A lot of people don't know that the reason there's not a "rating system" for books like there is for movies, video games, music, etc. is an intentional and explicit stance of librarians. Librarian associations have long, and correctly, insisted that categorizing books into specific ratings or age categories is censorship. The decision of an outside group of people about whether a book is or is not appropriate for someone of a certain age is censoring content to them.

As we've seen with the right's attacks on libraries for LGBT content in books, they would LOVE if some outside party had already done the work of classifying books into a particular category, and they could simply lobby that one central body into insisting that any mention of gay people means it's Adults Only. Then in one fell swoop they could brand the entire debate as "we just want to make sure that our libraries only carry age appropriate books" without having to have the debate on a case by case basis on each individual book across each individual library and across each individual library patron.

After all, does it even make sense that literally the diary of a tween/teenage girl is not appropriate for a tween/teenage kid to read? If you ask conservatives, the uncensored Diary of Anne Frank should be Adults Only. Despite it being written by a teenage girl and having real historical value in humanizing the victims of the Holocaust. But if they could do that fight once, centrally, at a ratings board, they could get it banned from all libraries in one fell swoop.

I am seeking transgender people from Finland to speak about their experiences with transition in that country.

I know that Masto has a lot of Euro users, so please boost for visibility.

About me: I'm a transgender US journalist interested in exposing barriers to treatment experienced by trans people in Finland bc some Finnish researchers are making a big splash in anti-trans activism internationally.

It would be particularly valuable to find someone who attempted to access care as a minor.

If at first you don't succeed, don't sweat it, your parents are rich.

Wait. Your parents aren't rich?

Oh, man. This is embarrassing. Sorry, all of these success aphorisms are meant for people with privilege and resources.

You're on your own. Good luck.



#success #SelfHelp #advice

transphobes: you can't take part in sports team because you went through puberty

trans people: please can i take blockers to stop puberty

transphobes: no

Quote of the day: "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?

W4 Games have just launched W4 Cloud.

It's a complete, free & open source networking solution for #GodotEngine. Host your own servers, it costs you nothing to use.
https://gamefromscratch.com/w4-games-launch-w4-cloud-complete-godot-multiplayer-solution/

#gamedev #indiedev

After god knows how many years of work, the people behind the #StarWars 4K project have released the final installment. For those who don't know: a group of dedicated restorers, unhappy with the reworked Special Editions, hunted down, scanned and restored the original 35mm theatrical prints of the first Star Wars trilogy in Ultra High Definition. They're better than the official blurays. Incredible work, not only in terms of authentic content but even the picture quality is superior.

Happy "Captain Cook got stabbed in the chest in Hawaii" day to all who celebrate.

The more you know, the cooler you sound.

People don't talk about game architecture enough so!

💫 How do I ID things? 💫

Let's retrace how I reinvented the wheel!

Latest when adding your first 💾 Save Game 💾 system, you will find you need to ID your object types, cuz you can't store a reference to a Prefab

🧵

I spend the morning documenting more issues with CharacterBody3D and providing really specific MPR's and use cases.

Character creation and movement is one of the issues that has been bothering Godot users for long time. If you want to help fixing this, whatever it is sharing the bug report, your experiences, testing or fixing the issues, please take a look at the Bug report:

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/87946

#godotengine #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

Ready for a new heist? Transplant your Blades in the Dark game into a whole new setting with The City of Red Waters by Ash McAllan. New heritages, backgrounds, crew types, and more await you in Inverrouge, where ambition and decadence meet.
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Stacy's mom
Has set up us the bomb
Her name is CATS and the main screen turn on
Stacy, you and I, make our time before we die
I know it might be wrong
Our base belong to Stacy's mom

"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."

In the last of my posts about indie game mechanics, I've written about Apocalypse World (@lumpley) and the amazing tools it gives you as a GM.

I've learned a lot from it! It's solved problems I wondered about for years. #ttrpg

https://www.patreon.com/posts/apocalypse-world-97569435?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link