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remembers AIM and when Skype didnt suck
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祝11周年！！おめでとう〜！
#TOZ11周年
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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fiveonthe.bsky.social
I'm back!! 💛🌻💐✨
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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fenarinarsa.com
If you often stream on Twitch, this tool will automatically enable the "LIVE" badge on your Bluesky profile when you go live (and disable it at the end).

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PurpleSky - Sync your Bluesky Live badge with Twitch
Automatically sync your Twitch streaming status with your Bluesky Live badge. Free, easy to use, and secure.
purplesky.dremixam.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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molly.wiki
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
A red knitted cap with a pointed crown with a braided tassel. It's titled "Melt the ICE Hat" and it's by YarnCultMN n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design. The sample shown was knit in Blue Sky Fibers Skyland for the DK version. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the LynLake community of businesses who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE.
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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itsmeishmi.bsky.social
Appreciate A Dragon Day?!?!?!?!?!

Always 💖

Have a Nidhogg 💖

#shmiart #FFXIVART #FFXIV
Fanart of Nidhogg from FFXIV's Heavensward expansion. A black dragon with a long neck and leathery wings, long serrated horns and wide fins tipped in red cover his face and spine. He has a thin upper jaw and a bright, intense eye shown. His mouth is open and fire is building in his throat, ready to exhale at his enemies.
January 17, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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blasphemousjones.bsky.social
Chocolate bars voluntarily recalled for possible salmonella contamination
Spring & Mulberry has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of its Mint Leaf Date Sweetened Chocolate Bar due to possible salmonella contamination.
abcnews.go.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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amuzi.blacksky.app
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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whereiskale.bsky.social
Testing new glaze combos on these screes 🤪

#kalecrafts
January 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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torrent-empress.bsky.social
www.openpetition.org/us/petition/...

sign the petition y'all!
Celsys should create a native Linux Client - Online petition
Celsys should support artists as they seek to break free of Windows and mac by providing the option to use a native Linux client as many users want to move to Linux from Windows but are unsatisfied by...
www.openpetition.org
January 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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dunderella.bsky.social
this might help folks here too: #arttip

to make straight lines look less mechanical and still have a handdrawn look in CSP, turn on "post correction" to MAX in the brush settings (have it set to VISIBLE in the palette so u can see it!)

you can also set this function to a keybind!
screenshot of a twitter thread started by @/dannyaraya who says: "In Clip Studio Paint if you hold shift, you can draw a straight line with your selected brush, but it completely disregards pen pressure. Anybody know if there's a way to make it not do that?" i respond below: "set your brush "post correction" setting to the max!!! and make it a keybind toggle! so instead of hitting shift to do lines, you're turning on an auto-straightener that works with your intentional input pressure" with an attached screenshot of a CSP shortcut setting window to the following: Category: Options > Correction > On/Off of post correction On the right side of the window you can see i've set this keybind to "V".
January 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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gatewayfate.bsky.social
We're aiming for some website updating to occur on Feb 1, and we're making a Shout Chat section for attendees to help us spread the word! Feel free to make use of a standard graphic as well as another to feature your WoL as you begin planning your adhesive exchanges.
Join me at GATEway FATE promo graphic A promo graphic for GATEway FATE that attendees can use to feature their WoLs Template of the previous graphic for folks to use
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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froggercube.bsky.social
#ffxiv #haurchefant
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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nightvaleradio.bsky.social
We found a little piece of heaven here. It is black, smooth, oblong. It hums a soft, but discordant note, and we are afraid to touch it.
January 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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peloblancophoto.bsky.social
Milky Way Fence

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October 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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makomage.bsky.social
Henceforth, he shall walk.

#ffxiv
a painting of venat raising her sword to the sky
January 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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decafdraws.bsky.social
Plugging this again because Twitter is a hellsite!

If you are a FFXIV artist who has recently migrated from Twitter to bsky, please let me know and I will add you to a starter pack!
decafdraws.bsky.social Decaf @decafdraws.bsky.social · Nov 17
Created a starter pack for FFXIV artists on bsky! Since a lot of artists are migrating from twitter to bsky, I figured this would be a useful resource. If you would like to be added to this list, please let me know!
January 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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samwang.bsky.social
ICE funding expires January 30. Call Congress to say whether you think it should be continued. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
January 8, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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square-enix-books.com
At 368 pages, is LOGOS: The World of FINAL FANTASY XVI the *biggest* game companion lorebook ever made?

We don’t know… 🤷

But it’s *definitely* the biggest one we’ve ever published! 😎

👀 Check out the extended preview on our site, and don’t forget to preorder to guarantee your copy!
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January 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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daiz.moe
Cool how even when you're dealing with completely free stuff with no payment processing involved in any way you still get nuked from orbit as an adult content developer. Microsoft is cool with supporting literal genocide but adults enjoying sexy things on the internet is a bridge too far apparently
January 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Make it viral.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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demoniofleurs.bsky.social
I stumbled upon a thread on the FFXIV subreddit that I encourage everyone who is frustrated with the DDoS’ to read, as it goes over why this is a complicated issue with no real easy solution

www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...
Title: Irrational Attackers and you: A (potential) explanation for why you keep getting 90k'd Is this actually a DDOS? Or does SE just have bad servers? There is no reason to believe it is anything other than a ddos attack In the last few weeks FFXIV has been kicking people off NA servers with 90k errors, this is confined to NA, and even if there have been some on EU/OCE/JP, it is orders of magnitude less common. There is no logical reason to assume the server software is different in each region, and since it it possible for both JP and NA to visit OCE, that is vanishingly unlikely. Earlier today, when world first racers were getting 90k's they tried to data center travel to Materia to raid. The 90k errors then stopped on NA, and started on OCE. Once they gave up and returned to NA, so did the 90k's. This is as close to evidence of a ddos attack as anyone who doesnt work for square enix can get. That also means it is provider agnostic, as NTT America does not operate in Australia. So that's the "how", now for the "why" In threat modeling, there are two kinds of attackers, rational, and irrational. Rational attackers are great (well, in terms of prevention), they are easy to understand, and can even be worked with at times, they are typically limited to actual hacking/unauthorized access attacks, but a rational attacker ddos could be "im ddosing you, pay me 3 million in bitcoin and I will stop" This isnt very likely, as typically those demands are public to put pressure on the target company, but it is possible if they just sent SE the ransom directly... but again, unlikely. An irrational attacker is FAR more likely, this doesnt mean somebody who is completely insane and has no reason, but someone who cannot be negotiated with, they just want to break things. If a rational attacker is a burglar breaking into your home, an irrational one is a drunk teenager trying to throw a rock through your attic window. In this case, I think its pretty clear whats going on. It is someone (or a group) that does not care about money, with no public ransom, and enough resources to repeatedly crash isp nodes (often multiple at a time) they are burning money to bring servers down for no gain. They are also willing to risk felony cybercrime charges (which this definitely counts as). Now the big question, how do you stop an irrational attacker? You dont. You hope they get bored or lose interest. There are some over very high profile mmo ddos incidents, with the most recent famous one being the WoW hardcore classic streamer guild "OnlyFangs" Whenever they pulled a raid boss, the wow servers went down, it was 100% predictable, there were no exceptions. This wasnt because their guild was specifically cursed and making the servers crash, there was just.... a guy(s) who wanted their characters dead. This only stopped after the streamers decided to stop playing hardcore, because it was hurting the game for everyone. Possible culprits Literally anyone with money, I suspect based on timing its someone who really wants NA to lose the world race? but it could also just be someone who wants to hurt FFXIV's reputation, and messing up the world race is the easiest way to do it But why is it only ffxiv? It isnt, its just that taking down any game costs a lot of money, so its very rare, even if you are just running a server for a few friends, you could be ddosed, it would just cost them far more to kill the server than it costs you to run it. There are obviously DDOS solutions, but they really only work for website, and the solution for something that needs server connection is an active and ongoing problem, its (part of) why so many competetive games switched to peer-to-peer hosting, if you kill the host it only affects that one game, not the entire server. Some more recent examples of non-ffxiv games taken down by ddos Albion online, basically unplayable for several weeks in early summer last year after a mass ban of rmt accounts World of warcraft earlier this week, im not sure why, but blizzard publicly acknowledged the cause on the launcher League of legends also earlier this week, actually no clue on this one either edit: they forgot to renew client license, they did get hit with one ~3 months ago though that also took down steam None of this is confirmed, I am just a third party with no insights into SE internals, using my experience with devops and cybersecurity to put pieces together
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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tbskyen.com
Basically, yeah, this is true. Same thing where if you pay a musician $10 on cashapp and then pirate their entire discography, you're still paying them more than Spotify would for the same amount of music.
thehaarpist.bsky.social HAARP @thehaarpist.bsky.social · 16d
Some streamer talked ages ago about giving 5$ directly to the stream would be more actual money then having every youtube video he's made just running on repeat all year would give him.
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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swordscomic.bsky.social
i had a vision
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM