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@melisondra.bsky.social

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*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Oct 18

Greetings and Salutations!~
I am Meli, a self-employed pansexual polyamorous lady with an amazing wife and metamour raising our non-binary teenager. I am an avid lover of all things bookish 💙📚 (especially 📚🌈), gaming, TTRPG's, and writing. I can occasionally be seen streaming at twitch.tv/melisondra

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Twitch is the world

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 4d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 9d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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School Library Journal @slj.com · 13d

Banned Books Week 2025 Resources to Educate, Inspire Action
www.slj.com/story/Banned...

Banned Books Week 2025 Resources to Educate, Inspire Action

These resources and ideas from ALA, Unite Against Book Bans, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and others will help plan for Banned Books Week Oct. 5-11.

www.slj.com

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Buntglas @buntglas.bsky.social · 17d

It's my birthday... may I ask for the customary birthday RT? 😌🙏❤️🎉

#art

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Emily ✿ @3mipop.bsky.social · 19d

A reminder:

Trans rights are human rights.

Continuing to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way directly funds JK Rowling's anti-trans agenda. She has said so herself.

If you still support the HP franchise should should unfollow me.

The LGBTQIA+ community is always welcome on my page.

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 22d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Illustrator @celestialfang.bsky.social · 24d

Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and the male concubines that you promoted to viziers are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace

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Dr. Amy, PsyD @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · Sep 18

That “no” is a complete sentence. That me being uncomfortable is sufficient reason to set a boundary, and I don’t need a “good enough” reason not to do someone a favor or agree to something.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · Sep 18

3. What is something that you know at your current age that you wish you knew when you were younger?

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Sho @doraingrid.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's my birthday! 🍰
May I ask for art shares on this fine day 💜✨

As a bonus, I've been wondering, is there any particular character or theme you'd like to see me draw in the future? If so, let me know!

#art | #hades | #baldursgate3 | #dragonage

a digital illustration of Zagreus and Chaos from Hades (Game). Zagreus is floating above Chaos' outstretched hand in the middle of ruins. He's reaching one hand up towards a boon symbol of Chaos. Chaos' face looms big in the background. The entire picture is accentuated with purple details

Tarot card illustration of Zethino, a dryad from Baldur's Gate 3, representing the Ace of Cups card. Zethino is standing in a lake, holding a cup with 5 streams of water falling out of it, she's facing forward, eyes closed, reminiscing, she's surrounded by water lillies, a tree behind to the left and a waterfall behind her. A stylized white dove is directly above the chalice. The atmosphere is calm, serene, introspective. Zethino has red hair nicely parted in the middle, a big headpiece with leaves and antlers, pale green skin with glowing vines and her outfit is a dress made out of leaves and vines.

A study of J. C. Leyendecker's "Man and Woman Dancing" featuring Chiara and Lucanis. Chiara has her back turned to us, her expression is sultry, a small smirk escaping her lips. She's wearing a light blue silky dress with sheer sleeves falling over her shoulders, pearl necklace and silver bracelets and (engagement??) ring. Her hair is blue, held in an updo. Lucanis is wearing a traditional black tuxedo that is fully blended with the black background, one hand on the small of her back, the other in front. They are dancing.

Portrait of Nyx from Hades (Supergiant Games) Portrait of a regal looking pale woman, her waist-length hair is elaborately fashioned with a braid on either side and a high bun held up in part by a golden crown. Her hair also flares to either side in the shape of a pair of bird-like wings, and the stars of the night sky can be seen on the undersides of these "wings." She is wearing robes with crescent moon shaped pauldrons. Her chest, forehead and earrings are decorated with tear shaped gemstones. There's 3 skill shapes on her chest, the middle one is holding the mentioned tear shaped gem. Her eyes are closed, her expression calm. The illustration is in black and white with purple and gold accents.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

The fact that the Epstein survivors had to give a press conference outside – and not in the halls of congress, shows you exactly who is guilty AF and the power they are wielding to try and silence the victims.

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3:

"If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.
And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.
So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).
The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3:

"The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.
Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.
This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3:

"How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.
But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. "

Response by drtanner:

"Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.
It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · Aug 15

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

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*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Aug 14

Magical library makes me think of "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern. Highly recommend her first book, "The Night Circus", as well. Both are standalone novels, no series unfortunately.

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*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Aug 2

Handwriting - there is just something about the written word whether it is a quick note on a post-it or a love letter...there is a beauty to handwritten text that can't be replicated by type.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 2

if u could open your own museum what would it be about what are u going to devote your life to curate

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 1

what is the most unique museum u have visited
for me possibly the ramen museum

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 31

The gerrymander in Texas is constitutional. The ones in New York and California are not.

by Sam Alito, Amy Coney Barret, Neil Gorsuch, Bret Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · Jul 31

Do any of you review young adult science fiction or fantasy books? A friend of mine has just published a new book and it struck me that I probably still have some useful connections in this place. If you're interested, let me know and I'll put you in touch.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Jul 29

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

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Mizore Nakaya 🌌 🏳️‍⚧️ @mizokaya.stream · Jul 25

Protecting kids is the parents job, beginning middle end. And it’s also the parents job to know when not to “protect them” when it would benefit them more to know, see, or do something whilst young and able to have support to trip up and make mistakes.

If you cannot do that don’t have kids.

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*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Jul 23

My mom is a huge fan and regularly bought his books. She switched to ebooks and gave me the majority of her physical books, a large amount of them I donated to our library. Still to this day, she reads his books despite his being a ghostwriter factory.

*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Jul 23

Before I went self-employed during the pandemic, I reviewed documents for a neuropsychologist who worked personal injury litigation cases as an expert witness. I took a huge leap and applied for a remote legal assistant position with one of the law firms we occasionally worked with. We'll see!

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Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social · Jul 22

‘So you’re on a desert island and you can only take one book-‘

… No thank you.

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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · Jul 20

ICE is advertising for supervisors offering $132-185K
Managers- $306K
Both have ZERO education requirements.
Meanwhile: Teachers $46,526
Nurses $68,485
BOTH require bachelors degree and often a graduate degree.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jul 18

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

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*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Jul 15

Truly amazing books, love them.

*Meli*~ @melisondra.bsky.social · Jul 12

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:

Stephen King
Gail Carriger
Jim Butcher
Leigh Bardugo
Laini Taylor
Laurell K. Hamilton
E.K. Johnston
Robert Jordan
Brandon Sanderson
Philip Pullman

That's the ones off the top of my head but I imagine there are many others.

#booksky

Chewie 🇦🇺🇨🇦 호주 츄바카 @darth-babaganoosh.bsky.social · Jul 12

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:

Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Alexandre Dumas
Piers Anthony
Jack L Chalker
Laurell K Hamilton
Frank Herbert
Larry Niven
Isaac Asimov
Graham Masterton

There's a bunch more, this is just off the top of my head.

#booksky

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · Jul 12

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:

Clive Barker
Stephen King
Ursula K Le Guin
Terry Pratchett
Laird Barron
Ellen Datlow (editor)
China Mieville
Kaaron Warren
Angela Slatter
Joanne Anderton

There's a bunch more, this is just the first to come to mind.