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Sometimes I think peopleâs complaints about queer genre fic boil down to them wanting litfic and not knowing thereâs queer litfic. If you wish to read about sad lesbian adjunct professors having unsatisfying sex, rejoice! NPR has reviewed it for you
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Do we know much about what the era of the christianization of Rome was like for pagans? Like suddenly this formerly illegal religion is the only thing you are allowed to worship. Or was the process much slower then I'm imagining.
We know quite a bit about it. The Romans were chatty folks. In fact, we know so much about it that we have multiple different perspectives over several centuries. We know so much that the amount of literature on the subject frankly intimidates me. The First Council of Constantinople is quite the hot topic.
I wish I had some specific literature to reccomend but yk I've never heard of a work focusing specifically on the pagan perspective. If that doesn't exist, there's a PHD paper idea.
I get the importance of the transfem community warnings but sometimes I see shit like girls talking other girls out of trying to get their teaching certificates because of the potential for harassment from conservative parents and idk that's very real but also at a certain point we are just doing preemptive hiring discrimination to ourselves
Like on the one hand it is very real that societal transphobia would like to see us all unemployed, forced to do survival sex work. But also that's not the only reality available to us at this point! And sometimes I worry that we are self policing in a way by flooding so many trans girls with this message of "your only options are to get super good at onlyfans or be Raytheon's strongest coder" when like, so many of the women I know are teachers, home care workers, nannies, day care workers, postal workers. Not glamorous, but like, idk the world of lower middle class pink collar jobs is available to us more or less at this point. Other girls have office jobs, some girls have to work food service and retail. But we get to exist in some form besides either NEETs or internet famous porn girls. And obvi hiring discrimination is real, and obvi disability issues come into play for a lot of us that makes a lot of the work I just mentioned inaccessible. I'm not saying things are sweet out there. But there is a world out there where you can live. Maybe not in the exact way you want, maybe not super easily, but you can live.
Here is a free pdf of the players handbook
Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything
Here is a free pdf to monsters manual
Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything
Here is a free pdf to dungeon masterâs guide
Here is a free pdf to voloâs guide to monsters
Here is a free pdf of mordenkainenâs tomb of foes
For all your dnd purposes
Reblogging for other dnd nerds
>^>
also here is a whole website that not only has a shit ton of adventures and such but lets you search for any item or npc or whatever and see their stats and info at your fingertips
and here is the same version of the above website except it uses the 5e rules as they existed prior to the 2024 relaunch, which is what youâd prefer
crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.
itâs really this at the end of the day tbh
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have you seen the lord of the rings movies? the practical effects look great, but there's also an amazing digital serkis
Are YOU gonna let THE GOVERNMENT tell YOU what YOUR GENDER is? That doesn't sound like Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to me! PROTECT your individual FREEDOMS and call your senator: we want the GOVERNMENT to stay OUT OF OUR PANTS! GENDER FREEDOM NOW!
Two men in your neighborhood are married... to EACH OTHER? Congratulate them for exercising their AMERICAN RIGHT to follow the footsteps of our FOUNDING FATHERS! They've got a fully AMERICAN spirit of FREEDOM and REBELLION! GOD BLESS THE USA.
Your coworker has a different RELIGION from yours? Well, that's just INTERESTING and you should talk about it on your UNION-APPROVED LUNCH BREAK. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was FOUNDED on Freedom of Religion and ANYONE should be allowed to seek the AMERICAN DREAM!
You think someone might be in this GREAT country ILLEGALLY? NO YOU DON'T! No one is in this country illegally! The minute anyone steps on our SOVEREIGN SOIL they're your FELLOW AMERICAN and where they come from is NO ONES BUSINESS.
it's funny yeah, but guys this is actually how you reach the people who prefer these terms to frame all things Good and Correct.
