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kirin

@koboldstyle.bsky.social

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Creative Technologist & Animator/Dev in LA. Tabletop and Videogames, Weird Culture, He/Him. Operating at about 0.42 self-actualization. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally One half of Scuttlebutt: https://www.youtube.com/@scuttlebuttery

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · Nov 26

The best art is made for the self. It’s the very act of making art that itself is the gift to the world.

RJ Palmer @rj-palmer.com · Nov 26

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2h

they live 1988 movie main character roddy piper in plaid shirt looking worn out by couch on ground, speech bubble going to quoted post.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 3h

This man has done photo shoots wearing Nazi regalia, he loves his job as Trump’s Beast Rabban.

kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 4h

I think the true terror is that a smidge of life improvement might cause the thing they lie awake at night terrified by: anti-oligarch momentum

kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 4h

Preach it!

kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 4h

Extremely blatant way of saying, “I love tear gassing asthmatic children in the suburbs”

Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social · 6h

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 6h

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

screenshot of amazon corporate blog post announcing massive layoffs, titled, "Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizations"

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2SpookyChungus @sorocchungus2.bsky.social · 5h

It’s not a recession it’s sparkling AI horseshit

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 5h

Hey I’m a motion graphics designer that would love to contribute to this project. Who can I get in touch with?

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5h

Give today and help us launch this series.

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 5h

Taking away the ability of the country’s economic workhorse to go anywhere, this saber-rattling is so dumb

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "I'm about to pull $160 million from California, and as we pull more money we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses."

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Sigourney Weaver, looking entirely fabulous, Los Angeles, 1983, by Helmut Newton.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 9h

Here’s The Doors of Durin for #tolktober !
( @lri.bsky.social also did one!)

The fellowship of the ring examining the Door of Durin as a tentacle creeps undetected toward Frodo

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 9h

Final sticker pkg for my Patreons this month. (Please note jumping on this tier now will get you on the mailing list for the Dec pack.)

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah there’s some really grim stuff if you dig

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Jordan @slclunk.com · 1d

The only thing you really need to know about her is that she’s only going to get worse

Olivia Reingold
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"Gentle parents"—please listen to this before you create another kid like me, whose life was nearly derailed by 15+ years of therapy.
By the time I was four or five, it was clear I had emotional problems. I would sometimes sit at the foot of our stairs, hyperventilating over something as simple as the discomfort of a seam in my sock.
When a homeless person stopped my mother and me on the streets of New York City to ask for some change to "buy a cup of soup," I remember going back to our hotel room to weep, disturbed by the way strangers—including us—walked past him without helping.
By kindergarten, I was in therapy.
By fifth grade, I was on mood stabilizers-perhaps justifiably, since by then I'd developed suicidal ideation.

Therapy did not create my emotional problems.
Neither did culture—this was before the rise of social media.
But what therapy did was convince me that my problems were immutable, and perhaps even genetically encoded in my DNA.
By the time I was 16, I was anorexic. When I had to drop out of college as a sophomore, a doctor looked me in the eyes and told me my condition was "like cancer."
"If you don't treat this, it will get worse," she said.
Over the next five years, while I was in and out of treatment centers, various doctors reminded me that eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric illness— warnings the medical system now issues about gender dysphoria (although they say that is an immutable issue of identity, not mental health).

Therapy is how I became convinced that I came from a line of eating disordered women. I reflected upon my maternal line and swore that my mother, her mother, and her mother's mother all were riddled with eating disorders. The truth is that my grandmother was sick with anorexia, but I believe it was simply a culturally sanctioned way to express her distress.
At 20 years old, I was freshly out of treatment— and 100% insufferable.
I saw harms everywhere. We even had a word for them in my support groups—"trigger warnings."
I had a vendetta against Starbuck's branding of its low calorie beverages as "skinny" lattes, believing it was a slight to the anorexics of the world.
I blistered over in anger when | learned that my cousin, a bar owner, was considering offering
"skinny girl margaritas" to customers, convinced he was aiding and abetting eating disorders.
I felt personally offended by gyms that kept scales in their locker rooms.

told anyone I dated to avoid mention of all
"numbers," that I never wanted to hear how many miles they ran, what pant size they wore, how much they weighed, or how many calories they consumed—not ever.
You know what made me better? Less validation.
It was the fearless parenting style of my beloved aunt Melanie that made me better.
I lived with Melanie in Atlanta for five years.
When I told her I was contemplating throwing up a meal, she told me she'd like to have a word with my eating disorder: "Yeah," she'd say. "Can you tell it to shut the fuck up?"
She told me that yes, it was going to be hard to keep meals down, but that you bet I could do it.
She helped me develop confidence. Slowly, I cultivated an identity beyond being just sick.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 1d

This is normal post stroke follow up, sometimes on a 30 - 60 - 90 day schedule.

You get an MRI for post stroke because you’re measuring infarcted tissue, which is not evident on CT scan.

He’s exhibiting something called recrudescence, or a reemergence of symptoms after the initial stroke.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Reporter: Did you get an MRI?

Trump: I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect. Yeah… nobody has given you reports like I have given you. The doctors said some of the best reports they have ever seen.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 2d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 1d

I read the Defector article about her and I think Olivia might genuinely be in crisis.

Imagine writing what is now widely considered to be one of the evilest pieces of journalism ever crafted & then crashing out publicly from the realization: this is it, this is the thing that will haunt me forever

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 2d

I think people are mistaken in saying "oh no, people will starve!" and I don't think that's what is going to happen at all. People will eat. But a lot of rent and car payments and other things will go unpaid, and then we'll all find out it isn't only poor people living "paycheck to paycheck."

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 1d

I’d give anything to be able to walk that artistic line of fun popular joyful entertainment that also cleverly attacks a humongously foundational mainstream thing

kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 1d

Best thing about Sinners is the somewhat subtle and then extremely-blatant-once-you-see-it message of the vampirism of religion.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

“Again and again we were told the only way to beat the Republican Party was to become the Republican Party […] and the choice that we made was to stop listening to those experts and to start listening to you”

Mamdani is so good at this

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 1d

I’m terrified about finding out more about her including the very likely possibility that she has spent some serious time with Donald’s dick in her mouth

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

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