struggling to get basics again. i need to see doctors out of my insurance for my eye condition and while my roommate needs surgery i have doubled my expenses on food on some days because i’m in too much pain to function/cook 😭

In this rewatch of Black Sails before it leaves Netflix, the least realistic part is not that everyone is pretty, the very straight teeth, or even the perfect cuts and shaves. It's tall ass Tom Hopper as Billy Bones being stealthy. You mean no one sees this ten foot tall man if he hunches a little?!

I understand being upset that Starfleet Academy is being canceled. But I disagree, mildly, with blaming folks who didnt like the show for its cancelation. SFA was at the mercy of the same corporate leadership who axed Colbert and gutted CBS News. Starfleet Academy was never going to survive them.

TLC | abbreviation | tender loving care

Contumely [KON-tyoo-mil-ee] (n.) - Insolent or insulting language or treatment. A humiliating insult. (v.) - To offer rude or bitter reproach. Used in a sentence: “The deposed potentate was paraded through the capital amid public contumely, a spectacle designed to deter future tyrants.”

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections "In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me" canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

Videogames are no longer games. They are "ecosystems" designed to keep you engaged as long as possible to develop a feeling of investment which will slowly break down your resistance to making additional purchases. Capitalism ruins literally everything.

just last week i read a conversation between two major GG victims who were commiserating over their experiences of having to convince their therapists that they arent delusional and an internet mob really did come after them. like can you even imagine (im sure you can, gita)

the defensive position of "well do they have a point?" was a choice made out of fear, and we sacrificed a lot of women on that altar. i never want to see that happen again.

this does not mean to only elevate marginalized people when they are being harassed. this means uplifting and supporting marginalized writers all the time, and then when they inevitably get blowback, telling people to fuck off.

more than anything else, journalists are very good at circling the wagons when other journalists are threatened. this just did not happen for gamergate. if you see someone being harassed and you're a cis white hetero guy, the best thing you can do is position yourself between them and abuse.

i remember when gamergate was happening, reaching out to a staffed editor at a major games site and telling him how afraid i was, as a really green freelancer. i asked him for his support. his answer was "well, what can i do?" here's what i wanted to hear: i will put my body in front of this bullet.

*kicks down Yves's door* Welcome to the Kumite, motherf**ker! 😤

Every few years someone "proves" that Gatsby was actually Black or actually Jewish or actually Irish and it's like, the point is that it's ambiguous. That is what it is about. It is not a puzzle.

Gamergate 2.0 was hardly about games as much as it was about putting black and brown developers back in their “places”—out of games entirely, in front of or behind the screen. Any other explanation is window dressing

Important addendum: people who think they are not being published because publishing is too woke/too feminine/too soft but actually they just don't have the juice are even more numerous and pernicious.

really excited for this

If you've got work on @medium.com go check and be sure to not allow AI to be trained on your stories. I need the AI bubble to burst, expeditiously. medium.com/me/settings/...

DLSS5 thoughts. I went to Uni for game dev, and college on the same campus for animation. University was much more programming/tech focus, with an art stream so weak I was a TA in my undergrad. Suffice it to say: i knew a lot of budding programmers and tech bros. So many had no respect for art.

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby galaxy may be the culprit

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Picaresque [pik-uh-RESK] (adj.) - Pertaining to or dealing with rogues, rascals, or knaves and their adventures. Use: “Her picaresque adventures included such peccadilloes as impersonating a duchess, selling counterfeit love potions, and accidentally founding a very successful religious cult.”

"America invented videogames, so American games history IS gamimg history." Gaming history grew beyond America's borders. Nowadays it's practically irrelevant where games were invented. Get the fuck out of here with your American Exceptionalist shite.

Sybaritic [SIH-buh-RIT-ik] (adj.) Devoted to pleasure. Self-indulgent. Hedonistic, debauched, libertine. “Untroubled by the admonitory lessons of the French Revolution, they clung to their sybaritic excesses until the inexorable machinery of history ensured that the lesson would be taught again.”

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

All this. Yes.

I was also today years old, but given how wild ppl can be, I’m glad AO3 has this feature

I just want to talk to my people again…

Babes who also study with Olomi, i made this template thing if you want to do synastry acc to Medieval Islamicate astrology, enjoy 😉 💖🌹

I know a few(myself included) and we’re not religious as we are spiritual. We do know a lot about other religions, Perhaps having more than one placement in Taurus contributes to this as the few I know that are in my life only have one major placement. But we are interested in religion

This Mercury in Pisces retrograde is truly retrograding bc why did I come across the social media profile of someone I haven’t seen or spoken to in 7 years???I’ve never had this happen before & I hate it😭 Meanwhile I’m hoping to reconnect with someone who left when the eclipse started in Feb…

Barla-fumble [BAR-luh-fum-bul] (n.) - A call for a time out while wrestling or playing. - The act or an instance of ‘crying uncle.’ Scottish Used in a sentence: “I knew he was new on the wrestling team, so I sure wasn’t expecting to have to cry ‘barla-fumble!’ in the middle of the match.”

Right as Saturn was inching to the exact opposition of my natal Venus (TL) and as Jupiter was rising, I found my Saturn pendant after 2+ years of it being lost in the apartment 🥹

Gravid [GRAV-id] (adj.) - Pregnant; in a delicate condition; enceinte. - Full of meaning; significant or suggestive. Used in a sentence: “He endeavors to maintain his composure, even as his words, gravid with emotion, betray the depth of his distress.”

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

Women in STEM (stars, transits, elections, and moon phases)

I had a dream, saw something in it, cried about it in the dream, and then I woke up. Feeling very calm and detached right now

Pam Bondi is planning on getting this rule passed before anyone pays attention. Basically gives immunity to all her minions by blocking any other investigation into her illegal actions. Please comment before April 6, unless you are okay with this. www.regulations.gov/document/DOJ...

CAVES OF QUD has quickly become one of my favorite games for lots of reasons

So I’ve been working out during my Mars hour on days that good for me energetically, and all I can say is that I really feel good after the fact

I'm having one of those days where I am frustrated because for most of the major political questions the issue is not that we don't have answers, the issue is that people with money and power simply ignore the answers because they don't like them

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

"It's only then you realize while you're talking about organizing and committees, the extermination has already begun."