how it started:
how it ended:
things that I believe in my HEART are on the Beatles' message to Earth (Project Hail Mary)
taumoeba (obviously)
instructions on how to use taumoeba (obviously)
50+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace fucking up a bunch of stuff in the ship
so much info about Eridian language
1700+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace and Rocky fucking up a bunch of shit in the ship
Cannot emphasize how much info on the eridian sentence structure there is here
a weirdass knit sweater pattern that takes people weeks to realize is for Rocky
literally hundreds of pages of Grace just describing Eridian linguistic history which like honestly isn't even his field why should we even listen to this guy- (hes the only one to ever fucking met an intelligent alien Dave. we'll take him at his word)
Why the Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots Part 2: Biological Diversity all across the Petrova Line (subtitled "We haven't found them yet BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THEY DONT FUDHING EXIST-")
what are essentially just those reaction videos "Alien watches Legally Blonde for the first time" "Alien gives thoughts on movie Cats (2019)" "You'll never believe what this Alien thinks of the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Grace's modified cardigan charts because someone was asking for them on his Ravelry and he never actually got around to posting them
(people have already fully recreated this cardigan just months after his launch. but they appreciate it)
very respective, kind eulogies for everyone who died in this mission (Grace AND Rocky's crew)
a lace shawl pattern inspired by the petrova line with a beaded fringe. knitters everywhere weep in despair because those instructions are gOD AWFUL, the man had 0 (zero) test knitters AND THERES NO PICTURES FUCK
Rocky make Grace cringe compilation statement
Grace's final goodbye to Earth ig
walkin on the beach
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Rocky made the xenonite suit because Grace needed proper hugs â¤ď¸âđŠš
i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me
You have to kill your disgust response now.
To use the most inflammatory example. If your issue with child sexual abuse is that it âfeels grossâ you will end up linking harmless things to csa and ignoring deeply harmful things that arenât usually considered csa but absolutely are. If you donât understand how the sexualization of children works and simply base your entire understanding of what feels âickyâ you end up looking past dress coding, the slut shaming of grade school children, children being forced to make unwanted contact with adult (forced hugging cuddling etc) and the refusal to teach children how to recognize and avoid predation and instead get up in arms about cartoons.
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How to upset Gene Roddenberry
Look, I knew Gene. We talked many times about the idea of Jim and Spock being lovers. He had no problem with it at all.
But you know what he did have a problem with?
Zippers.
He was adamant that by the 23rd century humans would have a better solution to fastening their clothes than zippers and buttons. And I mean, he felt passionately about this.
Passionately.
Itâs because of this that those first gold shirts the crew wore in Where No Man Has Gone Before got scrapped in favor of shirts that didnât show the fasteners. And also why the cast were sewn into their environment suits while filming Tholian Web and could only use the bathroom at lunch before being sewn back into costume til quitting time.
And it was the reason for Gene speaking quite sharply to me onceâthe only time he ever did â and I hung my head and felt like a kid in trouble with her dad. He read a slash story of mine and got on my case for writing zippers & buttons into the undressing scene. Really kind of chewed me out.
Didnât bat an eye at a fairly graphic description of Jim and Spock having sex â but boy was he upset about those buttons!
So many of you are surprised by this.
Iâm surprised by your surprise.
The response to this post has made me realize how long it has been since Gene died. So most of you did not know him. (If you did, raise your hand. I know some of you are old enough.)
If youâd known him, you wouldnât be surprised by this post, I promise.
Hey, did y'all see this?
I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!
I'll share some of the info below:
Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.
What to do?
-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides
- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!
To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!
Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.
Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b
If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.
Thank you @tromboneralert and everyone who got me to 500 reblogs!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Link to Keep Android Open.
Link to Install F-Droid.
Link to contact international regulators.
Link to the change.org petition; they have 1,82,263 signatures as of posting this, add yours to the list, I have already added mine.
Link to their open letter, which has signatories of 71 organizations from 23 countries.
Link to the page of their project you can edit, should you have any useful information.
Link to Google's Developer verification survey, for all the good it'll do, it's still worth a shot.
Link to Keep Android Open Wiki.
Link to the Consumer Rights Wiki.
I have seen people in the comments mentioning about how this won't work, and all I have to say to that is do not borrow grief from the future, if you're going to claim defeat just when the battle has started, it's not much of a battle than it is being a bystander. When outcomes have not yet existed physically, anything goes, I read this advice post whenever I'm in need of motivation, and it might be out of place, but I think you should, too. Good advice is when you can apply it to anything, and I think this counts, whatever motives you, goes.
