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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 19h

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely the case. It's a mass media phenomenon, just a different mass media from what everyone else likes (which angers them to no end). The titanic chintz of the megachurch is replicated in books, movies, tv, MLMs, camps, etc. The Bible is more a source of authority than a piece of the program.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23h

Based on the interviews I've done with conservative Evangelical moms, I'd say--a lot of them aren't engaging with the Bible directly. They're reading Evangelical self-help and parenting books like Your Best Life Now and Growing Kids God's Way that selectively interpret the Bible for them.

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Logan Bonner @loganbonner.bsky.social · 19h

And even if they did take advantage, as this tweet reminded me, the Supreme Court would just say “well obviously YOU can’t do this.” bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · 19h

I'm a light novel translator with over a hundred novels under my belt, and a decent number of manga. If you're an anime fan at all you've probably seen something I've worked on, and should really read the source instead, they're always better.

Two bookshelves full of my translations.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1d

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 1d

I feel fucking great being on T so I know that’s not it. It’s possible that it’s just the same problem I’m having where there barely are any and it’s lonely? Idk but send any dudes you know my way, I’m struggling a good bit with the lonely part

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nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 1d

I need to meet some more cool trans guys. Idk if I am a trans guy but a) I’d like to look more like it and b) there absolutely must be some trans guys who are happy about it, I feel like I mostly see people being mad/depressed about it and I would like to know if that’s just normal or what

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Logan Bonner @loganbonner.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely, and the metafictional elements tie heavily to TCG and video game culture. Aaaaanyway, highly recommended, even if you just peer longingly from time to time.

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Logan Bonner @loganbonner.bsky.social · 1d

Quasi-spoiler, but Act II gave me Shandalar feels. (Not all the way, but a resonant echo.)

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Logan Bonner @loganbonner.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who just played Inscryption, have you played Inscryption?

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

If you strike me down, I shall become more dead than you can possibly imagine

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dirté @dirte.net · May 9

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Paizo @paizo.com · 2d

Are you ready to blast off into the digital universe of the Pact Worlds? Back the Epictellers campaign, Starfinder Afterlight, the new CRPG set in the world of Starfinder, live now on Kickstarter!

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@epictellers.bsky.social #starfinder #starfinder2e #ttrpg #paizo

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IGN @ign.com · 7d

Starfinder: Afterlight is a new "science-fantasy" turn-based RPG video game, based on a tabletop game, due to launch into Early Access on PC in 2026.

Check out its Kickstarter trailer:

Starfinder: Afterlight – Official Kickstarter Trailer

bit.ly

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Jan 24

reminder the two off switches in google admin settings that say they can be used to turn off gemini actually don't do what we want them to.

only way to turn it off it is to directly contact support for them to expose a secret third toggle that really turns it off. (also: it cannot help you do it 🤖)

me asking google gemini: turn off Google's AI assistant forever and don't ever turn it on again under any circumstances

it replies: I can't help with that. Do you need help with anything else?

terminator 2 movie arnold with cyborg eye saying I cannot self terminate you must lower me in the steel.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 4d

YOUNG OBI-WAN (CANONICAL):
-Dressed inappropriately for a knight
-Laser sword completely straight and boring
-No motorcycle

YOUNG OBI-WAN (CHINESE BOOTLEG):
-Absolutely looks like a guy you'd call a knight
-Laser sword all explodin' at the hilt
-Motorcycle that shoots missiles

NEED I SAY MORE???

Bootleg Chinese Star Wars comic with Obi-Wan remembering his days as a Jedi Knight in full armor on a missle-shooting motorcycle

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 8d

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.

Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5d

The Simpsons scene where Mr Burns announces that everyone who has found true love can leave early. Except he says "every country who's arrested and imprisoned a President within the past year may leave early". France, South Korea and Brazil celebrate

The one guy left alone who's not allowed to leave early, with a USA flag on him

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matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5d

"it is impossible for a few thousand men to rule over 350 million if those 350 million decide they do not wish to be ruled"
-Gandhi

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 6d

this is not true. add every cop in America together and you still do not hit the numbers necessary.

PlayfulPiano @playfulpiano.bsky.social · 6d

Quite literally everything is dependent on what state and local police will do. More than anything else.

If they join with trump, then they'll have the numbers and distribution for enforcing fascist rule.

If they don't join or even fight back, trump does not have a real chance.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

this is our cracker barrel moment

the FRIGHTENING marnix @dragom.bsky.social · 6d

WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 6d

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Gespenst @ Home @callgespenst.bsky.social · 7d

I think the biggest difference between The Internet Then and The Internet Now is how Being Mad Online used to be the one thing you could never admit to, under pain of death, and now, Being Mad Online is a whole career path with a skill tree and an ever-expanding variety of debuffs.

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