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fuck the grind. fuck work culture. i want a slow life. i want to wake up in the morning and scramble eggs and saute some spinach, squeeze some orange juice and cut up some strawberries, and eat it all while sitting on my porch and watching my goats mill about in the yard. i have a world of downtime to bake bread and garden and read and craft. i am free.
i love and support trans people! having this on your blog means you love and support trans people too!
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointeeānot a career expert or peer reviewerāto ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people existāthrough its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processesācould be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to āsupport the notion that sex is mutableā and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitationāhospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026
This is the eighth anniversary of the official announcement teaser of The Elder Scrolls VI.
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do you think.. if there was a The Devil from The Bible in your ocs..would they be a himejoshi ā¦.
oh yes there definitely is. eden (goddess) is a fujoshi who wants everything to a romance. she will turn the universe into a coffee shop au by sheer force of will. meanwhile the devil would be a himejoshi who LOVES toxic yuri. everything has to be hurt no comfort. theres also grim reapers and they are powerscalers and rules lawyers
heaven mandated powerpoint night
when ur a guardian angel just trying to do your job but your god is a fujoshi
Things have gotten so P.C. nowadays that you can't even call a forklift a forklift. Suddenly, every piece of "power lifting equipment" in your shop needs a special name. Even the mutant bullshit like telehandlers don't want to be called something cool like zoom-booms anymore.
The other day, the intern and I are out at Subway. Van saying "lift trucks" comes by. Picture on the side? You guessed it. Forklift.
"Skip," my intern explains - I don't like to be called boss, and he's nice and doesn't do that - "that's what the manufacturers want us to call them now. A forklift is too reductive, obscures nuance. Imagine if you had a huge shop full of these things, you'd need to know the difference between a reach truck and a stacker."
He makes an excellent point, which I admit by silently chewing on my Mesquite Chicken Power Bowl. I have ordered it meticulously, in order to accommodate my unique dietary needs. Some people think that's unimportant, and I should just get one of the combos and not explain myself to the Sandwich Artist every time. They're wrong, it's critical that I be recognized for who I am. Safer for everyone, too.
Even though it draws so much embarrassment when I misname the things, I just can't get over how every forklift insists on its own special name. My grandfather never had to put up with that kind of nonsense. He'd just get out there in the morning, lift up a car with whatever he had on the jobsite, and steal the catalytic converter. Then he'd go to the bar, and sob in the bathroom for a couple of hours at home by himself without ever explaining to any of us what was going on. Probably saw all this coming.
[showing a guy from 1800s my phone]
me: yeah i can even get us tickets to this show remotely, look
1800s guy: this magnificent device truly can do anything, its amazing! digital circus tickets...
Yippie
trying to watch this don quixote series but I can't stand the filler arcs where they just wrote whatever while they waited for the book to catch up. I just fucking know this windmill bullshit isn't canon
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We gotta do something about ecoableism, guys, I can't keep seeing people confidently assure everyone that their ideal world is one where disabled people with specific needs don't get to be alive.
The most insidious thing about eugenics is that society is so ableist the majority of people do actually think eugenics would work and disabled people are better off dead, they just tack on an assumption that while yes eugenics works it's still bad because disabled people dying for being disabled is morally wrong. But they never actually think it's scientifically or medically wrong. We're just civilized enough we've decided to politely pretend the science isn't right because social justice.
It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.
That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.
Idk if this makes sense but yeah. We gotta do something about this.
This is what Into the Woods meant when it said nice is different than good.
This is also how you get people being like "I'm not an ableist! I love disabled people!" after making a joke about Trump wearing diapers or not being able to walk down a ramp. They don't think ableism is wrong, they just think it's right but impolite, so only okay aimed at those who deserve to be insulted.
Absolutely part of why shit sucks so much rn.
