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This is Twig. She never learned how to sneeze. Has sneefing and snorfing down, just can’t quite get the real thing. 13/10 (TT: twiginout)

Vaccines save lives.

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Being Glue — No Idea Blog Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

Yup, unfortunately it's endemic to the entire software industry. This article really nails the problem: www.noidea.dog/glue

For example, I tend to end up in the glue role on my teams, which isn't surprising since women tend to fall into the glue role and then get passed over for promotions 🙃

It really boils down to: Will someone get promoted maintaining a product at Google? Nope, so when a project is finished devs move on. IIRC this happened to Stadia

Given how thermostats, smoke detectors, etc. don't change much I'm not surprised that Nest, etc. are stagnating given Google's culture

I really think this is the most impactful scene in God of War: Ragnarok. @santamonicastudio.bsky.social, Ryan Hurst, and Christopher Judge really hit it out of the park with the writing and acting here and deliver a message that everyone should take to heart.

I'm not perfect but I try to catch myself and be better. This is something many other white activists need to strive for. The context is different, Kratos' speech in God of War Ragnarok by Christopher Judge is a sentiment many white ppl should internalize

It's also how we defeat bigotry and racism.

Yep, another effect is this is that it may further bolster the far right in Alberta as their economy gets a boost as oil becomes economical to extract from the tar sands again. Thus causing people to ignore how the UCP is absolutely screwing them over.

I hate the lack of empathy in our countries.

I need to mention this.

White leftists also often struggle similarly when you ask them to add race into their analysis. They often would rather fucking not in fact & get all defensive and treat that as divisive. Male leftists do it to women. Straight leftists to queer leftists. Abled to disabled.

It helps I’m trans myself, so getting other trans and LBGTQ+ activists to realize that being black is a discrimination multiplier when being trans is a bit easier for me than some others.

It’s something I have to actively catch myself on and what you said is really important. I’m not perfect but I can strive to be better, and other white leftists need to least *try*. Instead many get offended, but I’ve been able to get a few to realize how fucked black trans folk are, for example.

Yeah, and the worst part is, it’s the civilians on all sides that suffer. It makes me so angry.

Ukraine at least would be happy to just have it end peacefully. While I’m sure that may be an option with Iran, unless there’s some kind of reparations paid by Israel and the US, I don’t see an end to this… and reparation aren’t going to happen anytime soon.

Yeah, we basically just walked into the same trap as Russia. Except the Iranian government, and their current leader especially, have every incentive to drag this out and make it painful up to and including attacks on civilian infrastructure Israel and the US. We killed their leader’s family ffs.

I think I got emotional because the letter really hits different after the past few months and especially the last week and a bit of bad stuff happening everywhere.

TLDR: We need more empathy and positive male role models in the world, and more people should strive to be like Clive.

The front side of the MTG card “Clive, Ifrit’s Dominant” with Ben Star’s signature on it. His signature is a B, with a line leading to three small stars. The card uses concept art of Clive from FFXVI which features him standing with his hand in front and fire around him. It features a lot of blacks and reds done in a painterly style. The art is by Kazuh Takahashi.

The back side of the MTG card “Clive, Ifrit’s Dominant” with a quote from the game written by Ben Starr in gold ink. The quote is “COME TO ME IFRIT” The card uses concept art of Ifrit from FFXVI. With Ifrit standing in an intimidating way facing the viewer with lots of blacks and reds done in a painterly style. The art is buy Kazuya Takahashi.

I got my card signed by @benstarr.bsky.social for my MTG deck. I tried not to, but I did get a little emotional when I shared with him the same letter I shared with Yoshi-P and the FF16 dev team. I couldn’t help it since well, it had some important things to say about the importance of Ben’s roles.

the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”

Dawg, that’s great enough 💜

Holy crap is this cute 😮

Bold of folks to do that at ECCC. Granted Seattle sadly does have a non-trivial number of terfs 😭 The good news is that they’re far outnumbered by awesome folk 😎

And yes, I am a world building/lore junkie so the things that stand out to me on this front mostly qualify as nitpicks, lol.

Except for the lack of an FBI agent partner, I think that’s a big miss in terms of grounding the world before Grace falls down the proverbial rabbit hole into “Wonderland.”

There’s also some stuff with how Raccoon City is set up that make very little sense given the things still crawling about the city. I don’t want to get too much into what could be considered spoilers but basically a lot of this is easily fixed with a few adjustments and I wish the devs did that.

Finished Resident Evil 9. It’s fantastic, but there’s a lot of internal inconsistencies with RE9’s world building that I wish the devs paid attention to. Like, why was Grace sent alone at the beginning of the game? She should have had a partner, could easily killed the partner off too.

This is fair, lol

The Clair Obscure panel at ECCC is completely unhinged. If you have the chance to watch the stream or VOD you should.

I know it should be a given, but lots of cosplayers don’t wear the right PPE when sanding, don’t know ASA should never be printed in living spaces unless properly contained/vented (harder than you think,) and as for spraying acetone… You’ll want a proper workshop and consult OSHA guidelines.

What is it with professional cosplayers who run panels and don’t talk about the safety side? Yeah, it’s not the fun part but if you’re teaching newbies things like sanding, printing ASA, or talking about using an HVLP to spray acetone, maybe emphasize safety?

A black white and brown dog carrying a red light saber in his mouth.

If he's such a good boy, why is his light saber red? 🤔

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)