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zøë wolfe 🏳️‍⚧️ @glitchwolfe.studio · 3h

Still looking for places and desperately hoping my lead from the beginning of this month doesn't fall through on me. I'm honestly...not doing great this month. Trying to balance paying for a place I can't afford while trying to find a cheaper place is taking it out of me.

zøë wolfe 🏳️‍⚧️ @glitchwolfe.studio · 9d

Looking for leads on Seattle area housing! Please hit me up if you know of a place that can accommodate:

- Two trans girls
- A very chill medium sized dog
- Lots of music / video gear
- Loud noises

Under $1500/mo is ideal!

a mixed breed reddish medium sized dog, cozy in bed next to a plush tiger

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 5h

wow the gap between the median income and the average income is really eye-opening. no wonder solidarity has often been so scarce on the ground in the industry...

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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 6h

The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.

The Cartoonist Cooperative

Making comics better for everyone!

cartoonist.coop

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 6h

there sure are a lot of people in a settler-colonial country, in the province that keeps electing coked up fascist crook Doug Ford, convinced that they have the political and moral high ground in a sports game against Seattle Washington

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 12h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 11h

he's genuinely been such an indescribably toxic force in american politics.

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 11h

I genuinely don't think there is a single thing that is now completely culturally entwined with American Fascism that the Clintons didn't at least touch.

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 11h

oh my god when signing he described this as successfully bringing common sense to regulation of supplements

I hate him so much and I'm glad his odious death monger wife is a political irrelevancy after losing the easiest election in history.

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 11h

CLINTON!!!!!!!!!!!

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12h

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 1d

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 1d

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tumblr post from "psychotic-gerard"

do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

I hope we sweep them.

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

FINALLY wrapping up all the summer 2025 anime recs, what's worth watching, and what really, really isn't. this time, Umamasume The Movie, CITY, Earthbound Mole, and one hit ecchi show that I wasn't even sure I dared talk about.
www.patreon.com/posts/141136...

Anime Haters Guide to Summer 2025 Final Roundup: Umamusume, Earthbound Mole, CITY, and... an ecchi anime?! | Sam Keeper and Storming the Ivory Tower

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 16d

Stridulum aka The Visitor is the most prog rock movie I've ever seen in my life. Does it have a good plot that makes sense? I don't know, asshole, does Emerson Lake and Palmer's seminal classic Karn Evil 9 part 2 have a good plot that makes sense?

check out my review of this... experience? #horror

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 13d

Hey, here's an interesting question: when does Leonard Nimoy's character in Invasion of the Body Snatchers turn into a pod person? Could you even tell?

Also, if there was a pod person invasion anytime in the last decade, would we even have noticed?

My review of the classic film #horror #halloween

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💬 0 🔁 23 ❤️ 34 · Halloween Film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) · I always loved the ending of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the classic sci fi film about replicant humans being…

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 1d

Jackboots
#DOOMLOOP #seattle

GUY 1: Whats with the helicopters? Is Trump sending in the National Guard?
GUY 2: Nah, that's just the graffiti task force
GUY 1: And over there–is that an immigration raid?
GUY 2: Nah, they’re just doing a crackdown on street food vendors
GUY 1: When the jackboots come how will we even notice
GUY 2: Shhh, not in front of the surveillance camera

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

yeah there's a ton of much schlockier movies that are more intriguingly "about things" even if it's not totally clear what they're about, because that stuff just sort of emerges naturally and can be contradictory cause no one's tapping you on the shoulder saying hey have you noticed the METAPHOR?

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be doing more reviews of horror movies, a lot of which you probably won't see talked about anywhere else, all this month, so follow along on Patreon or in the horror tag of my Tumblr
www.tumblr.com/sam-keeper/t...

#horror | sam-keeper

Posts tagged with #horror

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

If elevated horror films are so desperate to give us "deep" metaphor about drug use, why do all their drugs suck? Sometimes Hellraiser 2022 gets the allure of its Cenobites, but I feel like it's constantly trying to scare me straight. My review:

One Sad Grey Note: Hellraiser 2022

A blog of esoteric media criticism, laying siege to the Ivory Tower of academia from the gutters of pop culture

www.stormingtheivorytower.com

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

I included the 2022 Mariners vs Astros playoff game in my big horror list facetiously, but as I wrote a tongue in cheek summary, it felt more like contemporary horror. After the Mariners' 15 inning long victory over the Tigers yesterday, I thought I'd republish this "review":

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💬 0 🔁 6 ❤️ 3 · Horror Review: The Mariners vs the Astros (2022) · I originally somewhat facetiously included this in my big horror list just cause we happened to watch it in the middle of our yea…

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

OH RIGHT I forgot the whole "it's better to maximize pollution now so we can build Culture Minds to fix the pollution asap" thing

I stand corrected, there's really no completely crackpot idea these guys haven't seriously floated

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Brittney Bush Bollay @brittneybush.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been meaning to do a Mariners fit thread forever, and Josh Naylor finally forced my hand. Strolling into Rogers Center in a bubble gum pink, Chanel-inspired textured blazer? And ROCKING it? Swagger levels off the charts.

Josh Naylor walking in to Rogers Center in distressed jeans, multicolored sneakers, sunglasses, and a pink blazer. Luis Castillo is walking in behind him.

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

I included the 2022 Mariners vs Astros playoff game in my big horror list facetiously, but as I wrote a tongue in cheek summary, it felt more like contemporary horror. After the Mariners' 15 inning long victory over the Tigers yesterday, I thought I'd republish this "review":

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💬 0 🔁 6 ❤️ 3 · Horror Review: The Mariners vs the Astros (2022) · I originally somewhat facetiously included this in my big horror list just cause we happened to watch it in the middle of our yea…

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sliksong: welcome to the dismal bile pit
me: this must be the game's most hostile area... its blighttown analogue

[hours later]

Silksong: welcome to the vomit viaduct
me: this must be the game's most hostile area... its blighttown analogue

[hours later]

Sillksong: welcome to shit-eating canyon

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorta surprised the Intellectual Darkweb hasn't spit out a prominent Pollution Accelerationist yet honestly. feels like an unfilled ecological niche.

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