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Tech Support Tiger, Art Enjoyer, Game Player, funny thing liker He/Him
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roryblank.bsky.social
12/17/2025
a crude drawing of a caveman doing a cruder drawing of garfield wearing a bikini, captioned "early man uses tools to leave markings, to pass on proof of his existence to future generations."
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
finvaara.bsky.social
I have a joke about Frank Blackmore, but it's a little roundabout.
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
finvaara.bsky.social
Why are you polyamorous?

Wrong answers only:

It's clearly the proven successful strategy. If it didn't work, parrots would have gone extinct by now.
pandangit.com Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 9d
Why are you polyamorous?

Wrong answers only:

If I can get this polycule big enough, we can legally register as a church.
halfbakedrhymes.com Biscuit @halfbakedrhymes.com · 9d
Why are you polyamorous?

Wrong answers only:

I'm trapped In the infinite samsara of finding my lovers over and over in this life and the next... occasionally a new one sneaks in.
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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pandangit.com
Welcome to the jungle
Our work week's just 4 days
And everyone gets medical
Plus a good 401K
And if you are harrassed
In any way sexually
HR will get on top of that
With confidentiality
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
My... My... My employee
Oooh
We hope you will succeed!
*guitar solo*
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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lartist.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
cartoon of a 'hand' turkey coloured up like a jack o lantern Caption: One Holiday Closer to Hallowe'en
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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pandangit.com
Gonna design a game where the goal is to see what's happening around you and choose the option that'll disappoint the most (non-hypothetical) people.

It'll be a First-Person Schumer
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
A comic in which we open on master artist, god amongst men, creator of Garfield, Jim Davis. He sits at a graphic tablet, drawing his latest masterpeice. There is a look of happiness on his face, but the way he is underlit by the screen tells us something is off. Jim says: "HA HA, 'DID YOU EAT MY LASAGNA,' HA HA" In the next panel we switch to Jim's POV and see what's on the tablet's screen. There is a full colour drawing of Garfield. Jim's hand, holding a stylus, is obscuring part of the image, as he writes in Not-Heathcliff's dialogue. All that is written is "SM" The next panel is the same view, but now the dialogue is complete, and Jim's hand isn't visible, allowing us to see the image --and dialogue-- in full: "SMITE THE NON-BELIEVERS, JIM... BUILD ME A THRONE OF THEIR SKULLS" Final panel. Jim looks as weirdly happy as ever, but now his face is beaded in sweat. There is a beat, before he quietly says "y-yes... master"
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:
Chuck, portrayed by Paul Scheer, a member of the Good Place Committee: "He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy."
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
finvaara.bsky.social
If they think Union Busting is going to make them more profit on GTA 6, maybe they're right and maybe they aren't, but I'm sure not buying a single thing they've touched until they atone for this one. Frankly, I don't think they're capable of it.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
finvaara.bsky.social
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Nov 5
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Spice level choice (copy) required Mild Medium Spicy Extra spicy Flat noodle
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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kastor.sh
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.
A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."
September 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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sovereignbeast.bsky.social
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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hyenablood.yeen.world
Accurate but deeply upsetting
foone.bsky.social Foone @foone.bsky.social · Oct 5
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
October 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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whyballoo.bsky.social
Potato expert here, they only do this when they're in distress
kim-hu.com Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · Jul 6
potato.
A page filled with colored sketches of sprouting potatoes. #kimgakaku
September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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bestonetx.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️

archive.org/details/walt...
Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC
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September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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bonnicula.bsky.social
Testing a theory:

reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote
bonnicula.bsky.social Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Sep 8
CAN I GET A 'FUCK ICE' IN CHAT
bonnicula.bsky.social Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Jun 15
ICE is only as old as the Kangaroo Jack movie and neither needed to exist
September 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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slomnir.bsky.social
Fuck it, Bug Dimmadome
September 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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lincolnproject.us
There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.⁩
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 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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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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devonianstone.bsky.social
eeep
bsky.app/profile/devo...
the original skeet quote-skeeted with: "schadenfreude" dragoncon management, 2025 mixed media with regret
September 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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beardedrogue.bsky.social
Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video
YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM