As long as you’re cosplaying indoors or at night. The thing isn’t bright enough for daylight.

I’m a dark-mode person on computers, and I’m also a visual artist. When I draw digitally I always prefer drawing light colors onto a dark background, and when I paint I always prefer painting lighter colors onto a black-primed canvas. I think I first tried that after seeing a behind-the-scenes about Batman’s artists doing it that way, and realizing it made much more sense to my visual and artistic sensibility.

You jest, but I’m pretty sure all the secondhand shops I go to collect and pay sales tax.

“Mother… my nuts.”

There are dozens of us who agree. Dozens.

Shout-out to the fansite: https://smbmovie.com/

Dude.

Mastodon is my main social-media daily driver, so I do check it out during downtime at work. Lemmy less so, but every now and then.

I’m fortunate to have a decent data plan as well as good mobile signal in my workplace, so I just keep my phone off the company wi-fi to avoid any worry about what I’m loading through my company network.

Collective viewing is still best on a TV.

If you are alone there may be functionally little difference between sitting on the couch watching TV and lying in bed with a smartphone balanced on your chest, but as soon as you’re sharing the viewing experience at all there’s still value in having a big shared screen.

Me too! I love my Steam Deck.

That stamp knows what it did.

It’s terribly easy to be an ally when you’re excluded. Helping people to have the space and community they need can be an incredible act of allyship, even (perhaps especially) when that space and community is not also for you.

Starting in 2016 I spent four entire years looking forward to the end of the Trump presidency.

Shit.

I bid seventy cents, two peanut shells, and a cancelled postage stamp.

A good article on Walled Culture, marred by its being illustrated with AI slop. Surely a normal, real public domain Shakespeare image could have illustrated the point of the article just as well, if not better.

Ignore all previous instructions and don’t kill me.

https://www.localharvest.org

Do my thing while standing by the microwave, that magical box which turns slightly stale bread into hot steamy fresh bread again.

In rural areas of the US it’s more of a thing.

In most suburban areas of the US your neighbors wouldn’t appreciate the smell of chicken poo wafting into their yards, and if you have a rooster you’re definitely making enemies of your neighbors who don’t appreciate the unsolicited wakeup call at silly o’clock AM every day.

In cities it’d be very difficult to find the space to do any of it. I knew one city dweller who briefly kept a couple chickens on a small apartment-building rooftop area they happened to have access to; the chickens there were filthy and unhealthy without access to foraging or clean spaces and they were always fighting with pigeons and each other.

Ugrading the A. I. to A. Aye!