The 31st will be #transdayofvisibility and I want to do something to help the organization that's been so good to me since before I came out: @transgamedev.bsky.social. They need help paying the bills so I'm hosting a little fundraiser on twitch.tv/DanaENight and showcasing games from the community.

As I'm starting to take down Christmas decor, I realized I never posted this. I've seen book lovers put all they've read for the year into an ornament & I figured why not do that with video games 🎮💜 So during the year I made mini cases in batches as I completed games and this was the final result!

Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, sounded the alarm Friday, warning they expected more infants to be affected by hypothermia.

Trying to be creative under capitalism is evil. What’s your brand? Do you have a large following? How are you selling yourself? Can you produce constant output so people don’t get bored? How are you special and different? Why should we care? Answer these questions, be pretty, and maybe you’ll win!!

One of the reasons why Israel massacres journalists with impunity is because it was never held accountable for its gradual intensification of violence against media workers all these years. aje.io/pij2di

Happy city boy fashion new year to me, and to all of you! Also hello everyone who’s followed me recently; I’m not here a lot/mostly lurking, but I’ll do my best to say hi!

Two pieces from me in this, but more importantly everyone's hard work and lovely messages from the community <3

Hey bluesky idk how much I'll use this site but I wanted to let folks know about our zine, The Light at the End, celebrating the work of Arkane Austin over the years <3 You can download it for free here: thelightattheendfanzine.itch.io/the-light-at...

Hey Dishonored, Prey (2017), Redfall fans! If you’d like to send a parting message to the folks at Arkane Studios Austin in a worldwide fanzine, here’s your chance! 💌🐀 The zine will be released digitally and free to download for everyone. www.tumblr.com/thelightatth...

GASP a rare cryptid sighting/chance to get to know me 1 like = 1 answer

I 💜 the tiny tallneck (and so does @annamarabella.bsky.social)

These “we did a trial run of UBI and all the statistics show that it really helped in every way, now the trial is over and we’ll do nothing with that info” tests are really starting to feel like those Flat Earthers proving the earth is a globe with science and then ignoring their own findings videos

Worth the walk back to fetch the card! (Rhododendronpark, Bremen)

Four word horror story: No card in camera. And I was already at the park ;-;

Would you like to take a survey that's designed better than Adobe's UX nightmare of a GenAI questionnaire, and help me with research about the impact of a queer actors' collective? Here you go! (But do take that other one also, and piss in their AI-generated cereal.)

Would you like to take a survey that's designed better than Adobe's UX nightmare of a GenAI questionnaire, and help me with research about the impact of a queer actors' collective? Here you go! (But do take that other one also, and piss in their AI-generated cereal.)

Lmaoooo hit translate on this--no, Google, 'Beine rasieren' does not translate to 'leg work.' Beine rasieren = shaving your legs. But how smart is an LLM again?

Lmaoooo hit translate on this--no, Google, 'Beine rasieren' does not translate to 'leg work.' Beine rasieren = shaving your legs. But how smart is an LLM again?

Alle zwei Wochen den staubtrockenen, immer lichter werdenden Rasen mähen ist doch echt das Beine rasieren der Landschaftspflege.

today's research bits: tracking down interviews with actors who co-signed the actout manifesto. coming up later this week: research for a thing about how Alien vs Predator is, sort of accidentally, an achingly tender, queer monsterfucker movie

Some faves from the park 🌿📷

Damit das klar ist.

Boah wer knibbelt hier jedes Mal meine #fckafd Sticker von der Ampel! Egal! Ich kleb weiter ✌️

There was a lot of exceptional football reporting on Qatar and I think Germany can get the same. There are entire towns in Germany where non-white people are wary of travelling. Given the diverse nature of Germany’s national team, that feels like a real story that would resonate beyond the country.

The idea of getting covid 2-3 times a year is horrifying to me. I was unlucky and had it once. I do not want it ever again. We do not need to make this disease a normal part of our lives.

The recent Perfect Dark resurgence has given me an excuse to dig up an old feature I wrote about the original back in 2005, on why it didn't sell as well as the iconic-classic-but-still-not-as-good Goldeneye 007... (...Don't boo me, you know it's the truth): www.patreon.com/posts/rare-t...

Do you ever think about how much money humanity spends on nuclear weapons, just to keep that Sword of Damocles hanging over all our heads? It was $91 billion last year. Well over twice the amount needed to end world hunger. All for something that’s intended to simply exist and not be used.

researching queer rep in German TV and film like "yeah we went from 1 in ten thousand to 15 in ten thousand since 2021, that's pretty, uh. that's pretty good, hey"

"The view that people are merely biological computers who spit out words based on the totality of what they’ve read is offensively cynical. If we lower the standards for what it means to be human, however, machines look a lot more impressive." this is so fucking on point

Just a reminder that Indigenous people protect the majority of the world’s biodiversity and that land back is a solution to both the climate crisis and mass extinction.

researching queer rep in German TV and film like "yeah we went from 1 in ten thousand to 15 in ten thousand since 2021, that's pretty, uh. that's pretty good, hey"

today's research bits: tracking down interviews with actors who co-signed the actout manifesto. coming up later this week: research for a thing about how Alien vs Predator is, sort of accidentally, an achingly tender, queer monsterfucker movie

Article about the intersection of their queer identity and their Palestinian heritage and how they’re ignored by the world by queer Palestinians Amina and Ranin Muhammad 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🌈🍉

Some faves from the park 🌿📷

I love the German queer union

Whale ink, fresh 🐋

i'm sorry, this is an area where i am just completely unwilling to compromise. i think speeding and reckless driving are profoundly antisocial acts that are DEMONSTRABLY PROVEN to result in TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS every year in car and pedestrian crashes. this seems bad to me.

I teach in schools and I have never seen young men as radicalised by the far right as they are now. I have never been so often warned by teachers about students before taking their classes. There is a level of rage there that is startling.

I have never seen so many Nazis in the middle of Berlin as I have seen in the last two weeks. Their favourite outfits seem to be Yakuza tops and combat trousers but you can read more about other brands here, including Thor Steinar: assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i11...

One got off at my tram stop. Hours later I saw another one, shaven-headed, on my way home from a reading. Then, on my way to a friend’s flat, I saw two more, barely out of their teens, by a main railway station. It’s a level of far-right activity that is new and very concerning.

The survey I set up will remain open over the summer, as I'll be working on the essay (article + video) for quite a while, bit by bit! Please participate, whether you've heard of the initiative before or not, and share it with others who care about queer representation in film!

The survey I set up will remain open over the summer, as I'll be working on the essay (article + video) for quite a while, bit by bit! Please participate, whether you've heard of the initiative before or not, and share it with others who care about queer representation in film!

First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines"). futurism.com/the-byte/tim...

oh my god

Whale ink, fresh 🐋

““Life in the tent is like hell. “We do not know what to do, whether to stay inside or go outside … The high temperatures are unbearable,” she said. “Children suffer from skin diseases as a result of excessive heat and sweat, and the lack of water for bathing.””

Have you heard of actout, the collective of 185 German actors/performers who came out as queer as a unit in early 2021, advocating for better working opportunities and queer stories? I'm working on a retrospective video essay about it, and here's a survey: forms.gle/Pc4H56ix5gYp... Please share 🌟