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ghostlytrick.bsky.social @ghostlytrick.bsky.social · Nov 13

Everybody is doing this and I plan on actually using this, so why not!

#promosky

My interests are:

Kingdom Hearts
Pokemon
Final Fantasy
Shin Megami Tensei
Resident Evil
Dragon Age
Ace Attorney
Fashion/Textiles
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…and many more

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GameConcept

@gameconcept.bsky.social

Lulu - Final Fantasy X

January 7, 2026 at 7:17 PM

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

literally anybody whose *actual job* involves having to watch atrocity videos will tell you it's hugely psychologically self-destructive and not something you should voluntarily put yourself through on a daily basis.

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

Nobody is supposed to be able to "handle" witnessing atrocity and those who think they can are lying to themselves! You're fucking yourself up to feel holy! That's a hairshirt!

Karissa Barrows @sjbsmama.bsky.social · 17h

Then you aren’t someone I was talking to with my statement. Some people can handle it. Some people can’t. Neither is better than the other. It is up to each person to recognize their own limits. I choose to bear witness, I refuse to become numb to this stuff, I am taking action, & that is my choice.

January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM

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videogame history

@vghistory.bsky.social

the powerpuff girls: chemical x-traction, screenshot, n64 (2001) www.mobygames.com/game/10102/t...

angry looking princess, puffy orange hair, golden crown, yellow dress, surrounded by layers of pink love hearts and a few yellow stars. the word 'congratulations!' is above.

October 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing with the biggest cocaine mafias, the names of Nicolás Maduro or Cilia Flores don’t appear. Those who have come forward to denounce him are Venezuelan opposition generals, nothing more, seeking to topple the popular vote.

The judicial power in Colombia doesn’t belong to me; it’s independent of me, and my opposition largely handles it.

If one wants to know about the mafia and the business of cocaine commercialization, just look at Colombia’s judicial files.

That’s why I deeply reject Trump speaking without knowing; my name doesn’t appear in the judicial files on drug trafficking over 50 years, neither from before nor from the present. Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump. That’s not how you threaten a Latin American president who emerged from the armed struggle and then from the people of Colombia’s fight for Peace.

I was part of the clandestine organization that fought for democracy in Colombia against the civil dictatorship of the "State of Emergency." The organization that in 1974, long before Chávez, carried out the operation to raise Bolívar’s sword once more, who said he would never sheathe it until injustice ended in Gran Colombia. I was with the M19 that made the first peace in contemporary Latin America.

He doesn’t read Colombia’s history, and that’s why he fails when he criticizes us. He should only meet with his officers who are experts in drug investigations in Colombia, whom I’ve helped with my own investigations as a senator of the Republic from Colombia’s Left and its people,

who have suffered the narco genocide and its political allies, who are also allies of the American far right.

Tens of thousands of our comrades from the armed and popular struggle for democracy were assassinated, and we didn’t go begging you for invasions; we endured and won through Peace.

I’ve never burned a U.S. flag because I’ve read the history of the popular and workers’ struggles in the U.S. through Zinn’s books in Spanish. And that’s why I honor the American working people, the Black and Indigenous people, the young soldiers who, alongside the Soviets, defeated Hitler.

And that’s why I dared to speak on a street in New York in front of the United Nations building and under U.S. law that protects the opinions of those attending the United Nations Assembly to speak freely. I spoke against the genocide in Gaza—how I would have loved to accompany you to make peace in Gaza! Where the Palestinians love me, and perhaps if instead of

going to capture a Latin American president with small controls on oil because you blocked the oil and condemned us to hunger and unleashed the exodus that reached your own country, I would have accompanied you to capture Netanyahu, the genocidaire.

For what I said, you took the arrogance to punish my opinion, my words against the Palestinian genocide. Your punishment is to falsely accuse me of being a drug trafficker and having cocaine factories; I don’t have a car, nor estates abroad—my house I’m still paying off to the bank with my salary. It’s unjust, and I fight against injustices.

I’m friends with a lot of people in the U.S. who stop me on the streets, surround me with their arms.

That’s why I respect the history that began with Washington and Bolívar together; they gave each other things, they were liberators more than enslavers.

