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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 8h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h

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

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 2d

To whomever made the FallRim Resavr tool & included an XML file that gets saved to your desktop as a Chrome shortcut that's labeled "pom":

if your intent was to create an awkward situation for Skyrim modders when their hot professor helps them fix something on their laptop, know that you succeeded.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1h

not even last night's storm could wake them

morrowind-npcs @morrowind.zip · 1h

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

TIL your BIL is a badger mole.

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Roz 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosenkranz.bsky.social · 1d

Old Gods of Appalachia art for the spooky season

two panels drawn with a black fountain pen with some orange accents. the first one depicts a girl with red braided hair. behind her, there's a forest. in the foreground, there's a dark silhouette of a big stag. the girl says "hail, spirit". in the second panel, the girl and the stag stand face to face, the stag's antlers are amber. he says: hail, witch

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

fully expected someone to comment on the emoji for Nosferatu not being a vampire but just a guy with a mustache

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

good taste 🔥

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like i never hear people talk about it, but it's so good. i might be biased though because i adore cosmic horror above all else.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🐈‍⬛ Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
🪻 Annihilation (2018)
📺 Ringu (1998)
🩸 28 Days Later (2002)
🏚️ Hausu (1977)
🐝 Candyman (1992)
📸 The Others (2001)
💻 Kairo (2001)
🟣 Color Out of Space (2019)
👨🏻 Nosferatu (2024)

TAAAAAAHliesin 🦇🖤 @bad-m00n.from.legal · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

☎️ Scream (1996)
🐕 The Thing (1982)
🌫 The Mist
🐑 Silence of the Lambs
📍 Hellraiser (1987)
🎄 Black Christmas (1974)
🧜‍♀️ The Lighthouse
🏠 The Rental
🐦‍⬛ The Crow (1994)
🎃 Halloween (1978)

💀🗡️The Skeleton Knight🛡️🩻 @greenknight86.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

📖 In the Mouth of Madness
🔪 Halloween (1978)
🧠 From Beyond
🧟‍♂️ Evil Dead (1981)
📺 I Saw the Tv Glow
🚪 Inland Empire
👽 The Thing (1982)
🫛 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
🐐 The VVitch
🐺 Dog Soldiers

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buboplague @buboplague.bsky.social · 2d

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

agreed 💙

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 2d

he has an incredible way of conjuring vivid imagery in fewer words than most would require

i’ve never read anything in the cyberpunk genre before now, but on screen, aesthetics & atmosphere are so core to its themes. i was curious how that would translate to the written word. def not disappointed.

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how far out is the world that's coming? @mxmarkargent.bsky.social · 2d

i have read this book so, so many times and there's always some new-to-me description or turn of phrase that reminds me that, oh yeah, Gibson can fucking *write*.

Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 3d

i want to eat William Gibson’s descriptions with a spoon

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 2d

i’m on my first read through currently & this is the first book i’ve read in some time that’s sucked me in from the first page. “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white styrofoam” made me set the book down for a minute so i could fully process the image.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 2d

*Seinfeld bassline rips*

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 3d

i want to eat William Gibson’s descriptions with a spoon

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

hmmmmm

no i'm not a human indie game showing suspicious perfect teeth diagram next to pam bondi edited into the storage closet room.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 2d

To whomever made the FallRim Resavr tool & included an XML file that gets saved to your desktop as a Chrome shortcut that's labeled "pom":

if your intent was to create an awkward situation for Skyrim modders when their hot professor helps them fix something on their laptop, know that you succeeded.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

Reminder to cis people that anti trans legislation can and will also hurt you, if you’re not already motivated to care about trans rights. We need stronger state level privacy laws around medical records in a post-Roe world for abortion rights, too.

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One bill expanded San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener's "State of Refuge" law, passed in 2022. The enhanced measure would prevent other states and private entities from subpoenaing private medical records.
At least four bills directly addressed trans protections, including Wiener's healthcare and patient confidentiality measure; streamlining legal name and gender changes, anu enhanced confidentiality requirements for court records; nondiscrimination protections for health insurance plans and an insurance company mandate to offer a
12-month supply of prescription hormones; and a requirement to ensure homelessness programs remain inclusive and nondiscriminatory, combatting federal efforts to force homeless shelters to ban trans people.

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PercolatorFish @percolatrfish.bsky.social · 3d

The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 3d

me: *falls from 50 ft in the air, breaks ankle*

Elder Scrolls; “You should rest and meditate on what you’ve learned.”

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 3d

World’s oldest mummification found: smoke-dried remains from SE Asia & S. China date back 12,000 years—predating Egypt & Chinchorro, with ties to Indigenous New Guinea & Australia..

In @archaeologymag.bsky.social: archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Examples of Early and Middle Holocene human burials from southern China. This figure shows six human burials from Huiyaotian (A: M14, B: M19, C: M20) in Nanning and Liyupo (D: M23, E: M24, F: M28) in Long’an, both shell-midden sites located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. All individuals are in flexed positions, with several exhibiting hyper-flexed postures (A and E: male, B–D and F: female).

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 3d

i want to eat William Gibson’s descriptions with a spoon

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 3d

that’s so cool. if it wasn’t for the cost of higher ed here, i’d pursue a PhD no question. i genuinely enjoy school & i love learning about/discussing games beyond just playing them (or even making them).

do you know the exact degree your colleague is getting? is it game design or something else?

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