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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 9h

over a year old lol

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Sep 9

like i am not exaggerating. it’s not an optional or one day feature, if this is a serious social media platform that wants to function similarly to Old Twitter, they gotta drop everything and implement private accounts like. tomorrow. they’re core to the social fabric of being online!

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 11h

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 11h

I ain't watching all that

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 11h

The Duffer Brothers confirm the ‘Stranger Things’ series finale is ~2 hours long

It will also explain what the Upside Down is

“This is a complete story. It’s done”

(via Variety)

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 19h

I feel genuinely delighted that some people have decided they want to speedrun [checks notes] probability

v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 19h

how to speedrun random chance graham.build/s/a-blog/028...

Unfair Flips World Record Strategy

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin to get 10 Heads flips in a row.

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Magus @magusdraco.bsky.social · 22h

Having played this one through two endings. It's good. It's really really good.

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saturn @mystery.systems · 3d

ebicon.itch.io/butterfly-ef... hey!! wondering where all my streams have been? i have been working on a visual novel called "Butterfly Æffect" with a bunch of friends over the last month and change for #erohorrorvnjam 2025!!

the page will explain better than i can so please give it a look <3

Butterfly Æffect: Papillons á Quatre Mains by EBiCon

Visual novel about love and violence set in the early 2000's

ebicon.itch.io

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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🌱nokomento @nokomento.bsky.social · 1d

i am in a sugar crash from dinner earlier and so this is what i doodled after watching the new #DDFF trailer after i got home
thank you bow
#nkmtART

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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MF VIEWTIFUL @mfviewtiful.bsky.social · 2d

Tag: Corruption, Mind control

Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 2d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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#1 Gundam F91 Enjoyer (evil) 🔜 CoN @berah-ronah.bsky.social · 1d

this is shirou, rin, and saber respectively to me

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JoCat 🔜 twitchcon @jocat.net · 1d

Good morning

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Minty @tfkaminty.bsky.social · 1d

QTE to protect the Stream #woolieversus
@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @mtl-reggie.bsky.social

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 2d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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エログロコモンセンス @toskarin.bsky.social · 1d

fujimoto tatsuki's itsall okayman

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Magus @magusdraco.bsky.social · 1d

I'm working on it. I'm working on it...
Damien somehow hit me right in the second hand embarrassment/cringe the moment the anime club girl showed up and I had to stop til the next day.

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saturn @mystery.systems · 1d

Play Our Visuals Novel... If You Dare...

ALTER @alterlnx.bsky.social · 2d

We submitted a team entry to #erohorrorvnjam
Please check out our collective hundreds of hours of work! It would mean a lot.
ebicon.itch.io/butterfly-ef...

Be mindful of content warnings. Or, if your stomach is strong, go in blind for the full experience of a violent bishoujo game-inspired vn.

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gail 💖 🔜 GATEway FATE 🌱✨ @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 1d

modern dragoon men be like what if my fit was atrocious and/or unflattering

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an eloquent attempt at ire @eloquentire.bsky.social · 2d

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When I asked him what he makes of the cognitive science research, he told me he thinks scientists focus too much on word recognition. He still doesn't believe accurate word recognition is necessary for reading comprehension.

"Word recognition is a preoccupation," he said. "I don't teach word recognition. I teach people to make sense of language. And learning the words is incidental to that."

He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept.

I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"?

He dismissed my question.

"The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."

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kins @ Z'goktober @zoldafitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

I think we can all agree,

gqux challia bull labeled "designed with gamers in mind" and 0079 challia bull labeled "designed with activists in mind"

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Magus @magusdraco.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah they've not been in the Unending Journey forever for whatever reason. Same with like a third of the coils cutscenes apparently though at least you can NG+ coils.

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