No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

SIGNAL BOOSTING THIS My friend SnugglyBun is trying to get together funds to escape her country which has indeed descended into fascism Please donate, or otherwise share this round! I hope we can come through for her

💫 1 WEEK TO GO 💫 Our submission deadline is coming up soon, so get your tracks in by Nov. 2 @ 1pm PST! Submission form & rules: infloresce.com/snowdrop-fes...

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

i am not active much on social media these days, but every time i come back to peek at it it's constant misinformation city and really upsetting and stressful

Happy Autumn! 🍂 New free read on our Patreon: "on creating 'successful' releases" by @samplemance.rs, an essay exploring what makes an album work. Available to everyone, go check it out~ patreon.com/posts/on-creating-by-141464085

Okay I wish we had a darker green, but this is kinda sick actually?

address: 東京都世田谷区北沢２丁目２７−10 open 1-7pm today!

today is the last day to see @shirleywu.studio’s and my interactive ceramics & data science art show at such as gallery in shimokitazawa, tokyo!

Shion Uzuki - Xenosaga (Comm for Robin) #XenobladeChronicles

NEW ALBUM ALERT! The 4th WAM album is coming soon! Our biggest album yet! FEATURING: 15 spooky/whimsical/autumnal tracks 15 unique pieces of art 42 Musicians and Visual Artists All written, produced, drawn, etc. in a 3-DAY WEEKEND Catch the premier on Youtube (@cloudcrewcollective), OCT 26!

❄️ 応募要件 ・曲の長さ：1分~5分 ・2024年12月～2025年11月の期間に作曲またはリリースされた作品であること。 ・オリジナル楽曲のみ受け付けます。（カバー曲不可） ・生成AIを使用した作品は禁止となります。 ❄️ 応募締切：11月2日 @maddie.vision には今年の投稿フォーム作成、 @renko.studio には投稿フォームの日本語訳にご協力いただきました。心より感謝申し上げます。

投稿募集中です！ 🌸🔬🎶 スノードロップ・フェスティバル 2025 2025年12月13日、Infloresceはデジタル・フュージョン・コミュニティと、それをとりまくシーンが生み出す音楽を楽しむ、4回目のバーチャル・フェスティバルを開催します。どなたでも応募可能です！ 日本語版の投稿フォームはこちら： infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-submission-form-ja

Upcoming show in SF! Wisdom Waveform 🎹🎻🍂 Nov 9 @ 2pm We'll be performing with our friends @jasonyu.me, @roninopf.bsky.social & @sixthstationtrio.bsky.social in an afternoon of classical fusion music & local art! Hosted by @syzygysf.com 🤎 🎨: Meena Vempaty Tix: syzygysf.com/events/wisdom-waveform

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! 🌸🔬🎶 SNOWDROP FESTIVAL 2025 We're hosting our 4th annual festival on Dec 13—celebrating the music made by the digital fusion community & adjacent scenes in 2025. All are welcome to participate! Submission form & rules: infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-submission-form

believe in yourself and what you stand for. express it even if it is messy. the world is stacked against you and full of cultures driven by systems made to make you feel flustered and shut you up. we won't get better at it if we keep bottling it up in fear (notes for self)

Bumping this! I'm still searching for localizers for the following below. If that's you, or if you know someone who it fits, please reach out! This is a paid, short term, fully remote opportunity, though you must be in Ontario due to grant restrictions.

if you are an artist and you don't use the paypal invoice system, you are basically asking for a malicious or clueless client to terminate your career

tokyo friends, @shirleywu.studio and i have been working on a datavis + ceramics art show that will open next week! ephemeral: capturing seven decades of blooms and foliage in ceramics 📆 2025.10.16(thu)–10.19(sun) 1–7pm 🎊 10.17 (fri) 6–8pm opening party 🗺️ such as gallery, shimokitazawa, tokyo

What are good microframeworks to look at for Ruby these days? I regularly use Ruby but I haven't for anything web dev in a long time.

This is what I’m talking about when I say bluesky is not decentralized in any way that’s real. I know most people using this do not care about decentralization, but at least care enough to call out the bisquick team when they try to push this shit as a defense mechanism.

