The #library card is *the* emblem of a child’s standing in civic life: their direct access to a public service, not mediated or controlled by others. The library card grants rights to the politically voiceless and powerless.

It’s more radical than the idea of #democracy itself.

ZINE TIME ZINE TIME ZINE TIME ZINE TIME

Like the bigger ones for readability, but the little ones are kitschy fun in the manner of the teenie tiny pocket bibles you need a magnifying glass to read.

That and you can whip them out like shuriken, completely without warning.

So fuck yeah to @ash

Getting it out on the road.

#ttrpg #indiegame

As holiday fundraising campaigns continue, remember that the #SalvationArmy is fundamentally an evangelical anti-LGBTQ organization that campaigns against equal rights while pushing its religious agenda.

Donate elsewhere.

Refs (stance on LGBTQIA):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army#Stance_on_LGBT_issues

please let people know!

#signalboost #freepalestine #twitch

Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of #DoctorWho because it contained an openly #trans character.

I'm going to make a complaint to the BBC that there weren't enough #transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023, BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)

Reply when you've done it, so we can count us all. When we get to 145, everyone... gets a free BLÅHAJ? 🦈

Edit: 2 days later, mission successful: 159 complaints/comments submitted, and still climbing! A *huge* thank you everyone - stay tuned for hopefully some freedom of information requests!

hot skeletons in your area, pt. I

AVAILABLE NOW: City of Red Waters by Ash McAllan
This alternate setting for Blades in the Dark features new heritages, backgrounds, crew types, and more. Set your Scoundrels loose in the colonial city of Inverrouge, where ambition and decadence meet. #ttrpg
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/462722/City-of-Red-Waters?affiliate_id=24139

Coming next week: The City of Red Waters, a new setting for Blades In The Dark by Ash McAllan.
Explore the complex city of Inverrouge where opportunities for decadence, ambition, or monstrosity await those willing to seize them.
Featuring new heritages, backgrounds, vices, crew types and more.
#ttrpg

That's just embarrassing.

"1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study/

Are developers allergic to "semantics and shit" or don't they simply understand the importance of it?
Well, if all it takes is to call it otherwise in order to HTML be a concern, that's a win
https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/1/

Been perusing late 17th and early 18th century texts, as one is wont to do, when I came across this pronoun rant.

this is not good allyship

More Palestinians detained than released during truce

The Palestinian Prisoners Club says Israeli forces have detained 168 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the truce on Friday.

During the same period, 150 Palestinians have been released by Israel since Friday as part of the agreement.

@palestine
#WestBank
#prisoners

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

“you can get a lot done if you don’t need to take credit for it”

probably the most salient community organizing quote there is

“I am so distressed by people who call themselves ‘radical feminists’ but are anti-trans. I could weep. I don’t get it. It’s beyond me,” she says. “When the feminist movement started in the 60s and 70s, lesbians were often excluded, because we were told that we would make the movement less palatable. I have been excluded myself, so how could I do that to someone else? It fills me with rage.”

https://inews.co.uk/culture/comedy/sandi-toksvig-distressed-anti-trans-radical-feminists-2768064

#LGBTQ #Trans

it's a bit exaggerated
but it's bouncy and soft and it feels like you want to run your hand through it
and I like that!

#gamedev #indiedev