Notices by berserk du soleil (aetataureate@dosgame.club)

hi! this is an unusually utilitarian post for me haha. but, if you're someone in chicagoland who can travel to or within the suburbs, and you're pretty good at and enjoy HEARTS, i'd love to pass you along to someone who organizes hearts tournaments a couple times a year. i've played in a few and always had fun. the group is mostly older men, but everyone was always polite to me, the youngest person there and one of the only women haha. get in touch if this is you. #chicago #games

@HauntedOwlbear hahaha i'm glad i added "plus i think mixers are gross" for you!!!

@HauntedOwlbear oh these are lovely! Great job.

@HauntedOwlbear nooo it's like seeing a car with its bumper torn off

@NoraReed dinosaur porn star names

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pegosaurus

this is an important illustration of how much framing matters in journalism. the KEY difference is that usa today repeats USC's own language as the truth. they canceled it over safety. la times headline explains that it's what USC claimed. journalists can't repeat institutional PR claims as truth.

also tbh -- how much photo selection matters. usa today's explicitly appeals to conservative values like authority and tradition

@JanLuitPhotos i love this photo and wanted to do a #pixelart trace of it! thank you for sharing it!

#birdsofmastodon

it's dies saturni, a day of renewal, gathering, introspection, and scholarship.

let's write some micropoetry. (i'm not a poet! you don't have to be either.) leave a reply with five words, just individual words, as a prompt. keep it SFW & no bigotry etc.

then anyone who wants to will write a poem, 50 words tops, using part/all of the prompt. please CW your reply so others can write without seeing your poem first.

feel free to boost, all are welcome.

#diessaturni #aetadays #poetry #writing

@HauntedOwlbear I honestly think a lot of us of other genders encounter a ton of blowhards before we even know what that is or to question them. And I'd believe that scares us into feeling inadequate, because almost no one with a real knowledge base feels that cultishly confident in it.

@HauntedOwlbear ahahaha this is very good post synchronicity, sorry @turgon

@turgon @HauntedOwlbear oh nick oh no! No One thinks that! The second part is the funny part. Everyone please know Nick is one of the best (at just being a really kind family man and citizen) and I admire him for over 20 years now (oof)

@turgon @HauntedOwlbear yes. the best at stringing hams. up mountains. sorry owlbear (a vegan)

Something you may not know is that every subject area's fringe is crowded with random men who are sure they know a shortcut to something extraordinarily difficult. They don't even believe a conspiracy or something. They just have "idk I think I could get bronze at the Olympics if I really tried"-itis but for every academic and practical discipline on earth

One just sent me a message calling Fermat's Last Theorem "childish" then citing the theorem itself as his . . . "proof"

@NoraReed i'm sorry. this is disappointing to hear. when i had escalating cysts, my doctor, who was thankfully also a surgeon, booked me in for a procedure quite quickly. i've sometimes wondered if he was overreactive, even, but taking it seriously and wanting to treat it seems so much better than the alternative. are the results from the urogyn you trust? maybe the paradigm has just changed for what they do for treatment. the pain stuff is terrible though, i'm sorry.

@NoraReed i hope she follows up with you. or, if you want to and have the energy, you'd be entitled to follow up with her yourself.

@NoraReed NO AHHH. well, if it's a practice or department -- chase any of them if you want to. either way, i'm sorry, it sucks to have them and it's not right to leave you in pain this way.

hi! it's steam AND itch.io sale season!

if you have a beloved game (or a few!) on these platforms that's on sale right now -- would love to hear about it in the replies.

i just bought "against the storm," which would not look like my speed at first but @Krikket @mindly.social mentioned loving it and led me to the polygon review of it. and one of my favorite friends just told me he also "LOVES IT" (bold and italic)

i also bought "lesbiants," an adult game about ants and trans lesbians.

@HauntedOwlbear omg I want to know! It makes me so curious because I've never had a type. Would love to hear your thoughts.

@HauntedOwlbear @neil thank you for explaining!!