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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's 10am, and the lighting is telling me it's sunset. The smog has made all the sunlight so orange
May all those stricken by the fires across this continent be ok

orange rays of sunlight shine through an oak tree, bathing everything in sunset hues despite it being mid morning

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Galaxy Pride Flags

Some designs I made last year which went surprisingly viral

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy International Nonbinary Day!
Coincidentally it's also the start of Nonbinary Awareness Week.
So much love from your enby gal, genderfae, admin
Amata Tai

Flag by Laurie Raye

Nonbinary Pride Flag made of colorful nebula stripes (yellow, white, purple, black) taken from astral photography

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jun 29

And you'd be right XD

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jun 29

The mist swirls over the lake as the countless faerie lights dance among the reeds, each light calling out to a partner to participate in this midnight waltz.

My camera could barely begin to capture a fragment of this beautiful moment (you see those pinpricks of light? multiply them by at least 10)

A dark misty late night photo showing a multitude of fireflies dancing over my lake. It was captured over six seconds

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jun 9

Two gals, Laura and Tracy, discuss how they can improve their cooking skills to make a delicious sauce with a roux of butter and flour, after failing to prevent their sauce from separating and burning

They end up passing the Bechdel test, but sadly don't pass the Béchamel test

I might be hungry XD

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jun 9

Good Luck to all the trainers out there

ICE is weak to many things, like:

Rock (image of brick)
Fighting (image of a Nazi being punched)
Fire (image of a Molotov)
Steel (Image of can of soup, for my family)

Make sure you hit them Super Effectively

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Jun 1

That looks utterly amazing

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 27

It's definitely good for my mental health that there's a ton of trails through conservation land near my house to just walk my pups. Just want to share a bit of that joy with ya

A dirt road of a well travelled trail that goes through a conservation area, each side is flanked by brilliantly green vegetation and leafy trees lit up by the afternoon sunshine

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 23

I may be a bit out of it today, my cool uncle just passed.
Hasn't really sunk in yet

Some rhododendron blooms from my garden for photo tax

A cluster of white rhododendron blooms with pink tinting on the petal edges

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 20

Beware, I was never socialized male/female. I'm a feral fae, and will in fact abscond with your shinies, trinkets, and all your raspberries if left to my own devices

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 20

uggh FOMO is such a cruel mechanic

Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 19

Even with the absurd graphics settings, the gameplay is so grindy- But again, I wouldn't mind nearly as much if you could freely access the character creator again. Seriously, I'm spending my whole life on this game after all.
Also can we stop with f*scist plot line, it's getting really old

Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 19

I still can't believe there's such a huge game breaking glitch affecting the starting character models of like 5% of all new characters and they haven't gotten around to making an easier fix. And even with all the microTransactions that should fix it, the social gameplay remains quite frustrating!

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 19

oops, forgot to hit post yesterday lol >~<

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 19

The spring flowers sure are putting in so much work to keep me sane

close up photography of the wild flowers carpeting part of my lawn, little towers of various shades of small purple flowers. The ones in the back are a darker lavender hue, and the ones in the foreground are a lighter lilac hue

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 16

Oh to be a leaf, basking in the sunlight

A very close up image of a backlit green maple leaf, with all the intricate layout of plant cells visible in a webbed pattern, sunlight peeping above the top along with out of focus tree canopy

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 15

for alt text readers, I promise to make you much more flowery prose for my personal photography going forward

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 15

Don't get bogged down with the world today-
here, enjoy my rainy morning swamp instead ~~

A scenic picture of my colorful rainy swamp that borders my road and lake

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · May 14

"I asked GPT..."
Well I asked the fae in exchange for dram of honey, and they said you really would have been better off asking them for free™ advice.

Seriously

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Apr 22

Seriously.
Not like news media will stop propagandizing though....

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Apr 19

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Apr 19

With the energy bonus of spring, I'll definitely work on posting more haha

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Apr 19

Definitely worth a watch

Better a Pig Than a Fascist

YouTube video by Pillar of Garbage

youtu.be

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Mar 30

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if they were using c-gpt to do all their paperwork

Jon Favreau
@jonfavs

The U.S. government disappeared a man to a foreign torture prison based on this:

The U.S. government claims on Reyes

Mota's I-213 form, a document the Department of Homeland Security uses to support that someone is deportable, that he "may be a Tren de Aragua associate." But in those same documents, the government says he has no criminal records or immigration history in the United States. The government also uses someone else's last name in several parts of the document, identifies him with female pronouns, and uses two different unique identification numbers that immigration authorities use to keep track of individuals, raising questions about the reliability of Trump officials' accusations against him.

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Amata Tai @amatatai.bsky.social · Mar 17

Voiding pardons so you can prosecute the people who investigated you "at the highest level" is very kangaroo court behavior in your growing dictatorship

Image of a Trump post:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The "Pardons" that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!

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