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We must fight hopelessness and apathy with art, joy, and whimsy. 28, queer. I only repost images with alt text. PFP: guy with shaggy brown hair, green shirt by @cyellolemon.bsky.social Banner: nonbinary flag with ghosties by @/catboyzaid on twit

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Watched a youtube video yesterday where the creator had licensed several songs to use in the video as backing music and it was cringe as fuck and it would have been so much better with just the video game tracks you can safely use without copyright strikes.

Fields of Mistria is launching fully into 1.0 tomorrow!!! I'm so proud of the team for not only making a game happen (impossible task) but also making it one of the best games ever (great news for me AND you!!)

a blonde woman walks near a forest on a bright sunny day. a large fluffy cloud rises up into the sky. she's holding a flower basket in the crook of one arm and smiling happily at her surroundings

Once again recommending my favorite crossword app that I've paid $10 for every time I get a new phone (three times over the last decade). It's just called Crosswords and it's from Stand Alone Inc. It's on both apple and android! (Review in photo is mine)

Google play store page for Crosswords, which somehow only has a 3.9 star rating with a measly 769 reviews. 

My 5-star review from July 2022:

GET THIS ONE. This is the absolute best crosswords app BY FAR. I've been using the app since 2016 across all the devices I"ve had from then to now, both Apple and Android, and I've paid for the app multiple times nnd it's so worth it. The Ul is so clean, there's nothing annoying about the app, and it hasn't undergone any major changes in the time I've had it. It's so rare to find an app without microtransactions these days. I cannot say enough good things about this app.
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2d ago

if you simply MUST play the NYT crossword or all your vital organs will shut down, there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of old books of NYT crosswords on ebay, and likely at your local used bookstore. this is a solvable problem if you care enough to solve it

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

if you simply MUST play the NYT crossword or all your vital organs will shut down, there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of old books of NYT crosswords on ebay, and likely at your local used bookstore. this is a solvable problem if you care enough to solve it

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

"new state laws and safety codes are reclassifying these plug-in kits as standard appliances — meaning renters can finally treat home solar like a simple toaster oven, plugging a personal power plant into any wall socket and cutting electricity bills by up to 25% with zero landlord approval."

Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states

Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states to make it available.

energiesmedia.com

And for the really bad news? They've put a target on VPNs. Sites are required to identify (and age-verify) any US citizen, regardless of whether they're using a VPN. In fact, the default is to get the ID and biometrics of EVERYONE unless you can somehow prove their not a US citizen.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

"VPNs are a privacy and security tool used by millions of internet users every day, and their use should not be treated as suspect. It is particularly galling that the SCREEN Act forces users who intentionally take steps to protect their privacy to identify themselves."