Notices by 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)

@Dad_Wood @HailsandAles I was also spinning Midian and Brave New World a lot that year

@HailsandAles

Dark Tranquillity - Haven

Possibly the band's most divisive release with all that Depeche Mode influence, I'm an unalloyed fan if it. It was a really important album to me during some hard times, and remains a comfort.

#PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue

Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning.

That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine.

If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do.

Note how "facts" becomes "progressive politics"

I will not be taking any further commissions from Condé Nast publications.

Re: Teen Vogue rolled into Vogue, all Black women laid off from staff

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/conde-nast-teen-vogue-newsguild-1236417079/

@pixelnull If she's trying to make out that she didn't understand the arguments she was signing onto, I genuinely do not believe a word of it, having been mutuals with her before her openly-reactionary heel turn.

And her stated positions, effectively arguing for supposedly "equal but separate" treatment of trans people are nothing short of pernicious.

Why need there be a "middle ground" on bathrooms? Where I live, only about half of public toilets are segregated at all, because it's wildly unnecessary to do so, and I don't see why the existence of trans people should affect that.

Plus, her comments about prisons have the shape of a dogwhistle that I don't quite have the cultural context to correctly parse.

@CppGuy @fesshole I'm a trans guy, and in my experiencet here's not that much to make men's cuts uncomfortable for women, even straight and very traditional styles.

Main thing is that people with wider hips might need to go up a waist size, particularly on non-stretch fabrics. And the extra crotch room for men (which exists but is not usually very significant) can help compensates for this if you don't need to go up an entire size.

And as you noted, if it's got elastene in the fabric, it'll broadly fit anyone.

I was too tall for most women's jeans before any hormonal changes to my body composition, and men's jeans were never a problem to wear.

@anjune to be fair, no, I'm being overly reductive by a country mile, but Carla (or your bridge of choice) can mostly load windows VSTs, so it tends to be much of a muchness

@Thomas it is, to be fair, a bit less classy than The Devils

@Thomas huh, no Sacred Flesh

@nebulos oof, sorry about the IUD woes. I forcibly rejected mine... the symptoms genuinely do suck, and I don't even have PMDD

@linuxaudioplugindevelopment

Thus nay be too specific but:

Labs / Spitfire Audio recently changed hands and several of my plugins no longer work via Bottles and yabridge. It's infuriating to the point of almost putting me off bridging Windows plugins entirely.

https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/

@WanderingInDigitalWorlds

It doesn't seem to be currently resolving,
Did anyone grab a screenshot?

@taylormccue fuck yeah. I'm so glad the move's coming together so well

@DarkestKale hard agree

@DarkestKale oooh, I'm going to do exactly that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osyqaJjAbHk

Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery remains an astonishing album, a high point of melodic death metal

https://darktranquillity.bandcamp.com/album/the-gallery

@steamreleasebot Nigerian gamedev, appears to be associated with SmartOliveGames (https://smartolivegames.wordpress.com/).

@steamreleasebot #Alt4You A top down isometric survivors-like game with a 3D world and 2D art and UI elements. The player character is a Black woman in a green tunic.

Spooky Express is OUT NOW on PC and Mobile! 🚂🎃

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

https://spooky.express/

Hop on board the ghost train on

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/Spooky_Express/
itch: https://draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spooky-express/id6738424828

@draknek

#Alt4You a video of Spooky Express, a cute top down 3D game where you build rail routes in a small gridded area to move monsters around it