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• (Fan)Artist & Cosplayer🧑🏼‍🎨 They/Them I speak EN, DE & some JP. • WIPs & works: #MaoCatDraws #fanart #art #cosplay • other interests: Animation / Manga / Games / #gardening 🌱 #flowerreport 🌸 #invertebrates 🐝 #DIY 🛠️ science/medicine 🔬

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Summer (MMO Fallout) @mmofallout.com · 6h

YouTube is in fact shidding the bed.

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Tropes @deathtropes.bsky.social · 6h

I’m back and feeling better than ever! Silent Hill f speedruns return! Lurking is incredibly helpful so thank you!
Twitch.tv/deathtropes

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 6h

And honestly, westerners need to freaking learn better hygiene in general. There’s no way to wash your hands anywhere without queueing (and often paying) for restrooms! Ridiculous! If the pandemic should’ve given us any two things, they should be air filters and handwashing stations.

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 6h

I had a clip to tighten the loops but I still had issues with the fit, so now I use a leftover piece of elastic (for sewing on) that is nice and stretchy. Now I can also yawn and sing and the mask will not flop under my chin, which was always an issue beforehand.
Food areas are still a problem tho.

Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 13h

Seeing multiple artists lately say they got covid at cons even while masking but then I see photos of most people wearing loose fitting ear-loop masks. For maximum protection you NEED A TIGHT SEAL! Head-loop masks like N95 are best (or at least get ear loop adjusters/mask tape so KN95 fits tighter).

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, I’m more on the demi end of that but I get what you mean. I don’t really think other people need to necessarily 'get it', but they need to be more freaking respectful. We don’t run around and point at other people‘s types of relationships going "ew", either.

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah it’s tiring, esp having to keep repeating it as if this is somehow secret new information 🫠

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 6h

People still haven’t learned the basic lessons!
A Japanese text once put it this way:
Being ace is essentially flirt resistance.

But it is only that attaction angle, and it has nothing to do with celibacy. Some people are more demi than others and some are only aro or only ace, and that’s fine.

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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 8h

Serebii Update: Pokémon Legends: Z-A is now available to play from the mainland Europe eShop

www.serebii.net

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 8h

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web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 8h

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

October 15, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins
Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation.
Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens.
While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14h

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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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 16h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Had a really good time with Peter talking about the AI bubble, and said the following, which i stand by:

"I don't do this because I'm like "I'm going to be nasty." No, I do it because I'm pissed off at the way they fucked up the computer."

Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 14h

Enjoyed talking to @edzitron.com, who has been spending a lot of time banging the drum about the AI bubble (and about the problems with tech in general.

Also discussed here: How Ed runs a PR company while he also savages some of the biggest companies in tech.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

Podcast Episode · Channels with Peter Kafka · 10/15/2025 · 55m

podcasts.apple.com

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 14h

No problem. Sadly FF’s so famous in my region that I will have to deal with it for a while longer, and if it’s just to test my websites on it. Due to amount of users still on it, I will have to continue to keep both FF and a Chromium engine browser. Catching myself using Vivaldi more, though.

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 14h

Also, THIS is annoying as fuck and shouldn’t be turned on by default either. Nobody is interested in "slightly summarized tab group names", and especially not for the hefty cost of strain on your hardware resources. www.maketecheasier.com/firefox-ai-f...

Firefox AI Feature Causes CPU Spikes: Why Users Are Frustrated and How to Fix It - Make Tech Easier

Firefox AI tab grouping causes CPU spikes. Learn why it’s a problem and how to disable it for a faster, smoother browsing experience.

www.maketecheasier.com

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 14h

I just checked mine again and it had it re-enabled as well. There’s only one related option in my config that remained unchanged, but there’s also plenty more now that have been enabled without asking.
Mozilla is rapidly enshittifying their most important application.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Sep 9

Firefox hit me today with the fucking AI bot popups

discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*

someone at @mozilla.org is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences.

hey @mozilla.org who is responsible for this?

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TGH @tghsr.stream · 15h

Surprise! Pokemon Crystal Key Item Rando today!

(Doing Johto Only to keep things short-ish)

Come chill and vibe >> tghsr.stream

TGH_sr - Twitch

Welcome! I'm Jay and I'm a Zelda speedrunner with a constant desire to improve his craft, and to have fun doing it. I also enjoy randomizers and playing interactive games with my community to keep thi...

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 16h

I’m trying to enroll mine into ESU but while the button for it occasionally comes up, they’re just still so incompetent.
1) Each device has to wait for the button to become active 2) they promised everyone would have it until yesterday, nope 3) it entirely disappeared when it installed Oct patches.

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Dulse Yeen @yeen.paw.bs · 1d

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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ZakuraRain Commission on Hold! @zakurarain.bsky.social · 23h

Atem and Osiris the Sky Dragon!

#yugioh #遊戯王 #yugi #オシリスの天空竜
#tcg #ocg

MaoCat @maocat.bsky.social · 22h

Oh gosh I’m just gonna be glad I missed that

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay
I'm an illustrator and cartoonist who loves science and nature! 🐠 I create comics, zines, and occassionally 2D game art.

I'm open to work- either commercial or personal! Would really love to make something for your new book.

🐌https://ariganahl.com/
🦑[email protected]

Digital illustration of a fruit bat

Paper collage illustration of a crusty nautilus grabbing a shrimp

White, blue, and black comic page depicting several cephalopods' taxonomical connections

An illustration of a tattooed mermaid drawing on their own tail

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

This fall I have enjoyed many golden moments with northern wildlife. #birds #mammals
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Northern FLicker, Red Fox, Ring-necked Ducks

A yellow-rumped warbler perches on a wild rose plant with a golden backdrop of fall colours.

A northern flicker perches on a wolf willow plant with a golden backdrop of fall colours.

A red fox stands amid grasses with a golden backdrop of fall colours.

A small flock of ring-necked ducks swim on a calm wetland that reflects golden leaves.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.