I'm still just so in love with the options in Mask of the Rose. There isn't only a romance or no romance option! They went above and beyond. They actually broke down allo, allo aro, allo ace, and aroace! I've rarely seen such care and commitment from anyone dealing with aspec issues and I'm just full of warm thoughts
we got u
I also notice you guys seem to have put some aro/ace options into the early-game Persuasive advancement in Fallen London?
we got u 2
good morning everyone! I have a new all-time favorite work of art, and it’s this early 19thc ivory netsuke in the shape of an INCREDIBLY fat bird
This must’ve been a popular design for netsuke, because there’s a very similar one on display in the National Museum of Scotland:
important update!!! the borb is part of a FLOCK
after venturing out to pinterest in search of their roundest birds, i present the following
AND it turns out they probably all have FEET
"Bard archers, with spinny and jumping combos? Doesn't sound like my thing, really..." -a less wise Blumineck
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Oh
OH!!!
OhOhOHHhhhhhh!!!!!!!11!!eleven11!!!!!
The ✨
Fucking 😻
European Union's 🌈
Digital Service Act 🥲
Forces large social platforms 🥳
To always offer ♥️
a non-algorithmic option 🌟
To EU users 🤟
Fuck
Yeah
EU!!!!
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I see US tech jounalists on Mastodon, once again, charging against the EU for "damaging european users" by forcing companies to deliver "a subpar experience". So let me paste something I wrote over there a few weeks ago:
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I keep seeing very important US tech journalist here talking about how Threads not launching in the EU is:
- somehow shameful and a sign of how "you can't innovate in the EU"
- a problem for the EU, which will led us to creative interpretations of the GDPR to finally allow Meta to launch here.
And I think folks from the US tech scene really, really don't understand several things:
1) how incredibly hostile the EU (and a good chunk of the European political parties) are to "big tech".
2) how surprisingly immune to lobbying the EU Parliament appears to be.
3) how actually popular it's that the politicians take a hard stance against macrocorps. Every time the European Commission has gone against big tech most the press and the people have cheered them as our champions against evil.
And I can't even start describing how IMPORTANT for the future could be that people started being able to turn off YouTube algorithmic recommendations. I think YouTube shares with meta, pretty much 50/50, the responsibility for the global resurgence of fascism we have seen in the last decade.
ALTTHIS^^^
And if you do get paid for your ideas/writing during the strike, that is considered scabbing and you will be barred from the WGA for life, as per this email from the Blacklist:
And, because a lot of people don't understand this bit, this is about you selling your ideas or writing to US-based TV studios or movie studios who are part of the AMPTP. There is no strike against book publishers. Nor audiobooks, graphic novels, or poetry publishing. Or just writing.
Read the above from the WGA.
