heyoo its saturday, the usual 3pm calligraphy stream

nightbot tunes on request, you can pay to get your stuff written for a few bucks etc

see yall there!

Hey twitch mutuals:

Tumblr recently nixed the feature where stream embeds will boost your viewcount on twitch. I think we should focus on boosting each other on this site more vigorously since twitch's native discovery is pretty hostile, so I'll reblog your going live posts if you DM them to me. Reblog this post if you feel the same.

Being alive is kinda out of my price range right now

a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:

• medical workers on the ground are describing finding hundreds of bodies. the current death toll in the media is, unfortunately, only a fraction of the reality
• hospital workers are describing injuries and trauma as if survivors had come out of a warzone
• thousands are still missing
• an apartment complex for the elderly was lost. not everyone could get out. people were saying goodbye to loved ones over the phone
• people who did get out of lahaina were leaving with ashes covering their faces and nothing but the clothes on their backs. people are losing everything.

hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.

donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society

We're in a process of consensus-manufacture towards labelling gender deviants as dangerous sexual predators, it is genocidal, and if you're too ignorant to get that or more concerned about scoring points against people who annoy you on a blog, you are either my enemy or so stupid it makes no difference

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

trying to de-ab gale and astarion because i refuse to believe they'd actually look like that. Also it just looks better (<- humble opinion). astarion's is a little rougher because i've only edited the normal and not the. whatever the hell the other two are like I've started doing with gale (the way this game handles textures confuses me) But if anyone wants it i probably will upload this as a mod in a little while

EDIT: now on nexus mods rejoice

My doctor says all the black mold in my body came from a single expired gram cracker which i just think is fascinating

If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:

1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.

2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.

Please notice the essential density behind the streetcar in this photo. These buildings sit in easy walking distance, and they *aren’t on top of a pedestal of a thousand parking spaces* — that’s really important.

When it comes to expansion of street rail, bike lanes, pedestrianized streets, etc., we’ll get the best return on those investments through an improved urbanism that de-centers automobiles in the entirety of our designs.

And we also have to include affordability at the front end of planning, as well as housing-security policies that prevent displacement, so that the new urbanism has an equitable, positive impact.

Simply overlaying these wonderful types of transportation on top of car-oriented urban fabric isn’t enough. We need to surround them with buildings that are designed to support those transportation modes.

When you see a photo like this one, don’t just look at the train and think: “we should build one of those in my neighborhood!” Notice that density too, and the walkable scale of the place. Your neighborhood needs to add that.

If my constant, obsessive posting about urbanism elicits any change in the way people think about development, let it be the message above

Image source (somewhere in Europe apparently):

https://twitter.com/ForwardBike/status/1553813551114067971

Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers and Loretta Swit (also with Jack Klugman, Ricardo Montalban and Ralph Bellamy) participating in the 1980 actors' strike with then-separate unions, SAG and AFTRA.

Sources: 1, 2-6, 7

Antipsychiatry must include prison abolition as a guiding value. I'm tired of seeing people organize around antipsychiatry while throwing other incarcerated people under the bus. Criticizing psych wards for "treating us like criminals while we haven't broken to law" ignores the real problem: that the tools of restraint, strip searches, solitary confinement, and incarceration are violent no matter who they are forced upon. No one should be treated that way, no matter what form of incarceration you're surviving, whether that's in a prison, a psych ward, or any other institutions of total control. We are not inherently morally better than people incarcerated in prisons, and we have to build intentional solidarity to ensure we don't just replace one cage with another.