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He/Him — Born Nov. 14, 199X Writer, podcast host, gacha addict. #Paragons #Locacacast #Nikke Bots and bigots get blocked. Minors DNI with my labeled posts. I don’t do obligatory follow-backs. https://linktr.ee/ChrisMerkelStudios
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Merk @merk94.bsky.social · May 1
www.scribblehub.com/series/13063...

It’s been a while since I first announced it (and a few days since I bumped the most recent chapter), so here’s your reminder to check out #Paragons. It’s my serialized webnovel about superheroes.
Paragons
In 1963, a Flying Man prevents the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is the first known sighting of a superhuman. 41 years later, aging vigilante Moonlighter assembles a team of people with extraor...
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Merk @merk94.bsky.social · 1h
Loona.
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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Sep 17
twitter screenshot of post by ken draw can draw in feb 2022 - Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don’t you just put it down. Idiot. Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: ough ouwa oaygh guwah.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active.

Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 9h
Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
www.dexerto.com
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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 14h
i love webcomic comments. it's like if thousands of people watching a soap opera paused it every twenty seconds to debate for a full day who's being immoral and what might happen in the next twenty seconds
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d
If they can single out titties for a tax, then they can tax certain religious tracts, they can tax news, they can tax Bluesky, they can whatever "speakers" they don't like.

But people are afraid to stand up for porn, which is why they always sharpen their knives on us first.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d
Though, truthfully, as odious as this censorship business is, I'd be tickled if what ultimately brought down a mad king was a titty tax.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d
It's almost as if this has been tried before.
Stamp Act 1765 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d
Just so we're clear, they're proposing a tax on speech.

www.goerie.com/story/news/p...
Pa. senators' bipartisan plan for online porn tax would generate revenue for state Matthew Rink USA TODAY NETWORK Oct. 20, 2025, 1:38 p.m. ET Pennsylvanians who buy content from or subscribe to online adult websites should pay more than just the state's 6% sales tax, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers contend.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h
If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.
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Merk @merk94.bsky.social · 12h
This is, of course, a purely hypothetical exercise, since time travel actually exists in the Paragons universe, and messing with time can have disastrous consequences.
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Merk @merk94.bsky.social · 12h
#Paragons

Moonlighter: “When a kid in a red and yellow costume approaches you asking to be your disciple, kill him. Don’t take him under your wing, don’t turn him down, kill him.”
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13h
It's hard to fathom for most people just how much effort and money is being poured into anti-trans shit, but it's billionaires, the entire apparatus of religious right think tanks like ADF, Heritage etc, entire media empires like Rupert Murdoch's, whole political parties and world governments...
charliejane.bsky.social Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 14h
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · Aug 27
hey man maybe the games industry should take notice of the fact that a litany of games are getting hugely poular co-op mods by young up and coming devs and stop making games designed to make twitch streamers scream on camera and make some fucking co-op games again??????
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Mom @milph.mom · 21h
Me: ...They could make Solid Bud and Liquid Bud.
Sons of the Bud or Les Enfants Retriebles.
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Milkoe🌱 @milkoe.bsky.social · 1d
My fav Silent Hill girls🖤🔪
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伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.social · 1d
From the Otherworld assets in a PS2 title Silent Hill 3 which I designed and modeled back then.
Small clothes depicting “ears” and a “smiling mouth” hang down from the hands and head of a crucified figure. Also a pair of scissors and IV tubing exist behind the "smiling mouth" cloth.
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✨Pʀɪɴᴄᴇss Kɪᴛᴛɪ🇮🇪✨ @princesskitti3.com · 2d
I'm sorry to do this 😭😭😭
please like and reshare please even that helps out

please if you can help, goal is 500 ><

0/500

PayPal.me/shwkitti
#mutualaid #helpfolkslive #helpfolkslive2025 #assistance #fundrasing #helpsky #aidsky
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 1d
Everyone recognizes that there’s a cost of living crisis, that rents and house prices are wildly above what is reasonable, but no one wants to acknowledge that the only way for that to change is for prices to come down and for the people at the top to make less profit.
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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 2d
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d
Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike
It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.
www.huffpost.com
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Merk @merk94.bsky.social · 1d
I hope she survives this. Unless [REDACTED] is one of those fate-worse-than-death skips. In which case, I hope she’s alright.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d
Alongside KOSA, the 'Stop CSAM act of 2025' is a big priority target we need people to yell at their representatives about!
dieselbrain.bsky.social Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 24d
The 'Stop CSAM Act of 2025' has had its govtrack likelihood t
[to be enacted] drop from from 56% down to 46%!

Keep calling your representatives in both the house and senate and hammer how this is a surveillance/anti-encryption bill under the guise of "protecting children". Tell them to OPPOSE!
STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829)
A bill to combat the sexual exploitation of children by supporting victims and promoting accountability and transparency by the tech industry.
www.govtrack.us
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Merk @merk94.bsky.social · 1d
Meanwhile me when I haven’t seen or heard either one of the two cats in this house in the past two days (they’ve still been eating their food and using the litterbox):
Chicken Run farmer: “Those bastards are up to something.”
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angel💀 @sabattons.com · Apr 28
to me, “you should create for yourself” and “you deserve to be acknowledged for what you make” are two statements that should coexist. chasing engagement will rot your soul, while being neglected will see your passion wither. loving what you make is a failsafe for when the engagement never comes.
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