slab

PRESENTING: “LESBIANEURISM” An extended play Album, FORMULATED after I SUCKED OUT our old singer’s SOUL, STOLE his POWER and CHANGED our NAME. Features all of Today's most Ubiquitous Genres: Dark Americana, Space Surf, Alternative Country, Shoegaze, and Hillbilly Flamenco. Guaranteed to *Make You Feel* both Emotions: Horny and Sad. Listen Today!

Yo folks, its up!

Bandcamp page is live and the links to all the other streaming places are in progress and will be here later.

Happy Valentine's Day, all women.

lesbianeurism.bandcamp.com/album/lesbianeurism

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or luke@aftermath.site, thank you!

Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever.

If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

My beloved...

I count 25 cuts in 45 seconds of advertisement.

I gave the IFPA my view of the trans-exclusionary OBX pinball tournament. I reject the notion that it's the responsibility of trans people to compromise with transphobia, and also reject that it's just a "women's issue".

arborelia.net/ifpa-obx.html

All HW zones get tweaks to have at least two aetherytes (Coerthas West gets one outside of Dusk Vigil, Hinterlands gets one on both sides, Sea of Clouds gets a third on the east side, Azys Lla gets a second over in the southeast quadrant)

I hate that this what our entire economy has become. Endless growth is what cancer does. Why can't we be happy with stability?

The great irony of CWs and tagging systems is platforms identified them as easy ways to moderate content at the insistence of app stores and paypros. So now we all have to go back to an era where nothing gets tagged and nothing gets a CW

I've been saying it, but I'm gonna let her say it better

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

At @leadstories.com we've been debunking a stream of these. Seems like a network operating out of Vietnam churning out dozens of versions of the same stories using the same AI prompts but with different celebrities and locations inserted.

Someone just sent me a bunch of examples of these. Apparently the site is flooded with them.

There's gotta be a story behind all of these.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i3fhjvvkbmirhyu4aeihhrnv

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3lyngxhj4jc2b

How close did we get yesterday to some trans person, somewhere, getting killed because the Wall Street Journal decided to lie about this

500 billion selfies taken last year

how do you know that, apple

TODAY is election day!

Grab a friend, coworker, or family member and make your voices heard.

Get out and #vote!

🧵

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

EVEN if you can, somehow, delude yourself into justifying staying at the Nazi bar, the business case for staying on Substack also no longer makes sense.

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

so an app providing censorship bypass tools to mainly chinese users got kicked off play store a while ago cuz the verification expired and per (new?) policies the developer must now list their real name & address; guess what someone threatened by a totalitarian superpower might not want to share?

only transcribing the important part: "The portal we, and the rest of the country, use to submit prior authorizations to insurances uses an AI software to more efficiently process prior authorizations. It works until it does not. It made a mistake this time on how many patches are being requested, and closed our prior authorization request saying it wasn't needed."

i am out of estradiol patches because AI made a fucky wucky :)

This how to participate for FFXIV's MH collab is so fucking funny

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it

authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

Oh, look. It's that thing everyone predicted would happen when you give them an inch