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Mandarax @Sea
@mandarax.bsky.social
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No big plans for this account; I really just need to do a lot of uploading to FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/mandarax

But, in the meantime, I'll probably post art, and neat sea life I see at work.

https://refsheet.net/Mandarax/mandarax
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mandarax.bsky.social
#FaunaFriday

So while reaching for the binoculars, I was like, "Huh, those jumping dolphins are kinda small, I wonder what species-"

And then I got hungry.

Ever seen a tuna feeding frenzy? Well you have now:
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
mandarax.bsky.social
That marks my 5th time seeing Japan, and still my 0th time visiting. Oh well, one of these days...
View past a ship's stern toward the Japanese coastline
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
mandarax.bsky.social
Been at sea for almost a week now, but we've gone straight out into the mid ocean. Briefly saw a blue whale, but not in time to get a picture or video. So instead, if I give you a coyote from my yard shortly before I set sail for this #FaunaFriday
October 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
mandarax.bsky.social
Me getting off eight hours of overnight watch just in time to catch the breakfast line before closing.
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
mandarax.bsky.social
'Bout that time again, joining the ship and heading to sea. I should have intermittent internet for most of this work tour, and hope to be back early December!

Art @torenth.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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mandarax.bsky.social
Watched Netflix's "Ultraman Rising" with friends last night. Kaiju MILF confirmed! Repeat - Kaiju MILF confirmed!

Behold Gigantron:
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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band1t.art
"I just don't really like furry milfs..."

Me:
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
mandarax.bsky.social
Watched Netflix's "Ultraman Rising" with friends last night. Kaiju MILF confirmed! Repeat - Kaiju MILF confirmed!

Behold Gigantron:
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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ssalvasssnake.bsky.social
everyone needs to play golden treasure
most incredible game ever my god store.steampowered.com/app/1065100/...
Golden Treasure: The Great Green on Steam
Golden Treasure is a game for those who carry dragons in their hearts. Hunt, explore, survive, and become Great among the True Children of Sun and Earth.
store.steampowered.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
mandarax.bsky.social
Everyone in America has two Senators and a Representative. Their contact information is public. They don't know how you feel unless you tell them.

Both of my senators are Democrats and my representative is Republican. I've contacted all three about this. It's not hard, took me five minutes. Do it.
authorkaraj.bsky.social Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Sep 23
Call your senators and your house rep.
Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go.
Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 23
1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people.

His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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lizardbethart.bsky.social
🎵One's on the bottom, strong is he🎵
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
mandarax.bsky.social
Neighbor came over to wish me a happy #Snektember - how thoughtful!

(I thanked them for their kind sentiments and sent them on their way with the longest stick I could find)
September 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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neffertity.bsky.social
The Dovabrodian! A quadruped dragon avatar for #vrchat ! Fully hand sculpted, textured, rigged by myself! Launching officially on 09/17/2025 (my birthday 🎂) Im so excited to see what you all make! ❤️
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#dragon #feraldragon
September 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
mandarax.bsky.social
Happy #TummyTuesday! While being home, I don't get on social media as much, but I couldn't wait to show you this bit of absolute majesty that @agroalba.bsky.social surprised me with for my birthday this past weekend ^..^
A mighty dragon on the prow of his Great-White-Fleet-aesthetic cruiser with her magnificent golden dragoness figurehead... Figurepreg? Full-figured-head? Figure-eggs?
September 2, 2025 at 7:27 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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hampus.bsky.social
Post a meme made by you
A screencap from Monty Python's Life of Brian from 1979, depicting Michael Palin, John Cleese and Eric Idle sitting by a table wearing dark robes. Text has been superimposed over the image to make it appear as if John Cleese's character is saying: "Okay but APART from the destruction of the environment, rampant disinformation, deepfake nudes, illegal pornography, blackmail attempts, widespread art theft, spam, devaluing of human labour, the death of the internet, dangerous advice, flagrant copyright violations, spam, social media bot invasions, fraud, more spam and the general dumbing-down of all forms of communication, WHAT is so bad about AI technology?"
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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fourleafisland.art
thank you everyone who still makes art despite everything
August 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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mcfansfw.bsky.social
A new version of The Rains of Vallerane is available!
Decided to add extra features  to the book: Title illustration, a map, character sheets, and also went through a new round of corrections (mostly had a bunch of missing quotes lel)

You can get it here:
https://amzn.to/3Uqn5xw
August 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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pbs.org
An update from us here at PBS 💙
August 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
mandarax.bsky.social
Happy 8/8 to all my vorny friends! Today I'm happy to share some previews of a project that @rektalius.bsky.social has been working on for me! One works up an appetite working at sea, are you conveniently sized to sate mine? ^..~
August 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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sarcastickatt.bsky.social
Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material."

So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?"

I think it clicked for him then.
July 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
mandarax.bsky.social
The noise is intense right now, don't let it fade. Keep up the pressure until they change their policies.
dieselbrain.bsky.social Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 26
I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can
July 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM