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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 59m

pls note the 90% was from the original goal of $2000, things have gotten worse and we now need $5000

Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 1h

Hey all, my fundraiser to move me and my mom to stable housing has stalled out less than halfway to our goal. Please share and maybe donate to help us out! We only have 12 days before time runs out!

#MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #Helpsky #Urgent #Emergency

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Donate to Help Will and His Mom Take Their Final Step Toward Stability, organized by William Staples

Hi, I’m Will, and while I’ve asked for help publicly before, … William Staples needs your support for Help Will and His Mom Take Their Final Step Toward Stability

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 1h

attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
a quirky guy who's a little odd

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

these people know how extreme they are

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Tango @tiredsai.bsky.social · 1d

Gone Rogue -

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 1d

ONE MORE THING…

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Andy Screamo @colonelnemo.bsky.social · 17h

Kitty Pryde has always been a better name than Kate Pryde and I also think the superhero name Shadowcat should have stuck as well

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 23h

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 22h

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

It's all part of the greater conservative project to rewrite history so that no atrocity is ever the result of a moral failing, merely a "product of its time".

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1d

Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.

Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 17h

🌟Hello #PortfolioDay 🌟
I'm Tiffany, an illustrator primarily working with the fantastical & historical especially in ttrpgs and books. I'm available for commercial & private work from mid Nov!
💌: [email protected] (no bsky DMs pls, I'm in the UK! 💀)
Portfolio: www.tiffanybaxter.com

A black and white ink illustration of a scowling early 19th century housekeeper holding a lamp stood within an open gothic arch doorway. The doors are elaborately carved with natural motifs such as the Green Man. The stone above has carvings of wolves.

An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.

An intimate scene at a party in 17th century France. Two vampire women gaze at each other, holding hands at a card table. They are radiant in pink, drops of blood on their lace. Around them other party goers in purple-blue, wearing half-masks, oblivious to the true nature of the women. Behind an intricate decorated mantlepiece in warm pale gold.

A square sticker of a silvery-blue medieval inspired unicorn curled up asleep. It's on a gold matte shine background with a red border decorated with curved white lines and dots. It rests on a backdrop of a Richard Dadd painting of fairies.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…

“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Fr. Stephen Vrazel @keytarcatholic.bsky.social · 13h

"I ask you, how can God's love survive in a man who has enough of this world's goods yet closes his heart to his brother in need?"

1 John 3:17-18

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 11h

RIP the great Drew Struzan. Even his rejected comps are better than any art I'll ever make in life.

Pencilled Drew Struzan comp for the poster of Big Trouble in Little China.

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Keith J Carberry @keithjcarberry.contentburger.biz · 11h

maybe everyone goes through the inevitable pokemon inheritance where your dad dies and you get all his pokemon and you go through one by one healing and releasing rattatas and pidgeys. they step into the sun and squint at the first natural light they've seen in 50 years

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Keith J Carberry @keithjcarberry.contentburger.biz · 11h

ever think about how many almost dead pokemon you keep in your PC that never get touched or even looked at let alone healed? they just sit there for the rest of time at 6 hp. your character will grow old and die and they'll be in the cloud for all of time

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 11h

This defense is pretty telling:

"...While failing to mention the dangerous smears coming from Democrat politicians who have...called Republicans Nazis and Fascists."

In their heads, calling some a Nazi is just as bad as OPENLY STATING YOU *LIKE* NAZIS.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 11h

this is a rhetorical question btw i know they won't because it's not about "morality," it's about who has money and power

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 11h

so will visa and mastercard be banning payments for this or....???????????????????????

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

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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Bagel 🥨 @bagelcollie.bsky.social · 14h

Support

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 11h

i have an unusual number of toes for a biped

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11h

Post like Casey Explosion, go!

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 11h

The Hobbit movies suck, particularly 2 and 3. Which is a shame, because those are the ones with Lee Pace as Thraunduil in them, and he's great.

Playing him as a disdainful fashion model was an A+ choice.

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 13h

"And why am I in this movie? Maybe I just knew I had to represent, because they had one good part in it for a Black man and they gave it to Crocodile Dundee."

"You better pump your brakes, kid. That man's a national treasure."

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 13h

Mohammad and his family are trying to raise $80 by the end of the day, can y'all help him out?

chuffed.org/project/1448...

Help Mohammad and his family by providing food, treatment, and shelter

I am Muhammad Jaber Shaqliya from Gaza, Palestine. For a year and five months, we have been suffering from a genocidal war and a severe famine. I am a father of five children. One day, our neighbors’ ...

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 13h

"Do you guys want a Sam's Club Yahoo?"

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