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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14h

No, we can’t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one person’s opinion is that the other can’t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them

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official nikk account @nikk.ca · 23h

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

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👻🦇Sarah🧛🏻🎃 @13thgravegypt.bsky.social · 4h

PLEASE USE ALT TEXT. GODDAMN

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 6h

you think you're going to "save democracy" alongside people who don't believe other people should be treated as fully human.

one of us doesn't understand the moment, alright.

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kazoo ✨🪽 @ikazooks.bsky.social · 10h

alternate bersion for you SICKOS out there btw hashtag gender equality

the exact same drawing but alear is a woman

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 8h

Anyway here's Mihoyo promoting AI assisted game production including:

"Efficiency in Image and Material Generation
With very few materials, they can generate character model sheets + 3D models, allowing for the testing of multiple designs and their artistic outcomes."

Something to keep an eye on.

A promotional image from Mihoyo for "AI Job Openings" that explains "in the world of Honkai we have always believed that AI can create infinite possibilities"

Examples of 2D artwork and 3D models that demonstrate how the AI would allow them to see how models would appear when translated from one to the other

An example of the Honkai Star Rail mascot Pom-Pom chatting to the playing using AI technology

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Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

@alecrobbins
i think as a rule in video games if you see an old photo instead of it being in black and white it should be in N64 graphics

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 8h

their definition seems to be that bisexuals in "straight" relationships have ~passing privilege~ and "don't live a queer life" so they don't count as queer

you know, biphobia 101

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Jacq 🏳️‍🌈🍉Emergency Comms @jacqjohnsonart.bsky.social · Sep 12

Erenville Sketch from last year.~ 💛✨

|| #art #digitalart #sketch #ffxiv #erenville #viera #fanart #pinup #illustration ||

Erenville from FFXIV, pulling off his shirt as if to take it off. He has dark brown/gray skin, black/blue hair, and yellow eyes.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 8h

oh, so they don't believe that women should be tortured and forced through miscarriages, just that they shouldn't have control over their own bodies? cool, bully for them

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 8h

ah, there it is.

the democratic party truly cannot ever fail, only be failed.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 8h

that's a no, then, you're not going to answer.

good talk.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 8h

fascism will not be defeated by restoring the status quo that gave rise to it.

trump is not an aberration.

he is the logical endpoint of a decades-long trajectory.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 8h

you cannot meaningfully oppose fascism, which is founded on hatred and scapegoating of the "other", while buying into hatred and scapegoating of certain "others".

i would have thought this was obvious.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

i don't believe not voting is a good choice.

i believe that it is an *understandable* choice and that it is a failure of politicians, not of voters who feel unrepresented. i believe demanding better of politicians is vastly more constructive than vote scolding.

now can you answer my question?

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

"socially conservative" people of any affiliation do not have any place in an anti-fascist coalition. full stop.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

what imperfections are we talking?

come on, be specific.

what "imperfections" do democratic politicians have that it is oh so unreasonable to be repulsed by?

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k-aaaarrrrggghhhhh!!-tie spalding @supermathskid.bsky.social · 14h

fascism trojan-horsed its way into power by talking about "freedom of speech" and it's trojan-horsing its way out of being opposed by talking about "big tent politics"

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

earning votes is literally a politician's job.

it's not the voters' fault if they suck at their jobs.

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

yeah sorry i guess i'm biased by being one of the trans people his party have done their absolute damnedest to strip of human rights but any good he's done feels very "but other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play" to me

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

and if you expect trans people to simply accept their oppression, to vote for their own oppression, to save everyone else from reform? yeah, no. get fucked.

Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 9h

how, precisely, do you think reform are going to "make things worse" for trans people than the party that have been flagged for genocidal intent against trans people by the lemkin institute for genocide prevention?

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 11h

i somehow can't find it in me to care what he's tweaked around the edges during the scant periods he hasn't been busy persecuting the vulnerable and stepping on rakes

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 11h

well, if you want to have a functional nation that doesn't shit on vulnerable minorities incessantly, nationalistic chest-thumping is most certainly not the way to get there

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Lapideus✨ @lapideus.myatproto.social · 11h

biphobia and transphobia, name a more iconic duo

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