Pella

I'm Pella! 🌸 You've probably seen me other places. I stream VERY sporadically on twitch.tv/pellamore. Shame about that other site.

We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of long time bus rider Todd Williams (Chimera8990) His family graciously donated many items from his extensive collection back to us so we could continue to raise money in his name for a cause he was so passionate about.

If you believe in nothing else, believe in human greed. If these AI folks really believed it was the secret to success and riches, they would NOT be encouraging everyone else to use it and give up their competitive advantage. They want to drag you down to their level. Don’t let them.

"I don't know what I want" is a direction problem, and it's a problem that has solutions. Clear and understood ones. You do quick back and forth, you keep the quality low so people don't waste their time. Talk it out. You don't say "go away and waste a week or more on something I'm uncertain about"

But Desert Bus, isn't Persona 30 years old? WHY YES IT IS! So we're exceptionally lucky to have this 15 LP Record collection from iam8bit! With just over 8.5 hours of funky off-beat music from the games it's a must have for any hardcore collector.

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

New from me. Talked to @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com about his game Die on this Hill and it's uncanny resemblance to a new game from Jackbox, Debate and Switch

a haunted house, but it's just various pieces of corporate software encouraging you to "get into the holiday mood" and take a minute to "have some spooky fun" as you desperately try to get work done

Reminder that back to work mandates and years of relocation mean that people are STUCK! They were required to move to places with high cost of living because that's where studios overwhelmingly are, and then are left high and dry

wow wow wow absolutely blown away by Tenebris Somnia! Super fun pixel horror with some of the most beautiful live-action cutscenes you'll ever see in a game, telling a tragic story in the most beautiful way. Easy contender for best indie horror of the year. Check it out!!!

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

And just like that we hit $500,000 for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social this year! We sang Africa (as is tradition) for all of your amazing support! desertbus.org/donate

I say "token", because AI usage is literally a slot machine. you pay a token per-slot-machine-lever-pull, and hope you like what you get or you roll again. They do this thousands of times, and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm serious like when i say AI is a huge scam this is partly why

websites that make you log in to purchase something and then don't spit you back out on the thing you were trying to purchase are So Awesome.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This man, this little worm who’s never done a day of honest work in his life. He’s why BioWare was shuddered and hundreds of people lost their jobs last week.

Ken Steacy has done it again! A giveaway of a veritable museum of The Phantom (and his wife Diana) Can be yours for $9.27 per entry! A ring, keychains, comics, prints, stickers, pins, keychains, a jigsaw puzzle, A PROJECTION GUN AND MORE!

All I wanted for my birthday was to raise a Desert Buck during this mornings Dawn Guard. That’s $22,805. We ended up raising $47,268. So yah, good birthday. 🎉

In summation, This is a marked *decrease* in quality from the nonsense trailer he posted three months ago, because at least that looked like it was filmed in Greece, and didn't have a thin film of shit smeared on everything.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

19 years ago, an ambitious dream to bring an iconic book series into the world of video games came to life with the release of The Witcher. It was the start of an unforgettable path, which wouldn't have been possible without our friends at BioWare.

You deserve AI-generated content that rises to our high standards.

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

I've seen an increase in this behavior as well. I know that people gotta eat, but remember not to get so desperate for work that you're majorly undercutting wages. These companies know they can probably find someone who will do the same work for cheaper since so many people are looking for work. :(

Idk if this has been done before but I shoved two interests together to practise lighting but really I just had fun with it. #ffxiv

Woops hey I haven't been social Mediaing much because I've been in one of the few nice places left on the internet @desertbus.org ! U should come hang

First of all: thank you. This is necessary and important and good. Second: who tf is not signing on to this because I would like to have a little conversation.

Me, weeping for all the struggling rich tech people, while looking at the seventeen emails I've received from the Anthropic Settlement administrator as I continue to try and get paid the few grand for the books the company stole the IP from.

Don't use Gmail! Use Proton instead! Don't use Proton! Use Scrimbo instead! Rinse, repeat. Maybe the solution isn't to uproot apps every few years.

Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

Our silent auctions are once again live and firing! Whether you need a reversible scarf to keep out the bone deep chill of the House of the Ninth; a home decor set that would suit anyone from a prince of the fire nation to a humble cabbage merchant;

A full 26 years before the ill fated voyage of The Terror and The Erebus, Lt. John Franklin surveyed the area of the Coppermine river. This premium recreation of his 1823 account includes maps, restored engravings and plentiful evidence that this might not have been the best dude to send twice.

Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.