Enshittification, yo.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

Today is International Women's Day, so here are a few of the great indie games we've reviewed that are by female developers or female-led teams. #IndieGames #GameReviews #InternationalWomensDay

Titles by:
@spellgardengames.com
@botanymanor.bsky.social
Rachel Wigell
Madison Karrh

Those used to grow in the ditch along the road outside our neighborhood when I was a kid. Then the area became heavily developed, the ditch runoff was no longer clean, and the sundews disappeared. 😭

Photo of Pink Sundew (Drosera capillaris) - one of the native carnivorous plants of the Okefenokee Swamp. Photographer: © Eleanor, via iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/72862356

The pink sundew offers a "honey" that’s nothing but a sticky grave, glittering like diamonds in the bog heat. Once touched, the tentacles curl in like a slow choking fist to melt life into soup. Beauty in the swamp isn't always what it first appears to be.

#WyrdWednesday #EarthDay #Okefenokee

Holy fuck.

The Draft2Digital thing is worse than I thought even. It's not just $100/year in sales, it's $100/year in fucking ROYALTIES.

They just literally don't want indies on their platform anymore. Fuck them.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

My photo shows a Paleo-Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform text, still partially enclosed in its original clay envelope. The clay is pale orangey-brown in colour displayed against a grey display case background. The outer envelope has been broken open, revealing the inner tablet beneath. Both surfaces are covered with densely packed wedge-shaped characters, which record a contract for the sale of a house purchased by Mannum-balu-Samas at the price of 1/3 shekel and 15 grains of silver. This is followed by the names of the numerous witnesses including the mayor Sin-magir and the courier Apil-ilisu. The same text is repeated on the envelope in the event of a dispute, which was broken to inspect the internal document. It is dated 32nd year of Hammurabl's reign, 10th month, c. 1750 BC. The clay envelope measures 87 mm (height) × 55 mm (width), while the inner tablet measures 64 mm (height) × 43 mm (width). On display at the Museum of Antiquity in Turin. Collection number MAT 740.

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope!

Museo di Antichità, Turin
📷 by me

#Archaeology

Oh… you’re just self-published? Oh… your self published, that’s wonderful, tell me about your book…

In no way, shape or form a rant...
apart form the ranty bits
it is a good rant though

#writer #blog #amwriting #books #author

markhayesblog.com/2026/04/15/o...

👏👏👏

A view across the top of a small pot full of dirt, with three tiny two-leafed green seedlings glowing in a sunbeam while a fourth, slightly shorter seedling hides in the shadows behind them. These are tomato seedlings, just sprouted a day or two ago.

Signs of spring! It's time to get the garden going again: hoe up the weeds, gather the seeds from the collards and kale that bolted, and spread some compost. Soon, I'll be transplanting these little seedlings out into the garden.

#gardening #GrowYourFood

My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Photo of broadheaded skinks. Photo 531539, (c) John Sullivan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by John Sullivan https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/531539

The Okefenokee Swamp is out of balance. Skink brings the heat, but I’m the counterweight in the Satilla mud. I match his fiery crown with the medicine of the dark mirror, stirring the water to call the heavy clouds back to the 'dust-choked cage.' Balance or burn. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch #WitchSky

If being left behind by ai would mean they would actually leave me alone and not force their ai on me, I would be happy to be left in the dust

In the cards this week: teamwork and affection Two important ways of being in relationship with each other

This week's Minoan Tarot cards point to our connections with each other as ways to help us move through these Interesting Times. This deck is my creation, my art.

lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/in-the-car...

#Minoan #Tarot #TarotSky

The Long Neolithic is a fever. It infects all of us stone botherers – whether we are archaeologists or lithic pilgrims. None are free of its symptoms. The call to visit, that palpable feeling ongoing ceremony when you walk into a stone circle. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

My photo shows a set of Late Iron Age glass gaming pieces displayed on a sandy surface in a display case at the British Museum. The set is made up of 24 coloured glass domes; six each of white, yellow, blue, and translucent green glass. One of the yellow pieces is out of shot in my photo. Each game piece is decorated with five inset spiral motifs in a contrasting colour. Nearly all pieces are uniform in shape; domed with a slightly pointed apex and a flattened base. Dimensions approximately 2.57 cm diameter and 2.2 cm height. The gaming pieces were recovered from a richly-furnished Late Iron Age cremation burial in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, when it was disturbed during the construction of two gas-pipe trenches during the building of the Panshangar Estate in 1965.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩

This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

That escalated quickly.

Somebody on another site responded to this with extreme "that's not art because it wasn't made with artistic intention" pedantic assholery. Thank you people of bluesky, for not being like that ❤️

Sun in Taurus 2026: The Boundaries You Avoid Are Costing You More Than You Think When the Sun moves through Taurus, the pace of life changes. Aries pushes forward. Taurus slows things down enough for you to notice what is actually taking root. This is the part of the zodiac that a

The Sun enters Taurus on April 19, and the lesson is simple: what’s valuable needs protection. This season is about boundaries, expectations, and refusing to give easy access to what you had to grow.

stormcestavani.com/sun-in-tauru...

#astrology #horoscopes #TaurusSeason

Visit Laura Perry's Shop! I'm the founder and Temple Mom of Ariadne's Tribe, an inclusive Minoan spiritual tradition. I'm also a writer and artist. Thank you for supporting my work!

I'm delighted to announce that the ebook editions of my books are now available directly from me in my Ko-Fi shop!

ko-fi.com/lauraperry46...

#Pagan #PaganSky #Books #Minoan

Books x Spring 🌷 featuring:

I. The Witches encyclopedia of Magical Plants.
II. Wellness Witchery & Backyard Garden Witchery.
III. The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick.
IV. The Modern Witchcraft Book to Magickal Herbs.

#greenmagic #greenmagick #greenwitch #greenwitchcraft

One thing I'm seeing more on social media is some variation of "Israel supports gender affirming care ergo we shouldn't" and (a) Israel is not, in fact, friendly to queer and trans people, (b) queer and trans people exist in every population on earth, and (c) the world is not binary like that.

The Minoan Sacral Scarf That Which Has Touched the Divine

It turns out, this enigmatic object in Minoan art isn't exactly what Sir Arthur Evans thought it is. It has some particular spiritual meanings for us in Ariadne's Tribe.

lauraidaeja.substack.com/p/the-minoan...

#Minoan #Pagan #PaganSky

An upturned scallop shell filled with about 20 china marbles, all with painted designs on them (circles, plant sprigs) though most of the designs are very faded.

3/3: It now joins the rest of the 'pearls' in my scallop! These china marbles are prized finds in the Thames; they were made in Germany from the 1840s to around 1910, hand-painted, and exported widely. I love the variety of sizes and designs.

This is a brick wall my wife Miyuki ran in to. She just wanted to be a chef, not a "content creator."

But in the modern world, no one cares about chefs unless they have seen them on TV. They want to eat the celebrity, not the food.

As a reason the boss will accept for me being late into work, I know that: 'My favourite tree was exceptionally talkative today' won't fly. It might be entirely true, but it won't be accepted. Still, some things are too important to ignore. – Toby Bazeley #VOH #ThickTrunkTuesday

John Mills as Quatermass.

‘Huffity, puffity, Ringstone Round
If you lose your hat it will never be found
So pull your britches right up to your chin
And fasten your cloak with a bright new pin
And when you are ready, then we can begin
Huffity, puffity, puff…’ — Nigel Kneale, ‘Quatermass’ (1979) #WyrdWednesday