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@thelionthing.com

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Am cat ♂, Single, hella tall, 35, Seattle, 🏳️‍🌈, makes music, says “dude,” occasionally posts NSFW stuff, release the Epstein files

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · Oct 18

I’m facing back to front
Over my shoulder at the sun
And it’s an open door
End of my line of sight once more

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 5h

Me af lol

12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 16h

On the bright side that’s a pretty great number js

12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 17h

Big ass energy is a thing 🍑

12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 17h

Mood

12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 22h

Drake stans, kpop stans, Swifties, Xbots and Sony Ponies, Apple/Android fanboys, Mac/PC diehards, and MAGA

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I heard someone on a podcast say that music is boring now and, look, I am saying this as kindly as I can…skill issue.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 2d

Not gonna lie, that was a factor in me leaving xD

Wanted something other than “still too hot”

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Maddivv0 @maddivv0.bsky.social · 2d

Holding hands 🌁

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 2d

Adorable, I’ll join!

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Gib @leohariart.bsky.social · 2d

🐾LEOHARIART Sticker giveaway!🐾

General rules:
Only furry characters.
Won't draw genitals but suggestive poses are ok!
No backgrounds.
I need some artistic liberty in posing. I will only allow 1 major pose change in the sketch phase.

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 3d

Both great bands! Looks like fun!

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Valuto 🍅 🐉 @valuto.bsky.social · 9d

if you have any money to spare and want to help me with recooping costs after surgery. (Work is cutting my hours due to medical leave) I would greatly appreciate any help. Thank you www.paypal.com/paypalme/sta...

Pay Samuel Wilkins using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/Staragon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 4d

As a fellow tall boy

With great power comes great responsibility 🙂‍↕️

12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 4d

Dude Bluesky’s gotten pretty bad lately. And as usual black and trans people are taking the brunt of it.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 5d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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🌯TOAN🌯 @yoinomachi.bsky.social · 4d

made a fluffy thing

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RAWR @slushedhyena.bsky.social · 4d

When the moon is full

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 4d

True ally, hyping up his bro

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Jo Mama @mewvore.bsky.social · 4d

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 4d

I’m in the same boat bro. Feels like I’m just a completely different person sometimes and it makes me miss the old me.

Life do be lifing tho. We’re growing, we’re changing, we’re adapting. Just gotta hang on to the promise that the puzzle pieces will click again.

12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 5d

The worst is when I get in the drive thru line because it looks short and THEN it decides to take 45 minutes, when cars are behind me and I can’t get out 😭

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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12 🏳️‍🌈 @thelionthing.com · 6d

Serval, ocelot, caracal imo. Maybe puma

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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