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@nintendousa.bsky.social

Ready to rumble with Wario? You’d BETTER be ready! Throw punches, charge through crowds, and pummel foes in Wario World, available now on #NintendoSwitch2 for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members.

December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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Sleeps-Dorkly

@sleeps-darkly.gay

a trade with @mathie.gay

left pic is faers, i got it printed in A2 and hung it in my room because it's so cool

right pic is my part of a trade, a sticker sheet of faer character, Ytrevia

A four-armed, four-legged girl reaches for a bright star in a night sky, framed by flowing ribbons that say "Never too late to the party".

A set of stylized drawings of a four-legged character with silver hair and an orange reptile lower body, shown in various outfits and poses, from casual eating and joking around to a sniper rifle and a formal suit.

December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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UNAGIDON

@ribboneels.bsky.social

"I asked chatgpt--"
Shut the fuck up. I asked the Lady of the Lake, and she said you are unworthy of the sword Excalibur. You will never be king.

June 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM

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🔞 Sketch 🔜 ANE

@sumiaou.bsky.social

weird people fall in love with each other all the time

1st panel: A dismal, awkwardly warmly lit hotel / convention center panel room like what you would see in the 90s or 2000s. A pink rabbit fursuiter holding a build-a-bear wolf, having waited in the corner, waves to an approaching blueberry wolf fursuiter. They both call out their usernames, "Blueberry Bella" and "KidfurKiki87"

2nd panel: Out of suit, the two are cuddled together on the couch in quilts and blankets. The build-a-bear wolf is resting against the build-a-bear bunny. Bella is holding Kiki, their fursuit heads on the dresser in the background. Behind the fursuit head, a "Days until Kiki's home: 0!" Lanyards of past conventions and their years are on a corkboard.

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Original art piece idea by @mIdrux on Twitter, but I and others were disappointed they drew it with mean-spirited intentions.. even calling the kidfur character a "diddyblud" (yes. verbatim) and getting wrapped up in "proship discourse." I thought the message was too human to let it be diluted + overshadowed by typical online whataboutisms and wanted to redo + reclaim it with more touches of the furry fandom, esp being a furry myself. It's love. For some, the love of your life is in the corner of a boring furcon panel room -- even if they don't have the same "interests," it's care that bridges the gap.

November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM

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Kelly

@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

Disabled people do not owe you their medical history.

They do not owe you their diagnosis.

They do not owe you an explanation.

Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.

No one is doing it for fun.

December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM

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Josh Foreman

@josh-foreman.bsky.social

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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octo

@metaphorical.monster

recently i've been working on a little something
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November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM

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SeeroftheNight

@seerofthenight.bsky.social

What do you mean 'I don't seem real'?

November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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Ember (shi/hir)

@jql.digital

I preordered @qntm.org’s There Is No Antimemetics Division, and it arrived two days go. Today… a second copy arrived. I only ordered one. There’s no records of a second order or shipping details for a second copy. This feels appropriate to the story, somehow.

A hand holding two copies of the same book, QNTM’s There is No Antimemetics Division.

November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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@jtfg.dev

hey all, a sweetheart of mine is seeking very important therapy to address some serious mental health concerns and has set up a small gofundme to cover the costs.

please donate whatever you can. if you can't donate, please repost! thank you!

#mutualaid #financialaid #mentalhealth

Donate to fixing mathie's hurting little hearts, organized by Mathie HANCE

hello. my name is Mathie Hance. but you probably know me best as mathie, or blackma… Mathie HANCE needs your support for fixing mathie's hurting little hearts

www.gofundme.com

November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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@jtfg.dev

hey all, a sweetheart of mine is seeking very important therapy to address some serious mental health concerns and has set up a small gofundme to cover the costs.

please donate whatever you can. if you can't donate, please repost! thank you!

#mutualaid #financialaid #mentalhealth

Donate to fixing mathie's hurting little hearts, organized by Mathie HANCE

hello. my name is Mathie Hance. but you probably know me best as mathie, or blackma… Mathie HANCE needs your support for fixing mathie's hurting little hearts

www.gofundme.com

November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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razorgirl

@razorgirl.diy

I'm really grateful that I'm trans, if only because it taught me that nearly every aspect of who I am can be changed.

People mostly talk about the physical aspects of transition, but I feel like I'm constantly remaking myself—my personality or otherwise—into the type of person I want to be.

November 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM

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Leon Barillaro

@barilleon.com

The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch

Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...

www.latimes.com

November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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alison says reinstate Link!

@alisonborealis.bsky.social

Her work is still up there, under her name, but *Disability Visibility* has been removed.

bsky.app/profile/wind...

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · Nov 15

Alice's work at Teen Vogue:
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)

Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · Nov 15

Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.

November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM

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@jtfg.dev

happy shadow the hedgehog to all who celebrate

The Sonic Stadium ✪ 25 YEARS OF SONIC NEWS @sonicstadium.org · Nov 15

🗓️🎉 HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY, SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG! 👾🦔

Released in North America on Nintendo Gamecube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox on November 15, 2005.

With the world plunged into darkness from invading Black Arms aliens, Shadow is faced with a choice: Will He Good, or Evil?

November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Deck the halls with baps of barley

@barleybap.bsky.social

When your game's anniversary is also the first day of Transgender Awareness Week.

Vyse from Skies of Arcadia holding a pirate flag. The colours have been edited into the transgender flag.

November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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PacificDreamer

@pacificdreamer.bsky.social

Gianna has a mission: contain an anomaly. Her body and her restrained powers proves to be insufficient, but a chance meeting with a chaotic imp may change that...

(late) Birthday gift for @jtfg.dev :3

SFW: archiveofourown.org/works/74023561
NSFW: www.furaffinity.net/view/62951631/

#impzelwriting

Latent Power - PacificDreamer - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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allsee 🔜 qualia at magfest indie arcade

@allsees.online

happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day for all who celebrate

November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Ember!

@emberbat.bsky.social

What a terrible fate oh nooo

November 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Stephanie Bri 🏳️‍⚧️ He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car

@stephaniebri22.bsky.social

please URGENT I'm disabled unemployed and and no snap I DESPERATELY need food. I'm begging please just $25 to get a few groceries ASAP URGENT I can't go to food bank till Wed ca venmo PayPal stephaniebri22
#mutualaid #disabilitysky #helpsky #transcrowdfund #maboost #helpfolkslive2025 #transsky

Stephanie Bri 🏳️‍⚧️ He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car @stephaniebri22.bsky.social · Nov 2

PLEASE THIS IS URGENT I'M OUT OF FOOD
I desperately URGENTLY need to get groceries. my snap is on hold and I can't go to food bank until Wednesday. PLEASE this is URGENT I need to eat. ca venmo PayPal stephaniebri22

Stephanie Bri 🏳️‍⚧️ He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car @stephaniebri22.bsky.social · Nov 1

friends I really hate to beg but I'm almost entirely out of all food, I rely on snap and I can't go to the food bank until next Wednesday and I can't go hungry that long. I really need food ASAP please. ca venmo PayPal stephaniebri22 #mutualaid #snap #shutdown #transcrowdfund #disabilitysky #food

November 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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Chloé Stawski

@chlowski.bsky.social

We crafted something sapphic & spooky for this first @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social's Cartoonber 🎃🦇

The theme was : Reclaimed

script : @zoewithasword.bsky.social
thumbnails, pencils, lettering & tones : @willowsquest.bsky.social
inking : yours truly