Gretchen
@gz4rez.bsky.social
Former and potentially future games journalist.
Former professional audio engineer.
Amateur Jewish scholar.
Formerly sick-as Bloodborne player.
Mother cut off from her child, because I was the _step_ mother.
I hope to BE something again, soon..
Former professional audio engineer.
Amateur Jewish scholar.
Formerly sick-as Bloodborne player.
Mother cut off from her child, because I was the _step_ mother.
I hope to BE something again, soon..
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Gretchen
@gz4rez.bsky.social
· Jul 26
So many people are hot.
You're probably one of them.
Unless you're an arsehole.
You're probably one of them.
Unless you're an arsehole.
Every month or two I install this app to barf something into the void.
I don't read anything, because it's a cesspool of moral relativism and neo-liberal fascism.
I'm not saying we need to allow the other side to be awful, too.
I'm saying this place is just a different type of toxic to twitter.
I don't read anything, because it's a cesspool of moral relativism and neo-liberal fascism.
I'm not saying we need to allow the other side to be awful, too.
I'm saying this place is just a different type of toxic to twitter.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Every month or two I install this app to barf something into the void.
I don't read anything, because it's a cesspool of moral relativism and neo-liberal fascism.
I'm not saying we need to allow the other side to be awful, too.
I'm saying this place is just a different type of toxic to twitter.
I don't read anything, because it's a cesspool of moral relativism and neo-liberal fascism.
I'm not saying we need to allow the other side to be awful, too.
I'm saying this place is just a different type of toxic to twitter.
People telling me things like "Leaving the USA is just one less person who can help here" is just victim blaming with extra steps.
They're coming for _me_.
How is evasion treachery?
They're coming for _me_.
How is evasion treachery?
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
People telling me things like "Leaving the USA is just one less person who can help here" is just victim blaming with extra steps.
They're coming for _me_.
How is evasion treachery?
They're coming for _me_.
How is evasion treachery?
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Something cool: my current profile pic is from the manga known in English as "Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun".
I don't care about spoilers. Main character (blue) is dating the other two.
This is a manga with over 40 volumes and an anime.
Blue Exorcist's trans/homophobia was only 10 years ago!
I don't care about spoilers. Main character (blue) is dating the other two.
This is a manga with over 40 volumes and an anime.
Blue Exorcist's trans/homophobia was only 10 years ago!
August 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Something cool: my current profile pic is from the manga known in English as "Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun".
I don't care about spoilers. Main character (blue) is dating the other two.
This is a manga with over 40 volumes and an anime.
Blue Exorcist's trans/homophobia was only 10 years ago!
I don't care about spoilers. Main character (blue) is dating the other two.
This is a manga with over 40 volumes and an anime.
Blue Exorcist's trans/homophobia was only 10 years ago!
Linux is worse than Windows at this point.
Windows isn't even good!
If the guts of your OS is a monolithic kernel with loadable modules and a single tool to configure the entire system (systemd/xgd Vs the registry).
Linux's descent is dragging Unix down.
BSD has taken hits to design.
Windows isn't even good!
If the guts of your OS is a monolithic kernel with loadable modules and a single tool to configure the entire system (systemd/xgd Vs the registry).
Linux's descent is dragging Unix down.
BSD has taken hits to design.
August 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Linux is worse than Windows at this point.
Windows isn't even good!
If the guts of your OS is a monolithic kernel with loadable modules and a single tool to configure the entire system (systemd/xgd Vs the registry).
Linux's descent is dragging Unix down.
BSD has taken hits to design.
Windows isn't even good!
If the guts of your OS is a monolithic kernel with loadable modules and a single tool to configure the entire system (systemd/xgd Vs the registry).
Linux's descent is dragging Unix down.
BSD has taken hits to design.
I don't know where I'm going, but it's across the USA border, and never returning.
August 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I don't know where I'm going, but it's across the USA border, and never returning.
I maintain this is true.
This place left me more infuriated than I have been since my wife threw me on the street because I decided she couldn't use my money to buy fast food. (I couldn't afford enough kosher foods to avoid malnutrition. I nearly starved to death on the street when she dropped me)
This place left me more infuriated than I have been since my wife threw me on the street because I decided she couldn't use my money to buy fast food. (I couldn't afford enough kosher foods to avoid malnutrition. I nearly starved to death on the street when she dropped me)
But this place is just as libertarian.
