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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

Nobody ever wants to talk about or admit this but it happened.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 5h

Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 41m

This is why I'm posting weird gaming ads. 😄 (I never got to play either of an XBox or PS2 though I did play a bit on the original Playstation before my brother commandeered it.)

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4h

This thread is super interesting and I really had no idea about the popularity of XBox being minimal compared to PlayStation and does actually speak to the success of the Microsoft marketing team for convincing us all it was an actual competitor.

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 5h

With all the Xbox news there's been a lot of discussion about the inevitable death of Xbox, and in a lot of these discussions both in essay and online, there's a lot of reverence for when Xbox was good, the 360, where they were so powerful they managed to match Sony's worst performing console.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 43m

Why did the console wars manifest as whoever could do the weirdest advert? Or was it just that time when big budget weird ads were a huge thing, post Guineas Surfer?

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Jan 17

the ad from that era i most remember is the one for the og xbox.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 45m

Oh my god I'd memory holed this. I'd definitely no idea who Lynch was at the time (14 years old). If I had it might actually have made more sense.

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · Jan 17

So many amazing anecdotes about David Lynch. I will add something fluffy but possibly entertaining.
For a brief while, David Lynch was probably best known in the UK for his wonderfully him PlayStation ad, championed by the great @trevorbmbagency.bsky.social

youtu.be/Laf9vpJMDjA?...

PlayStation 2 advert: Welcome To The Third Space | 2000 | #20YearsOfPlay

YouTube video by PlayStation Europe

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 49m

Feeling really shitty because my deputy managers husband died two weeks ago and she's been coming in nearly every day since then while I get knocked out by my uterus.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 50m

Wow, this pose etc looks so modern. And yes, he could.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 51m

Not sure how I managed this as the brand I use are usually absolutely fine on bare skin but I've managed to pull off two bits of skin from the heat pad I was using on my period pains and it hurrrrts. #whine

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

"C.M.O.T. Dibbler liked to describe himself as a merchant adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as an itinerant pedlar whose money-making schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such as trying to sell things he didn’t own or which didn’t work or, sometimes, didn’t even exist."

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like one shouldn't need to walk with a cane because of period pain but here we are.

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David Jenkins @david-jenkins.bsky.social · 11h

This fan art bought us another season and put food on all of our tables. We will always be indebted to you.

Jenn Lee overboard! @self-induljennt.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes I remember worrying that I was embarrassing when I started sharing my fanart. I fell so hard & so fast for our pirates. Then a pro comic artist I really look up to just out of the blue told me my OFMD stuff was "beautiful work". It was like he knew I needed to hear it right at that moment.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

If she educates herself I'll be very pleasantly surprised but at the moment it's just the same thing as 100 actors who don't care.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

Please don't apologise, we should be able to share our thoughts! I'm not trying to shush you either, I just strongly disagree on this point, which is ok. 💜

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

Well, she's not going to see my response. Tbh if she wants to change, she owes us an apology, not the other way around. To quote Star Trek DS9, I'm tired of being calm, calm never got me a damn thing.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

Idk that I have any power to give any repercussions. No one listens to us. So I just rant here because I have so much anger. Keira loudly proclaims herself a feminist, and I've admired how she's handled herself in the past. She's very capable of caring and as yet does not.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

It's her responsibility to do the thinking, and she clearly doesn't want to given that she's an intelligent person but has signed up anyway.

Anyway this is an opinion we can agree to disagree on, unlike JKRs.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

Aliens.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

U ok Australia?

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 20h

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Ro 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wee Con @ramsaybaggins.bsky.social · 18h

"We've all got different opinions"

Funnily enough, one opinion is 'I just want to get on with my life the way I want' and the other is 'I want to end the existence of a whole group of people'

Not quite the same, hmm?

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Puck the tall hobbit 🧜✊ @r3dleprechaun.bsky.social · 15h

Frankly I don't think she's telling the truth when she says she wasn't aware but even admitting it (rich & famous people live in a different world than us) I think any famous person working with Rowling that wasn't aware should fire their agents for malpractice.

Mr Buttons 🏴‍☠️🤡 oops I asked for a reason to clown 🥰💜🦄 @mrbuttons284266.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrible.

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crocs and socks @caribbeancrocs.bsky.social · 16h

look at that, she doesn’t even have to act to play the role after all

Mr Buttons 🏴‍☠️🤡 oops I asked for a reason to clown 🥰💜🦄 @mrbuttons284266.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrible.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

The media etc is totally onside with JKR and people still gobble up HP. There's no risk to her whatsoever.

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glitz ✨ CHAIRPERSON of ze Pyramid Owners Association (deceased) @glitterary.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t believe for a SECOND that any of the people involved in these things “just haven’t heard” about JKR being a transphobic bigot. They work in an industry full of queer people and have people on staff to highlight potential issues around job offers. She’s lying and trying to be cute about it.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

Go you!

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 14h

Also, my opinion is if the nasty trans people drive you away from being an ally you weren't an ally in the first place. There's a lot of reason for us to be angry (which I know you know 💜).

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