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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 3h

whatever.

For the Suicidal (And the Rest of You) | Orion D Black

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 4h

Does it feel like my brain is chained to hell, pulling me down at a time-evaporating slowness, forced to witness the Eldritch maw of hell open itself, just for me, as Satan, Iblis, the Morning Star, opens his welcoming arms wide, but the greed of his smile wider? Yes. But it's not personal.

W.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 5h

It is so incredibly weird for me to be this anxious and depressed while having 0 problems tied to either. Feeling this shitty is a legit accomplishment. It's almost completely chemical.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 22h

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 6d

It begins! 🔥

Head out on the very first run with me in Hades 2. Follow my YouTube for the full playthrough of this long anticipated sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler, Hades.

youtu.be/rBdXGDXQgQY

YouTube thumbnail that reads "Hades 2. Part 1" On the left is Melinoe, the main character of newly release Supergiant games sequel Hades 2. On the right is Nonbinary Twitch streamer FaunAndGames holding their hands up to cover their mouth excitedly.

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Count Breeedo🩸🔜 PAX U @breeedo.bsky.social · 15h

Boosting 🖤

Count Breeedo🩸🔜 PAX U @breeedo.bsky.social · 1d

So my Airbnb canceled on me for PAXU, and now I don’t have a place to stay. I looked for places close to the convention center, but everything is super expensive & I’m not able to pay upfront right now (which I want to).

If anyone has any leads, or is able to help out, that would be amazing. $0/600

Support Breeedo ❤️

Become a supporter of Breeedo today!

ko-fi.com

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 16h

Love you too! I hope that you're well.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 19h

It feels like a Medical Mechanica robot wants to sprout from my head

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks bud. I'm rooting for you and the family too!

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

capitalbnews.org

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 23h

It also implies that transness is only accessible through medicine. The limitless expressions of gender we embody and perform are not limited by hormones or surgery. Those are supplemental for some and necessary for others, but a requirement for no one. Transness transcends class as it does meds.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 1d

Winter is my absolute worst time of the year, but it feels like I'll finally be prepared and situated enough to have a solid one on the health front. The cosmic cost of this, I assume, is extreme anhedonia.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 1d

The one on the right is calling me

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 1d

I love writing all-of-a-sudden poems and immediately forgetting about them only to be reminded by your like notifications. Ty.

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Vana 🍉 @havanarama.bsky.social · 2d

🔴LIVE NOW

Gonna do some co-working/body doubling while we check out #OnTogether for the first time courtesy of @futurefriendsgames.com and @on-together.bsky.social !

Then we will switch over to some gaymes later in the evening~

twitch.tv/vana

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Key art for the game "on-together." In a shiny, round, cartoony style an assortment of people, animals, and people animals sit at a large brown table under palm trees working on their own tasks, sipping on drinks and smiling.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 2d

I put my creativity in the hands of capitalists, betting its soul-tied durability against the ever-tightening grip of their greed. I lost. It shattered. The rest of me, too. I've leaned, steadied by every horse and man that loves me, to piece together the fragments.

I am what remains
made new.

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💀 Dare2Screamrpg 💀 @dare2dreamrpg.bsky.social · 2d

Alright gamers! Today we’re back with (hopefully) the rest of the undertale no mercy route! Today at 1:30 pm est we’re going to the hotlands, the core, and probably fighting a silly skeleton

Over at twitch.tv/dare2dreamrpg

a pixel art drawing of sans from undertale standing on a black background .

ALT: a pixel art drawing of sans from undertale standing on a black background .

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2d

What would Link do?? He would share this, because that’s what he did every single day, being a legend.

11 hours left on our bold daily drive, which we’re running all month to help six families survive the slow genocide of ongoing starvation & displacement. Our help matters more than ever. 528/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 2d

Battle Suit Aces is hella gay. Mechs and gay and good writing. I couldn't be happier.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 3d

happy birthday. please live for a confusingly long amount of time. this is a threat.

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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sending $10,

Can someone please match me or give the other $40?

Rebeka is battling cancer and CANNOT take medication without food!!

It's awful that they're not getting the support they need.

MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 4d

hey friends,

i hate to ask again, but could anyone spot me $30-50 for food please?

still waiting for my snap benefits to be restored and i have nothing left to eat 🙏🏽 hopeful to get a parcel from the foodbank next week -they've offered to deliver ❤️

paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash

Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Orion @oriondblack.bsky.social · 4d

Battle Suit Aces is quickly falling into my top 5 games of the year

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