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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1h

i heard they're gonna make swanky kong the best party member

jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1h

does taylor swift design her own merch

👽mars 🏳️‍⚧️✨⚧️space babe 💿 @neonhedera.bsky.social · 22h

taylor swift fans can't simultaneously say her songs and material are full of easter eggs and double meaning and also deny the dog whistles being utilized here. Nazis and conservatives thrive on you pretending and denying that they aren't spreading hateful rhetoric. #taylorswift #TheLifeofaShowgirl

Taylor Swift's merch hat that is black with the text "Leave it with me Protect the family"

A picture of Taylor Swift merch of a silver necklace with 8 lightning bolts that resemble Shutuzstaffel, the insignia used for the Nazi Army under Hitler and an 8 point star with an Opal in the center resembling an Iron Cross, another insignia used by the Nazi army

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アマモトタイヨウ @amamototaiyo.bsky.social · 12h

まりさ
#東方project
#霧雨魔理沙

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 3h

they're not

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Marie @mmariesr.bsky.social · 1d

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 7h

Tomonobu Itagaki (creator of Ninja Gaiden 2004, Dead or Alive) has passed away according to his Facebook

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 13h

important ethnographic insight into the people of dinohattan

SMB Movie '93 Archive @supermariomovie93.bsky.social · 14h

An unused original song written for the Boom Boom Bar scene in Mario '93:

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ここだり @kokodari.bsky.social · 3d

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 17h

back left burner is the noob burner

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 19h

can’t believe it took you this long to leave that website run by admitted nazis and join this website run by closeted nazis

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d

You're telling me this guy was the scientist?

Frankenstein standing there like a big green dumbass

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 20h

US political elites have spent the better part of a decade obsessed with "civility" and purported threats thereto but politics is increasingly about raw power.

What does public debate even matter if the lines are drawn to all but guarantee right-wing political outcomes?

NYT infographic. What could happen without Section 2 of the voting rights act. Current map shows mostly red (Republican) districts but some blue (Democrat) districts among Southeastern United States. Then a plausible scenario map that shows nearly all red.

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Chew ☁️噛む @chewchewer.com · 1d

Ocean blocks.

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

my review: zzzzzzzzz

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

yeah it's a time capsule from when everyone found that sort of thing hilarious for some reason

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

yeah definitely LOL, it's a game where you go thru the motions

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

they're friends 🥺

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

everyone check out @bonebais.bsky.social's kofi page, she's doing affordable pet portrait commissions and she drew my babies 🥹

cute drawing of my greyish brownish tabby cat Bali

cute drawing of my mostly white and orange accented tabby cat Lalo

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

first game that comes to mind is Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. total nothingburger of a game. i was waiting for it to get interesting and then it just ended.

i usually don't finish games if im not enjoying myself. actually, i usually don't finish games even if i am enjoying myself lol

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 1d

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Faith ➡️ Lightbox Expo AA506 @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 2d

weird painting to test out my new inking pen ☀️

watercolor painting- a woman kneels behind a bush, carrying an approximation of an antique musket/rifle (I did not look at reference for this one so the shape is a bit off lol sorry everybody!). She is wearing a wildly impractical but fun outfit- a high cut onepiece with baggy ankle boots, a helmet and a big swan hat/cape.

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 1d

JRPGs are awesome because you can become the person you've always wanted to be

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

cloverpit has hard crashed my steam deck twice in 2 hours of playing 😐 couldn't even close the game, had to hold the power button down

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

i just remembered i had a similar issue when i ran plex on my laptop too, hopefully that's your issue

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