Lore Austin

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

pathetic

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

Has anyone else noticed that many non-writers don't seem to have a sense that there is anything between "full time writer who writes for a living" and "total amateur who writes for funzies and never shares it with anyone" even though the middle makes up like...almost all writers?

I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something

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Important info on scams for authors here.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.

Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they

This is the way

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

David Lynch from his 8/28/2020 "Weather Report" video, where he is wearing a black button down, black sunglasses, and saying: "what a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqHREWzwnA

Hey, Rapture's today. This could be your last chance to tell me I'm pretty

Typewriter Monke @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social "why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate April 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM

a small brown dog leaps up from behind a pile of crunchy brown leaves. her eyes and mouth are open wide, and her big floppy ears are extended out like wings to either side.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

All genAI should be banned, and no magazine or book publisher of any kind should use it for anything whatsoever. Utter trash fucking up everything.

I recently learned that my local Canadian library is connected to Hoopla! I had thought Hoopla was an American thing. The number of ebooks I can borrow without ever having to leave my house has just multiplied tenfold. It's great. (And audiobooks, comics, movies, shows...For free! In a legal way!)

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in

if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad
if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good

it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

Baffling search history

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Illustration of a fluffy skunk and possum carrying a pumpkin in their mouths

Little pumpkin thieves

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

in ~17 years, the writers and narrative designers have consistently been the kindest, smartest folks I've worked with in game dev.

they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.

diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.

It's really important you read the article because it's easy to miss what's happening *in the headline* -- because a lot is happening here.

Words I never thought I'd say but the Edmonton police are 100% correct here.

join the war on chicago on the side of chicago

Cillian Murphy: I have ROMO: Relief Of Missing Out

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

Practicing pose and light, I found a great pose reference for him but getting the lighting down to make the shadow striking was hard D:

Swordtember- Moss

It should not go unsaid that wildfire smoke makes for *serious* brain fog, and that's in people with otherwise healthy lungs.

Alberta, why do we do this every year. Why do we have the same conversation about it every year.

A chart showing worker productivity, compensation & union membership, 1948-2017. We infer it to be talking about the USA. As productivity rises steadily and steeply, compensation only increases while union membership is high. As union membership drops, wages flatline. The graphic references the source www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap

Happy Labor Day, Americaland! Here to remind everybody to JOIN YOUR UNION. And if you don't have one, AGITATE FOR A UNION.

Our workplace is currently going through considerable financial hardship caused by a combination of gross mismanagement and ingrained structural unsustainability.. (cont)