Sapphire
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Just to give it a bump: SideQuested is a refreshing piece of fantasy webcomic that is absolutely worth your time reading.
It has a Robert Asprin quality of humorously subverted tropes coupled with an engaging storyline. I look forward to every update.
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
It has a Robert Asprin quality of humorously subverted tropes coupled with an engaging storyline. I look forward to every update.
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Just to give it a bump: SideQuested is a refreshing piece of fantasy webcomic that is absolutely worth your time reading.
It has a Robert Asprin quality of humorously subverted tropes coupled with an engaging storyline. I look forward to every update.
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
It has a Robert Asprin quality of humorously subverted tropes coupled with an engaging storyline. I look forward to every update.
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
This is what generative AI does.
Generative AI is late stage capitalism: commercialize artistic content, prioritize corporate brown slop, commodify the artistic process, and then automate it.
Generative AI is the fruiting body of a mycelium network that has been consuming our society for decades.
Generative AI is late stage capitalism: commercialize artistic content, prioritize corporate brown slop, commodify the artistic process, and then automate it.
Generative AI is the fruiting body of a mycelium network that has been consuming our society for decades.
yeah they completely took away the wonder i had about the communities around the systems i love
everyone i know keeps telling me to either adapt or die or it's not a big deal
but it is. it's deadly.
and it just killed the old me.
everyone i know keeps telling me to either adapt or die or it's not a big deal
but it is. it's deadly.
and it just killed the old me.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is what generative AI does.
Generative AI is late stage capitalism: commercialize artistic content, prioritize corporate brown slop, commodify the artistic process, and then automate it.
Generative AI is the fruiting body of a mycelium network that has been consuming our society for decades.
Generative AI is late stage capitalism: commercialize artistic content, prioritize corporate brown slop, commodify the artistic process, and then automate it.
Generative AI is the fruiting body of a mycelium network that has been consuming our society for decades.
I always come back to Death’s line in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather:
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I always come back to Death’s line in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather:
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
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New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
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WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
May 21, 2024 at 11:58 AM
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
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especially applies to monthly comics. don't save that amazing thing for the second arc. there's a high probability you'll never get a second arc.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
especially applies to monthly comics. don't save that amazing thing for the second arc. there's a high probability you'll never get a second arc.
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haruspexes will literally read the entrails of a goat the day before battle with the athenians and tell you, "the omens are poor, strategos" 🤣🤣🤣
my brother in zeus, you couldn't have told me this before we marched all this way?💯🗣️🔥
my brother in zeus, you couldn't have told me this before we marched all this way?💯🗣️🔥
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
haruspexes will literally read the entrails of a goat the day before battle with the athenians and tell you, "the omens are poor, strategos" 🤣🤣🤣
my brother in zeus, you couldn't have told me this before we marched all this way?💯🗣️🔥
my brother in zeus, you couldn't have told me this before we marched all this way?💯🗣️🔥
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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I've shopped for a decade or two under the philosophy that there are no sales, just brief periods when things aren't as overpriced.
I have only felt more and more justified in that philosophy over that time period.
I have only felt more and more justified in that philosophy over that time period.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I've shopped for a decade or two under the philosophy that there are no sales, just brief periods when things aren't as overpriced.
I have only felt more and more justified in that philosophy over that time period.
I have only felt more and more justified in that philosophy over that time period.
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Someone said today is “pre-covid regular prices” and that hit me.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Someone said today is “pre-covid regular prices” and that hit me.
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
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While consultants try to convince us that progressive policies are too left for mainstream: have you considered that the problem with male voters isn’t really about some fundamental disconnect between liberals and masculinity, but the massive disinfo apparatus built to manufacture one?
X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
weaponizedspaces.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
While consultants try to convince us that progressive policies are too left for mainstream: have you considered that the problem with male voters isn’t really about some fundamental disconnect between liberals and masculinity, but the massive disinfo apparatus built to manufacture one?
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
In the spirit of Thanksgiving Dinner conversations, I would like to point out that Steve Miller’s uncle has policy called out Steve Miller‘s hypocrisy and general xenophobia.
May Steve Miller’a uncle live a long and happy life of peace and joy.
May Steve Miller be visited by three spirits.
