Piper Thunstrom

The sports thing is the only anti-trans thing that polls well, so they're going to force through every heinous rollback of our rights under the sports banner.

All because people refused to believe the science.

a logo image that says - conjured ink. following the logo, the graphic says anti-censorship, pro-weird, seller shop software.

the same text as in the post is on this graphic, followed by a cartoon of a canadian witch girl flying on a hockeystick broom

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

My weird RPG project was two neat mechanisms and a goal, and it wasn't until a Monster Hunter bender made me realize: I was making a game inspired by MH

Now I've got a rough outline of what sessions should look like, and I've mostly dropped a bunch of design space that isn't important.

I know I lean "mechanics first" (because, quite honestly, I like game mechanisms. They're fun.), but I agree. A lot of my projects start "feel" + "mechanism" and then spin _forever_ as I try different themes until the "feel" + "mechanisms" + "theme" gel.

This was a bit vague and esoteric, so I want to give a more concrete example, especially for folks who don't know my design history deeply.

When I used to have the "games are just a bunch of mechanisms tied to a theme" mindset, I would always be flummoxed by a familiar pattern.

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When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

Frustrated w/ the Itch/Steam thing?

There's literally TONS of dedicated payment processors that handle NSFW/adult/etc content. Problem is we need more info on which ones allow what, and how much they cost, because this tends to not be on their sites.

We need help w/ emailing sales reps! See below👇🏻

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.

itch.io/b/3062/

Every politically-involved trans woman has the curse of Kassandra and it sucks so much to watch.

because we're proven right, every single time

and no one ever listens until it's too late

Finally: Trust but verify.

Abusers like communities that jump to banishment for perceived threats. They can use those exact levers to keep their critics away and get unfettered access to their victims.

I've had to extract abusers from my communities. It fucking sucks. But you know what never helps? Deputizing the community. You need to keep the whisper network alive and well, and you need to be proactive in protecting people.

Wanting to separate, but folks should read this thread and the quoted one.

I have a rule that people find hard to accept sometimes:

I do not air intracommunity issues about specific people publicly.

If my words can be used by cis folks to abuse other trans folks? I'm saying nothing.

... look, I've worked on this, but as an ex-mormon bookish trans lesbian I feel slightly called out.

Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...

International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Coming sometime in the future: Saving your clocks to local storage, exporting clocks as data, and importing them back in. Mostly as I feel like it.

It will always be free and minimal source and I will never add any kind of tracking.

I dunno if I should be tagging @evilhat.bsky.social in this, so here is me doing it on the side.

Updated my digital scratch pad Forged in the Dark clock tracker, Clocker.

Big update is making it usable at all on mobile!

pathunstrom.github.io/clocker/

It's totally free, BSD-0 license, single source file.

Steal, borrow, use as you please.

if any companies need a new logo i will gladly accept fifty thousand dollars to type your company name in futura

An in-game render of Ozzy Osbourne, with the logo for Brutal Legend and text that reads, "Free for the next 666 minutes" and the itch.io logo in the bottom right corner

To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...

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"the AI knows it did something wrong"

Nah man, the AI knows nothing. It has no understanding. No critical thinking skills. It's just giving you a reasonably likely response to the garbage you yell at it. It's a Ouija board with terminal access.

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

This is a twitter post by typewriter-worries that says: there's this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram (user name: Epicurious Expeditions) that makes accessible recipes that don't require standing, chopping, or a stove and she just have a permanent place in my heart. She also has a Youtube, Tiktok, and Facebook under the same name: Epicurious Expeditions.

There's an account on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, and TiKTok called Epicurious Expeditions that's all about accessible cooking; no standing, chopping, or stove required.
www.youtube.com/@EpicuriousE...

stealthiswebsite.art

Okay, this one is a lark but mostly shows off a bunch of my skill set. The front page is "unstyled" what you'd get if you just throw HTML on a page.

But you can click around for layout ideas. (And the colors are only so-so intentionally.)

teahouse.cafe

My small company website. This one is a web host (and a possible host for you if you like what we're selling!)

piper.thunstrom.dev

My personal website! I'm very proud of it, but I won't put anyone on it.

I'll open DMs here, we can discuss what you can afford.

No e-commerce (it's a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult), but portfolios, landing pages, blogs are all on the table.

Examples down thread.

Okay, I need to make some money, the most valuable skill I think I can offer:

I'm a web designer. Let me make you a website that doesn't rely on Squarespace or Wix or any of the crappy lock in providers.

We can get you a small host, set you up, and make a site that meets your needs.

Squeakross.cool to see one best picross game ever made (source: the players)

YOU'RE NOT "TRAUMADUMPING" ON YOUR FRIENDS THEY'RE YOUR FRIENDS AND THEY CARE IF THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LISTEN THEY WOULDN'T BE THERE

Samus Aran from Metroid Dread, firing a shot dynamically towards something off screen. Flairs from the arm-cannon illuminates the mechanical hallway in blues and reds

Some Samus I painted after the launch of Metroid Dread. I really love the suits with giant shoulder pads! #metroid #samus