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Nyxelestia

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(I share 🔞 material on this account, proceed at your own risk) Fanfic writer and fandom social critic for over twenty years. Same username (Nyxelestia) on Tumblr, Reddit, AO3, Discord (#0), Twitter, and many other sites I'm less active on.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 18d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Nyxelestia @nyxelestia.bsky.social · Sep 14

Actual link to the fanfic: archiveofourown.org/works/56669053

Abyssal - Chapter 1 - Nyxelestia - Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Nyxelestia @nyxelestia.bsky.social · Sep 14

Most #Zukka #whump tends to focus on Zuko, so I thought I'd change it up a bit and focus on Sokka instead. Set in Season 1, the boys get captured by Commander Zhao alongside Shyu, the fire sage who had helped Aang in Roku's temple. Heed the warnings.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Sep 13

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · Sep 13

The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.

Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · Sep 12

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · Sep 13

I don’t think, until Gamergate, the edgelord dipshit incel types had a real theory of power. But conservatives they built on that and created that approach to power and then kinda merged it with Pat Buchanan nationalism and now here we are.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · Sep 12

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

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Stray Sparks @straysparks.gay · Aug 25

now announcing: jayvik no events week!

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Nyxelestia @nyxelestia.bsky.social · Aug 24

i love #jayvik but holy shit the fandom needs to slow tf down and all the mods need to communicate with each other more

Shrek Five Minutes meme. (Meme template: two panels. The top panel is Shrek looking exasperated while the caption quotes him asking to stop a certain activity. The bottom panel zooms in on a now-angry-looking Shrek yelling specifically at a bewildered and slightly cowed Donkey with a caption typically reading or referencing the original quote of "for five minutes".) This specific meme shows the first panel with the caption, "Can the JayVik fandom stop making hyper-specific events;" and the second panel with, "for ONE week?!".

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 19

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
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The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · Aug 19

oh my god

While two arrests may not seem like a good return for so many years of effort, former federal agents told Forbes that there were likely tangential investigations that benefitted from the undercover operation. Besides, they said, if the government hadn’t laundered money for cartels to get investigative insight and, eventually, get the funds into its own hands, the work would’ve been done by criminals with more nefarious intent.

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lavender fog @lavenbot.bsky.social · Aug 19

apples!!

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Ailsa @orchisailsa.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have this really funny hang up where if I repost something wholesome I always try to make a buffer post before I repost something raunchy and pornographic. I SHALL be horny on main but ALSO I am covering Ponyo’s eyes so she cannot see Wenzhou fuck. 😤 I have MANNERS. (Also Lisa would be so mad.)

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Nyxelestia @nyxelestia.bsky.social · Aug 19

A lot of Zukka and Merlin fans are still living on Tumblr 😂

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dally @seasideoranges.bsky.social · Apr 7

Closeups! #AvatarTheLastAirbender #Zukka

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Gentletrees @gentletrees.bsky.social · May 9

Zukka reunion after the show's final fights QuQ
#atla #zuko #sokka

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Nyxelestia @nyxelestia.bsky.social · Aug 19

Might be a joke about Mormonism? 🤷‍♀️

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

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vetoch404 @vetoch404.bsky.social · Aug 18

also made some mel medarda portrait
#arcane
#fanart
#art
#melmedarda

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Nyxelestia @nyxelestia.bsky.social · Aug 19

Print it all out and get yourself a bookwheel. The impeccable vibes will intimidate the 5G until it scampers away in shame.

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Blue | Jayce fan 💥🔨 @fruity-monster.bsky.social · Aug 14

do i look like h̶i̶m̶ ?
do i look like h̶e̶r̶ ?
#jinx #jaycetalis

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · Aug 5

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · Aug 5

Oh this one fucking hurts

Danny (they/them) @dannyfaust.bsky.social · Aug 5

Welp. That's Dr. House in the bin...

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pissfag 🔞 @pissfaggot.bsky.social · Jul 24

some people are way too comfy drawing jayce 3x as big as viktor when the only reasons stem from racism / ableism / etc.

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levi @whydoihavetoart.bsky.social · Feb 7

they should've made him more miserable #arcane #jaycetalis

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