today is my 35th birthday! am i allowed to say "pushing 40" yet? you can help facilitate a great birthday by: - cashapp venmo queencharlene420 - paypal.me/excelsia - listening to/buying some music from any of my bandcamps - donating to a charity for Palestine - continuing to speak truth to power

Vitality Ritual show from April just went up on my YouTube! youtu.be/kBt6ZZRtluk #improv #improvisedmusic #nowave #freejazz #liveshows #olympia

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

The #WestCoastHealthAlliance has announced vaccine recommendations for the 2025-26 respiratory virus season. The guidance includes vaccines for COVID-19, flu, and RSV, helping families protect themselves and their communities as these viruses spread. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...

although she doesn't use bsky, i wanted to crosspost this @lucretiamacevil.bsky.social post from YouTube regarding nihilism vs. hope, because i feel like it deserves more eyes and a lot of consideration, especially when you see where we are in American society today. take care of your spirit.

Vitality Ritual show from April just went up on my YouTube! youtu.be/kBt6ZZRtluk #improv #improvisedmusic #nowave #freejazz #liveshows #olympia

If progressives can't even leave the platform that boosts right-wing talking points and *literally* spreads fascist propaganda, how are we going to tackle issues like the climate crisis which require a much deeper critique of the way we live our lives in Western and wealthy countries?

No matter what #Musk says or does, many on the left continue to post on and pay for X, a clear example of how progressive movements are beholden to the narrative that we don't have to change anything at all about our lives to achieve our political goals. I wrote about why that's bad in July ⬇️

The reason why people like Vance want to resort to snitching and doxxing is because that's culturally where the online American right comes from when dealing with political opponents: they love speaking to people's managers.

lets unlearn shame

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

American fascism will come to Canada, and soon, if you let it

People have been saying for as long as I can remember that it is weird western media is more comfortable with torture than kissing; the most extreme violence is more acceptable than intimacy. It's not weird. It's deliberate. Our culture wants violence public and love private, shameful, atomised.

The impulse to say that erotica CAN'T say anything of value, that porn MUST be mindless indulgence, is an extension of this problem by the way. Sex and kink are just parts of life. Art that explores both primarily can touch on other subjects meaningfully as well. Stop trying to silo everything.

although she doesn't use bsky, i wanted to crosspost this @lucretiamacevil.bsky.social post from YouTube regarding nihilism vs. hope, because i feel like it deserves more eyes and a lot of consideration, especially when you see where we are in American society today. take care of your spirit.

Here is a nice compilation of his viewpoints:

Opinions I have: 1. You should install Signal on your phone and computer. Connect with your friends and partners on it. Use it casually, regularly, for non-sensitive messages. 2. You should probably be taking vitamin D supplements.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

The Dems can “condemn” violence all they want. The right-wing establishment is still going to target them any opportunity they get. Any liberal condemnations just expedite the process of justifying their own destruction.

counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025

When Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman was murdered in her home by a gun toting MAGA maniac less than 90 days ago they said nothing. Trump even skipped her funeral and chose to play golf instead. He had the chance to condemn political violent and did not.

no i actually think it's good when open flagging Nazis are given their just desserts. do you guys think we still live in Obama 2008?

almost 14 miles today 🚴‍♀️ really starting to feel like i'm hitting my next power level. we put in the work, we get a little stronger each day. #fitnessposting #fitness

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials. My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

BTW this whole set is available on YouTube now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD3D...

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

Tapping the sign

This is correct.

This popular meme is a joke about the sexual assault and murder of a trans man, Brandon Teena. Most don’t know that. Now you do. Now spend some time thinking about why you don’t know that.

After many years of development, Silksong finally released on September 4th and everybody is loving it so far. But today, I want to talk about another metroidvania released on the same day with an equally long development history that I think y'all shouldn't sleep on. Adventure of Samsara (Thread)

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look at her arms bruh

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

literally bigots on all platforms would have dramatically less reach if we weren't utterly obsessed with finding their content explicitly to dunk on it. I get it, I do, as a Former Dunkee I get it! but like a fire-without oxygen it fucking dies. Deprive them of oxygen!

it’s important to keep faith in culture alive and you can’t do that by pointing at things that are stupid and vacuous. at some point you have to model the kind of attention and discipline you think has been lost or destroyed

heyyy everybody~ im back at it again, paycheck is late so to pay the rent all the games including 10S FOREVER are half off on itch over the weekend <3 surely there are no problems with this timing as nobody is playing anything else today. does anybody else hear that alarm itch.io/s/159738/per...

daily practice paying off, totally nailed all my fills last night 😈🔥🔥 #drums #drumposting #blackmetal #olympia

phew *wipes sweat off forehead* almost ended up doing a reply guy moment on an opinion in a post reply that i deeply disagree with but then i remembered that if i don't post and i ignore it then it doesn't take up real estate in my head and i can just move on *throws sweaty towel into dirty laundry*

Linehan got so obsessed with transphobic conspiracies he lost his family and here he is in court arguing that the trans minor he assaulted was probably lying about her age. The man’s brain scrampled egg.

Transphobia is a unique sort of bigotry that just absolutely cooks the online brain. Holding it nearly always results in an inability to ever admit you’re wrong about anything and exponentially increases the likelihood of believing in a cascade of ever dumber conspiracies and fascist ideology

From Kai Cenat to Druski, Twitch is filled with what I call “girl content” - humiliating women to the tune of thousands of boys that groom them till they’re ripe to be plucked by the red pill manosphere. And one of the worst offenders is DDG. youtu.be/qC1br8W8DdY

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

recently i dropped a few new recordings from my improvised expressive metal project Vitality Ritual, and it's Bandcamp Friday, so consider grabbing some weird longform music -- hundreds of minutes of music to go adventure with. aggressive & ambient. vitalityritual.bandcamp.com #bandcampfriday

new beat tape click it if u luv me oneunitwholeblood.bandcamp.com/album/one-mo...

After a lot of time spent this weekend, the system is almost completely functional. It calcs cap chance (based on LV, HP, Dist, Aware) & has a fail state. In the future, needs more camera angles and animations. Also missing the part where you compare stats afterward. #CherubDev #UE5 #GameDev

If you only take the big names as your inspiration you will inevitably be disappointed. There is no career path in games that involves only making big-time successes. Please find inspiration from making work you enjoy and, ideally, uplifting those who DON'T get attention. Many people could use it

a huge number of inspired, creative and very very worthy-of-people's time games come out daily on steam and what inspires me is the hope that people will still find them and play them even if and when they aren't hollow knight level successes. the idea that maybe we can have careers that way

I appreciate the horde of optimistic people this post seems to have brought to my door and look, if your biggest worry is people on reddit might dunk on you then sure, I'm glad that you find this inspirational, but as a career gamedev for over a decade what inspires me is not one in a million breaks