Gabriel

I left teaching as soon as I started because the support for teachers was nonexistent, protection for LGBTQ+ teachers and students against bigoted communities was laughable, curriculum was NOT built with students’ actual learning in mind, and I made MORE money as a PART TIME barista. It’s bad!!

“Recipe for—“ we’re IN authoritarianism. We’re here. SOS.

10 minute call with Visa and we went in circles, would give no specifics, pointed to the two month old statement on videogames. Asked why nobody wants to tell me if I can buy LOTR, eventually got hung up on. Melt their lines

That’s exactly my concern. Yeah. There is no amount of respect we could possibly show that would stop them twisting it to make us look bad. Nevermind their constant salivating over their own violence against others. At best they sweep it under the rug. But this? They’re gonna call him a martyr.

I will ALSO never forgive them for the very concept of a credit score. Fuck y’all for that. This shit does not need to exist.

Like this feels fucking BASIC to understand.

Among the zillion other things, I will never ever forget when a Dem president tried to provide SOME relief for student loan debt, Repubs shat right on that. They ripped it from us for no fucking reason. That $20k relief could have meant a house someday. But no. The shareholder needs another yacht.

Just about! The cuff bindoff was too loose 😅

🧶🧦💜Purple stripe socks: Cat Approved

AND YOU CAN SWIM

a four panel Fields of Mistria comic. panel 1: Nora, an older woman in a distinguished blouse, taking a deep, tense breath with her palms together, fingers pointed up, in front of her face and eyes closed. panel 2: a gormless-looking Mistria protagonist, with a pink sideshave and generic farmer outfit. From offscreen Nora says, "farmer. you have done so much for mistria. the town wouldn't be what it is today without your help." panel 3: nora in the same pose, her hands lowered slightly, looking over her hands with a tense smile. "so when I say this, it is with great respect." panel 4: nora gestures with her hands together at the farmer. "PLEASE STOP GIVING SWORDS TO MY SMALL CHILD." the farmer says "aw she loves them tho" while gesturing to Dell in the background, a young girl who is screaming with raw power while brandishing two swords with several more strapped to her body.

if you did not want me to give your child swords you should have simply not raised a child that loves swords. #fieldsofmistria

Called and left a voicemail for Stripe today telling them enforcing censorship through restricting payments is wrong and it was real easy. Going to draft up a few physical letters tomorrow to send out to MC/VISA. I’ll upload a template and share mailing addresses for anyone who wants to do the same.

IT GOT ME GOOD. I was not expecting that!!

Since some of you CLEARLY want to see rare blooms: The Huntington’s corpse flower is due to bloom soon — something it only does once every 2-3 years — and they’ve got a livestream. You can also buy a ticket if you want to see a *massive* stinky flower in person:

www.huntington.org/event/now-bl...

You’ve undoubtedly seen the list of banned subjects itch has been forced to add by payment services, just like other storefronts. If you’re someone who thus far has thought “well, that’s just for gross porn, not stuff I like”, think again. These rules threaten Misericorde and other future work.

Here’s a short script:
“Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."

I’ve been personally fist fighting the Tide Caverns for one stupid recipe for WEEEEEKS 😭

It’s still EA so I’m hoping some stuff gets tweaked, but particularly this 😅 like you can’t tell me that March just goes around acting Like That and EVERYBODY in town is 100% totally chill with that behavior?? Huh??

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Three goofy pixel art sprites of the lava cat mob in the lava mine levels in Fields of Mistria.

lava cat is now officially my favourite thing in the mines, I need it as a combat pet so bad

#pixelart #FieldsofMistria

Fields of Mistria folks, I have a tip for the newest update to the mines (with no spoilers): Water the cat.

This week has been rough

🧶I really like knitting Fox Paws, apparently

🧶the blue progresses

🧶I’ve been offline on purpose for a while but boy oh boy have I been knitting. Monochrome Fox Paws wrap pair is now more than half done! My friend asked for ALL ORANGE and I’m making mine ALL TEAL, but since they’re paired, each one will have a borrowed stripe. Orange is finished, Teal in progress!

Is this even an arrest? No warrant, no identification, no authority to arrest citizens—is that not kidnapping? Is this not a president’s personal brute squad abducting and intimidating political dissidents?

Stop the SAVE Act The SAVE Act would keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy. Urge Congress to reject this bill now.

If passed, the SAVE Act would limit access to our democracy for millions of eligible voters.

The House has already passed it, but the Senate can still stop it in its tracks.

Tell your Senator to REJECT this bill in defense of our voting rights.

I firmly believe that complaining about it the whole time is our right, and I’m only kinda joking. Sometimes even worthy work sucks ass, and bitching about it while we do it helps get it done. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Isn’t marching in step like….boot camp shit? Isn’t that something they learn early on? What happened here??

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.