Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
Costume technician and tabletop gaming writer (Cyberpunk: Red, Curseborne). She/They, queer, American-Chinese.
My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.
PS: Hook'em Horns.
My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.
PS: Hook'em Horns.
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Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Hi, folks. I see Faine Greenwood reskeeted my cheese mite monk drabble. If you're new to this bluesky account note that I have a weirdass sense of humor and consider male pregnancy a valid way to solve demographic mathematical issues in grimdark settings where developers don't do maths properly.
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OK. I've decided to use my tiny amount of fame for something.
If you want signed book plates for your Cyberpunk (or Curseborne) books that I've worked on — or my other stuff for others (I did wfh for Beta Quadrant and worked on FAGE Lairs among others), reply here and I'll get back to you about it
If you want signed book plates for your Cyberpunk (or Curseborne) books that I've worked on — or my other stuff for others (I did wfh for Beta Quadrant and worked on FAGE Lairs among others), reply here and I'll get back to you about it
December 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
OK. I've decided to use my tiny amount of fame for something.
If you want signed book plates for your Cyberpunk (or Curseborne) books that I've worked on — or my other stuff for others (I did wfh for Beta Quadrant and worked on FAGE Lairs among others), reply here and I'll get back to you about it
If you want signed book plates for your Cyberpunk (or Curseborne) books that I've worked on — or my other stuff for others (I did wfh for Beta Quadrant and worked on FAGE Lairs among others), reply here and I'll get back to you about it
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Oh hey, if conservatives can talk ill of Rob Reiner, that means we're clear to talk shit about Kirk being a peace of shit, yeah? The whole "don't speak ill of the dead" embargo has been lifted?
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Oh hey, if conservatives can talk ill of Rob Reiner, that means we're clear to talk shit about Kirk being a peace of shit, yeah? The whole "don't speak ill of the dead" embargo has been lifted?
What a fucking loser.
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What a fucking loser.
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27-year-old former comsci student with a single github repo containing a single python script. If you aren't going to finish your degree, you can't expect to land a decent programming job when your only listed relevant experience is "earned a GPA of 4.0/4.0 before leaving the university"
December 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
27-year-old former comsci student with a single github repo containing a single python script. If you aren't going to finish your degree, you can't expect to land a decent programming job when your only listed relevant experience is "earned a GPA of 4.0/4.0 before leaving the university"
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a wealth tax is a winning issue.
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
a wealth tax is a winning issue.
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Listen. Target. Let me help you.
You need to understand. You cannot market your way out of this. You openly caved to the demands of right-wing hate groups and fascists at the expense of marginalized groups.
Until you fix that, you will remain fucked. You can't slap a bandaid on a festering wound.
You need to understand. You cannot market your way out of this. You openly caved to the demands of right-wing hate groups and fascists at the expense of marginalized groups.
Until you fix that, you will remain fucked. You can't slap a bandaid on a festering wound.
The FB comments did not disappoint.
“Who do you think coined “Tar-zhay?”
Everyone up and down the threads going “Bring back DEI & Pride.” You know what you have to do, you just don’t want to.
“Who do you think coined “Tar-zhay?”
Everyone up and down the threads going “Bring back DEI & Pride.” You know what you have to do, you just don’t want to.
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Listen. Target. Let me help you.
You need to understand. You cannot market your way out of this. You openly caved to the demands of right-wing hate groups and fascists at the expense of marginalized groups.
Until you fix that, you will remain fucked. You can't slap a bandaid on a festering wound.
You need to understand. You cannot market your way out of this. You openly caved to the demands of right-wing hate groups and fascists at the expense of marginalized groups.
Until you fix that, you will remain fucked. You can't slap a bandaid on a festering wound.
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In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
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As i've said before, the renaissance was just 15th century OnlyFans.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
As i've said before, the renaissance was just 15th century OnlyFans.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.
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I am so grateful for this man and his bravery.
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am so grateful for this man and his bravery.
I'm impossibly common and plebeian and we all know it already, but I'm almost ashamed to say I'm finally happy now that I have fucking organization in my bathroom for the first time in 2.75 solar years.
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm impossibly common and plebeian and we all know it already, but I'm almost ashamed to say I'm finally happy now that I have fucking organization in my bathroom for the first time in 2.75 solar years.
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are... are the cishets okay?
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December 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
are... are the cishets okay?
