I learned recently that it’s an insult in Germany to call someone “hobbyless” or to engage in “hobbyless behavior” and it’s become my favorite way to think of assholes who have nothing better to do than to make other people miserable. Get a hobby. Build a model train and calm down.
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
Screenshot of a live-stream that has become visually messed up because the bitrate couldn't keep up with the game's graphics mayhem.
Always fun to see the crazy, effects-filled Moon Child finale (world 4) messing up a live-stream's bitrate because of the massive pixel mayhem going on. 😆
The Moon Child finale is a tribute to our psychedelic Hoi finale, which resulted in the first-ever epileptic seizure warning on a game box. 😅
Daisy, a white cat
Rosie, a blue mackerel tabby
I haven’t posted my cats much….. but it’s their birthday today (they’re 18… old ladies)
![Screenshot of tweet:
“Friends of Bear Cat Rescue
@feederofcats
[location pin emoji] SF Bay Area
We still have all these very adoptable kittens waiting for homes somehow: Goomba, Toadette, Carol & Hubert, and Soda Can
They're getting close to 1 year old and are getting passed up for younger kittens. They're all extremely sweet”
[four photos of of 5 adorable older kittens]
4:38 PM • 4/18/26 from Earth • 121K Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:moxxymenkppwjub46t72oem3/bafkreicie4m6x4ftyomwmqcsnopyahe7dsqs57iu2w524pkw6b2zyas5tm)
Screenshot of tweet: “Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats [location pin emoji] SF Bay Area We still have all these very adoptable kittens waiting for homes somehow: Goomba, Toadette, Carol & Hubert, and Soda Can They're getting close to 1 year old and are getting passed up for younger kittens. They're all extremely sweet” [four photos of of 5 adorable older kittens] 4:38 PM • 4/18/26 from Earth • 121K Views
🚨 Haley/@feederofcats’s Friends of Bear Cat Rescue needs your help! Somehow these adorable kittens STILL haven’t been adopted! As they say “These babies deserve homes and families, not to be sitting in an enclosure for a year”. Please spread the word! In CA? Adopt! www.friendsofbearcatrescue.org!
a drawing of Gastly and shiny Haunter from the pokemon series, Shiny haunter has a blue tongue
HAPPY POKE-MONDAY!!!!👻
Tonight we finished this cute drawing of Gastly and Haunter!!!
some SPOOKY BOIZ!!!!!
What they up to? probably some tricks
#pokemon #digitalart #fanart
This bundle's already at 43% of its goal and the first day isn't even over yet! Why not help us get even closer and, in the process, support a bunch of indie creatives and get 94 works of lesbian awesomeness!
The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...
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It’s that time again
Decided to redo it! (repost because forgot HOI and some lighting)
[ #MOONCHILD #art #fanart ]
@seven.eurosky.social
Mommy 3 is 20yrs old today yay
The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.
Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.
moon child becoming a huge meme overnight and then the original devs finding out and being the chillest people ever RELEASING ALL OF THE SOURCE FOR FREE is genuinely the best possible outcome
I would've loved to restart game development with the other guys, but in the course of years we all got too busy with work and life. Following the much-appreciated attention for MC, we are now discussing releasing our Hoi and Clockwiser games as well, so watch this space for news about that soon. 🙂
For those who love the Moon Child theme, there's a playlist on YouTube with more of Ramon Braumuller's music!
Quintessentially Amiga-core and all bops - the Venom Wing music feels good on my ears 🎵
youtube.com/watch?v=mE7L...
The Dreams on a Pillow store page is live! If you want an emotional piece of Palestinian history, then please check it out! The team have been working really hard and are crowdfunding soon to raise more money to develop the game. Please wishlist 🖤
store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/...
A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month.
Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it.
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who could have seen this coming
guide to reading the news for the next six months:
1. the strait of hormuz is closed
2. israel is still bombing or occupying something
3. if there is news of a ceasefire, go to step 2
4. if there is news of the strait being open, go to step 1
We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act!
Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!
Cover, with an ASCII illustration of a hand with long pink nails holding a blue 3.5" floppy disc. The label on the disc is the trans flag. Title: "Shareware Made Me Trans."
Grid showing the layout of the 24-page zine, plus front and back cover.
"Gallery of shareware amazons" featuring images of four women warriors from various games.
As a pre-teen author undergoing the incorrect puberty, my own ZZT games circled the same themes again and again, at first with a layer of distancing irony that slowly eroded like the mountain being pecked away by that bird in Hell: they were fetish games. They revolved around captured princesses, with bare feet and torn dresses, chained in ASCII dungeons, punished and degraded, threatened with torture and hardship and peril. These were, in essence, all manifestations of the submissive woman, the painslut and pillow princess I would eventually become, but could not yet admit to wanting to be, could not yet admit that such a thing could be wanted.
everyone is currently obsessed with *checks notes* a 1997 game called Moon Child. but did you know other weird games came out in the 90s? you can read about some of them in my new 24-page zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, coming to itch next week!
AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS
AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING
WERE
BOTH
RIGHT
Everytime you think "ah finally, a good use for AI", you should step back and realize that such a response is exactly the kind of wedge corpos are trying to drive between laborers
Everyone's expertise and craft is "finally a good use for AI" to those outside the field.
Learn solidarity please
A blank bluesky profile from Wednesday when everything was broken
Bluesky timeline, also broken
Bluesky notifications tab, borked
Bluesky saved posts tab, not a thing loading. Personally if I was on the dev team I’d be extremely embarrassed about this entire situation and would probably apologize but hey I’m not a coder or software developer what do I know
From when I tried getting in on iPad, everything I keep learning about this whole situation makes it seem worse and worse
Software preservation in action ⤵️
The Hoi and Moon Child development team in their younger years.
Team #MoonChild in the late 1980s. 😃
I'm at the left, Ramon Braumuller (composer and singer of "Moon Chiild, oh oh oh ooh!" 🎵) is in the middle, and our Assembly coder Reinier van Vliet is at the right.
As Ramon is a skilled drummer, he's holding a Roland Octapad, to make the photo extra cool. 😆😆
I proposed to our coder, Reinier van Vliet, to release Moon Child's source files, and he agreed, so I'll post an update about this soon! 🙂👍