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meadowatlast.bsky.social
instead of watching this, you should watch the first 10 episodes of ping pong the animation. you would then be so excited about art that you would watch the final ep and cry your eyes out
January 10, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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fhp.bsky.social
How many citizens were killed by police in each country between 2010-2019:

Canada: 305
France: 233
Germany: 100
Australia: 53
United Kingdom: 22

United States: 15,008
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
xythar.bsky.social
really liked this one. great atmosphere
January 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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marzgurl.com
This dude's responsible for part of the stupidest anime culture war, playing a large part in a huge harassment campaign against literally anybody who was less than dick-suckingly nice to a known predator in the community. Wrote DOZENS of articles whipping up anger, targeted my friends & I directly.
MarzGurl Calls for Assistance in Deplatforming YouTube Critic YellowFlashGuy avatar Spencer Baculi | Apr 29, 2019 Follow Us SHARE A prominent online creator has recently been caught attempting to find and reveal another person’s personal information in an alleged effort to deplatform and bring a lawsuit against a pop-culture critic. Kaylyn Saucedo, also known by her online handle MarzGurl, is an internet content creator best known for her work on the popular Channel Awesome YouTube channel and for reviews and discussions hosted on her own self-titled channel, MarzGurl. On the weekend of April 27th, a Facebook post made by Saucedo began to circulate across social media in which Saucedo makes a plea to her audience to assist her in finding and revealing the real-world identity of YouTube pop culture critic YellowFlashGuy, with the intention of serving him with a lawsuit and deplatforming him from social media sites such as Twitter and Youtube: Monica Rial and Christopher Sabat Allegedly Threaten Kamehacon Owner Over Decision to Re-Invite Vic Mignogna avatar Spencer Baculi | Mar 21, 2019 Follow Us SHARE Kamehacon is an upcoming fan expo dedicated to all things Dragon Ball, being held for it’s second year in Irving, Texas. The expo boasts a heavy catalogue of activities for fans to participate in, such as cosplay contests, a Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament, and celebrity autograph sessions and panels. In 2019, the convention is set to host a wide range of Dragon Ball related voice actors, such as Ryo Horikawa (Vegeta, JP), Daemon Clarke (Cell, US) and Stephanie Nadolny (Kid Goku, US). Dragon Ball Super: Broly voice actor Vic Mignogna was also initially slated to appear as a special guest at Kamehacon, but following the emergence of sexual misconduct accusations both old and new against Mignogna, Kamehacon announced in February that Mignogna would no longer be attending: Vic Mignogna will no longer be attending Kameha Con 2019. — Kameha Con (@KamehaCon) February 1, 2019 However, Nick Rekieta, host of the Rekieta Law YouTube channel, revealed in a furious tirade that the convention had attempted to invite Mignogna back as a guest, only to be met with threats and harassment from Monica Rial and Chris Sabat, fellow Dragon Ball Z voice actors and two of the prominent personalities involved in the “#KickVic” campaign: During the stream, an angry Rekieta claims that Kamehacon had recently decided to invite Mignogna back as a guest and planned to announce it publicly on Tuesday, March 19th, only for the convention owner to be met with threats from Rial and Sabat: Dragon Ball Super: Broly Voice Actor Vic Mignogna Denies Involvement with 3rd Parties or GoFundMe, Remains Adamant in Defense During Deposition avatar Spencer Baculi | Jul 16, 2019 Follow Us SHARE During his deposition for his ongoing defamation lawsuit, Dragon Ball Super: Broly voice actor Vic Mignogna denied having prior knowledge of third parties involved in the ongoing online discussions regarding the lawsuit. And, he remained adamant that he has never assaulted another individual. At the onset of the deposition, taken a day before Ron Toye’s deposition and facilitated by Monica Rial and Toye’s legal representative J. Sean Lemoine of the Wick Phillips law firm, Mignogna reaffirms that his lawsuit is based on the negative impact the accusations and statements against him have had on both his professional and personal reputations: Lemoine: Is your reputation as a voice actor important to you? Mignogna: Of course. Lemoine: Okay. Why? Mignogna: Because it reflects on me as a person, it reflects on me as a professional in a field. Lemoine: And – and do you feel like you have a positive reputation as a voice actor in your field? Mignogna: I believe I do. Lemoine: And how long have you had that, what you would call, positive reputation? Mignogna: Well, I’ve been a voice actor for almost 20 years, so I can only assume that since I’ve been hired repeatedly for, you know, over 20 years, that somebody must think I’m relatively good at what I do. […] Amanda Winn-Lee Recorded Taking Shots at Vic Mignogna and Supporters During Ohayocon Roast avatar Spencer Baculi | Jan 13, 2020 Follow Us SHARE Amanda Winn-Lee, the original dub voice actress of Rei in Neon Genesis Evangelion and prominent supporter of the #KickVic movement, was recently recorded taking shots at Vic Mignogna, his fans, and his supporters during a recent convention speaking appearance. On January 10th-12th, 2020, the annual Ohayocon anime expo was held in Columbus, Ohio. During the weekend’s events, Ohayocon hosts an annual “roast” which features special guests being playfully insulted by their fellow voice actors and industry talents. This year’s guests included voice actor Jerry Jewell (Black Clover, Rebuild of Evangelion), voice actor Jessica Calvello, veteran translator and producer Toshifumi Yoshida, and Winn-Lee herself. Following the ending of the convention’s festivities, video footage of Winn-Lee’s full appearance at the roast surfaced online, in which Winn-Lee ignores the convention guests and devotes her entire speech to taking jabs at Mignogna, his supporters, and her critics: https://youtu.be/sVa6jNIrKTA As Winn-Lee takes the podium on stage, she begins her remarks by acknowledging that Mignogna was not present to engage and responded with “F*** him!” before taking aim at Mignogna: “Vic’s not here, but you know what? None of the little 14-year olds that he grabbed were willing participants so F*** HIM. Now, fair enough, some of you, do we have any “I Stand with Vic” people here? Anyone? It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s a safe space. No? Well, you might be surprised to hear that I stand with Vic…because if you sit next to him it’s hard to escape. He’s not doing too bad though. The other day I saw he had a signing in a parking lot. Oh no wait, he was flipping a sign in the parking lot.” Related: Dragon Ball and Vegeta Voice Actor Chris Sabat Accused of Abusive Behavior and Exchanging Roles for Sexual Favors
January 10, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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transferdinand.gay
Lmao apparently people near me are freaking out about a non binary teacher

