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🏳️‍🌈 3D artist and activist; low-fi socialist junk, professional treehugger. Tech-loving luddite. Experimental art lover. 🌊 Sardinia, IT 🇮🇹 36yo www.paarsec.com / linktr.ee/paarsec

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Maren @paarsec.com · Nov 13

Hello, folks! A small intro:

I'm Maren, a graphic designer + 3d artist + illustrator.

I post about art, activism + climate, technology, politics, disability, psychology, neurodiversity, astro/insect photography, filmmaking, and about my experiences in the form of daily ramblings. Some of my work:

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 14h

'“He's back in my heart, and today is the sweetest holiday.” A mother embraces her son after a year and seven months of captivity in occupation prisons.'

www.threads.com/@sndnewsa/po...

#Gaza #GazaNews #GazaStrip #FreePalestine #Israel #IsraelNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Danny Adams @madwriter.bsky.social · 18h

My middle-aged brain: I often can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can still remember the phone number of one of my best friends in elementary school despite the fact that he moved away over 40 years ago.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Jan 20

A book dedicated entirely to the prisms in hummingbird wings.

www.christianspencer.pro.br/PhotosNEW/pa...

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Louay.aziz @louayaziz774.bsky.social · 19h

Unfortunately, my wife gave birth to our baby weighing 2800 grams because she suffered from malnutrition during pregnancy.😭😑
I need urgent help to save my baby's life and take care of my wife. Please do not let me down.🙏💔👇
www.chuffed.org/project/128329

Louay.aziz @louayaziz774.bsky.social · 3d

My second family in Blue Sky, I need your help again, my wife gave birth to our new baby girl two days ago, I need your help to take care of my wife and new baby girl 😑😑
Please don't let me down👇💔🙏
www.chuffed.org/project/128329

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 21h

Oct 13 Rana update:

Bad news, everyone. Rana’s account has been ❌

I continue to be repulsed by 🦋 & the people who write & enforce their policies. This is intentional obstruction of humanitarian aid.

All Rana updates will be posted here now.

@mommunism.bsky.social

gofund.me/cdd61afd4

#SaveRana

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A picture of Rana smiling sweetly at the camera. She wears a black hijab, green abaya and a keffiyeh. Rana’s cheeks are rosy. In the background are buildings at night in Gaza

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 23h

Love when Bluesky deletes my share of the day before the day is up

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 1d

my new website is now live

you can hire me to build you things like this 👇

and many other things

contact information and detailed resume =>

berraknil.github.io

(press F12 for a little surprise)

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Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 1d

friends trying to raise a final 500 Euros so I can finally rest maybe a week or two without having to think about how to buy food and recover from my burnout a small amount

we just need 500 more and everything counts, including reposts!!

❤️❤️

Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 6d

friends, unfortunately I am in need of some help again to keep a roof over my head

we are moving out of this flat on the 17th (in 10 days) we got for the month, and nowhere to go with very little funds so far

I am trying to raise about 1500 Euros while I am interviewing and applying to grants

Pay Berrak Nil Boya using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/berrakn and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

Virus Doilies, 2004, machine-made lace by Laura Splan #sciart

round lace doilies in the shapes of viruses

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Thank you! It's been so much work, I am indeed a little proud. I did it with a bingo-system where I reward myself a little for each series of exposures, it's been so helpful. I had a ot of issues before with rigid exposure systems but this one has been working! I hope you get to get there soon too!

Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Per dirlo in una lingua che capirebbe: vaffanculo, Cristoforo Colombo

Taylor Joan Carlson @teejcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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Taylor Joan Carlson @teejcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

A lot of my exposures revolve around doing what I would do if I wasn't scared of being punished by life somehow. A lot of the core fear revolves around the fear of homelessness, because I have no home of my own. Being direct with people who have an effect on my livelihood has been the hardest thing.

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Understanding you can be wrong, hurt, uncomfortable, and especially *make mistakes* AND still be somewhat OK is a huge part of OCD treatment. I don't think I realized that time ago

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

In my experience, being honest with yourself is the hardest part of recovery. A lot of my compulsions revolved around avoiding stressful situations, some even about avoiding voicing my opinion because it could get me in trouble. I'm not always right, but I can be my own self to heal, at least

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Reached a whole month of daily OCD exposures. It's been SO so hard, especially avoiding finding excuses that let me indulge in compulsions and learning to recognize sneaky compulsions

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Something is changing indeed.

Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

On another note, it also surprised me to see Italians react THIS strongly to the genocide or injustice elsewhere. Another thing I haven't felt in a very long time

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

It's quite terrifying how perfectly it predicts the stuff that has been happening lately all around the world. Like they're drawing directly from the OG fascist for inspiration

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Yesterday Hasan streamed some of the Mussolini: Son of the Century TV show that is being aired on MUBI and it was so so good. I don't think I've liked an Italian production this much in a very long time

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Oof, I forgot all the dialogue around it. Heartbreaking! I may need to rewatch it, feels like it will hit different now

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Maren @paarsec.com · 1d

Fuck, i remember that one, it was so sad

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