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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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
giftarticle.ft.com
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.
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What the fuck, you mean we could just be doing this?? Right now?? Whenever???
February 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM
What the fuck, you mean we could just be doing this?? Right now?? Whenever???
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It was little more than a footnote in the early 1990s "multimedia" boom.
But have you ever heard of the Tandy/Memorex VIS?
youtu.be/0hA3f4cuqis
But have you ever heard of the Tandy/Memorex VIS?
youtu.be/0hA3f4cuqis
The Tandy/Memorex VIS
YouTube video by 8/16/32bit
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
It was little more than a footnote in the early 1990s "multimedia" boom.
But have you ever heard of the Tandy/Memorex VIS?
youtu.be/0hA3f4cuqis
But have you ever heard of the Tandy/Memorex VIS?
youtu.be/0hA3f4cuqis
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Or all the rings that use computers...which is pretty much every goddamn thing from toys, to TVs, and tons of computers in cars.
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 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Or all the rings that use computers...which is pretty much every goddamn thing from toys, to TVs, and tons of computers in cars.
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THIS. There's a few peeps I -used- to be friends with who use genAI. Past Tense.
If you use genAI to create "art" for you, you are my enemy. Full stop. Not just because it was never -yours- in the first place, but because you actively harm one of the most important things we have left!
If you use genAI to create "art" for you, you are my enemy. Full stop. Not just because it was never -yours- in the first place, but because you actively harm one of the most important things we have left!
February 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM
THIS. There's a few peeps I -used- to be friends with who use genAI. Past Tense.
If you use genAI to create "art" for you, you are my enemy. Full stop. Not just because it was never -yours- in the first place, but because you actively harm one of the most important things we have left!
If you use genAI to create "art" for you, you are my enemy. Full stop. Not just because it was never -yours- in the first place, but because you actively harm one of the most important things we have left!
Sick of stressing myself out and bumming myself out when I make plans to do anything...
February 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Sick of stressing myself out and bumming myself out when I make plans to do anything...
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Its the same song and dance for every other creative field.
That we need AI to be writers and not those elitist snobs!
Or that we need AI to be artists and art can be democritized!
etc etc
Its just as bunk as the other.
Music production is probably THE most democratized and equal of the art fields
That we need AI to be writers and not those elitist snobs!
Or that we need AI to be artists and art can be democritized!
etc etc
Its just as bunk as the other.
Music production is probably THE most democratized and equal of the art fields
What do we think about the assertion in this meme? I know, we think it's asinine, but I'm looking for specific arguments as to why it's asinine.
February 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Its the same song and dance for every other creative field.
That we need AI to be writers and not those elitist snobs!
Or that we need AI to be artists and art can be democritized!
etc etc
Its just as bunk as the other.
Music production is probably THE most democratized and equal of the art fields
That we need AI to be writers and not those elitist snobs!
Or that we need AI to be artists and art can be democritized!
etc etc
Its just as bunk as the other.
Music production is probably THE most democratized and equal of the art fields
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yeah STOP USING AI DETECTORS
THEY ARE ALSO AI
THEY ARE JUST AS WRONG AS AI IS
STOP USING THEM FOR EVIDENCE
IVE HAD MY OWN WORK LISTED AS BEING ANYWHERE FROM 20% TO 80% AI BEFORE.
THEY ARE ALSO AI
THEY ARE JUST AS WRONG AS AI IS
STOP USING THEM FOR EVIDENCE
IVE HAD MY OWN WORK LISTED AS BEING ANYWHERE FROM 20% TO 80% AI BEFORE.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
yeah STOP USING AI DETECTORS
THEY ARE ALSO AI
THEY ARE JUST AS WRONG AS AI IS
STOP USING THEM FOR EVIDENCE
IVE HAD MY OWN WORK LISTED AS BEING ANYWHERE FROM 20% TO 80% AI BEFORE.
THEY ARE ALSO AI
THEY ARE JUST AS WRONG AS AI IS
STOP USING THEM FOR EVIDENCE
IVE HAD MY OWN WORK LISTED AS BEING ANYWHERE FROM 20% TO 80% AI BEFORE.
Huh. @joshstrifehayes.bsky.social plays FFXIV on the same server I'm on. Can't recall if we've ever crossed paths, but I'd be too focused on what I'm doing to notice anyway. XD
February 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Huh. @joshstrifehayes.bsky.social plays FFXIV on the same server I'm on. Can't recall if we've ever crossed paths, but I'd be too focused on what I'm doing to notice anyway. XD
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yeah nah i dont trust anyone who charges 30 USD for the priviledge of submitting your work for a contest. fuck that
first 5000 words, while soliciting a 25 pound fee (they say they have free spots for low-income writers that become available monthly).
When I asked about this, I received the following responses via DM:
When I asked about this, I received the following responses via DM:
February 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
yeah nah i dont trust anyone who charges 30 USD for the priviledge of submitting your work for a contest. fuck that
Something you should know about me, people who seem to stumble upon my posts; if I want advice I'll ask for it. No matter how well-meaning you might be, unsolicited advice just weirds me out and makes me feel pressured.
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Something you should know about me, people who seem to stumble upon my posts; if I want advice I'll ask for it. No matter how well-meaning you might be, unsolicited advice just weirds me out and makes me feel pressured.