Mark Redacted

When you see this, quote with an image from a game released the year you were born.

YouTube video by warphotography Ira Glass on Storytelling 3

I first heard the concept expressed by Ira Glass:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wL...

Short video, but this article summarizes it well. wegrowmedia.com/closing-the-...

Being human is the only requirement for human rights.

There is no disability, diagnosis, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, criminal record, religion, country of origin, etc that disqualifies a person.

the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda

First they came for the Palestinian protestor and I said “hey you Nazi fucks, you’re being Nazis, everyone else we need to shut these motherfuckers down RIGHT now” because I actually paid attention to the poem

If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!

Control, by Jeff VanderMeer

Some artists are very, very good at branding themselves so you might feel like you have to go through them to love the thing you love.

But it's just branding. People can make great use of blue, but nobody IS blue.

You stand under the same rainbow. 6/

I loved that aspect of Progenitor! Hurt people hurtin people, origin story edition.

Bringing it to 🦋 by request:

People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

- Paperboy for competing papers, scurrying round my village by bicycle before school and soccer practice after (Ghibli AF)

- Drug store cashier, pharmacy assistant, 1-hour photo guy

- Security for a university bookstore

- Virtual reality physics lab modder

- Backend coder for a children's MMO

North America’s European-style larp festival returns on August 22 - 24, 2025 in Minneapolis. Make a Scene is the only stand-alone festival this side of the Atlantic that premieres brand new larps organized around a bespoke theme. Same venue, for their amazing black box theater and dance studios.

Rubber ducks strewn across a mostly frozen Lake Chipotle

Someday, nature will heal, and the ducks will return to Lake Chipotle.

Hello new sky!