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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

sapphling: sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

sapphling: You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

sapphling: *screenshot of tag that says
#crying and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didnt REALLY die and come back to life all those times*
no that part was real

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h

Basically there are 7 companies that account for 80% growth in the US Economy (which is currently deep in recession outside of spending on AI infrastructure) and they’re all trading products and services with each other to keep their stock price rising so they don’t collapse.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h

Can you imagine running a business where 5 years since product launch you’ve not only not made a profit, your turnover, not profit, *turnover* was 1.2% of your expenses? If you can then you’re probably an open spot comedian wondering whether you should knock it on the head and fall back on teaching

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h

Every video you make with Sora 2 costs OpenAI $5. This year they’ve spent the best part of a Trillion Dollars (one thousand billion) and brought in $12bn revenue. For them to be able to *break even* they’d need to increase the cost of every monthly subscription 10 times. They are so fucked.

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chimpbeef @chimpbeef.bsky.social · 9h

was lookin for new games but ended up just playing zeroranger again oops

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 8h

What do you mean the new pokemon game has a rough and tumble dragon trainer girl who gets domesticated and maid trained by a princess girl??? (sent to me by a friend, I'm not playing it)

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · Oct 10

I’m Alyson Greaves and I write books about trans women.

Come visit my Patreon to read new chapters of THE SISTERS OF DORLEY two weeks early, to read books like KIMMY before they are available to buy, and to read new chapters of WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN and THE CATCH!

www.patreon.com/alysongreaves

Get more from Alyson Greaves on Patreon

creating transgender fiction

www.patreon.com

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Prof. Liz Laycock @shulizl.bsky.social · 5h

Lobby your MP. Leave off and stop hassling my (trans / gender nonconforming / people who don't match stereotypes) friends, family, students, colleagues ... and people I've never met and never will meet for that matter. Can we just stop being shitty to each other? Is that REALLY too much to ask???

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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SUEDE DIED TEN YEARS AGO @suede.bsky.social · 14h

To be fair, "Freaking out about something they just learned about that's actually been around for decades with no issue" is pretty much the TERF motto

onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

TERFs pretending to freak out about the “transgender propaganda” of “unknown gender” in pokemon that was in the series since gen 2 released in 1999

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鱷子寬祥 @educawanico.bsky.social · 5h

Confidant feat. Samantabhadra and Manjushri
#art #illustration #originalart

"Confidant feat. Samantabhadra and Manjushri" sketch

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 1d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abeer. Abeer lost her husband (along with his entire family) in a bombing two years ago. She also recently lost both her brother and sister. She is trying to rebuild and take care of her two children, Makeen, 4 and Masa, 2 on her own.

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Haunted Red Pixlh3art🖤🦇🎃 @pixlh3art.bsky.social · 14h

I 100% completed Hollow Knight: Silksong recently. These ~2500 words fell out of me almost immediately after, in the same sitting. Please enjoy.

-R
archiveofourown.org/works/727205...

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Selene of the Wrapped Agony ΘΔ 🎶 @dragondoggirl.bsky.social · 14h

Also this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo52...

Rwby - The Edge - Lyrics (Eng/Pt-Br)

YouTube video by GuiPepi

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Selene of the Wrapped Agony ΘΔ 🎶 @dragondoggirl.bsky.social · 15h

Randomly remembering how fucking incredible this song is www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBW...

[Lyrics] Guide My Way (Red Like Roses Pt. III) | RWBY Volume 9 Soundtrack

YouTube video by mellowtea

www.youtube.com

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 16h

mom can you pick me up they're transvestigating voltorb

onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

TERFs pretending to freak out about the “transgender propaganda” of “unknown gender” in pokemon that was in the series since gen 2 released in 1999

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 17h

I was looking up rock climber references and

Two rock climbers on a cliff passing a baby. It's not a cartoon. This is an actual photo.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 8d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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さとばな Satobana @ayashiisprites.bsky.social · Sep 1

『オオカミ♀：ファイター』

リハビリ✍️

#ドット絵
#pixelart

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seripu 🥐 @seripu.bsky.social · 20h

[UFO] apple pie lucario🍎

RT is appreciated 💚

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Selene of the Wrapped Agony ΘΔ 🎶 @dragondoggirl.bsky.social · 16h

that *was made that way

Selene of the Wrapped Agony ΘΔ 🎶 @dragondoggirl.bsky.social · 16h

To this day I'm still not convinced that it *isn't* an experiment that wasn't made that way on purpose

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 16h

When y'all buy from indie authors, it impacts us profoundly. Especially if it goes outside the circle of authors trading a few dollars back and forth amongst ourselves.

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 16h

I expected to sell 200 copies in the first year in my wildest dreams and it’s wound up selling 4,000 in that time 🥹

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mint @mintaii.bsky.social · 22h

diana of hell

#art

an illustration of diana prince, as depicted in absolute wonder woman, standing at the center of the flesh and blood of slain, indistinguishable monsters, her great sword plunged into the flesh below. framing her is blue, ancient greek-inspired artwork, depicting circe and an unarmoured diana, both drawing magic from their cauldron and self respectively. below them, is a depiction of the slain tetricide. diana's red, glowing lasso held in her left hand, the end of it strung up towards the top of the blue frame, between two guiding hands.

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 16h

TERFs blatantly unaware of basic facts about the world, fork found in kitchen

onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

TERFs pretending to freak out about the “transgender propaganda” of “unknown gender” in pokemon that was in the series since gen 2 released in 1999

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