Eldritch Mlems

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Home to just 4,500 people and set in a scenic, rural valley, this quaint market town has blossomed into a bastion of tolerance.

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Back in the 1970s, artists and activists were drawn here by cheap housing after the cotton mills shut down. "One historical and cultural factor [that helped establish a burgeoning lesbian community] may have been the separatist wing of 1960s and 1970s feminism," said Dr Andrew Moor, who teaches film studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. "There was an element which allied itself with alternative hippy culture's experiments in alternative living, communes and a resistance to full-throttle capitalism. Hebden was the right size and in the right place."

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well well well, if it isn't a new xkcd

You do have to be careful, though--sometimes, instead of water, you hit this free fuel that you can sell for a lot of money instead.

https://explainxkcd.com/3004/

I've always dreamed of having my own soundboard as a GM to use during our sessions, so I decided to make one myself! It’s currently a work in progress, but feel free to check it out here (works best on desktop in the Chrome browser): https://oraora.nl/GoblinGrooves/index.html

I'm looking for more inspiration for sounds to add. Are there any sounds you think would be great additions, or are essential to add?

Here are the sounds included so far:

Sound FX:

• Forest ambiance
• Cave ambiance
• Water waves
• Howling wind
• Thunder and rain
• Crackling fire
• Town ambiance
• Tavern ambiance
• Knocking
• Creaking door
• Boiling potion
• Wolf howl
• Monster growl
• Explosion
• Sword unsheathing
• Laser gun shot
• Gun shot
• Rapit fire gun
• Lighting strike
• Wilhelmscream
• Horse running
• Trumpet announcement
• Phone ringing
• Energy charge
• Sinister cackle
• Heartbeat
• Magic sparkles
• Siren

Music (3 different sets for each type):

• Calm music
• Festival music
• Battle music
• Scary music

I make sure only to use music and sounds labeled as Creative Commons 0 or free to use for non-commercial purposes.

Any suggestions for additional sounds or feedback on the website would be very welcome!

A trans nonbinary Louisiana candidate for the U.S. House released a defiant campaign video this week, showing themself injecting testosterone to defend bodily autonomy.

Mel Manuel, who is running to unseat far-right House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, released the video on social media platforms on Tuesday. In the video, Manuel called on voters to “take a stand” while performing a routine testosterone injection.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/19191261

Newly out from Chaosium, No Time to Scream. This is a collection of three short scenarios for Call of Cthulhu. If you want a little more eldritch horror in your life this spooky season, you’ve come to the right place. These are perfect little nuggets of horror. Each adventure is designed to be played in about two hours or so, and comes with pre-generated characters, full-color maps, and of course, handouts to draw players in.

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All of the adventures share a common theme: a racing clock. With that in mind, Keepers will find some extra tools to help keep the game moving, as well as some help for adding more investigators for bigger group play.

Here’s a taste of the three different scenarios:

• A Lonely Thread – Something is wrong with Professor Thomas. Unfortunately, you didn’t know that when you arrived at his charming woodland cabin. Can you act in time your friend? Or will a horrific secret devour all?
• Bits & Pieces – A doctor’s body lies next to an autopsy table, and the corpse he was examining has vanished! The only clue is a set of bloody footprints. A devilish game of hide and seek ensues – with gory consequences.
• Aurora Blue – A band of U.S. Treasury agents raid an illegal whiskey distillery hidden in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The sun is setting… and that’s when the really bad things come out to play.

A non-profit organization providing mental health and legal support services to LGBTQ+ people in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg announced Monday that it would shut down after coming under “anti-queer pressure.”

The organization, called Lupta, was created in April 2023 as a support center for people facing discrimination over their sexual identity after its predecessor, the LGBT Resource Center, was designated a “foreign agent.” Lupta organized lectures and provided individual consultations to LGBTQ+ Russians.

Lupta’s closure comes almost a year after the Russian Supreme Court banned the so-called “international LGBT movement” as “extremist,” effectively criminalizing any form of LGBTQ+ rights advocacy in the country.

“The last two years in Russia have been devastating for the queer community. It also affected us,” the organization said.

"National Black Cat Day was created by Cats Protection on 27 October 2011 to help celebrate the majesty of monochrome moggies and beautiful black cats. When the campaign was launched, statistics revealed that black and black-and-white cats took, on average, seven days longer to find a home compared to cats of other colours."

Cats Protection - National Black Cat Day

Picture: Two of the semi-feral black kittens that were born in our garden, who were neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and re-homed.

Let's see your black cats 🐈‍⬛️

My brothers cat is a handsome little dude

The United Kingdom has been getting worse on trans rights. Not only are the media and political parties capitulating to a handful of influential TERFs, but public policy increasingly reflects this.

Earlier this year, the country banned puberty blockers entirely. This is on top of multi-year waitlists from the National Health Service that jeopardize the lives of trans people in need of healthcare, which have been alleged to have caused an uptick in youth and adult suicides.

Enter Trans Kids Deserve Better. They’re a UK-based activist group that consists primarily of transgender youth aged 18 and below. They’ve quickly made a name for themselves after forming earlier this year with headlines from actions like climbing the National Health Service headquarters and occupying the Department of Education.

Most recently, they infiltrated anti-transgender hate group LGB Alliance’s conference and released over 6,000 crickets in the middle of a talk held by the most boring fake whistleblower, Jamie Reed.

Assigned Media had the privilege of sitting down with one of the activists in the group, who asked to go by Crash (He/They).

I'm not permitted to work in the garden until after Jack has his belly rubs.