Hi everyone, just letting you know I have a gamedev-centric alt on @lampfairy <3 Hoping to use that environment to help me focus on development stuff, so I'll post my progress and boost useful development insight there. Give me a follow if you're interested! <3
My streamer friend Jojo made a chibi of me! It came out really cute c:
If you wanna see them draw or game, they're on https://twitch.tv/jojo123die
Hey everyone, want to borrow ebooks from archive.org on YOUR terms?
Here's a method I came up with using Calibre, on all platforms where it's supported.
1. Install the DeACSM and DeDRM plugins into Calibre
2. In the plugin preferences, configure DeACSM and set up anonymous authorization, then export the encryption key and import it into DeDRM's ADE keys
3. Restart Calibre! This is important!
4. On archive.org, find the book you want to borrow and loan it out
5a. If you can borrow it for two weeks, do that and download it in the format you prefer
5b. If you can only borrow it for an hour or it doesn't give you a download, borrow it anyway, then copy the identifier in the metadata, add it to the following URL: https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?action=media_url&identifier=<IDENTIFIER GOES HERE>&format=pdf&redirect=1 and download that (you can also change the format to epub or similar but it may not always be available)
6. Add the ACSM file to Calibre and it'll download it and then decrypt it for you
7. Be sure to return the book so other people can use it right away!
Happy reading!
I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle https://gofund.me/6850175a3
how do you do bug style? simple!
you take your antennae and wiggle them around! if you dont have antennae, point your fingers out from the top of your head and wiggle them!
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😣 paying off skid past homelessness $555/$1400
Oof. So, I finally found the VISA bill from getting through latest fekkin crisis and I'm $1,400 in the hole.
There's lots to sort yet, but I am at least spiralling up rather than down finally.
I know everybody's struggling, it's hard to ask, but if you can spare some coin it's deeply appreciated to help me stabilize.
And as always, boosts appreciated, that's help too. 💞
https://ko-fi.com/valerie7173
Or DM me for etrans.
#mutualAid
The family has a go fund me setup to enable them to home school their son now that he has been expelled.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-sakir-everett-a-brave-student
This is wild, this kid is a hero!
An 11yo boy noticed a classmate brought a gun to school. So the boy disarmed the other student. Once he had control of the gun he unloaded the bullets, disassembled the gun and hid the parts so the kid who brought it would not find it.
He threw away the bullets, separating them from the gun.
All without any adults ever noticing.
At the end of the day teachers found the gun parts and the kid was expelled for not reporting it.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/23/nbas-tyrese-haliburton-sends-3000-donation-to-michigan-boy/
Attention Canadians, the claims process for the bread price fixing class action lawsuit is open. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bread-fixing-website-1.7631445
I felt sorry for a friend who was frustrated with the I/O portion of writing a Rogue/Dwarf Fortress-like game this morning. Text mode is surprisingly painful in 2025 compared to 1985, when you could just grab a pointer to the text framebuffer and poke bytes.
So, I made a little open source library that presents a proper, modern graphics API for text mode games!
textgame runs directly in the terminal on macOS, Linux, Windows 11. 32-bit unicode, 24-bit color, double-buffered, keyboard input, blitter with transparency and clipping regions, and string printing with word wrap and numeric formatting.
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS