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Tarith Averin
@tarithaverin.bsky.social
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A bay area tech nerd, ttrpg fanatic (in withdrawal), and dumb foxy. 35 🦊🏳️‍🌈 He/him

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Randomly write d&d stuff under:
#dndhooks
#dndhook
(Because I'm chronically inconsistent)
Trying to tag my cooking pics with #tarithcooks
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Tarith Averin @tarithaverin.bsky.social · Oct 11
Hello! Welcome to the profile! There's shitposts, ttrpg nerdery, cooking pics, and nudes here, enjoy what of that you will.
tarithaverin.bsky.social
We must protect The Roadie
peppertomb.bsky.social 🌼🌿 addy @ VF🌼🌿 @peppertomb.bsky.social · 8d
following up on the band, I was convinced they needed a potoo roadie. Presenting: Him.

(alt title: sometimes i draw cursed things)

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#potoo #furryart #furry #digitalart #annieville
An anthro potoo bird dressed as a roadie for a band. He wears a black 'staff' shirt and blue shorts with a chain. in one picture he's asking the camera where they want the snare drum and sticks in his hand. the other picture is him laughing out loud, full mouth open. some information is written around the two pictures: he is 4ft tall. his name is unknown, answers to anything. rumored to have a tramp stamp. drives an old beater. calls everyone boss. doesn't smoke, always has cigarettes on him. his voice claim is alan from smiling friends
February 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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#taritheats
I'm going to die
A truly excessive milk shake with a brownie on top
February 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Tortillas are so good
February 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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crgkevin.bsky.social
Remember the reason for the season y’all! #Babylon5
Image of a diorama of the scene at the end of War Without End Part 2 where Valen and two Vorlons welcome the Minbari aboard the station Babylon 4. Caption reads: “Keep the Valen in Valentine’s Day”
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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merrillotter.com
HEY YOU

Help bring da boi to lifeeee

(also go start reading The Day We Met from @falco.works if you haven't)

www.makeship.com/petitions/pe...
Pen the Tufted Deer Plushie
A desk-sized Pen to keep you company and hold onto whatever you're anxious about for a while so you can get some work done... or procrastinate. He's great at Minesweeper!Want more Falcoworks content?
www.makeship.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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kringekobold.bsky.social
Will you accept a kobold's Valentine? #kobold #valentine #animatic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKf...
February 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#tarithcooks
Finally posting food again with some shrimp, vegetables, and spiced potatoes
A plate on a counter top. To the left is a small mound of well browned cubes of potatoes tossed in spices. To the right browned shrimp nestle in with briefed onions and red bell pepper. A bit of scallion greens are scattered about on top
February 14, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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ascalaphid.com
Sister Helga
helga the pricklepig monk seasmstress
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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vortexegg.com
Probably the most embarrassing cultural trait inculcated in Tech is the feigned lack of understanding of potential harms of technology because understanding them would require being morally responsible for them and would thus deflate the hype make-believe buy-in among the developers of said tech.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d
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 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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bitterscriptreader.bsky.social
Ten years ago today, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, kicking off one of the greatest crimes committed against democracy when Mitch McConnell invented a pretense to deny President Obama a nominee, and everyone in power and media just shrugged and acted like he could do that.
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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drewharwell.com
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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onlyjerryblep.bsky.social
(Depending on time zones) Happy Valentine's Day!
February 13, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from Safeway is $9.99. If I bought one every day for a year, that's $3,646.35. The average price of a house in the United States is $400,000. It would cost about 109 years of daily rotisserie chickens to buy that house.
February 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
tarithaverin.bsky.social
Womp womp
February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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samthielman.com
I think a helpful thing about this is that it demonstrates how clearly, confidently, and gracefully cops lie
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
tarithaverin.bsky.social
Creature Kitchen is so cute y'all
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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radiodeadair.com
No wonder Bitcoin tanked: apparently it's possible to just accidentally create Bitcoins out of thin air.

SEEMS BAD.
Bitcoin’s fraud-detection system didn’t appear to have been triggered, according to local cryptocurrency experts. South Korean lawmakers have raised concern over the so-called “phantom coin” issue: How Bithumb was able to distribute 620,000 bitcoins when its own stockpile appeared to have numbered closer to 50,000.
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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nikraccoom.bsky.social
Yeah, yeah, suuuure... 😏
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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rabosaalforn.bsky.social
“Socarrat” inspired drawing of a fox. I’ve wanted to draw a series in this style for a long time to print and frame to decorate my home.
February 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Fritz Lang's Metropolis was released 99 years ago today!
And the story took place in... 2026 😁

And since it's never too late to (re)discover one of the first sci-fi classics...
Metropolis | 1927 | VOSTFR, Muet | Science-fiction
YouTube video by Bonjour Le Cinéma
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
tarithaverin.bsky.social
Boredom gives strange impulses
A pair of legs in a simple hobble tie with purple rope
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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vieraways.bsky.social
This is genuinely how the internet feels nowadays
February 9, 2026 at 9:47 PM
tarithaverin.bsky.social
Medjool dates are so nice. Very underrated
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app
Hey y'all.

A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews.

Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂
nyamakop.co.za Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 5d
“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
tarithaverin.bsky.social
Age verification?

I had to chase multiple friends contacts as they serially made new AoL accounts for free internet off those trial disks
witsuaru.bsky.social Morgan, Witch Lit Era @witsuaru.bsky.social · 5d
Age Verification?

I saw Super Mario Bros in theaters.
creepingforscalemodels.com Creepingfreely4u2 @creepingforscalemodels.com · 5d
Age Verification?

I remember when was Toonami was originally cancelled
February 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM