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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2h

"Hello, music industry? It's comics. We need to talk."

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 2h

This is inherently unserious and completely shameless

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 7h

Dont Stop Girly Pop demo is INTENSE with the speed holy moly
Because of the screen shake setting I can actually play it, and oh god is it a thrill lol

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Birmit @birmit.bsky.social · 1d

Drawing designs for new OCs (thanks to Legion Remix for that). Here's sketch for my co-author's character, a sin'dorei paladin named Lichtar ✨

#warcraft | #oc

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 4d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 23h

"Your suffering shapes your obedience" is, like, something Darkseid would say

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Mar 10

wow so i just touched this big monolith that showed up nearby and it told me all about smashing with bones. i've been fucking ruining shit all night, bones smash so good

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah almost def also me LOL
I have a weeee bit of a habit being a Negative Norman haha

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

Feels weird posting things Im thankful for/happy about. Like Im worried it comes off...idk braggy???
But maybe feeling uncomfy posting happy thoughts is an indictment on how I tend to engage with social media lol

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

So, thankful post: I love my mom. I'm extremely lucky to have such a supportive parent. After getting my disability, and coming out as pan, she's always loved me all the same. Possibly more. Today was horrible health wise but she helped me as always. I'm just so happy to have her.

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

Gonna start doing the opposite of vent posts. Thankful posts? It's thanksgiving so I guess lol

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 1d

pivoting to multiplayer campaign

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 1d

Thiel's reading: “Nothing lasts forever.”

Actual line: “‘In the end’? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

@tadethompson.bsky.social “Literally THE OPPOSITE of what Dr Manhattan said. Also, Moore didn't see this as an ideal solution. Moore literally negates the plan in the last panel
…”

Partial screenshot from screenshot in the original post:

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

“The antihero Ozymandias, the anticrhist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution - eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes is represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world…”

Panel from Watchmen. Foreground, Ozymandias' hand reaches toward Dr Manhattan as the Doctor starts to fade away.

Dr Manhattan: "In the end"?

Dr Manhattan: Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

The full page from Watchmen. I'm not typing the whole thing. Watch the cartoon or movie or read the GN.

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 1d

ain’t this truth
and it sucks

show some empathy, folks

Quote post by @_heatherlynn.
i will also add: everyone's fine with your disability until your disability affects -them- or what you can do for them.
Original post reads: everyone's fine with your disability until your disability actually affects you.

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 1d

One day I shall be healthy, and when that happens it's all over for y'all (but in a good way)

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 1d

Any recommended resources on finding them?
And for building a portfolio, would writing prose be a good call? Or solo dev work (twine or more visual based ones?)? Or writing out sheets of barks and other in-game documents?
Sorry for having lots of questions lol. Asking for "a friend" :P

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 1d

Any tips for skills or programs to learn for aspiring narrative designers? :)

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Feb 9

wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him