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Vera/Josh Mitchell

@verasev.bsky.social

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Least known indie game creator. Agent of a forbidden power outside the rim of the universe. You can find my games at https://verasev.itch.io/ They're free. Instead of paying for my games, why don't you donate to mutual aid or Palestinian relief.

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · Mar 22

Things to know about me:
1. Genderflux transsexual (I think. It's complicated)
2. Romantic asexual. I fall in love but would rather not have sex.
3. Not looking for a relationship.
4. I make games! Not amazing ones, but fun ones.
5. Left, but I can't pin down what kind of left I am.

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 3h

The Last of Us was prophecy

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 15h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Soo early morning thought…..

Folks see how having the desire and fulfillment of a never disagreeing servant is destroying empathy and cognition

WHEN IT IS A COMPUTER

but don’t thing slavery could be the foundation dynamic that’s destroying America ?

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

hasan being supposedly cruel to his dog wouldn't make it ok to be cruel to palestinians anyway. hypocrisy doesn't undo a good argument.

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

sounds like incipient vertigo

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

hey! i was saving that!

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Onno @tinkerspider.bsky.social · 1d

I think an end-state of the cult of individuality:
Cocooning oneself into a bespoke, simulated reality

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

Missouri has a cryptid called Momo and original reports said it had glowing green eyes. Over the years this changed to glowing red eyes as people became more obsessed with the demonic.

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Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 2d

The people of Omelas act perpetually surprised when they don't get the suffering child vote.

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

Care and intentionality is still using technology that is choking residents with pollution near unregulated AI data centers.

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna do an innovation and disrupt the omelette making industry by creating a machine that spits out crudely made omelettes at such an unstoppable volume no the entire omelette making industry collapses because everyone just thinks omelettes are shit now.

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t love the confluence of fat phobia & anti fascism. It’s a dissonance as these things do not go together.

Don’t conflate fat w/ fascism, because one is a moral failing and desire for authoritarianism while the other is genetics, or illness, or love of cake or none your bizness.

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

"Don't worry about AI creating an permanent underclass, society will just do UBI." No, it fucking will not. The rich people who own all of this would much rather we were all dead.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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Sheesh’s Pieces @last-pict.bsky.social · 2d

might as well drop this here too. not totally related but he does go into the process and motivations. futurism.com/slop-farmer-...

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.

futurism.com

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Flairi / Mars @flairiart.bsky.social · 2d

Money was supposed to be a tool to trade & measure value, but it turned into a thing that decides whose life matters, who gets saved first, who gets heard

You can see it in everything: art, healthcare, nature, even kindness. People start asking, “But does it make money?” instead of “Is it good?”

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

i have gained a real appreciation for when guys were like "they made mcdonalds not be fun colors anymore in order to crush our spirits!" now that they've all pivoted to "die artists die!! powerful new machines have conquered the feeble human soul!!!"

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 2d

Generally, I feel like a lot of the times the material world is treated as disgusting and decaying to the divine by folks like the Gnostics and several others. Where as some argue that God died to tear the veil and allow traffic between.

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 2d

Probably. I'm very curious about all of this but I don't know much about any of it.

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 2d

So there's a difference between taking on the position of Osiris, the divine corpse, and inhabiting it?

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 2d

to the extent that "the left" is trafficking in forbidden, it involves getting your hands dirty and trafficking in the stinking muck. putting your hands inside the divine corpse.

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 2d

that doesn't matter here. i was only using binary as an example. "categories" applies better here.

Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 2d

Back to that bit about the right hand being the cat cutting the snake... swords as separation. Categories and binaries. Where as the left integrates binaries, life and death, light and dark, into a continuum? Ra and Osiris merged? Is that what all of this means?