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Roscoe

@roscoegator.bsky.social

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He/Him, GreyAce/Gay. Boyf of Terantic and Ehud. 🔞🏳️‍🌈. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights Are Human Rights. ACAB. Banner by DeadAnthro. Icon by Artizek.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

we need to abolish this shit

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 5d

Also every dungeon was Mythic+ (timed, deaths penalized) and you had to do ALL OF THEM and all of the Adventures and World Bosses.

Then later you could buy a skip for real money.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 8d

There was a period of time where I would laugh at LLMs fucking up cake recipes and making paint colors like "Sindis Poop".

Now AI has cost me at least one job, poses an existential threat to artists, and STILL FUCKS UP CAKE RECIPES.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 8d

This is an anti-AI post by the way. I'm just lamenting that my utopian science fiction view of the future is tainted by the harsh realities of fascism.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 8d

When I was a child, I thought that being able to generate a full animation just by writing would be neat, since I can't physically draw.

...now we have people sending Zelda Williams AI deepfakes of her deceased father and a fascist president using it to make racist memes.

Fucking monkeys paw...

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 8d

Look, if you're a young woman with supernatural powers you've been told to hide your entire life by your parental figures and you're in an animated musical, you GOTTA have the one long braid. I don't make the rules.

Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters

Elsa from Frozen

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · Apr 20

PSA FOR ARTISTS

mock PSA that reads: STOP HIDING YOUR PATREON

-Links are meant to be shared in the op
-Years of posting yet no real-world use found for hiding your patreon link in a reply
-Don't want to be shadowbanned? We had a tool for that: it was called "NOT USING TWITTER"
- "Yes please, re-type the url from this censored image" - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Artists have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with the social media sites we built for them (These are real tearms used by real artists)

SUB TO MY P SITE
alts on the You Know Where
Find more on the PAE PAE

"Hello, please support me on sxbstxr, link on this carrier pigeon"

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 9d

I was genuinely surprised to learn that Banyue was from Zenless Zone Zero. I thought he was like, Bara Zenyatta.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 10d

Well fuck, if Bsky is also going to shut, where do I go?

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Grampa Cheddar @kaporiknight.bsky.social · 13d

Jimmy the skeleton 💀🎃👻

www.newgrounds.com/playlist/406...

Jimmy the skeleton standing in the sky.... joyfully! With his Syth in hand, over his shoulder.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

TripAdvisor review that reads "A great spot with great customer service from our waiter John super helpful and nice love him (heart emoji) he gave great BJs I love him so much"

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

It makes me wonder if the whole concept of community organizations and projects has been undermined by the idea that any such organization, at least in a suburb, is inherently corrupt.

...but it's also 4 AM and I'm rambling.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

It also doesn't seem like a coincidence that HOAs, which are community run organizations dedicated to maintaining a specific neighborhood, and which can (in some cases) represent a form of collective action, are painted as the villains.

You're repeatedly shown the worst case scenario.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

I never really considered it before, but this could be right wing propaganda. Glorifying the hard working farmer and villifying the suburban wife while glossing over the fact that the farmers are often the wealthier and more powerful figures in the narrative.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

The idea of a wealthy, presumably colleges educated women moving from the coast to the countryside makes me think of a Coastal Elite vs Good Ol Country Boy narrative. A lot of these stories even mention their antagonists abusing social services and leeching off their communities via embezzlement.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

It only just occurs to me that these stories pit independently wealthy, typically male farmers against stereotypical suburban white women. Who have become a sort of societal scapegoat.

A left-leaning reader would likely assume these Karen characters are right-leaning, but there's ambiguity.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

These stories are, in the vast majority of cases, pure fiction. While HOAs can be awful (ours had two board members fight each other with metal chains as weapons), Reddit makes it seem like there is an epidemic of suburban organized crime.

Or, at least, obnoxious busy bodies.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

Often, this involves the HOA Karen doing comedically evil, almost mafia like behavior. Harassment, stealing property, physical violence...

But OP manages to turn the table through legal action or by manipulating their surprising number of resources and connections to put the HOA in its place.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

The typical pattern, if you're unfamiliar, is this.

> OP is a farmer working a plot of land that usually has been in their family for generations.
> A community with a HOA opens up nearby.
>HoA Karen (a stock character at this point) tries to get OP to join HoA. They refuse.
> Shenanigans ensue.

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 14d

This has inspired a tangent. I've been listening to a lot of Reddit stories lately (white noise during job applications), and a common theme on some channels is the whole corrupt HOA vs Farmer narrative.

I hadn't given it much thought before, but now that I think of it... Well, see thread.

🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈 @rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social · 14d

Fun Fact: Most american farmers are rich. They're millionaires. They did this on purpose! The last time under Trumpthey got million dollar bailouts they could pocket and are banking on it again!

Farm workers are poor, but most owners are VERY well off and only saw Trump as a quick rich scheme!

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 14d

This is why it's so important that US agriculture quit its "positive vibes only!" strategy and actually learn from its own mistakes.

So we can stop repeating them already.

Anyway, here's the next Egyptian cotton: Argentine & Brazilian soybeans.

mishtalk.com/economics/us...

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Terantic @terantic.bsky.social · 16d

Two biceptember pics? I mean, most folks have two arms, so...

🎨 by @thaddeuscapra.bsky.social

www.furaffinity.net/view/62451465/

Roscoe @roscoegator.bsky.social · 16d

Approaching month 5 of unemployment without seeing a single unemployment payment. 🙃

Meanwhile, the government is busy removing pride flags and disappearing people, so they can't spare a person to adjudicate my case. Yaaaaay...

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Terantic @terantic.bsky.social · 17d

Yup, just stretching. Totally not posing or flexing for his own self-satisfaction or anything.

Certainly not for anything biceptember related.

Model by @blazingifrit.bsky.social
Special thanks to @aranai.bsky.social

www.furaffinity.net/view/62434192/

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 19d

The thing about tariffs and bailouts is they appear universal but can be so specific and targeted they amount to trump going "were going to tax people who didn't vote for me and use the outrage to negotiate a bail out of people who can personally make me more rich"

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 19d

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products into the United States by other outside Countries. It is a very unfair practice, but we must protect, for National Security and other reasons, our Manufacturing process. Thank you for your attention to this matter!