If you're wondering what's the harm or what's the big deal and isn't this just - I'm going to stop you right there, please, keepandroidopen has covered all their bases on that as well.
You've never written a regulator email before? Don't worry, neither have I, but it should be no different from any other email. Just be polite and specific and to the point, and you should be good.
Dear [Title],
I am writing to you as a concerned citizen and technology user to respectfully raise an issue I believe warrants regulatory attention, which is the preservation of the openess of the Android operating system.
This is ncreasing friction around sideloading through repeated warnings and permission barriers that discourage users from exercising their legal right to install software of their choosing.
Pre-installed applications and services that are difficult or impossible for users to remove, effectively tying users to specific service providers without meaningful consent.
API and Play Services dependencies that make it technically challenging for alternative app ecosystems or forked Android distributions to function competitively.
This, if left unaddressed, is a risk that consolidates control that reduces consumer autonomy, concerns that I understand fall squarely within your mandate.
I respectfully urge your office to ensure that core Android APIs remain available to competing ecosystems on fair and non-discriminatory terms and help safeguard consumer autonomy.
I would like to kindly request a written acknowledgement of the complaint. Thank you for your time and for the important work your office does.
Yours Sincerly,
[Your Name]
If you know your history, you know that change has only ever been brought about by people making change. By people standing up for what they believe and know is right. History has taught you that battles are bloody, and in that, you forget that battles are also won.
You forget that every right you hold today was a fight someone else started. And here we are again, the battlefield looks different, but the battle is the same. An open platform is not a technical preference and it should not belong to a single company's interest. The moment we accept that a corporation decides what software you can run on a device you paid for, we have accepted something our ancestors would have recognised immediately as control.
They fought kings for less - and you know this, alright? I know you do. History is not some abstract, vague concept. History is not just meant to be in just be read in your history books. History is not made of people who waited, history is full of hope and spite and stubborness and life, and you are part of history, and you are alive.
Remember that.
References
Overview
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Android_Open
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Android_Developer_Verification
Editorials and Blogs
âAn Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verificationâ â https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
âKeep Android Openâ â https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/20/twif.html
âYour Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorshipâ â https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly
âApplication Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorshipâ â https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship
âWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloadingâ â https://f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/sideloading.html (Hacker News Thread)
âF-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decreeâ â https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html (Hacker News Thread)
âPluralistic: Darth Androidâ â https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/
âGoogle plans to block side-loading like Apple, declaring war on Android freedomâ â https://tuta.com/blog/android-side-load-apps-google
âKeep Android Free and Openâ â https://www.swechaap.org/blog/keep-android-free-and-open/
âJoin The Protest Against The Closing Of Androidâ â https://www.i-programmer.info/news/193-android/18419-join-the-protest-against-the-closing-of-android.html
Press Reactions
âF-Droid says Googleâs Android developer verification plan is an âexistentialâ threat to alternative app storesâ â https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/
âWith developer verification, Googleâs Apple envy threatens to dismantle Androidâs open legacyâ â https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/with-developer-verification-googles-apple-envy-threatens-to-dismantle-androids-open-legacy/
â37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Playâ â https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/google_android_developer_verification_plan/
â'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictionsâ â https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/keep_android_open_movement/
âResistance to Google's Android verification grows among developersâ â https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/135878/resistance-to-googles-android-verification-grows-among-developers/
â'Keep Android Open' Movement Challenges Google's Developer Verification Ruleâ â https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/10/keep-android-open-movement-challenges-googles-developer-verification-rule/
âGoogle kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to registerâ â https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/android_developer_verification_sideloading/
âOpen-Source Android Apps at Risk Under Google's New Decreeâ â https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-f-droid-warns-google-developer-decree-open-source-android/
âGoogle's New Developer ID Rule Could Harm F-Droid, Says Open-Source Advocateâ â https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-android-id-rule-threatens-f-droids-future
