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Dia ➡️ NFC @diazrar.bsky.social · 2d

just another one of those memories that haunts me daily

[ #art / #sillyhours ]

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 24d

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders.
But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 7h

I--
... motherfuck, I haven't even read the simarilion and even I know THAT's LITERALLY NOT HOW THE THEOLOGY OF EA WORKS.

ALSO MANKIND'S MORTALITY

CALLED

THE GIFT OF ILLUVATAR.

I.
Just.

Motherfuck this isn't even subtext, it is text text.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

art lit criticism is my passion ass guy

Yes, Thiel said, perking up. "There are all
these ways where trying to live
unnaturally long goes haywire" in
Tolkien's works. But you also have the
elves. "And then there are sort of all these
questions, you know: How are the elves
different from the humans in Tolkien?
And they're basically
- I think the main
difference is just, they're humans that
don't die
"Why can't we be elves?" he said.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 11h

It didn't. They shorted Bitcoin (effectively: Placing a bet that Bitcoin will go down. This is a slight oversimplification, mind.)

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 11h

"Cringe is dead, and I'm still breathing."
--Speaker D

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 16h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 14h

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 19h

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 22h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Nov 25

Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

a.co/d/bufFU4f

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 13h

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 12h

Like. That aren't the protestors, but also aren't the people *in power* or supporting this administration?

It's the same reason wearing the blow up costumes is good: It makes their attempts to claim to undecided people as a whole that these are dangerous look silly.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 12h

... No. The point isn't shaming *them*. They're far beyond that.

You realize that there are a lot of americans that just... aren't paying *attention*, right?

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 1d

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 15h

... Yeah, but the point isn't to convince *YOU*, the point is to make it clear to *everyone else*, and to put them into the position of saying, out loud, "Anti-facism is bad.".

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah WWI is infuriating just because it seems like a war that happened solely because every side decided that *not* having a war was just Too Much Trouble.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 1d

Also given the clusterfuck of WW1, including British Officers *Taking american soldiers to go invade Russia and getting a bunch killed*
it's

kind of hard to blame people going "Actually fuck this!" w/regard to war breaking out there *again*.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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