Kate

I cannot stress how important Rebecca has been for trans gamedevs. I wouldn't be here if not for her and her wife.

Help if you can.

I found a museum near my house that has grimoires and alchemical tomes for your perusal. Also there is a casual grail here.

It’s called the Embassy of the Free
Mind if you’re ever in Amsterdam

Yup! Just got a bit of a cold probably from theme park kids or pressing up against all the queers at Pride haha. Fine now

A statue of a man with a very long neck in medieval clothes. From Efteling

A crowd of people along a canal waving and cheering at a boat full of people. Rainbows and pride flags abound

A crowd of people walking along the dock where many tall ships are docked. The sky is filled with masts, sails, and rigging

Kate in front of a sign that says ‘Fries before guys’

I haven’t posted much recently due to illness and life being busy but I’m still alive! So here are some pics from some recent Dutch adventures I’ve had: Amsterdam Pride, Efteling, Amsterdam Sail 2025, and a bonus shot from Germany

Yeah I saw a lot of that at Amsterdam Pride yesterday

I might come off as an old curmudgeon about this but I’m not thrilled by the playful infantilization and objectification of trans women by parts of the community and our allies

It’s fine if you accept being a ‘doll’ or ‘pet’ as your own identity but seeing it used to describe all of us icks me out

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🖤2 sapphic romance routes
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

They don’t want to admit it but there are far more ‘feminine’ shades of blue than ‘masculine’ ones; checkmate cis dudes

oh

Are we as a society ready to discuss how the reason the old segregationist ‘we must protect our white women from these predators’ rhetoric is used as a cudgel against trans people and immigrants is that a lot of white folks *still* believe it to be true with regard to black people?

No?

As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.

I have a long held belief that conservatives cannot understand narrative and have no ability to deconstruct story whatsoever. It’s like some kind of universal comprehension barrier that they all share. Talking to them about literally any piece of media is actually a stunning experience.

God being a Cassandra sucks

Certain people have convinced themselves so thoroughly that god has prepared and shielded them for any test that they’re accelerating us all toward tribulation. Any sane god would find them all lacking but unfortunately we will all be punished for their hubris

A good reminder that while Metal Gear Rising was incredibly loud and completely devoid of subtlety, people mistook that for being dumb.

It is not. It's one of the most clear-eyed and pointed political satires AND most plausible takes on cyberpunk around.

It is the Rage Against The Machine of games

A circular strandbeest that looks like a closed up anemone

A strandbeest with a set of wind blades on the front

A strandbeest that looks like a caterpillar

Broken or removed strandbeest parts lined up on the floor by type, looking like bones at an archeological dig. Here are a lot of crankshafts and other joints

More photos from the strandbeest mortuary

Kate holding her tiny kit strandbeest in front of a full sized one

A strandbeest in a warehouse, with dozens of pegs and spines and sails

A strandbeest that looks like a fish half decomposed on the floor

A strandbeest with flapping sail fins and loping legs

Never thought I’d get to see a strandbeest in person but today I got to fulfill a lifelong dream to see (and propel) some of Theo Jansen’s amazing creations!!

The ancient Dutch curse!!

What’s one trivial belief you have that you have no factual support for but still firmly hold?

Mine is that the zombie game ‘7 Days to Die’ is extremely popular with Mormons

FYI, it’s at around 4 times more likely that your child will be born trans (~0.5-0.6% based on self-reported population in the US) than you being dealt a full house in a game of poker (0.14%)

Why did they make this spray cleaner smell like BBQ chicken? Not that I mind but now every time I go into my living room I want BBQ

Rural people often look down on other rural people as trash even more so than they claim city folk do and vote accordingly

Reposted with ALT because fucking come on why would you exempt people who use screen readers from this moment of joy?

Like building a house of cards made from tropical orchids and powered by inbred show-dogs

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Breaking: Transgender people lose Skrmetti, SCOTUS rules that Tennessee's law banning gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny.

I'll be reading and reporting more fully today.

Terrible day for transgender people.

Full decision here:

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The United States is committing genocide against its trans population, and SCOTUS just legalized it.

That's the truth.

I just now saw a man in Albert Heijn wearing a MAGA hat and I dearly hope he drunkenly falls into a canal tonight. Amsterdam doesn’t need any of that fascist nonsense here