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GrokMeAmadeus

@grokmeamadeus.bsky.social

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He/Him, bi/queer, big ol’ antifascist lefty patron of the arts. SWF account of smut writer Korg T Orc, so no one under 18. Good riddance to the bird site.

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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · Oct 11

Since we can finally pin skeets (no, I am never calling them posts) I am once again hammering this on my feed:

Text from a skeet:

One of the big rules I have personally is
"I don't date online", and what this
means is that any serious-non-jokey
flirting I'm only going to do is face-to-
face or if someone TELLS ME
DIRECTLY that they are romantically
interested in me.
This was my pinned post on the Old
Site:

An old tweet from Twitter:

@GrokMeAmadeus
I really wish I had a badge for
everyone to behold online that says
"I am not talking to you a lot to flirt
with you, l just have ADHD & PTSD,
so l hyperfixate my socializing to a
few people at a time that have
proven not to be abusive."

Text from 2 follow-up skeets:

I've been in kink communities, polyam
communities, and am friends & peers
with sex workers, and absolutely all of
that teaches you "friendliness +
romantic interest." Sometimes people
are just comfortable around you
because, well, you're comfortable to
be around. Which is pretty great on its
own.

And I get being bad at social cues. **I**
am bad at social cues (hence the
whole "you gotta tell me if you like me
in a sexy way before I like you back"
thing.) But it seems like a better idea if
you know that to err on the side of
"this person enjoys me" rather than
"this person is hot for me."

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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 7h

I won’t roam to it, but I *will* twerk the wasteland to it.

GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 8h

“I killed no innocent man” is such a fucking real & correct thing to say when someone demands you explain why you killed a bunch of slavers.

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 8h

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 18h

All hell can’t stop us now.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 18h

Welcome to Bluesky, Twitter refugees! 🙂 Methinks you have a thing or two to learn as you explore your new home 😜 We call posts skeets! 😂 There's no ads... yet! 😅 A few people can't take a joke, but that's alright 🙃 you're also allowed to threaten the mods with hammers 🔨

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

Also this one from! @elmcitytree.blacksky.app:
bsky.app/starter-pack...

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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 18h

Reminder that if you are not friend of the pornographer, you are no friend to me or art as a whole.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Neo Monster Island @neomonsterisland.com · 20h

"I Forgot The Safeword And Now I'm Isekai'd Into A D&D World."

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Korg T. Orc @korgtorc.bsky.social · 19h

Today is unfortunately the day all of @moderation.bsky.app ‘s dumbass rules go into effect about what kind of fictional content you can post, so remember:

- Crop a preview pic & link to off-site

- Leave a 1-star review of Bsky in the app store citing the changes

- Reskeet your fellow artists

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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 19h

All of us when she started posting adorable videos of her & Klay:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Nation’s Old Men Announce Plans To Wake Up At 5 A.M. And Argue With Other Old Men Around Table At McDonald’s https://theonion.com/nation-s-old-men-announce-plans-to-wake-up-at-5-a-m-an-1849803269/

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h

Republicans do nazi stuff and then exaggerate their complaints by saying “oh you call everyone you don’t agree with a ‘nazi’ 🙄” and then we see their group chats and it’s like “hello, I love Adolf hitler”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 20h

Confused by this post, newcomers? Look up “ALF hog” in the search bar and be enlightened!

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 20h

"no, alf did not have a pet pig on the show"

GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 22h

The big Target bag that I made you & your poor husband carry, yeah.

GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 1d

It’s okay, Gail. My social anxiety is really compounded with my agoraphobia, so cons can be a difficult case. Still, I was glad to be able to get out to see you at WonderCon that one year to hand you a bunch of Adam Warren comics.

GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 2d

I still remember Hank having to slow-walk Scott on this concept in Universe X and the entire time you can tell he is trying to hold back from saying “bitch, you have death eyes, this is not hard to grasp.”

GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 2d

Overall, I kinda preferred Evo.

GrokMeAmadeus @grokmeamadeus.bsky.social · 2d

I mean this with the greatest amount of respect, but