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I gave the IFPA my view of the trans-exclusionary OBX pinball tournament. I reject the notion that it's the responsibility of trans people to compromise with transphobia, and also reject that it's just a "women's issue".

arborelia.net/ifpa-obx.html

All HW zones get tweaks to have at least two aetherytes (Coerthas West gets one outside of Dusk Vigil, Hinterlands gets one on both sides, Sea of Clouds gets a third on the east side, Azys Lla gets a second over in the southeast quadrant)

I hate that this what our entire economy has become. Endless growth is what cancer does. Why can't we be happy with stability?

The great irony of CWs and tagging systems is platforms identified them as easy ways to moderate content at the insistence of app stores and paypros. So now we all have to go back to an era where nothing gets tagged and nothing gets a CW

I've been saying it, but I'm gonna let her say it better

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.

Someone just sent me a bunch of examples of these. Apparently the site is flooded with them.

There's gotta be a story behind all of these.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i3fhjvvkbmirhyu4aeihhrnv

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3lyngxhj4jc2b

How close did we get yesterday to some trans person, somewhere, getting killed because the Wall Street Journal decided to lie about this

PSA

you need to treat bluesky as if it were permanent. always. every post you make goes out to the public firehose and it is probably captured by someone somewhere. the delete button doesn't do what you think it does.

every day is shut the fuck up friday, besties 💜

500 billion selfies taken last year

how do you know that, apple

TODAY is election day!

Grab a friend, coworker, or family member and make your voices heard.

Get out and #vote!

🧵

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

EVEN if you can, somehow, delude yourself into justifying staying at the Nazi bar, the business case for staying on Substack also no longer makes sense.

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

so an app providing censorship bypass tools to mainly chinese users got kicked off play store a while ago cuz the verification expired and per (new?) policies the developer must now list their real name & address; guess what someone threatened by a totalitarian superpower might not want to share?

only transcribing the important part: "The portal we, and the rest of the country, use to submit prior authorizations to insurances uses an AI software to more efficiently process prior authorizations. It works until it does not. It made a mistake this time on how many patches are being requested, and closed our prior authorization request saying it wasn't needed."

i am out of estradiol patches because AI made a fucky wucky :)

This how to participate for FFXIV's MH collab is so fucking funny

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it

authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

Oh, look. It's that thing everyone predicted would happen when you give them an inch

The dead have a right to remain dead. An animated skin put over a computer model and given the same name as the dead son of grieving parents is a cursed golem and a full delusion. By interviewing the computer model, Acosta has asked us to accept this as true or real. Gun control deserves better.

Possibly the most 2025 event of all time

Texans: It is extremely important that if you cannot attend tomorrow’s redistricting hearing in Austin, you submit public comment to oppose the new map. It’s important that we have the public opposition on the record for if and when this goes to court #txlege

I will never stop being annoyed at the way political commentators name their YouTube videos. Trump is always getting DESTROYED or EXPOSED or is UNRAVELING or PANICKING and I just hate it that's all because none of those things are actually happening.

Kusogrande LIVE! at SGDQ 2025 - YouTube

Hey hey, all the vods for Kuso Live at #SGDQ2025 are up! Thank you so much @gamesdonequick.com for how fast you get them online; y'all rock! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We never should have let people believe that sarcasm is an acceptable substitute for a personality.