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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 13h

we've talked for hours and hours on @bythebywater.bsky.social about tolkien and race, tolkien and women—dude was not exactly progressive. but he was very much opposed to fascism and imperialism and i refuse to cede his work to orcs

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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 14h

fascists who attempt to appropriate tolkien's work should be exiled to a deserted island

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 13d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 5h

hot beautiful implies the possibility of cold beautiful, lukewarm beautiful, room temperature beautiful

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 1d

I know I’m jaded about an event once I stop taking as many photos of it

Took five years for PAX Unplugged but only three for SPIEL, lol

It’s all photos of food, maybe two of people, and a handful of our booth

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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 4d

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 11d

couldn't find my purple pen and highlighter from last year, so I bought a new (different) purple pen and threw in a mechanical pencil for kicks

went into Topdrawer and came out with a pen I said I would buy 2 years ago once I had money again

made the mistake of walking into a used book store

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 11d

you can tell how anxious I am about a trip by the amount of random fucking shit I decide that I absolutely NEED to purchase at the last minute

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 13d

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 15d

I've been reading erotic fanfic for 30 years. no way in hell any chatbot can produce the quality of smut that I have come to expect

404 Media @404media.co · 15d

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 15d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 15d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 19d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 24d

When I say no social media platform is safe right now, not only am I serious, I will keep harping on the need for durable alternatives. These places are fine for dissociating, but they're not for us. No telecom infrastructure is.

We HAVE to go harder on real time community building and safety.

Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · Sep 20

My strongest suggestion is that we use the current convenient means to build durable networks to each other that we can transfer from Blacksky between meatspace and the airwaves as needed or desired.

Black CBers were already experimenting with the radios as a
form of organizing- although in ways that weren't exactly
government sanctioned.

According to Blake, Black CB users were active as early as 1959 with the founding of the Rooster Channel Jumpers, a network of Black CB users across the US. The club had chapters in major cities in the north, south, and east, and "a formal governance structure at every level, and blue and gold uniforms for its members." In 1978, about 10,000 Rooster Channel Jumpers met in Dallas for the club's annual convention, where the keynote speaker urged Black CBers to "join together in a national black radio operators organization to promote the use of CB channels specifically for black economic organizing and mutual benefit."

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 26d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 26d

After busting out like three beaded shawls in about 3 weeks each I thought I would be able to knit a baby blanket in that same amount of time and

Well

I didn’t factor in how long intarsia cabling would take, jfc

it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · 27d

How it started vs. How it’s going

20 bobbins of yarn wound around clothespins, arranged in a 4x5 square

20 bobbins of yarn wound on clothespins, clipped to the edges of a box with a tangle of yarn inside it

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 27d

Being friends with a fantasy author is fun.

Text conversation:

"I need a name for the place where all the sex magic happens, the place [REDACTED] needs rescuing from."
"The Hall Of The Nymphomancers"
"Be serious."
"The Fornicatorium."
"lol, it's more of a religious thing. Like a temple."
"Our Lady Of Perpetual Gooning"

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · Sep 29

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · Sep 28

Nature is healing

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · Sep 28

I know I'm too deep in the weeds assessing board games for First Look when I'm playing review videos on 2x speed and getting annoyed at hosts discussing anything that isn't directly related to the rules or mechanics of a game

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · Sep 27

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · Sep 28

tree's giving
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in solidarity

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · Sep 26

Really cannot scream loudly enough that for the next while you will feel an urge to hunker and turn inward and that is the last fucking thing we need everyone to do. Now is the time to have weird casual conversations with neighbors and friends about emergencies and to offer what help you can.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Sep 26

The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs.

Most of us can barely afford our medications as is.

We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die.

We can’t stockpile them.

A 100% tariff will cost lives.

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · Sep 26

here it is as a YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB9z...

Odeon

YouTube video by Penguin Café - Topic

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it me suzi 🔜 PAX Unplugged @bluebombardier.bsky.social · Sep 25

please enjoy this soundtrack to a Wes Anderson film that doesn't exist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3wB...

I have seen maybe 2 Wes Anderson films so maybe I am way off-base, idk, I think it's nice

become an extra in a wes anderson film

open.spotify.com

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