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Lavaita

@lavaita.bsky.social

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I work with sound and music. I sometimes play TTRPGs. She/her

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · Nov 21

I never did an introductory post here, and the number of people here has increased dramatically lately, so…

Hi! I used to be on Twitter )and other sites). I'm using a fake name now for some semblance of anonymity which I'm likely to mess up as soon as I promote something with my real name on it.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 4d

Burglar says asking occupants for use permission would 'kill' the housebreaking industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 5d

I'd bet that's a name that came from a large-language model.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 5d

I keep telling them: direct your complaints to the labour party. "reform would be worse" isn't an argument when trans people, migrants etc. are already getting reform policies thrown at them by labour.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 6d

You did good work on this one.

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Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 7d

She hath risen.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 7d

I also did some music for this: soundcloud.com/lavaita/huck...

Huckleberry

Opening music for a Twitch stream of this weird/ wyrd west TTRPG game

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 7d

I'll be one of the players on this - it should be a fun time! #TTRPG #ActualPlay

Marc | The Cthulhu Kid @talesofmythandmayhem.com · 8d

Tonight we are playing Huckleberry from @huckleberryrpg.com! An amazing game which will launch its Backerkit crowdfunding campaign on the 7th of Oct. Join us over on twitch.tv/TalesOfMythA... @ 10pm CET for the chance to win a pdf of the game AND an awesome addon should you back it!

Background: A blue-ish western landscape with a bright full moon.
Foreground: A group of people (l-r) a masked person holding knives, a native american person with flaming arms/wings, a crouching muscly bison headed person, a red devil in a wide brimmed hat with a pistol, a heavily steam punk augmented woman.
Logos: Tales of Myth & Mayhem, Huckleberry: A Wyrd West RPG
Text: Saturday 4pm CST, 9pm BST, 10pm CET

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 11d

StealthMountain was fairly exclusively about sneaky peaks and sneak peaks. Maybe someone else had a bot for pedal / peddle?

Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes I miss accounts like StealthMountain on the oldsite which would call people out for saying "sneak peak" instead of "sneak peek."

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 12d

Happy birthday to the only TV show to predict that in the future some people would communicate using only reaction memes

Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 12d

happy 30th birthday to one of the best TNG episodes ever, Darmok 💕

Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 2 "Darmok" depicting Captain Picard and alien captain Dathon on the forest planet El-Adrel. They are both holding small knives and looking off-screen with intrigue.

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 14d

Fa ri do la si ma net, on the feast of Stephen…
(it's only thirteen weeks until St Stephen's day - I'm sure I won't be the only person to make this link with Silksong).

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Cesena is scary or something, who cares🕷️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @thelibraryces.bsky.social · 17d

Just found a bullet casing with "How do you keep an FBI agent busy? Turn over" engraved on it, and then the exact same thing was engraved on the other side, and now my FBI agent is stuck in a loop.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 17d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 18d

If you see this, post a concert pic you took.

Peter Gabriel, inside a Zorb ball whilst performing the song Growing Up in Brussels Vorst Nationaal, May 2004.

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 19d

Modern Facism is the quest to make the Internet real life in every way to punish the people who were mean to you on the Internet because you were and still are a wet dullard

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 18d

I've been listening to a couple of podcasts about TTRPG actual plays. If I'd done this before I started taking part in TTRG actual plays (even with the comparatively small audiences), I'd have been far more nervous.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 18d

I genuinely thought that this was an Onion article at first.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 18d

Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation that would require public colleges to erect statues of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk or face fines.

www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-cha...

Oklahoma GOP bill would punish public colleges without statues of Charlie Kirk

Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation that would require public colleges to erect statues of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk or face fines.GOP state Sens. Shane Jett and Dana Prieto, bo...

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 19d

Now get Nigel Farage to endorse Trumps comments. Ask Farage to provide facts supporting it.

Get Farage to call London a disgrace.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 20d

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority

Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported. The USA, where you can p...

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 20d

I’m pretty sure the Blair Institute suggested it before the election and no one much supported it. Then they just did it again.

Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 21d

This is a screenshot I took in 2020 of Tweets from Nov 2016. Feels pertinent, even if the situation should be much more obvious now.

Tweets from Elliott Lusztig @ezlusztig dated Nov 2016

Hannah Arendt in her book The Origin of Totalitarianism provides a helpful guide for interpreting the language of fascists.
She noted how decent liberals of 1930s Germany would "fact check" the Nazis' bizarre claims about Jews like they were meant to be factual. What they failed to understand, Arendt suggests, is that the Nazi Jew hating was not a statement of fact but a declaration of intent. So when someone would blame the Jews for Germany's defeat in WW1, naive people would counter by saying there's no evidence of that. What the Nazis were doing was not describing what was true, but what would have to be true to justify what they planned to do next.
DId 3 million “illegals” cast votes in this election? Clearly not. But fact checking is just a way of playing along with their game. What Trump is saying is not that 3m illegals voted. What he’s saying is: I’m going to steal the voting rights of millions of Americans.

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Lavaita @lavaita.bsky.social · 22d

Sadly my local donation centre doesn't seem to have had their update through yet - I'm still scraping through with the help of iron supplements. Still, at least they got some blood out of me.

Rebecca Jones 🔶 @rebeccajones03.bsky.social · Sep 11

BREAKING NEWS:

I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth.

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Rebecca Jones 🔶 @rebeccajones03.bsky.social · Aug 22

Attention UK Based people, I need YOU to help me challenge NHS Blood & Transplants policies towards Trans & Non-Binary people.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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