Ari I
gatheringdusk.bsky.social
Ari I
@gatheringdusk.bsky.social
Sometimes a writer, sometimes a podcaster | genderfluid queer | 30
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Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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alright let's do this

bimbo beta is now available on itch. check it out and tell me if this shit works at all iznaut.itch.io/bimbo
bimbo by isabelle adena kestrel
a static site generator for dumb girls
iznaut.itch.io
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 AM
tried to express that chappell roan isnt beyonce-famous and inadvertently called her mid-tier, immediately resulting in my public execution at the family nye party
January 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇

www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI-first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. While ML tools like local translation offer real utility, LLMs are opaque black boxes. Waterfox won't ...
www.waterfox.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Crystal reviews HORSES, the unjustly censored latest release from experimental game studio @santaragione.com!
Horses Review — Ugly Derby
Who wants to be a human, when humans are so much crueler than horses?
gamesline.net
December 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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extremely sharp thoughts on horses and the discourse around it, from harper
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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16 years after his creation and 11 years after the incident in Wisconsin, I have revisited my old friend The Slender Man.

open.substack.com/pub/unseenin...

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The Slender Man: An Academic Retrospective
Hello darkness, my old friend.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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In the spirit of hobbit birthdays, have some free games!
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
this campaign to revive a piece of important gay history is closing soon and could still use some help if you’ve got a buck to spare www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...
small town gay bar redux
‘small town gay bar’ is a documentary about two bars in the Deep South fighting for diversity in the face of adversity
www.kickstarter.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
now wait a minute just what the hell is happening here
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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You can listen to him lay this all out here
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Thinking about these blogposts again with Shelved By Genre announcing they're covering tolkien

the idea that someone in the 70s-80s would write up a screen by screen adventure game recreation of the ENTIRETY of the books' middle-earth (map from said blogpost seen here) endlessly fascinates me
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Guess dude should've run for Staten Island borough president
this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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holy shit lmao
Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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i can't believe they have to play again today.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
stayed up too late tonight finishing this, a fun time that i definitely recommend
Emptiness Effigied begins today with a free novella! A lesbian detective with an enigmatic past becomes embroiled in mysterious plots and strange phenomena as she searches for her esteemed teacher in a setting inspired by the interwar period in Europe. emptinesseffigied.com
Emptiness Effigied – Violence to liberate.
emptinesseffigied.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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This is why you need to not just mask, but mask consistently in public.
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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the phrasing here is like apple sauce for babies but a good reminder that wearing a mask is hands down the most effective way to keep yourself and the people around you safe from both "severe virus season" and the debilitating plague that hasn't actually gone away at any point in the last 5 years
Switzerland: Expert advises voluntary mask wearing.

Swiss epidemiologists warn of a severe infection season. Masks in crowded indoor spaces or on public transport help prevent infections and show solidarity. Extra care for those 65+, immunocompromised and those with cold symptoms.

archive.md/hDJVW
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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happy october, here are my silly halloween stories about a scarecrow apocalypse on a dying webforum and its companion story about a corn maze apocalypse on a platform for reviewing corn mazes
Halloween is here early: after a disastrous website crash a few months ago I have reconstructed my seasonal stories about provincial goofballs posting themselves into oblivion on autumnal hobbyist websites
1) 'scrow correlatedcontents.com/scrow/
2) unWindr correlatedcontents.com/unwindr/
'scrow
correlatedcontents.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
havent posted about my streams with jack here very much, but im staging a hostile takeover for the month and taking us through the all-time classic immersive sim System Shock

cyborgs, mutants, and rogue AI, tonight and every wednesday night in october at 8:30 Central

twitch.tv/catgirlboyfriend
October 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“What is unlawful is: genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilian vessels and abduction of all those on board.” 3/3
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM