Henlo.
Been busy with my writing biz and toddler mom life.
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This was a lie lol
I can barely keep myself alive nvm do much else
It’s been a very difficult, traumatic 2 years

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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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Henlo.
Been busy with my writing biz and toddler mom life.
Back soon!
This was a lie lol
I can barely keep myself alive nvm do much else
It’s been a very difficult, traumatic 2 years
Henlo.
Been busy with my writing biz and toddler mom life.
Back soon!
Trans and cis men together in healthy relationships and trans and cis women together in healthy relationships are really beautiful, loving, and gay.
“The transformation of Earth into a productive zone had a huge and lasting impact. As individuals ceased to participate in the living world and started to use it, the world turned into an object. And if its self-proclaimed masters wanted to keep subjugating it, this object had to be tamed. So everything was domesticated, from the surrounding reality (the fields, as well as vegetables, animals, minerals, and the energies of Earth), to people, human imagination, mind, perception, vitality, and relationships (with oneself, with others, with nature). Everything had to be gradually brought under control and changed, manipulated, and shaped to the purpose of this control. In this sense, civilization meant from the start not only that we had to become numb to the world around us, but also that each aspect of nature had to be controlled.”
— Enrico Manicardi - Free From Civilization: Notes Towards a Radical Critique of Civilization’s Foundations
a fun fact about teenagers who go through neo-nazi phases is that jewish children and children of color are unavoidably subjected to them in school and other environments, and the harm that they experience as a result is not negligible even if their neo-nazi peers eventually change their minds
#queer kids are often also the targets of this #the main difference is unless their out or fall into visible stereotypes #they’re less likely to fall victim than their visible minority peers
i’m gay and the phrasing of this post is intentional. i know this is uncomfortable for some people to acknowledge but to be honest, i saw and experienced a significant amount of antisemitic and racist aggression from my white, goyische LGBT peers. as an adult, i’ve absolutely known and interacted with LGBT neo-nazis. i’d like white goyische LGBT people to engage with that, actually
Shope Reno Wharton Treehouse. A romantic getaway in the trees with a nice top deck and a windowsill seat for relaxation.
Hey all! I’ve been really struggling lately. I can’t seem to focus, which make it hard to get housework done...and impossible to try and make any money from home. The good news is that my wife’s name change (and all related documents) ought to be completed within the next month-ish? So she can apply for jobs again. Unemployment ran out, so we’ve been selling our stuff to make ends meet.
I’m still working toward organizing my physical space as best I can and freelancing when I have the focus.
This is just really difficult with a 17 month old at home. ;_;
I hope to be back to making original content soon, but...we will see.
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artist Nathalie Lete painted her house full of flowers during quarantine
Exquisite Photography Series That Depicts Dried Flowers and Tea Sets
Artist, wife and mother, Marina Malinovaya spends her leisure hours orchestrating extravagant photographic compositions using dried up flowers, leaves and tea sets.
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So... Gamestop’s Stock Price and all that
This isn’t a game dev thing, but it is interesting and I thought it would make for some interesting reading (and also probably serve as a warning - you really probably shouldn’t buy gamestop stock right now). If you read and enjoyed my [Gamer’s Primer for Financial Literacy], this might be amusing for you as well.
First, I’ll explain the game mechanics. There’s a mechanic in investing called Short Selling, where an investor hopes to make money off of a stock (e.g. Gamestop) that they believe will go down in value. That investor borrows shares of the stock from another investor and is legally bound to return those shares at some future date. The investor can then sell the shares today, wait for the stock price to drop, buy the shares back at a lower price, and return the shares to the lender while pocketing the difference. In our example, Desmal borrows five of my shares of AAGDCo and sells them today for $100 apiece, promising to return them (Desmal gains $500). In a week, AAGDCo has a scandal and the price drops to $80 a share. Desmal buys the five shares of AAGDCo back for $80 apiece (total cost: $400), returns them to me, and gets to keep the difference ($100 profit).
Under certain circumstances, the lender can enforce a margin call - a way for the lender (me) to (legally) force the borrower (Desmal) to pay back the shares she borrowed. This stops borrowers from borrowing forever if they’re in the hole (e.g. if AAGDCo actually went up in value after Desmal borrowed the shares and sold them). If there’s a margin call, Desmal must buy the stock shares and return them to me. If the AAGDCo price has gone up, Desmal must eat the difference in cost and possibly take a loss. Risk to reward here.
So what does this have to with Gamestop? Gamestop, as you may know, has been having a really rough time over the past several years. Their business is failing and doing quite badly. Physical retail stores are taking a beating thanks to Covid, and digital game distribution and sales have been exploding, leaving them behind. This meant a lot of investors thought that short selling Gamestop stock was a good idea - they think the stock price will continue to fall, so they borrow shares, sell them immediately, and then will pay those shares back at a later date when the stock price has fallen even more.
But… here’s the trick. So many investors shorted Gamestop stock that more than 100% of their stock had been short sold. These short sold investors are legally bound to buy back shares of Gamestop at whatever price once the margin call comes. This means that, if the stock price jumped up dramatically, margin calls would be made and these investors couldn’t avoid buying back the shares at the high price. So the trolls at /r/wallstreetbets decided to see if they could do it. They started buying up Gamestop stock.
At some point, when enough people buy something, the supply is gone and you can’t find it at the original price anymore (e.g. the PS5 and XSX consoles), so your only option is to raise the price you’re willing to pay in order to buy the thing you want. When enough people buy something, it naturally drives the price up. So… when /r/wallstreetbets collectively bought up all of the floating Gamestop stock, it drove the price up further and further. When this happened, the margin calls started coming in for the short sold investors, and they were forced to buy Gamestop stock at the much higher price in order to pay back the people they originally borrowed the shares from. This wave of forced buying triggered another wave of margin calls, which triggered another wave of forced buying, each round of forced buying driving the price up further. Gamestop stock being worth over $250 a share is the result of this.
Basically, too many investors had waaaay overextended themselves by short selling Gamestop stock and got burned for it. The same thing is starting to happen with other over-shorted stocks as well - Blackberry, AMC, and Express are all seeing similar things happen as well. A bunch of redditors with some money creatively used the game mechanics to grief a bunch of institutional investors who were way overextended.
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they’ve lost billions
i suffer from a disease called “not wanting to work”, and it’s incurable
‘Caper in the Castro’ was thought to be long lost.
Caper in the Castro is a legendary video game, not because legions of die-hard fans continue to play it, but because it was thought to be lost forever. Now, what is largely considered to be the first LGBTQ-focused video game (it was released in 1989) is on the Internet Archive for anybody to play.
The game is a noir point-and-click that puts the player in the (gum)shoes of a private detective named Tracker McDyke who is, in case you couldn’t guess by the name, a lesbian. McDyke must unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Tessy LaFemme, a transgender woman, in San Francisco’s Castro district, an historically gay neighbourhood.
OOOOOHhh!
The game was released as charityware – freely, with a strong request to give a donation an AIDS Charity of their choice. I’d like to push towards still following that and donating, if you’re able.
(And you might also want to donate to the Internet Archive, who is hosting it now, while you’re at it – they’re in the middle of a donation drive, and could use your support.)
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