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The Astral Snowstorm

@nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social

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22/AuDHD/Single Male A person who does stuff, whatever he feels like doing. Discover me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/astralsnowstorm6157

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Apr 7

Ladies and gentlemen, I have come to announce that my Discord server is now open publicly.
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Join the Astral's Snowstorm Discord Server!

Check out the Astral's Snowstorm community on Discord - hang out with 7 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 1d

Sora 2 creeps me out, that and/or the timeline we've ended up in.

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, YouTube as a platform had already been borderline unusable in the way you speak of (I'm pretty sure) leading up to this point. *ahem* Watch Time from Subscribers.

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⛧ Infamous the Incubus 🌳 ⛧ @infamouslazure.bsky.social · 6d

DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY.
DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY.
DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY.
DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY.
DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY.

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 7d

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
 Denmark has scheduled a vote on Chat Control the 14th of October. Despite not wanting to break end-to-end encryption, 🇩🇪 Germany remains both UNDECIDED and critical to defeating the proposal.
 If you are German, contact your Bundestag members today via fightchatcontrol.de !

Screenshot of the Fight Chat Control website (https://fightchatcontrol.eu/) in German showing the Bundestag members. It is now possible to contact Bundestag members directly to express your concerns about Chat Control.

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 6d

Caught sight of a bird (pretty sure it's a blue jay) casually eating (?) a cat's food.

Blue jay facing rightwards towards a bowl of cat food.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 10d

"Or for goofing/fooling around."

I'd argue that's the main reason why GenAI has seen so much traction on the internet in the first place. Back in 2022, the results it produced were so sloppy to the point it added an unintentional layer of comedy, hence why it had so much meme power back then.

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 10d

TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO PROSPER
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO LOVE
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND BE FORGIVEN
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE EQUALITY

JUST SAYING THEY SHOULD EXIST IS WEAK IN 2025. THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THE FULL SPECTRUM THAT LIFE OFFERS

PASS IT THE HELL ON!!!

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Blu Cool @blucoolknux.bsky.social · 12d

TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO PROSPER
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO LOVE
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND BE FORGIVEN
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE EQUALITY

JUST SAYING THEY SHOULD EXIST IS WEAK IN 2025. THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THE FULL SPECTRUM THAT LIFE OFFERS

PASS IT THE FUCK ON!!!

🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵
🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵

MamaBlancheVT (Urgent Check Pinned Post)🦊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mamablanchevt.bsky.social · 15d

TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO PROSPER
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO LOVE
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND BE FORGIVEN
TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE EQUALITY

JUST SAYING THEY SHOULD EXIST IS WEAK IN 2025. THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THE FULL SPECTRUM THAT LIFE OFFERS

PASS IT THE FUCK ON!!!

🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵
🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 17d

Autism isn’t a disease to be cured or even eradicated. It’s a neurotype that results in many of the most beautiful and creative brains to have existed. Autists need systemic support to thrive in a world built for allistics, not the blame and shame that make our lives harder than they need to be.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 11d

After almost 7 months, I finally drew @masae.bsky.social 's Vtuber model
#Art #Sketch #Sketchart #Drawsae

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 16d

On a more positive note, Bluesky has their equivalent to Twitter's bookmarks now. I can finally rejoice knowing that Twitter's UX has been fully replaced. (At least for me, that is)

New Feature

Saved Posts
Finally! Keep track of posts that matter to you. Save them to revisit anytime.

The post in question being used to demonstrate the new feature:

Jerry Chan @jcsalterego.bsky.social
inventing a saturday that immediately follows monday

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · 16d

github.com/futo-org/gra...

Well well well, YouTube's back at it again crusading against the usage of third party clients that provide an actually solid experience for cheaper than what YouTube themselves negotiate.

Yeah, totally don't see this backfiring on them at all... /s

Bug: YouTube Plugin Failure to Play · Issue #2712 · futo-org/grayjay-android

Reproduction steps Select a YouTube video to play that is NOT already downloaded. Grayjay tries to load it for a few seconds. Grayjay fails to load video. This extends to downloading YouTube videos...

github.com

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jose Villarrubia @josevillarrubia.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m quoted in today’s issue of Forbes.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Sep 4

I've heard of this before, It's this cool new trend where you make people smile and feel good instead of hurting them for literally no reason.

For anyone reading this who has yet to smilebait, give it a try.

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Sep 1

#Sketch #Sketchart #Vocaloid #VocaloidArt #MikuArt #MikuFanart #MikuBirthday

Happy *somewhat belated birthday Hatsune Miku!
Aug. 31 - Sep. 1, 2025

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 25

Good on them, I'm really glad that people share the same intuition as I where doing literally anything in any situation, no matter how major or minor that action is, is still a quantum leap from just doing absolutely nothing.

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sure, why not.

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 25

Now that I think about it, I only rarely hear about NFTs nowadays, which is surprising since I heard it talked about non-stop back when It rose to (frankly undeserved) popularity back in 2021.

Either way, the (hopefully inevitable) collapse of GenAI is something to grab a bucket of popcorn for.

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · Dec 23

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag
She's pointing back and looking shocked

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 20

Social media should be safe for trans people.

Therefore, social media should be unsafe for transphobes.

Pass it on.

Blu Cool @blucoolknux.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social media should be safe for trans people.

Therefore, social media should be unsafe for transphobes.

Pass it on.

IcedPop @icyneenz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social media should be safe for trans people.

Therefore, social media should be unsafe for transphobes.

Pass it on.

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Out of Context Pokémon @oocpokemonofficial.bsky.social · Aug 14

Breaking gimmick as I urge everyone to please sign this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.

TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!

Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 14

Note to self: Never stay in a voice call until 5 in the morning again.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 14

When isn't a YouTube update stupid?

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bro quite literally said

a girl in a shark costume has the letter a on her chest

ALT: a girl in a shark costume has the letter a on her chest

media.tenor.com

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.bsky.social · Aug 8

That was found in OUTLLIBR.DLL, in an embedded file aptly named 'LINCOLN.JPG'. To be honest, I don't know why it was included in a Microsoft product, let alone in any of Office 2010's files, let alone this particular file. It just doesn't make any sense.

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