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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 19h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 13h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Bri 🌸🫧✨ @ohheydollie.bsky.social · 7h

Omfgggggggg

#dollsky #barbie

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 5h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Calvin and Hobbes @calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social · 3h

Middle-of-the-night sickness always seems worse when Mom’s not the one answering.
#CalvinandHobbes #ParentingMoments #SleeplessNights

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I Honsed Bitch @vulpesokamis.bsky.social · 19h

I don't even disagree that this is a low and unsustainable budget for pokemon going forward but using AAA/AAAA budgets as comparison is rlly "if you laugh you go to hell" for me because none of those games should have cost that much

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1h

Yes! Yes!!!!

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 2h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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fairshare.help @fairshare.help · 12h

Please contribute if you're able or share if you're not.

Directly asking people you know is most effective

Donate to Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment, organized by Lubna Alajrami

Dear compassionate friends, My name is Lubna Alajrami, an… Lubna Alajrami needs your support for Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment

www.gofundme.com

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 2d

Since what happened to me yesterday I’ve been a mess emotionally - For those not in the know, I was sexually assaulted. I’ll need some extra help making sure I actually eat something. Here’s a link if anybody wants to help out ❤️ Anything helps

ko-fi.com/antonarcana

Support Anton 🌙🌿🍄

ko-fi.com

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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Kevin 🌊 @wankadoodles.bsky.social · 17h

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Bringing back Creeku because she always brings me so much joy to draw

#Vocaloid #HatsuneMiku #HorseyDoodles

Hatsune Creeku (A Méits version of Hatsune Miku) poses for the view, winking with a big smile. She wears a ribbon skirt, an octopus bag and a métis sash along with beaded earrings

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Lamia Yuri Nun @cottonmouthlamia.bsky.social · 16h

One of my girlfriends made this go fund me and I don't know I don't particularly enjoy begging but if you do have anything to help it would be appreciated in a lot of ways

Donate to A struggling trans woman see her mother, organized by Tucker Schuster

My girlfriend's name is anastasia. She finally escaped her abusive hometown an… Tucker Schuster needs your support for A struggling trans woman see her mother

www.gofundme.com

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Val K. Wise @valkwise.bsky.social · 15h

$165 raised since I made this post. Please give what you can!

Val K. Wise @valkwise.bsky.social · 4d

Abdel Majeed needs to raise $700 to cover travel and coordination costs to Egypt, where he and his family have citizenship.
Below is his message to you about his family’s current situation - please read, and help however you can.

chuffed.org/project/1286...

Dear friends and generous supporters,
We are a small family in Gaza, living in unbearable conditions. The war, which is said to be nearing its end, has destroyed our home, leaving us without a dignified life in Gaza. My wife suffers from severe depression and urgently needs "Leponex" medication, which is unavailable here. The hospitals are destroyed, and medicines are scarce. Staying in Gaza worsens her mental health day by day. Our daughters, Iman and Bayan, are deprived of education, and their dreams of a brighter future are fading .We hold Egyptian citizenship and are desperately waiting for the Rafah crossing to open as a humanitarian case to relocate to Egypt, where my wife can receive the mental health treatment and medication she needs, and we can start a new life.
We urgently need $700 to cover travel and coordination costs once the crossing opens. Every dollar you donate brings us closer to saving my wife from her suffering and securing a future for Iman and Bayan. Be our hope.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 16h

if you’re cis, you probably don’t even know who miss major was and that sucks for you. you’re missing out.

it sucks for all of us that she’s gone.

her work actually *does* need to be continued. especially right now. you should help make that happen.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 18h

I might play Dark Souls if it had the Toejam & Earl soundtrack and occasionally played a clip of someone saying JAMMIN'

MrNelson007, Defender of Skara Brae @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 18h

It's kind of fascinating for how, as much as it had a reputation of being this weird and unique game unlike anything else, playing Toejam & Earl as an adult it's just "oh this is just a roguelike with a really memorable presentation".

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 18h

Anger is a healthy response to cruelty, actually.

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blæke 0.5b @elfboys.com · 19h

i think the guy playing the ps1 library in alphanumeric order and making 5 hour videos about each title was a monk in a past life, there's no other explanation

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 18h

if you come at yugi you'd better have the butterfly effect in your corner

the dominos meme where the smallest domino has "atlantis falls" written over it, and the final tallest domino simply has "yami yugi loses a card game" on it

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 17h

the first rule you must tell yourself when you are making art is that you are not going to change hearts and minds with your art but it is imperative that you make it anyway

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Rachel, Kairi's Strongest Soldier @noopthescoop.bsky.social · 16h

A fic I quite enjoy that has several of my favorite tropes updated last night and I was like

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man wearing a shirt that says “sickos” and saying “yes… hahaha… YES”

media.tenor.com

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Rachel, Kairi's Strongest Soldier @noopthescoop.bsky.social · 16h

(I STILL FEEL SO BAD FOR NOT REMEMBERING WILRED WHEN HE JOINED THE CRYSTAL BRAVES 😭😭😭)

Rachel, Kairi's Strongest Soldier @noopthescoop.bsky.social · 16h

Oro’s is usually pretty good. She actually got embarrassed the one time she forgot a guy who she met and had admired her when they met a second time because normally she would have remembered him. It was Wilred.

Orion Oreo 🐇 @orionbun.bsky.social · 23h

How good is your WoL's memory?

#wolqotd • #wolquestion

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Sokera! || SHOP OPEN! ⭐️ @pyixus.bsky.social · 20h

Indigenous foods as well, I really implore people to support crystal!

“What we grow, how we grow it, and how we distribute the food to our communities can change how we live with one another and begin to solve so many of the problems that separate us from one another and ourselves.”

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