katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

"We're recording this in San Francisco, and this week the Blue Angels are flying around, so if you hear something that sounds like airplanes strafing our house, /that's what's happening/."

Newest tabletop rpg character: a MUCK bot that had so much emotional energy poured into it that they gained sentience and somehow instantiated into a physical body, now desperately seeking love and friendship and trying very hard to pass for a normal human teenager #Monsterhearts

Top Tip: "comrade" is a gender-neutral form of address.

Listen, I know it's a cliche, but Sandstorm really is an excellent song. Super cool melody/countermelody.

Back in town after four days away from the internet. I'm not even gonna try to catch up on my feed backlog.

<3

I want anarcho-mom-unism.

Huh, now I'm wondering if anyone has written a piece comparing framings of player agency in Bioshock and in Spec Ops: The Line

Bioshock is an interesting half-example because the game mechanics (emphasizing agency and choice) are a deliberate contrast to the narrative of acting without free will.

A subject I find really interesting is games that communicate their message primarily or exclusively through game design instead of through visuals or narrative. Good examples of this are Missile Command, Braid, and Dark Souls.

Ulam-Teller? I hardly knew 'er!

Seattle heatwave status: neighborhood grocery store is giving out free iced bottled water at the entrance.

I still kinda wonder what a polity that used Approval voting would look like longterm. Approval encourages extremely centrist candidates.

an electoral system that I *really* like but works for electing a slate of representatives instead of one winner is Single Transferable Vote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

btw, in case you haven't been exposed to this idea before:

"every person gets one vote and the candidate with the most votes wins" (First Past the Post) is a terrible and undemocratic way to run elections.

Better systems let you give a ranked preference and mean you can't "waste" your vote on a third party.

http://ncase.me/ballot/

(I posted this to bird site like a year ago and it fell flat despite it being maybe my best snowclone ever)

Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

Must be willing to relocate to San Fransisco.

Ahhhhh this new sports bra gives me actual cleavage!! ^_^

The band is a little tight but I don't care.

Oh hey apparently 3d printed air raid sirens are a thing.

https://youtu.be/xtA24MJphcA?t=96

Today's Gender of the Day is: spooky-ass air raid sirens