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lauren💀

@leechjar.bsky.social

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36. agender. lesbian. they/she. 🏺🪱 friend to the insane, from ophelia to king lear.

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Skribls

@littleskrib.bsky.social

Red upon Gold

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part of my gift for @humbl3pi.bsky.social for the Hansry Kingdom Discord Server Christmas Exchange

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#kcd #kcd2 #hansry

A digital illustration of the characters Hans and Henry from the game series Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Henry is leaning over Hans, who is lying on a soft fur, both of them smiling and looking lovingly at each other while their breaths ghost around them in a cold late autumn night. They're lid by a campfire behind them, with the bare treeline in the background. They're wearing layers of clothing fit for the colder season, but their faces, ears and fingers are flushed from the cold as much as from their closeness.

December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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Pina🍍

@pinacoladamatata.bsky.social

"Lord Capon is safer locked away in Maleshov than you or I."

"I made a promise I'd protect him-"

henry and hans from kcd. Henry sits with his arms around his knees in the grass outside maleshov overlooking the lake, the moonlight is reflecting on the water and maleshov is visible in the distance. there is an ornamental border in the middle with henrys sword, and hans bow and tiny animal figures. on the other side of the border is hans sitting in maleshov with his arms around his knees, covering his face. he is crying. the moon is visible through the window

November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Nal-sh

@nal-sh.bsky.social

Tapestory - (haha)

#kcd2 #hansry

November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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Thi

@minhthi.bsky.social

#kcd 🐤🌼🌷🌹🌻🐶

A digital fanart for the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. On the right side of the canvas, Lady Jitka of Kunstadt lovingly holds baby Heinrich in her arms. In the background, a line drawing of flowers and plants can be seen, among the lines is a baby bird nesting close to its mother. Below the drawing of Lady Jitka, little Heinrich can be seen tightly clutching the dog Mutt. In the main composition on the left, Sir Hans Capon is holding little Heinrich. Both are leaning to the right, trying to speak to Henry—who is listening closly to them both; Mutt is standing right next to him.

November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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Skribls

@littleskrib.bsky.social

After Tourney - Commission

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#kcd #kcd2 #hansry

A digital illustration of the characters Hans and Henry from the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Hans has his arm lazily curled around Henry, holding his coif and helmet and looking incredibly smug, while Henry's visibly exhausted and flustered by the other man, so he partially hides his smile behind his hood.

November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter]
النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه.

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza.

These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform.

Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report.

We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes:

Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language.

Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future.

Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification.

Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic.

Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision.

In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community.

We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard.

We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future.

We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community.

[To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Madeleine Fjäll

@madeleinefjall.bsky.social

Forever by your side

#kcd2 #hansry

April 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

This is great, 100% spot on.

Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Jan 21

Full piece here

Out With The Old

How the Democrats have freed us from the Democrats

www.reallyveryhuman.com

January 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

If your political opposition are Nazis and the bipartisanship is only one-way, then all you’re doing is collaborating with Nazis. Shouldn’t be a bragging point! You worms.

January 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM