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Lying In Wait

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I make videos and do live streams for money on the Internet. Autistic, fibro, gender: urban fey creature 🏳️‍⚧️ http://pronoun.is/they lyinginbedmon.carrd.co

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · Nov 15

For the benefit of new followers: Hi, I'm Lying!

Way back when I was mostly known for Minecraft RP series like Witch in the Woods and Yokai Temple.

These days I'm mainly a variety streamer who also makes Minecraft mods like Wheelchairs, Various Oddities, and Tricksy Foxes!
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Minecraft Wheelchairs Mod Showcase!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 12h

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 3h

Back in my day the only web we had was made of spider silk, and we ensnared local villagers just fine!

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 1d

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 4h

I keep forgetting you're an actual child

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 20h

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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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 17h

Cis friends and allies: Do you see how "biological" is simply a slur when used by transphobes to demean trans people?

"Birth name" is a term we already have (not that that would be any more defensible, just less insane-sounding). "Biological" here is solely a dog-whistling cudgel against trans ppl

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 13h

Richard Quigley is a Labour MP and is the one cited in the subheading of the article. Also in the pro-trans court was Christine Jardine of the Lib Dems, and bizarrely yes Andrew Boff of the Tories (though he's never been an MP).

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 15h

Unfortunately they won't even test me once, let alone three times, so if I'm not already showing symptoms (many of which would be serious medical concerns in their own right) I doubt it'd apply.

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · 5d

Letter sent - there's a link in the replies to send your own!
(I'll post the letter in replies rather than alt text as it's long)
From @damesprod.bsky.social and Nova&Mali, and many of our artists!

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 17h

I shouldn't have to call it what the Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide has already, repeatedly, called it. But too many people think genocide is only genocide if it's concentration camps and mass graves, instead of murdering an entire social group with a thousand cuts over decades.

GeekOnALeash [Biological trans woman] 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 18h

Call it what it is: Genocide. Legal erasure, ministerial attacks, non-existent health care. This is not a debate. It's an attack on our existence!

medium.com/@geekonaleas...

The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 17h

Wait that can't be right, Labour MPs never defend trans people. McSweeney would excommunicate them.

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 18h

Wonder what everyone is going to do with their impression of that asshole's speech affect when he finally kicks it. Are we gonna just internalise that culturally like we do with "um actually" or "valley girl" etc. or are we just going to have a friendly agreement to Never do that impression again.

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

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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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,
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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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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 19h

Ultimately I want the passageways to be similar in aesthetic to cave tunnels, significantly more twisting and natural than the rooms they connect.

Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 19h

I need to add a post-processing step, once the dungeon is organised, to merge paths together where appropriate, then use the resulting network to determine where doors should go and how the passages generate.

We had SO many headaches tonight though that a big refactor is very clearly necessary...

Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 19h

Solid progress on the interstitial paths of #CyclicDungeons tonight, but I fear I must now conduct a hefty refactoring of how they're calculated before I go much farther 😓

A series of decorated dungeon rooms connected with differently-coloured paths. Each room has orange stained glass wherever a path intersects with its tile map.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

I'd add this. Although human rights are universal, those who most need the shelter they provide are those without money and power and who are politically targeted. The cost of the Supreme Court's choice to "edit the Human Rights Act out of existence" will be born most heavily by them.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 22h

It's difficult to read this piece without asking yourself whether you need to be foreign to see England for what it is. It's difficult, too, to read it because doing so is to be reminded, again, how much we will miss Conor Gearty. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 23h

It's coding stream time and tonight I'll be showing off the progress on the wave-function collapse system of #CyclicDungeons and getting to work figuring out the problems of the interstitial passageways.

Live in 30, see you there! #gamedev
twitch.tv/lyinginbedmon

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Alt: a black and white photo of a tunnel with a light coming out of the end

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 23h

I'd say it's closer to engineering, but I also really enjoy and appreciate engineering.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, they Are functionally the party of wealth and furries Are notorious for having a lot of big spenders 😄

Lying In Wait @lying.bsky.social · 23h

My only reasonable conclusion is that the Tories apparently have a very careless furry population writing just below the surface.