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soleil ✵ @ bald gay @skywardstruck.bsky.social · Aug 27

[A Second Chance]

Galadriel reaches out to Maglor one last time before they make the final journey across the sea.

Here's a cosplay photo of my Maglor and @moodrose.bsky.social's Galadriel for TRSB 2025. Look forward to reading the fic by starspray on ao3 Sept. 6!

📸 aerlinn.cos (IG)
#silmarillion

Photo of Maglor and Galadriel cosplayers from Tolkien's Silmarillion. Maglor is sitting on a rock by the water's edge, eyes wide open, reaching a hand out to Galadriel, who stands with her back to the camera, reaching out to Maglor's hand but not touching it. The sun is setting and the colors are faded. Maglor wears a red robe, red capelet, brown tabard, gray tunic, black pants and black and red embroidered shoes. He has silver eyes, thick black curly hair and a gold leaf circlet with a red teardrop jewel in the center. His hair blows in the wind. Galadriel is wearing her green Eregion dress from Rings of Power. It is holly green with gold chains and beads around the wrist and collar. Her hair is braided and tied in the back and flows in the wind.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 1h

A company with decades of single-player experience pivoting to multiplayer? Well, it worked for Anthem, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, FBC: Firebreak, Redfall, Marvel's Avengers, and all those PlayStation games

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1h

Quantic Dream announces they are developing a competitive multiplayer game

Star Wars: Eclipse development still continues

blog.quanticdream.com/writing-a-ne...

For over 28 years, Quantic Dream has been pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling. With award-winning titles like Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human, more than 25 million players worldwide have shared the journeys of Ethan Mars, Jodie Holmes, Kara, Markus and Connor, with us.

Since 2018, we have entered a new phase of growth and innovation. We doubled the size of the team, bringing together talents from all over the world united by the same passion for creativity. We opened a new studio in Montreal, moved into new headquarters in Paris, built the next generation of our proprietary technology, and became our own publisher.

After years as a single-project studio, we also decided to take a new step. Multiple teams are fully dedicated to crafting the next generation of great games, including something very different, a competitive multiplayer experience, born from the same spirit of curiosity and creativity that has always defined us.

This new title may surprise our fans as it is very different from what we have done so far. But taking risks, challenging ourselves, exploring new ways of playing and telling stories, and attempting what seems impossible, has always been part of our DNA.

We also know how demanding it is to create something new. Earning the trust of players, standing out in such a competitive space, and introducing fresh concepts is incredibly challenging. And since we have no legacy in this genre, we know we have everything to prove — which is why your support and feedback will be essential. Together, we believe we can create something truly unique.

Of course, development of Star Wars: Eclipse continues, and we are eager to share more with you in the future.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all our fans around the world for playing our games year after year, for their kind words whenever we meet, for their patience and encouragement.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 1d

The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 20h

| Villain |

To all my fellow people pleasers out there... 😌
#originalart

an illustration of book being pierced through by a sword, from the wound the thorns with red tips are growing, slowly changing into flowers, a red bookmark is there to symbolize blood.

the book reads 'It's alright to say No. You will always be a villain in someone's story...'

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 11h

I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a hand hobby, something that you love to do that you find fun and fulfilling that also requires use of your hands and attention so that you can’t multitask by doomscrolling at the same time

ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜 @flailmorpho.bsky.social · 13h

it genuinely is important to still have hobbies during a fascist takeover

don't let nazis take your humanity from you

being a well rounded person is crucial for mental maintenance

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 21d

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h

The whole point of doing this is to show their fellow crackpots around the world: you don’t have to tolerate annoying people who oppose your fascism any more. You can jail them, beat them, degrade them. It’s fun! You should give it a go, you’ll enjoy it and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop you.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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PMDShitpost @pmdshitpost.pmd.social · 10h

frankly insane that 20-ish years ago some devs in japan said "how do we adapt mystery dungeon for pokemon," someone said "why don't we have the player be a pokemon," and as a direct result i now wear a collar and have about 5 online friends that identify as the mythical pokemon mew

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Good Smile Company @en.goodsmile.com · 6d

Preorders open now!

Good Smile Company
Kasane Teto
Nendoroid Kasane Teto 2.0

Presenting a new Nendoroid of Kasane Teto in her iconic outfit!

Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/HCor1n

#goodsmile

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soleil ✵ @ bald gay @skywardstruck.bsky.social · 10h

aaaa I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A RERELEASE <3333 finally!!

Good Smile Company @en.goodsmile.com · 6d

Preorders open now!

Good Smile Company
Synthesizer V AI
Nendoroid Kasane Teto: Synthesizer V AI Ver.

Presenting a rerelease of Nendoroid Kasane Teto: Synthesizer V AI Ver.!

Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/p74E90

#goodsmile

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Good Smile Company @en.goodsmile.com · 6d

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august time @nyahgust.bsky.social · 1d

playing old jrpgs like

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 1d

good news! we've successfully addressed the problem where people were getting too emotionally entangled with our chatbot. we're happy to announce you'll be able to fuck it soon

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babalenciyaga @klytaemnestra.bsky.social · 1d

The Lord Commander. #DionLesage #FFXVI #FinalFantasy16

Final Fantasy XVI’s Dion Lesage sits within his tent at the dragoon camp atop a table draped in fabric.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22h

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oops! "Ironic" bigotry against software already speedran turning into real bigotry against people

Selene 🏳️‍⚧️ | ⚸ @selene.euyis.me · 1d

apparently there are now ppl calling those with prosthetics half clankers so oh that sure is going well

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soleil ✵ @ bald gay @skywardstruck.bsky.social · 1d

ADHKSFJLD i was LITERALLY singing that exact song during the ifrit boss fight 😭

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
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