kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

Ki stared at the neatly-sorted baskets on the riverbank in front of her.

Her fifth time counting up the totals, both silkstones and fogstones, and neither number budged from her very first count -- it was annoying to feel disappointed in being accurate, damn it.

But disappointment helped squelch the fear when she thought about what those numbers meant.

She fished out a silkstone, felt its weight.

So many remnants; how many /viable/ dragon cysts were there this season ...?

#wss366 (number)

Not me, not me at all as I eye a pile of really nice cardboard boxes in the corner

On-screen.
There they were.

After cycles of tracing skip-echoes and flux across a dozen systems, he had them: six ships hiding behind Chronias' bulk, siphoning fuel from its cloud decks.

One more skip and they'd be outside Collective reach.

Not if he had anything to say about it.

Tanager rose from his seat; the bridge tracked his every move. He raised a hand; dropped it, bladelike.

"Scramble the Armigers."

His expression hardened.

"No quarter to apostates."

#MastoPrompt (apostate)

Something Awful forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013

Check it out! 👇
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/something-awful-forumite-achieves-posting-godhood-emerging-from-the-void-after-100000-hour-11-year-ban-to-continue-the-same-argument-from-2013/

#Games

I also picked up on my wanderings this packet of Crayola "Colours Of Kindness" pencils, which is also very nice right now -- and I like these colour choices a lot --

Looking Back at Anime-Zine with Robert Fenelon - Red Bard talks with founding fandom member and head of early anime magazine Anime-Zine about his experiences in fandom, his work in the anime community, and more.

Link: https://www.animeherald.com/interview/looking-back-at-anime-zine-with-robert-fenelon/

#history #anime #manga #fandom
https://www.animeherald.com/interview/looking-back-at-anime-zine-with-robert-fenelon/

If you want access to free books, please get a library card.

In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.

Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.

As an author and reader, I support libraries!

#books #bookstodon #libraries

I know it's a chore, but it's once again that time of the year to get all of your old portables systems and controllers out that have internal batteries and give them a full charge.

This way, you can keep them healthier, even if you are not planning on using them in the foreseeable future.

About 5 years ago, I had 4 PSPs go bad on me, so I started doing this and haven't had any more issue so far.

Try and do this at least once a year for the best results. 😙

#shareyourgames
#retrogaming

Screaming into the void is a perfectly acceptable way to face a Monday.

your occasional reminder that Mastodon doesn't just broadcast ActivityPub but also RSS

if you or someone you know prefers RSS feeds for whatever reason, you can subscribe to any Mastodon user by simply adding .rss to their username

e.g: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy.rss

In case you don't already know, Does The Dog Die is a great resource for people with PTSD, phobias, eating disorders, or other conditions that make trigger warnings useful.

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/

Fanfiction.net was down for a bit this week cuz of reports from their domain provider GoDaddy. The site is back up now I believe.

https://x.com/FictionPress/status/1812241025928409122

In addition to FF.net and GoDaddy's issues with fictional depictions of child abuse - From what I can gleam from the comments, it seems many guest comments were being left with links to child sexual abuse material. And when users reported such comments, the reports were not acted on. I don't know if fanfiction.net users are able to delete comments on their work.

Unrelated to abuse material, I'm actually really surprised that ff.net still uses GoDaddy as a provider, I thought it's been known to people who have had sites for a while that they're scummy with business practices?

Always a good reminder to back up your work to multiple places, whether it's several websites, your own website, or an external hard drive. And save others' work you like 👍

I must not reply. Replying is the mind-killer. Replying is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Hey, #freelance #writers: I just got word from Samantha, and she'll be reviewing pitches tonight - if there's an article you'd like to write for us, let us know! We pay $50/article.

Guidelines: http://hera.fyi/guidelines 📖
Pitch Form: http://hera.fyi/pitch ✍️
http://hera.fyi/pitch

personally I think the MONA thing is hilarious, especially in the context of the Discourse.

for non-Australians, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania had an area called the Ladies Lounge, where men were not allowed. They hung several fake Picassos, an antique mink rug that was actually polyester, and a bunch of fake tribal spears. The idea was that it was a criticism of the general idea of the patriarchy where men typically have a lot more opportunities for... pick a thing. Even when women were allowed in, what was actually inside were cheap replicas devoid of any amount of authenticity. It's ripping on token inclusion.

In an eye-watering display of self-awareness deficiency, a man then sued MONA for not being allowed in, claiming discrimination due to being a man. He claimed that as he had paid admission to the whole of MONA but was not permitted to this specific exhibit due to his gender, he was being discriminated against.

The Tasmanian Civil Tribunal agreed, and MONA was directed to admit men into a women's-only area. The irony is thick enough that you could cut it with a knife.

MONA, in response, dismantled the exhibit except for the fake Picassos. All the bathrooms at MONA are single-occupancy all-gender, but it turns out having a women's bathroom from which men are excluded *isn't* discriminatory, so they converted one into a women's bathroom and hung the fake Picassos in there, an exhibit of itself.

The art exhibit was basically a criticism of "turns out the only safe space for women away from men is a bathroom, and people will still claim that you're getting special rights because you get to see something nobody else can. Even if what you're seeing is a cheap replica, someone somewhere will claim that you have it good because you're getting something they don't."

Picasso's estate, however, took a rather dim view of unauthorised replicas being displayed in an art gallery in Tasmania, even though it was literally years between putting up the artwork and someone noticing. They've since been taken down with no further action.

MONA has declared that the Ladies Lounge will return as something where S26 of the Sex Discrimination Act doesn't apply, such as a church or boutique glamping experience.

They've also expressly stated that the Ladies Lounge includes ALL women, not just cis ones.

I love everything about this story. Fucking classic stuff coming out of the art world.

Wow - check out the hairdo on Princess Peach...

Love cataloguing these old Japanese Mario books 📚