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Rai
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Hibernating
Writer (RPGs, novellas) | Gamer (indie horror) | Artist (fibers, pixels, paints) | Hobby ecology (bugs, birds, and shrooms)
PNW USA | 80s kid | any pronoun
Pinned
sorry, I can’t, the sun sets at 4:30 now
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Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I have NOT muted “Donica” because manually blocking each of you simpering, snickering weasels is like a little Dove chocolate break, to me
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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i was recently commissioned by the team of Self Care Vampire, an upcoming mobile game where the better you take care of yourself, the tastier you are for your vampire boyfriend. they've got a playtest coming up soon, and would invite you to meet elijah~

www.selfcarevampire.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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We've had these two little posters hanging on our wall for basically ever. They helped our kids get through middle school and high school and I personally still take a second to read them often.

Printable PDF here: lumpley.games/wp-content/u...
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
this hasn’t been peer reviewed yet but I am watching 👀 with interest 👀
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'

'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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hanging out with a bunch of gamedev friends this weekend and holy shit everyone is haggard

they're just hanging onto their jobs for dear life and are not optimistic about anything

AI is gutting the industry and you'll see the impacts in the next few years as games developed now release
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
absolutely wild to see WA on a map like this but not, idk, KS
Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Lily was already a top-tier nap assistant, but recently she discovered she can sleep UNDER the blanket with me. truly a generational talent
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch
Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
my AI mother called me fat and told me she’s giving my sister thousands of dollars for getting married in a church. does anyone know how to make her less realistic
For real, check this out. Evil.
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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"attention all bombshell milfs currently hunting with cruel determination for the most successful stock trader in manhattan," I say from every speaker in grand central station, "he is currently boarding the train to poughkeepsie" but it is a recording: I am already gone, on my way to new haven
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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My phone has been suggesting me things to Google for some reason lately, and I think it just doesn't really get me at all.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ATTENTION GAMERS

Voting for the Hard Drive Game Awards is open from now until November 21st.

Fill out the form below and be a part of the most prestigious award show in the history of media.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Hard Drive Game Awards will return December 12th from 7-10PM EST on twitch.tv/harddrivemag!

Fabulous guests, prestigious awards, virtue signaling! The Hard Drive Game Awards will have it all!

Most importantly, we are fundraising for The Palestine Children's Relief Fund! tilt.fyi/qKf4ZQh2b0
HardDriveMag - Twitch
Hard Drive is the only trustworthy news source for video games and pop culture.
twitch.tv
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
this guy gets it!!!!!!!!!!
okay, that just about does it
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I push up my sleeves, lean into the keyboard... but then hesitate, and look questioning back at Menswear Guy, sitting in the dugout behind me. He shakes his head slightly, stays seated, gives a soft but encouraging smile.

I'm ready. I can do this.
This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
everybody shut up for a second

my dad is crushing round 1 of the SVFD’s Mustache Mania ‘25
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
spotted towhee hopped up to my feet, looked me straight in the eye, and scolded me. idk what I did wrong but I feel compelled to make amends with the towhee community
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
decriminalize public/private use and possession of drugs. all of them. education, treatment, harm reduction, and reintegration instead of prison and shame!!
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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recession indicator
The Custom Oregon Plate STONKS was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #STONKS
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
hey, you’re bullying the MALE nyt reporters on bluesky too, right? yeah I’m sure you are, why wouldn’t you 🤔
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM