misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

#drawings from today were mecha, sci-fantasy characters, and something that happened in a recent #DnD session; there really was a mechanical purple worm, the gnome wizard really did cast Sphere of Invulnerability on himself before jamming himself in its maw, and the barbarian really did whale on it while the rogue tried to figure out how to disable the mechanism.

aliens: we are real

me: wow!

aliens: we're sure whatever text encoding standard you use will be able to handle the 1 million characters' worth of new scripts we're bringing with us

me: actually you need to leave

risk-aware consensus reality

"Are you at least 18 years old?
Do you identify along the asexual spectrum?
Do you reside in USA, UK or Canada?

If you answered yes to all of these, you are eligible to participate in a new study on families and relationships among asexual people.

Volunteers will take a 15min survey from which about 30 participants will be selected for 2h interviews."

Survey link
https://tinyurl.com/asexualintimacies

Questions direct to megan.carroll@csusb.edu

#asexuality #acesurvey #asexual #ace #demisexual #greysexual

Icelanders now have the option of "X" as gender marker in all forms of ID, including passport and driving license, as of the start of 2021. ^_^

And, a comment notes "I've noticed how binary the last names are in Icelandic before, but that's cool to see that they will be allowed "-bur" instead of -son or -dóttir."

https://nitter.net/UglaStefania/status/1346611156698411013

i am not taking feedback at this time

is your child addicted to the donkey kong country franchise? check their text messages for these telltale clues:

IDK = I'm Donkey Kong
LOL = Lots of Lanky
BRB = Bereaved Regarding Bananas
IKR = Is it K. Rool?
JK = Jump on Kremlings
SMH = Such Monkey Hijinx
ACAB = Athletically Cannonball from Airborne Barrels

every indie Metroid-alike kind of feels like 'remember Super Metroid? What if it was harder, controlled worse, and you couldn't play a girl? Hi, I'm John Videogames, here to present you my magnum opus, Bluper Mutroin.'

it's all fun and games until the vowels go on strike. then t's ll fn n gms

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-363A-recount-report

In which Rakela winks and tells, Milli's reunited with a familiar face.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-373A-referendum-report

In which Milli finds out someone read her paper, and Spark's heart grows three sizes.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-383A-ward-report

In which many people prepare for election day.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-393A-election-day-report

In which all politics are local politics.

And now you're caught up too!

I'm super-chuffed to say that, despite everything aggravating my stress levels and keeping me anxious through most of November and the start of December, I managed to both finish all of the old session summaries but also get the next section of game loosely outlined. I'm now at the point with Book Two that I was with Book One when I started two years ago.

I am officially Caught Up™️.

At the end of our Halloween session, I asked my players if we could take a short hiatus from the game. We had just completed several major story arcs and had a huge background plot point drop, and I had massively fallen behind on getting the game summaries written. @ElectricKeet had done amazing work helping keep things up to date on the site, but they couldn't manage both that and Milli's journals, and so the story summaries went on pause.

If you're a US taxpayer, the CARES Act has a lesser known positive surprise:

"Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions.

However, taxpayers who don't itemize deductions may take a charitable deduction of up to $300 for cash contributions made in 2020 to qualifying organizations."

So, if you have a charity in mind and some spare funds, *today* would be a very good time. ^_^

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/how-the-cares-act-changes-deducting-charitable-contributions

As part of our Quietus celebration, we're putting together some small "ritual participation kits" to mail out to folks who'd like to join us, or who could use just a bit of outside encouragement to keep in touch with your spiritual side.

If you'd like to receive one of our kits, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1I-S34n2Ezo78ImNQdcf3WR4GD-E1DAKyNHwlnTMsa7d7vQ/viewform

You don't have to commit to participating to receive a kit; this is just us trying to help people make their lives a little more magical.

Hey, fedi. The Fellowship of the Phoenix, a queer neopagan mystery order to which I belong, has begun hosting its rituals virtually and streaming them as part of our ongoing practice.

Next Saturday, January 9, is our celebration of Quietus, where we honor the Queer Elder and the divine gift of wisdom; in our tradition, this is a time for reflecting on the past year and preparing ourselves spiritually for new growth in the next.

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Linux Is Not UX

#drawings today listening to Foo Fighters and the Pumpkins. Druid healing a fighter won on Mastodon, throne with villains won on Twitter, so I did both!