Leina
@bowsette.bsky.social
41 y/o. Northern English idiot. Wannabe streamer and writer. She/He/They/Her/Him/Them. Monster fanatic. Genderfluid. Big wah girl!
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Leina
@bowsette.bsky.social
· Dec 10
A proper pinned skeet is in order, methinks.
I'm most known as Leina, aka The North-East Recluse. I pretend to be a red panda online and blather on about videogames, mostly, but also other nerd stuff, furry stuff, and also the odd serious topic like UK politics, mental health and gender identity.
I'm most known as Leina, aka The North-East Recluse. I pretend to be a red panda online and blather on about videogames, mostly, but also other nerd stuff, furry stuff, and also the odd serious topic like UK politics, mental health and gender identity.
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every single American when they see some beans on a piece of toast
February 17, 2026 at 12:26 PM
every single American when they see some beans on a piece of toast
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i thought you chaps on the internet might enjoy this Doctor Who reference from Goofy Adventures #1
February 17, 2026 at 12:39 PM
i thought you chaps on the internet might enjoy this Doctor Who reference from Goofy Adventures #1
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UK trans folks in financial difficulty and struggling to meet private gender affirming care needs: make a note of this and the document requirements in advance.
Apply for subsidised gender-affirming care with us 📣
Applications open:
🗓 Mon 23 Feb
⏰ 7pm to 7:30pm GMT
Limited spaces. High demand expected. Please check eligibility + T&Cs and have your documents ready: anne.health/apply-for-su...
Applications open:
🗓 Mon 23 Feb
⏰ 7pm to 7:30pm GMT
Limited spaces. High demand expected. Please check eligibility + T&Cs and have your documents ready: anne.health/apply-for-su...
February 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM
UK trans folks in financial difficulty and struggling to meet private gender affirming care needs: make a note of this and the document requirements in advance.
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It's notable to me that Athens as a city has existed since its inception unto this very day in a meaningfully similar spirit, whereas Sparta had to be rebuilt from scratch after it was sacked by Visgoths after becoming essentially Disneyland for Romans for several centuries.
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
It's notable to me that Athens as a city has existed since its inception unto this very day in a meaningfully similar spirit, whereas Sparta had to be rebuilt from scratch after it was sacked by Visgoths after becoming essentially Disneyland for Romans for several centuries.
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Without furries you wouldn't have this gem though:
February 15, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Without furries you wouldn't have this gem though:
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I agree that this is bad, but also I would like to go back to computers not being in toasters and shit, maybe this will fix that (it won't, but what if)
There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 17, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I agree that this is bad, but also I would like to go back to computers not being in toasters and shit, maybe this will fix that (it won't, but what if)
I didn't know @renbymon.bsky.social had parades thrown in her honour. :D
February 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
I didn't know @renbymon.bsky.social had parades thrown in her honour. :D
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Starmer: We ban VPN's to protect children.
Also Starmer: I allowed Mandelson to be ambassador to meet another potential threat to kids, even after many said no, security services said no as I didn't think that applied to us.
Starmer, you need to fuck off.
Also Starmer: I allowed Mandelson to be ambassador to meet another potential threat to kids, even after many said no, security services said no as I didn't think that applied to us.
Starmer, you need to fuck off.
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Starmer: We ban VPN's to protect children.
Also Starmer: I allowed Mandelson to be ambassador to meet another potential threat to kids, even after many said no, security services said no as I didn't think that applied to us.
Starmer, you need to fuck off.
Also Starmer: I allowed Mandelson to be ambassador to meet another potential threat to kids, even after many said no, security services said no as I didn't think that applied to us.
Starmer, you need to fuck off.
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Highly recommend getting something while comms are open, they did absolutely lovely work to for us!
Looking for some commissioners because I do NOT have any money. If you’d like a big boy or something cartoony and fun dm me or fill out the form in the replies below ⬇️
Sharing is appreciated
Sharing is appreciated
February 17, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Highly recommend getting something while comms are open, they did absolutely lovely work to for us!
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It’s the day where we say “why don’t we eat pancakes all the time?”
February 17, 2026 at 9:37 AM
It’s the day where we say “why don’t we eat pancakes all the time?”
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One slot has been claimed, will also take reduced busts if you want something smaller.
Need to make 100GBP in the next 24 hours to cover an urgent bill.
Reduced full body comms for 50 GBP each.
Comment to claim.
#emergencycommision #commissionsopen
Reduced full body comms for 50 GBP each.
Comment to claim.
#emergencycommision #commissionsopen
February 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
One slot has been claimed, will also take reduced busts if you want something smaller.
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"Don't know why"?
Really?
Fuck me, these people are so bloody ignorant of the world around them....
Really?
Fuck me, these people are so bloody ignorant of the world around them....
“…they don’t know why.”
It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.
It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
"Don't know why"?
Really?
Fuck me, these people are so bloody ignorant of the world around them....
Really?
Fuck me, these people are so bloody ignorant of the world around them....
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I'm serious, the UK has always been like this. Anyone that won't make money for the rich are deemed as enemies of the state that must be destroyed at all costs.
You can tell how much said establishment protects the wealthy no matter what they do, which we know a bit more of now.
You can tell how much said establishment protects the wealthy no matter what they do, which we know a bit more of now.
