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Velvette
@velvette.bsky.social
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Actually 3 question marks in a trenchcoat.
Vision augmented with girlified homosexually-female eyes
she/her

people that started working on their stories again because I was still thinking about it months later: 3

https://ether.aetherial.xyz/
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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social · Jul 26
Here is a list of stuff I've done and I'm doing that you might enjoy! In the broad strokes it's going to be a lot of VA/narration (some NSFW), probably some tech stuff later down the line and maybe more craft/artisanal occupations.
velvette.bsky.social
love it when a story doesn't have an unreliable narrator but an unreliable author
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
velvette.bsky.social
I have listened to this for way too many times since a friend showed it to me, I'm afraid it's extremely french for a weird niche of musical shitpost but it's so good

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhn...
GiscardPunk - late 70's and 1980's technosolutionist France (synthwave edit)
YouTube video by Templarius
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
velvette.bsky.social
"if you're thinking about her constantly without feeling the urge to kill her then isn't it because you like her?"

I swear to god this story
velvette.bsky.social Velvette @velvette.bsky.social · 7h
"its just because I hate her so much that I start to feel concerned about her"

fictional lesbians smh
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
velvette.bsky.social
"not now I'll tell you later"

and with that her coming death was certain
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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hexatonicals.bsky.social
okay so i found the original thread and it is SOOO BAD
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
velvette.bsky.social
oh wait the new bwm f 450 gs is essential in the same line as my 650 gs dakar but like not 20 years old and not with a monocylinder engine?
That's kinda nice
I get why they put a 19" front wheel but I really like the 21" when I don't go at highway speed ^^
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
velvette.bsky.social
"its just because I hate her so much that I start to feel concerned about her"

fictional lesbians smh
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
velvette.bsky.social
Today we're cracking up some old hard drives I unearthed from some boxes and hum... who want to see the random stuff I made in Spore in the early 2010s? ^^
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ashlet.bsky.social
All Italians are boys and all French are girls.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
velvette.bsky.social
I'm about to start depression posting again so I'm juste gonna go try to cry myself to sleep this time around
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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synapsid.bsky.social
"It is easier for a trans woman to imagine herself a frankensteined agglomeration of machinery and flesh that a corporation has invested too much money in as equipment to let die, than to imagine another human showing her kindness and care for her wellbeing."
April 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
velvette.bsky.social
I'm on track to do a 3rd week in a row of absolutely nothing done and it feels fucking horrible and depressing
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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conjured.ink
We're excited to announce we're opening applications for our Product/UX team, the Alchemist Circle! If you're excited about becoming a core influence on a FOSS project working to reshape what it means to sell as an indie creative in our world, apply here!👉
Alchemist Circle Application (UX/Product)
Conjured Ink is seeking out Product and UX volunteers to be a part of our Alchemist's Circle. We’re looking for creative people who want to make a difference in online art communities and fight censorship through open-source software. Professional experience isn’t needed, but a willingness to learn and grow with the organization is.
forms.gle
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
velvette.bsky.social
it is funny and really sad that the most pleasure I'm about to get right now is when I'm 5 minutes into holding my urine and it's not even a piss kink, it's my muscles pressing on the right parts inside the right way --'

brought to you by me slightly moaning right now
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to get to share with y'all the first look at the cover for Estro Junkies, the forthcoming spring 2026 novelization of @taliabhatt.itch.io and @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social's blockbuster serial Ranked Competitive Breast Growth! ✨💉

I've been waiting for the novel version 👀
Estro Junkies Grow the Biggest Rack Win at transition no girls allowed Book One by Talia Bhatt and Beth Leigh-Ann
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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velvette.bsky.social
Just read "Vengeance" by Aji (same author as On a Leash, not read yet but moved higher in my list) and I'm still half sobbing about it.
It's doomed but you know that from the start, nobody's tricking you, if you go in there after the 1st half of the 1st chapter you don't get to complain.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
velvette.bsky.social
I get that it's the most error proof way for most basic users but having a registrar's DNS only allow you to CNAME or MX to a FQDN (and have the website add the end dot itself, you can't do it) and not allow to CNAME/MX to another of your CNAME or A/AAAA record is annoying as fuck lmao
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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liquidsophie.bsky.social
*sweating* I'm normal about the leather nun I'm normal about the leather nun I swear
Undertaker from Elden Ring
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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anarchygoose.bsky.social
Sometimes I think about the fact that the best artistic work is produced when the artist has everything they need to live comfortably.

Then I think about the fact no trans woman I know has that, and we're still out here producing the best and most creative stuff going.

Trans women are so powerful.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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chlowski.bsky.social
roller quad gal (2024)
study of a pic, black, white & grayscale sketch of a woman with roller quad, sitting on the ground, hands between her extended legs long dark hair, denim overalls, a shirt underneath, star-shaped earrings and pentagram choker necklace
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
At some point we have to confront that we're not trying to educate an ignorant population about the struggles of queer life and epistemic injustice.

They KNOW, and they want to keep it that way, if not make it worse. We are an affront to their pathetic, rotten societies.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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inplacesdeep.bsky.social
Top? Bottom? I'm whatever the girl on the right is.
Two women in antique dresses on some kind of sofa that shares a patterned background with the wallpaper. One is down at the other one's knees, looking up at her her longingly while the other looks down and is holding a wine glass.
April 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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skeet.best
BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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thorn.d-7th.com
The surgery is almost definitely getting delayed at this point; Payment is still due in two weeks.

A lot of other things are not going well right now and everything is severely unstable so I may go back offline from this end for a while
thorn.d-7th.com Thorn Delarosa-Hawthorne @thorn.d-7th.com · 22d
My car was declared a total loss and my top surgery date is in less than 2 months, so I'm just going to put this here again because if I explain the situation any further again I'm honestly going to have another mental breakdown

ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=33
Support D-7th | Thorn Delarosa-Hawthorne
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November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM