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Calliope

@gdcalliope.bsky.social

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A scholar and a gentle-flan. Ph.D. in Victorian studies, specialization: literary magic. Tarot reader. nonbinary: they/them my site: https://www.calliope.prof my games and tarot spreads: http://gconleymagicart.itch.io Avatar by @mollyskyfire

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm taking the plunge and putting my fiction online after years of the cop in my head telling me that it ruins your chances of ever getting "really published." Fuck that shit!

Read my story for 3 bucks! That's cheap!

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A transgender sysadmin is startled by the appearance of a magical city floating over the port and yearns to somehow arrive in its untarnished streets. A tale of near-future cyberpunk ennui, fantasy, and coming out aggressively to bigots online.

But it was spring, and I felt pretty good, like when you're up at two am drifting through back alleys until you have to clean the shit out of your hand before it seizes up. That feeling where you're gonna do something stupid but you don't care yet. The sky was that color it gets when the humidity isn't up yet but the air's finally warm. I had my beer in one of those fall-apart plastic sacks from China, the safe ones, and you know how quickly they tear up. But I took a long route home that landed me outside the port as the sun set.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 3m

I spent 20 minutes making an improved chestpiece in 14 for my DRG to do the lvl90 role quest only to find it whipped so hard I had to do new glams to match it ffffff

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is a visually cluttered shot, and that bothers me artistically, but look at the HAWK I found just hanging out on my rail, while this SQUIRREL is just like ho hum I’m not scared, where’s the food, lady?

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 40m

(I too use Excel constantly now, and even enjoy it. I've had supervisors ask for my sheets to see how I'm doing weird shit too. And I'm entirely self taught, as above in your thread)

Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 41m

*: not even majoring or anything! just some extra classes, or even a hobby interest! any attempt to wade into anything without obvious binary answers leads people to be able to go, "well, I don't know how this works but I can surely figure it out"

Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 42m

there seems to be growing data that humanities education* tracks to increased flexibility and ease of training in the future, and all this llm crap is filling in the gaps of people who didn't do that and don't know there are other ways to deal with not knowing how to make a spreadsheet a priori

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3h

its not just "oh the owner is an asshole and moderation sucks", X is a fully fledged arm of the American govt both as propaganda and surveillance, and existing on that website is simply setting up shop CLOSER to the folks who wanna hunt down minorities and get them fired/doxxed/etc

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3h

ok listen. i know no big platform is actually "safe" atm. Bluesky is run by shitheads, this place sucks too.

that being said, i need to fucking implore you, Twitter's unsafety is on a whole other level. there's "not safe" and then there's the actual wolf's den.

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 10h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 11h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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TheKittymeister @thekittymeister.bsky.social · 5h

Gremlin being a gremlin recently

A black & white cat peeking around an open door

A black & white cat trying to be very sneaky behind an open door

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 4h

rewatching the first episode of The Prisoner sitting the whole time like

a man in a suit is eating a bucket of popcorn .

Alt: a man in a suit is eating a bucket of popcorn .

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 9h

Wrote a post about having a proper blog/site for about a year now and how it feels like it's caused the distance between me and others to somehow increase.

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At the Mercy of Social Tides - One Year of Obsidian Moonshine

I can't believe I've been running my own website for a year. I can't believe how much less important it feels than my bsky posts.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah it sucks. Even when I was in a really connected blogging sphere where everyone commented on everyone's stuff, it was also getting spread and discussed via twitter simultaneously. Smoothing off the rough edges of communication was something cohost did well, without succumbing to a lot of shit

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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vicki @vickisigh.bsky.social · 14d

witching hour 🌕🐈‍⬛✨ #art

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 9h

The Captivity of Melkor and the Coming of the Elves. Brief comments on the perennial Orc Question as well as some links to other fine folks.

#TolkienTide

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Tolkien Tide: Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor

in which Melkor is taken prisoner and the elves awaken, as well as their long march to the shore

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 9h

I had a student repeatedly -- that is to say, after being told "hey you're obviously using LLMs stop it" write about "the Suzuki method" of learning music... instead of Izumi Suzuki's short stories.

That's the funny one. I also got a *lot* "discussing" stories from the collection we didn't read

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 11h

Viper's daughter is here.

C. Viper from Street Fighter exhausted after a long day of secret agent street fighting collapsed onto her suitcase at the front door. Her teenage daughter Lauren tells her "Don't be so cringe, mom" after she calls her the perfect daughter in a slightly jokey tone.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.bsky.social · 1d

No, I don't. I'm imagining why one would call for wolf teeth for hydromancy. I see it as reading.

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laura "laura” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social · 1d

i went out on my lunch break to take pictures of birds with my new lens and had very bad luck. i gave up and was walking back toward my building when this northern mockingbird landed on a branch eight feet from me to vogue for a minute. maybe my favorite picture i’ve taken so far.