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I am a threatening noise from the sea. | I mostly yell about my OCs and supercomputers | They/them | art account: @ranialdraws.bsky.social | profile pic by @rannita.bsky.social
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MR @ranial.bsky.social · Apr 2
i'm really good at presentations
screencap of a slide. the header reads "This should be provable!" On the left a list of pros says "It's just math!". on the right a list of cons says "Its just math"
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internethippo.bsky.social
Being annoying on your own timeline is free speech. Being annoying in someone's replies is harassment. Quote posts are a gray area of the law still being developed
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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jamesheathers.bsky.social
I … don’t know what to say.

www.sciencealert.com/laughing-gas...
Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds
A review by researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford in the UK has found that controlled doses of laughing gas (or nitrous oxide) really can provide quick-acting reli...
www.sciencealert.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
ranial.bsky.social
username in twitch chat that's just the full name of a guy i didn't like in college
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ranial.bsky.social
the goodreads choice awards winner in the sci-fi category has 68k ratings and i had never heard of it before. fascinating.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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umberart.bsky.social
Arcanine 🔥

#pokemon #gijinka
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Two years ago today: atmospheric perfection over rural Oklahoma. I'd have believed in gods too if I saw this before knowing what it was. #photography
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"
small red bag with the following text: Look at him. Imagine waking up every day knowing we lost the greatest democracy in the history of the world to such a corrupt, pathetic, lying, cheating, teenage girl creeping, bankrupt in every vay "man."No, just No. 250 years go we held a Revolution against men like him. Keep it alive. Roast meats, carrots, cauliflower, eggs, popcorn, burgers, hummus, wings.
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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makana-yama.bsky.social
I donated 5 signed copies of HAMMAJANG LUCK, as well as 1 signed copy of THE OBAKE CODE!!! this is your chance to read the book early, plus it's signed by me!

donate to an awesome cause and pick up some cool swag in the process!
writehive.bsky.social WriteHive 🐝 @writehive.bsky.social · 8d
Giving Tuesday is approaching - just in time to launch our WriteHive Silent Auction! You can bid on more than 80 amazing items like signed books, character art and critiques for authors. Don't miss it!

www.32auctions.com/WriteHiveAuc...
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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kingsbookstore.bsky.social
me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
heartimecia.bsky.social Natalie @heartimecia.bsky.social · 8d
“write only what you know” is bullshit because a man wrote silent hill f and this shit rocks!!!! its feminist core resonates SO strongly if you’re a woman!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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augustw.net
Today only! Prints are up to 40% off on INPRNT!

Maybe consider adding one of these to your walls? 🤩
www.inprnt.com/gallery/cowb...
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
prokopetz I have no particular stance on whether estrogen would have saved Shinji, but I'm looking at it from the family dynamic angle, and... well, Jesus Christ. On a good day, Shinji already looks like a teenage soft butch version of Yui Ikari - can you imagine how Gendo would react to his "son" slowly morphing into his dead wife? sepal-sea estrogen would not have saved shinji but it would have caused gendo immeasurable suffering which is perhaps more important
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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josephscrimshaw.bsky.social
Extremely cruel to make Mario chase power-up stars he can never catch
The Mario float surges toward two large yellow stars he can never catch
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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mechtroid.bsky.social
Well well well... If it ain't the blowjob brothers.
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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leeknoxostertag.bsky.social
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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antlervel.vet
“Unc” is a contemporary slang[1] term, an abbreviation of “Unchristian”, used originally to describe the evil clone[2] of Christian Slater[3] created in a freak laboratory accident on the set of True Romance[4]
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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sylvibullet.bsky.social
we should replace "actually frankenstein was the doctor" with "actually there was a fourth guy in the three musketeers"
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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leftoblique.bsky.social
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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ianboudreau.com
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM