Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
Costume technician and tabletop gaming writer (Cyberpunk: Red, Curseborne). She/They, queer, American-Chinese.
My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.
PS: Hook'em Horns.
My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.
PS: Hook'em Horns.
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Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Hi, folks. I see Faine Greenwood reskeeted my cheese mite monk drabble. If you're new to this bluesky account note that I have a weirdass sense of humor and consider male pregnancy a valid way to solve demographic mathematical issues in grimdark settings where developers don't do maths properly.
Ah I finally got a picture of Garbanzo and Beancat so people can better compare sizes.
February 8, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Ah I finally got a picture of Garbanzo and Beancat so people can better compare sizes.
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the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers
February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers
Since a few of you are enamored of my cat Bean, here's a comparison of his kittenhood to his adult size.
February 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Since a few of you are enamored of my cat Bean, here's a comparison of his kittenhood to his adult size.
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I recognize that it's basically the same thing, but lil baby Jesus stuck in your savory spinach dip ring for Mardi Gras is still wrong.
February 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I recognize that it's basically the same thing, but lil baby Jesus stuck in your savory spinach dip ring for Mardi Gras is still wrong.
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IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
February 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
I have two problems with the cats. One: any attempt at putting up a cat tree is foiled as Beancat breaks cat trees with his mighty buttbutt.
Two: Fucklet is an escapist and makes breaks for the outside world every time we open the door to get deliveries or whatnot.
So I built a cat cage.
Two: Fucklet is an escapist and makes breaks for the outside world every time we open the door to get deliveries or whatnot.
So I built a cat cage.
February 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I have two problems with the cats. One: any attempt at putting up a cat tree is foiled as Beancat breaks cat trees with his mighty buttbutt.
Two: Fucklet is an escapist and makes breaks for the outside world every time we open the door to get deliveries or whatnot.
So I built a cat cage.
Two: Fucklet is an escapist and makes breaks for the outside world every time we open the door to get deliveries or whatnot.
So I built a cat cage.
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Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
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How depressing is it when you’re like the only department in the US government that’s trying to keep citizens alive?
If you bought a new TV for the Super Bowl, make sure you anchor it to the wall.
February 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
How depressing is it when you’re like the only department in the US government that’s trying to keep citizens alive?
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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A lesson I’ve learned as a Black dev is that when folks tell us to go do our own thing if we don’t like what‘s available, it’s based on the assumption we can’t so we disappear.
When we actually do it, it pisses off bigots because they’re faced with the reality they aren’t as good as they thought
When we actually do it, it pisses off bigots because they’re faced with the reality they aren’t as good as they thought
Rudy demos Blacksky-only posts right at the beginning of Black History Month, and a bunch of non-Black ATProto devs get mad at the way he implemented it?
Yeah that tracks
Yeah that tracks
February 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
A lesson I’ve learned as a Black dev is that when folks tell us to go do our own thing if we don’t like what‘s available, it’s based on the assumption we can’t so we disappear.
When we actually do it, it pisses off bigots because they’re faced with the reality they aren’t as good as they thought
When we actually do it, it pisses off bigots because they’re faced with the reality they aren’t as good as they thought
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One of the most notorious transphobic clinicians, Paul McHugh, who shut down the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins, also covered up the crimes of pedophiles under his care. Source: m.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/au...
Yet, none of this ever seemed to set off red flags for people citing him!
Yet, none of this ever seemed to set off red flags for people citing him!
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
One of the most notorious transphobic clinicians, Paul McHugh, who shut down the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins, also covered up the crimes of pedophiles under his care. Source: m.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/au...
Yet, none of this ever seemed to set off red flags for people citing him!
Yet, none of this ever seemed to set off red flags for people citing him!
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Anti-trans sexologist Ken Zucker once did a study where he had his students rate how attractive trans youth were compared to cis youth, the average age of the trans girls being rated by their attractiveness was 8!?
EIGHT YEAR OLDS, DUDE!!!
And this creepy old fuck was treated like an expert!
EIGHT YEAR OLDS, DUDE!!!
And this creepy old fuck was treated like an expert!
a man with a beard and sunglasses is sitting at a table in a classroom .
Alt: a man with a beard and sunglasses is sitting at a table in a classroom .
media.tenor.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Anti-trans sexologist Ken Zucker once did a study where he had his students rate how attractive trans youth were compared to cis youth, the average age of the trans girls being rated by their attractiveness was 8!?
EIGHT YEAR OLDS, DUDE!!!
And this creepy old fuck was treated like an expert!
EIGHT YEAR OLDS, DUDE!!!
And this creepy old fuck was treated like an expert!
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Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.
