Anne Crow

If anything I'm starting to think that stuff Metal Gear Rising's Senator Armstrong wasn't stupid crazy *enough* when I look at today's world

Bus doodles of this morning

Super mario bros movie : generic kids movie held up by cameos and references Original mario bros movie with bob hoskins : avante garde cyberpunk film about a dystopian capitalist society bent ln genociding inferior species, brought down by two blue collar men

You know what tho

my story just went live on AO3 as part of the mechsploitation microjam!

it's 1k words, short and sweet, about a pretty traumatized mech pilot trying to adjust to civilian life after their entire world recently imploding.

you should read it!!!

It's never been about realism for its own sake, it was always about coherency and INTERNAL believability. Going all for realism always is like what a meathead would think people enjoy about works of visual art.

The reason why live action movies are burdened with the fear of cgi looking fake is because they have to share the screen with actual sets and people who look 100% real, literally nobody gives a shit if video games or comics and the like adhere to those standards.

Or, hear me out, Minecraft has nothing to do with this and people who've been courting realism at all cost over a proper art direction were wrong all along. We're just wiser to it now that nobody's wowed by graphic fidelity alone.

And if I may, it’s getting harder and harder to land freelance stories about prehistoric life. These stories deserve to be told - and I’m hoping to get enough paid subscribers to keep doing what I’m best at. Thank you for keeping me going through all these ages, and more to come.

Prohibition on Use of Reputation Risk or Other Supervisory Tools To Encourage or Compel Banking Organizations To Engage in Politicized or Unlawful Discrimination The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is inviting public comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking (proposal or proposed rule) that would codify the removal of reputation risk ...

The Federal Reserve System (Board) is inviting public comment on new guidelines in regard to debanking of persons & orgs regarding lawful business activities perceived to present reputation risk.

Comments due by April 27, 2026.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...

Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity

‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet Automated online ID checking systems add new potential dangers to having a mismatching ID.

For trans people, online resources and community are lifelines. The spread of age verification laws combined with anti-trans ID laws will block access to these lifelines. This is by design.

www.theverge.com/policy/89207...

OCC Releases Preliminary Findings from Its Review of Large Banks’ Debanking Activities The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released preliminary findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorgan C...

Before someone says this is probably geared towards religious businesses only, remember last year that the OCC named adult entertainment as one of the industries experiencing unfair debankment
www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...

hey this situation sucks, if you can help please do.

Similar phenomenon: NSFW content is incredibly policed from small creators on platforms that will then allow ads that are nearly softcore.

NSFW content isn’t censored if it makes money for big corporations, but individuals and small creators have to toe an arbitrary line of what counts as too much.

The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it

Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident

remember, y'all: this affects the whole world and will have a profound effect on our future.

remember how long it's taken to recover from regressive policies of the past. remember how much damage will never be fixed. remember who's pushing for this. remember that they're in this for the long game.

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

Right now with the subscribestar situation and everyone feeling defeated. If you are in the US, time to let your voice be heard on how you feel on debanking and organizations deciding on what can and can't be allowed.

Sarah is one of my closest friends who packs my orders for me. Before covid hit they were a fit and healthy person who ran marathons and taught yoga but they got covid which sparked off their ME and they’ve never recovered. Ordering from me helps to provide a job for them which im so thankful for

shapes in progress

Barker has $$, a publisher & got into writing when writing actually paid. The rest of us missed that bus and it's gone forever. So it's time to hold your nose and say that maybe, just maybe, the guys who regularly go to Child Rape Island shouldn't be saying what kinds of fictional porn are harmful.

The internet has a frustratingly short term memory when it comes to the ways censorship and content restrictions seep into every platform through the Trojan horse of moral panic. People desperately need to stop thinking these changes come from places of good intentions.

Also worth noting, having someone make a cool joke or a meme or a piece of art based on a thing you did? Feels incredibly gratifying. Having someone slop out some AI shit feels insulting. It's worth less than the last minute obligatory birthday card some uncaring relative gets you and just signs

PRIMORDIAL GRID The Primordial Grid is the deepest and oldest stratum of the Muse, and in some ways the hardest to access, but this is less due to security features and more due to the fact that the original infrastructure it was built on no longer physically exists. The Primordial Grid consists of the remnants of the ad-hoc data networks set up by First Wave colonists, built from whatever computing equipment they could scavenge from colonial supplies. This was the bedrock upon which all later iterations of the Muse were built and expanded, but it also acts as a limiting factor to that growth. Every upgrade or addition to the Muse must, to some degree, be backwards-compatible with previous sections, or the entire precarious structure falls apart. This means that all future additions to the Muse had to pay digital lip service to the 300-year-old hardware the First Wave used to kludge a rudimentary datanet together – hardware that, due to colonial cost-cutting measures, wasn’t even top-of-the-line when it was sold. SibilantSurveyor: love 2 have the process stack of my supercomputer stall because its waiting on checksum validation from babbage’s difference engine – Muse chatter

I love the Muse because it's a digital nightmare hellscape but for none of the reasons that the internet in fiction is usually a digital nightmare hellscape

You think emergent AI is scary? Try "none of the people who wrote this codebase are even alive anymore." #InGoldenFlame

IDK if people are talking about Kai Cenat's public reading journey, but he's using his power for good.

A lot of people can't read. At least not at what we consider adequate levels. And it is not their fault. Society as a whole severely pulled away from literacy advocacy.

this is a worldwide problem and every country that doesn't fight back against this shit is actively contributing to the problem

europeans in general: america is so backward
europeans on immigration: you're not a useless eater are you

I have been informed that this was actually even more correct than I realized, given that the Bavarians also have an idiomatic name for the rest of Germany ("Prussians")

Someone described Bavaria to me as the Quebec of Germany and yeah that kind of tracks

- Highly distinct regional culture
- Strong independence movement
- History heavily influenced by Roman Catholicism
- Stunningly beautiful countryside
- Speaks a language unknown to god

The home stretch...