your attention within a certain radius. USING it, however, requires scientific knowledge! Otherwise you’re meddling with nature on instinct, very reckless.

Me with discord

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

Really enjoyed playing through the demo for Vholume, new game by one of the Straftat/Babbdi devs and featuring music by 1000 Eyes (Signalis composer). In love with the architecture, the hidden little snapshots of lives lived in an impossible space.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPLash I have a really fun fantasy novel idea for a dying civilization that’s trapped in the last 20 years before the end of the world, and they use time travel to keep going back and survive… Time travel :y it’s gonna be a while before I try to tackle THAT coherently

Not sure why America got booed at the Olympics but it probably has to do with our country being a bloodthirsty warmonger led by disgusting racist slobs to the point that our president is the star of the Epstein files

Cause a post reminded me I should talk about this more, HI, I MADE A GAME! It's sitting at 1 scored review more than a year later, so if you like isometric action RPGs, soulslikes with Deep Lore, and don't mind some first project jankiness (never using GameMaker for isometric again) try it out!

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Seeing things like this Tumblr notification is why we indie creatives have to post constantly about our work, because no matter how much we *think* we do, you’ll inevitably get fans who are just learning today that a book came out three months ago 😅

anyone suggesting tests like this is a freak and we should go full peasant village on them complete with torches and pitchforks because none of this will ever matter in the grand scheme of things and these dipshits need to either get a clue or face exile.