J. Alfred Girlcock @Sophia_Zoe@shrike.club

these requirements are fundamentally not compatible with the spirit or the letter of the license they claim to operate under
https://rustyquill.com/fan-works-notice/

once again thinking about how suddenly when Rusty Quill started getting a bunch of advertising from serious companies, their creative commons license was replaced by a lengthy list of requirements for fan works far more restrictive than even what's allowed by fair use let alone cc.

not thinking about that for any particular reason. just you know. thinking abstract thoughts about stories that focus on making cursed bargains with higher powers ironically having their own production do that thing

This week, we take a look into the game that's taken the internet by storm, Blaseball! And also, a look into a Herman Melville book from 1953. Don't worry, you don't need to like blaseball to read it, but you DO need to appreciate frogs.

https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2021/03/chorby-prefers-not-to-blaseball.html

the Crabs instantaneously initiating a "Breach" like

is Chorby Short the Modern Sisyphus or the Modern Bartleby the Scrivener

[zoë at the duke's fête] well lord montaigne if you ask me Id say his clothes are less Calvin Klein and more Calvin *Ball*! oh ho ho ho

the VE team needed a quick way to subject a bunch of text to Gaiaeon distortion, so I actually wrote the code that generated the noise in this upd8's opening ehehe :3

it wasn't a complex piece of code but I think I got the outputs tuned fairly nicely, which is really the trick with random generation imo
https://deconreconstruction.com/vasterror/1642

"Hello! Ma Baby" is perhaps the ultimate male manipulator music, associated of course with the ultimate gaslighting toxic male, Michigan J Frog

someone on superrare is literally just copying basquiat but making it about bitcoin lmao

I inked @Griever's piece for the art carousel thread on shrike club if someone wants to take the colors now! :O

went for a noir vibe hehe https://shrikeclub.boards.net/post/559/thread

industries being shitty to trans women gosh can't imagine that happening today 🙄

older queer terminology/experiences

the biography here is kinda garbage but the interview is absolutely fascinating. this is a transgender woman who was in Bowie and Warhol's circles back in the day, maybe inspired Rebel Rebel, and saw a lot of the development of queer culture in the period.
http://www.secondsmagazine.com/articles/24-county.php

this was for the dogecoin tipping app :)

doing Hauntology by exploring the graveyard of cryptocurrency's past which is also the specter of cryptocurrency's future