a tired rat
@rudeboimonster.bsky.social
im still learning this place. he/they. rat/hallow/jake. 30. pokemon, Halloween/monsters, can tell you far too much about some musicians, and make irresponsibly large plush dolls.
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hello! i'd like to bring your attention to this short video, which showcases how fancy copypaste fonts sound through screen readers (ie bad). :)
i really encourage people not to use these for this reason! i think it'd be cool if bsky included fonts down the line, but anything you have to copypaste—
i really encourage people not to use these for this reason! i think it'd be cool if bsky included fonts down the line, but anything you have to copypaste—
I've downloaded & re-uploaded (in a trimmed fashion to fit in the 1 minute limit) the video from X to ensure that it will continue to be available (& ensure that people have an easier time experiencing how awful this truly is).
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
hello! i'd like to bring your attention to this short video, which showcases how fancy copypaste fonts sound through screen readers (ie bad). :)
i really encourage people not to use these for this reason! i think it'd be cool if bsky included fonts down the line, but anything you have to copypaste—
i really encourage people not to use these for this reason! i think it'd be cool if bsky included fonts down the line, but anything you have to copypaste—
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If you are an Actual Play producer (or otherwise the copyright holder) and you are interested in uploading your show to the Internet Archive, please let me know and I can help you through the whole process!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
I updated my guide to digital preservation of Actual Play to make it easier to navigate & added a little diagram to explain the relationship between backups, digital preservation & digital archives
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
Digital Preservation of Actual Play
All My Friends Are Stories is a project designed to help people tell collaborative stories through Table Top Roleplaying Games (TTRPG). There are so many ways to play TTRPGs: you can play them for the...
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
If you are an Actual Play producer (or otherwise the copyright holder) and you are interested in uploading your show to the Internet Archive, please let me know and I can help you through the whole process!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
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It's Trans Day of Remembrance.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
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OKAY, scratch the moving costs, we're pretty good on that end.
unfortunately, i *urgently* need driving glasses because i get skull-crushing migraines for days when i go outside, which isn't good especially considering this move, and it's in the ballpark of 200$ - 300$ for the cheapest options.
unfortunately, i *urgently* need driving glasses because i get skull-crushing migraines for days when i go outside, which isn't good especially considering this move, and it's in the ballpark of 200$ - 300$ for the cheapest options.
aya and i are in a real bad way financially. i'm still fighting for disability, aya's hours at work got cut badly to protect him ever since he got harassed at work for being trans, and his ma got fired for being a decent living being. any help is appreciated: ko-fi.com/lucartwork
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November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
OKAY, scratch the moving costs, we're pretty good on that end.
unfortunately, i *urgently* need driving glasses because i get skull-crushing migraines for days when i go outside, which isn't good especially considering this move, and it's in the ballpark of 200$ - 300$ for the cheapest options.
unfortunately, i *urgently* need driving glasses because i get skull-crushing migraines for days when i go outside, which isn't good especially considering this move, and it's in the ballpark of 200$ - 300$ for the cheapest options.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
![A drawing of a bat-like dragon pokemon, Noivern, with purple sparkly butterfly wings. Its ears and tail also resemble butterfly motives. The picture has an absurd amount of purple in it.
Written near the dragon: Noivern, [unreadable] form, Dragon\Fairy type](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2gseux7mib2ljfbddgblvrs/bafkreibj5liqqd56sgj3zhoxpzdxw357fk2apip3m4titwnbvs7ohiprrm@jpeg)
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I love some of the effects that the mushrooms give in the Vallis Undermine
#sevagoth #warframefanart #myart @warframe.com
#sevagoth #warframefanart #myart @warframe.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I love some of the effects that the mushrooms give in the Vallis Undermine
#sevagoth #warframefanart #myart @warframe.com
#sevagoth #warframefanart #myart @warframe.com
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Wal*Mart has a whole program to get their employees on federal aid because nobody can afford to live on their dogshit wages
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Wal*Mart has a whole program to get their employees on federal aid because nobody can afford to live on their dogshit wages
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this fucking fit goes CRAZY as entrance gear
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
this fucking fit goes CRAZY as entrance gear
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The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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Acknowledging the dead would mean acknowledging the catastrophic public health/economic/policy failure that made the body count so high in the first place
There were a few moments in that first year where we nearly got something, but that amounted to an NYT full spread of names and a CNN clicker
There were a few moments in that first year where we nearly got something, but that amounted to an NYT full spread of names and a CNN clicker
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Acknowledging the dead would mean acknowledging the catastrophic public health/economic/policy failure that made the body count so high in the first place
There were a few moments in that first year where we nearly got something, but that amounted to an NYT full spread of names and a CNN clicker
There were a few moments in that first year where we nearly got something, but that amounted to an NYT full spread of names and a CNN clicker
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designed some new gatefold art for the vinyl release of the Great God Grove soundtrack ~ still am so proud of the music i made, check it out if you want a cool 2 vinyl set of it!!
NEXT, we've partnered with The Yetee to bring you two spankin' new shirt designs AND... the GREAT GOD GROVE soundtrack on vinyl- with new gatefold art by our composer Louie Zong himself!!
CHECK IT OUT HERE: theyetee.com/collections/great-god-grove
CHECK IT OUT HERE: theyetee.com/collections/great-god-grove
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
designed some new gatefold art for the vinyl release of the Great God Grove soundtrack ~ still am so proud of the music i made, check it out if you want a cool 2 vinyl set of it!!
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.