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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 8h

The pocket dimension of cat toys is one of life’s many mysteries!

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14h

"Autodesk acquires Blender Foundation"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

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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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 12h

Not WHOLLY unrelated to bsky.app/profile/lias...

Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 6d

Coworkers: this system is a hard-to-debug black box with a graphics component and it all behaves in inconsistent ways, nobody wants to touch it, there’s no ownership…
Me: … can I have it, that sounds fun

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 12h

Build farm-only crash

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

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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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 13h

Now the question is: can they announce the government even later on this fine Sunday night and have Lecornu step down even earlier on Monday morning tomorrow so we can beat last week’s record?

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 14h

People did it to Russia too, though it seems to be less intense these days. I’m not saying it’s an easy problem, or that safety heuristics are irrelevant, or that victims owe their aggressors kindness. But most of the peanut gallery is not victims and must do better

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 14h

I’m glad I don’t have a smartwatch because I think reading this would have registered alarmingly

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 14h

And there’s this eagerness to spread DATA about how yes the entire population is ontologically evil, which… that sits real poorly with me as well. A State committing genocide has a marked interest in proving that its population is fully onboard, this seems obvious, yet the data goes unquestioned

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 14h

The way in which some leftists meme about Israel as if it’s The One Evil Illegitimate Country makes me reaaaaal uncomfortable. There’s a classic obnoxious move in there of flattening the State with its crimes with its people with its cultures, and no small amount of antisemitism on top. It’s WEIRD

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 14h

The soundtrack is lovely and it is a tragedy the movie attached to it is not better

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 15h

… is it your first time seeing that?

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 16h

And now Act Up Paris organizes STD testing in badly ventilated rooms without masks when their president isn’t busy engaging in misogynistic harassment on here, how the turns have tabled!
(It’s pathetic, it’s embarrassing, yes we - not me specifically - have tried and the result is Extra Depression)

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 16h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 16h

Ça me déprime vraiment qu’Act Up Paris soit contre nous et que le couvent du Nord (qui est ouvertement bien à gauche et centré sur la mémoire) fasse nimp parce que y’aurait tellement à dire

Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 17h

Y’know, with all that chatter of LLM-assisted dates, I suspect those of us who are unapologetic look-we-agreed-an-ADHD-diagnosis-was-not-useful ambulatory non-sequiturs will end up defeating the algorithms yet again. Be too weird and random for weighted averages to imitate you and you’ll do fine

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 19h

It’s not like fascists EVER misunderstand the political messaging inside media, either. Famously we have no example of that happening in history. Besides, there is a direct equivalence between Good Taste and Good Politics, this is known.
(Disclaimer: posts may include sarcasm)

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 20h

Finalizing an IKEA order after a month of procrastinating and yelling at the splash prevention thingie being called KLOCKREN. Which means… exact, precise, but contains the word for “clean” so it’s just. The worst pun.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 22h

But er yeah 2020 was… a year. I’m still processing the immense trauma it caused me, being fluent enough in Swedish to understand the *exact* flavor of cruelty that was deployed while nowhere near well-integrated enough to understand why the fuck everyone went along with it with so little protest

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 22h

The only reason I eventually became fluent was that weaving school was all Swedish all the time non-negotiable. It did THINGS to my vocabulary let me tell you, I still don’t know body parts but I can talk you through setting up a warp or dying 2kg of wool no problem

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 22h

Anywoo, “definitely not a normal tourist” souvenirs from Stockholm this time:
- that plastic thing to collect peels in the sink;
- two bags of Söderblandning ‘cause I can actually tolerate tea in small amounts now and it comes in green?!
- wool insoles I couldn’t be arsed to order online

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 23h

We have some people who aren’t queer and aren’t anarchists on this beat but it’s, er, not the majority. By a long stretch. Even the few cishets in the mix are the type who wouldn’t get offended if assumed to be queer.
Which is a good sign about which side of history we’re on!

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 23h

I have no idea who’s behind the freshly started anti-covid group in Sweden - I’m hoping to find out eventually, for obvious reasons - but their latest post ends with “But what makes us queer anarchists, if not the courage to challenge norms and interrogate things?” and I am NOT SURPRISED

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

And also you are still allowed to be pissed as hell about the lack of effort others made to create accessible spaces! Odds are good you’ll find lifelong friends in doing so, even!

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

Ten frikkin’ hours of travel all in all (between getting to and fro the airport and having some wiggle room for delays) but I am HOME. Was good to be away, is very good to be back

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

And THAT is why you do not use the fabric scissors on paper

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

you can sort all crafts into ones where you do the craft and ones where your hobby is now knife sharpening

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