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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 2d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 2d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 2d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

putting in 70 hours a week and i'm still at the bottom of the escaping samsara leaderboards, what the fuck

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 10d

The image is a 5 panel black and white comic.

Panel 1- A person sits on a sofa chair and says "So that's how my family is. Ya know, normal stuff."

Panel 2- It cuts to a woman with a clipboard, sitting and looking very bewildered.

Panel 3- It zooms out to reveal a therapist setting, with the tow of them looking at each other.

Panel 4- The two continue to look at each other, the person in the sofa looks down.

Panel 5- The person in the sofa says "That's not normal is i-" With the therapist promptly responding with "no."

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social · 2d

There is a very good reason for the government to own Chorus: the internet is now essential to our society.
Our tax paid for a decent network, so of course the greedy now want to profit from a monopoly.

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 2d

National-led government wants to privatise core telecommunications infrastructure.

Government mulls possible sale of Chorus

The Finance Minister says with the completion of the ultra-fast broadband fibre initiative, there's no longer a policy reason for the Crown to own Chorus.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

this is very very funny, but I think my favorite part is the implication that Keanu Reeves got suckered into saying yes to a bad play

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

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Well There's Your Problem Podcast @wtyppod.bsky.social · 3d

new EPISODE about SEVERAL TRAINS that WRECKED INTO EACHOTHER with @garethdennis.uk

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Tag - leaving Bsky soon @robot-horde.bsky.social · 4d

Since I see misinformation spread about Pillowfort often, and I think it’s a great site to join if you don’t want all your social media eggs in one basket, here’s a thread debunking common misconceptions I’ve seen over the years. 🧵

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d

Teslas
🤝
Data centers

Wanting to be on fire all on their own

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 4d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

🧵

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like old Eppy is going to need a new computer monitor.

In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨

You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. 🤔

That's an interesting coincidence.

Wolfspell on a Trifold Album Jacket — Worlds Without Master

A prophecy told in your youth dictates that only fang and claw will rend your destiny, so you must be reborn as beast. The tabletop roleplaying game of adventurers who turn to wolf flesh to fulfill ...

www.worldswithoutmaster.com

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 5d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5d

And they should relocate around the country for a seasonal job that may or may not exist... And when that seasonal job ends... THEN WHAT CHRIS?!

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5d

What a staggering arrogant and tone deaf thing to say.

The approximate status quo now is that parents let their adult-teens stay at home largely rent free while they start to establish their lives.

Now the expectation is that we support them moving around the country looking for jobs?!

Stuff screenshot, with highlighted excerpt:

“If you want a job, you go where the jobs are,” [Luxon] said.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 6d

I opened the article thinking "what a ridiculous idea" but it won me over.

Having a new library as part of the Aotea Square block just seems like a stupidly sensible idea. Like, it actually belongs there, doesn't it?

Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 8d

One council candidate’s plan for this empty centre in downtown Auckland
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A plan has emerged for this empty centre in downtown Auckland

An Auckland Council candidate has backed a plan to move the Auckland Central Library to the Sky World centre.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 6d

demilypyro on tumblr: "Yall hear about this nuance stuff"

tsukinoinaba: "I've heard mixed things."

demilypyro: "Oh so it sucks then, and you hate it"

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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