The cruelty was always there in the UK, they had really bad medical treatment for disabled for decades, trans persons were also on top of that for a long while, including gays and anyone else under the LGBT+ umbrella. They're just spreading further out again. It's disgusting.
February 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
I'm serious, the UK has always been like this. Anyone that won't make money for the rich are deemed as enemies of the state that must be destroyed at all costs.
You can tell how much said establishment protects the wealthy no matter what they do, which we know a bit more of now.
You can tell how much said establishment protects the wealthy no matter what they do, which we know a bit more of now.
Reinstalling the remaster of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, because I need some comfort food gaming right about now.
February 17, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Reinstalling the remaster of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, because I need some comfort food gaming right about now.
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Watching Mummies alive and this episode with four anthro dog men is called “pack to the future”
Love them. Lots of howling and full moon scenery.
Love them. Lots of howling and full moon scenery.
February 17, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Watching Mummies alive and this episode with four anthro dog men is called “pack to the future”
Love them. Lots of howling and full moon scenery.
Love them. Lots of howling and full moon scenery.
Mental health care services for the NHS are beyond a joke, and as someone who can't afford to go private life is pure Hell when I feel like I need help RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
I cannot tell you enough how much I fucking *hate* the NHS “mental health team.” The cunts wrecked my life by denying I had bipolar disorder until I got seen privately near twenty years later. They messed with my husband in too many fucked up ways to name.
They have very real blood on their hands.
They have very real blood on their hands.
February 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Mental health care services for the NHS are beyond a joke, and as someone who can't afford to go private life is pure Hell when I feel like I need help RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Gods, me too. I feel like I'm being constantly judged, no matter what I do, and even people who don't know me are judging me.
I'm always weirded out by the idea of people looking over my shoulder at what I'm doing and I have no idea if that's because of undiagnosed autism or childhood trauma
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Gods, me too. I feel like I'm being constantly judged, no matter what I do, and even people who don't know me are judging me.
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This is fucking despicable. They’re copypasting their abuse of trans people onto new targets now (and many of the same targets, given how much overlap there is).
I had to fight for a shared care agreement with the ADHD meds that I fucking need to function. Taking them from anyone is beyond cruel.
I had to fight for a shared care agreement with the ADHD meds that I fucking need to function. Taking them from anyone is beyond cruel.
Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
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February 17, 2026 at 9:06 AM
This is fucking despicable. They’re copypasting their abuse of trans people onto new targets now (and many of the same targets, given how much overlap there is).
I had to fight for a shared care agreement with the ADHD meds that I fucking need to function. Taking them from anyone is beyond cruel.
I had to fight for a shared care agreement with the ADHD meds that I fucking need to function. Taking them from anyone is beyond cruel.
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Couple people really got upset with me for criticizing console price raises, just like they did when games got bumped up to $80.
Stop doing corporate PR for free.
Stop doing corporate PR for free.
Fuck anyone defending hardware price raises. I know you just *have* to go to bat for Nintendo constantly, but laying this at the feet of tariffs and AI, as if that’s not cover for something corporations wanted to do anyway, is off base.
Yeah, both those things are awful, but corpos gonna corpo.
Yeah, both those things are awful, but corpos gonna corpo.
February 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Couple people really got upset with me for criticizing console price raises, just like they did when games got bumped up to $80.
Stop doing corporate PR for free.
Stop doing corporate PR for free.
What's the point of even trying?
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
What's the point of even trying?
Had to cancel plans to have a day out because my car's knackered. The auto gearbox has gone completely daffy.
Story of my life; not even the smallest of plans will work out because that's just how my life is.
I'm destined to never be happy.
Story of my life; not even the smallest of plans will work out because that's just how my life is.
I'm destined to never be happy.
February 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Had to cancel plans to have a day out because my car's knackered. The auto gearbox has gone completely daffy.
Story of my life; not even the smallest of plans will work out because that's just how my life is.
I'm destined to never be happy.
Story of my life; not even the smallest of plans will work out because that's just how my life is.
I'm destined to never be happy.
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"Edmund McMillen is the John Waters of video games" is a statement designed to turn me into the joker.
because it's going around: "edmund mcmillen is the john waters of videogames" even to me as someone who doesn't have that much of a problem with his aesthetic ideas/approaches, is a nuclear level bad take. especially when we have so many actual queer artists in games making transgressive stuff.
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 AM
"Edmund McMillen is the John Waters of video games" is a statement designed to turn me into the joker.
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It sucks that Harry Potter isnt a fun thing to reference anymore but I will say I never got how the living paintings worked until now
Except, you know, even worse
Except, you know, even worse
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 AM
It sucks that Harry Potter isnt a fun thing to reference anymore but I will say I never got how the living paintings worked until now
Except, you know, even worse
Except, you know, even worse
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Great timing for the Virtual Boy's 're-appearance', our new YouTube video includes previously unseen footage of the VB's western reveal at Winter CES, in January of 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_FEmue0Yu4
February 17, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Great timing for the Virtual Boy's 're-appearance', our new YouTube video includes previously unseen footage of the VB's western reveal at Winter CES, in January of 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_FEmue0Yu4
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Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."
And.
Yup.
And.
Yup.
February 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."
And.
Yup.
And.
Yup.