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Tor

@torwanderer.bsky.social

!! no minors please !!
girl with the arms made out of marrow | i'm an adult | sometimes an artist | 🇨🇱

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thomas w schaller

@thomaswschaller.bsky.social

I could not be more thrilled to learn that my work has been selected for the 159th Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. Thanks so much to AWS for all the hard work. And special thanks to the Jury of Selection:
"Golden City"
30x22 inches
Watercolor on Arches Paper #art

An evening view of the 59th Street Bridge and the illuminated Manhattan skyline from Roosevelt Island

December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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milobyte

@milobit.net

sketchbook page of awesomeness

drawings by me in pencil and black and blue ink on paper: two c3 corvettes, asuka from evangelion, a yf-12a and t-38

August 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸

@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social

@housetrotter
waahhhh i'm an american and i can't do anything about imperialism!! all i can do is eat my corn pop crispies and crispy corn cob pops and popcorn pops and corn syrup crisps and crispy syrupy corn cob crisps and corn cob crispy syrup bombs

January 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM

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robo

@dynamicrobo.bsky.social

✨

January 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

"joy is an act of resistance" is not praxis and while im a firm believer that art is good for the soul even during hard times, you have got to be fucking real for a second and realize that drawing pictures is not gonna help someone who is being bombed by the US government

January 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM

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wawa

@eiyuusyndrome.bsky.social

maintenance

May 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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mattie lubchansky

@mattielubchansky.com

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM

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walking mirage

@wolf.observer

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested
2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

January 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM

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doodley 🌠

@doodley.org

witnessing the collapse of consumer electronics prices just as your PC turns 6 years old

January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM

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Maggot

@maggotmilk.bsky.social

Bonus sketch

January 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM

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Erika Desu Wa!

@bayshoreidol.bsky.social

ojousama 100 series save me

October 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

You can find your US reps and senators here: reps.fyi

If you call now, you'll get an answering machine and you can leave a message. A great thing to do if you're nervous about talking to someone. Just give your name, your zip code, and demand they impeach Trump for illegally invading Venezuela.

Find Your Representative

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reps.fyi

January 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

we’re at war with the world but at least you can say faggot again i guess

January 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM

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Melo

@letitmelo.bsky.social

I think a lot about this bit by Kazuya Niinou about how an RPG can be one thing on your screen and another thing in your brain

How to use your imagination

When your party stays at the Inn overnight, what do they eat?

If you ever catch yourself wondering that, then you know you've formed an attachment to your characters.

With Etrian Odyssey's characters, you only give them a name and a portrait, so no matter how you think of the character, it's technically just your imagination. But even in that case, without your imagination, the character is nothing.

For example, a landsknecht who uses an axe might eat his meat with his bare hands and no utensils, but one who wields a sword might prefer a knife and fork at dinner. You might think differently, but... If you can imagine small details like that, you might find that you enjoy this kind of RPG even more.

The essence is an RPG is using numbers to make calculated decisions, but if you invest those "numbers" with your own feelings, you can spice up the game a little. Think about this:

In your party of five, three characters are dead. Two of them are alive, but they only have a couple of HP left, and no TP. They're certain to die in their next turn, giving you a game over. Number-wise, those characters are useless, but how do you imagine they feel about that? What kind of people are those 2 characters who are about to die? Try to imagine things like that in the brief time before your game ends.

Are they a landsknecht and a ronin, who'll die facing the enemy and laughing? Is it a protector, ordering the weak medic to run with his last breath?

The game over screen looks the same every time, but in your imagination, it could play out very differently.

The game itself isn't that big of a thing; what you imagine for yourself is much more fun. We hope that the player uses this game as a tool, to create dramatic and fun situations in your own minds.

January 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM

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Roo

@ghirga.bsky.social

reminded of the gundam cafe amuro meal

A photo of Amuro Ray eating bread with a glass of water, in front of an actual meal(?) of bread and water

January 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM

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kris

@undasura.bsky.social

January 1, 2026 at 11:56 PM

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David J Prokopetz

@prokopetz.bsky.social

In terms of practical outcomes, there's basically no difference between porn worldbuilding and non-porn worldbuilding. I know a person who developed a lifelong interest in civic engineering after trying to calculate how much semen would be required to overwhelm their home town's storm drain system.

January 2, 2026 at 2:04 AM