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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 11h

Chinchy is almost always thinking about taking up more space^^ I mean by definition, empty space is space that no one was using anyway!

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 4d

timeline cleanser

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(poster name not shown): knock knock
dismembered-jackalope: who's there
justsomeguycore: deez
dismembered-jackalope: sigh. deez who?
justsomeguycore: deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 2d

Investing in your citizens is investing in your country and economy. Who knew!

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 4d

If you don't give Azarath his PROPER paw worship, he might just decide to do it himself, regardless of the consequences to mere mortals like you!

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A furry hyena god sits in an opulent throne room, two anubis statues to each side, and licks one of his huge, soft, sweaty and musky paws. A panel in the top right shows the view from the surface of his paw, as a smaller, mortal version of himself and a human mage both run in terror from an unimaginably huge tongue on the horizon.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3d

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 3d

Because more people need the endorphins from it, the Firefox cookies comic by @astolphokitten.bsky.social

1 a man working on his computer.
2 a Fox crawls on the desk. The man says "Oh, hey Firefox! What's up?"
3 the fox leans on the computer, saying "Gotta clear your cookies."
4 the fox opens the tower and a cascade of chocolate chip cookies pour out.
5 the fox happily eats them.
6 the man says "That's a lot of cookies" to which the fox responds "yup."
7 the man asks "can I have one" as the fox keeps eating.
8 the fox hurriedly scoops up the cookies
9 grumpy, the fox says "No."
10 the fox scoots backwards holding the pile of cookies.
11 the fox falls off the desk with a "WHUMP"
12 the man leans over to ask "You okay, buddy?" to which the fox replies off frame "No. No, I'm not okay."

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Moon, Infinity Herself @veenormous.bsky.social · 3d

getting a whole castle in time for halloween can be.. difficult.
when you're this big and powerful tho, it's as easy as just claiming dibs. who's gonna stop me after all? :3

🎨: @chinchy.bsky.social
#SizeSky #bluesize #giantess #Moonvee #halloween #macro

moonvee, sporting glowing eyes, purple horns, and bat wings, looming over two towers of an old castle, wrapping her arm around one of them and saying "this is mine now~"
the full moon is shining behind her head. up in the corner, a pov shot can be seen from below, giving a view of her rear

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 3d

"Ah, man. I left my glass of ice water out too long. Now it's covered in condescension."

"Don't you mean condensation?"

"No."

THE GLASS: "It's okay, I'm used to you humans being wrong."

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 7d

Martha Kelly (@MarthaKelly3) onn twitter: "Under capitalism, it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane."

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Eriberto Betancourt @edderzz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trying to get over some art blocks so I doodled some MICE!

#anamericantail #thesecretofnimh #thegreatmousedetective #gadget #fanart

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 4d

If you don't give Azarath his PROPER paw worship, he might just decide to do it himself, regardless of the consequences to mere mortals like you!

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 7d

When out on an adventure, it's always best to keep an eye out for other, hungrier Pokemon! Woopsie!

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#furry #furryart #paws

A green pokemon is kneeled over in the grass, his butt and paws on display for the viewer and his furry belly bulging with recent prey. He holds a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Team Badge in his hand. His tongue is hanging out of his satisfied smile, as he eyes the viewer with smug, possibly still hungry eyes.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 5d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

AI: Making things way too easy for all the wrong people, and WAY more inconvenient for literally everyone else

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently, I need to watch whatever Superbowl SHE'S watching lol

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder that QT's actual full name can never be said

For one, no one but him knows what "QT" stands for. And secondly, his last name is the _entirety_ of pi. This is 100% a troll lol (1/2)

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

In "Star Trek: Voyager", the Emergency Medical Hologram is played by Robert Picardo.

This is a reference to the fact that Picard is played by Patrick Emergency-Medical-Hologramo.

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

"Excuse me, my name is (REDACTED) (REDACTED) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712- (1/∞)

Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

He figured if he was gonna become a cosmic entity, he'd have some fun with it. Everyone just acts like his full name is "QT Pi", instead. (2/2)

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder that QT's actual full name can never be said

For one, no one but him knows what "QT" stands for. And secondly, his last name is the _entirety_ of pi. This is 100% a troll lol (1/2)

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 6d

Elilum's just enjoying a nice, healthy stroll^^ It's not her fault that the planet under her paws is so fragile!

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#furry #feet

A furry Eevee girl with a huge, bare bust and massive, soft paws cheerfully stomps across the Earth. The Pokemon's footfalls crack the planet's crust and send up massive chunks of debris into the atmosphere.

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 6d

Elilum's just enjoying a nice, healthy stroll^^ It's not her fault that the planet under her paws is so fragile!

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#furry #feet

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Chinchy @chinchy.bsky.social · 6d

And no, it's not just because of that one episode.

You know the one without me needing to explain.

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