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nico

@nicodelort.bsky.social

this map for Disco Elysium Final cut is i believe the most time consuming jobs i've done
was super fun

December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM

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Pastel Lich

@pastellich.bsky.social

Five of Seal
#voidcall #oldorderarcana #occult #tarot #art #illustration #drawing #イラスト

October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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mari ☀️

@marisketch.bsky.social

[nsfw, oc, sabine]

well well

Colored sketch of the artist's original character Sabine, humming as she lifts the skirts of her belted dark green dress to reveal a hot pink strap-on. She is wearing thigh high stockings under her dress and has her eyes closed, a cheeky smile on her face. A pink rectangle with white and pink spots serves as the background behind her.

December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM

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Arden Ripley

@arden.rip

I'm glad to see someone else talking about Vile: Exhumed, another game by an indie dev that was banned from Steam recently that deserves far more attention than it got. The creator chose to release the game for free and it's absolutely worth your time to play. Deeply affecting, raw, and unsettling

Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 5d

Steam are notoriously inconsistent and have been for years. For every game they block claiming one reason that's supposedly a hard line in the sand, they handwave five that drove a monster-truck over that same line.

Case, Vile: Exhumed. Banned for having real photography with *implied* nudity.

Vile Is Banned

Developer Statement: VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors […]

dreadxp.com

December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Wallace Polsom

@wallacepolsom.bsky.social

Figure drawings by Paul Heaston, available for purchase here:

paulheaston.bigcartel.com

December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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@dungeonbitch.bsky.social

❦Amano

October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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|Ro'd RAGE|Ronito|

@nonbinarypunk.bsky.social

RCM Doggy training 😳🦴🐶
WIP

Kim/harry puppy play
Kim in uniform, harry on his hand and knees with nothing on but a collar gloves and black jockstrap

December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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Evan Greer

@evangreer.bsky.social

🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨

A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.

Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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SteamWhistle

@steamwhistle69.bsky.social

August 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM

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Black Dragon Press

@blackdragonpress.co.uk

Sharpen your harpoons!

'Moby Dick' by @gduboisstudio is back -better, bigger and meaner than ever.

Now released as an 18" x 24" 7-colour screenprint 'Moby Dick' will be available either signed or unsigned for 48 hours only from Wednesday 03 December at 5pm UK time.

Don't miss out!

December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖆 𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖑

@godivaghoul.bsky.social

4th of December

December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM

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Lasko but hansry 🔞 || comms closed!

@kadavarium.bsky.social

Giftember Day 4: washing off the blood for @guysarestripping.bsky.social

December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM

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Gobifrip

@gobifrip.bsky.social

Quote with beefy women 🍖

A 2-meter-tall warrior holds a barrel of beer in one arm. She wipes her mouth and looks at her fellow swordwoman with interest. The other woman, smaller and blushing, tries to ignore her by taking a swig from her mug.

Double shot Bryanne, a dwarf metalworker removing her work apron after a tiring day's work, exposing her muscular back.

Lotis, a powerful naiad huntress, emerges from the water. (The octopus part is indeed part of her head.)

December 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM

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Pastel Lich

@pastellich.bsky.social

Six of String

#voidcall #oldorderarcana #occult #tarot #art #illustration #drawing #イラスト

October 11, 2024 at 10:34 PM

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Pastel Lich

@pastellich.bsky.social

Here he is, the Lord of String! This is the last one of these I've done so far, I'm taking a break right now, but I plan to do another set at some point (the idea is to have four suits like a regular card deck)

#voidcall #oldorderarcana #occult #tarot #art #illustration #drawing #イラスト