Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

In case you ever wondered why billionaires came to attack democracy and AI came to attack writing and art: power always tries to destroy imagination and storytelling. It is often the last bastion that they cannot control and the first source of successful resistance against them.

No matter how hard they try, no matter whom they hurt, they will not succeed. And it terrifies them. As it should.

While deleting my old tweets to prevent scraping from AI, a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin bubbled up to the top completely on accident. I chose to keep it there.

Finally getting around to deleting my tweets from my former Twitter account. Unfortunate, but long past time.

Like others, I'll be keeping my account itself to prevent impersonation and reuse of the URL (unless it's pried from me by the site's fascist owner).

Really happy with how far Masto and other alternatives have come since Twitter was acquired, it's been really comfy here by comparison.

I have recently learned that Caves of Qud now has workshop mods that:

1. Add fully sprited dragonfolk
2. Add a collectible card game
3. Add fishing

I already love Qud, and this gives me an excuse to play it even more. 💜

The thing about Bezos killing WaPo's endorsement of Harris, Soon-Shiong killing LA Times' wall-to-wall coverage of their Harris endorsement, and Elon using Twitter as his personal propaganda arm to elect nazis into power, is that I could not better demonstrate if I tried how society is incompatible with the existence of billionaires.

Great job, assholes. Taxing you at 95% and breaking the control you have over your businesses is the *politest* response to you throwing in with nazis to keep your ill-gotten fortunes.

Anyway. If you haven't voted already, please do. These assholes need to be shown the door, unceremoniously thrown through it, and shut down in every aspect of our politics other than their singular right to one vote.

Also an icewing named Brauby the Seven-headed Scream is notable in that they'd also make an excellent metal band cover.

Discovered that there's a Wings of Fire mod for Dwarf Fortress. Decided to try it to see what absolute disasters it would generate, and heck, it did not disappoint.

Shoutout to Dreadbeard the seawing and his disaster of a battle polycule. Absolute legends.

@gardevoir Yuuuuup. Also, if you've never seen this, it's unnervingly as accurate for novices as for pros: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWY7fsXwh24

@Soreth @kistaro This also ignores that at least two organizations benefiting from keeping that endless war at bay were secretly building super weapons to astroturf the planet, and that one of them, quite explicitly, is a military contractor.

It's a thing.

@KayOhtie Having played Switch games on the Steam Deck including TotK, it gets mostly full speed. Expect some crashes (esp during big area loads), but I was playing around with mods just fine with only minor frame drops otherwise.

Dunno how available emulators will be after Yuzu got taken down, though. Worth exploring.