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Kevin James @kevinjames.bsky.social · Aug 29

A BRAND NEW episode of Camp Computer Games hits next week, with special guests @mingdoyle.bsky.social and @emmycic.bsky.social!

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Aug 25

I honestly thought they were so blatantly stupid that it was obvious they were fake but whoops

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Aug 25

@doodley.org sorry about my Aladdin smears. I had no clue they got around the internet that much!!!!!!

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kc g reen @kcg.bsky.social · Mar 31

That Ios TiF sticker app is still on the iOs store and can be bought and downloaded for 2$ and give u access to many more stickers to come apps.apple.com/us/app/this-...

‎This Is Fine: Stickers

‎Bring your thoughts and emotions to life with this customizable

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Mar 29

I laugh at his pain because I have empathy for other people.

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Mar 29

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley) @joshcrowley.bsky.social · Feb 28

I’m not necessarily saying humans are too dumb to be worthy of our spot at the top of the food chain but I will say that if there were 100 gorillas and one gorilla took 55% of all the bananas the other gorillas would beat that gorilla to death with their bare hands.

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onion person @junlper.beer · Feb 25

these rightwingers get bored fast because all they know how to do is be mad online and say evil shit, and there’s only so much being mad online and saying evil shit especially if your targets all leave your space

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · Feb 25

the abandoning is working, the nerds thirst 🙏

Paul Graham @paulg •2h
Twitter seems a bit impoverished now that so many leftish users have fled. They may have been wronger on average about politics, but they were more interesting on average about other topics.

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 11

Everyone hates this. Figure out how companies used to do this before AI existed in this form

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 8

And yeah our system fucking sucks for allowing this in the first place

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 8

This is not the norm. This is very scary and unusual

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 8

I literally don’t understand the motivations for any of this. Do republicans not fear Alzheimer’s? I can’t even see a revenge to democrats angle to this. No one benefits. I’m so hurt and confused every day

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Feb 8

Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases.

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets

Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

www.nytimes.com

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 4

😌

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 4

Omg I love Detroiters. I didn’t know this lol

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · Feb 1

the doorman

A digital drawing of a bird-like anthropomorphic creature walking through a golden magical doorway. He wears a yellow and orange Pierrot style costume. Behind him is a magical purple and pink background. He carries a red and pink magical gemstone in his left hand. Around his waist is a belt with some small bags and a dagger.

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Feb 1

Loool

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Jan 31

Emmy-coded characters. Last one up for debate

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Jan 31

I’m so sorry. If you ever want to talk I’m here

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Jan 31

🤌🤌🤌👍👍👍👍

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · Jan 30

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected.

(Read more: The Verge)

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jan 30

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Emmy Cicierega @emmycic.bsky.social · Jan 30

You don’t understand. these are my favorite

SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · Oct 15

VSTARS THREAD!!

Fighter - Orion

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · Jan 29

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses

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