And the KIDS Act, please call about the KIDS Act too! Don't let anyone tell you your voice doesn't matter, we can fend this off as many times as we need 🙏 Thanks again guys you are genuinely so cool
Anne Crow
@fringecrow.bsky.social
I like to draw stuff, sometimes fuzzy sometimes mechanized. Lancer Forever GM. Currently working as an industrial drafter. Also I have an Itch webpage now! It's sparse, but more content coming in the future perhaps? https://annecrow.itch.io/
THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 5h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
Character designs for The Beekeeper's Tale. I'm not 100% sure what I'll be doing with that comic right now. I've been in an odd place when it comes to my personal art lately. I do like the concept of it and hope to do *something* when I'm ready.
Dunno when/if I'll be able to return to Beekeeper's Tale but here's some development art I still like a lot.
Stop letting people convince you that offloading the deeply human experiences of learning, of creating, of trying things and failing at them, is a privilege rather than a danger.
We don't need more of the same. We don't need algorithmically averaged art* We need your weird, unhinged shit. We need your heart to bleed onto the canvas and the page, even if you don't have the expertise to shape it like you envision *We have that already, it's everything Disney/Marvel outputs.
Even if amateur, you will make something more heartfelt and raw than a machine intermediary could ever make for you
It’s ya girl! This is Lamia. She’s a normal character with normal motivations and normal levels of repressed emotions.
I put some subtle commentary on British politics in Small Saga. See if you can spot the political message in this clip.
I don’t think I ever shared this fake SNES box art I drew after playing Small Saga. Cool RPG for people who like rodents and not grinding
In @sketchylogic.bsky.social's #SmallSaga, a rat named Gwen makes up the #Welsh part of a diverse cast of characters, speaking regional Welsh words and even swearing in #Cymraeg 🐀 Some characters have Welsh names, while a few Welsh mythical figures are referenced too. #Wales #Cymru
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.
I Social Transitioned in 2022 at 46. Sporadic HRT a year later. I'm 50 now and have been on Shots for Almost a Year. The Path May Not be Clear or Easy, but You are Always Worth It. It's Never Too Late. 💜
Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.
If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 24h agoWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Rumor is that Lee has lined up Republican support on a party line. But Republicans hate these bills when other countries do it, and hate digital IDs (which this facilitates). If you're lucky enough to have one of these representing you, give them a big old yell.
Everyone should be calling their Senators right now to put a stink on this bill. But if one of these is your boy, drop what you're doing to take two minutes and tell them NO on SCREEN. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
SCREEN does not YET have bipartisan support in the Senate, but Lee is actively courting D members to find that support — and some are wavering. Keep up the phone calls, keep your emails, keep sharing so that others do as well. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!
defendonlineprivacy.com
I never wanted to be a "in my day things were better" old lady... but I need to categorically state that technology actually WAS better. You are currently in the peak of designed obsolence, enshittification, personal intrusion and forced acceptance by lack of choice. Sure, the underlying tech...
“Unlike KOSA and many of the other age verification laws that have spread across the country, the SCREEN Act does not have bipartisan support. It’s the latest in Lee’s repeated attempts to criminalize content he and his co-sponsors personally consider immoral.”
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc...
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This has been studied quite a bit, the solar panels create a sort of greenhouse effect for the plants underneath them while also generating energy which feels like it should be cheating but is real and literally only has upsides.
Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d agoMassachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
Hell I think you even see this with new versions of TTRPG playtest documents nowadays also. We all gotta be willing to be cool with some stuff not working the same as before.
One of the (many) issues with the current state of the TTRPG community at large is that if you make a new edition of a game it cannot be meaningfully different from the previous one otherwise people will hold it against you.
How to be a success in elfgames: Step One: be massively successful elsewhere
Ettin@ettin.itch.io · yesterdayBackerkit keeps emailing me ads for a webinar about the "winning strategy" behind the Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG campaign and I think I deserve a cookie for not replying "is it making a Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG"
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law
EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law
The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.
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‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665
Please contact your senators about the SCREEN ACT, which is moving through the senate commerce committee TOMORROW And while youre at it, demand opposition to KOSA and the KIDS Act as well! www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/