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Rae Star

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Rae Star @raestar.bsky.social · Oct 18

Since there are a lot of new people on here, I should re-introduce myself:

My name is Rae, I’m an asexual demi-panromantic demi-woman and if that bothers you, please block now. Not being antagonistic, just not here for bullshit

I collect molds (retro video games), spores (vinyl) and fungus (manga)

A white hand holding a in-box copy of the Sega CD game Wirehead

The vinyl cover of the album Join Us by They Might Be Giants being held up by multicolor stand that says “now playing”

A Hipstamatic photo of a manga panel featuring a girl with bangs saying “I’ll butt in when I want, whether it’s my business or not. As long as I have a butt, I’ll use it!”
I do not remember what manga this is from

A Hipstamatic photo of a Dance Dance Revolution mat on a carpeted floor

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Rae Star @raestar.bsky.social · 6h

New pet peeve discovered: headlines about video games that read more like SEO tags than an actual article headline

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 6h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Ahorrible Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @assassin-ace.wtf · 17h

whenever a woman calls out a man on bad behavior and another man steps up and says "he's okay, he's just..." I block him first

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 8h

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 8h

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 8h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 3d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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🧟‍♂️ doc shartmanstein 🧟‍♂️ @docshartman.bsky.social · Jun 14

but dad. mah appearance is just a conscious manifestation of laight

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 9h

this groupchat news is awful . . . . what has happened to the party of Meat Loaf

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Rae Star @raestar.bsky.social · 9h

“New generation”??
Come on, let’s be serious here, Politico.

This is how the Republicans have ALWAYS talked behind closed doors

Screenshot from the article:

“The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats - obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.”

Rae Star @raestar.bsky.social · 10h

LRP:

Can we call them fascists NOW???

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 12h

My God, what has the party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush become?

The party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 11h

Between this, Musk’s MechaHitler making porn, & payment processors punishing sex workers/artists that make adult material, I hope it’s more obvious than ever what the wealthy who believe they rule over us think.

“We can do whatever we want, including plagiarized porn, and the marginalized cannot.”

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 14h

hey yall, @oregonthedm.bsky.social is a personal IRL friend of mine and he wouldn’t ask unless it was really was needed

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 14h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Rae Star @raestar.bsky.social · 14h

LRP:

One factoid I learned years ago was Nomura based Kairi’s hairstyle in every game off of Utada Hikaru’s hairstyle at the time.

So yeah, this tracks

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Bradley Gareth @animebrother.bsky.social · 15h

Tite Kubo 🤝 Tetsuya Nomura
A pure love for using
their characters as
fashion models

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 14h

I was very pleased to hear from Soad today. I had feared that she and little Omar were dead, but they're not, just stuck in a place with very little internet. They still really need help, if you're able to donate. tinyurl.com/ycxdtddx @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉

A Palestinian woman cradles her exhausted young son.

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 15h

Bandicoots DNI.

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Tha_DiLA @thadila.bsky.social · 15h

You can catch me streaming Deltarune with @superrpgfriends.bsky.social tonight at 8!

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Standard Issue Cell Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · 1d

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

i cannot stress enough that kotaku, a video game website run on fumes and dreams, had substantially higher editorial standards in 2012 than CBS does in 2025

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 1d

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Ryan McRae @ryandoesstuff.bsky.social · 1d

If you have 4 Wii Us and someone stole 3, how many Wii Us do you have

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Clement @clementj64.bsky.social · 1d

I know that like yeah:
PS2 to PS3? 6 Years.
PS3 to PS4? 7 Years.
PS4 to PS5? 7 years.

It will be 6 or 7 years again. But it just.....doesn't feel like it?

And at this point, the technological leap just won't be significant. The PS5 is perfectly fine. Hell PS4 games still regularly come out....

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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