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An FBI witness recounts Justice Thomas raping a 4 or 5-year-old girl.
Have reviewed thousands of documents from the Epstein Files.
I have located one and only one Black child rapist, a sole Black child abuser,
amidst the entire avalanche of disgustingness:
Justice Clarence Thomas.
Zero surprise there. Gross.
I have located one and only one Black child rapist, a sole Black child abuser,
amidst the entire avalanche of disgustingness:
Justice Clarence Thomas.
Zero surprise there. Gross.
February 7, 2026 at 2:04 PM
An FBI witness recounts Justice Thomas raping a 4 or 5-year-old girl.
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Mike Pondsmith is a great guy and a long time friend. Definitely a creative powerhouse. He and I bonded while waiting to testify in a murder trial in Savannah, GA; and I always enjoy getting to chat with him when the opportunity arises.
So it's Black History Month and that means I think it's a good time to get familiar with Mike Pondsmith, if you're not already.
When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world.
Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him.
cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...
When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world.
Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him.
cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...
Mike Pondsmith
Michael Alyn Pondsmith (born April 14, 1954[citation needed]) is an American roleplaying, board and video game designer. He is the founder of R. Talsorian Games and the creator of the acclaimed Cyberp...
cyberpunk.fandom.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Mike Pondsmith is a great guy and a long time friend. Definitely a creative powerhouse. He and I bonded while waiting to testify in a murder trial in Savannah, GA; and I always enjoy getting to chat with him when the opportunity arises.
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Humans: we like dumplings, bbq, and telling people about neat animals we saw in the woods one time.
February 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Humans: we like dumplings, bbq, and telling people about neat animals we saw in the woods one time.
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NYC uses goats to clear weeds in some parks, they get a welcoming parade and everything
This is the future that (Texas) liberals want: taxpayer-funded goats clearing invasives from public parks & restoring the health of native prairie.
Dallas hires 300 goats to clean up White Rock Lake and yes, they’re very baaa-sy
As part of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department’s new eco-friendly vegetation management project, the city is using Fort Worth-Weatherford area goats and...
www.dallasnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
NYC uses goats to clear weeds in some parks, they get a welcoming parade and everything
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Did I just read people talking about making a roux is hard? It is the basis for white gravy in the south and my grandmomma taught me to make a white roux when I was 5 except it was just the first step to making gravy.
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Did I just read people talking about making a roux is hard? It is the basis for white gravy in the south and my grandmomma taught me to make a white roux when I was 5 except it was just the first step to making gravy.
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This library sounds amazing - I didn't even know we had such a gem right here in Cambridge.
Cooperation Jackson is absolutely the right home for it. Help them relocate the books if you can!
Cooperation Jackson is absolutely the right home for it. Help them relocate the books if you can!
an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there.
blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...
My beloved Lantern Library | willowbl00
blog.bl00cyb.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This library sounds amazing - I didn't even know we had such a gem right here in Cambridge.
Cooperation Jackson is absolutely the right home for it. Help them relocate the books if you can!
Cooperation Jackson is absolutely the right home for it. Help them relocate the books if you can!
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In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc.
A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.
A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.
Meet the Minneapolis Punks Fighting ICE
People in the DIY music scene are using the community organizing tactics they learned by putting on shows to battle ICE.
www.rollingstone.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc.
A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.
A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.
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i'm waiting for NATO member states to realize that black-bagging like a dozen rich freaks could do wonders for the whole geopolitical situation
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 AM
i'm waiting for NATO member states to realize that black-bagging like a dozen rich freaks could do wonders for the whole geopolitical situation
Both cats are still very much enamored with the cat cage.
It's like kids thinking they're in heaven when their parents hand them the Switch Lite, but they don't really realize it's because their parents have given up parenting them for the next half hour and just want them out from underfoot.
It's like kids thinking they're in heaven when their parents hand them the Switch Lite, but they don't really realize it's because their parents have given up parenting them for the next half hour and just want them out from underfoot.
February 7, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Both cats are still very much enamored with the cat cage.
It's like kids thinking they're in heaven when their parents hand them the Switch Lite, but they don't really realize it's because their parents have given up parenting them for the next half hour and just want them out from underfoot.
It's like kids thinking they're in heaven when their parents hand them the Switch Lite, but they don't really realize it's because their parents have given up parenting them for the next half hour and just want them out from underfoot.
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TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Protest - acatusa.com
Volunteers Needed We are looking for volunteers to help check firearms and to help close off roads during the march, If you would like to help without needing to carry a firearm, contact us now by ema...
acatusa.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
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nazi bitches get kicked out of bars
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:48 PM
nazi bitches get kicked out of bars