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MHFU Bird

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Hi! I'm low poly bird from the hit game Monster Hunter Freedom Unite!

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Nov 3

Monster Hunter Wilds Beta: low poly invasion!!!
#MonsterHunter #MHart

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 1h

Spent all my savings into a laptop

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 5d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

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Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
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Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

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France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

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Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
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Phone (outside US): click here

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks gang ❤️ I'm doing another one with Spino I'll probably post it in a few days

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 1d

Trying a new style, raptor for practice (not a particular species, just a guy)

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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 4d

finding out

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 5d

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about how you can hear Versa Pietru's skull crack and break to raise it's horns when it transforms to Makili Pietru

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 9d

I just tried almond milk and lowkey I think I've never been more disappointed in my life before

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 12d

They remembered the password for the account

Monster Hunter @monsterhunter.capcomusa.com · 12d

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 14d

//MH Wilds TU4 spoilers!!!

MY JAW JUST DROPED IT IS 4U ALL OVER AGAIN

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Yitanran @yitanran.bsky.social · 14d

Finally got the Welsh Red Dragon finished

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 15d

Nu Udra thingmabob

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 16d

On some fishy business

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Jakob Dawson @pikminjake.bsky.social · 16d

I also took the time to make a variant model for Elderfrost Gammoth. It was difficult to find a solution for the ice chunks on her body. Overall, I prefer and recommend the base model.

If you want to build one, you can find all the details on my account.

LEGO Elderfrost Gammoth Monster Hunter instructions

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Jakob Dawson @pikminjake.bsky.social · 16d

This took forever to release...

Gammoth! In LEGO form! Has instructions now!
🧊🧊🧊

Thank you everyone for your patience! This is a HUGE model and a labour of love to produce for you all!

LEGO Gammoth Monster Hunter instructions

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 22d

I just moved to this student apartment with these bigass window but for some reason there's no curtains and shit looks like indie horror game at night

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Sep 6

Redesigning my sona for the 1574th time and trying to give them actual feather patterns

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Sep 3

I've killed both Risen Chameleos and Kushala without unlocking them (trough anomaly investigations) and both of them got finished by Crimson Valstrax my goat

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Buggy gay simping 🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.

Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added;

If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.

And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.

So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).

a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound;

The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time.

The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.

Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.

The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post;

This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now.

How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.

But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Sep 1

One of the leaks is directly above my desk fml

MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Sep 1

There's no way bruh
Today's the first time that's raining properly in like 3 months but instead of normal continued rain it's an Amatsu level storm that caused leaks on the celling😭😭😭

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Aug 27

Time for the background (WIP)

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · Aug 25

Business Bird [4] - part 1/2

Panel 1 of a 7 panel Crow Time update featuring Business Bird, a crow wearing a yellow leaf tie that operates a rock selling business.

In this panel, a werewolf character is weaving a basket for the crow. The caption reads "a friend of a friend weaved my basket".

Panel 2 of a 7 panel Crow Time update featuring Business Bird, a crow wearing a yellow leaf tie that operates a rock selling business.

In this panel, the crow is surrounded by smooth stones and chatting frogs. The caption reads "a council of froggy experts helped me fish out river stones".

Panel 3 of a 7 panel Crow Time update featuring Business Bird, a crow wearing a yellow leaf tie that operates a rock selling business.

In this panel, we see a close up of the crow walking down a yellow stone road. The caption reads "The road I sell my wares by was built by unknown travelers".

Panel 4 of a 7 panel Crow Time update featuring Business Bird, a crow wearing a yellow leaf tie that operates a rock selling business.

In this panel, a skeleton shopkeeper is opening his stall whole talking to the crow sitting nearby next to his rocks and basket. The caption reads "The other shopkeepers nearby share tips and tricks with me".

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · Aug 25

I like to think that Kecha Wacha sit like gibbons

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