Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Scheduling a 7 am dentist appointment may have been a bit ambitious. Ooof. 120
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm sorry, if you put BSG that high after the implosion of its last two seasons and just completely leave off The Expanse, which had a *much* higher level of quality (and with six short seasons about as many episodes as BSG had good ones in five, 20+ ep ones), that's just insulting.static.klipy.comCamina Drummer: Don't Treat Me Like A ChildAlt: Camina Drummer, pirate queen of the Belt, looking dismissively at the camera and saying "don't treat me like a child." 000
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellRugby Respecter @whatmcgives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026S-tier meme just dropped 013637
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellChris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...youtube.comInside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the PressYouTube video by People Make Games 231988921
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As someone from Illinois...yeah, no. Drag those fuckers out kicking and screaming. If she thinks her constituency wants to forgive and forget, she's *really* not reading the room. 020
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Got mine yesterday, surprisingly do not feel like ass today (which was my previous 24 hours post-vax experience). 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am relatively privileged, live in a state with specific trans protections, and it's still not great. I haven't really had a *good* night's sleep in...a very long time. 020
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it. 16675252
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Not only are foundations and donors pulling back from supporting trans rights, but major foundations are dropping organizations BECAUSE of their commitment to trans issues. This happened to @fightforthefuture.org and we have not recovered financially www.them.us/news/trans-r...them.usTrans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From MovementShelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.” 5483239
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellAnna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you can make regular monetary donations to your local/regional food bank... consider doing so. Even a couple dollars a month can provide on average of 4 meals per dollar. Things are about to get really, really bad for a lot of people. 013866
Reposted by Chastity Blackwellunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 01/09/2026Now more than ever, Unraveled needs your support to continue. We want to keep producing reporting that matters, and paying people what their labor is worth doesn't come cheap. We'd love to pick up more monthly subscribers. Our survival depends on your contributions. Please consider us today:unraveledpress.comSupport Unraveled 1138104
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellStephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...gamefile.news‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launchThe details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years 361622627
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Outlaws has been the game that most *feels* like Star Wars to me since Tie Fighter (which was a completely different kind of fantasy, obviously). The locations were pitch perfect and I loved the characters. The Ubisoft map clutter was about the only issue I had with it. 010
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellMichael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song 152045552
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026www.vice.com/en/article/a...vice.comAn Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by CapitalismHow an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend. 71422492
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026All I can say is that I hope today he feels like an angel baby swaddled in cloud candy. 000
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Now I really want to use these in a Shadowrun or CoC game. 050
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I suspect that if LLMs and AI were being sold as a useful technology for a limited number of fields like software and some types of scientific research, there would not nearly be as large an outcry against it (and the datacenters required for it). The problem is that it is being sold as a panacea. 181
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Oh good. It's the one week a year where I can vicariously enjoy the thrill of being in an active war zone as F-18s or F-16s buzz my condo for a few hours straight every day. 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Seems like this would be exactly what Dracula would *want* you to think... 000
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellBebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Chicagoans over 25: 1597
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank 402873673
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I regret to inform everyone that I am back to being angry about Terraform (and Terraform Cloud). 000
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellAlexandra Orlando @alexgorlando.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If you want to support Blue Bottle Games, their spacesim Ostranauts is leaving Early Access next Monday, August 3rd! store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/...store.steampowered.comOstranauts on SteamNavigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel,... 311443
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026As much as I would love to say "they are sloppin' it up" this is a really dumb metric. These are bugs they found -- if they hadn't found the bugs, would that have been better? How many bugs did they find that would never have been found before? This is the same as judging by number of incidents. 010
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellSteve Hilberg @wxclisteve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Training thunderstorms dropped an estimated 8+" of rain near Effingham, IL overnight, just east of the I-57/I-70 intersection. Only one CoCoRaHS observation captured the heavy rain, and it was half of the estimated maximum. #ilwx #CoCoRaHS 101
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I have been waiting for this so long, but have always been afraid it would never live up to my imagination, but...this looks very promising. And Gibson seems to be very pleased with it, at least. 000
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Wishing that GitHub had a name that would fit nicely into the "HipChat not so hip" quip that was used to describe that outage during SRECon...2016? No points for guessing what award-winning wordsmith came up with that one, too. 000
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellA.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026COVER REVEAL Thrilled to share the *incredible* cover for “Not Like Other Girls,” my upcoming story at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer Preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 34693144
Reposted by Chastity Blackwellunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/07/2026We want to keep paying freelancers like @djbyrnes1.bsky.social to cover resistance to ICE on the ground. But $ is tight right now, and we remain committed to staying 100% reader-funded. A few bucks a month helps us out a lot! Please consider signing up to support with a regular donation today:unraveledpress.comSupport Unraveled 3381196
Reposted by Chastity Blackwellelynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 08/07/2026BAY AREAAAAA: if you want a job and know computer pls dm me, priority given to unemployed trannies 68631
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I read Neuromancer and LotR and that's why I have two shelves full of Shadowrun sourcebooks. 050
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellMichael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026So I said “Bobby Lee, it sounds like you’re just feeding brigades to emplaced artillery” and then Longstreet started crying. 191694351
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026See, this is the kind of thing I missed living in California for 8 years. 010
Reposted by Chastity Blackwelllauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/07/2026i think there is now a narrow lane for AI optimism now where optimism is strictly defined as "the good use cases for AI/ML stick around, some of the hyperscalers go tits up and the survivors become normal SaaS companies, and the handful of billionaires who manipulated the entire economy go to jail" 1860351
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die. 1959641825
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellGhost of ianVG @ianvg.com · 30/06/2026to whoever is reading this, if you're struggling there are people you can talk to. please reach out if you need it. you're loved. translifeline.org/hotline/translifeline.orgHotline - Trans LifelineTrans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans 18555
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Someone tell @remapradio.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/25/b...blockclubchicago.orgBears Team Up With Hallmark For Christmas Movie — And They're Looking For Extras"Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story" will be the third football special by Hallmark Media, the NFL and Skydance Sports. The past two years featured the Bills and Chiefs. 000
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellBrian Fenton @fentie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026It's unusual for me to do this, but I know the job market is hard for a lot of people right now. An org I'm affiliated with is hiring a (fully remote) senior CloudOps engineer (AWS). Feel free to ask me questions about it, I'll help if I can job-boards.greenhouse.io/flickr/jobs/...job-boards.greenhouse.ioSenior Cloud Ops Engineer, FlickrRemote/WFH 1127
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellEmoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Happy five years to the GOAT trans meme, decided it was time to update it properly 322584590
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Thread; bless this lady and her pet bee. 611733
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellAriana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I want to emphasize this because it’s trans history. In the 80s and 90s a lot of trucking companies paid well and covered transition care. There were a lot of trans women that took jobs as truckers, transitioned, and quietly disappeared into their lives. Nothing white collar about it. 9865335
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 08/06/2026I side eye anyone using AI slop images in their decks. Don't do it. Your deck looks the same as anyone else's, it's uncanny valley distracting, and you'd be better off without the image, or just doing stick figures. 910514
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellCreated Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist. 2555473459
