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Big fan of the new Austra single and its, what I can only describe as, harmonic edging youtu.be/T5foC-AaDUk

No.

Fixed 😭 it only took a week, lots of nerves, and 70 bucks worth of hardware I hopefully have to never use again

Looks like a firmware update might have bricked my computer 🫠 it's been about a week of new, daily tech problems, so it'd be nice if something just worked for once

the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person

In unrelated news: continuing the mantra of "if i just chip away at enough things, i'll eventually finish one thing"

Little did I know that in less than a decade we'd get pretty much to that exact thing.
So, uh, guess the writing was on the wall

About 6 years ago, I was outlining a novel about a far future where a religious cult worshipped technology they didn't build or understand, offloading all their thinking and decision-making to it.

It was about algorithms and software taking more and more control away from users

Might also be the elusive "idea that doesn't balloon into twice its size," but let's see where it goes if I do end up drafting it :'D

Sometimes I'm convinced creativity is something that possesses you. Like that time last year I wrote a full story concept in like 48 hours and proceeded to completely forget about it until today, only to look it over and go "no notes. why is this still just an outline"

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In 3 days nearly the entire Bluesky team doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on the "WAFFLES" thing in response to upset users, and now Jesse Singal etc are using it as a slur against trans people

It would have been so easy to just *not* do this. There was no reason to escalate for days. :\

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

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YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

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In other words, I might finally put together the OST versions after, uh, 5 years

Been holding off on releasing the EGOLOGIC soundtrack because I wanted to add more songs and convinced myself that the mixes aren't good enough. Randomly listened to it again and I think I might be over my perfectionism lol

わー！大阪に行けなかったからまだ買えるのがよかった！😊

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

a post from itch saying “I don't see any indexing restrictions on your game. Your game does have a content warning because of this setting on your page though (check the "Metadata" tab). It's possible at some point you could have added a tag to your page that is commonly associated with explicit adult content.”

a post from itch pointing out that an article is full of misinformation and trying to clarify.

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too...

My take here is this: there was never a reality on the table where pressure would force Itch to somehow find a solution faster, or a better solution. They lack the resources and can't absorb the fees of high risk processing. The reality here is this pressure is more likely to kill Itch than improve the situation. In my opinion, what they need is support coupled with the pressure to use that support to find a better solution. That may involve a surcharge on adult content and piping those transactions through a high risk MSP. That may involve saying "We have to institute a minimum share on purchases" and using those funds to expand staff and develop a better option. To do so at this particular moment though would be the PR nail in the coffin. But regardless, if they didn't "do better" because of resources, denying them resources won't fix it!

The bit some people need to get through their skulls, if only so I can look at this damn social media site without wanting to instantly fall asleep:

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Anyway, the journey to get away from Windows continues

Wanted to test something and scared myself into thinking that the Linux version of //TODO: today has been unplayable for years, but builds were probably safe from the issue :')

Before another person tries to side eye this and says something "smart", Queer Games Bundle has been running since 2021 and was founded and is ran by creators, not itchio staff.

Also, Queer Games Bundle and many other bundles require months of organization and prep. Please do your research.

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

だいふくさんの絵がいつも素敵です！完成品が楽しみ😊

I also really want to stress again, itch is "complying" in the softest way they possibly can. Gumroad killed it in 24hrs without even sending an email or making a post. They snapped EVERYTHING in a second. Most content is still available, just delisted from search, but not direct links.

my takeaway from the itch discourse is that a huge number of people on the internet would say "I would simply not have bled when shot. rip to you but i'm different" to someone dying on the ground

anyway huge thank you to all the people calling payment processors you are doing important work