Ngl I'm glad I figured out how to word this, bcs trying to articulate it as "you don't actually think bigotry is wrong you just think the target should be someone else" always felt incomplete! I now know what I meant was "you don't think bigotry is wrong you just think it's impolite and that's different" that's what I needed. You just think bigotry is being mean to a marginalized person who, crucially, has done nothing to deserve it. The second they do tho? Anything is fair game.
Yeesh. What a rancid ass way to view the world.
Inadvisable tabletop RPG jam premise #137: Game jam where each entry consists solely of paratextual discussion of the mechanics of a hypothetical or invented RPG; examples include an errata document, a developer Q&A, or a forum thread debating the correct interpretation of a particular rule.
LFG - Online
I'm looking to start a new Prism: Agency game, but my last group fell apart (don't ask). I'd be down to start off playing the Prism, but we definitely need to go on a scheduled rotation and not per locale.
A few house rules, if these aren't to your liking than this game is NOT for you. I play Prism HARD and CHALLENGING. Storytelling comes from the struggle.
- All characters start with one pursuing Inhabitant. If you're playing the Found or the Scarred, you start with two.
- I decide what your documentancy downtime practice is - you'll have to submit samples of your writing, drawing, voice, and some other stuff.
- Geegaws and trinkets are always painful if you don't roll a 6 to retrieve them. Their rules also don't supercede Locale rules (let's be real, they never should have).
- If you fall off your progression path, you take the full penalty AND you start your next one on the Underside. No picking and choosing.
- If an Inhabitant is using one of the three core skills, you CANNOT use another one against it. Not even temporarily. An exception can be made for the Newcomer's move "Untraditional Straightforwardness".
- Instead of starting with a home base Locale, you earn one during downtime. It'll start full of Inhabitants though, and no, you don't get to handwave it because of the starting guidelines, real life doesn't just give you free stuff.
Now that those main ones are out of the way, a little about the setting we'll be playing in:
It's the changing of the seasons, set just before Agency swapped to Grasslands. Prism is cracking, it's coming apart, and there's no hope for survival (we're ignoring the supplemental stuff that came later). You're all the last members of the Agency, you've all being chased and hunted down (reminds me of another one of the house rules actually - downtime always leaves you both Hopeless and Tormented, and if you don't roll well it can still have the regular consequences too, even on Earth). No hope remains - except the hope of a painless oblivion. The Final Day Locale, the manifestation of the end of your lives, awaits you somewhere in the darkest depths of the Hunting Woods... Will you find it? What will you lose on the way?
Oh also if anyone wants to take the Petals Around the Edges progression path, then I will have an excuse to bring in some reeeeally cool monsters, I'm a big Lovecraft fan and I think that's the general direction the game should go (I know monsters aren't usually a thing in Prism, but it will be so cool the way I've homebrewed them in, trust me.)
Not only do I get a very evocative shadow of what the full game might look like, I have opinions about this gm, those being that they should just go write a fuckin book already and that they are incredibly obnoxious to work with.
I particularly like the implication that they expect to exercise full creative control over the entirety of the campaign, but also want a rotating GM arrangement so they don't actually have to run most of it.
Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about
You there š«µ GM who's down to run some short-form horror mystery stuff. Just trust me and pick yourself up a copy of Eureka Investigative Urban Fantasy and the Foriva: The Angel Game module and run it for your group. You can also get both of those items (and a bunch of other cool stuff) from the publisher's Patreon for not too much money.
I've been running a lot of different short modules for a lot of different systems lately, and FORIVA has had one of if not the best impacts on my group, and it took some of the least effort to prep for. I'm loathe to spoil the actual plot here, but you're basically looking at a module that does a great job of setting up characters with personal stakes in investigating a series of missing kids, then uses those personal stakes in some really clever ways. The module does bring in some themes of psychological horror that are worth making sure will work for your group, but those themes also do lead to some really evocative gameplay and writing.
Tiny Table also did a really strong playthrough of the module if you'd like to see it in motion before committing to running it.