Just as much "my freedom of speech! Anyone can say anything at any time unless I don't like it". But it's about different issues.
Just as much conflation of issues that have any potential link.
Just as much Karen energy.
Just as much "my freedom of speech! Anyone can say anything at any time unless I don't like it". But it's about different issues.
Just as much conflation of issues that have any potential link.
Just as much Karen energy.
August 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I maintain this is true.
This place left me more infuriated than I have been since my wife threw me on the street because I decided she couldn't use my money to buy fast food. (I couldn't afford enough kosher foods to avoid malnutrition. I nearly starved to death on the street when she dropped me)
This place left me more infuriated than I have been since my wife threw me on the street because I decided she couldn't use my money to buy fast food. (I couldn't afford enough kosher foods to avoid malnutrition. I nearly starved to death on the street when she dropped me)
I think this account has been just as bad for my mental health as twitter was.
This app is still doom, gloom, sniping, yelling BS, and reactionary idiots.
Same sort of people, just not in power.
Social situations drag one into them, and I have allowed this site to drag me down to its level.
This app is still doom, gloom, sniping, yelling BS, and reactionary idiots.
Same sort of people, just not in power.
Social situations drag one into them, and I have allowed this site to drag me down to its level.
July 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I think this account has been just as bad for my mental health as twitter was.
This app is still doom, gloom, sniping, yelling BS, and reactionary idiots.
Same sort of people, just not in power.
Social situations drag one into them, and I have allowed this site to drag me down to its level.
This app is still doom, gloom, sniping, yelling BS, and reactionary idiots.
Same sort of people, just not in power.
Social situations drag one into them, and I have allowed this site to drag me down to its level.
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valve takes 30% of nearly every sale on steam
July 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
valve takes 30% of nearly every sale on steam
Jason Voorhees plays yo-yo
July 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Jason Voorhees plays yo-yo
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he was the right cast
#FantasticFour star Ebon Moss-Bachrach was asked what he would do if he had The Thing's powers
“There’s a handful of fascists that I would just throw into outer space”
(via IMDb)
“There’s a handful of fascists that I would just throw into outer space”
(via IMDb)
July 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
he was the right cast
I'm considering deleting this account and making a new one with no Americans on my follows.
July 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I'm considering deleting this account and making a new one with no Americans on my follows.
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I want to issue a corrective statement as my post about mouthwashings delisting turned out to be false. I'm sorry for making an incorrect assumption
July 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I want to issue a corrective statement as my post about mouthwashings delisting turned out to be false. I'm sorry for making an incorrect assumption
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Trump on Epstein: "You're talking about many years ago, but he took people and because he took people I said, 'Don't do it anymore.' You know, they work for me and he took, ah, beyond that, he took some others. And once he did that, that was the end of him. When they steal people I don't like it."
July 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Trump on Epstein: "You're talking about many years ago, but he took people and because he took people I said, 'Don't do it anymore.' You know, they work for me and he took, ah, beyond that, he took some others. And once he did that, that was the end of him. When they steal people I don't like it."
If I learn central American Spanish, I will not have vostros in my vocabulary, which is used in Argentina.
If I learn Castellanos, I will probably end up with a lisp, which isn't.
Mebs.
If I learn Castellanos, I will probably end up with a lisp, which isn't.
Mebs.
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If I learn central American Spanish, I will not have vostros in my vocabulary, which is used in Argentina.
If I learn Castellanos, I will probably end up with a lisp, which isn't.
Mebs.
If I learn Castellanos, I will probably end up with a lisp, which isn't.
Mebs.
This will continue constantly.
It will never be good for anyone.
This man will kill millions to stay out of prison.
It will never be good for anyone.
This man will kill millions to stay out of prison.
“It really is something,” a former senior administration official tells Rolling Stone.
“They are just bragging about doing now what we all were told to downplay or lie about in his first term. … Incredible.”
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“They are just bragging about doing now what we all were told to downplay or lie about in his first term. … Incredible.”
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This will continue constantly.
It will never be good for anyone.
This man will kill millions to stay out of prison.
It will never be good for anyone.
