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Rin (they/them)

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Millennial (sorry) with AuDHD (not sorry). A volleyball anime saved my life and made me unashamedly cringe. Red panda on the other place. Probably your only Melanau friend. https://ko-fi.com/rincredible

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · Dec 19

An update:

A three-panel comic. In the first panel, a simple humanoid figure is shown, seated and writing on a piece of paper. They are smiling, and the words above their head say, "Enjoying hyperfixation".

In the second panel, their eyes have turned red and they have an unhinged expression on their face. The piece of paper is on fire. Large red letters read: "CRINGE OVERLOAD ACTIVATED"

In the final panel, the humanoid figure has calmed down slightly, but still has a mischievous look on their face. Above them, text reads: "Enjoying hyperfixation even more"

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Not gonna go into detail but if you remember Q**yum it's an eerily similar story of leveraging on his "fame" to manipulate and gaslight young women.

Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Ugh even here I get jumped by tiktoks from a certain Malaysian sex pest whose entire schtick is either putting on terrible accents or poking low-hanging whitefolk stereotype fruit for the views

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Comics Team: Jes and Cin Wibowo for LUNAR BOY

2025 Winner Outstanding Comics Team: LUNAR BOY by Jes and Cin Wibowo

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Crowme 🌻 @crowme.bsky.social · 1d

Iwaoi in traditional Japanese woodcut style
(A c0mmissi0n by @/uyen on insta!)
#haikyuu #iwaoi

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 14h

Lobster is Baltan in disguise and about to be an agent provocateur

Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 14h

Just an update: I watched a random clip done by a Kazakh guy who dubbed one scene in Demon Slayer in Arabic, and I can't look at Tanjiro without thinking AUDZUBILLAH MINASYAITHON NIRRAJEEM

Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 5d

I forgot to add a photo of Skittles watching Demon Slayer and getting very cat-affirming advice from Inosuke.

A brown ticked tabby cat, shown from behind, is watching the anime Demon Slayer on an iPad. The current scene shown is one where Inosuke, a boy who wears a boar's head mask, is saying "Do what you want" to the protagonist, Tanjiro, who looks at him.

Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes I marvel at how graceful and aware of herself and her surroundings my cat is; other times I watch her parkour around the house and then run around in circles inside a box because she thinks her tail is a thing that is chasing her instead of a thing that is a part of her.

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 16h

It is weird the way this article opens like One Piece was some has-been, it’s still an incredibly popular ongoing franchise and woven into the cultural fabric in such a unique way, hence the use of its symbols.

Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 22h

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways

The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial

Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other

www.theguardian.com

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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 16h

“War… War never changes.”

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Told a young coworker not to mistake ChatGPT for experience or you'll end up like Icarus and caught him asking ChatGPT who is Icarus

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Slam @slamastack.bsky.social · 19h

Yesssss

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at this matsuri and I saw a stand labeled "10円パン" (10 yen bread), so I approached it hoping to get bread for just 10 yen, but instead it was bread *SHAPED* like 10 yen, for 500 yen.

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the spectrum so just the thought of meeting new people can be very overwhelming for me, but even I've got a waaay better flirt game than this guy. Wtf is this, bro? Water was wasted and climate change accelerated for you to figure out "Hey, it was lovely to meet you"

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · 1d

Old Aminah doodle I am still fond of. Local trans butch from Lunar Boy.

#Art #OC #OCsky #Artsky

Aminah leans back. She looks off to the side. Aminah is wearing a tank top, shorts and a flannel tied around her waist.

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Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa @aluizcosta.bsky.social · 1d

Em acordo judicial em agosto, Robby Starbuck foi nomeado "consultor sobre vieses de IA" pela Meta. Desde então, espalha desinformação sobre pessoas trans, vacinas e protestos. Descreve grupos religiosos como comunistas e vincula políticos democratas a assassinatos www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I would not have done this when I first got into anime because I thought it was cringe; I am now big on embracing your cringe and have friends who enable me and life is so much nicer this way.

A white plate is on a wooden table. On the plate is a green pandan crepe, banana fritters, vanilla ice cream, and toasted coconut flakes. Resting on the edge of the plate, poses to look like they're excited about eating the crepe, are blobby little plushies of the characters Aone, Futakuchi, Akaashi and Bokuto from the anime Haikyuu!!

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 2d

Keep going

Drawing of a puppy laying down with the caption; "You've got so many good days to look forward to!"

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Selamander/Grizz @selamander.bsky.social · Jun 12

It’s my birthday this month!! A fun present to me would be some extra boosts and sales from my new pinned!

I’m Sel, a transmasc in Florida who likes making plushies! #plush #plushies #transmasc #Pride2025

selsewscreatures.etsy.com

ko-fi.com/selamander90...

A blue and white dragon plush with a large pink mouth

A brown and red plush dragon with a skeleton head

A yellow lioness doll with a rainbow dress and trans colored bead earrings

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I love it because it's so unashamedly what it is and tbh I wish more movies were like that. Big robot big monster go bash-bash

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Rin (they/them) @rinwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I went down to my building's mail room to pick up a parcel and there's some guy cosplaying as LaDS Sylus just casually sitting in the lobby for some reason.

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Michelle, a good witch @hiyinx.bsky.social · 2d

Me: I like pop-culture thing.
Internet: You should not like thing.
Me: I like pop-culture thing.
Internet: Pop-culture thing not sophisticated.
Me, nearly 40 and unbothered by peer pressure: I like pop-culture thing.

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