Piper
LightNews LightNews
banner
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Piper
@the-pied-piper.bsky.social
2.6K followers 1.8K following 14K posts
We have the potential to love like the sun does—a golden cup over flowing without expectation of return.

Trying to do that.

NC Courage | Steelers | Dolphins| he/him
State Democrat staffer in a red state

The inequities of others do not excuse our own.
Posts Replies Media Videos
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Reaching the end of a heartfelt video on the role of the gift as depicted in a beloved movie, go to open to see if there is a pinned comment or other and instead it’s AI slop analysis

An LLM summarizing hundreds of comments as “nostalgia.” This might be the most viscerally upset AI’s made me yet.
Screen shot from a YouTube video titled “That Tine Disney Ruined Kiki’s Delivery Service” by @cjthex displaying that I’m at 59:37 out of 1:00:37. Instead of showing comments under the section labeled “comments 1.8k” it instead shows [Platform symbol for AI] Topic: Kiki’s Delivery Service nostalgia
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
One of the great challenges in Pico de Gato’s life is that he’s such a sweet, cuddly boy I can’t always tell if he’s just being a loving, sweet boy or if he wants something.

(Photo unrelated; provided for tax purposes.)
An unrelated photo of Pico de Gato, a grey domestic long hair having his belly scratched, provided as tax for mentioning a cat.
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
1 in 4 low income women report missing work, school, or other important appointments because they cannot afford period supplies.

That rises to 1 in 3 girls in low income
households.

18 states still impose a luxury sales tax on period supplies.

Period supplies are school supplies.
A graphic with color coded map of the United States showing which states simply have no sales tax at all (red), which have exempted period supplies from their sales tax (yellow), and which have a sales tax but do not exclude period supplies (blue). This map was current as of May 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
A cartoon drawing in cutesy anime style of an Adepta Sororitas with her hands to her face in an expression of shock. She is exclaiming the words, “BUT THAT’S HERESY” A heavy edit of the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme to remove the weird sexist vibes of presenting her as a crazy girlfriend trope and instead show her clad in full Adepta Sororitas Pattern Battle Armor, holding a chainsword, and asking with an expression of frenzied zeal: It’s been over ten minutes since you said you love the Emperor Are you being corrupted by chaos A two panel meme. The top image shows two women laying in grass holding hands. Over them are the words: bestfriends? more like sisters. just girly things The lower image shows an entire squad of Adepta Sororitas Seraphim charging into glorious battle together.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Alas, the joined Nov '24 labeler is undefeated.
A screengrab showing that my account has the Joined Nov '24 scarlet letter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Median Dem voter blood braying will continue until the message is heard.
Screenshot of a prior skeet of mine: Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social • 9d → Replied to Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon Median Dem voter: My soul will remain in tumult until it is watered with the blood of tyrants. Break them upon the wheel and break them again. Median Dem strategist: We must move to the right on every issue Trump is currently underwater on.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
In MAG (Massive Action Game) on the PS3, calling in squad and platoon leader actions while outside of the map quadrant you are naturally assigned to significantly reduced their cool down about half the time, meaning for final defense in 256 mode Platoon leaders could swap quadrants and spam them.
Screen shot of a search result showing a Wikipedia snippet: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org MAG (video game) On January 28, 2014, the online servers for MAG were shut down. Due to its reliance on online play, it is no longer possible to play the game.
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
His fans have done this since he first ran and it’s been one of the worst things to ever happen to the setting. Same far right just got angry over a woman being in the Adeptus Custodes (most elite superhuman personal guard of the Emperor.)

Guess they missed that the daemonculaba was overtly evil.
Screen shot from the official Warhammer 40k animated short “Tithes” which featured Tyrith Shiva Kyrus as the main character, a woman who has undergone the Imperium’s most sophisticated genetic elevation to be literally the most powerful warrior a human being possibly can. Her depiction caused the exact worst dudes you would guess to get as angry as you’d assume it would. - This screenshot is a close up of Tyrith’s face and upper body in her golden auramite armor. In this scene she is ordering a Space Marine chapter master to stop his current activities and redeploy elsewhere. She is shown as having the clear authority in this situation and the Space Marine acknowledges this and obeys her order. Screen shot from the official Warhammer 40k animated short “Tithes” which featured Tyrith Shiva Kyrus as the main character, a woman who has undergone the Imperium’s most sophisticated genetic elevation to be literally the most powerful warrior a human being possibly can. Her depiction caused the exact worst dudes you would guess to get as angry as you’d assume it would. - In this scene Tyrith is shown walking down the corridors of her ship toward her armory, showing that she is nearly ten feet tall and proportionately powerfully built without her armor. She is walking next to an armored but unaugmented human woman who is herself a member of another highly elite fighting force, the Sisters of Silence. Even in her armor she is visibly less than half of Tyrith’s size.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
It was my day to fly too close to bro’s sun.
Screen shot of a post of mine from 3 months ago. Post reads: As someone with terminally dry humor, l've an eagle eye for my kind who fly too close to the sun.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Their yellow kit this year was a vibe.

Legit though, imo NWSL season tickets are dollar for dollar the best live professional sports you can get in the US atm. Extremely high parity, prestige league, but it’s priced more like AA baseball because patriarchy.

Row B Centerline: $450 for the season.
A picture from row B of section 306 in the NC Courage stadium on the centerline, showing that the seats are so close the perspective is looking eye level to the players. In the foreground of the photo the VAR box is visible.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
A sloppy edit of the Olympus Has Fallen movie poster with Zohran Mamdani’s smiling headshot placed into the center of the frame. A cropped image of Donald Trump beaming up at him like a smitten kitten during their White House meeting is next to his headshot. At the bottom of the poster the title of the film has two additional words in a cartoonish font with a bright teal and pink coloring “OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN TO RIZZ”
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Dog. Why you gotta do me like that?

