Gabriel aka mystal

Disabled people are not expendable.

We’re not stealing your tax dollars. We aren’t lazy. We can’t “try harder” our way out of disability.

The Nazis started with disabled people for a reason. They knew no one would fight for us.

Want to resist? Engage in disability justice (and wear a mask!)

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

Fuckin’ sick

Oof, that's such a shame but I can't say I'm surprised :/

Gods I was just talking to my friend about Shortpacked and It's Walky yesterday. I feel like it was just this era of slice of life comics turned save the world/universe epics.

Speaking of which, I can't believe Sluggy's still going!

It is distressingly easy, if you’re able-bodied like me, to find yourself going along with the widespread notion that covid is no longer a threat, that long covid is a temporary setback at worst — until you’ve seen a complex illness like long covid or ME/CFS up close. Then the notion is shattered.

“Listen, son. I don’t know about your fight with the heartless or Organizations or whatnot. But if you’re using propane and propane accessories to win this fight, then you’ll have this honest texan fighting alongside you.”

It's a red text post that says: (transgender woman being denied at basketball tryouts, but it's the same town where Air Bud took place) come on coach you know me, playing nationals is my dream! (coach) sorry kid, "biological advantages" and all that. maybe if you were a dog things could be different, but.. (trans woman, cautiously getting down on all fours and looking up) okay okay so wait. uhhhm, like,.. woof? (coach, visibly excited) SOMEBODY GET THIS BITCH A JERSEY NOW!!

blowing past expectations by miraculously remembering to post here a third time in one week

This is 100% the case in my experience

You can pay extra and later find out they lied to you about the ethically produced thing you bought

This is what the everyday fight against imperialism and late stage capitalism feels like. Together we do our best to repair the damage done. Bit by bit

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art." 02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art." 03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'. 04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

Been an infuriating few weeks on the internet so thought I would write about a game that brings me (and hopefully soon you) some joy.

Crystal Project (2022) by Andrew Willman is an ambitious sandbox job system RPG that'll take you 20 - 60 hrs to clear driven by your own wanderlust.

Let's dive in🧵

I was so stuck in Isles of Sea and Sky making very slow progress for a couple hours. But after visiting an island I hadn't been to in a while I unlocked a key item that opened a ton of new places! Lots of progress tonight :3

Burnout and Weightlifting The last step in recovery.

The long-awaited follow-up to my article "How The Games Industry Hurts People".

A tale of trauma, healing, and finding your way back.

If you've ever been burned out, crunched, mistreated, mismanaged, or generally ground to a crisp, this one is for you.

I remember being told that there are the tools people yell at and the ones no one uses. It's definitely part of the process of getting comfortable with new software!

Quick reminder that your library is still serving free lunch for children 18 and under all summer 🍎

I dreamed that my metamour's kid--who is 5--had me in her phone as "Gabe NPC". I was so bummed out but man what a burn

I hope a demo comes out later for other platforms, but they're advertising it as an exclusive debut demo for the Switch 2 :(

Blue Prince is a Conversation with the House. A comic essay by Ari Ganahl Contains minor spoilers for themes and mechanics in the game Blue Prince

This feels like a silly time to post this, but I drew an essay about the game Blue Prince and I want to share.

This game got inside my brain in a way I really enjoyed, and I have thoughts
(no spoilers for puzzles or plot)

#comicoop 💥 #BluePrince #fanart

Dang I wanna play an action JRPG as a red mage! But the demo's a Switch 2 exclusive. Why you gotta do this to me 😭

photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos meme guy

Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

This passage stood out to me, and I see it everywhere in real life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

cohost being gleefully eviscerated and now itch as well – single digit teams are going to make mistakes. they should receive feedback when they do, but treating them like faceless corporations will ensure that only the faceless corporations will stick around to provide these services.

I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to

Patch Notes: DDR pads no longer steal input from other controllers