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

We hit a milestone in the GoFundMe @gemsmoke and I set up to help bring their pets to live with us France.

I'm going to quote a bit of the news below, and ask if you could please share the following link, particularly if you're on social networks other than fedi to help us bring them home before flight prices rise for summer.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-rescues-move-to-their-new-home

Hello everyone, and thank you so much for all your help in getting Buster, Annie and Ghost on their way to join us in France. We've hit a major milestone!

Thanks to all of you who've contributed to this GoFundMe, plus sales of albums (https://1351.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-and-shatter/) and zines, we've got all three animals fully up-to-date with theirr vaccines and microchips, at a cost of $523.06.

Record-breaking ice storms and snowfall in New Jersey means that getting the animals to the vet happened later than we'd have liked, so we're now scrambling to book flights before the summer ticket price rise.

From our writing, transcription and translation work since we set this GFM up some seven (!) weeks ago, we've managed to save another 880€.

The vet is still holding onto the processing fee for our furry friends' travel permit, but we still need to get an estimate for their final pre-travel checkup - I'm mentally assuming $300 (we'll get that estimate ASAP).

If we were to book flights right now, we'd be looking at a cost of 1193€ for us and an estimated 300€ for the animals

That means we're still looking to raise around 900€. Money saved from our earnings mean that's less than our original GoFundMe estimate of 2000€.

We're also making contingency plans in case we can't get everything funded and booked in time. Hanging onto the money is fine - we can afford to live and have a dedicated account to save it in - but that would look as us travelling in October in order to get cheap air fees again.

The Matchbox Kingdom

#Sketchbook #BallpointPen #traditionalart

@dirtwizard666 we are the soldiers at the edge of time?

@mavica_again oh wow... Now where the hell did I leave my Chumby??

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✅ #Chatkontrolle gestoppt - Massenscans enden am 4. April
❌ Aber: Altersverifikation und neue Massenscans drohen
Wie wir den heutigen Abstimmungskrimi knapp gewonnen haben, wer wie abgestimmt hat und wie der digitale Freiheitskampf weitergeht: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/entscheidungsschlacht-um-die-chatkontrolle-wie-eu-regierungen-und-tech-lobby-das-nein-des-eu-parlaments-kippen-wollen-der-grosse-faktencheck/

@anon_opin look, The Wildhearts did genuinely interesting things on Endless, Nameless

@anon_opin generational homes still a bit of an alien concept to the UK, eh?

@jt_rebelo

Yeah, I'm fairly sure the US doesn't have full production chain capabilities for most computing equipment.

@Escoutaire @anyia @raphaelmorgan @briankrebs

@lenny_wonders what an awful person to find yourself sharing a building with. I hope you and your friend are unharmed.

@Escoutaire

Cisco?

@anyia @raphaelmorgan @briankrebs

Here's some #MondayRandom10, as spat out of my collection by Strawberry.

Ulver - Let the children go
Icon of Coil - Shallow Nation
Hot Hot Heat - This Town (Live)
Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give
Combichrist - God Bless
999 - High Energy Plan
Marillion - Incommunicado
Blanche Calloway - Misery
Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer
Ulver - Preface

I've just indexed one of my mass music storage directories from a newly rebuilt NAS device, for a total of 21050 tracks, so there's a LOT of random stuff on there.

I don't think I know what Marillion sound like, so I'll have to remind myself.

That Blanche Calloway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway) track is from a friend's collection that I ripped for them when we lived together, and it's great.

@valentine this thread is the sweetest thing and your evident joy is life-giving ♥️

#SilentSunday

@tommybobbins plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

@ThomasNoppers

OMG I love them so much!!1

Amid all the talk of Santa Ragione's HORSES and its banning from a number of digital platforms, I've yet to see much that delves into the politics that visibly form the bones of the game, and which are every bit as on-the-nose as is required in these times.

@gemsmoke and I spent three or four hours this afternoon co-playing this monochrome, first-person horror adventure game, and I was struck by both its visual and stylistic choices, and clear exposition of the roles of fear, abuse, religion, propaganda, antisexualism, and silent accedance in the sustenance and perpetuation of fascism.

The payoff of the HORSES' biting satire, ramping tension, and at times harrowing narrative is joyously revolutionary when it comes, leaving the overall experience feeling far more celebratory than bleak.

#AdventureGames #HauntedGames #HauntedGameReviews

I wish Tusky auto-saved.
I was adding one last hashtag when the screen flashed and a long post evaporated.

@Stomata @fesshole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_meme

(Honesty, even I'm not terminally online enough to have known about it without a local gen alpha. Who also reckons it's both "annoying" and "over", fwiw.)

@isthereanydeal fuck yeah!

@MaryAustinBooks
Wait, but melba toast in no way resembles digestive biscuits?

@fesshole