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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 1h

I can't believe Sissel invented legs

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sixteen different flavors of kauloversace @kauloversace.moe · 14h

im always saying this

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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 7h

When FFXIV did a cover of Force Your Way for the Eden raids and replaced the synths and insane drums with bland orchestration I was devastated

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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 7h

FAVORITE LINE IN IBO

INSANE QUOTE

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 8h

all of these people being like "the manager at build a bear didnt let me name my bear Charlie Kirk and wouldn't officiate a marriage between me and Charlie Kirk (bear). they must be executed" really highlights how businesses need a hard and fast "no weird shit" rule

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may ✨ 💍 honeymoon in ivalice @fawndly.bsky.social · 1d

RED LOBSTER MANAGER: ma’am you can’t just come in and take all the cheddar bay biscuits in a little burlap sack! put that down and leave at once!

NARRATOR: as the symbol glows, power courses through you. authority.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 8h

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 11h

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Jackdu @vavafle.bsky.social · 10h

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JetGrind @jetgrindfuture.bsky.social · 8d

Zeta Gundam never mentioning the Argama's kitchen but making sure you know it has a vending machine for burgers and a coffee machine makes me laugh. Bright's diet for the last 6 months has been nothing but cheeseburgers and black coffee. his greatest daily enemy is not the Titans, but his colon.

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 1d

me lately 🥲

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Y🔴⚪️🔄❌️ @yy0880yy2.bsky.social · 11h

mecha -> human
dijeh zeta hyakushiki

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 15h

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

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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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 19h

Its really short (like 3h tops), but was on a LOT of goty lists of devs last year

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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 20h

Its a bit shorter/simpler, but have you played No Case Should Remain Unsolved?

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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 20h

mostly Actual Play podcasts, shuffling between Not Another D&D Podcast and Worlds Beyond Number

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LⱯuren @hexmaniacwingy.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like pre-EW the pattern was laying breadcrumbs two expansions in advance (ishgard mentioned in 1.0, doma and ala mhigo stuff in arr, warriors of darkness in hw, the state of the empire, baldesion stuff, and more fleshing out of thavnair in sb). And yshtola began her shard experiments in 6.1..

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 1d

Bethesda RPG protagonist trying to fuck, but every time they stick it in the game engine detects that two physics objects have intersected and ragdolls them into the ceiling.

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Jane Parker 🏳️‍⚧️ ★ @playingps2.xyz · 2d

When a girl says "Here's today's login bonus!" That means she wants you to keep logging in. Follow me for more dating advice

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