The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

#DigitalSovereignty

Cory Doctorow essay suggesting that instead of combatting new US tariffs with tariffs of their own, Canada should tear up the US IP laws they agreed to to avoid those tariffs in the first place, allowing for a domestic industry around jailbreaking and de-enshittifying American products:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

What does your true self look like?
How does it feel to transcend?
How does it feel when the power is spent, and you change back?
Girl By Moonlight.
https://evilhat.com/product/girl-by-moonlight/
#ttrpg

The Saami activist Petra Laiti wrote an excellent blog post titled Why Are We Still Calling It Lapland, on the names of Sápmi and the colonialism still practised in the Global North. https://petralaiti.com/2025/01/14/why-are-we-still-calling-it-lapland-an-essay-about-calling-things-by-their-real-names/

"Live, Laugh, Luigi"
Seen in Chicago, Illinois

Merry Christmas fediverse, your present from me is that I commented and published the code for my Tarpit Game of Life project that everyone loved a couple of years ago

https://github.com/b73tt/tarpit-game-of-life

When I feel like I'm wasting my time.

#Artist #Writer #Writing #art #capitalism

Just dropping this here to support artists and help fight content regurgitation algorithms sometimes called “A I”. Hire artists when you can, and when you can't, use art already in the public domain.

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-domain-art-resources

gender encoding of augury

An excellent summary of contemporary anxiety from Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth.

hey there my #gamedev peers, can I interest y'all in a free & CC0 pixel font?

MONOGRAM

it has support for...
...English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek...
...and ★ 𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓼 ★ ?

please check it out!

https://datagoblin.itch.io/monogram

Tiny Glade is out NOW on Steam (Win & Linux) 💗🎉

Thank you so much for following the development and being so supportive of our little diorama builder.

We hope you have fun, and I can’t wait to see what you make 🤩 If you post your glades, add #TinyGlade so I can find 'em :D

Transphobia as we know it couldn't exist without white supremacy and colonialism.

The imposition of the gender binary reduced a global kaleidoscope of genders to two and made them immutable.

White trans people should be anti-racist and, if that being the right thing to do isn't reason enough, our own self-interest should be.

I'm telling my fellow white trans people to care about bigotries that don't apply to them but really is that even true?

There's no transmisogyny without transmisogynoir.

Mastodon instance with a "scramble suit" functionality where every time you make a post it comes from a random account handle with a random display name and a random avatar

"Spread Transgenderism"
Pasteups spotted in so-called Ypsilanti, Michigan

I posted this on Tumblr. I didn't think it would go far. But ... people have clipped it from Tumblr, shared in on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, it's had at least ONE AI read on Tiktok, and a few on Youtube ... so ... just so you know who posted it ... Hi. My pharmacist stole my deadname.

"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)

#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus