Ky, feeling a lil bit optimistic
@perfkylan.bsky.social
Communist & queer. Player of games, writer of stories, maker of creations. AuDHD. Anti-military. An avid lover of space. They/He 🏳️⚧️ 💉
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Here's a clip of Rob Reiner that brings me a lot of joy & how I'm happiest to remember him. It's an episode of Gomer Pyle from 1969 and Rob's the hippie in yellow, just 21 years old. Sitcoms weren't supposed to talk about the Vietnam War, so they found a way to sing about it instead.
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Here's a clip of Rob Reiner that brings me a lot of joy & how I'm happiest to remember him. It's an episode of Gomer Pyle from 1969 and Rob's the hippie in yellow, just 21 years old. Sitcoms weren't supposed to talk about the Vietnam War, so they found a way to sing about it instead.
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
December 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Only someone with zero talent would say this. It is the (sometimes timely) process itself that makes creativity flow, every artist will tell you that. Cutting the process will eliminate creativity, not enhance it. But the fact that billionaires want to kill art is not new.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Only someone with zero talent would say this. It is the (sometimes timely) process itself that makes creativity flow, every artist will tell you that. Cutting the process will eliminate creativity, not enhance it. But the fact that billionaires want to kill art is not new.
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Do you folks like my kobolds? :3 #CosyDungeon
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do you folks like my kobolds? :3 #CosyDungeon
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A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control
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Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards
Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
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Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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NOT GOOD 🫠
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela
A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
NOT GOOD 🫠
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
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Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off
NOT GOOD 🫠
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’
JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela
A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
My partner and I are scheming the steps necessary to get their ovaries removed for their PMDD. The birth control they've been on isn't cutting it anymore, and while their antidepressant has been pretty good for regular depression, it doesn't touch on the Super Depression nearly enough
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
My partner and I are scheming the steps necessary to get their ovaries removed for their PMDD. The birth control they've been on isn't cutting it anymore, and while their antidepressant has been pretty good for regular depression, it doesn't touch on the Super Depression nearly enough
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We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
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“It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!”
Adam and Eve? The couple who blew it and got us all kicked out of paradise? They’re your role models? Adam and Steve’s worst sin would be knitting a turtleneck for the snake.
Adam and Eve? The couple who blew it and got us all kicked out of paradise? They’re your role models? Adam and Steve’s worst sin would be knitting a turtleneck for the snake.
December 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!”
Adam and Eve? The couple who blew it and got us all kicked out of paradise? They’re your role models? Adam and Steve’s worst sin would be knitting a turtleneck for the snake.
Adam and Eve? The couple who blew it and got us all kicked out of paradise? They’re your role models? Adam and Steve’s worst sin would be knitting a turtleneck for the snake.
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You could also move to Aplington, Iowa and realize that none of the 500 women who live there want anything to do with you, and that real estate is so cheap because there is nothing to do in town, and that there are only so many nights at the local dive bar you can have before you lose your mind.
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You could also move to Aplington, Iowa and realize that none of the 500 women who live there want anything to do with you, and that real estate is so cheap because there is nothing to do in town, and that there are only so many nights at the local dive bar you can have before you lose your mind.
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Just ordered a shirt:
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just ordered a shirt:
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Frog pushed a coat down over the top of Toad.
Frog pulled snowpants up over the bottom of Toad.
Frog pulled snowpants up over the bottom of Toad.
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Frog pushed a coat down over the top of Toad.
Frog pulled snowpants up over the bottom of Toad.
Frog pulled snowpants up over the bottom of Toad.
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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
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This is so sad. He had to move back to Japan because To a T didn’t sell well, might leave games entirely, and wishes he still had the Katamari IP. Which to be fair was probably always a wish.
I respect him saying it’s not about niche games or not niche. It’s about if people like the game.
I respect him saying it’s not about niche games or not niche. It’s about if people like the game.
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is so sad. He had to move back to Japan because To a T didn’t sell well, might leave games entirely, and wishes he still had the Katamari IP. Which to be fair was probably always a wish.
I respect him saying it’s not about niche games or not niche. It’s about if people like the game.
I respect him saying it’s not about niche games or not niche. It’s about if people like the game.
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Shrooms 2 just dropped
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.
nhmu.utah.edu
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Shrooms 2 just dropped
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epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
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Sea turtles, pollinators, bison, and more -- great new wildlife books for kids and nature-loving families: https://therevelator.org/new-wildlife-books-kids/
New Wildlife Books for Children and Teens (That Adults May Find Interesting Too) • The Revelator
These books for young readers will delight and encourage interest in mammals, insects, octopuses, and other creatures in our shared environment.
therevelator.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sea turtles, pollinators, bison, and more -- great new wildlife books for kids and nature-loving families: https://therevelator.org/new-wildlife-books-kids/
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People are really missing out on putting a little bit of coffee in your tea.
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
People are really missing out on putting a little bit of coffee in your tea.