geo!

i have to be the sexiest bitch in the jobcentre

when it comes to writing people often say "kill your darlings," but that seems unfair to me, because you see, i REALLY love my darlings,

Donate to Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter, organized by Argo Tuulik DISCLAIMER: This fundraiser was disabled for several hours due to GoFundMe te… Argo Tuulik needs your support for Help Disco Elysium Writer Survive the Winter

Disco Elysium is 75% off this weekend-*do not* buy it! Don't give money to the businessmen that have stolen ZA/UM. Go to fitgirl and torrent it using any free torrent client.

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Donate to Argo Tuulik instead. He got no compensation for his story and is now unemployed.

With Windows 10 now out of service today, a quick reminder:

If you need Windows but don't want to update, you can switch to Windows LTSC. It's an official, stripped down Win 10/11 without forced ai, apps, or bloatware, and will continue to be updated.

Link: massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc...

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

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not normally a taskmasterposter but the specific kind of angry reece shearsmith gets is so fascinating to me. from watching him you'd think he didn't agree to do taskmaster, someone just said "hey can you do me a favour" and each task is a genuinely unexpected inconvenience for him. its so funny

this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]

Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation

on the day of my birth a foul curse was placed upon me, and it's called "inheriting both my parents' social ineptitude"

comic cover!!! featuring the main character, Dina, looking nervous and sweaty. She’s a young woman in an ill-fitting work shirt and pencil skirt with her dark hair tied up in a bun and bangs pinned with a dog-shaped clip. Some sort of ominous shadow looms over her. Text reads: FELT BAD, MET GOD by molly kate young (aka longfusilli) (aka ME!!!!)

hiiiii here’s a comic i made about having a job and being overwhelmed (1/7)

on destroying the internet

if i could change anything in history i'd make it so that dracula flow and dracula daily were popular at the same time. could you IMAGINE the memes

I have a question for you. Why did you put the X and Y Buttons on the Super NES control pad instead of C and D or something else? Kyle Milner Warren, TX We went out and got the straight scoop, Kyle. According to Lance Barr, Product Designer for Nintendo of America, the letters X and Y on the Super NES Controller were used to correspond with terms commonly used in CAD design and engineering. On the Controller, the A and B Buttons are considered the "primary" buttons while X and Y can be considered "secondary" Buttons. This is the reason why the X and Y Buttons are a different color and are shaped differently. Even though the Buttons could have been labeled C and D or something else and the fact remains that CAD design and video games don't necessarily go hand-in- hand, the X and Y designation seemed the most fitting

Ever wondered why it's ABXY and not ABCD on SNES controllers? And I presume on any other controller too that inherited this design choice?

One young reader of Nintendo Power in 1993 wrote in to ask.

What a CAD...

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

NEON MENTION 🦋

this is exactly what i was talking about - stopping the action to turn to the camera and go "don't worry, it's consensual 👍" is not only unnecessary (because it's fiction), it completely ruins the narrative

i can't quite put my finger on it, but i feel like there's some kind of parallel between corps wanting us to think that fictional characters are real people and that ai bots are real people. it's like weaponising empathy

thinking about this, and about the horrible non-sexual things i do to the characters i make - getting beaten up, tortured, traumatised - i don't need to write them consenting to that. it would completely defeat the point. why should they suddenly need to consent when there's sex involved?

i keep seeing solarpunk settings where "everyone is nice and no one ever causes harm to another living thing" and to me this is as boring+unrealistic as dystopian settings where "everyone is selfish and no one ever helps each other." humans are fundamentally BOTH, if there's no nuance i dont want it

smth that annoys me about a lot of utopian fiction is that it's too perfect - which i know is the definition of utopia, but creating a world where nothing is wrong makes it impossible to strive for. i want a utopia where there is no poverty, but the buses are always late+your neighbour is an asshole

"Degradation" and "fantasy" are so vague, but to see cat ears and fairies specifically mentioned let's me know they intend to be extremely broad with how they interpret it.

This is "degenerate art" levels of censorship. We need ppl to start calling in the numbers we had a month ago about this

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧

The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products!

This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word!

The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

@steveracemp.bsky.social

Gonna need cis folk to be extremely vocal and actually take action on this. Things are escalating month by month and it's only going to get harder and harder to rebuild these rights.

Act now to protect trans people, do not wait

"do i not want it enough to dedicate all my time to" is so real what the fuck

tits

These paypros still need to be pressured over this shit! If you havent made any calls yet, now is a great time to start doing so because theyre only continuing to ramp up their shitty censorous behavior!

Being trans is so old it was spelled with ſ

and on that point..... if you're angry, do something about it.