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Whale the Boar

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星命学者, bi/pan he/him wild boar. Graymuzzle, but working on it. 18+ only y’all. Posts may be NSFW. pfp by @danero.bsky.social

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · Sep 8

the insomniac in me salutes the insomniac in you

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 48m

oh my god. the implications.

Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2h

...in a lot of Indigenous American cultures, specific directions are associated both with specific colors, and a set of physical, metaphysical, and abstract qualities.

Because look what happens if you map the MtG color pie ONTO a map of North America, centered roughly ON The Dust Bowl:

A map of North America with the MtG colors superimposed, showing they line up with real-world biomes.

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Zaggy Norse @onlyflares.com · 17h

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 4h

Apparently some of you are following her, and I hope you know you are NOT a safe person for our trans friends, not to mention intersex friends and survivors of sexual assault. Dreger is a moral monster, an unethical and dishonest person.

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 9h

Oh good, Retraction Watch is employing professional transphobe Alice Dreger. Who doesn't love a bit of institutional capture?

Screenshot of a skeet from Alice Dreger reading "A brief update: After founding inquisitivemag.org for HxA, I left that position and just took a new job as inaugural editor for the Center for Scientific Integrity's Medical Evidence Project. Yes, I now work for the people who bring you @retractionwatch.com"

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 5h

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 9h

while it may not seem like it to someone scrolling by with a cursory look, what i am creating is not ‘ironic’ nor a ‘get rich quick scheme’ and it is certainly not AI GENERATED. it is a genuine expression of my heart and my beliefs about sexuality and art and love and freedom and curiosity and joy

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 9h

Sanders talked to a bird once, which is kinda like shamanism… so what about Zhang Ba?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20h

Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 21h

The internet tells me that Liu Bei/Guan Yu/Zhang Fei slash exists but is incapable of bringing any of it to light.

The balance of my humors is disturbed.

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 7d

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#telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart #LGBTQ

An 8x8 inch art print of a symmetrical formline raven, coloured black with cascading rainbow highlights on their wings, head crest, and beak. The raven forms a heart shape.

A formline design of a butterfly cocoon and a butterfly, coloured in blue, pink, and white. On one half of the chrysalis is a human face, and the butterfly’s wings are formed of human hands.

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 1d

the crop on some of those stills was razor fucking thin lol

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 1d

I’m personally quite glad and grateful that it didn’t affect you as much as it affects me.

Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 1d

Planning on getting banned in the near future, myself.

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 1d

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 1d

What I really want to know is, who idolizes Zhang Fei?

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Porchops 🐖🐗 @porchops.bsky.social · 2d

Swine flu!

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 3d

Get in the Vampire Castle, Shinji.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 3d

I have something important to give you. A power beyond measure: I never found its limits. It opens countless doors, to limitless worlds. Thousands have died to it, I am one of them.

"Game of Life," by @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog & Alex Vance.
Cover by @alector.bsky.social.

#FurryLit #BookSky

Cover of "Game of Life" by Rob MacWolf & Alex Vance.
Cover art by Alector.
A Handsome Cheetahman is looking all shirtless at the viewer, on the right. On the left, sideways, are four smaller scenes, radiating from him like petals: in the bottom, he is standing in a keyhole shaped portal, under a starry sky and an unknown planet, around which is light forming the shape of an eye. Next up, he's facing a glowing mushroom cloud, his spots are glowing. Above that is a tree, on which he's sitting, etched into the bark are the words "This is the story of how I die." At the top is a semi-abstract sculpture of a tree, in metal, behind which are visible words such as 'Unchastity" "Selfishness" "Banditry" "Vagrancy" among others.

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 4d

Glad the pixel remaster of FFVI took all the queer subtext and made it text.

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 4d

“Once she understands her true nature, the fear and doubt should subside.”

Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 4d

“You pushed to production?”

Rhetor Dark End @dark-end.bsky.social · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"Accidentally published early draft."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Whale the Boar @whaletheboar.bsky.social · 4d

If I were Asterion I would simply find a seam between two rocks in the valley and clip through them. The resulting CoC warp would drop me directly into Aphrodite’s harem, which for some reason is the center of the Olympus zone.

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