Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

Friends, it has become financially unreasonable for me to keep hosting l.p where it currently is, and we're looking to pitch out tent with Fedihost. One caveat: we need $500 to cover Fedihost's migration fees (that sum would cover l.p's hosting fees for a few months at least by my count).

If you have some loose change in need of a home and want to support what we do here at laserdisc dot party, you will have my eternal thanks. https://ko-fi.com/derekgodin/goal?g=0

CHARM STUDIES is now out on Steam, and it comes with a new trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skIkrk7NfN4

In this hybrid between VN and picross, you will follow the misadventures of Cassia, a little witch trying to graduate high school.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4541930/Charm_Studies/

If you played Squeakross and you SOMEHOW still need more, Charm Studies will have you covered for a while. This new Steam version adds two GIANT puzzles on top of a bunch of regular nonograms. All of this bundled with gorgeous art and a cute story!

In honour of Black Author Day (which was yesterday, and I missed it!) some Black authors I highly recommend:

Nnedi Okorafor. The Binti series are particular favourites of mine, but all of her books are amazing. Binti is the first member of the Himba people is accepted into an intergalactic university, but her ship gets hijacked on her way there.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/binti?sid=61cca095-0b8a-4a1d-8620-532289b60bea&ssid=HgUg8oSsqcqQW8s0PMZZH&cPos=1

NK Jemisin. The Broken Earth trilogy is absolutely brutal and heartbreaking. It's also one of the most beautiful stories I've read. It's hard to talk about without spoilers, so I won't. Just go read it!

If any fiction is required reading, I feel like these should be.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-fifth-season-14?sid=7aa83e71-9f31-4860-bdfc-bb9dde043567&ssid=e5rVFeg9CdQk8pD1x2Ii-&cPos=1

Tracy Deonn's Legendborn series is the kind of sharp, gripping YA that it's impossible not to get hooked on. Arthurian legends and secret societies but without all the racism swept under the carpet. In fact, faced head-on and with rightful fury.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/legendborn-3?sid=e2415b4e-8e3f-404b-82e1-1a0c3d0b7633&ssid=Q-JEDCXd7xNyoIN4N6R6Y&cPos=1

It's late spring, and the big fluffy bumblebees have descended on the garden en masse 😍

#Bees #Photography

Beetle this morning

godot mono developer here, once again asking around if anybody has a need for a c# programmer who has an understanding of music production and 3D modeling. I can make anything you want happen (in godot)

Anyone willing to help me get my insulin? I'm down to my last pen and its pretty much close to being empty.Nt asking for a much, only need $310 rn to save my blood sugar. please help me with a small donation or share,reblog any help can save my life.  Thank you so much and be blessed.💓💓🙏

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the Liminal Space Desktop Environment (LSDE) comes prepackaged with all the features you'd expect and more:

✅ Multiple Desktops, many of which are running programs you don't remember opening or even installing
✅ Scrollbars that never seem to reach the end
✅ Multi-tabbed explorer for accessing & managing files across a labyrinthian & ever-shifting file system
✅ Default Wob Browser for all your Internot needs
✅ A friendly and helpful voice that periodically emanates from somewhere behind you

Honestly I thought I'd see more artists chiming in to get Blender to ban AI:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/ai-contributions-policy/44202

There's still time if you're an artist or developer and you want to see blender put out a policy that commits to not using LLMs at all, for anything.

Edit: This seems to have gotten 67 boosts but not a single person chimed in :[

Edit 2: Thanks for chiming in everyone! If they shut down the thread, please just create a new one. I don't want them to worm their way out of this. AI is horrific for the environment. It contributed to the US war industry. It hurts artists and programmers alike. It is a danger to us all and I don't want to see it in art programs, at all. Krita took a stance against it. It's not impossible to be against AI and also create programs for artists.

Also, just so it's clear, if you're an AI bro or a centrists with AI bro friends, I will just block you. I don't have time for your opinions.

It’s nice to see the “April 25th is the perfect date, not too hot and not too cold” joke, because here in Italy it’s Liberation Day, the anniversary of the day in which Nazis and Fascists got kicked out of the major Italian cities. Perfect date indeed

I doodled Hornet sitting on a frog chair, which I had in my mind for months, since it came up in the first stream when @samikelsh started playing Silksong and speculated about the crafting system and being able to craft a frog chair...

#HollowKnight #Silksong #DailyDoodle

Version 1.22.0 stable, the "Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More" update is now available for everyone!
https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/1220-fishing-mechanisms-metalworking-and-more-r441/

#vintagestory #voxelart #voxel #sandbox #survivalgames #pixelart

Given the situation in the US I'm now living in Canada, and I'm looking for a new job as my current one is obviously American. If you are or know a Canadian employer with use for a person in Toronto with a good understanding of SQL databases, Linux administration (mostly Debian but I can do Fedora), HTML-based Web backends, ServiceNow, and Microsoft cloud offerings, plus some networking experience (office networks and outbound-filtering firewalls), technical writing skills, and significant programming experience with Rust, Python, C#, and PowerShell, please get in touch via email or DMs.

#GetFediHired #FediHire #fedihired #jobs

Weird & Beautiful sticker is up on my Ko-fi and all purchases help out while I'm taking care of family.

https://ko-fi.com/s/419a2059a5

Canadian-only letter mail at the moment but shares are very much appreciated!

#SmallBusiness #Sticker #IndieArtist #Canada #Canadian #MastoArt #CreativeToots #AnimalArt #Chameleon

Motivated by the renewed attention surrounding our 1990s Moon Child game on Bluesky, I did a search on my HDD, and found back some pencil-on-paper concept sketches I made for the game at the time. 🙂

#TeamHoi #MoonChild #GameDev #gaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #retro #history #windows #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #OriginalArt #art #designer #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #painting #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt