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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 3h

Just started playing a month ago for the first time since Overwatch 1. Givin myself some pats on the back :)

Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 3h

road to diamond when???? LOL

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 3h

Finally got around to finishing ranked placements for tank. Plat 2!! Idk the rank distribution in overwatch, and dont care toooo much. But it's just nice to have a shiny medal lol

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 5h

I need to remember to try to save up spending money in the summer, if for no other reason than I want spooky season stuff lol

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Lydia @coyoteprince.bsky.social · 6h

Incredibly charmed people were doing this nearly 100 years ago but I've also gotten this occassionally on my art and stories and it makes my day every time. Incredibly silly but the raw earnestness of it... one of the best compliments one can recieve imo

Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 12h

This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl

Tale Foundry
@TheTaleFoundry
Brainrot this, chronically online that...
Meanwhile some teenage girl in the 1930s was sending these to her faourite horror magazine:

Devil's Croft is enticing. Raggh---woof---grr---I like so very much.

If you can get me any more story-length poems like Lovecraft's Psychopompos---by all means 'gimme.'

Ah---ahaha---haw haww---chuckle!

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 5h

Cant stand bullies, but dont want to make it worse for ppl. Idk. Ugh what a start to a saturday

Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 5h

Idk how to approach seeing a bully in someone cool's comments. I replied to them calling them out but then I figured it might make it worse for the cool person? So I just deleted it and blocked and reported the bully

Appreciate any and all input from any cool ppl on how they think to approach that

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 6h

I know "block and move on", but Im so tired of bullies gdi

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 15h

Unironically, this is why every game of mtg ends when you cant draw anymore cards

Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 15h

I dont care for baseball but holy crap 14 innings and going is WILD

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

probably kinda makes your bones feel like shit when the rest of you makes them run away from a "spooky" skeleton.. so what i try to do is, when i get the chance, i also run away from guys who are just a pile of organs or empty skin flying around like a magic carpet. that way nobody feels singled out

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 19h

I'm just copying and pasting the majority of questions into the answer bubble but replacing "AI" with "Edible Sewage"

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 20h

Government survey: How can we support AI champions to own the podium? What barriers exist to uptake of AI in all areas of the economy across all regions?

Me: I strongly believe these questions are an insult to life itself

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

Also fwiw I don't watch Invincible but I hope s4 is great and that the fans are excited for it and they love it and all the creators feel absolutely awesome from now til long after release

This post was more about the "BIGGER STAKES ALWAYS" trend in general

Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

*characters GDI

Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

For media that keeps getting bigger:

"The earth may be destroyed!" Okay but it wont, and if it does then at least thats finality in an ending IG. But if the next story arc is "the hero's marriage may fall apart" well that's actually SO much more stakes! Jesus christ, even typing that feels intense

Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

Right? I cant speak to invincible (I hope s4 is good!) but after spending so much time with characters in other media, Im not engaging with it for the saviors of a city to save a country then a planet. Im engaging with it because Im invested in the charactera and their feelings

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 22h

Right? I cant speak to invincible (I hope s4 is good!) but after spending so much time with characters in other media, Im not engaging with it for the saviors of a city to save a country then a planet. Im engaging with it because Im invested in the charactera and their feelings

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 22h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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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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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 1d

But also I *really* didnt like the few matches I played of Rivals. Whole game kinda bugged me, but Im happy it found its audience! Just not my jam and I'm def not well versed in it at all lol (aside from reading the source comics ig lol)

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 1d

Like I think it's cute! In a side mode that could be lots of fun, but as the main way to play it just seems so....arcane? Convoluted? I guess it's comic accurate that way LOL

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