And I am watching the entire community come together to dunk on the much smaller group of transphobic dipshits and it is DELICIOUS

The local newspaper even snarkily wrote about them and I am CRYING
- A group of fully grown adults collapsed into emotional rubble this week after encountering a teacher title that did not personally receive their approval. The incident triggered mass Facebook posts, legal threats, and a community-wide reminder that the people screaming "kids are too soft" cannot emotionally survive one new word. Parents immediately announced they were pulling children from music class, threatening lawsuits, and demanding firings, all because children accepted something calmly, politely, and without a meltdown. This response enraged adults, who had worked very hard to be upset. Children processed the situation in under 30 seconds. Adults have now entered day three of spiral posting. Several parents described the issue as "dangerous" and "immoral," words they apparently reserve for situations involving tambourines and basic respect. One adult warned that children might ask questions, confirming the real horror is not gender, but curiosity. The fragility on display has been remarkable. These are the same adults who mock participation trophies, complain about snowflakes, and brag about "how we were raised." That upbringing, it turns out, produced people who short-circuit when reality fails to match their Facebook comfort zone. Experts note that not one child reported confusion, distress, or identity crisis. However, dozens of adults reported being personally wounded, spiritually attacked, and victimized by the existence of a teacher who did not cater to their feelings. At press time, children remained fine. Music class remained fine. The school remained fine. Only the adults were broken, trembling before the terrifying idea that the world does not freeze until they approve it. Community Note: If you would like to counter the noise, the district needs supportive messages reminding them that calm, inclusive adults still exist and that children do not need to be rescued from basic human respect. The encourages these parents to locate the nearest mirror and ask themselves why a second grader has more emotional stability than they do.
January 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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thanedar.house.gov
The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished.

I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy.

Time to melt ICE.
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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peark.es
Lmao
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
kotaku.com Kotaku @kotaku.com · 22h
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.

"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."

https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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laurenshof.online
X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

my analysis of current events

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The implicit theory behind the open social web was that platform quality would determine outcomes. Build something that’s better, and in combination with the incumbent getting worse, this would lead to such difference in quality, user experience and safety that at some point people would switch from X to alternatives like Mastodon or Bluesky. This theory held up for a while in 2023 and 2024. In 2025 it started to falter, as Musk aligned himself with Trump, the signup waves to the alternative platforms effectively stopped. In early 2026, this theory is now really over, because X has fundamentally changed. Mastodon and Bluesky are not in competition anymore with the platform X, because X has changed. It changed from being a platform to the power structure for the neo-royalty, with the public square shambling along as a zombie, animated by everyone who still treats X like it’s 2015. You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’ by having better moderation policies or algorithmic choice. X is not a platform problem anymore, it is a power problem, and building a different platform does not solve the power problem.
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
I think independent game developers spend a lot of time having discourse about game pricing because it feels like a knob you can control and everyone wants to feel more in control of what is ultimately a very unpredictable system.
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later. “They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.” Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
xythar.bsky.social
i played a little ways into paranormasight but it's not really the game i thought it'd be, lol. the premise is kind of a turn off but i'll probably come back to it later
January 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
xythar.bsky.social
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January 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
xythar.bsky.social
fucking nasu always foreshadowing everything
January 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
xythar.bsky.social
erika aoi is now on bluesky
January 9, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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excelpope.net
Microsoft's own documentation says that Copilot is great, except for those rare circumstances where you're using your spreadsheet to do something with numbers, look up data, do finances, or need it to consistently return the same result.

Other than those outliers, you're grand.
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
BBC News yesterday: "Despite the ceasefire Israel's bombardment of Gaza continues, with almost daily strikes"

At what point do mainstream journalists start reporting that actually there isn't a ceasefire, instead of uttering absurdities like this.
January 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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pavlovforgoths.com
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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amyhoy.bsky.social
this is the best reframe i’ve ever seen about calling your politicians
mostlybree.kitrocha.com Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d
It really do recommend making your shitty day the problem of your shitty senator's voicemail every night, it doesn't have to be a chore. It is a actually cathartic
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
Holy fuck they actually did it
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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joewintergreen.com
Missing from this imo is how drastically it all changes with the scale of the numbers involved. If you aren't likely to sell big numbers in the first place you're better off pricing out the people who only buy at low prices since they're also the ones who aggressively refund and write shit reviews
mossmouth.bsky.social Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 1d
Any advice Tom has on making indie games is worth listening to, but I really want to highlight his thoughts on price point - it's well explained.

I do think that the movement to get indies to charge more mostly just hurt new indies - with fewer players, fewer/worse reviews, and lower sales.
January 9, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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flyingwalruss.bsky.social
I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them
philabcoulter.bsky.social Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 1d
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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poparena.bsky.social
I *have* to think someone in the streaming services has noticed how easy it would be to sell an Animorphs show as "90s Stranger Things." Like that pitch writes itself.
shadowtodd.bsky.social Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 1d
With "Stranger Things" finally over, can we finally get some '90s pastiches? In any medium? I don't even know what a '90s throwback show would look like
January 9, 2026 at 3:44 AM
xythar.bsky.social
that's enough doom for one day
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 AM