âGoogle's developer registration 'decree' means the end for alternative app storesâ â https://cybernews.com/tech/googles-developer-registration-decree-end-alternative-app-stores/
âOpen-Source Android Apps Threatened by Google's New Policyâ â https://www.datamation.com/open-source/android-apps-google-policy/
âGoogle's new ID requirements could destroy independent app storesâ â https://www.techspot.com/news/109728-google-confirms-new-android-rules-significantly-restrict-app.html
âGoogle's Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droidâ â https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/
âGoogle's new developer rules could threaten sideloading and F-Droid's futureâ â https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/09/30/googles-new-developer-rules-could-threaten-sideloading-and-f-droids-future/
âGoogle is restricting one of Android's most important features, and users are outragedâ â https://www.slashgear.com/1962802/google-restricting-important-android-feature-reason-why-users-outraged/
âAndroid's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yetâ â https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/
âGoogle's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'â â https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/
âF-Droid says Google's new sideloading restrictions will kill the projectâ â https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/f-droid-calls-for-regulators-to-stop-googles-crackdown-on-sideloading/
âGoogle will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Storeâ â https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/google-will-require-developer-verification-for-android-apps-outside-the-play-store/
âGoogle will verify Android developers distributing apps outside the Play storeâ â https://www.theverge.com/news/765881/google-android-apps-side-loading-developer-verification
âGoogle will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloadingâ â https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
âAndroid Security or Vendor Lock-In? Google's New Sideloading Rules Smell Fishyâ â https://news.itsfoss.com/new-android-sideloading-rules/
âGoogle Demands Dev Identity For All Android Appsâ â https://www.i-programmer.info/news/193-android/18276-google-demands-dev-identity-for-all-android-apps.html
âGoogle Defends Developer Verificationâ â https://www.i-programmer.info/news/193-android/18356-google-defends-developer-verification.html
âKeep Android Open â Abwehr gegen Verbot anonymer Apps von Googleâ â https://www.heise.de/news/Keep-Android-Open-Abwehr-gegen-Verbot-anonymer-Apps-von-Google-10965483.html
Video Responses
âI Signed a Letter to Google. Here's Why.â â Techlore â YouTube | Invidious
âGoogle: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'â â Louis Rossmann â YouTube | Invidious
âF-Droid Will Die in 2026 Unless We Act Nowâ â Techlore â YouTube | Invidious
âGoogle is Removing Sideloadingâ â LMG Clips â YouTube | Invidious
âGoogle's changes to sideloading could end F-Droidâ â Linux Weekly News â YouTube | Invidious
âIs F-Droid in Trouble? Google Developer Verificationâ â YouTube | Invidious
âGoogle is Applefying Android: The End of Opennessâ â ChiefGyk3D â YouTube | Invidious
Discussions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1ralfa2/googles_sideloading_lockdown_is_coming_september/
https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/1rallch/googles_sideloading_lockdown_is_coming_september/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507173
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569371
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488
https://lobste.rs/s/x1sdu5/f_droid_google_s_developer_registration
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1n1m699/horrible_news/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1n3jtrf/google_you_royally_screwed_up/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1n0uy6g/just_received_this_email_now_you_can_get/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1n2im4j/this_may_mark_the_end_of_android_development_for/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1n0f41c/google_will_require_developer_verification_to/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1km8jof/google_play_developer_verification/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1mzw877/android_developers_blog_a_new_layer_of_security/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1n7g0cc/to_all_android_devs_speak_up_now_before_you_lose/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1oaj908/collection_of_actions_we_can_take_to_stop/
Official Documentation
Initial announcement â https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html
Let's talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification â https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html
Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback â https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
Android developer verification: Guides â https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/android-developer-console#complete-identity
Android developer verification: Frequently asked questions â https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq
Introducing the Android Developer Console: A first look â https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/assets/pdfs/introducing-the-android-developer-console.pdf
Download an early look of the new Android Developer Console â https://support.google.com/android-developer-console/answer/16450960
API Documentation â https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInstaller#DEVELOPER_VERIFICATION_FAILED_REASON_DEVELOPER_BLOCKED
How the advanced flow works for users â https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
Miscellaneous
Android Developer Verification Discourse by Termux developer agnostic-apollo
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