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Sismrnoth
@sismrnoth.bsky.social
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Video games, art, books, linguistics, etc. Working on PhD in genre studies. She/her 🇿🇦 🇫🇷
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · Aug 14
My current folly is this oil painting copy of the Revachol key art from Disco Elysium, originally by @rostovjanka.bsky.social
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 4h
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 19h
I made it out. I am unstoppable. No game can defeat me. No pursuit is too futile
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 20h
Just heard Drew Struzan passed away 😞 His incredible work has given me and countless others so much awe, joy and inspiration!

I had posters of his work as a teen, I began using color pencils because I thought he used them too. Always inspired by him. Just utterly heart broken.

RIP Drew Struzan.
Drew Struzan’s poster of Big Trouble in Little China Drew Struzan’s poster of Pan’s Labyrinth Drew Struzan’s poster of Blade Runner Drew Struzan’s poster of Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d
Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d
Standing in the queue with all the girls to get my state-allocated share of gender for the month
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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 1d
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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 2d
It is truly weird to live in a time where "Companies should make a profit based on the difference between what people are willing to pay for their product and the cost of the time and resources needed to make it" feels like radical socialist thinking.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 2d
Dear Mr. Altman:

Unlike you, I make a product that turns a *profit.* That people pay *actual money* for. That doesn't have to be shoved into their web searches and office suites.

That encourages people to think with their own brains.
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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 2d
Sam Altman is a farmer of plastic display fruit
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AC Fick 📚🏉🎾🎞👨🏾‍🏫👨🏾‍🌾 @acfick72.bsky.social · Aug 12
"[S]uch is apartheid that, like many whites, many blacks cannot imagine a life that would be neither a black man's life or a white man's life."
▫️Nadine Gordimer, 1959

Historical heartburn, anyone? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose . . .
Extracts from "What is apartheid?" by Nadine Gordimer, published in HOLIDAY in 1959; republished in LIVING IN HOPE AND HISTORY: NOTES FROM OUR CENTURY (1999) and also in TELLING TIMES: WRITING AND LIVING 1950-2008 (2010) "Hundreds of thousands of white South Africans are concerned only with holding on to white privilege. They believe that they would rather die holding on to it than give up the smallest part; and I believe they would. They cannot imagine a life that would be neither their life, nor the black man's life, but another life altogether. How can they imagine freedom, who for years have had to be so vigilant to keep it only to themselves?"
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 2d
Same. Just an immediate loss in interest.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d
Mods are asleep post brassicas
You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab. CAP'N CRUNCH'S DOPSIAll NATURALLY & ARTIFICIALLY Brassica oleracea otened cer What vegetable are you? I'm brassica oleracea Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? Brassica oleracea Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all Selection for terminal buds Selection for lateral buds Selection for stem Selection for leaves Selection for stems and flowers Selection for flower clusters Cabbage Brussels sprouts Kohlrabi Kale Broccoli Cauliflower
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d
“That’s one gone!”, says a dad to me as he drops his son at nursery. “One more to go!” he says, pointing at his daughter sitting in the car. “Just need to get rid of the wife, and I’m sorted!“ he laughs, expecting me to laugh too, but to his surprise I smash him about the head with a ceremonial mace
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 3d
I know this isn't applicable to everyone's situation, and yes, people can hurt you, but they can also heal you. Choose the direction of your effort, but don't refuse it outright.
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 3d
And if those people love you, they will likely support you right back through your difficulties (which could be happening at the same time as theirs). All too often, withdrawing is something depression is telling you to do, and it's a filthy liar.
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 3d
I think a lot of the (rightful) pushback is against giving too much of yourself to people who greatly harm you, just because of a sense of obligation. It shouldn't be about opting out of all sacrifice, unpleasant feelings or situations that result from supporting the people you love.
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 3d
But if you want a good relationship with someone, you have to be open to giving and receiving freely, not only protecting yourself.
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 3d
So, my therapist explained it like, you don't owe these things to anyone – this is a gift you give to them, so give it intentionally and in the right spirit.
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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 4d
"you don't owe anyone your emotional labor"

yes you do! that's what a friendship is!
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4d
Stuff like “you shouldn’t feel guilty canceling plans” morphed into something closer to “you should feel good canceling plans.” Stuff like “you should be able to cut toxic people out of your life” edged closer to “find reasons to see people as toxic enough to cut out of your life.”
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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ceej @ceej.online · 5d
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 4d
Please, may nobody ever describe me as 'adding value' 😭
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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d
it's not FOR us
edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."
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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 5d
Friday at last…
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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 5d
When I did mine, it was my incredibly shitty short-term memory that did me in for the listening comprehension.
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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 6d
The most experienced and accomplished women in the world are condescended to and belittled by the most inconsequential men you've never heard of (and will never) on a daily basis.
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