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零Rei

@othiym23.bsky.social

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hey im rei/零/れい (pronounced "ray")

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friend to all. 百合、アニメ、百合アニメ。 computers if you must.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · Jan 12

I was here

I wish I was still there

a rei sitting on the steps under the torii at the entrance of the shrines on Enoshima

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My Linux Rig

@mylinuxrig.bsky.social

man i wish the dems newsom better candidates

February 12, 2026 at 9:44 AM

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Davis, back to work.

@des-shinta.bsky.social

While they're waiting, there's another Aoi Yuki-led Magical girl series that did what Madoka does without being Nihilistic about it...and actually got satisfying conclusion after 5 seasons without pulling Urobuchi's 'love is the root of all evil' nonsense that soured his works over the years.

a girl in a blue jacket is holding a pink object in her hand

Alt: Hibiki Tachibana's Transformation Sequence in "Symphogear XV".

media.tenor.com

January 27, 2026 at 5:37 PM

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gengarro

@gengarro.bsky.social

CALVIN'S DAD: Despite being moe, Madoka is Utena

February 12, 2026 at 9:05 AM

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Phoebe!

@mollyesbian.gayass.io

casual meduca

madoka kaname from puella magi madoka magica dressed casually and wearing a shirt that says "eat shit and live"

February 12, 2026 at 2:50 AM

零Rei

@othiym23.bsky.social

bleak bleak bleak

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22h

A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.

“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools.

“Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.”

Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.”

But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”

February 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM

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Liz W Faber, PhD

@lizwfab.bsky.social

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

February 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM

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Avery Edison

@averyedison.com

sigh

Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM

零Rei

@othiym23.bsky.social

I have a lot to do today, which is a shame because I’d really rather lie rigidly on my couch while listening to Hikaru Utada’s “Sonewhere in Marseilles” all day.

February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM

零Rei

@othiym23.bsky.social

This reads like something Peter Watkins would build a whole novel around.

bitdizzy is absent @bitdizzy.bsky.social · Dec 12

(nodding knowingly)

There is a silent war happening between Psychopaths and Schizophrenics. We know that the population numbers are very small for both groups, however one group is more likely to become CEOs (psychopaths) and the other is more likely to become homeless (schizos). This is because schizos are good at pattern recognition, and can notice the psychos. Normies are incapable of seeing psychopaths in front of them, and psychos relish and dominate because of this. Schizos are able to know them on an instinctual level and suss them out in a way that normies never could. Thus there is a constant demoralization campaign against schizos from the tyrant psychos, who seek to use the population against their greatest natural enemy.

February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM

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Bryan Alexander

@edufuturist.bsky.social

I'm enjoying Breakdown: 1975 very much. I was 8 that year.

Thanks to @rickperlstein.bsky.social for the tip.

February 10, 2026 at 2:58 AM

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juno Rylee Schultz

@junoryleejournalism.com

i am extremely proud to announce my latest journalism

this piece is about Tupac Amaru Shakur, the Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, and liberation

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i publish every other Thursday

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TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR | Artist, Rapper, and Son of a Black Panther

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.”

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January 29, 2026

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January 30, 2026 at 4:20 AM

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🦋　Bluesky Support　🦋　(unofficial)

@bsky.support

oops! i guess that button is important after all

February 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM

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u+fffd

@jcoglan.com

age verification is functionally a huge security hazard for _all_ internet users but the government will call you a danger to children if you point this out

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 4d

“In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs.”