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RefinedPlat

@refinedplat.bsky.social

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AKA RefinedPlatinum. Creator of Refined Platinum and Refined Gold, both Overhaul and Coarse editions. Link to Refined Platinum! (No room to fit HG, check the pinned it's there!) https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/refined-platinum-release-complete.534483

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · Jan 18

Refined Platinum and Refined Gold are FEATURE COMPLETE
It's been a long road since 2021 and there's a little bit left to walk. But for now I have a massive update for you all!

Check them out right here!
Platinum
www.pokecommunity.com/threads/refi...
Gold
www.pokecommunity.com/threads/refi...

Platinum hack: - Refined Platinum Release [COMPLETE] - The PokéCommunity Forums

Notice: Current version is v6.0 as of 1/18/2025 Do you enjoy Platinum, but find it a little underwhelming? Wish you could spend a little more time with the cast and crew? Like the dex, but never feel...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

I think the Dems have done a good job on hammering the GOP into a corner on health care. But in the grand scheme that’s a safe space/easy pull for them. They need to replicate that consistency with the other issues.

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Winter @winterpolitics1.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 16m

For anyone curious, you should also look up the Deccan Traps, lotta fun stuff was going on before the impact :3
There is so much science to be explored and learned about out there, it's amazing what we discover year by year

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 8h

Library cards are cheaper than an Amazon unlimited subscription

And they have better ebooks available anyways

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beth lindly VA ✨ @bethlindly.bsky.social · 1d

i know this has been talked to death but it’s absolute cuckoo bananas that toby fox had a dream abt a game he wanted to make, decided he wasn’t yet skilled enough to make that game, went on to make a spiritual predecessor to his dream game just to get the hang of it, and THAT game was undertale

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emby 🦑 @ sh🍤p open 😋 @mcsquiddies.serball.net · 1h

spectober day eight - rena thought these glasses were cute so she took them home!
#ひぐらしFA

Rena Ryuugu from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni wearing swirly glasses and going omochikaeriiiii >u<

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moh @skillzmakekillz.bsky.social · 23h

2014: clutterfunk
2015: figures
2016: nine circles
2017: windy landscape
2018: windy landscape
2019: windy landscape
2020: windy landscape
2021: windy landscape
2022: windy landscape
2023: windy landscape
2024: windy landscape
2025: windy landscape

lmao

nala ! @nala.dubstep.lol · 2d

saw ppl doing this on twt
nala progression:
2018: don't remember
2019: Electroman Adven v2 (?)
2020: 1929
2021: Acu
2022: Bloodbath
2023: CHROMA II
2024: vaenstep
2025: Catalyze

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 51m

Breaking into the Northrend Biology and Anatomy Conference to scream that "Scalehide" is a functional group based classification, not a taxonomical one

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she jack on my lantern til i o' @rhena.bsky.social · 1h

sorry everyone, i'm the person that really likes those puzzles in games where you have to move and rotate a bunch of mirrors to alter the path of a beam of light. they keep putting those in just for me

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 1d

🤏🌟

Hades II comic
Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful)
Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 3h

Are they still making new insects? I swear I’m seeing new bugs I’ve never seen before

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 8h

Pritzker said he would "not back down. "Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

www.axios.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump baselessly calls for Pritzker, Chicago mayor to be jailed

The state and city sued the administration Monday over the deployment of troops to Chicago.

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 8h

"What do Zombiesaurs have?"
"NO FEAR!"

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Pathological Lurker 🚫🖌 Still ArtDread @patholurk.bsky.social · 13h

Love me cute bugs lover

#bugfables #fanart

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 8h

Between Grimmsnarl, Hattrene and importantly Klefki there's precedent for more traditional Little People non-evil fey Fairy types.
You have the full ability to have a mix of those tossed in to your other plans for some flavor.

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 8h

Listen BlueSky I know you're desperate for everyone to hate you but I'm coming here JUST to go log in you REALLY don't need to throw up a notice that I have to manually click out of every time I need to log back in

RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 23h

There's a LOT of fey creatures and beings that are clearly "fairy" and some that are clearly "dark" or "ghost".
Also you can have fun terms like uhhh
I think I had "Baleful Brew" as an idea for a ghost move that burns. Or Blight for a dark move that poisons. Etc etc

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RefinedPlat @refinedplat.bsky.social · 1d

There's a saying that hardware gets better just for software to get sloppier

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🍉 HamOfJustice 🍉 @hamofjustice.bsky.social · 1d

even hearing how many calculations just the SNES or NES were doing every frame sounds mind-breakingly excessive, yet my phone 40 years later still lags to hell loading scrolling menus of nothing but sprites and text. somethin went wrong along the way i tell ya

Maddi @matte-gender.bsky.social · 1d

the way the modern n64 scene approaches graphical optimization, doing things like normal mapping and occlusion culling, convinces me that maybe we should stop advancing graphics hardware and instead actually optimize what we have

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