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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy

@mothshaped.bsky.social

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Alleged writer; potential fire hazard. Currently resting. Previously @ Saber Interactive (Hellraiser: Revival), & Fishlabs. They/them 🪰✶ 🔗 mariannecassidy.com

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 11h

I guess now that the Switch 2 is out...none? My PC hasn't had any upgrades for a while, so it's really starting to lag behind in terms of what it can run 🥲

Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 16h

Yeeeup, and the UK has also criminalised non-fatal strangulation, meaning it's a lot more risky to admit to practising it at all.

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 17h

LOL I had to ask my dad what the clitoris was after watching the south park movie :'-)

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 17h

And there's so little stuff for tweens and younger teens only I feel like? Like, shows for 12-year-olds that parents will also enjoy watching with them.

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah totally!! And even when watching adult shows as a kid I would ask my parents what a joke meant, and they would tell me. My mum explained 69 to me (and I explain things to her now lol)

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 17h

Like, is choking dangerous? Absolutely. Has porn normalised it? Undeniably, IMO. But banning porn containing it won't stop people from finding and trying it, and if it's something they don't think they can talk to anyone about because even the act itself is criminalised, that's...bad!

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 17h

Kids need decent sex ed surrounding consent and safety and a society that is able to talk about sex openly and approachably. Not whatever this is.

A screenshot of a Guardian article headline and tagline. It reads:

Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offencein the UK

Legal requirement to be placed on tech
platforms to prevent users from seeing such 'choking' material

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 17h

I'd love to see an example of a time a government has criminalised a kind of sex practice/sex work/porn content and it's benefitted literally anyone.

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 18h

labour government:
oh you want affordable housing? best I can do is sex w no choking

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 1d

My first Runescape username was "Xiao9" because I spent 90% of my time on Stickpage and thought it was a really cool-sounding word (I was 8).

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.

A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

🌌 Firmament 🌙
a customisable theme for bsky - v.1.0.0

- Customise colours & fonts!
- Pre-made themes!
- Replace the bsky logo?!
- Hide metrics!

Install with Stylus (Firefox/Chrome): userstyles.world/style/19357
Install with Userscripts (Safari/iOS): github.com/haraiva/userstyles/tree/main/bsky

bsky home page with the "mossy forest" colour scheme and a moon icon

bsky post editor with the "nice day" colour scheme

bsky post with the "paperback" colour scheme

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Nov 23

i see you posted a joke. here are the facts

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 2d

Two folders. One called _final, the other FinalFinal

Little relatable guy looking at computer then looking at the camera

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 1d

People just lack imagination

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 1d

Omg that's wonderful!

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 2d

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Magpie @shy-magpie.bsky.social · 2d

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 2d

Professionally competent but incompetent at all other aspects of life would probably be a good way to describe me 🫠 But thank you!

Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 2d

I told the interviewer, "in my mind, either I have ADHD, or I'm just useless," and he looked so sympathetic haha

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 2d

Got an ADHD diagnosis this morning! Had a big cry (bittersweet/happy tears).

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 3d

A screenshot of three tweets:
OP: "Any advice on how to live with the things I said and did from the ages of 20-25"
Replier: "no it's over"
OP: "thanks for being real with me"

Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 3d

Had to scroll for 10 minutes to find the thread because he's posted so much in the last 24 hours, read a decent chunk of it, started skimming, then skipping, realised how long the thing was and how little of worth he was actually saying...man oh man.

Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna put all the countries in a pile. Gonna stack 'em.

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 3d

I'm moving countries in less than a month

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Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 3d

yesssss

Marianne (Moth) Cassidy @mothshaped.bsky.social · 3d

100% agreed