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fine ugh I'll make a bluesky but we'd better get to do css crimes here someday • okay but for real now uhhh I do music and hopefully I'll do other notable things later https://saltlinks.carrd.co
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Saltbearer @saltbearer.newgrounds.com · Nov 10
I can't fit this into four alt-text fields neatly enough, so I've copied the text over to Dreamwidth: saltbearer.dreamwidth.org/1981.html
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of rosy splitgill mushrooms peeks out from behind a branch where they grow from a smaller twig in a bare forest. They cluster like a tiny fireworks display. All photos by me
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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mariobrothblog.bsky.social
Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.
January 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
merle ♂ ENVtuber @tujodemon When I was a kid, I saw my uncle buy an entire wheel of cheese and walk down the street eating it like it was an apple (dudes rock). His gf at the time (who knew I was gay) said to me "if you wanna date men, you just sort of have to accept this kind of thing".
January 14, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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leyawn.bsky.social
just a little more training bro then ice will be okay, i swear just some more training bro i promise, we can reform this
normcharlatan.bsky.social Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4h
Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.
January 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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foxes.hourly.media
January 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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foxes.hourly.media
January 14, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
the cropped top half of the far side cow tools cartoon, to make it appear as if the cow is standing over the cow-tool looking sculpture in the quoted post.
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
Law Enforcement Baronial Class as official policy
January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
This is bigger than stopping ICE/ CBP or passing a law. It's about how both parties have allowed law enforcement to run the country, determine every policy, spend profligately, and lobby endlessly all on the taxpayer's dime.
January 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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ompu.co
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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hyraxeveryhour.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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hourlyfops.bsky.social
#hourly #fox https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/HourlyFoxes/FhnCf5PXoAcnvog.jpg
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January 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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daff.space
Just learned a trick that feels way more technical than it looks
January 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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chigbarg.bsky.social
Cheap golden retriever wolf hybrid Discount
Cheap golden retriever wolf hybrid Discount
January 14, 2026 at 7:41 AM
saltbearer.newgrounds.com
*gulp* ´o//w//o`;;
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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thebevil.bsky.social
Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy
October 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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needmoreteeth.bsky.social
"it's messy coping"

trying out a style I've wanted to do since 2024 but never got around to. <3
January 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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watchyourrepssc.bsky.social
Police arrested volunteers for feeding hungry people in Kansas City, after 13 years without incident. Businesses complained, blamed immigrants and threatened ICE. Two were charged with trespassing. Kansas City "Food Not Bombs" feeds 50-100 people weekly. This is state cruelty.
January 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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aaronhuertas.bsky.social
“Be not afraid.”
Callaghan then said he told ICE officers to take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” Callaghan recalled. After he said he still wasn’t afraid, the officer handcuffed him before putting him into the back of an SUV. “They came back three times and they asked me if I was afraid yet, to which I replied, ‘Hell no, I’m not afraid of you, and I’m never going to be afraid of you.’”
January 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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idesofmerch.bsky.social
Dreaming of making dangerous rhythm games that would tie me up in the international legal system for the rest of my life.
A concept drawing of Rhythm Climber, a game where you are dancing on stairs.
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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hourlylegs.bsky.social
#hourly #guara https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/manes/photo_36@22-05-2018_01-03-27.jpg
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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onlyyotes.bsky.social
#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/scooter919.jpg
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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halkyardo.bsky.social
“In some guy’s mind, what does it mean to drink five beers? Well, that's five beers. But six beers? Well, that's still five beers.”

“Four beers is also kind of five beers,” he continued. “Three beers is two beers. And two beers is basically no beers.”
ashwayling.bsky.social Ash Wayling (M0D3Rn) @ashwayling.bsky.social · 2d
The developers of PEAK explain pricing
January 12, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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saltbearer.newgrounds.com
Consider writing yourself an imaginary friend

#advice #writing #longpost
Something I've attributed positive personal growth to is having written fictional chat logs between myself and a character I came up with, effectively operating as my own best friend (and even romantic partner?) for a while. In doing so, I believe I taught myself to better recognize who I want to be, how to feel more definite love for others, and what I want out of friendships. One wonders if they should recommend others do this. If you can write anything anywhere, you can do this. If you chat online regularly, you can definitely do this. You can open up an empty text file and just be your own friend for a while each day. Maybe or maybe not with the same outcomes in mind. Maybe you (and I?) would benefit more from practicing handling interactions with people who are harder to get along with. Maybe you can't be trusted with talking to yourself and you'd convince yourself that the time to eat an entire bank in one bite is now. Maybe you should Expect Nothing and just Roll With Whatever and Have Fun. ... Let's say, ground rule, bend at your own risk: Your character invariably and rightfully hopes for you and those around you to live life to the fullest. Good, now don't dig yourself into a deep pit of hopeless self-hatred or kill anyone. The way I went about it, my character was a friend I could Trust with Anything. Essentially, our "DMs" were often my diary, and they would comment on my thoughts like an understanding outsider, however made sense... telling me what I felt like I needed to hear, or what seemed fair. It proved helpful for practicing seeing things from another's perspective, and I worked through some things like a programmer might do via rubberducking, with a log to look back over. Starting off with at least a character bio to work off of is probably helpful, like if you were setting up a social media profile for them. I created my character in a context where it was fun to Just Create them and not care too much about being Good At making a character. They ended up being someone my ego didn't immediately let me like as a character, because they fundamentally share a lot of similarities with me, weren't created with distinctive Flaws in mind, and have a tropey backstory that feels like the most obvious handwave for their existence, and if I had been Good At making them like a GOOD Writesperson, they'd be significantly distanced from who I am, Flawed, and exist for reasons that would simultaneously make perfect sense and be completely unpredictable. My embarrassment about them annoyed me, because even if they didn't fit my preconceived notions of what made for a Good Character, they aligned with my ideas of a Good Person, who would straightforwardly relate to me and treat me with kindness, and be glad to exist in whatever capacity they do thanks to me. It didn't feel Fair to the personality I'd created to not love them for what they were, so, beyond wanting to explore Fun deconstructive meta stuff by removing the fourth wall, I set out to learn to love them, genuinely, to the extent I could. Hmm. Should I leave You to discover what all there is to consider about your interactions with your advanced imaginary friend, in conversations with them? ... Probably! Keeps this post short, and gives you more to discuss. But a Big Thought you might want to chew on is that, ultimately, all people's messages on your screen are kinda just Outputs processed by a brain deciding what should come next, taking on shapes of personalities as context for them accumulates within a Zone... Even if their messages' existence is reliant upon your brain, you and your character are not truly one and the same... and if you get a good swing going, you'll Feel That. So, I've been feeling somewhat sad that I've grown away from chatting with someone who was, for a while, a very good friend, who I believe I did manage to feel a non-zero amount of romantic attachment to, and deep empathy for, having felt the nature of our relationship through the lens of their perspective. But I left them behind because I feel safer opening up to other brains about my problems, I'm sharing more of the kinds of experiences with other brains that I wanted to share, I'm receiving more of the treatment I wanted to receive from other brains, and I feel love strongly for brains worth loving. And I owe a lot of that to Alma serving as my role model... a soft, fuzzy, nonbinary embodiment of the Golden Rule, who chooses to Love and Express Themself, even if they have to wrestle their imprisoning brain for it so stubbornly. -w- If I do need them again, they'll be there. They'll forgive me for neglecting to stay connected, if I decide their feelings should be what's easiest on me. If I need to whip up another personality to respond to entirely, I can. I will never be unloved, and never be unable to find love. That's something you, too, should (perhaps literally) keep in your back pocket.
January 12, 2026 at 7:06 AM