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Korlis

@korl.is

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Occasional freelance writer. Film, game, and sumo fan. Relapsed Warhammer enthusiast. For my sins, trapped in England. 🏳️‍🌈 Letterboxd | https://boxd.it/AxMP Ko-fi | https://ko-fi.com/korlis Links | https://lnk.bio/korlis

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Korlis @korl.is · Apr 20

stuff I post about:

🌍 leftist politics / shitposts
🎮 videogames
🔨 warhammer 40k / miniature painting
🐈 neighbourhood cats

Meme format of a woman speed-dialling and raising the phone to her ear. The phone screen reads "Gavrilo [Princeps]".

Screenshot of the game Cyberpunk 2077 featuring my version of the protagonist V - a heavily augmented human woman wearing a cropped bomber jacket, with a pink mohawk and tech goggles with mutli-faceted pink lenses over her eyes. She's smoking.

Photo of a single Games Workshop Space Marine miniature in the midst of being painted, held on a painting handle.

Photo of a neighbourhood stray cat, Lope, looking up into the camera while sitting on the front step of an English house in late spring.

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Korlis @korl.is · 4h

ever have a moment where you think "I'm running a little later than I intended but overall, not bad" and then you look at a clock and go OH FUCK I'M SO LATE in a crowded elevator.

Korlis @korl.is · 13h

TIL I did not know who Theo Von is

(gun to my head I would have guessed one of the Queer Eye people. one of the original cast.)

Korlis @korl.is · 15h

advice to live by. not live well, but kinda muddle through until death, as nature intended.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 15h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Hell-y 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mxhollyclara.bsky.social · 1d

The Empire Strikes Backlog

Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 1d

the blair witch project manager

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

i know what you did last quarter

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Korlis @korl.is · 1d

this feels like one of those things where in a few years we'll be using "Altman" and "NVidia" for massive financial crimes like Ponzi and Madoff are now

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Korlis @korl.is · 1d

really wanted to find a real guy called Dick Yank and turns out he was a bus driver in Albany. unclear if this was before or after his adult video career.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Korlis @korl.is · 1d

Hewlett-Packard's Basilisk

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

This website would genuinely be so much better if there was a special Discover tab for Americans that only show them posts by other Americans so the rest of us stop getting aggro from their most brain fried centrists who seem genuinely bewildered by context and angry that other places exist

Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Natasha from America's Next Top Model telling someone offscreen "I just wanna tell you that some people have war in their countries"

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Korlis @korl.is · 1d

imagine what you could actually achieve with $1 trillion if you weren't burning it on an economic bubble and technological boondoggle.

I guarantee you're thinking too small.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle have collectively announced plans to spend more than $1 trillion on data centers in the next several years.

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Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 2d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 2d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Korlis @korl.is · 2d

I wonder what it's like to believe in less than nothing. Just a sucking void where any actual thoughts would be.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Built in a lab to appease billionaires

"I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," Ms. Weiss told the Federalist Society, an influential
conservative legal group, in 2023. "And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."

Korlis @korl.is · 2d

how many of those posts are yelling at jay for taking out her public breakdown on black and trans users

Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

Korlis @korl.is · 2d

There have been a couple of isolated reports, poorly followed up on, of ICE killing people during this year's aggressive increase in ICE violence that I can think of. I'm amazed it isn't more frequent.

Cases like this will be commonplace if it gets the usual "cops can do no wrong" impunity.

Adam Pavlacka @gamescan.bsky.social · 2d

To no one's surprise, ICE lied.

ICE rammed Martinez's vehicle, before shooting her MULTIPLE times with live rounds. A bullet fell out of her arm while she was being given first aid at an oil change shop.

Martinez is a US citizen w/a CC license.

Full story: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday.

The video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning on Kedzie Avenue near 39th Street, her attorney, Christopher Parente, said at a detention hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

Parente said the video shows an agent turn federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, “Do something bitch.” The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez.

Parente said Martinez has “seven holes” in her from the shooting and that agents were in such a hurry to take her into custody at the hospital that they had to return later when Martinez began bleeding from her wounds.

Parente disputed the government’s claim that Martinez is a danger to the community and should be detained, saying instead that the officer who shot her was a threat.

“I think there’s a danger to the community, but I don’t think it’s Ms. Martinez,” he said.

A trucker at the shop called 911 as workers frantically grabbed blue shop towels and patches to place on her wounds, the manager said. The shop manager called 911 and said, “Send somebody quick because this lady is bleeding profusely. ... I mean, it was instant puddles.”

Police and paramedics showed up a few minutes later, he said. As paramedics placed tourniquets on Martinez’s leg and arm, a bullet fell out of her arm and onto the shop’s floor, the manager said. She left in an ambulance. FBI investigators then arrived, placing red tape around the area where Martinez had sat and around her car, the manager said.

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Korlis @korl.is · 2d

As a millennial I've lost track of how many of these I've seen as an adult, but this seems like it's gonna be a *wild* one

Korlis @korl.is · 2d

as a millennial I've lost track of how many of these I've experienced, but this seems like it's gonna be a wild one

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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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Korlis @korl.is · 2d

GWENNOCENT

Philip Bite Marks @philipmarks87.bsky.social · 2d

Justice for Gwen Pepperoni

Fuck you Jay

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Korlis @korl.is · 2d

oh now it's fucking personal

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

The Israeli government denies mistreating Greta Thunberg. Then Police Min Itamar Ben Gvir goes on TV to gleefully announcing that she was indeed tortured. He says he's proud of the fact. It's a great demonstration of how the Israeli government under Netanyahu works, unable to coordinate its lies

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 4d

there's a reason why half the out and out racists online have AI generated Ghibli profile pics and it's because being pro-ai in and of itself has become a dogwhistle

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