@prettyarbitrary
Just a small Cthulhu. Original writing and blog: https://www.prettyarbitrary.org Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/users/PrettyArbitrary 18+ only please. NSFW & dark content may occur without warning.
New York state is getting in on the act with these age verification bills. NY citizens can sign up for an account to register support or opposition to bills, leave comments, etc. Consider doing that and then putting them on blast.
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...
5 Library Wins Worth Celebrating americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/03/02/5...
Carmelita plants contraband and stolen shit on kids, unassuming adults, and their belongings, and then retrieves it later.
Tried and true method for 100 years, highly recommend.
Time and again the NYPD has shown that it cannot police itself.
Opportunities for people to offer firsthand testimony of their protest experience are vital in tracking whether police are adhering to a 2023 protest settlement. That's where @ptpproject.bsky.social comes in 👇
Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again
This is where I have to give a HUGE shoutout to Iron Circus Comics. Paid on time, super responsive to emails, constant social media promo, freaking *book trailers*???
Indie pubs really are incredible and deserve every dollar they get 😭
Gotta say, this is a line and a half. From the Kickstarter page. Go check it ouuuuut.
"Forget the killer heels, and the diamonds forged from the tears of her enemies, the one thing Mother would look best in is a mausoleum."
The SAVE Act and its more extreme version, the SAVE America Act, could shut millions of eligible citizens out of our democracy.
Tell Congress to reject these attacks on our freedom to vote at aclu.org/stop_anti_voter_
Now that billionaires are using AI to force undead likenesses of dead people to "teach" the living... if they've got the tech, why stop there? Make their *souls* slaves to the computer too! ...Now available at #Ebooks Direct: DEAD AND BREAKFAST. ebooks.direct/products/dea...
…Bumping this for the Evening Crowd. 😄
Since this appears to be doing the rounds, please check out kyusaimedia.com. It's an independent games website that I'm currently in talks to work for.
Whether or not I wind up there, it's a brilliant project and well worth your time and attention.
Good for them.
"Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31."
afscme31.org/news/america...
Fucking awful.
Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.
@davidpintod.bsky.social
I just submitted my comments to the FCC, asking them to deny the requests for these terrible, catastrophic satellite constellations.
More info here: aas.org/action-alert...
Across the country, people are resisting Flock Safety's mass spying.
It's time for this invasive technology to get the Flock out of our communities.
Jurassic Beach
Need a (living, breathing) games writer, folks? Drop me a note.
When federal immigration operations surged in Minneapolis, thousands of residents pitched in to support immigrant families. The state’s mutual aid networks are rooted in the state's history of cooperation.
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Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.
Please share.
tcpipeline.org
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
timeline cleanse
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(and since I heard Lou *lots* of times when he wandered by my office at Filmation, I can *absolutely* hear him muttering something pointed in the background...) 😆
Read this thread. This is why that taboo art you don't like needs to exist. Block it if it upsets you. Move on with your life. But dont destroy the safety nets and frameworks for actual victims that would come about by forcing everything right back into another Hays Code cuz you can't press a button
We released a site update that includes a long-awaited revamp of our image uploader widget! You can now upload up to 4 images at a time and easily rearrange them in a grid. Read more about the update here:
www.pillowfort.social/posts/7232136
In search of fighty bastards (affectionate): do you live in SC, are you a user of DW (or any other social media), and would you be willing to tell the court how what sites like us would have to do to comply with SC's terrible law would restrict your speech and association with others?
Now recruiting: DW users who would be interested in the possibility of helping us out in a legal challenge to state age verification laws, now or future! More details and where to register interest: dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/815.html
Good thread about D&D and house rules. I think they're spot on. I've played every edition of D&D and 4E was the best-built. But looking back, the jank, and the house rules we made to fix it, let us make the games our own.
Maybe it's what gave a lot of future indie RPG devs a taste for it too.
