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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 9h

I defeated my own forgetfulness by enabling the "require alt text before posting" toggle in Settings-->Accessibility

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10h

The whole thing is delightful, as is, of course, Bill Nighy (or, as I first encountered him and still think of him, Slartibartfast.)

Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 19h

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 13h

Don't fall for it. They know the tide is turning and are doing what they can to save their own asses. Cops are not your friends. Cops literally have no professional obligation to protect you from harm.

Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 20h

Austin PD's statement was even more explicitly pro-protest, they literally thanked everyone for coming out lol

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone get in here!

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 14h

Spectacular robbery of the French crown jewels at the Louvre today: three masked men climbed a ladder, broke a window, lifted nine priceless pieces from the Apollo gallery, got away on motorbikes. No one hurt.
Reportedly the most famous piece in the room, the 140 carat Regent diamond, was not taken.

The Crown jewel of France and the Apollo Gallery of the Louvre

The ornate Apollo gallery of the palace. Delacroix did some of the ceiling

A fire truck style ladder leaning against the facade

LOUVRE
Tickets
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Sunday 19 October:
The Musée du Louvre will remain closed today for exceptional reasons. All reservations for today's date will be reimbursed.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 12h

ABDLs be like

I wish I was a little bit smaller
I wish I was a bawler

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 12h

A LOT of people quietly and discreetly play eroge or immersive experiences like Degrees of Lewdity

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 12h

I think this is also correct. A lot of queer games journalists who are quietly porn-critical don’t realize their readership tends to consume significant amounts of queer and kinky pornography. If you spend all your life playing games, eventually you also want to see what the porn games are like

OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of game journalists are antiporn/anti-sexwork moral scolds, in approximate mold of Farley (with a touch of Dworkinoid nonsense or hooksian judgemental paranoid insidiousness depending on education background and personal idiosyncrasy)

They think that games CAN induce rape and misogyny

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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 12h

not gonna QT that one post of "the left is seething about how normies are out and against ICE" but i will say that to any extent this exists it's largely from well earned resentment from libs scolding about how abolish ICE was stupid and irresponsible. getting yelled at for being right 'too early'

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 12h

Really not looking forward to a repeat of 2004-06, when all of the various grievances against Bush got subsumed under the goal of electing Democrats, then forgotten about because Dems wanted the same things

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

When crossing a pedestrian crossing in front of a Tesla, walk 50% of normal speed (even if in hurry)

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 11h

the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid:

“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”

if you went, how are you doing so?

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𓍊𓋼Crow, la sorcière pétulante𓋼𓍊 @eaterofcrow.bsky.social · 11h

My brief foray into Journalism taught me two important things:
1. When people aren't willing to pay for good journalism, journalists turn to monied interests, so you get bad journalism.
2. They blame you, the person reading this, for not giving them money, and they're angry about it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

The cynics are scared too.

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yeesh.bsky.social @yeesh.bsky.social · 11h

I think there's a kind of parallel with the way post-Reagan Dems make folding and preemptive compromise into an identity, and the post-Reagan left making bitter defeatism into an identity. Seems bad

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for

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Teeg @teeketch.art · 5d

I am here for another #portfolioday 👋

I am Teeg, and I like to draw a bunch of little weirdos. I am a character artist, illustrator and designer working in video and tabletop games. You can see more of my work and contact me through my site at teeketch.art

An illustration for Heepo the sentient healing potion being ambushed by a large mimic cheat.

The knight from my project knight light walking by an abandoned shrine with paper and embyrd strewn about.

King of demons illustration featuring a small demon boy standing strong in the center surrounded by large faces of hostile adversaries.

The feog swordsman kero standing ready to draw hos blade with the taninki leader in the background lit by the full moon.

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sweet baffy @bimbokibbles.bsky.social · 22h

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing and it's a Toyota AE-86 Trueno.

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Terror-Billy @docblock.bsky.social · 1d

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's a Subaru BRAT

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

in case anyone still doesn’t get it: they come here *purely* to farm engagement at the other site. and nothing makes them more mad than having to go home starving

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

Free the World @PatriotVerity
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I joined Bluesky 6 hours ago, have not said anything rude or abrasive, and I'm already blocked by over 58,000 people.

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HB 👻 @heebiebeebies.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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