I spent like £40 on multiple games in the winter sale and have had a fantastic time playing *checks notes* RMC14

we might not get to play our spelljammer d&d campaign often but it's got such a high hit rate of both big belly laughs and genuine creeps and mysteries that i love any time we get with it

Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.

"Good Law Project can confirm that in 2021-2022 suicides of trans children in England surged to 22, a marked increase from 5 and 4 the previous two years. This spike follows the decision by NHS England to [limit] GAC for young trans people following Keira Bell’s case against the Tavistock."

LIVE FERRET REACTION

[an hour passes]

Student: I am never going to be fucking able to look at old photos the same way again am I? And every movie is wrong!
Me: You're welcome for this authentic sitting next to Phil moment.
Student: DAMMIT!
Colleague: [giggles] You started it by asking.
Student: GODDAMMIT!

I mean yeah but have you tried not doing things so horrific that you are replaced with the genius loci of a nightmare

Typically I recommend not doing that

Tweet from Elon musk which reads, "Whoever said money can't buy happiness really know what they were talking about. 😔"

Idk, if I suddenly had Musk-levels of money I'd buy some good tea, then hire a team of assistants to go and max out every crowdfunding campaign of people in need they can find under a mysterious pseudonym, and when everyone speculates who is behind it, I'd sit on my couch, drink my tea, and giggle.

Despite connections with Epstein we have no reason to believe Elon Musk engaged in pedophiliac behavior. Based on the track record of all his other accomplishments he probably paid someone else to do it and take the credit.

"wow this game had a player population huge drop off shortly after release!"

that's every game, my guy, every game does that, I've never seen a game that doesn't do that

This down here is *also true* and I want to be clear I am not trying to rubbish the post I am quoting above - merely to explain why what *feels* so terrible is in fact a successful protest operation.

bsky.app/profile/theo...

So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.

A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.

Every queer activist who warned this was coming and got told to calm down should get to chop one condescending policy wonk dead in the throat

when I was in college, a part of our university's graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning. one of my service learning classes involved work at a local homerless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms. our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot - like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

and it's not because they disrespect your work or don't value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control. when you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can. which results in thrashed bathrooms. it's control exercised over one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

i see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them. or holding the creators within their own communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

i just see thrashed bathrooms. 'These are the people my voice actually reach,' they rationalize, 'so these are the people I'll hurt'. but the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems. stop using them to dismantle people.

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

As someone who came into this follow liking birds and unions already:

Nice

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

In struggling to create—getting splinters as I climb a tree to record cicadas, pricking my finger as the image I spent hours embroidering takes shape, or fretting over a sentence not knowing if I have all the words to say something buried deep—I am connected to every person who created before me.

youtuber georg who has played ten thousand hours of minecraft is an outlier and should not have been counted

Ugh, we're two decades deep on the year already!

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers.

"A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

This is Cleo, you can tell the temperature by how curled up she is

Everything that is left to say will get my account banned

The benefits of pigeon watching

a three panel sketch of the character sinkdog (originally by daleport996) laying on a cluttered, filthy counter. she's surrounded by dirty dishes, and her basin is full of dishes and dirty dishwater, which trickles out as she sits up on her elbows, looking exhausted. in the next panel she is throwing a dish and leaning forward, causing her contents to come crashing out of her onto the floor. in the third panel she's standing, tethered to the counter by a drainpipe, looking at the shattered mess of dirty dishes and dishwater spattered on the floor. the remnants of her basin pour down her legs. the sink in a disabled household is a constant source of stress and yuckiness and i wanted to make some sinkdog fanart with that bit of pain in it. we don't usually see her all gross and dirty and miserable. someone on tumblr talked about how sinkdog is kinda cathartic because you scoop all the yucky parts out of the girl to make her into an object of cleanliness (and how it's ironic because she's kink art) and it had me thinking about how sinks are also yucky. feeling like even if you scrape yourself hollow, girlhood can still feel dirty. inescapable. plus the torment that you'll never be really done doing dishes because more dirty dishes are produced daily haha

one must imagine sisyphus

Holy, that's an awesome choice for first cross stitch! I strongly recommend a Q-Snap frame or similar - I find them so much better (easier and faster to work with, less pain on my joints) than embroidering "in hand" but your mileage may vary. I'm so excited to see it finished!

I tried to pick up a bottle of this but it's got a weakness at the neck and it spilled red everywhere, what's up with that

Yeah that was the absolute minimum I could even conceptualise, rating below minimum wage. If selling to a stranger I'd probably charge very similarly

Yeah, the struggle. I got asked to do a large commission and I have no *idea* how to even bill that or value my time, but had to hit a friend with "that's probably gonna take months and be like £200."