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James Endicott

@o76923.bsky.social

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Arknights player. Anime enjoyer. Furry. Waster of my masters degrees. @[email protected]

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · Oct 19

I also make a bunch of bespoke (for lack of a better term) neomoji. Haven't quite gotten around to releasing a full set yet but I have contributed to neogob and neobot.

Neocat striped in the colors of the plural pride flag. Instead of normal fur, you can see it is made up of numerous smaller neocats.

A neofox made up to look like Fenneko from Aggretsuko. She is holding up a pink heart.

Two neogobs celebrating the younger one getting its first lighter.

The larger one in the back is a mushroom caster. It has a yellow right eye and an orange left eye, each has a rounded slightly misshapen plus sign for pupils. There is a teal mass of mushroom growing on the tip of its left ear. It has a wide open smile cheering where snaggleteeth are visible on the left side.

The smaller one in the front has legs instead of being a round blob like they usually are. Its eyes are transfixed on the flame from the lighter it is holding. They have darker splotches of green concentrated on but not exclusive to one of their legs. There is a teal film spreading from the right ear similar to the bigger neogob but lighter in color and no texture. They are smiling with one snaggletooth visible.

A green neoslime with a small neobot floating around inside of it.

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 6h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine looking at how awful everything is going right now and deciding this is a thing worth defending.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 9h

So you admit that my underlying claim is true but you're still defending Musk?

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 10h

An interview with his wife from after that time he lied claiming that his son died in his arms. She had divorce proceedings and coverage from the time backing up her account of events.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 10h

And divorced a wife because she was too sad after their first child died and he found that suspicious.

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 10h

It's worse than that. They divorced over the fact that he accused her of trying to manipulate him about it. She was sad all the time about it and he felt like that meant she was trying to take advantage of him.

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 16h

Do you have any way of looking up how much the astroturfed campaign helped "Angel Guild", the right wing streaming platform and studio designed to compete with Netflix that had a big announcement of some sort a few days into the campaign?

I can't find much about them not from them directly.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 17h

Juno with a new hat?

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 17h

No offense meant to anyone involved but I don't see Peacemaker reshaping industries. TBHX isn't just a good story, they're pioneering tech, spreading money to studios all over China, and showing that animation originals can do things adaptations can't.

So I'm more forgiving of their non-ending.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 17h

I think @jessiegender.bsky.social was kinder about the ending of Peacemaker S2 than I'd be. Then again, I just came of To Be Hero X which had the same problem where the ending was set up for next season instead of closure/resolution partially saved by a few character bits.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

I know we're all used to criticizing Bluesky for their awful decisions, the Discord leak is really bad. 1.5 TB of data collected from their identity verification database is bad. It's government issued photo IDs for the 2 million users unfortunate enough to live in a country that requires that.

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Penance's OST is really good.

She's a judge who continued to rule in the interest of justice even after the mafia became the de jure government so the law itself became corrupt in Siracusa. That idealism and sorrow is conveyed well.

youtu.be/RYtxAwn-EiA

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem has announced that they have arrested the girlfriend of antifa's founder.

Obviously that's a lie. We don't have girlfriends in antifa, we have puppygirls.

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 2d

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Like, the relationship between the two leads is all kinds of interesting in a way that feels homoerotic at times. But a major arc also includes the more brash and tough jock guy revealing how the experience of (among other things) motherhood changed his understanding of empathy and love.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't To Be Heroine a coming of age story about a Chinese Girl who gets transported to a world where she becomes a magical girl and everyone speaks Japanese as a commentary on how cultural imperialism shapes the experience of growing up?

Does that not have any yuri in it?

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Link Click still might be the most gay thing I've ever seen even if you don't count that lesbian couple who hired them to find their missing daughter.

Maybe Steven Universe beats it because of some of the behind the scenes decisions? But it's close.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Because the daddy-daughter aspect of purity culture isn't incestuous enough...

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

It really shows off how right wing they are. It isn't enough for them to have a platform and to rig core moderation behavior in their favor. They still get mad if you hide them because you don't want to see them. Anything that impedes their ability to shout at you is unacceptable.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Follows aren’t endorsements and all that but trust in Bluesky leadership is at an all-time low. Having concerns about why a core c-suite exec is following someone is reasonable. Not is it unexpected on a site like Bluesky where these sorts of concerns constantly play out

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Lap pillow view next?

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out, the guy behind Follow Tracker is telling the truth. Nobody on Bluesky pressured him to make the choice to shut down the labeler.

He's in their inner circle so he did it voluntarily to protect them. That's why he's not deleting his anti-Palestine labeler or his communist/antifa labeler.

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 2d

I'm genuinely curious how anyone was proving themselves untrustworthy with the public information that specific accounts were following other exceptionally and objectively bad accounts.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Time is a flat circle.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1d

Don't worry, Google is working hard to prevent sideloading on Android.