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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 9h

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

buttondown.com

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 4h

i'm STILL offering technical support for anyone who needs or would like someone to manually walk them through the migration process !!

i've already helped 43 PEOPLE MIGRATE TO THE BLACKSKY SERVERS and would love to make it 50 !!

hit me up in my DMs or on discord / instagram !!

dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 9d

to anyone migrating to #blacksky :

i'm the girl that made the BLACKSKY PDSMOOver migration video 👋

if you run into any issues during migration and can't post/DM/reply via bluesky anymore, PLEASE CONTACT ME !!

think of me as blacksky technical support 🥰
my username on insta is "dapurplesharpie"

A screenshot of DaPurpleSharpie's (@sharpiepls.com) Instagram account for authenticity.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 4h

Fuck yeah!

(Source: www.reddit.com/r/transbian/...)

Lesbian and trans pride flags overlapping and blending into each other

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 23h

Okay, I couldn't NOT do a second round of fox masks after the first one was received so well. This time, branching out from Silent Hill f's canon desion with some that are a bit bloodier in keeping with Fox Mask's final confrontation. Both are available for sale, just dm to inquire.

A pair of leather fox masks, one white with a heavily dirty patina and red detailing, the other black with white and bloody accents.

Closeup of the forhead detail on the white mask.

Closeup of the detailing on the black mask.

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tangerine @spacegirlkate.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S BLOOD DOLL DAY! If you're interested in vampires, queer poly D/s romance, trans women being loved, erotic theological debates, techbros getting devoured by carnivorous aquatic megafauna, or hearing Katherine Cross play a punk, then our little romantic tragedy might well be for you!

Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll Audio Drama – A Blood Doll radicalizes a coterie of Seattle Kindred vampires.

www.blooddollpod.com

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Alicia "Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll" Goranson @aliciagoranson.bsky.social · 1h

And learn who Samael is based on.

VtM - Blood Doll Audio Drama @blooddollpod.bsky.social · 2h

Show notes for Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll - Season 1 - Episode 1, by me, the writer/editor/director

Learn why I put a f***ing orca in the show.

www.blooddollpod.com/2025/10/08/v...

VtM: Blood Doll – Season 1 – Episode 1 Show Notes – Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll Audio Drama

www.blooddollpod.com

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 4h

Good Morning, World.

Sappho fragment 147 presented in both greek and english: "someone will remember us. I say. Even in another time."

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Calamari Cakes @calamaricakes.bsky.social · 2d

Trying (and failing) to take some sneaky lewds at work 😔

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 3d

Down to 950 at least? Still, 2 days to go, and anything you can throw in helps.

Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 5d

Heya, Łink, and everyone else. Just an artist and writer trying desperately to make rent at this point with about 1350 left to go. I'll gladly take donations here: paypal.me/tormentedart...

If folks want to get awesome stuff in return, all my work can get found here: tormentedartifacts.com

Get your very own PayPal.Me link

Post it. Text it. Tag it. Share it. Shout it. And let your friends pay you back in a tap or two. Grab your PayPal.Me link today.

paypal.me

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deadsec 💀🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @neuroticmoths.bsky.social · 22h

i finally got to see dees work in person & they haven't invented cameras that can handle how cool it is irl
therefore you should buy it so you can see for yourself

Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 23h

Okay, I couldn't NOT do a second round of fox masks after the first one was received so well. This time, branching out from Silent Hill f's canon desion with some that are a bit bloodier in keeping with Fox Mask's final confrontation. Both are available for sale, just dm to inquire.

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 23h

Okay, I couldn't NOT do a second round of fox masks after the first one was received so well. This time, branching out from Silent Hill f's canon desion with some that are a bit bloodier in keeping with Fox Mask's final confrontation. Both are available for sale, just dm to inquire.

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning, World.

A roadside adjustable readerboard with the word "sacrifice' on it.

