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Punished Birb

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Assistant Writer on protoViolence | Professional Garbage Connoisseur™ | icon by @altermentality.bsky.social | https://fbfishslap.carrd.co/ #oc / #art / #fanart

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Punished Birb @fbfishslap.bsky.social · Oct 19

i worked on this!!! you should play it!!! it's quite good!!!

🌵🌺 mado 🌺 🌵 @madocactus.itch.io · Oct 17

📺🔬protoViolence📺🔬

Can a scientist save a test subject from her life’s work?

A cinematic drama visual novel and a prequel to malViolence.

👇Get it FREE👇
🔬 store.steampowered.com/app/2675850
📺 madocactus.itch.io/protoviolence
🔬 jastusa.com/games/mado002

#games #violenceseries #protoviolence

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

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

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 7d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Punished Birb @fbfishslap.bsky.social · 9h

I’m always very mixed about this kind of thing because I’ve played on other petsites where it’s so much easier to change up your look and there’s not quite the same status symbol vibe because of that, but like. I do feel like some colors should be rarer than others? Like Eventude sub 1 mil is WILD

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 19h

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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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Cassius ⭐ @kled.bsky.social · 1d

The tumblrinas are always so right

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 15h

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

trib.al

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Baby Billy Blackfyre @babybillybfyre.bsky.social · 1d

They're saying they want to drop Corncob TV because we showed over 400 naked dead bodies on our show Coffin Flop. If you love Corncob TV shows, it's time to tell Spectrum, "No."

Tagging @socialistdogmom.bsky.social because WLG doesn't have a page...yet?

Screenshot of Spotify page for Weird Little Guys podcast episode titled "George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop"

When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well...

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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 6d

yuri lowenthal voicing 40 different npcs in the same game

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Punished Birb @fbfishslap.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t know anything about Xenosaga but if my timeline is anything to go by, it’s about Shion Uzaki getting romanced by more and more robot women. Crucifixions are somehow involved

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Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 2d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Punished Birb @fbfishslap.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been reading Steel Ball Run for the first time alongside the Viz translation’s releases, and even knowing a lot about SBR through osmosis, it’s been so delightful experiencing it fresh. I had no idea it took 25 chapters for the corpse parts to even show up. That’s over two years in!

First page of Steel Ball Run chapter 25, discussing a map owned by the saint who buried Jesus

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👑TTTTTsd👑 @tttttsd.bsky.social · 10d

YO this is JAKE, legendary Kliff player in +R who has a combo named after him. That's my GUY right there!!!

Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 10d

this japanese blogger is so hype for the english language release of fantasy moon wars that they translated their past blog about the game for fans abroad

Everyone, please get to know the super great game: "Fantasy Maiden Wars"｜JAKE

Hello, world. I'm Zyake. I'm born and raised in Japan, and just your average video game nerd. First and foremost, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for opening this page. And if you can...

note.com

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · 3d

now is a good time to call your 🇺🇸reps about the age verification data leak on discord: www.theverge.com/news/792032/...

and payment processors on censorship and overreach: screenrant.com/manga-planet...

linking new developments so that you have something recent to bring up in your calls💥📣

boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · Aug 5

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 2d

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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maezanilla @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“This two-handed soldier’s sword was huge and aberrant and frankly malicious, and utterly your responsibility.”

A drawing of Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb series, dressed in hospital clothes while hugging a glowing two handed sword and crying, her gaze a little lost.

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Bayleaf 🍃 @iceghost.bsky.social · 1d

Little Nico ink for warmup

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cozy milly 🥀 @mischiefmilly.bsky.social · 2d

no talk me i'm pervert

A screenshot of an enemy called Forgiven Perversion, which is standing in the corner of the room facing the wall akin to the "don't talk me angy" cat meme

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Kdin Jenzen | 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Woman Voice Actress & VTuber! @kdinjenzenvo.com · 1d

It's like watching a wlw nature documentary.

(@hoshizoralone.bsky.social's stuff is always so good <3)
[All voices by me~]

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JAKE @guiltyjake.bsky.social · 1d

To everyone reading this right now.
I'm JAKE.
I'm the Japanese person who recently published this article and promoted it on Twitter (X).
note.com/guiltyjake/n...

This article introduces Fantasy Maiden Wars, an amazing game I absolutely love.

Everyone, please get to know the super great game: "Fantasy Maiden Wars"｜JAKE

note.com

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台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 1d

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 1d

I've been loving seeing people look up non-social media sites of artists they love and learn stuff they didn't know, or that they can support the artists soon on tours/events! Copy me and pitch the same idea to your people. It's never been more "fuck platforms", let's find and bookmark REAL websites

2 Mello @2mello.net · 2d

Let's do a web search exercise. Think of your favorite artists and creators and find their NON SOCIAL MEDIA links--websites, stores, blogs--then share them in the replies. Also your own if applicable. Then bookmark their website/subscribe to them directly if you haven't. Let's get really connected.

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