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You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · Apr 15

Re-upping the more descriptive intro post for new people. Also, so everyone knows what I'm about. Solidarity to all oppressed people, workers, and anyone fighting to defend us. Nobody is free until everybody is free.

The the blue, pink, and white stripes of the Trans Pride flag.

The red chevron and green, white, and green stripes of the the flag of Palestine. I am using it here as a display of solidarity. I am an American white woman, not Palestinian.

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TruJek @trujek.bsky.social · 6h

Raven Beak Samus 🐦‍⬛

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 2h

telling the kids this was ishkurs guide

lys @bedsores.rest · 23h

bringing back a classic

an adaptation of the sandy loam chart, aka, a triangle where each side is an axis from 0 100, forming triangular little pockets in the center in a pseudo-3-axis chart form. the three axes are "hoinky sploinky" "doinky woinky" and "rinky dinky," each with a "pure" form (penis music, furret walk, and ukelele covers respectively). there is a minor screed here about electroswing sucking, which it does.

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JAKE @guiltyjake.bsky.social · 14h

To everyone reading this right now.
I'm JAKE.
I'm the Japanese person who recently published this article and promoted it on Twitter (X).
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This article introduces Fantasy Maiden Wars, an amazing game I absolutely love.

Everyone, please get to know the super great game: "Fantasy Maiden Wars"｜JAKE

Hello, world. I'm Zyake. I'm born and raised in Japan, and just your average video game nerd. First and foremost, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for opening this page. And if you can...

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Kaye “Silent Hill f[emale]” Ross @kaye.zone · 3h

Pronouncing “discount” like “viscount” until someone poisons my food

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 9h

Witches Going to the Sabbat (1878) - Luis Falero

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

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So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

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You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · 5h

Magic, the game about bouncing between different fantastical planes, is visiting contemporary New York City two times within six months. Three in a calendar year with the other Marvel set.

This fucking sucks.

𝙈𝙮𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝘼𝙧𝙚𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠 @myhandsareblank.bsky.social · 6h

I am so tired guys

Like we knew this was what it was going to be, but just seeing it with my eyes makes my teeth hurt more than that Spider legends deck

The TMNT x MTG truck seen in NYC recently

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🏳️‍⚧️ 3/3 Elk @33elk.bsky.social · 5h

The sloppenwagon

My lock of the week is that master splinter will make rats modern viable

𝙈𝙮𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝘼𝙧𝙚𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠 @myhandsareblank.bsky.social · 6h

I am so tired guys

Like we knew this was what it was going to be, but just seeing it with my eyes makes my teeth hurt more than that Spider legends deck

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 7

November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.

“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”

At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h

CNN’s Van Jones is among 16 mainstream journalists—including two New York Times reporters—serving as mentors in a new journalism fellowship explicitly created to help Israel's Likud regime win its “information war” against Palestinians.

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

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dirté @dirte.net · May 9

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 5h

Two conflicting thoughts about this:
1. Damn.
2. I think even with the best team and the most consistent thoughtful approach, Ubisoft would have handled this is a very weird way that would have been off putting at best.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 7h

occult! occult! occult!

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 7h

Where do you go once you know your Audition from your Kwaidan? Katie Rife dives deep to provide an intermediate course in Japanese horror with twenty strikingly unnerving ﬁlms. boxd.it/2L2

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 7h

Axes include the war axe and battle axe.

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 10h

Equating trans rights with some sort of ideological purity is idiotic at best. It's about recognizing human rights in a democracy, and people cannot be used as tools for bartering. Nobody is a bargaining chip.

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You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · 10h

My group managed to strike out on hunger games for dragoncon.

PLEASE let me know if anyone has an extra room.

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 11h

There's too much to focus on here in Chicago to be on my "Amazon is even worse than you think" soapbox this week, but here's a sample of the ways that they are profiting off of genocide and occupation, both here and abroad. Kill the cop on your doorstep (your Ring camera).

Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

idk that this ever got shared here, but the last few years we've made some little zines in honor of a certain day named for a number indivisible by other numbers. tbh I did not have the bandwidth to update it this year, but these two remain relevant. Check out our website for citations.

"What Amazon is doing to us. a digital zine from Skunk Cabbage Books."

We all know by now that Amazon is bad for small businesses, especially indie bookstores like us. Amazon's model, on the surface, looks like this - Amazon sells books at the lowest possible prices because they're willing to sell them at a loss to get their consumers into higher margin products like Kindles, Alexa devices, Ring cameras, and Prime accounts. We know Amazon doesn't really need to sell books. We want to dig deeper into why they bother and how Amazon hurts not just small businesses, but our entire communities.

On the surface, Amazon's model looks like selling cheap books at a loss to lure people into higher margin tech, like Kindle, Alexa, Audible, Prime, and Ring. But the higher margin items still aren't the product - you are. The consumer Amazon cares about isn't us, it's the companies that will buy all the data Amazon is collecting about you. Our privacy is the most profitable product.

Amazon relies on our government's disinterest in protecting our privacy and surveillance devices like Ring cameras and Alexa devices to farm your data. The data is the part that's really profitable, especially when Amazon sells it to agencies like law enforcement. On the smaller scale, Amazon has sold data from people's Ring cameras to local police without any notification or permission from the camera owners. On the large scale, Amazon's tech and data models power models that allow governments to enact mass surveillance and policing. Tech contracts make up a huge portion of ICE's budget and Amazon is using their tech and your data to help ICE surveil, track, and deport our neighbors. ICE's surveillance system pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month to power their tech.

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You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck off

You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Riot Will Not Happen

You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking about Simulation and Simulacra

A screenshot of a CNN post on bsky. The post reads. "President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf.

The headline superimposed on the attachmed image is "ANALYSIS WHAT IS THE INSURRECTION ACT?"

The image is of Military Police standing in front of a burning donut shop from the 1992 LA Riots.

You are filled with determination. @vyria.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking about Simulation and Simulacra

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FLUKE Small Press Explosion @flukeathens.bsky.social · 11h

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

We’re moving.

FLUKE 2026
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More information here:

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WE ARE MOVING

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

you think Frankenstein's monster is going to do something unspeakable to this woman, but it turns out he is misunderstood - he just wants to try on her clothes 😭

Frankenstein carrying an unconscious woman who looks a hell of a lot like Crepax's Valentina up the stairs - the bubbles read "Lectores: A que estais temiendo por la vida (y por la virginidad) de Zita?" and "Pero estad tranquilos... los gustos de Frankenstein son diferentes (je je je)..."

Frankenstein's creature checking himself out in a full-length mirror wearing a garter belt, fishnet stockings, and stilettos, word bubble reads "¡Bel...lo!"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Basil’s Books @basilsbooks.bsky.social · 11h

Hey #booksky, shop small! 📚📖

Basil’s Books @basilsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always “f@ck Amazon” here at Basil’s, but we understand the allure of a good deal. From now until October 9, you can use code “F@ckAmazon!” For free shipping no limits to order size or minimum purchase price, and you don’t have to subscribe to anything!

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