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BlushySpicy💖🔥 @blushyspicy.bsky.social · 1h

Melinoe and Frinos from Hades 2

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Catsukun - SHOP OPEN, COMMISSION WAITLIST OPEN @catsukun.bsky.social · 2h

New Liru design aaa she’s so cute

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Yllande @yllande.bsky.social · 1h

Truck for @ngreentail.bsky.social 🔥
Seeing your OC in so many different art styles is so inspiring! I had to draw her too. Now I'm tempted to try out some new styles myself ☺️
#TruckDTIYS

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2h

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_;
Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 1d

If someone says that something is woke or DEI, they essentially evaporate right in front of me. Nothing they say has any worth. They are simply resource consumers and noise producers.

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

Fashy Cinemasins

That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 3d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 3h

Went to a Target. Lots of PS5 hardware, zero Series X hardware in stock. A billion different colored controllers for both, though. Also I didn't realize Sony was getting behind Astro Bot with toys and stuff. They had like four different Astro Bot figures and a big $50 plush Astro Bot. Kinda neat!

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batta18th @batta18th.bsky.social · 8h

らくがきロイドさん危機一髪

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 20h

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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🅶🅸🅶🅸 @kamaniki.art · 4h

Daiwa Scarlet ✨

【rkgk oct 12/31】
#ウマ娘 #umamusume

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8h

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 19h

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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spooky birthday madds ⚰️🎃🖤 @hyakushiki0087.bsky.social · 5h

Why does anyone take Peter Thiel seriously. I have always seen him as a pretty delusional person like so many tech workers, but holy shit he's more of a moron than I thought because he can't read.

Also this is the most heretical shit I've ever read good fucking lord.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Quasimodox @quasimodox.bsky.social · 3h

Udon 2025 STREET FIGHTER & FRIENDS SWIMSUIT SPECIAL, Elena, Lily, Manon E Honda and Akuma

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Pretty Translator Sarah Moon @prettytranslator.bsky.social · 5h

wait for it...

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 6h

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
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