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[tapping earpiece] I'm just now getting a startling revelation about the shocking thing in common between those who work forces and those who burn crosses
Gun-Toting Border Patrol Goon Unmasked as Racist Online Troll
www.thedailybeast.com/gun-toting-b...
www.thedailybeast.com/gun-toting-b...
Gun-Toting Border Patrol Goon Unmasked as Racist Online Troll
An agent criticized for his role in a violent arrest boosted racist and anti-LGBT posts on his X account.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
[tapping earpiece] I'm just now getting a startling revelation about the shocking thing in common between those who work forces and those who burn crosses
are... are the cishets okay?
Liquid Love Ring Set | Breast Milk Rings | KeepsakeMom
Shop the Liquid Love Ring Set design from our Breast Milk Rings collection. Create the ultimate baby keepsake with Breast Milk Jewelry at KeepsakeMom.
www.keepsakemom.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
are... are the cishets okay?
“Do you want to know what I honestly think of you?”
“Pining to be told.”
“Well, I despise you.”
If she had even said ‘I hate you’ in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly...
“Pining to be told.”
“Well, I despise you.”
If she had even said ‘I hate you’ in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly...
December 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“Do you want to know what I honestly think of you?”
“Pining to be told.”
“Well, I despise you.”
If she had even said ‘I hate you’ in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly...
“Pining to be told.”
“Well, I despise you.”
If she had even said ‘I hate you’ in a petulant or coquettish tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly...
This is what happens to the side of the Night Buzzard after Vicrul loots a bunch of spray paint from a planet they're raiding.
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is what happens to the side of the Night Buzzard after Vicrul loots a bunch of spray paint from a planet they're raiding.
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The regime once swore he would never see his family in Maryland again. They were wrong. He's out and on his way home.
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The regime once swore he would never see his family in Maryland again. They were wrong. He's out and on his way home.
Some of us don't post art on the Internet because we work in fields other than illustration. :p
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Some of us don't post art on the Internet because we work in fields other than illustration. :p
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A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
using AI cuts corners on involving people who know better. negativity for christmas is an awful ad concept even if it was made by people - so a creative team would push back on the request. business people like AI doesn't argue, not understanding experts were protecting them from their own bad ideas
"The most terrible time of the year"
McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
u.afp.com/S7sF
McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
u.afp.com/S7sF
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
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Some mfer has already created a video of goofy getting it on with Snow White. That’s what you’re gonna get Disney.
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Some mfer has already created a video of goofy getting it on with Snow White. That’s what you’re gonna get Disney.
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*defunctland voice*
The Imagineers, unprepared for park guests' new addiction to generating images of Elsa smoking weed, and indeed their *expectation* to smoke weed with *the real* Elsa at the park, had a difficult road ahead
The Imagineers, unprepared for park guests' new addiction to generating images of Elsa smoking weed, and indeed their *expectation* to smoke weed with *the real* Elsa at the park, had a difficult road ahead
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
*defunctland voice*
The Imagineers, unprepared for park guests' new addiction to generating images of Elsa smoking weed, and indeed their *expectation* to smoke weed with *the real* Elsa at the park, had a difficult road ahead
The Imagineers, unprepared for park guests' new addiction to generating images of Elsa smoking weed, and indeed their *expectation* to smoke weed with *the real* Elsa at the park, had a difficult road ahead
You know. I've come to realize that I am happiest when I am making things physically. I got given a paid week off at work this week and I'm languishing around missing the bracelets I've been working on. :p
Oh, my tiny links of gold and the 5x magnification lens, I miss you so much!
Oh, my tiny links of gold and the 5x magnification lens, I miss you so much!
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
You know. I've come to realize that I am happiest when I am making things physically. I got given a paid week off at work this week and I'm languishing around missing the bracelets I've been working on. :p
Oh, my tiny links of gold and the 5x magnification lens, I miss you so much!
Oh, my tiny links of gold and the 5x magnification lens, I miss you so much!
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The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.
🧵 Long thread.
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He and his parents left their *still extremely privileged life* in post-apartheid South Africa because it wasn't racist enough, hi
Love to watch it finally dawn on people that Elon Musk is a white nationalist like he hasn’t done everything short of donning a white sheet in the last decade
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
He and his parents left their *still extremely privileged life* in post-apartheid South Africa because it wasn't racist enough, hi