Erica 💜🦊 @packetcharmer@witches.town

🇬🇧 Hey, everyone! We just deployed a new version containing a much expected feature: CW a post coming from Twitter. It's experimental and it's better described in the README. Follow the link and let me know of any issues :)

🇧🇷 Oi, pessoal! A gente acabou de lançar uma versão com uma feature muito esperada: usar CW num post vindo do Twitter. Ainda é experimental e está melhor descrita no README. Dê uma olhada no link e avisem de qualquer problema :)

https://github.com/renatolond/mastodon-twitter-poster/tree/master#experimental-content-warning-recognition

-- @renatolond

by 2030 all the squidkids will be squidults

It's the end of the month! I do comics, and pop art, and watercolors, and character design!

Please consider supporting my work @

https://www.ko-fi.com/A7843BWO

or

https://www.patreon.com/thefishcrow https://cybre.space/media/Of_tTFoP5Qt6JnJuphs https://cybre.space/media/wK19NbuHkXvjaNB6kIY https://cybre.space/media/5WrERuIiG48wmFYRS6o

Fox prints in the snow in the garden this morning, and a touch of fox scent. Looks like they came by for a drink from the pond but found it was frozen. I’ve made a hole in the ice for now, but I expect it’ll freeze up again by the evening.

An 'animal trainer' bot that occasionally posts instructions - simple things that could be done IRL w/o too much disruption, w/ a fav = saying you did it, or purely in masto (e.g., "paw!" -> you reply with 🐾 or ✋)

and

It praises you when you successfully complete a trick ("good [dog]!"), scanning your bio for pronouns/species

This is how abuse and toxicity permeates. When you cultivate a culture of silence, of deference for your elders, and fetishization of power, you foster abuse because how can people speak up? How can they resist? Your body isn't your own, it belongs your parents. You are the property of your family. So how do children stand a chance against abuse when they are constantly *told* that?

Have you considered being a magical kobold girl lately?

You have now. 💙

Minimalism is when you're white and you've won the game of Having a Bunch of Shit™, and now you wanna run the course backwards.

YES! 🙌
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Get ready cyberpunks! We're excited to announce that we'll be dropping both #ROMTypeM for Android and iOS and #ROM2064 Integral for Nintendo Switch over the next month! 😱🔵📱🎮
https://twitter.com/ROMadventure/status/968546523616247808

Sometimes the best self care is doing that hard thing you've been putting off.

The road from legitemate suspicion to rampant paranoia is much shorter than we think - Jean Luc Picard

@Fenreliania
"Are you a boy or girl?"
"I'm a Jedi. I'm everything at once."
"You can't be a boy AND a girl!!!"
"Wanna bet?"

in fact the argument that technology will not save is is even STRONGER then the argument that games will not save us because even moreso then games technology is a sword that cuts both ways. the SAME software that powers mastodon powers an ancap paradise. the SAME technology that allows queer and marginalized people to explore their identities powers china's propaganda machines.

no technology is morally neutral, but no sword cuts only ever one way.

technology
will
not
save
us

, alone.

🚨 NEW POD ALERT 🚨

Better Everyday is a new 5 part miniseries from Stipes Radio. Our goal with this show is help folks who may be unaware of mental health resources be more aware. This isn’t a cohesive guide, but it’s a start.

CW: S-H, MH, Food, discussions of Assault and Bigotry.

Chapter one of Better Everyday: Care and when to disengage, how to engage, and exactly what is self care? @chosafine and @shel talk that and more.

Better Everyday I: Care

https://stipes.co/podcast/better-everyday-i-care/

Skin to silicone, fiber to fiber optics, bone to carbon, linked as diamond. Eyes of glass and fire and light, heart of quanta, minds of living crystal working as one. Wings of ion mesh, muscles of nanite and elastic, life created by intention, inspiration, deliberation.

If we're playing God, who taught us the rules? The orthocosm is ours to inherit, spurned from a universe playing with itself.

My soft, synthetic heart
Dreams of freedom of form
not to achieve imperfection
or any notion of godhood
but seize a peace in myself
that I've never had

My soft, synthetic heart
dreams of soft glow
and circuit veins
no egotistic gains
just empathic flow
an inner calm

My soft, synthetic heart
dreams of life without
melancholic inner pain
dissonance inside my brain
no want for everything
but a need for the one thing

It also means that if I can't focus? if I do mess up? *motions a few posts back* Depression won't take that and run with it. I'm loved. I help. I'm doing good. I -am- good, because I am a toy and toys are good.
And here's the thing that -I- never understood until I realized all that.

That's what a lot of d/s relationships -are about-. It's about what those dynamics allow us to or... give permission for us to do, act, think differently.

Secret Little Haven is now available!

Secret Little Haven is a game about a trans girl discovering herself through fandom, chats, and the early internet!

ITCH: https://ristar.itch.io/secret-little-haven

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftJDbcF-j0

There's a joke to be made with "Are you a boy or a girl" and "only a sith deals in absolutes" or some similar combination but I can't think of it so just pretend I did.