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

Dare I ask… what are the best rich text editing libraries today, for web? React, not React, I don't mind. Just want to know what's out there now. Last time I was deep into this stuff was 2 years ago

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

i like them the normal amount

it's looking like i'm going to need to look for an engineering job soon :/

Dave Rodgers— like, THE Eurobeat Guy, who did "Deja Vu" and "Space Boy"— and Eurobeat Brony, as in, "howling at the moon and sleeping in the middle of a summer afternoon", you get it. Made a new version of Discord. 🤯 bfan.link/discord-3.fpo

i miss LAPOM! if you are in the LA area, it's such a cool club in the Gardena area where you can play on some top of the line AMOS automatic tables

time for me to look for some sydney riichi meetups

Folks in digital preservation looking for a chill place to hang out off here - I run a digipres mastodon instance, digipres.club. I try to keep it running well and low stress. All are welcome.

WOW it’s bandcamp friday!!! i recently put out a group of tracks i’m very proud of, go check it out if you’d like 🙂‍↕️

intersections and Perseids 🌠 both were released through @infloresce.com, who y'all should *definitely* check out for even more cool music to grab for bandcamp friday! infloresce.bandcamp.com 💖

intersections also features some amazing musicians! @milesmorkri.bsky.social on bass, @zantilla.bsky.social on guitar, Laura Serafine on vocals, Brian Burwell on drums! the wonderful @mklachu.bsky.social is on strings for *both* Perseids 🌠 & intersections!! such an honour to work with everyone!

my album, intersections, is also on Bandcamp, with cover art AND an amazing digital comic, both by @sailorhg.com! it's about coming to terms with all the pieces that make you, you~ with fun sparkly music inspired by video games & pop maddievision.bandcamp.com/album/inters... #BandcampFriday

Happy Bandcamp Friday!! ✨ if you're looking for music to grab i've got some to throw your way! recently my single Perseids 🌠 got re-released with beautiful new artwork by @sailorhg.com! a cozy song for a night out under the stars maddievision.bandcamp.com/album/perseids #BandcampFriday

If anyone would like the most up-to-date experimental version of VG Music Studio, look no further than my new-gui-experimental branch: github.com/PlatinumLuca...

this is probably the most embarassing source code i will ever put up. VB6 code from 2003 that i had been convinced was lost forever github.com/maddievision... if you were in the emu / rom hacking scene in the early 2000s you probably remember this program lol

i know its funny and meme-y to post the styled italic text meme going around now. just know that that kind of styled characters, and everything like strikethrough, circle letters, etc. are a trainwreck on most screen readers and completely inaccessible text

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

Ruby still my favourite language and i really wish it were as popular as something like Python. real shitty to see what happened w RubyGems

I got the jackets in for the vinyl of Past Future Present Memory, my new album!!! they turned out so crisp and bright. (artwork + design by the inimitable @aurahack.ca !) I'm really excited for this to come together - the records themselves are still in production but the test press sounded great 🙌

i need more games on Switch/2 to have free demos

the likelihood i will make it to GDC (or at least be in the area when its on) next year is looking quite slim. therefore i propose we meet up at a cute garden in VRChat instead

trails in the sky fc remake makes me want a xenogears remake on the xenoblade engine even more.. sqex/monolithsoft pls (the FC remake is done in a newer trails engine introduced in trails through daybreak so it would be a similar jump into existing modern technology)

Search engines will soon be forced to check your age. According to new polling, about half of Australians have no idea this new regulation is coming.

since i have been sick for 2 months i hadn't been really planning anything. PAX Aus is next month but only Fri and Sun are available

realising i am more or less cut off from physically seeing my US friends from for the foreseeable future, not just bc it seems unsafe to visit, but it seems risky for them to leave! starting over here has been slow since i've spent most of my time back sick so far

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is coming back :D have this really old NES cover i did a while ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKq...

Speaking of which: My top surgery fund has been at 84% for over 3 months. I could still use the help as it put me in a lot of debt, and my financial situation is still precarious.

i miss the search feature from twitter where you could filter by people you follow, bc sometimes i wanna see if mutuals are talking about / have talked about something i'm interested in / curious about