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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 5h

Bedtime rapidly approaching, the progress bar in my head is fluctuating like the Windows File Copy dialog

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 10h

Never underestimate a man's willingness to try to make his insecurities your problem.

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 10h

Agh I just got current, brb going insane

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V @visceralhit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 17h

Today is for outfit picking and packing

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 18h

holographic dress

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

A classic DANGER warning sign. It has a red oval above against a black background with DANGER inside it in thick white text. Below in bold black text on the remaining white background it states "THIS MACHINE KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METAL AND FLESH. IT CHOOSES FLESH."

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 1d

This is the pettiest of complaints, but I’m sick of websites and apps removing “no” as an option. It’s been replaced by “maybe later” or “ask again later.”

I swear there is a direct line between anger about women’s consent and this and it WILL be what drives me to villainy.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 19h

I've been kicking around a theory for a while that one casual factor in... everything... is a generation or three being emotionally neglected in childhood and them making the resultant trauma everyone else's problem

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Abiotic Factor @abioticfactor.com · 1d

🗺️ 1.1+ Roadmap!
It’s here!

We’ve also put together a vlog detailing some of the roadmap, talking about our future plans, and more!

See the Roadmap here! ⬇️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...

Abiotic Factor - 1.1+ Roadmap - Steam News

We’ve put together a vlog detailing some of the roadmap, talking about our future plans, and more!

store.steampowered.com

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 1d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 1d

Tomes and Tea by Rebecca Thorne!

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 2d

not coming out until your 30s really sucks, bc you miss out on those quintessential 20s girl experiences like dating a really sweet guy who deals with the world wearing him down by getting ever more chromed up until he goes cyberpsycho and gets flatlined while saving you from a megacorp

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · Jul 13

if you're transgender, your first duty is to live. if youve got anything to give after that, your second duty is to help someone else live, because it's not easy and no one but you and I and those like us will ever understand. your third duty, if you can make it that far, is to live happily.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Sep 5

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

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Jane (JRG) @janereplygirl.bsky.social · 2d

fuck, this is painfully relatable

Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

Two-page comic about ADHD, self-doubt, and burnout.

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A person with short black hair and yellow antennae recalls lifelong struggles with effort and recognition. As a child, they cry while being scolded over homework. Later, they work hard but still fail small details and receive an “F.” When they finally succeed, they can’t enjoy it—holding a medal labeled “2,” they feel it’s luck, not skill.

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They explain how productivity fluctuates. A blue graph shows steady effort, while a pink line spikes wildly. They say, “For me, it fluctuates more extremely.” Sitting exhausted at a messy desk, they admit, “I only stop when I’m too tired to go on. The word I learned for all this was ‘lazy.’ I never learned a healthy measure or how to trust myself.”

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 2d

Every past version of you was trying to protect your truth until you could live it safely.

That’s not wasted time. That’s loyalty.

Transitioning later in life is how you repay that loyalty, by finally giving yourself the freedom you always deserved.

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 2d

One more early access Stardew-like will surely fill the howling void inside. This one is half Factorio

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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Diana @artemis-98.bsky.social · 2d

PSA: You are not an ally if you think trans kids shouldn't transition medically.

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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 2d

"people who want to have created without having to create" is dead on the mark.

No wonder techbros, and the elongated muskrat especially, are so into it.

Spider. @vaspider.gay · 2d

"AI" seems to speak to and appeal to people who want to have created without having to create. They want the plaudits and the social cachet that comes from "being an artist/writer" without the messy, revealing, difficult work.

And if you are actually an artist, the work is **the fucking point.**

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 3d

Goddamn, that is a beautiful view

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