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Filbi (they/them)

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hi im filbi they/them award-winning author of "Jetpack Jimmy Goes to the Moisture Fair: A Play in Seventeen Acts" (Gollancz 2009) friend of Eggbug

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · Aug 24

we all know that Jetpack Jimmy went to the Moisture Fair, but I never told y'all if he came back

maybe I never will

Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 19m

she's at the point in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story where he demands an army of 50,000 didgeridoos, soon she'll be machete-fighting her dad in the old barn

and she never once paid for drugs. *not once.*

Taylor Swift Updates @ts-updates.swifties.social · 10d

💬 | Taylor Swift confirmed on Z100 that the tracklist for “The Life of a Showgirl” was purposefully designed to resemble the shape of “The Eras Tour” stage:

“It took them a while to figure out that one”

Aerial shot of the eras tour stage. The stage is lit up with red lights. There is a main stage a runway that turns into a diamond a runway and a bstage

Track list for “The life of a showgirl”. When put in order it resembles the shape of the eras tour stage

Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 6h

[naked snake voice] uptown... funk?!

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 6h

what if Wolverine was lord of the vampires

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Xabi Gaztelua @xabigazte.bsky.social · 3d

April O'Neil, Hacktivist
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AD: Stephanie Cheung

for MtG - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

One of my childhood crushes <3 getting to paint her for this set was such a gift.
I've been the biggest fan of all the iterations of TMNT since the 90's, so working on this felt amazing!!
🧡💜❤️💙
#MTG #MTGxTMNT

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 7h

"I think we need Mike Holmes for this."

"He could fix werewolf society."

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 11h

This sentiment, the "we do not demobilize" is what this campaign needs to preach from here on out. Getting the work done is going to require EFFORT. Taking the campaign's infrastructure and applying it to advocacy and political pressure will be crucial - mobilization is the right word.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 11h

is... is it 1993 again...?

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 11h

I'm updating my GoFundMe and I just wanted to share these cute pics I took with my Mom for it

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 11h

I think Claremont kinda gestured at the same idea in his earlier run on Gen 13, but Simone explored it to its fullest

Screamy Feeres @amyveeres.com · 14h

Most of why it hit so hard is that it felt like a lot of the thoughts I had reading certain fics online as a weird teen girl. I would see it from the fetishized girl protagonist's perspective, and had a lot of the same thoughts you gave her.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 14h

That is correct, Caitlin was not consenting and had very mixed feelings.

Screamy Feeres @amyveeres.com · 14h

Special shout-out to @gailsimone.bsky.social for giving Caitlin interiority as her Gen-Active body's fetishized and like, even denying her the chance to think about it on her own terms. That was the last good idea Wildstorm ever had.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 13h

HUMAN artists, use only one #art piece to convince people to unfollow you.

Butterface
Medium: photograph of the top of a tub of margarine

A hideous winking butter golem that somehow looks disturbingly like a cartoonish but fairly detailed face. It’s awful.

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Questionposting @questionposting.bsky.social · 13h

Head on!

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October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 14h

Conservative Evangelicals are really situational about considering Catholics or old mainstream Protestant denominations as REAL CHRISTIANS

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 14h

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 15h

The richest men in the world are ruining the world to become richer. They literally couldn’t spend it all and they need more. They’re murdering us all for more.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14h

Was just reminded somewhat randomly that Benjamin Franklin was happy to publish ingredients for an abortion-causing drink in 1753 and that the book (THE AMERICAN INSTRUCTOR) was in print until 1812.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 14h

A little bit of both imho

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 14h

like Moore made them basically as a way to pallet cleanse and get back to what he loved about comics after the oral enema of how working with DC went

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly the only thing I can think to do with Wildstorm is to cordon it off in its own universe and play up that it's a relic of the 90s, in the same way Grant Morrison's Shazam universe is a throwback to the Golden Age

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