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Valery North

@valerynorth.bsky.social

1.5K followers 110 following 2.5K posts

Maker of TTRPGs, videogames, stories, music and songs. Politically some kind of participatory far-left thing. Genderfluid, bi, kinky AF (🔞). Hae/Haem. "Uncle Iroh crossed with an overexcited puppy". https://valerynorth.itch.io/

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Valery North @valerynorth.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hello new followers!

I'm a far-left kinky nerdy genderfluid Xennial 🔞

I don't follow back unless I know you already, or I have a feel for who you are and why you're following me.

✅Porn/kink, TTRPGs, video games, horror movies, mutual aid requests, calls to action, joy
❌doom, hate, "misery-porn"

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Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · 4h

Help Tasneem and her children if you can!!!

Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 5h

The Gazans are displaced and without work, aid or medical services. They rely on donations to survive day by day. A ceasefire won't change their plight.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and raise funds to make a home. And to others. ❤️

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Tasneem's youngest daughter, Alma, amongst the rubble of Gaza.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL

-RIGHT-
-NOW-

the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

Tuta @tuta.com · 6d

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Signalapp on X: We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a
catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled
opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could
spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 14h

anyways pls WISHLIST THE GAME there's gonna be a bunch of fun music and also it's just an incredibly cool game

thank u 😇

store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...

Wax Heads on Steam

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about managing a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and thei...

store.steampowered.com

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.com · 14h

everyone: wax heads is a punk game!!! 🤘😈🔥
me: ............

#gameaudio #indiedev

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SouzaGM @asouzagm.bsky.social · 5h

Just so we all know. I have until the 13th to vacate my current home and nowhere to go lined up. So, if you have good energy to spare I need it because I really don’t know what I’m going to do.

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Lolly @lollybeau.bsky.social · 5h

Halloween around the corner? Or just after some cute hats? New additions to the commission list now up!

ko-fi.com/lollybeaucro...

Lolly wearing a purple, pink and orange marble pattern crochet slouch witches hat.

Lolly wearing a red with white spots mushroom style hat with wire brim.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 13h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 7h

Good news, folks! Thanks to some VERY generous folks, we have raised enough to cover the penalty for breaking our lease! If you would like to help us cover the housing costs of two places while we move from one to the other, here's how www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-br...

Donate to Help us break our lease to move to a better place, organized by Brian Clevinger

Good news — we're moving to a better place! Bad news — we have t… Brian Clevinger needs your support for Help us break our lease to move to a better place

www.gofundme.com

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Ashley @ashleyyelhsaaa.bsky.social · 11h

What if I met my $25 goal today? That’d be cool! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
beacons.ai/ashleyyelhsa

ashleyyelhsa - Link in Bio & Creator Tools | Beacons

@ashleyyelhsa | Check out my links to (Mastodon, Sexting, Fansly.com). Subscribe to my email list.

beacons.ai

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 12h

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Winter Burrow by Pine Creek Games @pinecreekgames.com · 7h

Somehow the problems of the world seem a tiny bit smaller when you’re playing a cozy, survival game about a mouse trying to make it through the winter 😌🤍

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Traveler Farlander @twfarlan.bsky.social · 7h

GenAI is not a tool for creatives. It's for people who resent the time, effort, and collaboration of creation.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · May 21

jazz!
@juhuachai
"optimal posting times" "stagger your posts" if you see me you see me. it's in gods hands and i am not praying
7:57 PM • 02 Mar 23

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18h

Not everyone can boycott Amazon

Many disabled & elderly people are housebound and rely on it

Some medical supplies are more affordable there than anywhere else.

Instead of judging, help create networks of care.

Give rides, drop off food and meds, donate to mutual aid

Take care of each other

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 7h

LRT
“In 2017, Kenyan conservationist Dr Mordecai Ogada published the book The Big Conservation Lie, which criticised ‘white saviours’ like Goodall...Have any African conservationists received a damehood or regular well-paid speaking opportunities across the world for their work?”

Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 13h

With Jane Goodall's death last week and the Nobel Prize announcements this week, I wrote about why it's a big problem that we lionise individuals for achievements that resulted from the work of collective groups of people.

We spend too much time lionising people like Jane Goodall

Idolising people only entrenches the idea that it is spectacular individuals, not collectives, who change the world.

www.sower.world

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 1d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sorry… Scott Bakula is 71 years old!?!? How, he’s aged so fucking perfectly.

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 11h

Antifa and a transgender were in the closet burning flags and I saw one of the flags and the flag looked at me

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 7h

Im out here promoting that transgender ideology with my art. i.e., that we are awesome and beautiful and cool. And that we have special attacks with our magical musical instruments,

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 8h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

I was recently scuba diving in Indonesia and I can 100% confirm that the dick starfish are real and they actually look like this:

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 18h

My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!!

I'm finally a big 5 published author!

Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog.

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...

Gemma Amor dressed in pink holding a copy of ITCH!

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 8h

I want to shove some indie fantasy up these redditors’ noses

Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 13h

People on r/fantasy keep asking “Why is modern fantasy all so UNORIGINAL and BORING,” and I immediately assume they must not be reading, say, N.K. Jemisin or Vajra Chandrasekera or Simon Jimenez or Premee Mohamed or anything published by Neon Hemlock, and frankly that sounds like a them problem.

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iris (they) 🔞 🕳️ GOAL MET @frecksandframes.fans · 8h

it's true!! i have hella backstock right now and plenty of totes as well

julie, like boowelry @julie.alady.top · 8h

!!! did yall know @frecksandframes.fans sells a bunch of awesome hand-printed patches for your battle vests?

LOOK AT THIS HOT SHIT

gonna buy a bunch for my moto girlie crew

sstitchwitchh.bigcartel.com/category/pat...

Carabiner, T4T dog tag, T4T tea bag, and "cum + take it" Hitachi

Storefront listing for a bunch of canvas patches with those images printed on them

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