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mossa🔞 @mossacannibalis.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 19h

pokemon is literally making shorter games with worse graphics, that thing people love to post about wanting

Gig @yourpalgig.bsky.social · 19h

Someone elses words but a lot of people think if they post hard enough Pokemon will be forced to embrace Standard AAA Practices

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But Wack'd Died 5 Years Ago... @wackd.bsky.social · 18h

i don't like rock and roll, i love it. if i don;t love it, i domn't put another dime in the jukebox, babye

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Larena, Xx ChimeraAntLover xX @larena.bsky.social · 15h

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Veldrin @veldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Glory, mein Liebling

Fanart of Glory from Shadowrun: Dragonfall - A cyborg lady with long messy dark brown hair, wearing a tube top, big puffy brown cargo pants with a brown jacket wrapped around her waist, and combat boots. Her arms are entirely menacing looking cybernetics with vicious looking clawed hands. Her eyes are red and deeply shadowy.

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 1d

exploration: 7 rules
characters: 12 rules
equipment: 2 rules
combat: 63 rules
magic items: 2 rules

someone who is good at game design please help me fix this. my combats take 4 hours

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But Wack'd Died 5 Years Ago... @wackd.bsky.social · 2d

my hot take is that a work of fiction only passes the bechdel test if it contains (1) ten or more lesbians, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about the existential panic caused by our tumultuous political climate. names optional

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Dread @dreaddbound.bsky.social · 3d

First post saw this morning legit

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2d

It's weird seeing people argue about whether we should welcome or scold people who have just migrated here from Twitter because neither would have occurred to me naturally. I don't own the place. It would feel like welcoming people coming in to Target because I have been shopping there for hours

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 3d

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Zarek @zarek9.bsky.social · 3d

Every time I look up how expensive it is to buy a Steel Battalion controller I am overwhelmed by sadness.

Zarek @zarek9.bsky.social · 3d

Arcades would still be popular if it was all just basically Steel Battalion type shit

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 5d

Accidentally learned too many platypus facts in a short space of time and had to go stand outside for a few minutes to calm down

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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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satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 5d

been thinking a lot abt cool ttrpg coverage i can do & facilitate & i think i'm just gonna.... try one.......?

please write ~250-500 words about A SPECIFIC DEATH MECHANIC IN A TTRPG for me to compile into a little webzine! you have until november 13th! that's in a month!

unnamed ttrpg zine project volume one - DEATH MECHANICS

tell me about death mechanics for volume one of an as-of-yet-unnamed ttrpg zine project i'm looking for: 250-500 words (feel free to go under but please don't go over) about a single mechanic or syst...

docs.google.com

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 5d

we saw wet hot american summer at the cinema village iirc on 12th when it came out and we were the only two people in the theater and i think the only time ive laughed harder at the movies is during jackass when chris pontius drank horse semen and this guy in front of us hurled

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 5d

Thread (read all the posts) and quite true. Just ASK animal-related groups that are local: "I'm struggling, do you know of any pet food banks/options around?" because they usually have contacts and might run one themselves.

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 5d

Gentle reminder: I am seeing more "I cannot afford pet food" posts & if you might face this in the near future/now, I recommend checking your local area's subreddit and posting if anyone knows of local programs for pet food. Many areas have small under-the-radar charities that give out pet food.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 5d

if someone threw a shuriken at my head I would angle it so that it struck my hypothalamus and triggered a second puberty causing me to become taller and stronger

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 5d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 5d

Before it was Mount St. Helens, it was Lawetlat’la—Loowit, the smoking mountain.

To the Cowlitz (Upper Cowlitz/Taidnapam) and Yakama (Klickitat), the volcano is alive—a place of story, balance and renewal.

Today, we honor those who have cared for it since time immemorial. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

View looking south toward Mount St. Helens from the Johnston Ridge Observatory area on August 6, 2017. The wide panorama shows the open crater of the volcano beneath a hazy summer sky, with the North Fork Toutle River valley stretching across the center. Replanted forests and natural regrowth patch the gray landscape of ash and debris left by the 1980 eruption.

Photographed by Chris, August 6, 2017.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 9d

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