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em dash klankah ⚙️_⚙️ [a brighter future for darker times]
@larvalstage.bsky.social
by day sculpture fabricator and restorer.
by night activities include sculpture, RPGs, visual design
and other anomalies both online and off.
he/sidhe/they
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December 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The Trump regime is currently firing immigration court judges who aren’t harsh enough. At least 98 of the roughly 700 judges have been fired so far.

Trump’s goons have the power to do that because these “judges” are part of the executive branch.

The U.S. system is a joke.
Immigration courts thrown into chaos as Trump administration purges dozens of judges
The president has ousted about one-seventh of the DOJ judges weighing whether to deport noncitizens.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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this — American science already was underfunded relative to inflation, with zero attention paid to actual opportunities for impact given other near-term developments

mRNA vaccines, genome editing, ML-based prediction of protein structure, etc are as ripe for innovation as aviation was 100 y ago
which is why the reconstruction and rebuilding has to be bigger than you are presently imagining
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Plot fucking TWIST.
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Drawing by erasing is another way of drawing!
Have you tried a kneaded eraser before? I used to play all the time with it at school when I was bored at class 🦇
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#arttips #drawing #pencilart #graphite #drawingprocess
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Added a few splashes of color to the landscape.
#Crocotile3D #Godot #gamedev #IndieGame #PixelArt
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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"Years of decay did not hinder its instincts"
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
this.
and also Discord just popped up a window that says "Look back at your 2025 on Discord"...
i know it, Discord, i was there. i don't care about your popup because i use Discord to communicate with people, and if i want to look back on any of that i can go look at the threads/servers on my own.
Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Quentin Tarantino Slams Paul Dano As Worst Actor On Wikifeet https://theonion.com/quentin-tarantino-slams-paul-dano-as-worst-actor-on-wikifeet/
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The Trump Administration is once again stealing directly from the Nazi playbook. Just substitute Jews for migrants. Trump (along with Bannon & Miller) has been pushing this “migrant crime” hysteria since his 5th day in office. See this story from March 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
March 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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If you’re going to look at “P and L” for the government:

The IRS generated over $5.1 trillion in FY 2024 on a tiny budget of around $12.3 billion, yielding an INCREDIBLE return on investment of over 400:1, and yet Trump has laid off 25% of its workforce
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The difference between Cassidy and most other Republicans is that he knew exactly what he was doing to millions of Americans' livers and health in general, and did it anyway.
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Happy #FossilFriday from the plioplatecarpine modasaurs from the Niobrara! Selmasaurus is so dinky compared to the others. Not pictured: Latoplatecarpus who is out in the display hall.
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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It's amazing how the fact that he lies constantly doesn't concern anyone. Dude moves like a serial killer.
VARNEY: Do you work 18 hours a day?

MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I call this "should've been a radio play". If you're using a visual medium, you are obliged to have visual storytelling
It's driving me nuts, as a person who actually watches films with my eyes, to hear characters talk soooo much about what they're doing and where they're going and why. Like, shut up!!
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
making the same unforced error as many US Democrats have and thinking that becoming more racist will make them more competitive.
When Labour MPs cosplay Reform like this, the Faraagist voters they're chasing won't notice but the immigrant healthcare professionals who've been crucial to the NHS since it's inception absolutely will
Predictably the post has now been deleted, it was this.
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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And they wonder why we say free luigi, and celebrate when their luxury titanic subs implode

Its not because *we* are bad people, its because THEY are bad people
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
John Swinney responds to Nigel Farage's 'racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren
www.thenational.scot
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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tapping the sign
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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There wasn't even a fight. This was the first of these strikes. Up until that point in history, no one had considered that the strongest military on earth would bomb you for being in a fishing boat while brown. And that it quickly became normalized is an atrocity itself.
Do I understand correctly that they were trying to flip this boat over “so they could stay in the fight”… for over 40 minutes, without success?

That doesn’t sound like there was a “fight” likely to happen.
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM