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~🎃~ SpookiNari ~🎃~

@crookinari.bsky.social

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autistic agender demiboy he/him preferred YOB 1994 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️ aspiring Twitch streamer, occasional problematic content enjoyer just trying to have fun here, combative people will be ignored art tags: #crookart #crookocblaze #crookocdan

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~🎃~ SpookiNari ~🎃~ @crookinari.bsky.social · Feb 5

decided to bite the bullet and make a Ko-Fi, if you wanna chuck a gold coin my way I'd be super grateful: ko-fi.com/crookinari

Support CrookiNari on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/crookinari

Support CrookiNari On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 16h

i think every time a landlord wants to raise rent they should have to go to a courthouse or something and spin a big wheel where like one third of it lets them raise it by 10 dollars, one third of it forces them to lower it by 50 dollars, and the last third is no change just dunk tank

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

www.yahoo.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16h

You can just block stuff that sucks. You don’t have to be mad out loud or even care. You can just see it and quietly put it in the garbage forever

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 1d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Щербет @eliersh.bsky.social · 12h

#mgs 🍳

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🔥 Gurepyon 🔥 @gurepyon.bsky.social · 12h

hate how i think about drawing all day long and when I actually sit down on my desk, ready for art...
it just *POOF*

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 21h

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

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~🎃~ SpookiNari ~🎃~ @crookinari.bsky.social · 19h

think I'm coming down with something blrblrg

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aquila 🍉 writing comms now open! @belllmonts.bsky.social · 2d

i love you horny horror i love you exploring sexuality and desire through unsettling means i love you sexual repression manifesting as self destruction i love you intimacy transforming into something grostesque yet beautiful i love you finding comfort and love in the monstrous i love y

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 22h

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 1d

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

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Trientalia Silk @trientalia.bsky.social · 4d

me at 6am: i gotta lock in on writing

me at 7am: i gotta lock in on writing

me at 8am: i gotta lock in on writing

me at 9am: i gotta lock in on writing

me at 10am: i gotta lock in on writing

writes 2 paragraphs.

'whew i'm tired, time to sleep, i gotta lock in later though and get more done'

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 2d

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but...

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 2d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 3d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

en.akinator.com

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swan born by leda || COMMISSIONS OPEN @swanbornbyleda.bsky.social · 6d

With the boom of generative AI, there's been a galvanizing rise of people exploring art for the very first time. It's joyous and inspiring, and it's fun.
But I'm seeing many of those people *heavily* referencing AI, framing it as fixing it, turning it human, or defending it as an easy source
and
OOF

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 1d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Vinesauce Clips Bot @vinesauceclips.bsky.social · Nov 16

MAHINA PEA

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

People shouldn’t be forced through a degrading & dehumanizing process to receive disability assistance

They shouldn’t be treated as a fake, a burden and an undesirable just to get a benefit that keeps them in legislated poverty

Everyone deserves a living wage, food, housing & healthcare

Everyone.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 8d

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 1d

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

@amagire@mastodon.social

elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 2d

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 2d

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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mari 💐 @floralmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Stickers for when you're fed up with it all 🥲 #AntiAi

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Skai 🎃 🔜 NFC @skiaskai.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely happy to say I don't even know how to use chatgpt

Don't know if it's an app or a
website or whatever and I don't want to

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 1d

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