@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-10-05 07:50:30
One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-03 15:36:23
Over nearly nine months,
the lawsuit challenging Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding
has ricocheted around the federal judiciary
but still has not reached a final resolution.
It has been reviewed by 21 judges,
spawned thousands of pages of filings
and lumbered forward
even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development,
the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-29 16:35:40
Flying Tulip, founded by DeFi veteran Andre Cronje aiming to build a full-stack onchain exchange, raised a $200M seed at a $1B token valuation (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/372787/andre-cronje-flying-tulip-funding-crypto-t…
@DamonHD@mastodon.social2025-10-31 09:40:12
A pleasant read, about a place I know a (very) little:
https://notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/finding-ghosts/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-01 11:25:50
Boston's GBH launches a $225M fundraising campaign to sustain its operations over the next three years following the end of federal funding for public media (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)
https://dankennedy.net/2025/10/01/gbh-anno…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-02 10:55:31
Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-09-30 17:09:58
❝ Move slow and feel things ❞
–@…
https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115294036465862708
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-24 14:45:53
New Jersey PBS will shut down on July 1, 2026, due to the federal rescission and state funding falling 75% to $250K (Mike Davis/Asbury Park Press)
https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/televisio…
