I know this site barely works any more (hello to the stubborn, powerful few who remain) but I did a thing with some friends and it's very gay and very horror.
The second release from the international queer horror collective.
I'm a member of a queer body horror writing collective. We watch horror movies, write fiction and poetry in response to those films, and then get together to talk about them (and explain to each other why, in fact, everything is queer, especially anything horror-related).
I have two pieces in Gore Issue I, but for Gore Issue II, my friends who started the group and I worked real hard to create something more visual and invite queer artists to submit works as well.
The result is our wonderful, gross, silly, digital zine that I'm really proud to say I helped design (and also have a couple pieces of metafiction I'm real proud of as well).
It's pay-what-you-can, so if you want to read it but don't have the cash (or the cash is earmarked for something else) I hear you, I'm literally just glad to get some eyes on it.
+International queer body horror writing workshop
+Zine Issue 1: https://all-is-full-of-gore.itch.io/gore-issue-1
+Zine Issue 2 out now: htt
looks like i droped my chart of alternatives to adobe software!
how clumsy of me!
it would seems i also dropped my link to flashpoint archive to play old archived adobe flash games and animations along with other old interactive elements in websites, with an included flash emulator!
Palestine Action has forced four UK companies to cut ties with Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems in the past three months.
Some of Elbit’s factories are not owned outright, and therefore landlords and property managers are required to harbour their criminal activities. Those who work directly with Elbit are considered secondary targets of Palestine Action’s campaign.
As the campaign against Elbit has grown over the years, so have the actions against secondary targets. Such actions have included covering their premises in red paint to symbolise Palestinian bloodshed, dismantling infrastructure, crashing events and storming offices.
The sustained actions have paid off as four companies have cut ties with Elbit after targeted campaigns in the past three months alone.
i make a lot of posts to the tune of "you're allowed to be horny btw" because it's becoming increasingly clear that adults being sexual in (clearly marked and blockable!) spaces is being stamped out and made out to be evil both legislatively and in the moral zeitgeist, especially among younger folks. not even in the "wait to be a horny adult online when you're An Adult" way, just an ingrained puritanical outrage response to *anything* that isn't chaste wholesome perfect all-ages allowed. it's unnerving and scary.
as someone who has lurked Bluesky since a few months after it opened:
Multiple devs are nazis. They were liking and engaging with overt white supremacists mocking users (mostly queer people of color) for being horrified that the system allowed slurs in usernames on account creation (it was "fixed" by only allowing slurs when changing account names)
They only instituted blocking after a racist white woman stalked and harassed Black users
They refuse to institute private accounts and DMs
The posting community is dominated by bigoted whites. They've created mute and block lists and if you happen to call them out for their ableism, racism, whatever, you're on the list and censored by a huge proportion of users. One of the main posters and list curators recently said something to the extent that people need to shut up about Palestine and be grateful for white trans women posting content.
One of the investors is a Joe Rogan investor. The CEO refused to respond to a major racism scandal (the aforementioned devs liking nazis) until days after her vacation ended. She had the only trans woman, a white person, on the dev team do a "we see you, we hear you" non-apology which the white users immediately accepted instead of waiting for Black trans users to decide if it were sufficient. IT wasn't.
There have been multiple exoduses of Black people from the platform because of how overtly bigoted it is.
The devs focused heavily on inviting white twitter users to found the userbase and it was only after a few months of whites inviting whites that we people of color started getting in. A lot of us prioritized inviting other people of color, especially Black people, and were accused of racism & gatekeeping.
That white foundation absolutely supports and encourages all this bigotry.
Meanwhile, the site was suppressing Palestinian posts & tags for weeks.
There's plenty more like the site not having alt text until a few months ago and wanting to federate with Facebook products.
Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza war, with minimal pushback from commanders.
Another soldier, who served in northern and central Gaza, testified that soldiers “took rugs, blankets, [and] kitchen utensils,” and explained that there was no briefing on the matter from the army either before entering or while in the field. “There was zero talk about it from the commanders,” he said. “Everyone knows that people are taking things. It’s considered funny — people say: ‘Send me to The Hague.’ It doesn’t happen in secret. The commanders saw, everyone knows, and no one seems to care.”
The soldier offered his explanation for why the phenomenon is so widespread: “There is something about this reality in which the house is already [in ruins] that allows you to take a plate or rug. In one of the operations, in a destroyed house, there was a cupboard with antique kitchen utensils, special plates, special mugs. I saw them being looted, unfortunately.”
“[The commanders] didn’t really talk to us about it,” another soldier testified. “They didn’t say you couldn’t take things. And most people felt the need to take a souvenir.”
The soldier noted that the looting was no secret; indeed, some of their seniors were doing it too. “The company sergeant major distributed Qur’an study books that he found and gave to whomever wanted them,” he said. “Another soldier took a set of coffee mugs, a serving tray, and a pot. Another unit, whom we met after they returned from a tour, brought a motorcycle, like the Nukhba [Hamas special forces] motorcycles. One of the soldiers declared that it was his. They [the soldiers] talked about renovating it.”
Another soldier who served in Gaza told +972 and Local Call that soldiers took “prayer beads, spoons, glasses, coffee pots, jewelry, rings. Whatever is easy and accessible is taken. Not everything, but people felt like the lords of the land.” He noted also that “maps from children’s textbooks were taken to show how they are taught there.”
