Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

The most Weird And Cool thing this does is it came with Celeste, for the Pico-8.

The Pico-8 was not a thing. It was never made. It was never even prototyped! But the Game Dad has a Pico-8 emulator.

So what the hell is a Pico-8? As far as I can tell, it's an agreed-upon set of specs for a console that never existed, that people are now making games for?

There are people with socks so high and so striped that they can straight-up LARP a console into semiexistence! ASPIRATIONAL LIFE GOALS

Also, holy heck is this thing crying out for new indie games.

Like, this is so, so much of a better platform for mobile gaming than touchscreen phones. Any game devs working on something that can be played with a d-pad and 4 buttons, get yourself one of these and have a gander at PortMaster, this is a niche thing right now but it's taking off Real Fast.

Personal games console with proper controls for <$50 feels like ZX Spectrum levels of revolutionary

summer is by FAR the worst part of the year

The only good anti-homeless architecture is a home 😤

what is gender but genres for people

Disabled people asking for accommodations isn't entitlement, nor do they have a "victim complex". They're just asking for help.

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy

i despise the argument that adults need to be thoroughly vetted for medical transition because surely, people need to be protected from making such a life-altering decision too quickly, or for the wrong reasons?

they do not, actually. people have the freedom to make an untold number of radical, life-changing decisions with potentially serious consequences at the drop of a hat, and for all the wrong reasons. we call this “being an adult”.

and the process of checking yourself to make sure you’re not making the wrong choices is called “responsibility”.

and every adult has the right to decide for themselves whether to act responsibly or not.

There should be fewer products named like "Eightfold.ai" and more like "Kyle's Ultimate Brush Pack"

@joepie91
This is why having easily-changed settings with a few variants for different people to use (and switch as needed) should be the default. That's the ramp that everyone can use.

While we're here, can we also talk about the proliferation of the use of terrible (blurry, poorly scaled, grey, etc) webfonts for body text in text-heavy spaces like blogs?

So are you.... you know, a friend of Xenia?

Reminder that fascists believe whatever is convenient for their goals at the time and are utterly unbothered by people pointing out inconsistencies or hypocrisy in their actions, statements, policies, or ideology

What would a doctrine of squatter's rights look like for digital places?

I don't really think this is realistic. It would be nice if there were provisions to more easily turn a website over to collective ownership. Leave it to the users to keep the server coffers full. There are places that work in this manner but in a legal sense they aren't really governed this way. Almost always there are 1 or 2 people who could simply shut the place down. Or let it slowly fall apart neglecting software.