sarah zedig 🐐

oh that second one is smartly observed

we need to make a LOT more nasty-ass Korps porn RIGHT NOW

Posting again now that ECCC is happening.

sarah zedig's positive steam review of Cairn: evil celeste. what if climbing a mountain was a symbol of a person's desire to escape from themself, rather than a process of coming to terms with themself? the narrative here is often beguiling, never quite giving us as much insight into aava's motivations as we want. this is a good thing. there's a friction to this game that makes it compelling to think about, a deliberate incompleteness that unsettles and sticks to the memory. gameplay-wise, this is as close as any game has come to pure unadulterated reactive video game present-tenseness since tetris. or maybe i just played so much of cairn that it tetrs-effected me. either way, the climbing mechanics have that delicious Just-One-More-Before-Bed quality that typifies games that are simply a joy to inhabit. i've not given a damn about video game completionism in many years yet i 100%'d this thing reflexively. i can't imagine athletic devotion to any video game and yet i've found myself contemplating learning the speedrun. i hate games with punishing difficulty and yet i'm a quarter of the way through a free solo run just for love of the game. that's a pretty big deal in my book! there are other climbing games but there are no other games about climbing quite like this, and certainly none that hit cairn's melancholy tone. i'm very glad the devs have promised more content because i have not learned the emotional lesson of this game and am desperate to keep climbing for ever and ever.

my review of Cairn after nearly 50 hours of playtime:

if a goat laid eggs it'd need an ovibaasitor

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

The Seattle Social Housing Public Development Authority was established three years ago. In that time, it has created zero homes. It has created no development pipeline. It has, however, spent and obligated millions of dollars to hire and fire a CEO who never lived in Washington state, pay questionable consultants and embark on a hiring spree.

braindead argument. The social housing developer JUST got approval to receive its very first tranche of tax dollars LAST MONTH! The Seattle Times has no shame and will publish false information as long as it's under the banner of "opinion."

‘Bike mechanic turned internet mechanic’ creates mapping tool of people killed or injured while walking or biking in WA Snapshot of deaths and serious injuries in Seattle between 1/30/2015 and 1/30/2026 (more recent data may be incomplete). From CrashMap. Nick Magruder is a self-described "bike mechanic turned internet mechanic" who dedicated his free time to create a tool to help people "conceptualize and ingrain the true scale of the damage traffic violence bares on our communities," he wrote in an email to Seattle Bike Blog.

'Bike mechanic turned internet mechanic' creates mapping tool of people killed or injured while walking or biking in WA

#SEAbikes #Seattle

got asked my thoughts on zohran mamdani, so naturally i wrote a little essay about zohran mamdani

www.tumblr.com/hms-no-fun/8...

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Baru Cormorant:

imagine a world where retail properties are owned by the city and leased out to businesses with a contractual obligation to hire more employees and lower prices. imagine if we abandoned the myth of the market and actually treated the economy like a tool a society uses to serve its populace

that is so cool. i love living in an efficient economic system that responds to market pressures

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.

this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

also hot take but there's an entire cottage industry of pseudo-militarized private security outfits with names like Iron Will and Forced Liberty renting out retired/off-duty cops to businesses to harass visibly poor customers that should be completely unambiguously illegal like holy shit dude what

"retail theft" is such a spectacular lie of post-pandemic reality-creation. it gave cover for companies to expand the surveillance state, raise their prices, and close stores in slightly less profitable areas, conveniently turning the actual solution (hire more employees) into a total non sequitur

i went through self checkout today and got a "scan error" on a cup of yogurt, at which point the screen showed me the overhead camera view looking down into all my bags and stuff. it didn't even ask me to rescan the thing, it literally just wanted me to know about a bonus extra camera in the sky

i love going into stores now because you are generally viewed as an impolite inconvenience at best and a presumed serial thief at worst, everything is security theater YOU ARE BEING WATCHED type shit, it's so unwelcoming and hostile and all just to make sure you don't shoplift like a jar of olives

it's awesome how much money grocery chains are willing to spend on Theft Deterring Infrastructure like chest high traffic gates and "AI"-augmented cameras and riot-geared rentacops, but they absolutely refuse to pay for more than one cashier to man their four dusty checkout lanes at any given time.

it's so convenient that all my enemies are ontologically evil. the only reply to anyone pushing terf shit now is simply "ok jeffrey epstein." no argument, no debate, no reasoned conversation. you got your ideas from a rich pedophile and you still think they're good. might as well put on a jester cap

glad to see the supreme court is still taking its marching orders from a gaggle of unrepentant pedophiles. definitely making the case for that institution's longevity

but think of the exposure!

How to win in November

here's one from before Bsky, March 2023

We all know this would be the best furry animated movie if it ever became a full length R rated theatrically released film. #NightRunner #DanAvidan #DannySexbang #KnightsOfTheLightTable

You can now find all my art and info on commissions at unusualdolls.neocities.org !!!

I just read "There is No Anti-Mimetics Division" while I was sick, and damn. I know it's not specifically about MAGA and this fasicistic cycle, but it's not NOT about that either. ...#AntimimeticsDivision

The first Furcon was in 1989 and before that there were furry parties at other conventions. Here is a furry party posters from the 80s:

a lot of the culture stuff is dated but his jokes about american politics (particularly "foreign policy") haven't aged a day