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Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

Okay, I’m going to say this again. Travelling to claim asylum is not “illegal migration”. It’s going to a country you believe you will be safe in to ask for help and refuge.

It is legal to do that. It really really is.

November 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

For being a bit of a weak album over all, Hesitant Alien by Gerard Way has two of my favourite songs ever 💖
Brother and Drugstore Perfume are just wonderful 🙂

November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

Labour can get in the fucking bin.
I know they’ve done awful things this whole time, but changing the right for refugees to apply for permanent residence is petty, cruel and honestly to fuck, can you all just not?
Just stop being an awful government for three seconds and think humanely.

November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM

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Kieron Gillen

@kierongillen.bsky.social

I think Sauron and Boromir fundamentally agreed on the dark realm’s accessibility problem, which is the great irony of the orcs thinking he was naming it Mordor when he was in fact asking for more doors, so one could simply walk into it.

November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Welcome to Night Vale

@nightvaleradio.bsky.social

A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.

October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear

@samikelsh.bsky.social

hey silksong enjoyers, did you know that i have an entire section in my shop for limited edition blue raspberry fight milk hollow knight/silksong art prints? when they sell out, they’re gone for ever, so help me run out of them!

ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop

#hollowknight #silksong #artshop

Art print of the Knight from Hollow Knight being offered a cake by one of the Distant Villagers

Art print of Hornet Silksong floating over some ancient architecture like Mary Poppins

Art print of the Knight from Hollow Knight sharing a picnic with Quirrel on the shore of Blue Lake

Art print of Hornet Silksong on a TTC tram about to get off at Shaw Street

October 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

I've had a few creative ideas rolling around my head recently, so I'm debating doing a not-affiliated-to-any-other-writing-challenge writing challenge 😅 See if I can actually make some progress without reffering to the stupid organisation that quite rightly fell apart 🤪

October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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fletch 🦆

@fletchmakesstuff.com

I've never heard OCs explained so succinctly before

Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 24d

i just need to invent a new little guy that'll fix me

October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Louisa

@louisathelast.bsky.social

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

Just to let y’all know how punk I am, I am currently watching the telly with the volume set to 7

October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Kendra, normal version

@kendrawcandraw.bsky.social

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

SHAW!

DrSmey @drsmey.bsky.social · Oct 10

#pixelart #aseprite
Smol Hornet (2025)

October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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Elizabeth Rimmer

@burnedthumb.bsky.social

And a small fundraiser on my new-look blog for the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library burnedthumb.com/charms-for-t...

Charms for the Healing of Grief | Burnedthumb

burnedthumb.com

September 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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Wagatwe Wanjuki

@wagatwe.com

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Adam Sharp

@adamcsharp.bsky.social

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

Batman’s aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.

October 3, 2024 at 2:11 PM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

I need to get past the bit I'm stuck on in Silksong so I can make some progress. Mostly so I can go back to watching my favourite streamers who have all surpassed me 💔🤣

September 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

Diego Luna did a 4 day stint guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel's now suspended show. This bit is wonderful and also called out the situation now.
youtu.be/CCJuvGta5G0?...

Guest Host Diego Luna on Fighting Authoritarianism & Guillermo's News for His Love Charlize Theron

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

youtu.be

September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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Welcome to Night Vale

@nightvaleradio.bsky.social

Haha remember dial up modems? And old school websites? And that one website we all kept coming to, even though we never typed in the address, the one that was a black screen with a picture of a man, and every time we visited the man in the picture was just a little closer? Haha. And remember AIM?

September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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James B Barrow

@jamesbbarrow.bsky.social

Next Sunday (21st Sep at 1pm BST) I will be doing a charity stream to fundraise for the British Red Cross!
Join me then for art, fun shenanigans, and perhaps another jaffa cake surprise :)

To be notified of it:
Follow me on Twitch: twitch.tv/jamesbbarrow
Join my Discord server: discord.gg/rvuuaQQ

A British Red Cross branded promotional image, featuring a picture of the streamer JamesBBarrow holding a strange Jaffa cake sandwich. He is wearing a bee-onsie costume and smiling just before he takes a bite of it. The text in the image reads: "Supporting BritishRedCross. Quest for Kindness. Kind Train Raidathon"

September 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM

Nomi

@turnupthedial.bsky.social

I just reposted a couple of versions of "I'd Rather Be an X-man" by Gail Simone, you should go read them. It's a wonderful little bit of writing about how to accept and understand people.
Here's the bit that stuck out to me though:

September 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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eustace

@eustace.justshootme.ca

#Alt4You
[Originally posted by: @rphutch1975.bsky.social]

An X-Man gives you the truth you need to hear, and the kindness you can't forget.
When society scorns the colors you wear, the X-Men say, let's dress up fancy and have a goddamn gala.
The X-Men don't erase the past. They remember the Holocaust, they remember Jim Crow, and they actively seek to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Your family rejects you? The X-Men say, they can go straight to hell. Come be part of OUR family.
Other hero teams are often about protecting wealth and the status quo and the government and peace and quiet.
The X-Men are about protecting that one kid, that one child afraid to go to school, afraid to go out in public, afraid of even the people around them. They are about sanctuary, not cages.

I'd rather be an X-man.
An X-Man is someone who has found themself, someone who knows who they are and accepted it with a grace and wisdom many people will never understand.
An X-Man might have been given a rough hand in their life, but rather than letting that crush them, they have found a way to rise up.
The X-Men don't care what you look like. They don't care if you are rich or poor. They don't care if you can lift a bus or barely lift a scrap of paper. They know it's what's in your heart that matters.
When everyone else tallies up the mistakes and wrong turns you have made in your life, and remind you of it every chance they get, the X-Men say, 'We don't care who you were. What matters is who you are NOW.
An X-Man extends their hand to those who need it.
If you feel you can't overcome the challenges around you, the X-Men are there to run you through the Danger Room and support you every time you fall, until one happy day, you stop falling altogether.

The X-Men say, love who you love, we'll be there at the wedding, with the best gifts and the biggest smiles.
The X-Men care as much about a struggling mutant in a faraway country as they do about the people they've grown up with their entire adult lives.
They do the right thing when others don't even know what the right thing is.
When you leave this room today, please remember: we don't have a code we follow, we don't have an oath we recite. We have a core set of values; You matter, you're important, you are valued. And if anyone gives you shit, we are here to make them regret it.
If you have an extraordinary gift, in this universe, you may, some faraway day, be considered "WORTHY" to be a Defender, a Champion, or an Avenger.
I'd rather be an X-Man.
How about you?

September 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM

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Gail Simone

@gailsimone.bsky.social

I hope you all read this from me.

The Ghost of Future Xmas Past💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · Sep 13

To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement.

However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.

I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.

I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social