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Brianna Tipping

@auxryn.bsky.social

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Wife gal.

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 2d

My first Campaign 4 art, and as is tradition, I came up with my own takes on the characters going mostly from the in-game descriptions & vibes during the first episode as a fun character design challenge that I do each campaign

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleArt #CriticalRolefanart #fanart #bskyart

A very large illustration of all 13 of the main cast all with their reactions to Thjazi's execution. The designs are different from the canon ones, some more than others.

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 2d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 1d

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.social · 1d

i can’t stop thinking about how this bitch had neither estrogen nor filters at the end of the 19th century and still looked this good i’m so mad

haha yeah @freshfleisch.bsky.social · 2d

LOOK AT THOSE DEAD EYES when Pollitt was “out of stage costume”! if that’s not an historical trans woman, i don’t know who is

a figure from page 38 of the revised edition of “Perdurabo”, depicting Herbert Pollitt in “costume” as a “female impersonator” looking fucking unclockable, next to Pollitt “out of stage costume”, with the deadest eyes you’ve ever seen unless you have known an egg or two in your life before they transitioned

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

This is similar to how modern nation-states struggle with whether to recognize a new government. Simply acknowledging the existence of a government gives them legitimacy and power.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

A generous interpretation might say they increase stability. I would say that giving any appearance of legitimacy to monarchy is to be avoided. "All monarchs are usurpers and the children of usurpers! Bite the hand!"

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

Who would follow an upstart rebel who doesn't even have a dragon? And are you really willing to argue with an Emperor who has a dragon the size of a hippopotamus lounging behind his throne?

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

Bigger dragons tend to attach to more important people, so questions of succession might be influenced by dragon size!Even though the dragons studiously avoid politics, the presence of the dragons likely helps the incumbent leaders and thus reinforces the status quo.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

Even if people aren't particularly religious, they would still have unconscious biases. Thinking that a ruler 'just doesn't look kingly without a dragon' or thinking someone 'must know what they are talking about' just because they have a dragon with them.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine the effect is greatest in Ryukahna'i, where dragons and the Exalted One are more respected. In extreme cases, people might see the presence of a dragon as an acknolodgement of rulership by the Exalted One themself, a physical manifestation of the divine right of kings.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 1d

I have a personal headcannon about how the dragons have unintentionally affected the culture of Tuvana. Like the principle that you cannot observe something without changing it, people are affected by the dragons.

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 9d

I know I've talked about this before, but I just love this. Dragons show up when certain people are born! We don't know where they come from, or what they want, or where they go back to. All perfectly normal! It's always been this way, don't see how it could ever be different. Like our world.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jul 3

JUBILEE (Jarman, 1978)

"This is the generation who grew up and forgot to lead their lives... They were so busy watching my endless movie..."

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 3d

Why bother reading something that no one bothered to write?

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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✧𓂃𓈒*｡ﾟ Ne ｡ﾟ*𓂃𓈒 ✧ @artofne.bsky.social · 3d

"THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE OF CONTENT"

Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 3d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

Newsom has less than a week left to sign the ten queer rights bills on his desk. Keep the pressure on!!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 4d

Watch it through to the end

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5d

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

Ta.

"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing."
Nigel Farage
"[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts."
Boris Johnson
"Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary
[surplus."
Jacob Rees-Mogg
"Milei is the template."
Kemi Badenoch
"Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer."
Richard Tice

Brianna Tipping @auxryn.bsky.social · 6d

New prank just dropped.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

this is like half of r/ups now

Hi Andrew,

You have a new invoice for $63,755.71

Tariff Fee on T Shirt

Total Due: $83.27

Government Charges: $59.27
Brokerage Charges: $24.00

How to go about disputing an incorrect tariff charge?

Total Due: $82.92

Government Charges: $68.92
UPS Brokerage fees: $14.00

I’ve received 15 different duties and tariff charges for items I didn’t order.
Customer Seeking Help
The title is the crux of the issue. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve received numerous brown envelopes all charging me for duty and tariff fees associated with items that I never ordered.

The seller is somebody I’ve bought from before, but the last time I purchased from them was several months ago and my name is on the sold to slot. The “shipped to” person is someone I don’t know and the address and tracking address are both unrelated to me.

I’ve sent emails to an address given to my by the one time I was able to get through the phone number listed on the paper bill. They said the invoices will be removed in 4-6 weeks but now I’ve started receiving late fee bills on top. I’ve tried to call in again once a day, but I either get hung up on or my call drops once the wait lasts over an hour.

Any advice? I just don’t want this to go to collections or affect my credit for something I didn’t order or have any relation to besides my name being on something it shouldn’t have.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6d

this is hardly the most important piece of Diddy news today but it's pretty funny that the court sketch artist drew the Bailiff's badge as a circle A anarchist symbol

Sketch of Diddy finding out he'd been sentenced to more than 4 years in prison. Behind him is a bailiff with a circle A instead of a badge on his chest.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 6d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

A photo of Diddy

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org