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Skulryk

@skulryk.bsky.social

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40/M from Massachusetts. Bi. Into video games, sci fi, biking, archery, photonics, quantum, lasers, and crafting. 😊

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · Jul 25

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! A few years ago I came out to myself & my wife as bisexual, but I didn't really feel comfortable being public about it. But recently I've been feeling really good about myself and realized it would be a lot of fun to be open about it, so... I'M COMING OUT AS BISEXUAL

a drawing of a cat with a bisexual flag

ALT: a drawing of a cat with a bisexual flag

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 57m

I'm thinking I'll head to HONK in Somerville today! It sounds like a good time!

honkfest.org/2025-festiva...

Schedule (2025) – HONK!

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 1h

Today's look: 🔥🔥🔥🩵🩵🩵🔥🔥🔥

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 1d

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 13d

🌎🌎🌎NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!💀💀💀

Introducing *Earth Must Die* from @danthat.bsky.social

A dark comedy adventure game featuring the voices of Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas and more

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

RTs extremely appreciated!!!! <3 <3

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 1d

I also tried on a few less conventional styles and... I really like the round ones. I may need to get some next year when my insurance lets me get another pair, they are super cute and let me feel mischievous.

Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 1d

I forgot to share, I got new glasses! They are super cute! I ended up going with two pairs, just so I could lean into different styles with accessories

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full Globe story on rising pedestrian deaths in Massachusetts. There are no quotes from safe streets advocates. Just quoting AAA in a story about traffic violence is like making Autism Speaks your only source in a story about something related to autistic people.

Fatal pedestrian crashes up sharply in Mass. last year, AAA says - The Boston Globe

The number of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. declined slightly overall from 2023, the association said.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 1d

lol @people.com didn’t hold back

PEOPLE MAGAZINE HEADLINE: Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Politician María Corina Machado After Repeatedly Saying He Wants the Award →

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow I already had the song playing in my head before I read your second post...

a silhouette of a man playing a saxophone in front of a pink and purple sky .

ALT: a silhouette of a man playing a saxophone in front of a pink and purple sky .

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 1d

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Quick post on my adventures in clay

Ceramics at The Makerspace - Spectral Diffusion

I started going to the makerspace at Lowell Makes a few months ago. It’s at Western Ave, some formerly abandoned industrial mills which have been repurposed as a cluster of...

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 1d

Ceramics class! We made mugs from Freeform clay (no wheel). It took a while because it was my first time with all of it, but it turned out pretty well! (And I gave it a lil rat!)

Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 2d

(Note; college and my career have gotten me to the point where I feel like I know what I'm talking about and can keep up with experts in their field. But I absolutely learned how to bullshit my way to appearing competent from high school. Thanks, public education system!)

Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 2d

The one skill I can really say I got from my high school (Methuen High, go rangers!) was the ability to bullshit my way through an essay and sound 'smart enough' to people. It's pretty obvious when something's GPT but mine is honest, hand spun bullshit

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

This is a bop
Know your rights.

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 2d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Protect the land that inspired this page.

A page from Kate Beaton’s “Ducks”. Five panels, in panel 1 we see Kate’s feet on the beach at the edge of the water. In panel 2 we see a wave wash over her feet. In Panel 3 we see a zoomed out image of the shoreline, beautiful and calm, wild and undeveloped, Kate is still standing at the shore, dwarfed by the landscape. In panel 4 we see Kate looking up and shielding her eyes against the sun with her arm. In panel 5 we see her perspective, a seagull crossing the disc of the sun.

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

I feel a little bad for some of them because it's not their fault that the author became a huge bigot, and I understand they're in a tough spot business-wise.

However some stores are still going all in as 'the HARRY POTTER SHIT STORE' and those I can't help but grimace at

Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

I was just in Edinburgh -- because of their history a bunch of the stores in old town have Harry Potter stuff, but I think the better ones are trying to shake that identity and showcase their other wares (while clearing out the old stock where they can because they spent a lot of money on it)

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 3d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

Anyways, if it helps, congratulations on being hot today 💖

Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

Also (something I realized while coming to terms with my own bisexuality) most men are gross. There are some that I'd find cute or hot or validating & would love a complement from, but your garden variety dude just won't do it for me the same way women do because women usually have way more style

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 4d

"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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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

blep

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for sharing good news 🩶 It's great to see the amazing things that mRNA has opened up and I'm glad to see work is continuing onwards!

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Skulryk @skulryk.bsky.social · 3d

Yes -- and ultimately the places that stick around are either VC funded, free/volunteer labor, and/or sell your data. I think mastodon is the best of the three options for smaller groups but also it leads to a rough dynamic that doesn't scale too far past 'the mods and their friends'