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パンダギリ🐼🍙‧ ˚₊⊹ @pandagiri.bsky.social · 5h

PLEASE NOTE ON MONDAY, I WILL BE STARTING 1 HOUR EARLIER DUE TO A DOC APPOINTMENT!

Most of the text on this image is already featured on the original message in front of this alt tag. The schedule is located on the left side and to the right is my "vtuber" model that has bubblegum pink hair, peacefully sleeping with a snot bubble coming out of her nose, holding a panda plushie.

After 1.5 weeks of playing Blue Protocol: Star Resonance... I am still playing it. The story is crap, but it still feels kinda like the "Tales of" MMO that I was yearning for about 7 years ago. I love the glamours/wardrobe options in this game, it's just rather stingy for F2P options. I don't know how much longer I'll play it since I did finish the first installment of the main story over the weekend. Side quests are also badly translated and sloppy. Almost feels like an AI translated it, which is very disheartening. Either way, it fills a niche for customization in an exploration game that I've been missing since quitting FFXIV a few years ago. And it's cute, so eh.
I'll probably be leveling my "life skills" (basically the trade skills in other MMOs like FFXIV) and hanging out with whoever wishes to hang out!

Other than that, Genshin's 6.1 Nod Krai story is due out this week and I'll be working on that. There's also a new addition to Genshin called Miliastra Wonderland that allows us to customize a character, or something. Will probably dabble with that a bit too but I don't have my hopes up. It feels like it's unnecessary bloat to an already large game. We'll see. Somebody called it Genshin Roblox and I don't know how I feel about that because 1) I've never played or have plans to play Roblox, and 2) it has a whole other currency system that feels like a huge greedy money grab. That's the part that's making me annoyed the most.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17h

Learn what makes Privacy Badger, our free browser extension to stop companies from spying on you, different from other “ad blockers.” privacybadger.org/#Why-doesn%...

Privacy Badger

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 14h

The Laugh Track Demo has been patched today. Changes:

* Fixes episode credits appearing wrong if using non-comic font
* Changes text before ratings point #2 to clarify Management's goals

Thanks! On with the show.

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 13h

an astronaut is looking at the earth with the words " always has been " above him

ALT: an astronaut is looking at the earth with the words " always has been " above him

media.tenor.com

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Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 16h

We are now at the phase where republicans are ok with a video of our president shitting on citizens. They’re also ok with him being a pedophile, a liar, a cheat, a fraud, and bankrupt.

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ghostymar @shademar.bsky.social · 15h

I spent my career as a scientist. I could tell them a few things about the loss of public prestige in a profession. But they enabled it, so I doubt they'd listen.

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ghostymar @shademar.bsky.social · 15h

I sometimes wonder if the reporters and editors for the big news agencies still somehow think they deserve the respect their forbearers earned. Then I remember almost anyone with integrity quit and they're all billionaire fluffing hacks now.

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 18h

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 18h

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 5d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 14h

These guys dress more like criminals from my perspective.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21h

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15h

Using Tor doesn’t require a lot of technical know-how, you just need to download a browser and familiarize yourself with some basics. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Use Tor

Computer requirements: An internet connection, a computer running your favorite operating system. Versions used in this guide: Windows 11, macOS 15.2, Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS; Tor Browser: 14.0.4 License: Free Software; mix of Free Software licenses Level: Beginner-Intermediate Time required: 5 minutes Other reading: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/installation/ https://tor.stackexchange.com/ https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https https://www.youtube.com/@TheTorProject/playlists?view=1&sort=dd&shelf_id=0 What is Tor?...

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 19h

Protip to Speaker Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: Americans actually care about ending fascism, impeaching this tyrant, and doing a hard reset of U.S. government.

Lead with that.

(This is free advice, but you can pay us a consultant fee if that makes you feel better.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Jeffries: "They care about George Santos and freeing him than they do about providing healthcare to everyday Americans."

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 21h

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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 19h

Also, Denmark should also not do it . Its a terrible decision

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 21h

They have minimal political education. It's important to keep hammering that it's not just the One Guy. And that competitive authoritarianism includes people from both parties.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 22h

Free to support or draft articles of impeachment anytime.

Pat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social · 22h

INCREDIBLE energy in Kingston yesterday, with thousands of Patriots standing up and fighting back for our country.

We’re on the side of Liberty and Justice FOR ALL.

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 17h

www.fsf.org/blogs/commun...

Windows 10 sunsetting doesn't mean the end for your PC — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

If you're already a GNU/Linux user, you have an important role to play. Help your friends and family make the switch by sharing your knowledge, help them install a free-as-in-freedom OS. Show them what it means to have real control over their computing!

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 1d

Also there were so many inflatable costumes of all kinds at #nokings #portland. #operationinflation is crushing it!

@indivisible.org @pdxoregon50501.bsky.social @coin-indivisible.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 18h

Okay, somehow missed that.

To me that makes sense. Right click could then always be freed up for some other action.

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 18h

Usually after firing thousands of people.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 1d

In the late stages of the bubble we’re starting to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to”, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20h

It remains wild to me how adamant the public broadcaster seems to be that Canada Post be whittled down and ultimately privatized, with no seeming realization that same pressure will eventually come for the CBC too if it succeeds with the postal service.

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 18h

What do you propose?

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19h

Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/

Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

www.atlasofsurveillance.org

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SaftyKuma @safty.me · 18h

At least the bulk of the page wasn't ten thousand JS loads that do nothing but send my data to advertisers.

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