ivy astarael, woodland witch revived

@ivyeternal.bsky.social

aphrodite has but one precept you must love yourself let everything else flow from that new england / dark woods / ocean salt 38, audhd i am the spider in the night

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

people aren't angry enough they are fortifying the grocery stores, because they are ~preparing~ for the food cost crisis to get much, much worse they are rebuilding everything so that the jobs can be worked remotely they are doing this in front of your very face ~you~ are not angry enough

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

notably, karl urban's dredd isn't a fascist—he believes the law applies equally to everyone, including judges he is certainly a brutal authoritarian, and i wouldn't enjoy mega city 1, but i at least know dredd would enforce the law as a matter of morality, not as a personal whim

ivy astarael, woodland witch revived@ivyeternal.bsky.social · 3d ago

"but judges! but the law!" you know who else the judges and the law actually supported? indigenous americans and look how the fuck ~that~ turned out the day a ruling gets handed down by judge dredd, i will take it seriously

The sooner that folks acknowledge the whole point of most modern commercial AI is to produce the products of human slavery without the immediate moral compromises, we'll be better off. Over and over we see the edges of it picked at in every AI labor scandal but people don't like truth.