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makes anarchist trans music video glitch art stuff
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V I A @vi4rtual.bsky.social · Apr 3

my full performance is now on youtube! :))
featuring the amazing @fire-toolz.bsky.social

big thanks to:
@nostalgialounge.bsky.social
@crystaleternal.bsky.social

#music #transmusic #transmusic #transsynth #synthsky #musicsky #transart #art #trans #transart #electronica #vaporwave #edm 🎧

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hot super sentai villainesses over irl evil billionaire villains

collage of multiple 1980s super sentai villainesses

February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM

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Jessie Gender

@jessiegender.bsky.social

Tin foil hate mode; I would not be shocked to learn if a lot of the Starfleet Academy hate is astroturfed by someone like Elon Musk paying for bots to scrape social media and YouTube to promote the hate, cause it artificially high numbers on so much shit.

February 8, 2026 at 7:29 AM

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Jessie Gender

@jessiegender.bsky.social

Star Trek literally addressed this nearly 40 years ago with this scene. In quote Riker himself, it's "incredibly outmoded and sexist attitude" to think Klingons can't wear skirts.

youtu.be/tzE7P3KPi4I?...

February 7, 2026 at 6:34 AM

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Jessie Gender

@jessiegender.bsky.social

The discourse on Starfleet Academy has taught me that the media literacy of much of the Trek fandom is really low (reflective of the US). It's all judged on the axis is it good/bad or is it like the thing I liked before - not analyzing its ideas & effectiveness of exploring them.

February 9, 2026 at 6:49 AM

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Jessie Gender

@jessiegender.bsky.social

Star Trek discourse around Starfleet Academy depresses me, man, everyone’s just turned their brain off. Even commentators I usually like have slid into full CinemaSins mode, hating on the show through shallow, surface-level nitpicks. It’s not that you can’t dislike Starfleet Academy, I like it, but that’s not the point. The problem is how the hate campaign has dragged the level of intellectual engagement straight into the dirt. Nobody wants to go against the presumed consensus that it’s a bad show, so instead of actually engaging with what it’s doing, they watch with their pencils out, making a checklist of inconsequential bullshit so they can justify saying they hate it, rather than grappling with anything the story is actually saying. And the thing is, the show is interesting: it’s engaging with diaspora, racialized and marginalized community history-building, and liberal state institutional violence. You can argue about whether it handles those topics well or not, but they’re worth engaging with. But nah, people just want reheated 60s Trek with zero thought. And in five years we’re just going to get Star Trek that goes, “Oh hey, this alien race that’s a metaphor for queer people are actually human too, too bad we realized it too late, we feel sad now. Ah well, onto the next planet with a race of metaphorical Black people us Western folks can learn from and pity.” That might’ve been chill in the 60s, was already dated by TNG in the 90s, and had fully curdled into neoconservative Bush-era propaganda by Enterprise in the 2000s, but hey, glad we’re going back to that.

February 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM

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USAUSAUSA!

Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 2d

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

February 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM

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Rex 💫

@rexpo.bsky.social

Vday wip 🫀

Unicorn girl, rings stacked on her finger.
The bottom of the image hints that her chest have been cut open

February 11, 2026 at 7:16 PM

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should i upload a "why i left linus tech tips" video??

February 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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✨the daniel✨ 🫧go listen to iloua🫧

@intelectconfig.wtf

can it be true?

Say no without explanation. The sky won't fall. Your worth isn't measured in other people's approval.

February 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM

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in germany it's called
the SUPER BONK

February 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

@sharkabytes.bsky.social

I'll get some #ScanlineSunday action in a bit earlier than I usually do with some more pieces of PC-98 artwork converted to Sega Mega Drive. (Not by me, from a recent slideshow ROM I'll link below)

📺: Toshiba VTW-2187 (composite), snapped with Sony Mavica CD-400

A crt tv screen photo of pixel anime artwork of a woman with chin length brown hair parted to the left, and wearing what looks to be a red and black flight/jumpsuit of some kinda. She has long dark green earrings.

A gorgeously lit piece of anime pixel artwork of someone with a mop of hair looking out of a window at a cyberpunk city at night, the camera close to them, shoulders up, and bathed in shadow, purple and warning red light, as if they're flying away from somewhere and looking thoughtfully at the city below.

A waterfront scene piece of anime artwork with neon teal buildings and a city skyline, with a lady sporting a style that's a parted fringe and shoulder length hair, and wearing a brown cloth jacket. She's got a slight smile on her lips.

February 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM

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the only lost media i wanna see before i die (and have been waiting for 30 years) is all the deleted scenes of MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS THE MOVIE [1995] as well as TURBO: A POWER RANGERS MOVIE [1997]

always thought the blu-ray release would bring it to light, but it never happened and i'm sad

screenshot of an MMPR:TM dailie video, showing one of the lost scenes - rocky in the full power rangers the movie suit, but the mouth is exposed

February 8, 2026 at 3:26 AM

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@vi4rtual.bsky.social

gotta sell more toys! wait...

Megan 🌟 @megnut.bsky.social · 3d

if capitalism was so great whyd it kill super sentai huh?

February 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM

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crazy

Boto @boto.bsky.social · 4d

Super Sentai has now ended its 50 year run

February 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM

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BANDCAMP FRIDAYYY YAAAAAAYYYYY

aahh i missed it again

February 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM

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I LOVE STAR TREK STARFLEET ACADEMY!

what a great way to attract younger viewers but staying true to everything that made star trek great!

it's like everything discovery wanted to do, but failed horribly

February 6, 2026 at 6:05 AM

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mystic knights aka haim saban's game of thrones

V I A @vi4rtual.bsky.social · 6d

german intro by the kelly family lol. i even still have the cd of that

Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog - Opening ( German Intro ) HQ

YouTube video by thatrunks

www.youtube.com

February 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM

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i really like soup

February 5, 2026 at 2:03 AM

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waiting for the novelization of the melania movie because i'm a person of patience

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 7d

Amazon pulls theater's screening rights for "Melania" because of marquee jokes (eg “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA? FIND OUT FRIDAY!”). It's uncertain if this will impact the theater’s ability to show future Amazon films, such as “Project Hail Mary.”

lakeoswegoreview.com/2026/02/02/l...

Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen 'Melania' after marquee jokes - Lake Oswego Review

Lake Theater & Cafe announced that it will no longer show “Melania,” the Amazon Studios documentary about the first lady, after Amazon revoked the theater’s rights to the film. “Got […]

lakeoswegoreview.com

February 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM

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the strange connection between individuals in the epstein files who subsequently attempt to build rockets to flee to mars

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9d

EPSTEIN TO MUSK, December 15, 2013: “Any day 1st – 8th. Play it by ear if you want. Always room for you.”

MUSK TO EPSTEIN, ten minutes later: “OK, probably the first then.”

MUST ON TWITTER, September 27, 2025: “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED.”