also I unblocked the instance wehavecookies.social because they appear to have cleared their spam out and be on top of it now. still irritated at people foolish enough to have an open signup policy but whatever at least they're dealing with it responsibly.
ok upgrading these posts to "unlisted" so other shrikes can see them. there's a big spam flood on the fediverse rn and I'm trying to whack instances with hammers when they pop up.
if this continues to be a problem I may follow this advice: https://wehavecookies.social/@paul@oldfriends.live/111948023592016886 however, a bunch of the spam reported over the last few days DOES NOT follow this format so I'm a little iffy on it being worthwhile?
please send in reports if you're getting spam notifications so we can do more instance blocks.
@BestGirlGrace shaming the stars themselves into giving me an ontological promotion by inventing an eggbeater powered by a skeleton hamster running on a wheel really fast
@irisjaycomics @kate this is making me imagine Sex Positive Puritan Names
Dicked-Down Plowman
Full-Litter-Of-Puppies Mather
here's a couple of warmups, a sketch of @lunalapin and a... now very topical illustration of Regs and Tres Leches from Legions
@jacquelinemerritt so to see this thread being brought through to the epilogues feels like, oh, right, this IS a cohesive work in a lot of ways with the same things on its mind that made Homestuck so conceptually compelling! lmao.
it's just nice to see some Epilogues analysis that actually tries to dig into the text on a deeper level than complaining about it or defending it against the whining lol.
@jacquelinemerritt this is so exciting to see as an analysis point because I wrote a whole thing about how much the characters in homestuck are readers reading other texts and building their teen identities around idealized versions of deeply biased accounts. like, how many different teens get their brains rocked by Mindfang's journals and the idea that they need to live up to that example?? (Vriska) even says it, that she encountered them before she could really deal with the contents.
The Perfectly Generic Podcast's bonus show, [I]ntermission, returns from the grave, completely naked of context, slippery and hairless. Kate Mitchell invades Zoe's Patreon to walk around town with her and discuss the evil cast of That 70's Show, Seattle's world-class Cyclist Hunter-Killer Waterfront, the sudden appearance of a rock-skipping cop, and more, in a gritty, down-to-earth example of audio à la demande veritas.
erotic art
a drawing based on a photo of @petme and @lillithlapin that I just thought was really lovely and romantic :) https://monsterfuckers.online/@lillithlapin/110618475763338462
I'm really proud of how this turned out!
@sixthhokage95 @fenderjess hellO??
@junebug @fillertrack ohhhhh that'd do it
gonna put a finger on the scale and say hey, it's really nice that Favorini-Csorba seems to have very concrete policy positions that specifically include food sovereignty and renters as like, people!
https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/02/01/meet-candidates-little-known-king-conservation-district-board here's an edited interview debate thing with the candidates I guess which may be helpful?
oh by the way if you're in Seattle you can maybe vote in the King Conservation District election this week. you'd be one of like 10,000 people in the city who actually bothers to do so.
I linked originally to a Stranger article about this year's ballot but then realized it was... LAST year's ballot--they didn't uh, bother to do a writeup this year I guess :/
you can find information about the candidates and vote all on the same website though: https://vote.kingcd.org/
@marc_w @sarahzedig are you volunteering to give us $5000 to relocate one (1) trans person from an unsafe state to a safe one? like are you personally planning to foot this bill? cause like look buddy we will take the money though we may have to route it strategically so we don't lose all our benefits! cash preferred, thanks! we might be able to lower that cost per person if we can bulk move 10 people out of texas at once but all payments must be up front I'm afraid
this is the "trans ally tax"
@TheBigDemoDip I assure you there is nothing disinformatskya about my being a bottom
@TheBigDemoDip hhhnng "porn-y" is right, just thinking about the House Un-American Activities Committee gets me 🥵 💦
blacklist me daddy
went ahead and fediblocked federated.fun for being a third rate pleroma troll instance.
@shrike jsyk