Iks, Ikster, Iks, Iks, Iks
@iksterror.bsky.social
One of those weirdos from Twitter :p
Happy Lunar New Year, y'all! It the year of the fire horse IT MA BOI ROY MUSTANG'S YEAR, OYEAHHHH!
a close up of a person 's face with a sword in his hand .
Alt: a close up of Roy Mustang, lighting up a cigarette lighter
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Happy Lunar New Year, y'all! It the year of the fire horse IT MA BOI ROY MUSTANG'S YEAR, OYEAHHHH!
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Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.
February 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.
NGL, the Knetz vs SEA (and prolly the rest of the world by CNY) over at the bad place had kept me entertained while stuck in bed with FluB
I love our SEAblings 🥲
I love our SEAblings 🥲
February 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
NGL, the Knetz vs SEA (and prolly the rest of the world by CNY) over at the bad place had kept me entertained while stuck in bed with FluB
I love our SEAblings 🥲
I love our SEAblings 🥲
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anyone looking for cute stickers for valentine’s?
February 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
anyone looking for cute stickers for valentine’s?
Nice, felt like I was getting better yesterday so ofkos I gotta feel like shit today 😩
C'mon, lemme be done with being sick edi 😭 😭 😭
C'mon, lemme be done with being sick edi 😭 😭 😭
February 14, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Nice, felt like I was getting better yesterday so ofkos I gotta feel like shit today 😩
C'mon, lemme be done with being sick edi 😭 😭 😭
C'mon, lemme be done with being sick edi 😭 😭 😭
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New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
The Art of Haunting
The email was innocuous enough. A woman wrote to me explaining how her partner had been talking about my work and how much he’d enjoyed it—in particular, he’d remembered me giving a TEDx talk about gh...
www.vqronline.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
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To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them
February 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them
Muscleaches from FluB is horrible enough but y'know what's worse?
Period cramps with FluB 😭😭😭😭😭
Period cramps with FluB 😭😭😭😭😭
February 13, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Muscleaches from FluB is horrible enough but y'know what's worse?
Period cramps with FluB 😭😭😭😭😭
Period cramps with FluB 😭😭😭😭😭
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"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."
I'm honestly speechless.
I'm honestly speechless.
![Examining the bodies returned to their people after the most recent so-called ceasefire, Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies “the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw—and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken.” Organ procurement, with few exceptions like skin and cornea, requires that the body be either alive—via brain death—or just-dead—via circulatory death. It is plausible that some Palestinian prisoners’ torture led to brain death. It is also possible their torturers felt no need to wait. Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs. The transplant surgeon waits for a person to die; the soldier can’t. The settler surgeon wields his mastery over the body to serve the state. Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreiesvmsm3hrmrwxi7d7wvuaxc7u7oovqonpx2tdpxdnjhlgxh7lhni@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."
I'm honestly speechless.
I'm honestly speechless.
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We know how LLMs work. They take the information of your prompt then procedurally associate words based on statistical term proximity extracted from a received corpus. But their boosters are telling us that they're thinking, which means they think this is what YOU are doing when you are thinking!
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
We know how LLMs work. They take the information of your prompt then procedurally associate words based on statistical term proximity extracted from a received corpus. But their boosters are telling us that they're thinking, which means they think this is what YOU are doing when you are thinking!
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Please also read the amazing work of @munira.bsky.social on the SE Asian human trafficking pipelines that are re-routed to the #Russian army press gangs.
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
Southeast Asia’s Mercenary Pipeline
Russia is recruiting increasing numbers of fighters from the region, using deceptive practices pioneered by Southeast Asia-based online scam operations.
thediplomat.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Please also read the amazing work of @munira.bsky.social on the SE Asian human trafficking pipelines that are re-routed to the #Russian army press gangs.
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
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Investigative collective @aeowinpact.bsky.social investigates networks recruiting African fighters for the Russian war in Ukraine. It publishes a list of recruits and those who have died at the front, to enable families who have not heard from their loved ones to take action.
@bellingcat.com
@bellingcat.com
The Business of Despair
Singular Stories Their names are Serge, Nabil, Samuel, and Eric, and they come from different countries on the African continent. What they have in common is they fight as foreign soldiers in the R…
alleyesonwagner.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Investigative collective @aeowinpact.bsky.social investigates networks recruiting African fighters for the Russian war in Ukraine. It publishes a list of recruits and those who have died at the front, to enable families who have not heard from their loved ones to take action.
@bellingcat.com
@bellingcat.com
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“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.”
This report destroyed me
This report destroyed me
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.”
This report destroyed me
This report destroyed me
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I particularly appreciate the commentary about how prominent codpieces are more historically accurate than boob armor.
Bikini Armor Battle Damage did a post on it at least.
Does this work? Tumblr is weird on mobile...
Does this work? Tumblr is weird on mobile...
Bikini Armor Battle Damage
I dedicate this reblog to all the nerdbros who conflate "historical accuracy" with "no women, queerness and people of color" and "white men with swords looking boring and serious". Reality is so much....
bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM
I particularly appreciate the commentary about how prominent codpieces are more historically accurate than boob armor.
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Now why does that sound so familiar?
February 11, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Now why does that sound so familiar?
SMH why want grape soda nao 😭
February 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
SMH why want grape soda nao 😭
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What a cruel slap in the face to the thousands of refugees who already applied for citizenship and have been told just this week of a retroactive change of policy which means they are not yet eligible.
#speirghorm
#speirghorm
February 11, 2026 at 7:32 AM
What a cruel slap in the face to the thousands of refugees who already applied for citizenship and have been told just this week of a retroactive change of policy which means they are not yet eligible.
#speirghorm
#speirghorm
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Well, FML 😭😭😭
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Well, FML 😭😭😭
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when he shows even the slightest modicum of interest in me
February 10, 2026 at 1:58 PM
when he shows even the slightest modicum of interest in me
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Here's my analysis in The Diplomat on RU's exploitation of SEA labour migration networks, following news of Filipinos being sent to the frontline to die. I made the point to distinguish trafficked fighters from actual mercenaries and explored diplomatic constraints.
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
Southeast Asia’s Mercenary Pipeline
Russia is recruiting increasing numbers of fighters from the region, using deceptive practices pioneered by Southeast Asia-based online scam operations.
thediplomat.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Here's my analysis in The Diplomat on RU's exploitation of SEA labour migration networks, following news of Filipinos being sent to the frontline to die. I made the point to distinguish trafficked fighters from actual mercenaries and explored diplomatic constraints.
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
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Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
TIME Magazine Reveals Special Edition Pokémon 30th Anniversary Covers.
TIME Magazine Reveals Special Edition Pokémon 30th Anniversary Covers
Ho-oh my
www.nintendolife.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
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Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition
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Israel is going to start hanging Palestinians who are held without charge or conviction by the push of a button.
Not a news headline in sight. The world is silent. Fuck the Super Bowl.
Not a news headline in sight. The world is silent. Fuck the Super Bowl.
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Israel is going to start hanging Palestinians who are held without charge or conviction by the push of a button.
Not a news headline in sight. The world is silent. Fuck the Super Bowl.
Not a news headline in sight. The world is silent. Fuck the Super Bowl.
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