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more of a suggestion than an actual rule, wonders why it hurts when I PVP 39 y.o. tech from NW Florida, he/him, #gunpla builder & #Gundam enjoyer just trying to stay sane in this ever-weirder world. may repost NSFW, so anyone under 18 be advised

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · Mar 9

hey folks, I'm vagabond_aeon and this is my intro post

ideally I post about the gunpla kits I build and any random thoughts I have but these days I may have political thoughts to share and or jokes my dad would disown me for (and he has some corny jokes)

some occasional NSFW reposts may show up!

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 8m

Glad to see Portland protestors getting the note that their demonstrations against ICE need to be anodyne to a point where they cannot reasonably be used in court to support federal troops and are wearing blow up animal costumes about it

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 22h

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 59m

Just a quick moment when shadow and light meet ...

Shadows and a back lit yellow maple leaf

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 3h

Touchdown! This beautiful #pelican came in for a landing on the old pilings at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. I locked on early and have a series of images of the flight in. #photography #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #birdsinflight

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すびかか @suyasuyabi.bsky.social · 2h

ワーレルヤッ！

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 14h

Pike, you're always welcome with us and I mean that

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 15h

this is a plot point in The Plague Dogs

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

Data indicates that dogs are considerably MORE likely to eat their owners after they die than cats are.

I like to periodically remind people of this

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

we spent thousands of years breeding dogs to like humans and collaborate with us - we have more of a “begrudging standoff between equals” thing going on with pigs

However to be fair dogs eat humans way more than most people know or want to know

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 16h

I thought I was alone in this (I also bake it sometimes)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

“You faked these atrocities which also would have been totally justified if real” pops up in all forms of denialism

Sarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 20h

saw one that was,literally, “hamas was right to strike and also hamas was framed by the IDF”

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 20h

one only hopes she muted the post immediately because I bet you there's some motherfuckers in the quotes who need god or worse

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22h

Dubai is a bug light for dumb guys. It's all fast cars and living at the mall with the cops to keep "those people" out. It's the fantasy of a twelve year old.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

it's weird to me how much Gulf states seem to dominate the imagination of the UK right at the moment. I assume it's largely about who's giving them money, but I also think "Dubai expat" is a common social type in their circles.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22h

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 21h

gotta be honest here, the more I think about it the more I'm fearing something isn't clicking for me gameplay-wise in SRW Y

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 22h

tbh even without the kit's overall weirdness I just dislike the sunken collar and overly greebly, liney limbs

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 23h

I think it isn't even so much "figured out" as "found something good enough for government work" and went with it

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

I can't speak definitively for the others but I doubt they'd mind giving you an invite back

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

what happened, anyway?

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

or at least getting trolled by Chise

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

something something be prepared to dig two graves

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

also can I just say that Gyunei needs a healthy dose of the Getter Trio's shenanigans to loosen him up

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

Char and Kira talking ominously in the same room, huh

vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

yeah I loved it too but the end of MKII was a rough time to be a fan of it

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vagabond_aeon @vagabondaeon.bsky.social · 1d

and as far as trying to make cheap low-tech solutions work in high-tech settings, well

Rocks are NOT ‘free’, citizen.

Firstly, you must manoeuvre the Emperor’s naval vessel within the asteroid belt, almost assuredly sustaining damage to the Emperor’s ship’s paint from micrometeoroids, while expending the Emperor’s fuel.

Then the Tech Priests must inspect the rock in question to ascertain its worthiness to do the Emperor’s bidding. Should it pass muster, the Emperor’s Servitors must use the Emperor’s auto-scrapers and melta-cutters to prepare the potential ordinance for movement. Finally, the Tech Priests finished, the Emperor’s officers may begin manoeuvring the Emperor’s warship to abut the asteroid at the prepared face (expending yet more of the Emperor’s fuel), and then begin boosting the stone towards the offensive planet.

After a few days of expending a prodigious amount of the Emperor’s fuel to accelerate the asteroid into an orbit more fitting to the Emperor’s desires, the Emperor’s ship may then return to the planet via superluminous warp travel and await the arrival of the stone, still many weeks (or months) away.

After twiddling away the Emperor’s time and eating the Emperor’s food in the wasteful pursuit of making sure that the Emperor’s enemies do not launch a deflection mission, they may finally watch the ordinance impact the planet (assuming that the Emperor’s ship does not need to attempt any last-minute course correction upon the rock, using yet more of the Emperor’s fuel).

Given a typical (class Bravo-CVII) system, we have the following:

Two months, O&M, Titan class warship: 4.2 Million Imperials

Two months, rations, crew of same: 0.2 MI

Two months, Tech Priest pastor: 1.7 MI

Two months, Servitor parish: 0.3 MI

Paint, Titan class warship: 2.5 MI

Dihydrogen peroxide fuel: 0.9 MI

Total: 9.8 MI

Contrasted with the following:

5 warheads, magna-melta: 2.5 MI

One day, O&M, Titan class warship: 0.3 MI

One day, rations, crew of same: 0.0 MI

Dihydrogen peroxide fuel: 0.1 MI

Total: 2.9 MI

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Pretentious Fork @pretentiousfork.bsky.social · 4d

mood

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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,
, 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.

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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