I learned not to be a slave, and I reject your

January 5, 2026 at 3:39 AM

ghostlytrick.bsky.social

@ghostlytrick.bsky.social

One thing this site does is make up a person to be mad about. Why are so many of you swinging at air

January 5, 2026 at 3:24 AM

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西

@nishiii26miii.bsky.social

WASOU 2B

January 3, 2026 at 5:08 AM

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西

@nishiii26miii.bsky.social

Happy New Year🐎✨

January 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM

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japmagads

@japmagads.bsky.social

🕹️ Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
📚 Weekly Famitsu 243
👤 @gamingalexandria.bsky.social

Ad for Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon from Weekly Famitsu magazine, issue 243

January 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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Spike R. Monster

@spikermonster.bsky.social

i dont know whats gonna happen but here. 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

alright. lots of things happening right now.
for those who don’t know me, hi, i’m spikermonster, and i’m a venezuelan artist. i’ve been sharing my art on the internet since i was a kid. i was born here in caracas and i’ve never moved out. the only time i’ve ever left the country was in 2001, when i was 9 and my dad took me to disney world.
i’m saying all this because it’s important that people know that i’m someone who actually lives here and has always lived here, so i don’t get anyone in my mentions trying to dismiss anything i say because they think i live in another country or whatever. you might think i don’t owe anyone this much of an explanation, but i feel like i do, because i’ve seen the way americans snarkily dismiss anything venezuelans say about the issue if it’s something they can’t wrap their heads around. they don’t even try to look at it from our perspective. suddenly every venezuelan who speaks up online is secretly a CIA shill. with all due respect you guys are fucking insane. all you’re doing is silencing venezuelan voices and you don’t even realize it. do i blame you for thinking that way? no, i don’t! because the CIA is terrifying and the US sucks, trump sucks, we all know this. but you care WAY more about hating your own country (as valid as your reasons may be) than you do about actually listening to people from other countries. so thanks for making me do all this extra work just to speak about my country.

last night the US military launched airstrikes in venezuela and there were also troops on the ground. i heard the planes and explosions. i’m not able to see the city from my apartment but i could hear everything, the sounds were unmistakable and unlike anything i’d heard before. i was scared shitless. however this is something we’ve been all mentally preparing ourselves for, since as some of you might know, the US had been besieging venezuela for several months via the caribbean sea. still, you might think you’re ready for a moment like this but trust me, you’re truly not, and you realize that real quick once it actually happens.
please know that my family and i are safe. the places that were targeted were specifically military bases and points of interest like that, it wasn’t a random bombing against civilians with lots of casualties or anything. at the time of me writing this post, there’s only one confirmed civilian casualty, and according to some sources it might be around 40, the large majority of which were military. i have not been able to confirm this though. i’m not saying this to downplay the importance of the situation, i just want to get some facts straight because there’s a lot of fearmongering and sensationalism revolving around the issue.

that being said, it was still the single most terrifying thing i’ve lived through. this should’ve never happened. we should’ve never reached a point where a foreign military intervention was needed. yes, needed. because we never would’ve been able to get rid of maduro ourselves, trust me, we’ve been trying for several years. maduro needed to be taken care of. if you don’t know why, i encourage you to do your own research on the venezuelan crisis and how we ended up in a dictatorship (maybe pick up a few pointers so you can recognize that trump himself is becoming a dictator pretty quick, but i think you might’ve noticed already.) now, i’m hearing that this move from the US was apparently not exactly legal but i’m gonna be honest with you: we don’t care. “but they’re just after your oil” we don’t care. we’re just glad maduro is finally out. whatever happens with him now is up to the US. or the UN if it ever decides to stop being useless and step in. i really have no energy in me to think of what this means for the US, all i can think about right now is what’s going to happen with my own country.

btw if you’re an american and posted this meme reacting to current events: [image of squidward wearing a huge button that says "i really wish i weren't living through a major historical event right now!"]

i’m gonna need you to get a grip and sit down because this isn’t about you. this and overdramatic angry apologies on behalf of your government are displays that don't show any solidarity towards venezuelans, because you’re literally just making it all about you. you you you, it's always all about the USA. reel it in and listen to venezuelans for once, my god. get some perspective. why is it always americans trying to make every world issue an american issue. no, the venezuelan military isn’t gonna retaliate against your country because they’re pathetically underequipped. you guys are gonna be fine (in a way, i guess, the US has a lot of other issues to worry about)

January 4, 2026 at 2:54 AM

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Matt Shuham

@mattshuham.bsky.social

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.

“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”

“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM

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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️☃️🎄🎁

@retrogameart.bsky.social

Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories poster artwork (2004)

#retro #art #gaming #KingdomHearts

September 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM

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Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur.bsky.social

Venezuela is already a 2026 election issue

January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Anna Gifty

@itsafronomics.bsky.social

When I tell you that this regime is the Reagan administration on crack (allegedly), it's bar for bar. If Reagan has no haters, I am dead.

January 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM

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Johnny Cans

@oldmatecans.bsky.social

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance

Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn

Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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Vikram Bath

@vikrambath.bsky.social

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM

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Erin Grievances

@erinbartram.bsky.social

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.