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Liecomj(COMM OPEN 6/6)🍃 @liecomj.bsky.social · 22h

Halloween commission!!🎃🎃🍬

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 23h

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CASIO - Pebble Appstore

This is a version of the Orviwan's amazing 91 DUB with the classic touch of the Casio watches.

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Mary Ann @theghostegg.bsky.social · 1d

Candy apple 👻🍎 Another color study!

A digital illustration of a red apple covered with a glossy red, purple, and pink glaze sitting in a little pool of the same glaze. A white handle stick protrudes from the top of the apple with a pink and purple bow tied around it. Surrounding the apple are 3 white ghosts and a pink worm with a purple witches hat looks on from a distance.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 1d

The contrast between the absolute poetry of those lyrics and Cecilia makes it seem so shallow and goofy in comparison:

“Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Up in my bedroom (making love)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed
Someone's taken my place”

silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 1d

“A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window
To the streets below
On a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow”

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 1d

“I'm sittin' in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination, mmm
On a tour of one night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one man band”

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 1d

Simon and Garfunkel.

“And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 1d

Google Translate app on my phone didn’t. It might be because 牛乳 specifies that it’s cows’ milk, while the original text did not. Or it might just be because ミルク is more commonly used.

A screenshot of Google Translate, auto detecting “soy leche” as Spanish and translating it to 私はミルクです (watashi wa MIRUKU desu), which means “I am milk”.

The Japanese word for milk is 牛乳, but the English loanword ミルク is more commonly used.

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Sei 🪓🐻 @seiryuuden.bsky.social · 2d

E V O L U T I O N _ 🦖
#Digimon #デジモン #art

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think I’ve seen a single accurate piece of alt text for a gif here…but I attempted to fulfill the request of your alt text…

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みこりん mikorin @paintoolsai.bsky.social · 3d

仕事の昼休みの落書き　colored some sketches i did during my work break #diluc #ディルック

three portrait sketches of the character diluc from the game genshin impact. one is a neutral 3/4 view, and in the other two he is blushing and looking to the side and over his shoulder.

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 3d

Even ignoring the obvious benefits to society at large, assuming I don’t care about anybody else, why would I want other people to get sick? They could get *me* sick, and that would inconvenience *me*.

Anyone who thinks people don’t “deserve” healthcare deserves to be coughed on.

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andres! @bahdface.bsky.social · 5d

DILOOOKK DILOOOOOOKKKKKK
#genshinimpact #diluc

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 3d

My guess is that they intended to release it much earlier, but the implementation was so bad even they couldn’t convince themselves it was of sufficient quality to be of any use to anybody!

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Amazon. Not surprised in the slightest by this.

A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Audible (service), which mentions no fewer than three times that it is a subsidiary of Amazon

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

Regardless of if you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the Harvest Moon, or just making it through the day, every night we see is another one our enemies wish we hadn't.

Here's tonight's #FullMoon rising.

I hope if you have some clear skies you can look up and smile tonight. ❤️

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 4d

I don't think people who aren't the target of such laws realize how upsetting it is to simply read headlines like this

it adds up over a lifetime, you know

to know you are so hated, to have to always be on the lookout for creeps and chuds who would do you harm given the chance

it's tiring

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4d

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 4d

I remember Silver Branch delivered locally during the pandemic, making the name of that drink even more appropriate. Not sure if they still do.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Liecomj(COMM OPEN 6/6)🍃 @liecomj.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween commission!!🎃🎃

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, they haven’t exactly been keeping to their mission. They claim to be in favor of a two state solution, which necessarily means an *independent, autonomous* Palestinian state, but maybe they are only referring to the West Bank and not Gaza 🙄

A screenshot of the ADL’s website.

“ADL is a strong advocate for a two-state solution, calling for a mutually negotiated and sustainable peace agreement that can ensure security, self-determination and dignity for both Israelis and Palestinians.
We champion policies and initiatives that foster Israeli-Palestinian understanding and people-to-people engagement and call out those who would undermine such progress and ultimately peace. ADL celebrates wider Israeli-Arab normalization and peace efforts in the region as a critical driver for regional security, stability and people-to-people understanding.”

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 5d

*ADF

ADL is the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization whose mission is to combat antisemitism. They have zero interest in conversion therapy.

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silvershoelaces.bsky.social @silvershoelaces.bsky.social · 5d

I thought LLM stood for large language model? As in it has a ton of data?

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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