I know we're all talking about the NEW Ghost in the Shell anime now and that's cool, but only yesterday I heard a Bulgarian women's choir and my reaction was instantly "OH! OH!! SO THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS!!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cAY...

Ahhh, ok, so they released the on-demand concert for Miss Victoria the day *after* the Champion's Meet was officially done. I wonder if that was across the board, anyone that participated in Leo, or only folks that got to the finals? (Still thinking about that bug tho, hope they fix for next time)

Oh! The upside to this is that my current combination of Valve Proton 11, and OBS 32 (Flatpak) doesn't have any of the weird artifacts I've previously encountered, so I'm one step closer to being off Windows.

Decided to make a recording of my Leo Cup win and the concert (since currently Miss Victoria only appears after CMs), and found a timing bug specifically affecting the 1st Place Umamusume and Trainer banner. Confirmed it also happens on mobile, so I reported it to Cygames. Hope someone reads it lol

Winning the Leo Cup (Graded, Group B) is the best way to find out Miss Victoria has been added to Global:

It's Mambo Monday! I intend to do some vids and/or streams where I run Machitan, but I'm not quite prepped for that yet. So I'll post the results of today's run later!

Her alt palettes would also go hard. (If you've beaten the game, you know what I mean. Also, orange you glad I didn't say Fire Emblem?)

Got my first penta-win (albeit in Group B), and it's definitely thanks to the newer, beastlier King Halo and Air Groove:

I'd be super interested if I was either 10 years younger, or it was at the local theater. Alas, the nearest is about 30 minutes away and I don't like night driving.

So as part of the Umamusume Global 1.5 year anniversary event, they start with one free trainee pull for the first (I think) 10 days. On the first two days, I got a back to back red door (guaranteed 3★ pull), so I was like "Oh! I guess they're being *really* generous!"

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Ai stole from us. it looks like our art because it is stealing OUR art. And now we get to add mitigation of ai blowback to our list of things to manage as artists. 🙃

We've seen what the OSA has done in the UK We've seen Texans locked out of BlueSky if they dont hand over their personal info Call your senators and tell them to vote no against KOSA and the KIDS Act Its not for the kids. Its for censorship and mass surveillance

Woke up feeling slightly more rested than usual. Unfortunately, my energy reserves are leaky so that didn't last very long lol.

what's it called when you couch regressive, conservative policies like this AI shit in progressive speak to sell it to leftists, and then if any leftists clock it as bullshit, you question their dedication to progressivism?

I struggle severely with neurodivergence and the AI usage at my work place has made my job infinitely worse. My mental health is at an all time low, burn out is at an all time high, and AI has robbed me of the fun parts of my job while forcing me into a noxious mixture of tedium and stress.

Pokémon Sleep is introducing what's effectively the Gen 1 daycare (just does XP gain, no breeding, but is free) and I dig it. Doesn't count toward the Pokémon's sleep time (so this isn't for ribbon hunters), but being able to side-level Pokémon is huge for improving alt teams.

Sell your book in five words: Lesbian cyborgs will overthrow capitalism topatoco.com/collections/...

Accidentally misread the current Champions Meeting terrain and length while training for it, so I made some Dirt Umas instead of Turf Sprint. Thankfully there's two days of qualifying matchmaking, so I trained some Umas better suited to the track (and they're kinda beastly I think?) for tomorrow.

This would also be bad for those who end up newly disabled & unable to keep their job. How quick a company would drop people, forcing worse circumstances.

BEGGING people to understand that you do not need to shove transphobic shit in trans people's faces just to let everyone know that they shouldn't support a business. You could just describe it! Stop boosting hate just to shake your head at it to let everyone know you disapprove.

Hello #portfolioday I'm Alexandra, and I do webcomics with @kbspangler.com 🐨 agirlandherfed.com is a Hugo Award finalist, with cyborgs, ghosts, and an ADHD hero 👟 familydemons.com is on KB's Patreon, has magic and kids alone at home 🐲 sidequested.com is a fantasy romcom, and Book 1 is out now!

Rather sick of hearing from that disgusting bigoted hatemonger, how about we try and raise up some trans folks instead? If you are trans and are an artist, writer, gamedev, musician, or creative of some variety? Reply below with links to your work(s)! Only one rule - strictly no generative AI.

Once again reminding folks that *this already happened once* and was so unpopular they got rid of it. Permanent Standard, yes. Permanent DST, hell no.

Verify your age: I've outlived my retail copy of Pokémon Yellow. (It had the best batteries of any of the GBC games I own, and I last checked them in, 2020, maybe 2022. Point is, it too has probably given up the ghost.)

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

It's Mambo Monday! I was running out of things to write here, but I think I might start doing a Machitan run on Mondays to accompany the post.

Was gonna make a post about the zen-ness of Haru Urara Arima Kinen training and how it results in a really good Haru Urara even if you fail... ... but then on this current run I lost the challenge race on the 4th Unity Cup objective despite the preview indicating I met parameters.

Another opportunity to share my ‘Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers’ essay👇 Hat tip: @tadethompson.bsky.social for pointing out Fitzcarraldo Editions have no front cover art and stick figures will suffice.

I should probably go and fetch some good sake or wine to have on hand for, shall we say, unexpected occasions.

The CDC has stopped monitoring for the Krytos virus.

The odds I miss the call because I don't answer strange numbers

the tension between wanting to be involved in whatever this is and the millennial desire to never, ever answer my phone

Not all art is drawn! Code and text copy is art too. GenAI for any purpose is stealing from creators who didn’t consent to their work in the training set I completely reject the idea that code generation is somehow different If you use an LLM for any part of something you built then you’ve used AI

I know im goin on about this a lot but please contact your senators about opposing KOSA and the KIDS Act. Please make friends and family aware of how this will effect them and their privacy.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

Been quite a bit since I posted about this build, but I've made a bunch of progress over the last week (mostly because I'm procrastinating on working on the storage system beneath it, and terrain 🫠):

Ok it's fairly well-established that I play Umamusume right? Right. Well, the thing about the PC version is that it stores the executable in one place (steam directory), but the game resources (the bit that takes the actual storage) in your AppData.

For the workday crowd. This is now on by default as of yesterday. Meta is evil man.

I know searching for etymology is a little niche, but Google used to have a nice little tree diagram breaking down where various roots/modifiers came from and when; however, as one might expect, it has been replaced by the LLM "summary" which is more verbose and worse UX than the tree diagram.

It's Mambo Monday! Omatsuri Mambo~

POV: you’re Winston Payne and you’re the straight DEI hire at Japanifornia Prosecutor’s Office #aceattorney

This is basically the plot to "Mage & Demon Queen". Definitely recommend to the WLW webtoon enjoyers.

For reference/comparison, here's the Lodestone render (because I haven't made the EC entries, let alone taken screenshots for the group yet):

like it's gotten so bad my partner actually argued me that isekai has always been this way because they straight up did not realize this used to be the genre of like.... Esccaflowne www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtNA... Volume warning for the first note but goddddddd ESCAFLOWNEl. ALL MY LOVE

We have fun in Satisfactory in this house 🏳️‍⚧️❤️