went to the zoo with a cheap secondhand digicam recently and got very close to a tiger
Leia 🏳️⚧️
@tact.ac
Leia!・early thirties, Mpls, t4t!・pretty bad at video games
I've upped the goal one last time!! Can we get this fund for out of work game developers to $250k in the next four days!?
Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 2w agoIn response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
actually crazy how much better this laptop runs on Ubuntu than it did on Win11. need to do some file management and maybe adjust the partitioning later but after just 1 day there hardly seems to be any reason to go back for most things. makes me want to switch the OS on more of my devices
OK now the audio drivers are also fucking up and even when I turn everything to max volume it's like, half of normal. we are testing Ubuntu today
Leia 🏳️⚧️@tact.ac · 3mo agomy laptop's display drivers have gone from being unable to connect to other displays through the dock, to unable to use a direct HDMI cable, to unable to cast the screen, and now I can't even adjust brightness on the screen. so I should probably get off Win11 before it just goes blank one day
fun way to instigate as a local is just asking people "what do you like to do in Uptown?" and when they name *any* place say "well, I'm not sure if that's *really* part of Uptown"
"do we have any gamecube controllers" my gf asks me, knowing full well there are at least a dozen in this apartment
realized my laptop had biblical uptime (40 days 40 nights) so an early Patch Tuesday and a long rest is in order. I gotta get this thing off Win11 so every update doesn't feel like a gamble
okay OptiScaler is some kind of magic and it's playable now
Leia 🏳️⚧️@tact.ac · 2w agothe last line of this post should be read while you imagine me gritting my teeth, one eye twitching, after having spent 2 hours making a game from 6 years ago run at a stable 40 fps instead of a blurry 30 and still mostly failing. because that's how I spent my evening yesterday. but I am playing it!
you do not need to post your Ls. in fact i would advise resisting the impulse as much as possible. share your Ls with friends and family, post your dubs
since a PC upgrade is unaffordable I'm finally playing a lot of my backlog, but I'm spending just as long troubleshooting as playing. adding DLC to 3DS games, using a mod loader for Steam Deck, fixing broken audio on a PC game from 15 years ago...nothing "just works" but I'm learning and having fun!
my job's laptop upgrade policy changed from every 4 years to 5 just as mine approaches 4, so I went to argue with IT in person and show how slow mine is getting. did not expect the guy to just crack it open and swap in double the RAM for me. felt like watching a bank teller open a vault of diamonds.
we default to Kramarczuk's and never regret it but I really oughta try more stuff around Hen/Cen area, what's worth a look for a good value dinner before a movie? (ignoring chains)
📝NO EULOGIES🧾 JAMIE PAIGE + UNBEATABLE MV OUT NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRF...
hi, i wrote and drew a short wlw comic!! please check it out 🙇its about a dead (?) wife and a grieving wife ❤️ 1/6
![black and white screentone comic with pink accents. Agott frm witch hat atelier wanders through the halls of the tower of tomes. Her narration says: We finall made it to the Tower... I spent so long imagining what i'd do to get here... ...Yet I never dwelled much on what I may actually find. The Tower will only let you leave with the books that you truly need. But I'm not like Coco. What I need - Whatever it is I'm lacking as a witch - I've never fully understood. No matter. I'll let the Tower's magic guide me. Surely anyone worthy of becoming a librarian... ...must be able to manage at least that much.
*gasp*
[agott notices pink light coming from a doorway]
There! That way! I wonder... Just what sort of book is waiting for me?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zjxbglnjnyeyupiioy3soafu/bafkreiaprxdzb644nws5nm3qu56xj7uc3hlxf5r4igcjxmqgtdnyiif36y)
I never got written up or fired from a job until I transitioned. The fact is that people (even allies) simply get more easily annoyed with you.
The Loch Ness Monster@nessiopeia.space · 3w agoAn important missing piece of information on that transgender wage gap graph is that trans women quickly learn that they need to make themselves indispensable to their jobs to not get pushed out, so every cent of that 60¢ is earned with twice the labor of their cis colleagues
An important missing piece of information on that transgender wage gap graph is that trans women quickly learn that they need to make themselves indispensable to their jobs to not get pushed out, so every cent of that 60¢ is earned with twice the labor of their cis colleagues
This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
punkitt ‼️🧣@punkitt.bsky.social · 12mo agomucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!
Southdale Center has been a pretty dead mall for years but we go to see movies pretty regularly and it's always disappointing to bus early, walk to a shop with advertised closing times of 7-8 PM, and they're all actually closed by 6. there's seriously nothing to do before going to the theater
when we moved this past spring, places like this ranked just above places slathered in "landlord white" paint...but they usually had much stricter policies forbidding repainting or any alterations. so many tours of apartments that felt like hospital lobbies we couldn't imagine living in. awful trend
Jack Saint@lackingsaint.bsky.social · last mo.No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this
![Millennial grey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A kitchen with beige grey floors, drab walls, brushed steel appliances, and grey granite countertops.
Grey floors and furnishings are said to appeal to Millennial tastes.
Millennial grey refers to a desaturated colour scheme that is said to appeal to the interior design sensibilities of the Millennial Generation in the early 21st century.[1] Cultural historian Kassia St. Clair attributed its widespread adoption to a desire among Millennials for "a flexible, sensible choice that will last years, hide any stains, and can be adapted to different schemes."[1] Some have diagnosed Millennial grey as a reaction to the warm hues of the late 20th century.[2]
Millennial grey is polarising, particularly when used with imitation-wood-texture sheet vinyl flooring, which many describe as depressing, soulless, or corporate.[3][4] Although attributed to Millennials, the grey colour scheme is often chosen by house flippers, vacation rental owners, or other people who do not actually live in the greyed properties.[3] Thus, the occupant of the property—Millennial or not—has little say in its colour scheme, particularly when deployed for fixtures such as flooring.[4] The greying may have been driven, in part, by a desire to prepare properties for sale in a manner thought to be least offensive to the average buyer.[5] Given the housing crises gripping many countries in the early to mid-21st century, buyers and renters may feel they have no choice but to accept a property decked in Millennial grey.[4]
To the extent that Millennial grey is said to be enjoyed by Millennials, it is also said to be loathed by Generation Z.[1][2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:atdbmignbrjbjgj2ba4axnwl/bafkreidgcz72oqo4dwsqlv2ovhewwekbfxdo7ydluyrffhlijqkg2546gy)
doodleeeeess Sumday I'll make a proper drawingy fanart thingy but today, here, have dOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODLEEEEEEEES
we got a better window AC unit so I can actually work from home and not need to go find somewhere with wifi downtown every day over 90, but as long as air quality stays this bad I'm basically stuck at home anyway...running 2 air purifiers and still feeling it in here. gonna be a rough electric bill.
guy who's seen multiple David Lynch movies before any Stanley Kubrick movies: "getting a real Lynchian vibe from this...."
barista changed the music in this coffee shop from a pretty generic pop playlist to Nightcall by Kavinsky and I'm not complaining but it sort of gave me vibes whiplash
there was a newspaper at the table where we got brunch so I read the Sunday comics page for the first time in a while and it kinda threw me to see 2 long-established strips making AI jokes while the rest recycle the same gags they've done for decades
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
no one should talk to the NYT until they retract their clearly biased and transphobic coverage of trans youth and our community.
daviss@daviss.org · last mo.So @nytimes.com not willing to sit on the sidelines anymore and coming after @racketmn.com