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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 2h

the lion does not concern himself with the growing numbness in his left foot while doing yard work

(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 2h

same event where someone suggested I rent out a studio space in a building that was recently renovated by an evangelical church 🙅‍♀️

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 2h

lurched by the memory of that time I participated in an art crit at a gallery space in kansas city way back in 2018 and one of the organizers wasn't sure what my pronouns were the entire time she was giving her thoughts

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

every time I'm added to a groupchat on twitter it just feels like I'm tuning into white noise; it's never been a very pleasant experience imo

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

each episode is only like 10 minutes long. I liked the VOTOMS tie-in OP and will probably purchase the plamo kit

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

"technology is ideology" as a not-so-subtle metaphor for decolonization and multipolarity centered around southern asia, africa and latin america

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was a pretty good! aliens making first contact to trade mobile suits for limestone is a goofy premise, but it's all fluff for the intrigue between nations in the global south who become early adopters and those in the global north who vehemently reject it

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

instead of cleaning my room last night I decided to watch all 12 episodes of that Gen Urobuchi YouTube Originals™ mecha anime, Obsolete

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Jed Dougherty @jebriodo.bsky.social · 1d

I am selling copies of AMAZONIKA: a collection of my drawings and @Nathan_R_Long 's poems about amazons. US buyers can get it over here:
paypal.com/instantcomme...
International buyers can get it here:
paypal.com/instantcomme...

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

fuck_you.jpg

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I feel graduating with no job prospects and immediately becoming bedridden for months after pulling a muscle in my lower back

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max🗿 (hello 👋) 🇵🇸 @maxhello.bsky.social · 1d

Drinking soda inoculates your body and mind, preparing you for the experience of industrial modernity

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

here's a dev roadmap from march of this year
docs.bsky.app/blog/2025-pr...

2025 Protocol Roadmap (Spring and Summer) | Bluesky

Join the Github discussion here.

docs.bsky.app

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 1d

chat is still a temporary feature until they figure something out that works with ATProto; they finally added account notifications and bookmarks within the past month or two though, which is nice

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Cooter Jones @cooter.bsky.social · 2d

Preliminary studies for Thomas Hart Benton’s massive painting “Joplin at the Turn of the Century”

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d

Mamoru Oshii planned it. A young Satoshi Kon took the lead on its layouts. The result: a stunning moment from Patlabor 2.

We're looking inside the film's martial law sequence, including storyboards and production art:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/life-under...

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose I'll give it a try soon 😔

(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so jealous you managed to snag a pre-order in like the 6-8min window it was available on pbandai before being sold out lol

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Sean | zimmerit.moe @sean.zimmerit.moe · 3d

The 1/1 scale SAFS statue that appeared in Model Graphix in the late '90s and in various Maschinen Krieger events in the early 2000s is up for auction. You can see for yourself here: auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d...

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 3d

you should get to a point in your datahoarding habits where downloading BD remuxes of anime should feel trivial

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 3d

what the FUCK is a 'koofr'—do you hear yourself speaking

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 3d

"oh, you don't want to pay $60/yr to sync your data across devices? use webdav! how? here's a list of cloud storage sites you've never heard of"

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 3d

why is documentation for self-hosted zotero so abysmal

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 4d

procrastinating redoing my obsidian vault by succumbing to melancholy

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(Ó Д Ò) @nildicit.bsky.social · 4d

this was my experience esp all throughout last year. like I was always second-guessing my methodological approach to even the most basic research questions that any writing I produced was evidently too broad and general. in the end, it left me feeling aimless and unfulfilled

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