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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

We're like 2 days away from Trump declaring in an EO that wearing a frog suit means you are antifa and a threat to national security

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Aviv Or @avivor.com · 1d

My fan cover for Montgomery LaMontgommery's upcoming book, finally spotlighting the most upstanding gentleman in all of Gath. THANK YOU for Wealwell @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social, @dimension20.bsky.social. He is everything I've ever wanted - nay, needed - and more.
#CloudwardHo #Dimension20

A faux book cover cartoony illustration in brown and teal tones. It shows the Cloudward Ho! cast in a heroic tableau: in the background, Olethra is happily steering the MechLeod, and Daisuke is up on a cliff, aiming a rifle towards centre frame; closer to the viewer are Van on the left, blowing her bosun whistle with tentacles a-tentacling, and Maxwell Gotch on the right, looking a bit unsure about what's happening; closer still are Monty on the left, holding his notebook and looking sagely off-frame, and Marya on the right, holding a huge wrench close to her chest and staring forlornly off-camera. And in the centre and the foreground, looking directly at the viewer, is the lithe, handsome, elegantly poised figure of Wealwell Gotch, hair golden, moustache curled, dressed in a fine teal suit and resting his hand on a katana. The top reads "Montgomery LaMontgommery", and the bottom "Where There's A Weal There's A Well".
The original designs for the Cloudward Ho! cast are by the wonderful Cait May.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 1d

I need one reporter to ask him "If you reduce the cost of a $100 medication by 500%, how much will it cost?"

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

October:

march 2016 twitter post by james isaiah muñoz jamesmunoz username: it's getting goth in here. so put on all black clothes. i am getting so goth. I'm gonna put the crow on.

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Bex 🎃 @musicgamer460.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/Ri2wNyvSpiY?...

The Mighty Nein trailer is here!!! pardon me while I go scream myself hoarse

The Mighty Nein - Official Trailer | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

youtu.be

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

A poem is an anti-capitalist machine

yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it

no, it doesn’t produce on command

the factory is closed

the worker is sleeping

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a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 2d

Good news for me, my signed first edition shiny antifa membership card has skyrocketed in value.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 2d

Super disappointed. This was a very useful tool. Hoping someone builds a replacement!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 2d

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

Sounds good but there must be a downside?

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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わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 8d

anyone who is reading this thread because they were interested and genuinely invested in this being a good product, please, treat yourself, please go buy fightmagicitems.rocks and read that instead. @aidanmoher.com thank you for being an excellent author oh my lord

Fight, Magic, Items – The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West

fightmagicitems.rocks

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 3d

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

Like I'm sorry, but the AI weirdos have DELIBERATELY created this confusion 100% so they can capitalize on the assumptions people who don't understand the difference will make.

This was the endgame of all the AI bros! no one knowing the difference!

Sorry they created this mess BUT THEY DID!

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a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 3d

Huge part of the issue right here. Blue Sky team posting through it with takes that read as contradictory or incompatible, at best, and openly combative to the concerned userbase, at worst. This site is in desperate need of a comms person who can give the team lessons in unified messaging.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 3d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3d

"we don't use your data for training AI, we just feed it to these other bozos who we don't even even provide any input on for the quality of their model or tuning for our site"

IT'S BEYOND OPTICS AT THIS POINT. HOW ARE THERE MORE RAKES

magic the gathering card art for "cast into darkness" of a man holding his head screaming

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a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 3d

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a7h13f @a7h13f.com · 3d

Schrodinger's Moderation: "Mods only have 30s to look at posts, so errors happen." AND "AI makes moderation decisions, and we're not responsible for the model"

So. Where does the buck stop again?

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 3d

Automation labeling individuals with prosthetics as “adult content” needs to be understood as ableism, full stop

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 3d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 3d

And we call this;

"Shooting yourself in the foot"

God I cannot emphasize this enough-

Hire a PR firm.

They will likely immediately tell you to backtrack on everything you've said and done, and tell you to backtrack on your guidelines, because at this point, that is the ONLY way to salvage this.

Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 4d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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