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He/it. Lab Rat Bastard™, small demon lad raised by a pack of mad science. ½ of @shadybug.bsky.social, ⅙ of a person.

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · Jun 19

from now on if some rando comes out of nowhere just to argue with me uncivilly about harmless shit im just going to block them. trying to have actual conversation with people like that is just exhausting me and it never goes anywhere. go yell at someone who deserves it instead.

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry buddy ;; Socializing is so hard, especially when neurodivergent

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

when is it ever MORE polite to speak confidently on an assumption based purely on first glance rather than just having the actual information first lol...

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 2d

don't you want to make it big?

no. we want to not stress about money so that we can focus on making things and helping the community.

just be able to not stress about sales or trying to get commissions and let it ebb and flow, while being mostly able to pay our end of the bills in the slow months

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 2d

this would literally fix us

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

i genuinely love when kids ask what i am gender-wise and i truly don't understand why most adults are like "don't ask that that's so rude 😤😤" like... actually it's pretty considerate. what's rude is when people misgender me and then argue with me when i try to correct them.

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

in a way it sort of feels like we're being told to make shittier work so our human mistakes are more noticeable lol

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

and hey on the topic of ID laws

do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord?

these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 10d

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our Approach to Age Assurance - Bluesky

We’re committed to keeping our community informed as we navigate new regional regulations.

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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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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

i would say at this rate there's no way it's not purposeful, especially if they're banning reporters that *aren't* massive transphobes.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

with alt-text

A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

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. Its 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', just so 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.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI 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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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

ughhh gross. i guess time to figure out how to use mastodon. i think only like 2 of my friends are on it but it's better than this kind of shit.

💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

yikes -_- this along with the transphobia shit... yeah.

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

kinda makes me think of if Vivi FF9 were a bat hehe. i never rly thought about it before but digimon and ff have a decent amount in common when it comes to common character/creature design elements.

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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 6d

WIP

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

hey what's up with people talking about leaving bluesky or bluesky shutting down etc? i am not on here enough to decipher the secret meanings of these glyphs

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

i also love him thank u

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💀 O t a r 🧪 @otar.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god who is this

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 3d

That reminds me of this doodle I did.

A drawing of Diogenes holding up a chicken and saying "BEHOLD! A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS!"

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Mr Pie Break @piebreak.bsky.social · 4d

I've pulled beauty from the jaws of creation and yet still you all forget my power

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𝕄🌕𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕗𝕥 𝕄👁️𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 @moonshiftmonsters.bsky.social · 4d

Werewolf from Lac Noir movement test! What a cutie! Gotten from their Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DO-zMpi...

#werewolf #werewolfwednesday

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 4d

月の船

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

"But they are following similar patterns."

...I need you to understand that the problem with racial slurs is not how they are categorical pejoratives, it's not how they are grammatically leveraged, and it's not how they are reductive. It's that racial slurs malign *inherent qualities* of *people*.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16d

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