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livy @livy.bsky.social · 3h

you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, robbing the louvre.

livy @livy.bsky.social · 9d

WOOOOOO

livy @livy.bsky.social · 9d

NO KINGS(almon)

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livy @livy.bsky.social · 9d

I am literally dying

livy @livy.bsky.social · 9d

"we have just surpassed the longest winner take all game in the postseason in history"

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livy @livy.bsky.social · 9d

this game got my girlfriend googling longest postseason games in history

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livy @livy.bsky.social · 10d

"I hope the portland frog isn't milkshake ducked" my nose bleeds and my eyes roll back

livy @livy.bsky.social · 14d

the "jesse, what the hell are you talking about?" meme.
Panel 1: so it all started when a prominent trans journalist called the announcement of an AI "actress" a "clanker"
Panel 2: it comes from that old star wars show, where it's an in-universe slur for the robots they're fighting
Panel 3: but then a techie said language like that "tingles the bigotry neurons," and everyone went nuts.
Panel 4: really, people are talking past each other, obviously LLMs don't have feelings that can be hurt, but being abusive to one might be a sign of deeper emotional regulation issues, but also the antipathy people have for LLMs isn't really comparable to real world harm
Panel 5: left blank for effect

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livy @livy.bsky.social · 14d

excited for the next stage of the discourse. "is it murder to drown your Sim?" "bereveament leave for your Tamagotchi." "going dark side in KOTOR is sus."

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livy @livy.bsky.social · 19d

in the broader culture there's also been a shift, from "the thing I said was wrong, I was mistaken" to "oh, I lied, it's actually..."

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 20

she was on tv a few weeks ago and when asked why she wasn't running for governor of CA she said, essentially, "the system is too broken, I tried to change it from the inside and failed". I really think the party did her dirty.

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 20

have you seen this fan vid? it owns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4...

Andor: Nemik's Manifesto

YouTube video by SWFT

www.youtube.com

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 19

woke-a woke-a

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 18

but the optics of a bunch of white guys being so condescending to a black woman, it's really, really ugly. just stop posting. you're embarrassing yourselves.

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 18

sure, posting on bluesky is probably not much safer from an "opsec" perspective, but ultimately it really is a matter of preference and personal feelings of safety. one can disagree with the level of risk and still say "why make it easier for them?"

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 18

I can't believe this discourse is still happening. I have literally never "signed up" for a protest. it's, a protest. you just, show up, and protest.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Sep 18

nobody saying "don't put your name on the protest list" means "stay home instead" and i'm not sure why that assumption is being made

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 15

they're too busy figuring out how their japanese colleagues are already in tomorrow; current theory is some kind of "vortex"

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 8

the day I got this I could finally put it down in victory

a diagram of a hypothetical German Reichstag Composition on the game "Social Democracy 1928: An Alternate History." of note is the SPD result at 54% and the NSDAP result at 13%.

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 5

some of the original storyboards are on display at the warner bros studio tour, it's so rad

nine panels of Batman Action from the Batman: The Animated Series intro. The first panel is labeled "hoods run toward cam" and has two no goodniks running forward; the second panel the hoods are shocked because, panel three: BATMAN. panel four Batman squints his eyes. Panel 5: the hoods draw guns, but Panel 6: Batman reaches back and Panel 7: throws a BATARANG, Panel 8: the hoods are guns drawn and ready, but Panel 9: the BATARANG knocks the guns out of their hands.

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Sep 2

an evil billionare wants to cement his legacy by building massive infrastructure projects on the eastern mediterranean?

Benicio del Toro as an evil billionare who wants to cement his legacy by building massive infrastructure projects on the eastern mediterranean, in the film The Phoenician Scheme.

He's facing the camera, sitting in a tub smoking a cigar, schemeing about Phoenicia, presumably. There's a cup of alcohol next to him, and since this is from the movie poster, a few images of the cast are on the wall behind him. The tub and wall are white marble and tile respectively.

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Aug 31

"felony mischief", like a jester gone rotten

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Aug 30

how will I find out. in bed? on the toilet? from a stranger?

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Aug 30

can't wait for the event

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Aug 22

my girlfriend and I were the only people in the theater cackling at Drive Away Dolls, it turns out it was made for us and us alone.

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livy @livy.bsky.social · Aug 7

excuse me sir that's called taxes

Highlight from a Wikipedia article on "Telosa": "Lore refers to his design philosophy for the city as "equitism", described as "a new model for society, where wealth is created in a fair way... It's not burdening the wealthy; it's not increasing taxes. It is simply giving back to the citizens and the people the wealth that they helped create".

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