Tower of Barad-dur has stopped emitting giant fiery eye

since the update is out, here are some animal crossing patterns i made before for the A YEAR OF SPRINGS characters! (rest of the outfits in the reply) #ACNH #あつ森

crowdfunder for the family (via a reliable MN-local source) www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

This is worth a thousand "talk to old guys in a diner" puff pieces. He's putting out slogans that would win political campaigns. "We're all human beings here." "I gotta work in the goddamn morning like everybody else." "What the fuck?"

Beautiful prose. Tragically accurate. “It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE’s actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped.”

sneak peek for a couple new leons that'll be available for the month-end sticker sale 👀

Happy ACNH Day to anyone who picked up their game again. I love Isabelle so much that a few years back I even made a small art book just featuring her. #art #cuteart #pixel #acnh #animalcrossing

HUGE. A fed judge in the BLM vs City of Los Angeles case has banned LAPD from using 40mm rubber bullets at protests. "Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order."

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

セーラームーン🌙

Cyberpunk 2077 ass post.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

“The internet was better before!” Yes and people are keeping that energy going, one silly little website at a time (Maybe this’ll motivate me to do something with Baten Kaitos script dumps or the like)

#PortfolioDay ✨fanart ver.

ICE murdered a Cuban man at a concentration camp on American soil built and staffed using our tax dollars

🧵 CO's Sec't of State, county clerks and League of Women Voters are pleading with Gov. Polis not to pardon Tina Peters. In an interview just now, I asked what his message is to them. "If you want to run for governor, you can be governor and then you have the ability to grant clemency and pardons."

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know: aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

The most terrifying part of writing the bigfoot article for Orion... here is the full transcript from the bigfoot museum, cut for space. Sarah Swanson accidentally squeezed a supposed bottle of bigfoot smell right up mah nose. orionmagazine.org/article/bigf...

If you're an actual play producer, thinking about submitting your show for a Web Fest this year, you should check out the @coloradowebfest.bsky.social. Mike has put together a fest SPECIFICALLY to celebrate audio fiction and actual plays (audio and video)! coloradowebfest.com 1/2

My librarian self is always in the house.

725 to raise today. Mai is a single mom. She and they need our help. Please give what you can. Share widely. Click on weekly or monthly.

I'm dying this is the funniest thing I've seen THE LOCAL NEWS do in years.

After getting concessions!

自分がchatGPTとかを使いたくない理由は生成AIイラストと成り立ちが全く同じで学習元が無許可の著作権無法地帯って事も大きいんだけど、一番は些細な意思決定も自分以外のものに委ねちゃうといつかメンタルが大きく崩れそうだからってのがある スマホが普及して漢字が書けなくなったの実感してるので自分で考える事を少しずつ手放してくとなんか壊れそうな気がする　脳って意外と単純なので

Due to bad health, the Xmas rush didn't have chance to materalise, so I'm on one last big push to take care of January rent and bills. Getting the shop stocked up with jewellery: oishiny.etsy.com And over 150 wallpapers to choose from: ko-fi.com/turtleofcalm... #DisabledArtist #Helpsky #💕💸

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

One of the main things I appreciate about LA is that going anywhere, at any time, in any way, is a horrifying ordeal

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

The third one, the writerly one has arrived! The one where I don't remember what I actually talked about. I bet it's going to be embarrassing, whatever I said. It's probably also the messiest one, in some ways, as the whole writing section of Disco Elysium is a gordian knot made of titanium.

Supurrnova

1. fuck ICE 2. help each other 3. long live weird horror 4. fuck ICE

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

the timeline is tempting me to hop back on Animal Crossing

An argument I see repeatedly as the Americans go around talking about "immigration enforcement" (ie, racism as state policy) is the idea that it should go after "businesses that employ illegal immigrants" buddy. baby. my child. the immigration enforcement IS THE REASON those businesses do that

Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.

Most people can't fundraise online for life-saving winter supplies. This is one way Spark Space is providing a CRUCIAL service: internet & electricity so that workers can connect to remote jobs—to earn income. Click "weekly" on a coffee to keep the lights on: chuffed.org/project/spar...

ICE is coming to Portland and Lewiston imminently, their mayors confirmed today. Both cities have large Somali populations. When reached for comment, ICE wouldn’t even confirm whether or not this action was happening.

PS even if you don’t have any $ to donate right now, sharing this list far and wide would help greatly! ⬇️

This is actually demonic & should strike as corrosive to the souls of anyone who considers themselves American. It’s the most dishonorable act imaginable. It’s beyond disgusting.

On Trails into Reverie, I personally handled much of the dialogue for the main dungeon. The game lets you form parties out of over 50 characters across the series, each with dozens of unique combat and exploration barks. If I can make do without ChatGPT, so can Netflix writers making 100x my pay lol

We've been calling them 'words.' But here's the thing: that's not quite tadashii. A kotoba isn't a word. They're something else entirely- a role unique to Japanese gengo. And there's no eigo no kotoba that surus it seigi. So from ima on, wareware tsukau the hontou no kotoba: kotoba.

In my books, I talk about a writer who has holes in his memory from crunch. Forever. He's never getting that part of his memory--his life!--back. And for what? A video game.

You don’t understand, we gotta burn out senior experienced devs, so we can keep having the same 5 discourses on a loop. There is a very real risk that if we treat people with respect and manage them well that we might have to stop re-debating basic terminology and practices.

エメトセルク描いたよー #FF14イラスト

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

proudly thumping his chest about how this industry grinds talent into dust while being under the utter delusion that we're onboarding new talent respectfully, it is this thinking that has brought to the industry to its current historical lowpoint