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bumbleorchid.bsky.social
Orchid
@bumbleorchid.bsky.social
130 followers 230 following 78 posts
Loves boardgames, Tabletop games and doing them all with my husband Sparky. Bi/Demi🏳️‍🌈
She/Her
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bumbleorchid.bsky.social
Going to Essen Spiel was amazing.
My mind was blown by the size of it and the amount of games that were there.
Playing Netrunner for the first time. Playing Timber Town My finished tank from the card game Reptile Tank Just finished breaking the world record for most simultaneous players for Catan Connect.
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
This Is Fascism
October 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
with alt-text
A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads: Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. Its dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads: "And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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hannahartwork.bsky.social
Bugs 🐝 🐞 🪲
A trio of digitally illustrated figures, wearing intricately patterned costume designs inspired by the bugs: hornet, ladybird and stag beetle.
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting in front of a whiteboard, where Green has crudely illustrated a hole, a table at the bottom of the hole, and two foxes sitting on the opposite ends of the table. Holding a pointing stick, Green taps at the board, as Blue listens attentively. Green: We dig a hole, and then set up our game table there. Blue: Right. Having drawn a cover over the hole, Green taps at the addition. Green: Then we cover the top and wait for an unsuspecting victim. Blue: Huh. Green taps at the whiteboard again, pointing at the most recent addition to the drawing: A startled third fox falling through the cover at the top. Green: Eventually someone will fall through. Blue: I see. Last, Green's illustration looks the same as it did in the first panel, save that there are now three foxes sitting at the table. Blue turns to look at Green with suspicion. Green: And they'll have no choice but to play with us. Blue: Are you sure this would work?
September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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batten12.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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kellymckernan.bsky.social
✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️

Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft?

Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago.

In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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louistonehill.bsky.social
Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...
Screenshot of the Advocate article headline showing an image of bluesky's logo and JKR, with the title "Outcry grows after multiple trans uers were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire" Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3: "If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time." Text post part 2/3: "The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now." Text post part 3/3: "How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. " Response by drtanner: "Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal. It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "
September 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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sparkyblaze.bsky.social
A snake cake is just the word 'snake' again ;3🐍🎂
August 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
bumbleorchid.bsky.social
Most recent plays
BG Stats 3 x 3 Image of: Bärenpark Betrayal at Mystery Mansion Emberleaf Everdell Silverfrost Flamecraft Hooky SCOUT Vantage Fromage
August 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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witchtaunter.bsky.social
Be careful around snake girls, sometimes they just wrap around you in their sleep.

Commission for joKen.

#furry #scalie #commission #naga
August 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social
Alligator Alcatraz has been halted because of the Miccosukee Tribe. But look at how it's reported.

Native people constantly fight for not only the land, but human rights -- and their contributions are consistently erased.

And everyone does it. Erasing Native voices is the true American pastime.
Headlines: "Judge Orders Halt to Construction at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention..." "Trump Administration's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Suffers Legal Blow" "Judge stops work at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz.' What are they building there?"
August 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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hcvlach.bsky.social
I just called Visa and was told by an operator that they have NO phone extensions accepting customer complaints right now - keep at it everyone, keep badgering them!
ithayla.bsky.social Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · Jul 25
visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:
July 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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staxdeadempress.bsky.social
this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025
guy handing money to JK Rowling "K*ll every trans person" - JKR "I'm an ally, I just really like Harry Potter!" - guy
July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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razzfox.bsky.social
"These hands of ours are burning red, in these dark times their loud cries tell us to reach out and grasp happiness."

The power of love, ten years strong 🐍💕🐍
An anniversary gift to @bumbleorchid.bsky.social from @sparkyblaze.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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spaceynood.bsky.social
Mmm opening a raffle for 2k!!!

- to enter, just put your ref down in the comments! (Sfw pls!)
-follow, like, and repost!!
- in 3 days ill announce 2 winners hehehe!!

Here be an example!
June 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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scalesandspirals.bsky.social
Posting a commission from last year for thenicknamethief (FA) because I need something nice and cooling to look at in this weather
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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questsnakes.bsky.social
Snakes aren’t evil!
June 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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mylafox.bsky.social
Serenity in Bloom 🦋
Commission for @waflafel.bsky.social 💜
#art #furry #furryart
June 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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mylafox.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/myla...
mylafox.bsky.social ✪ ᗰYᒪᗩ ✪ @mylafox.bsky.social · Jun 7
Serenity in Bloom 🦋
Timelapse video
#art #furry #furryart
June 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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oddarette.bsky.social
Aurora Borealis Snake by meeeeee ✨🌌✨
May 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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rj-palmer.com
FMK - rey dau, rathalos, zinogre
Illustration of Rey Dau from Monster Hunter with a really nicely drawn foot. Also not that it matters but I counted all the tail and back spikes to make sure it matched up to the actual guy. Illustration of Rathalos from Monster Hunter with extra care paid to the subsurface scattering on the wing patagium. Rathalos is my favorite creature design so he gets special big boy treatment. Illustration of Zinogre from Monster Hunter in fully charged state. When I first saw Zinogre 15 years ago I was not really into him. However seeing him go super saiyan and start breakdancing in game turned me around pretty quick.
May 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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sparkyblaze.bsky.social
World Serpents💙🐍🌍🐍💛

Cosmic caretakers perhaps being a little careless with the new worlds they are creating... but only because their attention is on something more beautiful ;3

🎨 by @bumbleorchid.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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sparkyblaze.bsky.social
Now you have to give Nicolas Cage a Willie's Wonderland shirt
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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samwey.bsky.social
Our Kickstarter for Hawthorn is live! Please support our cozy, co-op, sandbox game!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nea...

#Kickstarter #Crowdfunding #bootstrapped #passionproject

#cozy #rpg #indiegamedev
Hawthorn
Former Bethesda & BioWare devs bring you a nostalgic, co-op sandbox RPG of woodland animals, adventure, friendship, and village life.
www.kickstarter.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM