Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm reviewing my calendar for my triennial salary review. I'm finding entries like "Silkwood Shower" and "Mouth of Hell Opens".

A schnoz. #MastoArt #drawing #sketching

Peter Thiel is another step closer to hunting humans for sport.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/09/australian-swimmer-james-magnussen-enhanced-games-drug-taking

I'm thinking about the comparison between between anarchist mutual aid societies creatively getting things done without asking for permission and techbro disruptors moving fast and breaking things.

How do we make rules that prevent deliberate or accidental harm without miring everyone in bureaucracy? Even without resource allocation issues and differing ideas about what constitutes harm, it's challenging!

Science fiction has always been political. For example, Babylon 5 was the first show to feature an openly grey character.

Facial expressions (exercise from Peffer, Fantasy Characters). #MastoArt #drawing

We're having tacos tonight and I played a ttrpg on Tuesday. #TacoThursday #ThacoTuesday #DoingItWrong

#Violet dutifully guarding the house from the lawn guy. #DogsOfMastodon

(Barking intensified when he got out of his truck.)

I've been playing online Scrabble with a relative who uses an Amazon Fire. Although this is an Android device, Amazon has their own app store (which doesn't include the official Scrabble GO app), because chokepoint capitalism.

(I am aware that there is an elaborate workaround for this, but it would involve setting up a gmail account for them.)

So we're sticking with Wordvoyance.

#scrabble #wordvoyance #ScrabbleGo #amazon #AmazonFire #ChokepointCapitalism