Ulster County, NY is holding a design contest for the I Voted stickers to be handed out this fall among high school students
The vote is open to anyone and there is an obvious correct choice
https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/i-voted-sticker-contest/
I love how if you actually follow the entire throughline of the Mega Man series, it's basically a small domino of 'Albert Wily really cannot stand his overly-naive college roommate' and a big domino of 'humanity and synthetic life collapse into one another to a point of fusion so complete it is literally impossible to tell the difference between man and machine to the degree the world forgets the distinction.'
covid
That spike protein we targeted with mRNA vaccines? There had been some minor drift in that area with variants, including the versions of omicron that were showing up late winter, but for the most part if you had some fresh antibodies kicking around, they were pretty suited to the job.
BA.5 is different, and it's becoming the dominant strain. In BA.5, that spike protein has changed dramatically, and your vaccine, and even an infection from late winter or spring with an earlier omicron variant, might do fuck-all for you. It's also seeming to escape at least one treatment option.
Masks maaaaasks masks
please if you're inside
oh also because it's midnight it's our birthday now
here is a game we made around our birthday two years ago https://packbat.itch.io/a-memory-of-a-library
(redraft edit) ...idk we want to share things we made and make more things
and this one is a little topical
so we're taking the excuse to link to our itch
the game is about remembering a library building
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Up for air. (purely metaphorical drowning, mh --/+/)
After days of feeling like it's all downhill from here, nothing is worth doing, and the only reason to get out of bed is the soreness from staying in it... it's awfully nice to wake up and feel genuinely good!
...but it's still clear that something is not right. I consistently under-report my depression and anxiety because I've adapted so thoroughly to them. I'm surrounded by this ocean of it. Being held underwater so often normalizes holding one's breath, riding out every second while muttering under my dwindling breath. This is the cycle of it. I've had worse. I'll be back up for air any moment now.
Over the last couple months, there's been less and less air each time. It's looking like the "theta-burst" TMS isn't nearly as effective for me as the older type, so it's back to the full-length visits. It's another boring ten minutes per week, but that's better than another boring six days per week.
Even though I don't expect I'll ever get to land, I'm not about to accept water as the new air.
Urgent need for mental health support information, Marysville WA (Snohomish county)
I have a cousin who has a number of extreme mental illness issues (bipolar + schizophrenia) and her partner of many years has recently passed away after a protracted illness. She is holed up in the house and nobody is able to get in touch with her. She absolutely needs mental health support and housing assistance. Does anyone know of any city or county services which could help her out?
We also, for the benefit of folks who don't have their own decks, published the oracle system we made up a while ago using a 52/54-card playing card deck: https://www.patreon.com/posts/68061297
It's a pretty simple system - you combine the meaning for the suit with the meaning for the rank - but I think the prompts we invented are appropriately interesting. We've used it in the past as a GM to come up with one-shot ideas.
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Just published our second free 200-word #ttrpg on our Patreon: "conspiracy in reverse" https://www.patreon.com/posts/68194507
This is a game that uses a tarot deck or other oracle deck to generate prompts for a story in the form of secrets that the protagonist uncovers, inspired by eldritch stories and trans metaphors.
Let us know if you try it out!
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From birdsite
RT @l_issv
as requested here are some more cartoon character pride flags !!!
featuring the bi, trans, unlabelled and lesbian flags <3
From birdsite
RT @l_issv
pride flag coloured cartoon characters !!! 🏳️🌈
reply with your flags and maybe i’ll do those too :D
Hey I found an open source menstrual cycle tracking app called Drip that doesn't call home to anyone and encrypts your data on your device. It's gender inclusive and it has a prebuilt version Android that you can get either on F-Droid or on their site here: https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io
They have an iOS version but it's not pre compiled. I'll be working on that today so you can get loaded onto your Apple devices, along with the instructions to install it on said Apple device.
Please boost so others can see this!
Images, nsfw because of female identified nipples, undead, fantasy creatures
#drawings earlier today were working up analog inks with more of a goal of coloring them later. Wizard vs wolf centaur, undead characters, and a witch with her harpy allies.
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
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and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)