Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

at this point, support for blacksky is existential to the continued existence of atproto as a viable platform

a hand drawn hex map showing two major towns with forests, farms, hills and deserts in between and oceans around the edges

I should probably do occasional self-promotion

I made a system-neutral supplement called Procedures to Discover the Path Ahead. You can use it to make maps (or point crawls or paths) that are semi-random, where landmarks change as you travel

seedling.itch.io/procedures-t...

Save 30% on despelote on Steam A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.

despelote is 30% off as part of the steam autumn sale!

people always say this is the best season to play soccer, maybe it is also the best season to play despelote? (unless ur in ecuador where we have no seasons so it is always the best time to play soccer)

buy it now!

Image text reads: Do you teach board games? We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere. The survey takes about ten minutes to complete. To find out more, please use the QR code, visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778) There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

photo of the fireman’s coat (design: brown hawk flying over blue wave) hanging on display at museum

photo of the gallery label: “Unidentified Artists) Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with Hawk and Waves early to mid-20th century Japan Cotton, plant dyes This handmade firefighter's coat, made of layers of cotton stitched securely together, is displayed inside-out to reveal a hawk soaring above turbulent waves. Worn during a fire with its undecorated exterior facing out, the coat was saturated with water to protect the firefighter from flames and debris. Rather than using water to put out fires, late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese firefighters demolished structures near a fire to prevent it from spreading. After extinguishing a fire, the heroic men turned their coats to display the decorated insides. The firefighter who chose this design for his coat valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision. Anonymous Gift, BMA 2024.374”

#TextileTuesday:
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with #Hawk and Waves
Japan, early to mid-20th c.
Cotton, plant dyes
On display at BMA (2024.374)
“The firefighter who chose this design…valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.”
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt

photo of the pottery piece on display at museum double chambered & single spouted (upside down Y shape) vessel; left half as a light brown strombus shell with spout half red-brown and right half as a dark brown spondylus shell with spout half light brown; molded and incised details

photo of the gallery label: “Unidentified Moche Artist Double Chambered Bottle Representing a Spondylus Shell and Strombus Shell lst-7th century North coast, Peru Earthenware, slip Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation, Upper Nyack, New York, BMA 2005.31”

#TwoForTuesday :
Double Chambered Bottle
Representing a Spondylus #Shell and Strombus Shell
Moche culture, North coast Peru, 1st-7th c.
Earthenware, slip
On display at Baltimore Museum of Art (2005.31)
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #Mollusks

A wolf in tiger clothing.

the best moral panic of my childhood was when people thought there was a bit in the lion king during "can you feel the love tonight" where the lions rolled through some grass in a way that spelled "sex", a devious plot to point out the scene's subtext to an audience of largely illiterate children

confronting my neighbor over the strange shells that have been appearing in his midden heap

robotnic from the classic sonic games

kinktober backwards

This is my ultimate love letter to rhythm games, to storytelling, and to exploration games. Completely for free. I hope this personal project of mine can make somebody happy.

Directed, Composed, Illustrated, Written, Programmed
with love <3
by me.

Happy Anniversary SKY HOUR WORKS.

Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania (Color Edition) Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania (Color Edition) [Kalata, Kurt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania (Color Edition)

Alright, let’s recommend some books about games. This will be a thread I add stuff to as I think of it.

Kurt Kalata writes about all kinds of games but if you’ve known his work as long as I have, he’s Mr. Castlevania. I really liked this one.

www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Gam...

hand to god, he then took this shirt off to reveal a "Dump 62 Here" shirt underneath

Hi,
I’m travelling next month for family-related stuff, and I’m looking to get extra funds for expenses during that time. Any help at all is appreciated. Thank you!

A stack of two felt books with a tiny ghost and pumpkin on top

back on my bs: spooky edition

I've heard every "we have to hit them where it hurts" argument in the book, and none of them are beating the allegations that people just want to make fun of fat bodies.

You are telling every fat person in your life that they disgust you, that their bodies are comical or degenerate or useless. You are telling every fat person in your life you don't respect them.

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

The Continuum web/JS port now has a bunch of fan-made "galaxies" (level sets) in addition to the original one, and apparently one of the galaxies was just a 17-level sampler pack for the full 75-level set advertised in this incredible flyer.

Since I see misinformation spread about Pillowfort often, and I think it’s a great site to join if you don’t want all your social media eggs in one basket, here’s a thread debunking common misconceptions I’ve seen over the years. 🧵

After genocide, we have only your humanity and love.🍉

Every pound you give is a roof over my family, and the hope in their hearts.🫂
I'm truly grateful to every share and every donation.

Be their light — donate now.🙏

Pay SootheMoss using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/soothingmoss and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

we were given a cat that was rescued to shelter for the time being and we need to get him checked which adds even more expenses + 300cad for the room + expenses for food for the month. please help if you are able #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund paypal.me/soothingmoss

As of writing this the Thousand Madleens to Gaza & Conscience is being intercepted. Please do not forget them! Call your governments, ensure their safe return home. This is kidnapping in international waters. Do not forget their names each and every Flotilla member must be released.

This looks so cool!

many overlapping boxes, some circles. a field of square stars. everything cascades over each other.

i make this pleasing image in kidpix in about ten seconds last night after i was done with making soda bottle labels.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

i have been caught up in life and didn't realize that my first week and change of selections for @sundresspub.bsky.social's The Wardrobe have gone live! thanks to Merrick Sloane for the chance to make these picks—there's some really outstanding poetry coming your way soon.

sundressblog.com

I really like this poem!