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soleil ✵ @ bald gay @skywardstruck.bsky.social · Aug 27

[A Second Chance]

Galadriel reaches out to Maglor one last time before they make the final journey across the sea.

Here's a cosplay photo of my Maglor and @moodrose.bsky.social's Galadriel for TRSB 2025. Look forward to reading the fic by starspray on ao3 Sept. 6!

📸 aerlinn.cos (IG)
#silmarillion

Photo of Maglor and Galadriel cosplayers from Tolkien's Silmarillion. Maglor is sitting on a rock by the water's edge, eyes wide open, reaching a hand out to Galadriel, who stands with her back to the camera, reaching out to Maglor's hand but not touching it. The sun is setting and the colors are faded. Maglor wears a red robe, red capelet, brown tabard, gray tunic, black pants and black and red embroidered shoes. He has silver eyes, thick black curly hair and a gold leaf circlet with a red teardrop jewel in the center. His hair blows in the wind. Galadriel is wearing her green Eregion dress from Rings of Power. It is holly green with gold chains and beads around the wrist and collar. Her hair is braided and tied in the back and flows in the wind.

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august time @nyahgust.bsky.social · 1d

playing old jrpgs like

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

hellgatenyc.com

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 1d

good news! we've successfully addressed the problem where people were getting too emotionally entangled with our chatbot. we're happy to announce you'll be able to fuck it soon

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babalenciyaga @klytaemnestra.bsky.social · 22h

The Lord Commander. #DionLesage #FFXVI #FinalFantasy16

Final Fantasy XVI’s Dion Lesage sits within his tent at the dragoon camp atop a table draped in fabric.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 15h

Oops! "Ironic" bigotry against software already speedran turning into real bigotry against people

Selene 🏳️‍⚧️ | ⚸ @selene.euyis.me · 19h

apparently there are now ppl calling those with prosthetics half clankers so oh that sure is going well

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soleil ✵ @ bald gay @skywardstruck.bsky.social · 12h

ADHKSFJLD i was LITERALLY singing that exact song during the ifrit boss fight 😭

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15h

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 15h

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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アシエン・キモオタク @wnupani.bsky.social · 15h

頭割りエアスケブ②　シリアスなアイメリク卿

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ttrtru @ttrtru.bsky.social · 10d

Inktober 2025 6.) Pierce
Piercing stab from #Eowyn
#Angmar #WitchKing #Merry

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ttrtru @ttrtru.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober 2025 13.) Drink
#Annatar and #Celebrimbor sharing a drink
#mairon

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Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @indiegamesooc.bsky.social · 1d

Okami

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't understand what part of "People aren't happy that the biggest album of the year is about a billionaire being generally happy and content with the way things are" is difficult to grasp.

Brandi Rene ❤️‍🔥 @brandi-rene.swifties.social · 1d

A lot of the “political” backlash against Taylor with this album cycle is just people writing fanfiction and fighting ghosts because they desperately yearn for her to be a villain. Which is strange considering the amount of actual villains there are to worry about.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not kidding when I say that cancelling my Spotify subscription has not affected my life in any way, other than that I spend the money on Bandcamp instead and the artists get paid infinitely more.

Easiest subscription I've ever dropped. You really don't need it like you perhaps think you do

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

these people know how extreme they are

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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soleil ✵ @ bald gay @skywardstruck.bsky.social · 1d

want to try and find androgynous elf themed outfits that i can wear everyday. and i can't even scroll through pinterest because it's just all AI now. i fucking hate it

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Static @statty.bsky.social · Sep 6

[ffxiv]
Aymeric

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fantastic article I encourage everyone to read.

The damaging effects of COVID on our immune system are not up for debate.

It’s not hypothetical.

And it’s not limited to “only the vulnerable”.

This is why many of us mask. Respirators like an N95 do a great job preventing covid.

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 1d

‘While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion & dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection incl opportunistic, accelerated bio aging, neurological, & systemic damage provide parallels... .’
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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