Elfi, local Disaster Fae 🧚 @elfi@pixie.town

“Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture; we’ve got to have an enough. We should always ask ‘growth of what, and why, and for whom, and who pays the cost, and how long can it last, and what’s the cost to the planet, and how much is enough?’”

Donella Meadows via Kate Raworth

Donella Meadows was the environmental scientist who was the lead author on 1972 "The Limits to Growth" report for the Club or Rome.

Xenia logo/icon we made! Licensed under the Unlicense (public domain), license text can be found at the GitHub repo (https://github.com/Zaeroses/refind-icons)

SVG:
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PNG:
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Completely and entirely free for you to use! Use it, sell it, advertise with it, edit it, draw on it, modify it, distribute it, do whatever you want with it! /g

Please note that the attached PNG file is very low resolution, meant to be an icon. You can re-export it as high-res from the SVG.

As techies, I don't think a lot of us get what a more repairable future might look like. We've lived in a disposable, planned obsolescence present for so long, we have to look at decades old tech to see what that might be like.

For example, headphones:

https://youtu.be/98pUBuTar_s

Anyone looking for someone to join their #gameDev team? I'm pretty versatile: I'm good at programming (mainly JavaScript and C# for Unity but I can adapt easily) and I can do art, music, or even voice acting. I basically just need a team for motivation and because it's too exhausting to do *all* that's needed for *every* game I make, even though I have the skills individually!

Alright friends and loved ones. It’s the big one.

Help me pay for my moving costs and first month’s rent! AND HELP GET ME THE HELL OUT OF FLORIDA!!! I love you all, and thank you for anything you can contribute <33333

https://gofund.me/7c9dc162

I'm gonna need cis people to understand that J.K. Rowling is not a neutral/good/apolitical person with a bad habit. She is an evil, actively harmful agitator who has been a, if not the, central figure of laundering and libwashing a ultra-far-right hate and terrorist movement, whose hatespeech has encouraged very real, very deadly violence, who has served as inspiration and justification to fascists world-wide, both Putin and the Republicans, who has an immense wealth which she most likely uses to fund said hate movement as well, who has been a vocal supporter of openly fascist and anti-semitic ideologues (such as Magdalen "Soros funds the transes" Berns), who has lent massive amounts of publicity and credibility to far-right figures and those who openly collaborate with the far-right, and who has been quoted verbatim by fascist Republicans in their campaigns for deadly anti-trans bills.

She not your nice aunt who's a little weird. To put it in terms HP fans understand, she's not Molly Weasley, she's Bellatrix Lestrange. She is a key figure of the anti-trans movement that has acted as a vanguard for the fascist resurgence. She has been directly co-responsible for spawning the conspiracy theories you now see on Tucker Carlson and Libs of TikTok. She has spear-headed the campaign that has sabotaged the GRA reform. She has praised far-right ideologues such as self-described theocratic fascist Matt Walsh.

She is a fascist enabler. Treat her as such. Treat her like Orson Scott Card or Varg Vikernes. Don't buy her shit. She's got riches to last her several lifetime, and spare change to fund a dozen fascist movements without ever running out.

You know what you need in your life? More Caribbean literature and non-fiction.

I shared 10 of my favorite works in this little post from a while back. And I think it's still a solid list.

Should I make another? :P

https://shaunduke.net/2021/06/10caribbeanbooks/

Instance admins, I advise you to block chudbuds dot lol.

was created 16/09, is now home of thousands of kiwifarmers. receipts below.

#fediblock

just now realizing that popsockets are how women, tending to be smaller handed, manage to hold a phone securely but reach across it with one hand. i curse every large handed engineer that never had to think much about it and i curse the designers who would rather make the factory model Sleek than add affordances for use

She is so perfect
my perfect angel baby

btw have yall seen the steam deck mascot (in japan at least)

their name is pal

It's official- the studio I work for is shuttering in a month.

If you need or know someone who needs either:

- A Unity/C# Generalist

- A programmer with a background in music / audio technology

- An Art Hacker with gallery / museum experience

for paid work, I would deeply appreciate the connection

Boosts much appreciated.

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