This man will kill millions to stay out of prison.
Blåhaj apparently signals two very different things, and.... Ummmm.
Seems counterproductive
Seems counterproductive
July 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Blåhaj apparently signals two very different things, and.... Ummmm.
Seems counterproductive
Seems counterproductive
I want porn to be available.
I don't need it to be at the farmer's market.
I don't need it to be at the farmer's market.
July 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I want porn to be available.
I don't need it to be at the farmer's market.
I don't need it to be at the farmer's market.
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On this day two years ago, Kyle Gordon posted a TikTok that had a text overlay reading, "Every European Dance Song in the 1990s."
July 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
On this day two years ago, Kyle Gordon posted a TikTok that had a text overlay reading, "Every European Dance Song in the 1990s."
No one should be prevented from making income from legal materials.
Don't defend illegal materials when you defend the innocuous.
Don't defend illegal materials when you defend the innocuous.
July 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
No one should be prevented from making income from legal materials.
Don't defend illegal materials when you defend the innocuous.
Don't defend illegal materials when you defend the innocuous.
Not all.
Some, many in fact, erotically depict crimes, or illegally depict minors.
Is it most? I sure hope not!
Those that are not those deserve a place to be sold.
I don't get why it has to be Itch.
Some, many in fact, erotically depict crimes, or illegally depict minors.
Is it most? I sure hope not!
Those that are not those deserve a place to be sold.
I don't get why it has to be Itch.
Critically acclaimed games getting caught in the itch/steam censorship nonsense sucks but remember that we need to, on principle, defend every game getting censored even if they are “porn games” because if you say some censorship is ok it becomes the slipperiest of slopes to all censorship is ok
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Not all.
Some, many in fact, erotically depict crimes, or illegally depict minors.
Is it most? I sure hope not!
Those that are not those deserve a place to be sold.
I don't get why it has to be Itch.
Some, many in fact, erotically depict crimes, or illegally depict minors.
Is it most? I sure hope not!
Those that are not those deserve a place to be sold.
I don't get why it has to be Itch.
"Our TOS and adult content policy have always included the rule: “If you plan to collect money for your content, then you must adhere to the acceptable use policy of all respective payment processors that your account utilizes.”
!!!
You signed up for dealing with bullshit
Then lashes out at itch
!!!
You signed up for dealing with bullshit
Then lashes out at itch
We've posted an addendum FAQ to our original blog post about NSFW content. You can read it here: itch.io/updates/upda...
Thank you for your patience as we navigate through this. We're upset too. We're doing what we can but there are still many unknowns at this point.
Thank you for your patience as we navigate through this. We're upset too. We're doing what we can but there are still many unknowns at this point.
Update on NSFW content
Update July 28th, 2025 : Addendum FAQ We have “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for th...
itch.io
July 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Our TOS and adult content policy have always included the rule: “If you plan to collect money for your content, then you must adhere to the acceptable use policy of all respective payment processors that your account utilizes.”
!!!
You signed up for dealing with bullshit
Then lashes out at itch
!!!
You signed up for dealing with bullshit
Then lashes out at itch
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Wait until they tell all these hand wringing politicians and their fans how badly women in sports get paid, which unlike trans athletes, is an actual problem for women in sports
Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.
To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.
www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.
www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports
He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.
www.advocate.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Wait until they tell all these hand wringing politicians and their fans how badly women in sports get paid, which unlike trans athletes, is an actual problem for women in sports
The problem with generative AI isn't the technology.
It's capitalism.
Generative AI has been the dream of AI research for decades, and crypto bros and mega corps have co-opted something that could help us understand how aesthetics (in the classic sense) develope and relate to each other.
It's capitalism.
Generative AI has been the dream of AI research for decades, and crypto bros and mega corps have co-opted something that could help us understand how aesthetics (in the classic sense) develope and relate to each other.
July 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The problem with generative AI isn't the technology.
It's capitalism.
Generative AI has been the dream of AI research for decades, and crypto bros and mega corps have co-opted something that could help us understand how aesthetics (in the classic sense) develope and relate to each other.
It's capitalism.
Generative AI has been the dream of AI research for decades, and crypto bros and mega corps have co-opted something that could help us understand how aesthetics (in the classic sense) develope and relate to each other.