I’m just sitting here eating my lunch I had to make an account to order pickup and you’re putting the gun of shame flat against my temple and pulling the trigger.
A picture of the cover of a large “Battle At Sea: 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare” book that was literally out and only a few steps away from me when a person I thought was a friend called me the fuck out like damn
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
I saw that. It is not elitism to be annoyed about having your own proven expertise thrown back at you

Esp when it’s so easy to look up
-
As a fellow (to that commenter) Discover addict, I try to follow a basic “don’t engage with strangers unless you have something nice or useful to say” guideline
A cropped screenshot showing that Dr Hirst’s romancing the gothic website is the very first google result for “dr sam hirst” The link is purple because I clicked it before commenting because I try not to be a weapon going around being a danger to myself and others
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A three panel meme where each panel consists of an image of Michael Collin’s (left) and a proposed map of the Republic of Ireland with the number of counties listed (right) Panel 1: Michael looking calm | 26 County Ireland (the map of the current Republic of Ireland) Panel 2: Michael animatedly delivering a public address | 32 County Ireland where all of Ireland is united and Northern Ireland is no longer part of the UK Panel 3: Michael is now so animated his eyes glow with green power and the background is being distorted | 74 County Ireland where the entirety of the British Isles are now part of the Republic of Ireland
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
This is a perfect example of her point. You can, with no effort at all, go find a “gee what a nice car” Camaro for under $5,000 on your first google search

An actual dedicated search to buy a car cheap will always produce way better results than Carfax/similar. People want to be judgey to be judgey
A screenshot of a carfax listing of a black 2010 Camaro with no visible damage and even wheels that look pretty clean for $4,995.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
There is a fantastic Ultramarines theoretical - practical joke to be made about the Nuzzi bullet theoretical - possible, but I am not clever enough to come up with it and it’s killing me.
A two panel image of Marenus Calgar, chapter master of the Ultramarines, looking extremely unhappy as depicted in the web series If The Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device. In the first panel he looks down dejected with the caption [ultradepression] In the second panel he is sobbing into his hands with the caption [Ultra-fuckin’-crying]
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Constant Contact (a newsletter service) finally added Bluesky to the social media options!

We've made it.
A cropped screenshot of the Social follow block in Constant Contact showing that Bluesky is the most recently added option. For the newsletter this was taken from, X is noticeably absent.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
A cutesy drawing of a Sister of Battle in anime style with her hands to her face in an expression of shock exclaiming, “But that’s HERESY”
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
A cutesy drawing of the face of a tech priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus with a happy expression and the words *HAPPY MECHANICUS NOISES*
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
My partner and I are all in on “console” PC gaming. Depending on the specs this might even be an upgrade for her PC.

She will not let me replace her old plasma screen (in fairness the blacks & colors are still amazing) so it’s not needed much upgrading to pump 720p max settings in anything.
Picture showing an entertainment system consisting of two TVs, a stand with two PCs inside it, and two auxiliary screens above one TV. It looks janky due to a recent move that broke the combined stand.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Ya’ll are over complicating this.

Just put your gaming PCs directly into the TV stand. No need for long cable runs.

(Forgive the we-just-moved-and-the-movers-broke-our-usual-dual-screen-stand jankiness. You can do it without that jank.)
A photo showing a TV stand with two gaming PCs next to a second stand with another screen.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
Ooo available as an audiobook!

Frankly this just keeps getting better.
Cropped screenshot of the Audible app, showing “Offshore” by Brooke Harrington mid-download as the most recent book in a 212 title library.
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
The exact context of Jay’s post was saying harassers and outrage farmers keep harassing and outrage farming even though it causes negative consequences for civil discourse and society.

Kirk, famously, did the *exact* behavior Jay was critiquing and, saliently, suffered negative consequences for it.
Jay’s posts in question: Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind. Yet it's a behavior that persists across social media anywa negative consequences for civil discourse and society. Hun. nature is a contributing factor, but systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse. A screen shot of the recovered post from. Link that is the post he was banned for. It’s a picture of Charlie Kirk on the day he was shot. The picture seems to be from either the instant before he is shot, or the moment the bullet enters his neck, but before blood has begun to spray out. Łink provided the alt text “Charlie Kirk sitting in a white tshirt that says freedom. A negative consequence follows.” The use of the words “a negative consequence” seems to be a direct reference to Jay’s wording “despite negative consequences.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
which is why I corrected it twice, both times trying to make it clearer I wasn’t contesting the ruling but the process.

Here is how it’d look with the corrections.

In your opinion, is this still gaslighting?
A screenshot of how my original post would appear with the correction I posted under it. “I appreciate you telling us Dr Kendzior was suspended for paraphrasing Johnny Cash lyrics in a way the team determined was a threat per TOS in the immediate context of a direct link to an article about Johnny Cash's lyrics. Thank you for clarifying that. Can you clarify why Łink was permanently banned?”
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the-pied-piper.bsky.social
I didn’t leave her wording out or hide it! You literally quoted my post in which it quotes their official comment containing the entirety of her wording.

If I was at all denying it I wouldn’t include her exact wording.

It kinda feels like you’re relying on people not to see that to accuse me.
Screen shot of my post Mikey quoted which itself directly quotes Bluesky’s post that itself shows the paraphrased lyric “I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die”
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM