It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

Still actually really really need some grocery money. 🫠 I've been chill about it but we need staples guys. The goal for groceries was 30, I had 15 in yesterday and it was demolished by another small monthly charge I forgot about. Aiming for 30 asap so I can get some milk, potatoes, etc delivered.

It makes me emotional to finally see a party leader in the UK treat trans rights as an issue worth fighting for after every other party decided to throw us under the bus or ignore us. Gives me hope that one day my home country won't be somewhere I'm scared to return to.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

There may be a lot of toxic players in Deadlock but sometimes you get a random lobby filled with lesbians and you joke around the whole game and it makes life worth living

Look at my game, it's awesome

my toxic games industry opinion is that if your game has started its marketing push and you're using "Project _____" as your consumer facing name, I don't think your game is real

URGENT. NEGATIVE PROGRESS. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY I NEED TO REST THIS WEEKEND

Look at my game, it's awesome

For the record I don't think making multiplayer shooters is necessarily something that shouldn't be done, but companies betting everything on releasing games into a crowded genre and then firing teams when it doesn't capture the market within two weeks is not a sustainable path for the industry

games suck so much man, an entire industry of talented developers being sacrificed to gamble on the dream of making a billion dollars over-night

Trying to raise 300 by this weekend for bills. Help if you can, boost if you can't?

Ditto

Ultimately right now in video games I feel surrounded by people who are worried, all the time, about long-term unemployment and ensuing social (or actual) death and so if you seem very invested in coming up with fun uses for LLMs in games I find you despicable.

MOONROT is a short horror game about a rover alone on a distant moon. Take grainy photos, record crackly signals, keep your battery charged, and uncover the source of the anomaly that led you here. Coming February 19th store.steampowered.com/app/3622230/...

First goalpost - I need 300 total by next week for a few different bills that hit at the same time. I am not counting the little I have, that's buffer and basics money. The faster the better! Trying to have a better month and catch up a little.

Feb funds time. I tried to take a couple of days away but bills don't stop and last month was REAL hard. 🫠 If we could meet even 2k of this goal and NOT at the 11th hour, it would make a HUGE difference in our lives and health. Every dollar helps. Please help with what you can/boost. #MutualAid

🦈+🐇=🍀 #CherubArt

how hard can it be to just not buy xbox studios games i would like this to be rhetorical but it increasingly seems very difficult for people

Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension. Public pressure works. If enough people speak up, a life may be saved. Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.

Got the low funds warning today. Very desperate once again

Despite the ongoing death and suffering in Gaza, it's fallen out of the news. So today, @thenation.com is devoting its full website to stories from Gaza, written by reporters who have been there. Very proud of the magazine today. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Trouble on the Elwha: Trump’s Budget Cuts Undermine Iconic Salmon Restoration Project --- by @nickengelfried.bsky.social for @therevelator.org therevelator.org/elwha-trump-...

Help out some good people

I know this isn't the thing to take away from this but jesus christ the Harry Potter play was split into two plays? She made people sit through an entire day of that shit? I had no idea

Mina from Deadlock

No Progress! First half of the month crowdfund: Food (ASAP): 0/450 Electric Bill: 0/105 Gas Bill: 0/30 Cat Prescription Food/Bills: 0/240 cash.app/$DragonAField venmo.com/u/Caeli-Field www.paypal.me/caelifield #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2026 #TransCrowdfund #Crowdfund 💸💞

Still at 185/1800 needed for rent! Please please please don't let the big number make you think you can't help. Every dollar and every boost are like gold right now.

8-directional billboard sprite statue #GunmetalGothic #ScreenshotSaturday

Had a big chunk come in overnight towards what I need in the next 12 hours!!! Thank you SO SO MUCH that was really heartening. With the transfer fees taken out and one minor charge that happened overnight, I now need just 35 to get onto solid ground for the night. Than 1800 for rent. Please help!

I love this wolf drawing in Silent Hill with all of my heart

Still at 114 out of the 200 I need by tomorrow night. Trying to raise it before I sleep tonight, but as hard as this week has been, my body is...running out of steam, let's just say. There's still time for more help

"Whenever ten or more are gathered in my name, at least two hate my guts" CAN'T IMAGINE WHY

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

got fucked over w/ a job that turned out to be a huge scam after over a year unemployed, & now I'm 3 months behind on everything and facing certain ruin. probable eviction on the 1st, power cut on the 29th, out of meds... I need a break. www.paypal.com/paypalme/smi... account.venmo.com/u/scjreal

You don't have to have your gender figured all the way out to transition. You can just fuck around.

"he's so friend shaped" OKAY, PHRENOLOGIST

I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.

Important news: the lake is on his head, and his ears are sailboats

watched a yt video essay about the objectification of women in modern media and biopics and they used the term "torture corn" instead of torture porn and i think for the sake of what you are talking about you should take the demonetization to use the appropriate language. words mean things.

Kotaku Is Hiring A Staff Reporter https://kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hiring-a-staff-reporter-2000663475

Thinking about how I was meant to have bottom surgery in a few weeks but because I recently got treated for depression they removed me from the wait list and I now have to wait another 2 years. Trans healthcare really is designed to keep us suffering until we break

Silver propaganda

I'M SO HYPED #1348ExVoto

Doing some real deadlock gaming tonight

Was a little busy this morning watching the new Mothership Discord get filled with new subscribers, but my first piece for Mothership went up at launch - not a fun one to write, but an important one that I am glad Mothership supports. CW: IPV/abuse www.mothership.blog/if-your-roma...

Free for all readers, in this story Nico Deyo dives into why and how breaking gaming equipment can be abusive. www.mothership.blog/if-your-roma...