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Mask-wearer. Immigrant. Colony of feral cats in a trenchcoat. Queer. Mx & they/she. Used to do game stuff. Anti-genAI. Toitū Te Tiriti! Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · Jul 28

Want to play as cyberpunk cats in TheSprawl RPG and TheVeil RPG? 😼💀🤖 Or play as dinosaurs who are princesses in #DinosaurPrincesses? 🦖👑💖 Maybe even cat cat catting cats catcatcat #CATSnCATS? 😹😻😹
Check out my itchio page to find my games! catpurrsand.itch.io
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8h

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 10h

Come vote for "Someone else" with me to mess up Bishop's numbers! #NZPol

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Chris Bishop received the highest percentage of votes with 38%.
Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon followed with 18% and 17% respectively.
"Someone else" received 21% of the votes, which is the second-highest result.
Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown each received 3% of the votes.

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 11h

Should be an interesting watch
#nzpol

Zack Polanski and Chlöe Swarbrick in conversation on this week's episode of Bold Politics.

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

youtube.com

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 10h

Chris Swarbrick for Prime Minister fuck it

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 10h

Anyway, Menéndez March has a real point here. Aotearoa has changed. who is represented in Parliament has changed with it. Our Parliament should accept those changes and keep up with them, not try and deny that they happened by forcing people to wear some foreign uniform.

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Anwyn @anwyn.bsky.social · 4d

The treasures you discover while packing to move! I thought I'd lost my little stash of these amazing @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social Sailor Scout cards, but I've now got them safely on hand in my wallet (wallet is by the same artist, lol)

Three business card size prints of an artistic interpretation of Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus in a fun slightly punkish street style.

The reverse side of the three Sailor Scout prints. The top one reads "Thank you for Mansplaining/ that was super helpful/ I learned so much" with an email address listed as well@actually.com. The middle one reads "Thank you so much/ but your opinions are garbage/ I don't give a fuck" with your Opinions@fuckoff.com as the email, and the bottom one reads "Please fuck off/ sick of your shit" with you@somewhereelse.com. as the listed email.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · Aug 21

My current GOTY at its lowest price. Come on now 👇

despelote ⚽ OUT NOW! @despelote.game · Aug 21

despelote is on sale as part of the @panic.com publisher sale. our biggest sale yet, 35% off! that's less than $10!

go kick those balls / bottles / DVD boxes now!

store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...

Save 35% on despelote on Steam

A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.

store.steampowered.com

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that annoys me most of all about the Covid inquiry is that no evidence past 2022 is considered. This is the date the government declared it was over and this is why we must have another inquiry to look at child deaths that have gone unmentioned and the devastation of long covid and

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 13h

Huzzah!

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 15h

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’”

Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

variety.com

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 15h

I'm a little bit absurdly excited to be attending the Sea-Meow cat convention in Seattle on November 1-2. I have a spot in the programming to chat (pun intended) about my journey with Elsie, the tiny talking tyrant (ahem, I mean, cat) who lives with me. www.seameowconvention.com

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 14h

Pams recalling butter as bakers baffled by flaky, watery, mouldy blocks

Flaky, funky-looking blocks from Pams, some complete with mould, have consumers crying foul. What's going on?...

thespinoff.co.nz

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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 14h

Restocked!

Your Friend in Witchcraft

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Your-F...

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 16h

Do not disturb: Otterly exhausted

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 16h

They stole over 30 of my books, primarily *most* of my (award-winning) erotica collections.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

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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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 16h

Her cycle seems to largely be get sick with a really bad "flu" for a week or two, and then get sick with something else shortly thereafter. Hmmmmm

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 16h

OMFG. Coworker just got back from being sick again for a while. She and other coworkers discussing how it's so weird she keeps getting sick because she has "the healthiest lifestyle regime of eating, exercise, etc of anyone they know!". Her doctor is also stumped! Dear reader, she does not mask.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 21h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Kristala 😼⚔️ Play on Steam @kristala.bsky.social · 19h

TOMORROW!! Tune in at 12pm ET / 9am PT across IGN platforms for a BIG announcement as we unveil a brand new trailer during the #IGNFanFest countdown event! 👀

#IGNFanFest2025 #Kristala #gamingnews #gamingcommunity #indiegames

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Mathias Ball+ﾟ*｡:ﾟ+ | illustrator open for work 🍊 @mathiasball.bsky.social · 19h

Hello !! ⚡🌿

I'm Mathias, a queer artist who would love to work on book projects, editorial, advertising, and indie game projects. Open to other opportunities as well!

🍎 mathiasball.com
🍊 [email protected]
📚 @socalledyalife.bsky.social

[ #portfolioday #illustration #art ]

A pattern of spot illustrations, featuring an arctic fox, an arctic tern, a polar bear, some rabbit footprints in the snow, and a forest.

Interior illustration for Nautilus magazine. A figured in a red shirt stands in the middle, as various animals walk around them, depicted in a red/green colour palette.

Book cover for The Night Ends with Fire written by K.X. Song. A figure stands in a field of flowers, as a greenish dragon circles the sky and sits above the figure.

A spread from the book, Little Wolf's Howl, written by Nelly Buchet. Little Wolf chases a butterfly, towards the water. Behind them you can see various backgrounds flowing together, showing all the places Little Wolf has travelled to chase the butterfly.

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Jayme 🔜E5 Baltimore Comic Con @jaymajaym.bsky.social · 20h

Hey #portfolioday!! I'm Jayme, a queer disabled kidlit illustrator, cartoonist, and comics colorist open to new projects!

🌻 jaymebrodie.com
🌻 [email protected]
🌻 rep: @jenazantian.bsky.social

a digital illustration of a girl in a pumpkin patch who accidentally got her foot stuck inside of a pumpkin on the ground. other kids pick pumpkins and hang out in the background

digital illustration: a group of friends hanging out on a city rooftop greet a friendly dragon with the gift of a sandwich. Behind them, city residents go about their business among trees transitioning for fall

comic page showing two girls playing a videogame on a couch and completing a level together.

digital illustration: an adventure ready kid confidently follows her dog away from her campsite, friends, and family, and into the unknown!

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WWW.UNBEATABLEGAMEWISHLIST.NOW @dcellgames.com · 19h

"holy shit this game is crazy. if i cant say 'shit', then do like a 'wow' or something. but if i can, leave all the text as is, including this period."

- @flowt.bsky.social, programmer

Illustration of Beat grinding on a rail with a CRT in the background. The skateboard she's riding on has a silence-themed wrap.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 1d

This is truly shameful legislation. The government is once again showing contempt for the rule of law.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

'Mean-spirited': Māori lawyer joins calls to stop marine and coastal rights law changes

Veteran Māori lawyer Annette Sykes says the government has to stop a law making it harder to get customary marine title.

www.rnz.co.nz

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if this is new, because I wasn't really scrolling through the last few Next Fests too deeply, but god you have to sift through a *lot* of AI thumbnails

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Conor Caulfield @cptcorallis.bsky.social · 1d

It was the same in February, Valve now effectively treats the first few days of NF like they do the regular store launches - everyone gets equal visibility before they start filtering games based on popularity/success (so AI stuff ideally gets downplayed).

aftermath.site/steam-next-f...

Steam Users Worry Good Next Fest Games Are Being Crowded Out By AI Slop, But The Real Problem Is More Complicated - Aftermath

The Steam algorithm is almighty, for better and worse

aftermath.site

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