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Blue Sky Rob- Looking For Work! 🏳️‍⚧️ @senorwoberto.bsky.social · 43m

Derek’s level of autism means that budding propagandists like Matt Stoller are completely helpless when their whinging about “he’s mean about American manufacturing :(“ doesn’t matter to someone who has intimate knowledge about supply chains

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 15h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 53m

I've done something similar. I try and make the opening line very clear on what kind of fuckery you're getting into. Either you're repulsed or you turn into the yeshahayessickos.png

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 2h

I like to throw in something bizarre and experimental in the first few chapters to clear out anyone who thinks every difference of opinion is a "plot hole." I mostly do it for myself but I like to think that somewhere out there, a reader I don't like is having a bad time.

natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 4h

you have to kill the devil's advocate in your brain when you're writing, you have to smother the imaginary bad faith reader that lives in your head. Trying to please the voice that tells you the person reading your work is ignorant/malicious is a mind-killer. There are better ways to create cohesion

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 4h

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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THE GHOST OF ASAKO KISHI THROUGH A MEDIUM WHO IS AN INTERPRETER: @karenblackpilled.bsky.social · 1h

I have some good picks for anyone who wants some trash and they are free on Tubi/Fawesome/Roku Channel last I checked

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah. He-Man is a deliberately silly children's cartoon, and that was the best a live action version could have gotten with the source material--plus, that was the era where a relatively low budget, indie 'Big IP' movie could exist (this, And TMNT!), so they felt more artisinal.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1h

It's an artifact so purely of its time and you couldn't make something as ambitiously weird and off-kilter like it under the corporate style of filmmaking today

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1h

Hey you--watch some trash. I don't mean corporate by the numbers slop, I mean some honest-to-goodness, lowbrow, shoestring budget trash. Like arthouse cinema, it's good for you.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1h

They keep trying to do live action He-Man but they peaked here. It's never gonna get any better than Frank Langella taking the material as serious as a heart attack.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2h

'Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?'

I sure hope so, glam Skeletor.

Frank Langella as Skeletor wearing a huge godly golden grown and holding a golden scepter in Masters of the Universe. Subtitle text: Tell me about the loneliness of good, He-Man.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1h

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21h

I will say that nothing is more baffling to me than the industry standard that we teach developers about publishing by having them listen to talks and panels by publishers. It's like fiscal responsibility taught by a loan shark, privacy taught by Google, or human rights taught by Israel.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 4h

Thing is I am currently replaying fatal frame 2 and a lot of the camera angles are varied, not just isometric. some are below the characters, like under a staircase, shoulder height from inside a closet. again playing on the idea of making you feel watched

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 4h

But also I am genuinely not fond of multiplayer horror.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 4h

It is different from ISO as you can still rotate the camera. Fixed angles are taking that level of control away from you. They create a feeling of being watched. There is a deliberate choice in which angles to use. Doing this in multiplayer sounds awful tbh

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 4h

you have to kill the devil's advocate in your brain when you're writing, you have to smother the imaginary bad faith reader that lives in your head. Trying to please the voice that tells you the person reading your work is ignorant/malicious is a mind-killer. There are better ways to create cohesion

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 4h

Fixed camera angles remain superior.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 14h

"You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell. I respect that. But please… You have gone too far. You have married Fester, you have destroyed his spirit, you have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But, Debbie…pastels?"

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · Mar 20

bad guys at the door

illustration for Nox Requiem my story, evil cops at the door to ruin Mercy's day

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 18h

I've seen this and it's always weird

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 18h

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 19h

Really glad that I have removed this piece of malware from everything I own

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 19h

This game opens up with a narrator talking about how much your main guy loves sex, then less than 20 minutes later he gets his dick chopped off by a maniac. I can tell this one's gonna be special.

title card for the grindhouse inspired survival horror game The Lacerator, featuring a ponytail wearing goateed protagonist with a revolver and a purple shirt that says SEX, while a beefy masked killer wearing a bra and wielding a hatchet prepares to annihilate him

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 1d

Oh for fuck’s sake.

Cozyfication has gotten far beyond ridiculous.

Rhagana Doomslayer @rhagana.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that @commandersterling.bsky.social was ranting this week about how the word"cozy" has become pervasive in video games and I see this at my local library today

Poster at the library's video section advertising "cozy horror" movies; it's a collage of original posters for the films The Fog, Practical Magic, Misery, Werewolves Within, Let the Right One In, Hocus Pocus, Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton version), Scare Me, and An American Werewolf in London.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 22h

We are not mean enough to the cozy horror people.

Rhagana Doomslayer @rhagana.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that @commandersterling.bsky.social was ranting this week about how the word"cozy" has become pervasive in video games and I see this at my local library today

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