May Steve Miller’a uncle live a long and happy life of peace and joy.
May Steve Miller be visited by three spirits.
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In the spirit of Thanksgiving Dinner conversations, I would like to point out that Steve Miller’s uncle has policy called out Steve Miller‘s hypocrisy and general xenophobia.
May Steve Miller’a uncle live a long and happy life of peace and joy.
May Steve Miller be visited by three spirits.
May Steve Miller’a uncle live a long and happy life of peace and joy.
May Steve Miller be visited by three spirits.
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I can only think of one person for whom this is true and it’s Stephen Miller, who for some reason will not rest till the US reproduces the violent xenophobia that made his and my ancestors flee eastern Europe. The rest of his family seems normal, though
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I can only think of one person for whom this is true and it’s Stephen Miller, who for some reason will not rest till the US reproduces the violent xenophobia that made his and my ancestors flee eastern Europe. The rest of his family seems normal, though
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they can't handle meritocracy
I think a lot of what leads to the "god bluesky is SO MEAN i'm going back to Muskland!" dynamic we see here is that, on Twitter, engagement is driven entirely by a politically motivated and largely broken algorithm that keeps a lot of bad faith ideas safe. That is not so on Bluesky.
Bluesky doesn’t have a central algorithm that’s forced on everybody, and allows users to create their own feeds.
I think that is the *only* ethical model for social media going forward:
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
I think that is the *only* ethical model for social media going forward:
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
they can't handle meritocracy
Shit, I’m old
Wait … … I have access to secret knowledge from the before-times!
I have leveled up and become an Artificer!!!!!
Wait … … I have access to secret knowledge from the before-times!
I have leveled up and become an Artificer!!!!!
We have entire generations that don't know what static on a tv is
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Shit, I’m old
Wait … … I have access to secret knowledge from the before-times!
I have leveled up and become an Artificer!!!!!
Wait … … I have access to secret knowledge from the before-times!
I have leveled up and become an Artificer!!!!!
These games are great, creative, and addictive, although the logic sometimes takes effort to figure out.
A copy of them are playable through this website (and if you haven’t played them, you should)
www.eyezmaze.com
A copy of them are playable through this website (and if you haven’t played them, you should)
www.eyezmaze.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
These games are great, creative, and addictive, although the logic sometimes takes effort to figure out.
A copy of them are playable through this website (and if you haven’t played them, you should)
www.eyezmaze.com
A copy of them are playable through this website (and if you haven’t played them, you should)
www.eyezmaze.com
An excellent thread, which I will add one extra dimension onto.
People who are posting online fall into two camps: those writing for a small in-group and those writing for a large out-group.
In writing, your audience matters …
People who are posting online fall into two camps: those writing for a small in-group and those writing for a large out-group.
In writing, your audience matters …
This is another widespread trope on Twitter at the moment. It’s ’the Queers went too far’ & includes strawmen arguments as in here (1) ungrateful Queer ppl & (2) in other cases, the inclusion of trans ppl in the community. It’s a ridiculously stupid & rightwing piece of rhetoric. Let’s examine it*
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
An excellent thread, which I will add one extra dimension onto.
People who are posting online fall into two camps: those writing for a small in-group and those writing for a large out-group.
In writing, your audience matters …
People who are posting online fall into two camps: those writing for a small in-group and those writing for a large out-group.
In writing, your audience matters …
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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i know this whole time of year can be tough for many so i just want you to know that you are loved
by so many, and also by me
also sorry i’m your sister now, be sure you drink some water and stop slouching so much
and i’m gonna steal three bites of your pie and then kiss your cheek, nerd
by so many, and also by me
also sorry i’m your sister now, be sure you drink some water and stop slouching so much
and i’m gonna steal three bites of your pie and then kiss your cheek, nerd
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
i know this whole time of year can be tough for many so i just want you to know that you are loved
by so many, and also by me
also sorry i’m your sister now, be sure you drink some water and stop slouching so much
and i’m gonna steal three bites of your pie and then kiss your cheek, nerd
by so many, and also by me
also sorry i’m your sister now, be sure you drink some water and stop slouching so much
and i’m gonna steal three bites of your pie and then kiss your cheek, nerd