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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt

@brianmcnatt.bsky.social

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Howdy. Horror enthusiast. Bookworm. Writer of fantasy, horror, and mysteries. Believes in centering LGBTQ+ in my stories. NSFW on occasion, so minors DNI. Latest book: Leviathan Author website: https://brianmcnatt.com/

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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Legends of Heraldale saga is now complete on Itch. Get all four books in the story of Princess Galaxy and her war against the Avalon Empire for half-off while the sale lasts!

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#furry #furrywriting #indiewriter #itchio

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Legends of Heraldale Finale Sale by Brian90

A bundle by Brian90, $8.00 for 4 games

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Please help the Nashwan family survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & invasion by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, they're starving & exhausted:

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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 9h

Well this stinks

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Saeed @saed-in-gaza.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, I'm Saeed from Gazan currently displaced with my family in Al-Mawasi Khan Younis. We urgently need your support to cover rent (500$) and food for the week (200$). Can we make it happen today?

Plz Donate via GoFoundMe:
gofund.me/a0a540b8

@mommunism.bsky.social
@slimyswampghost.bsky.social

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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 9h

Need more faceless crowds of murderous people ominously backlit with fog.

Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 9h

Are these the most viscerally painful stabbings in a horror movie? I'd argue so.

Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 14h

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) is the greatest American synergy with giallo I have ever seen, a near-miraculous texture of 16mm brutality and slow burning entropic rage. A self-made tomb of urban Catholic abuses and cyclical mania, the ravenous ouroboros of the Holier Than Thou and the lives they pulp.

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Sherman’s Dead and Buried (1981) is an absolutely perfect little horror movie. Sort’ve a sleepy Re-Animator in Murder She Wrote’s Cabot Cove, a sweet spot between Messiah of Evil and The Fog just oozing with rural seaside evil and mood to fucking spare. Small town apocalypse at its best!

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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 12h

This one hurts, lol

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SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 15h

DAY 3 without my meds.

Can you please help and or boost?

Am needing help with $110 only 1left to get my prescription refilled.

If 11 more people can just help with $10 each, then it’s done!

If you can help:

Www.PayPal.me/DeeDentalDamn

#TransCrowdFund
#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest

Pay Den Elms using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/DeeDentalDamn and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 18h

Hana hasn’t had good internet lately but her and her family need support

Eng Hana allulu @ilaymedia.com · 18h

Life in Gaza feels like an endless struggle — exhaustion, fear, and displacement. We lost our home and keep fighting to survive with dignity. Your support keeps us going and gives us hope to continue 🕊️

🔗 GFM
gofund.me/81080627

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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 16h

*tips hat* M’cuties

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Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · 16h

Beware anyone who wants to limit the study of literature. Literature is the beginning of empathy, critical thinking, understanding context and complexity, and learning beyond your borders.

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 18h

Boosting this as well

gofund.me/a073bc944

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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 17h

Man, I need to get back to finishing Detention

Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 1d

Dang, this page goes hard

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R.E.D. From Boulder Punch @redlreview.bsky.social · 1d

I think the funniest thing about Orson Welles not giving a single flying fuck about voicing Unicron, is that his absolute apathy about the material unironically adds to Unicron’s character because yeah why would Unicron care, he’s a big planet eating planet doing his thing

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Harryhenry @harryhenry.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like some of the backlash to the slick designs of the prequels are from people who don't realise that design sensibilities in the real world can get worse even as the underlying technology is "better".

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Sep 15

The Prequels had to present the past of Star Wars, a world that hadn't yet fallen under the weight of fascism.

Chiang: "In Episode one, we established a very Art Nouveau, very fluid form, and Episode four had a sort of very industrial engineered angular shape."
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Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 1d

Emulator preference?

Brian "Braaaiiinns!" McNatt @brianmcnatt.bsky.social · 1d

These bastards

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ramadan. Ramadan is 23 years old and worked in his father’s sewing factory. His father was killed and now he’s responsible for his family including his siblings Rula, 26, Rami, 20 and Ramey, 17 as well as his 2 year old nephew Jihad.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 1d

Boosting this

gofund.me/228e2fbcf

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Sama'a has two little girls to feed and clothe, and after two years of genocidal horror she is tired in ways we cannot fully understand. Please give what you can to help her family survive.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Lubna 💢 @lk032.bsky.social · 1d

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Our lives taste of death, bitterness fills our days, and sorrow weighs on our nights.
Nasser is suffering and urgently needs your kind support — with your help, we can give him medicine, warmth, and a chance to hope and live again. Every act of kindness truly matters ❤️‍🩹
🔗 gofund.me/edd687b8

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