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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 34m

Teaser 2 for my interactive fiction game, with the official game title reveal:

"Alight in Tyrnasìth"

Btw, the title track for AIT is called "Inward, Outward, Forward, Backward"

Coming 2026 🐝

youtu.be/SMfr02nUL4o?...

Alight In Tyrnasìth - interactive fiction teaser trailer 2

YouTube video by Mapfulness

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

My friend @ilorien.bsky.social is helping start a new small press for singular fiction that defies the 'constraints of genre'--if that sounds interesting to you, and you have some time & money to spare, take a look and considering supporting them:

M. Huw Evans @ilorien.bsky.social · 22h

Homeward Books’ Kickstarter for J.M. Sidorova’s The Witch of Prague is live!
Please come check it out, contribute if you’re so inspired, and spread the word.
Thank you!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 2h

Please don't forget Sakher's mother, Najwa.

Any amount helps; shares help too.

fairshare.help @fairshare.help · 2h

Please contribute if you're able or share if you're not.

Directly asking people you know is most effective

Donate to Help a Mother of 5 Survive in Gaza, organized by Jennifer M

My name is Najwa, and I am a mother of five children living in Gaza. Every day, we strug… Jennifer M needs your support for Help a Mother of 5 Survive in Gaza

www.gofundme.com

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Mother Mayhem 🍉 @isabella-cortese.bsky.social · 3h

Mother Mayhem 🍉 @isabella-cortese.bsky.social · 4h

Bluesky bans Palestinian accounts

Support Sakher here:
GFM: gofund.me/f116bf44
#Gaza 💕💸🍉
#mutualaid #maboost

Donate to No Food, No Medicine, No Safety - Help Us Survive Gaza, organized by Jennifer M

My name is Sakher, a young man from Gaza. Since the beginning of th… Jennifer M needs your support for No Food, No Medicine, No Safety - Help Us Survive Gaza

www.gofundme.com

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 2h

If you are disgusted w the complicity and cruelty of this place, please don't forget Reem's partner Sakher, whose account was suspended at the whims of people too irresponsible/immature/lacking in empathy to do anything except make the suffering of Gazans worse.

Donate or share.

@fairshare.help

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 3h

Sakher’s account was shut down — the only place where he spoke to the world about his pain and his suffering.

That account was his only voice, his way to survive and keep going.

Today, Sakher lost his last connection to the world.💔

Complement with comments, don't skip‼️
 gofund.me/f116bf44

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 4h

Palestinian families like Waseem's are being violently displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion while Bluesky torments them with deletions. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, & shelter:

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4h

Banned Books Week banned at your library? Tell me about it anonymously.

Also, sadly, you're not alone.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Has your library curtailed or outright banned anything related to Banned Books Week this year? I'm not talking that you're doing something else (i.e., freedom to read week). I'm talking YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING related to the topic.

Tell me about it anonymously --> tinyurl.com/banning-bbw25

Black text on a red and black background. It reads "Has your library banned events, displays, talks, or anything else related to banned books week this year? Share your story anonymously." It includes the survey link: https://tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 4h

It's #WorldOctopusDay! These beauties from our collection are both by French pharmacist and naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800-65).

Octopus vulgaris - the common octopus, which can grow to 9kg and change colour to match its surroundings.

Common octopus with brown and yellow colouring with hints of blue. It has yellow eyes and fills the image.

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 1d

Please don't forget Hosam and Princess Noor.

Donate or share.

@fairshare.help

Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 12d

Please don't forget Hosam and Noor who have lost their tent this week.

Donate or share.

@fairshare.help

chuffed.org/project/1360...

Help Hossam and His Family!

My name is Hossam, I'm 19 years old, and I'm the eldest son in my family. I never imagined I'd one day write to ask for help, but now I'm writing with a heavy heart and fear for my family.

chuffed.org

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 1d

It is so cold at night now, winter is coming and Mohammed's family is sleeping without protection from the weather.

Any amount helps; shares help too.

@fairshare.help

Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 3d

Oct 5:

Mohammed's family is sleeping on the road with no tent, no access to safe water, and no food for 3 adults and 3 very young children. #mutualAid

Please donate or share.

whydonate.com/hr/fundraisi...

www.paypal.com/paypalme/Moh...

sites.google.com/view/survivi...

@fairshare.help

Prikupljanje sredstava od Mohammed Al Khoodary | Gaza hitna pomoć: Pomozite mladom ocu da spasi svoju obitelj

Mohammed Al Khoodary Treba vašu pomoć | Hello, I created this campaign in the name of Mohammed Al Khoodary, a young Palestinian man whom ...

whydonate.com

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 16h

Please don't forget Reem. She needs your help to survive this war.

Donate or share.

@fairshare.help

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 22h

Today is October 7💔‼️
Two years of hunger,humiliation and displacement have passed,Two years in which I lost everything in my home, my wishes, even myself.Every day I sleep with fear and wake up to a new pain,And I try to live even though I'm very tired 💔😭
Complement with comments

gofund.me/de96cb50

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 4h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 13h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 6h

For that matter, Queen Victoria was still alive when my granddad was born 😬

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 6h

cogito ergo numb

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 6h

Tolkien was still alive when I was born.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 12h

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A teaser of teaser 2 that reads: Find yourself.

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 7d

Things are very bad for me. Shares appreciated. You can also visit my Redbubble shop for prints, etc.

ko-fi.com/ideocene

Support ideocene

A turquoise and white graphic that reads: Support ideocene on Ko-Fi.

ko-fi.com

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 17h

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 1d

Link & I were mutuals. While he’s gone, I encourage you to support some of his causes:

1) Use alt text on all images to support disability justice. Adjust your bsky settings: settings > accessibility > require alt text.

2) Reply here with mutual aid requests. Donate if you can, boost if you can’t.

Infographic featuring a photo of a capybara.

Writing Alt Text: identify who, expression, description, color, and interesting features.

The completed example reads, “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Screenshot of the bluesky accessibility settings that shows the “require alt text before posting” setting toggled on and underlined for emphasis.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.

Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.

Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

Introduction | Blacksky Documentation

docs.blacksky.community

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 16h

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 23h

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16h

Wow, that looks seriously bubblicious. The velocity of AI $ is now in a league of its own.

Nvidia and OpenAI tangle web of deals are “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 16h

Please don't forget Reem. She needs your help to survive this war.

Donate or share.

@fairshare.help

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 22h

Today is October 7💔‼️
Two years of hunger,humiliation and displacement have passed,Two years in which I lost everything in my home, my wishes, even myself.Every day I sleep with fear and wake up to a new pain,And I try to live even though I'm very tired 💔😭
Complement with comments

gofund.me/de96cb50

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 20h

I cut my hair on a whim, sweetness but I don't hate it today so I think I did ok in terms of "impulse hair decisions" - it's autumn, I needed something to cheer me up haha

PS: whatever, Aubrey ♥️

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