Sparkling Wide Depression

Finally all of the inner senshi are complete!
It will be a while before starting the outers

Friends, when I go you now have 3 duties:
1) make sure my name and pronouns are used correctly
2) work the phrase “she had friends who were socialists” into my eulogy
3) smack the shit out of anyone who tries to do this to my memory

Text of original tweet: Ritual mountaineering axe with heart‑shaped openwork. Japan. Nanbokucho to Muromachi period, 14th century AD. Forged iron head; wooden shaft spiral‑wrapped with a bronze strip; H 179.8 cm, blade 28 x 25.5 cm. Collection: Nara National Museum. Classified as an Important Cultural Property. Those two hearts are not about romance. In Japan they are inome, the boar’s eye, a very old apotropaic sign cut into weapons, temple fittings and even windows to draw off misfortune and summon courage. The motif has been in use for well over a millennium and you can still see inome windows at temples like Shōju‑in in Kyoto. Text of QRT (Japanese): 室町時代の日本に魔法少女（戦闘美少女？）がいた証拠だ

"Proof that magical girls (fighting girls?) existed in the Muromachi Era"

You’re right that is a great parallel to gender identity, because my friends love inverted Y and consider it the most normal thing and it makes me want to cry. I once handed a friend my controller to play for me while I went to pay for a pizza and she couldn’t play at all.

Two shirts with Kat for Illinois slogans: A white T shirt with “what if we didn’t suck?” repeated in the colors of the Progressive Pride flag, and a black long sleeve shirt with “Kat Abughazaleh for Congress IL-09”

I’m not in a competitive district (even more so after my state legislature just finished gerrymandering the map even further) so I decided to support @katmabu.bsky.social from a couple states away.

You’re speaking my language. 🥱😮‍💨

Fuck all of y’all.

Data center is not a protected class.

I’m in the last 25% of both the novels I’m reading right now; I wish I could just stay home and finish them.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Yeeeees!

Repost with an iconic fictional band
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@magicariot.com

No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.

If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.

I took this as “No Kim, taking your case is too on the nose even for us. Wait for someone else to bring a case with a little more plausible deniability”

I’d like to see our state party call for Senator Schumer to step down as minority leader as he has failed to prevent the increase in healthcare costs, making the last month needless political theater that harmed millions.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

5. Forgot to share the last highlight of this playthrough: the Merchant giving me shade for purchasing a rocket launcher to OHK bosses.

YouTube video by Serena Gaming Blasphemous- Our Lady of the Charred Visage

Uploaded my first episode in a couple months. Life isn’t getting any more stable, but I am trying to rebuild some routines.
#LetsPlay #Blasphemous #Gaming #Metroidvania

youtu.be/3PCiL0GltCM

A record player with a transparent orange album, “Until This Shakes Apart”, playing on it with the album cover displayed on a stand next to it. The album cover is black with the track list completely transparent so the letters appear as a photo of a burning building behind them.

On the turntable this morning is @fiveironfrenzy.bsky.social’s cry for political upheaval and radical love, Until This Shakes Apart. Written and recorded in 2020, this album hits even harder as we see the logical endpoint of everything it was calling out five years ago.

Holy shit, was not expecting to have Batman make me tear up tonight, but you found a way to make it happen. 😭😭

The Hawkgirl series is on my TBR, I just have sooo much to get through and I told myself nothing new until I get through more of what I already own.

I need to reread that. And the Inheritance Cycle books… and the second Cities book.
She’s got a lot of good stuff to read.

I am slowly making my way through the @fivefourpod.bsky.social archive and it continues to be equal parts informative, hilarious and soul-crushingly depressing. I especially like episodes like Navarette v Cali- I didn’t question the decision @ 1st glance, but they clearly lay out all the issues.

Damn, losing that Disney money really hurt the SFX budget.

Results of a 10 pull gacha in Goddess of Victory Nikke. The 3rd pull of 10 is new the Pilgrim (Heretic) Nikke: Liberalio.

But hey, I got Liberalio on my first ten pull!

Results of a 10 pull gacha from Goddess of Victory NIKKE. All ten pulls were R class Nikkes.

Forgot to there this happened while trying to get Nayuta. Can’t remember if it’s ever happened before.
#Nikke

If they do that to Inherit, maybe it means they’ll come back with alts that are actually usable.

Mutuals followers.

Changing my display name and pfp at the same time because apparently I don’t care about any of my moots recognizing me.

I have been practicing but have not done a good job of updating here.
Mullah: 9.9 @ 100% (really want to get recording set up again to finally make this cover)
Mas: 9 @ 100%
Excite: 8.5 @ 80

My biggest progress is playing the demon fill on ‘Excite’ on repeat for 10 minutes. Got up to 90% speed!