So yes, I will obviously be talking about Elon’s dumbass lawsuit against Media Matters. @akivamcohen.bsky.social@questauthority.bsky.socialxkcd.com/1133/
Hey folks! In case you are interested in joining an ADHD/ND writers Discord for community support, random yelling, dopamine generation, and idea exchange! :)
B, though more often swept over my shoulder rather than behind me, esp if what I’m about to sit against might catch it. never ever A. Too many people threatening to cut it off because “it would be funny“.
Due to the Unity fiasco, I've made my video on Choosing a Game Engine public to everyone. If you're overwhelmed, I go over the questions you should ask to choose the best option for you! Signal boosting appreciated! #gamedev www.patreon.com/posts/finish...
Game devs are tired. Writers are tired. Comic book creators are tired. Musicians are tired. Actors are tired. Every industry that produces media you love has been ravaged by a parasitic executive class who want to starve creators to feed some shitcunt's desire for a seventh house
Absolutely terrifying: state-funded researchers in Poland have developed the first-ever lab tests that can detect if a person has taken abortion pills, and prosecutors have used them to investigate pregnancy outcomes. The tests work for both mifepristone and misoprostol.
The chilling development comes out of Poland, where prosecutors have already used the tests to investigate pregnancy outcomes.
Something powerful someone shared a while back that transformed my mindset: If you notice you spend inordinate time online angry, upset, or unhappy... find something to agree with. Set aside disagreeing except where you must since it rarely does much, and find people and ideas you can support.
But I see the "I just couldn't connect with the characters" often in reviews of books by any authors of color as well with complaints that the character is "passive" or "lacks agency," this essay by Vida Cruz is one I think about all the time
Let me take you through the anatomy of an active protagonist, one that everyone can relate to. We’ll make our protagonist—we’ll call him John—young and healthy, male, of humble origins (perhap...
I'm working on some art for a new Kickstarter. It's a very cool ship-making toolkit for rigs and tabletop games, for players or GMs. There's going to be a lot of cool stuff included, so go follow the KS for updates.
A toolkit for creating wild, weird & wondrous spaceships for sci-fi tabletop RPGs.
an example of systemic racism/sexism and how its invisibility perpetuates and protects it: decades of Rolling Stone, controlled by this guy, who honestly just said straight out that Black artists and women artists weren't interviewed because they weren't smart enough to be interesting *decades.*
