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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 23m

Day 15: Ragged

Guillermo Del Toro, I believe in you.

Jacob Elordi, you have a chance to make up for a second Kissing Booth movie.

#Inktober

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 2h

“Everything is an Xbox, except for a thing named Xbox, which is mostly for Teams calls.”

- Spence Philler, 2025

Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 8h

Wait so this is literally not an Xbox?

Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like the Xbox Ally handhelds are inherently compromised products because ALL the marketing says "You can play all your Xbox games! No exceptions!" and that's, like, not true. You can play Xbox Play Anywhere games and other PC titles but not anything Xbox-specific.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 14h

A.I. generated videos are like dreams - you find your own fascinating and no one else gives a shit about them

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely thrashed in her first fight against a tiny level 1 enemy, captured and turned into its steed

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s the one I made

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 14h

If you’re a fuckin’ weeb (complimentary) then you might enjoy Code Vein. Not very demanding graphics and it’s got the best character creator I’ve ever used.

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 22h

Remember everyone, if they say they don’t eat anything with a face, don’t date them - you have a face and you deserve oral!

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 22h

You could also try another soulslike. Lies of P is a vibe.

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 22h

Elden Ring is pretty great if you have the patience for it.

Clair Obscur is a fantastic game 95% of the way through and then it pisses me all the way off with the ending.

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 23h

Do you think most republicans know their god is helplessly senile and just pretend not to notice, or do they actually not see how embarrassing this shit is?

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 23h

“Fewer people identify as trans” is a whole hell of a lot different from “fewer people want to tell a pushy stranger that they’re trans”

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 23h

You have to look a little harder for them, but there are nice, queer-friendly firearm instructors out there. You don’t have to go to an NRA propaganda shop.

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 23h

“Vibrant new identity” literally removes all the light from the logo

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 23h

Groceries are up

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Groceries are up

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not gonna say much about the Pokémon teraleak out of respect for those who wish to remain spoiler free.

But about Project Seed?

Please Game Freak please do it please don’t cancel it I’ll be good please please please please please please please please please please please please please please p

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 1d

Day 15: Trunk

In honor of Pokémon Sword and Shield’s graphics, today’s drawing is only okay

#Inktober

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump would order all grocery stores to close if he thought he could force them to put his name on every piece of food before they could reopen

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 1d

Day 13: Drink

I should really learn to draw asexuals without making them look so fuckable

#Inktober

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 2d

Also, South Park showed her as a vicious, dog-murdering psychopath who thinks she literally knows better than god.

Is she ignoring the valid criticisms to focus on something shallower? Or is she just so vain that she doesn’t think her character matters except for how it affects her image?

Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 2d

Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 2d

Context: Christopher Columbus is in the sink

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 2d

a close up of a cartoon character wearing a green hat and gloves pointing at something .

ALT: a close up of a cartoon character wearing a green hat and gloves pointing at something .

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 2d

The Fuckin’ Mayor saying it with his whole chest, we love to see it

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 3d

Day 12: Shredded

Almost as hot as the real Sun Wong Cho

#Inktober

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not saying you have to be a conspiracy theorist to be a Christian, but the most powerful “Christians” in America sure do talk about it like it’s a conspiracy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Jai Frighten 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇👻 @jaibrighton.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously, the vast majority of people don’t hate trans folks. Only a tiny, loud, creepy minority do.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

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Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com