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Ruby Bloodthirst 🍉🏳️‍⚧️💕✨💖🦄🌸 @rubyrockatansky.bsky.social · 1d

I am very much looking forward to listening to this when I'm off work tonight because this seems like one of those things that was made specifically to cater to nearly all of my interests at once

VtM - Blood Doll Audio Drama @blooddollpod.bsky.social · 2d

Good news, October lovers of vamps, tragic love stories, transgender drama, and leftist politics!

The Not Ready for Opsec Players are proud to announce the release of their first episode of their weekly audio drama:
Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll!

Enjoy!

www.blooddollpod.com/podcast/vtm-...

Slowly, two figures come into focus, one behind the other with their hand on the other's neck.

Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll, Episode 1. Coming from the Not Ready for Opsec Players and Alicia E. Goranson.

https://blooddollpod.com

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 1d

This digital necromancy is abominable. I'd go as far as to say it's blasphemous. It's an unimaginable indignity to the memory of the departed, and a cruel mockery to visit on their loved ones.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

IS THE WHOLE DAMN BLUESKY TEAM GOING TO SHOW UP IN MY REPLIES TODAY?

Samuel @samuel.fm · 1d

unbelievable that this needs to be said given it’s completely obvious if you give it more than a millisecond of thought

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Not a single mention of protecting transgender people from the extraordinary attacks being leveled at them at the Federal level so that's great, really makes me feel like people have my back and not at all like the cis are fully prepared to let us die.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should go buy trans books before I get disappeared for bringing up the Trust and Safety gooning incident.

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

What's our head of T&S doing? @whats-aaron-doing.bsky.social
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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @jay.bsky.team, keep going! @aaron.bsky.team will love it when this place is all porn bots!

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think Jay and her band of God's lost bets understand the degree to which everyone not currently on Bluesky has already decided it's the Faggy App for Trans Commies. They aren't going to come here just because you run us off! We're all that's keeping you from being Spoutible.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 2d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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The Raven Queen’s Hut Under a Blue Sky 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @ravenqueenhrefna.bsky.social · 1d

You pissed them off.

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

why is this labeled as intolerance lmao

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 2d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d

Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.

His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.

Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)

A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team with the subject line “Bluesky Account Behavior” sent at 22:15. The email states that a Bluesky account controlled by the recipient, with the handle @spacelawshitpost.me, posted a reply with an image where the alt text reads: Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says “Freedom.” A negative consequence follows. The email indicates this post violates Community Guidelines regarding violent or threatening speech, specifically listing threats of violence or physical harm against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public, and incitement of self-harm or suicide.

A screenshot of an email continuation from the Bluesky Moderation Team displaying a bulleted list of Community Guidelines violations. The first bullet point describes threats of violence or physical harm as including threats or encouragement of violence against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public. The second bullet point defines incitement of self-harm or suicide as content that encourages self-harm or suicide. The third bullet point explains wishes of harm as expressions of a desire for harm directed at a specific person or group. Below the bullets, a paragraph states that users may not use Bluesky to break the law or cause harm to others and that all users must be treated with respect. The next paragraph informs the recipient that as a result of these violations, your account has been taken down. A closing paragraph thanks the user for doing their part to keep Bluesky a welcoming and empowering place for all users and instructs them to email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz if they have questions or wish to appeal the decision. The email ends with the signature Bluesky Moderation Team.

A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team sent at 08:11 with the subject line Re: Bluesky Account Behavior addressed To: Hide My Email. The email reads:

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out to appeal the takedown of your account on Bluesky. We have carefully reviewed your case, including the information you provided and the activity that led to the suspension of your account.

After investigating, we have determined that your account activity was in violation of our community guidelines, specifically promoting hateful content or being disruptive to other users. We take these guidelines seriously to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all our users.

As a result, we regret to inform you that your appeal has been denied, and your account will remain suspended. This decision is final and cannot be reversed. We understand that this may be disappointing news, but we must prioritize the well-being of our community and maintain a consistent enforcement of our policies. We encourage you to review our community guidelines to better understand the expectations we have for user behavior on our platform. Please do not create new accounts, since those will be taken down for ban evasion.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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Natalie de Corsair @nataliedecorsair.bsky.social · 2d

Werewolves vs pumpkin carving

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