Kate

@armyofmeat.bsky.social

Co-founder of Studio Lakes. Illustrator, video game maker, writer, Amsterdammer, 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

Are you looking for a unique game experience? One just for you? I make bespoke micro RPGs and I can make one for you! A present for a friend, a custom side quest in your campaign, whatever! Prices start at $200 for a 1,000 word game, including cover and layout! DM or email in bio 💪

The most disheartening part of all of this is how most everyone collectively understands that the existential threats to humanity (Trump, AI, late-stage capitalism) are entirely incompetent and incoherent but decide to just roll over and let them win for no reason at all Like have some damn pride

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

Indie game dev is a specific type of hell where you can’t really focus on one domain and build expertise, bouncing around between disciplines to get ‘good enough’ at each to clear the next roadblock and then have to relearn skills in other domains you forgot

Finished a scarf for my lady and started on a shawl for myself Considering how much of a shitshow the digital world is right now, I’m pretty glad for a new analog hobby

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AI is just a gatcha where you have a 0.2% chance for useful S-rank results and the rest of your pulls are just loot boxes full of slop and psychosis

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Whole lotta people out there being like “People need to keep drinking more snake oil, otherwise how will we justify all these snakes we bred with the food we took from said people?!?”

Honestly every single American tech corporation should be considered a security risk at this point considering how enthusiastic they are about capitulating with requests from the federal government, which has shown itself to be hostile to all foreign states

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”

Finished my sailor slippers! 🧶 As you can see from the before and after, this is why you should be careful washing wool items They shrunk a lot! They also lost a bit of their vibrancy but the muted colors are more my style anyway

Kate holding up green and yellow striped knotted slippers. They extend from the top of her head down to her breastboneKate holding up smaller and more muted green and yellow striped knotted slippers. They extend from the top of her head down to her chin. Green and yellow felted slippers with a brown sole. They look cozy

Starting a felted slipper knitting 🧶 project to push back the existential despair of living through our current hellscape. It’s meant to be felted when it’s done so it starts off as comically large and will shrink in the wash (hopefully)

A green and yellow striped slipper in the process of being knit. It is very large

We have to understand that there is no motive, no endgame other than amassing and keeping as much power as possible. That’s it. They don’t care about the consequences as long as the maintain power. They will say anything, hurt anyone, burn any institution to the ground to keep control

Welp it only took like 2 weeks but crochet finally clicked for me and I’m working on my first Amigurumi. We’re not going to talk about the mismatched arms or the legs pointed in opposite directions or the improvisational jazz style of stitch counting…

Amigurumi in process. A headless deflated crocheted form next to a crochet hook and a ball of yarn. A horror scene