Dreams, death mention
Dreamt about an ordinary guy who has a lot of extraordinary stuff happen to him.
Once a street musician, he and some friends of his ended up piloting a giant robot to fight off an alien invasion together. He longed to go back to normal though, so he moved on.
One day, he accidentally bought a cursed flashlight that showed the worst possibility of what it was pointed at. After hitchhiking with some folks, their convertible broke down and then a rainstorm started, and after fruitlessly trying to pull up the roof, the group went to look for a cave.
That's where the curse really set in, because when shining the flashlight on the entrance, they made it a cave that led to another world trapped in the night, and trouble only continued from there. With the flashlight, scratching in attics turned out to be zombie attacks. Rivers were full of dangerous fish. Quicksand hounded their path.
Eventually the party was split and most ended up victim to that world's natural pulls, but the curse kept the one guy away from them by keeping him on the run until he finally grew strong enough to both recognize the curse and resist it, along with the wonders of that other world. Eventually he found a way to purify the curse, and that in turn made the flashlight take the fantastic of that world and turn it mundane again, which he used to free his erstwhile hitchhiker buddies.
Once free of that world, they got what they needed from some robots to fix their car then returned to the real world, but the pull was still strong. One by one, the hitchhikers fell to their desire to return and died, letting them return in the afterlife, until it was just the one guy again who longed for the mundane. He took his guitar and went back to the city, where he found his street musician friends and shined the flashlight on them briefly before rejoining them.
US FOLKS:
The US Department of Labor has public commentary open until jan 17, 2025, to potentially end the sub minimum wage allowance for people with disabilities
*please* go comment in favor of ending this draconic rule.
This is useful information for Microsoft 365 subscribers. The notification I got about the price rise said nothing about them bundling AI into the new price. And certainly nothing about the option of sticking with the old plan & price, without AI.
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you-don-t-have-to-pay-the-microsoft-365-price-increase
@soonleenz In your Microsoft 365 account, click on the option to “turn off recurring billing”. You will go to a page that offers a payment plan to pay monthly (more expensive). Scroll down to locate the Microsoft Classic option at the same price as your original plan. As the article says, Microsoft is upselling. I don’t want anything to do with the environmental impacts AI is having and I refuse to pay for a 40% price increase for something I will not use.
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Haven’t gotten anything yet :/ and I would love to get the amount I need before the 27th
I’m tired of fucking boosting this shit https://blackqueer.life/@moo/113759906547182806
boost with cw: capol
@julia @SharpLimefox there are a whole hell of a lot of queer instances. including mastodon.art. that one specific circle of instances is not "the majority", even if you throw tech.lgbt onto the pile
like... even if you're real mad about that circle, or tech.lgbt or whoever you're into, being accused of racism, it'd be super cool if y'all stopped lying about being the Only Queers On The Fedi
Writing docs for domain permission subscriptions.
Sorry for the limited alt-text on these, the in-progress doc itself is viewable here now if you want to have a look for yourself: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/domain_permission_subscriptions_2_the_subscriptioning/docs/admin/domain_permission_subscriptions.md
You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to MiHoYo
For no reason, a rundown of the tabletop games I'm in:
* A Pathfinder 2e game (formerly D&D 5e) where I'm a mothfolk cleric of the sun together with a golden dragon godkin and a dryad druid
* A Pathfinder 1e game where I'm a teru (as in the Teru tribe from Ar Tonelico) samurai alongside an ice dragon wizard, a sylph arcanist, a gathlain druid, and a human kinetic knight
* A Cypher System game where I'm literally Elh Melizée from Solatorobo alongside a human red mage, a goat cleric of flame, a mute human princess, a pirate from One Piece, and the daughter of Rogue and Gambit from the X-Men
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, part-time dream dragon, 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