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aubrey ⓥ

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✨ 29. they/she. agender. auDHD. 🇨🇦 ✨ 🌱 vegan since 2015 🌱 💠 1000xResist enjoyer 💙

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aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · Nov 6

i guess i'll do this! ✨ #promosky

stuff i like to ramble about:
✨Final Fantasy XIV
✨veganism
✨being COVID conscious
✨1000xResist
✨art (digital painting)
✨Ace Attorney
✨RuPaul's Drag Race
✨The Sims
✨makeup & nail art
✨UX design & research
✨music & lyric analysis
✨Baldur's Gate 3
✨Stardew Valley

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 3h

This is the fucking most Canadian thing I have ever seen — controlled partying. I love this.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 4h

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

This. None of us actually expect that we’re going to see society wide masking anymore.

Masking in medical facilities should be the bare minimum.

A few more people choosing to mask up might save a life.

Every infection is a dice roll with disability and some of us are too sick to take the risk

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

When we say “everyone should mask” we don’t actually expect people will. We know how selfish people are. But we say it because:

1) it’s factually true

2) if even a few people listen to us that’s a few more lives saved and, as the Talmud says, every life is a universe.

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aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 3h

so I restarted Pokemon Legends Arceus because I didn't get very far in the first place and haven't played in years so I forgot everything, this game is fun and cool

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 17h

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9h

Look if Trump wants to demolish the White House he can get enough Canadians to do it again for free

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Crimson 💀 (spooky) @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 23h

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Xed @xedxed.bsky.social · 12h

Nintendo has to get better at helping disabled players enjoy their games. they have a track record of not doing that

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 12h

I'm so glad that in Pokémon Legends Z-A that shiny Pokémon are so easy to notice. Between the sound, the color and the sparkles on screen. I really appreciate it as a disabled player. Cause I don't always notice things due to my disabilities.

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aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 12h

shitting on his citizens, tearing up "The People's House", maybe more people will finally recognize that this guy doesn't give a fuck about you. but probably not

aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 12h

I'm Canadian but seeing the White House torn up like that is really jarring (we did it a little differently in 1812 🤪), so I imagine there's a number of American normies who are going to go absolutely ballistic over it, which is good

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

skepticism? yes, skepticism is the core of good work. cynicism? if you think things don't matter, you'll hurt the people for whom they do, and you'll hollow out your own life.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 12h

Love to provide open air access to the part of the white house above the presidential bunker

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 17h

to be clear I do not love all the guys in this image, I am just remarking on the fact that it was sold in my small town in the 2000s, for some reason

aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 17h

did everyone else's video store also sell this poster or was mine just really hip and edgy

A poster featuring Stalin, Castro, Lenin, Mao, and Marx. Marx has a lampshade on his head and is throwing up double "rock on" hand signs, everyone else is holding red solo cups, and the hammer and sickle is featured in the background. The joke is that they are having a Communist party. The background is red.

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aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 17h

I feel so bad for kids today who will never get to experience the joy of picking out a game and then cracking open the case in the car to read the game booklet on the way home

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 21h

Ludicrous take to say nobody misses the video store. Going to my local video store as a teenager was so fucking good. They had a five movies for five days for five dollars deal that was pretty much the greatest thing ever and a super stoned clerk who had seen every movie known to man

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aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 1d

showed Brazil (1985) to my partner tonight. I kinda feel like everyone should watch it, its presentation of an authoritarian state is just so good and unfortunately familiar. it heightens the absurdity, order, incompetence, chaos, and desperation in such clever ways, I really love it

aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 1d

fuck biomedical ethics, I guess! nothing matters!

aubrey ⓥ @aubelisk.bsky.social · 1d

LRP: actual Nazi shit, but also classic USA shit (e.g. Tuskeegee Syphilis Study). this should scare literally everyone but I know it won't

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 6d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 1d

look i wish that the failure of fascism was brought about exclusively by the black bloc and radical activists as much as the next left wing weirdo but unfortunately thats not how history pans out. its a coalition, which, unfortunately, includes normal people

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 1d

in those fascist takeovers that have historically actually taken root it is almost universal that the middle class has arranged itself with it becoming the new reality long before it does. in that regard, the US fash takeover has been a massive fucking fumble

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Friendsmo enged with Mist
EARNEST HOPE is my best triendl
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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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