V. Murr
@vmurr.bsky.social
I'm a mom, a book fanatic, life-long martial artist, and a Dragon Age dev fan (all the way back to when some of them were making BG1). I've also spent far too much time as a social media researcher. (She/Her)
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[1900 Fanart Giveaway Prize]
It's been a while, but here's our boi: Manfred Volkarin!💀💚
The Mourn Watch's favourite apprentice~📗✨
Thank you again, we reached 2K now, I need to organise the Art Raffle soon! <3
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#Manfred #DATV #DragonAge #LousticArt
It's been a while, but here's our boi: Manfred Volkarin!💀💚
The Mourn Watch's favourite apprentice~📗✨
Thank you again, we reached 2K now, I need to organise the Art Raffle soon! <3
Timelapse⤵
#Manfred #DATV #DragonAge #LousticArt
December 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
[1900 Fanart Giveaway Prize]
It's been a while, but here's our boi: Manfred Volkarin!💀💚
The Mourn Watch's favourite apprentice~📗✨
Thank you again, we reached 2K now, I need to organise the Art Raffle soon! <3
Timelapse⤵
#Manfred #DATV #DragonAge #LousticArt
It's been a while, but here's our boi: Manfred Volkarin!💀💚
The Mourn Watch's favourite apprentice~📗✨
Thank you again, we reached 2K now, I need to organise the Art Raffle soon! <3
Timelapse⤵
#Manfred #DATV #DragonAge #LousticArt
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When I see people tweeting about how they tried to like Bluesky and just couldn’t (which is pretty frequent these days) I assume that’s the crushing weight of guilt for propping up a violently misogynistic, white supremacist platform speaking
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
When I see people tweeting about how they tried to like Bluesky and just couldn’t (which is pretty frequent these days) I assume that’s the crushing weight of guilt for propping up a violently misogynistic, white supremacist platform speaking
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Hey yall, I'd like a little help workshopping some stream title cards puns!
I want to make more screens like this one I made with my Hawke an eon ago, but with my other DA pc's! But im bad with puns. Id need a screen for:
-Stream Ending
-Stream BRB
-Game Crash
A little about the pc's (1/2)
I want to make more screens like this one I made with my Hawke an eon ago, but with my other DA pc's! But im bad with puns. Id need a screen for:
-Stream Ending
-Stream BRB
-Game Crash
A little about the pc's (1/2)
December 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Hey yall, I'd like a little help workshopping some stream title cards puns!
I want to make more screens like this one I made with my Hawke an eon ago, but with my other DA pc's! But im bad with puns. Id need a screen for:
-Stream Ending
-Stream BRB
-Game Crash
A little about the pc's (1/2)
I want to make more screens like this one I made with my Hawke an eon ago, but with my other DA pc's! But im bad with puns. Id need a screen for:
-Stream Ending
-Stream BRB
-Game Crash
A little about the pc's (1/2)
This is unconscionable. Geezus.
“Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a smartwatch-based alert system that signals parents at the earliest signs of a tantrum in children with emotional and behavioral disorders — prompting them to intervene before it intensifies.” www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2...
Mayo Clinic smartwatch system helps parents defuse tantrums early
In this system, a smartwatch worn by the child detects physiological stress signals.
www.detroitnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is unconscionable. Geezus.
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There’s a big reason (besides ethics and marketing) that doubling down on generative AI is a bad idea.
By using Gen AI they drive up demand for the PC components used in data centres.
Same components both PC and Console gamers pay for to play games during a cost of living crisis.
By using Gen AI they drive up demand for the PC components used in data centres.
Same components both PC and Console gamers pay for to play games during a cost of living crisis.
December 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
There’s a big reason (besides ethics and marketing) that doubling down on generative AI is a bad idea.
By using Gen AI they drive up demand for the PC components used in data centres.
Same components both PC and Console gamers pay for to play games during a cost of living crisis.
By using Gen AI they drive up demand for the PC components used in data centres.
Same components both PC and Console gamers pay for to play games during a cost of living crisis.
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My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
Every word of this.
They really could stop printing “sex with underage girls.” Adults don’t have sex with minors because they can’t consent, they can only rape them.
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Every word of this.
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Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
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“The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.”
UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.”
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It's been AGES but I finally made an english version lmao
Veil Jumper!Rook can have their little chaotic moment in the Artifact Vault of Arlathan Forest and I always love when NPCs have dialogues like these 🤭💕
#CalicoAldwir #DragonAge #DATV #LousticArt
Veil Jumper!Rook can have their little chaotic moment in the Artifact Vault of Arlathan Forest and I always love when NPCs have dialogues like these 🤭💕
#CalicoAldwir #DragonAge #DATV #LousticArt
December 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's been AGES but I finally made an english version lmao
Veil Jumper!Rook can have their little chaotic moment in the Artifact Vault of Arlathan Forest and I always love when NPCs have dialogues like these 🤭💕
#CalicoAldwir #DragonAge #DATV #LousticArt
Veil Jumper!Rook can have their little chaotic moment in the Artifact Vault of Arlathan Forest and I always love when NPCs have dialogues like these 🤭💕
#CalicoAldwir #DragonAge #DATV #LousticArt
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I wish everyone who shared the result of some supposed study on social media also shared a link to their source.
December 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I wish everyone who shared the result of some supposed study on social media also shared a link to their source.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I guess it’s time for are facists that bad? What if they smile, or put on a sweater, or exercise self control by not saying racial and ethnic slurs for sixty whole seconds?
December 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I guess it’s time for are facists that bad? What if they smile, or put on a sweater, or exercise self control by not saying racial and ethnic slurs for sixty whole seconds?
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
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I'm not usually an optimist, but I decided to end the year on a positive note.
The latest from my newsletter:
The latest from my newsletter:
We might just survive this catastrophe
As Trump's first year comes to a close, it's looking like American democracy might survive his second term.
madness.ghost.io
December 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm not usually an optimist, but I decided to end the year on a positive note.
The latest from my newsletter:
The latest from my newsletter:
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Some bookmarks I made for Xmas ✨
🖌️Gouache paint
🖌️Gouache paint
December 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Some bookmarks I made for Xmas ✨
🖌️Gouache paint
🖌️Gouache paint
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I love being able to see what I've drawn this year. I love art vs artist 🥰❤️
#ArtvsArtist2025 #ArtvsArtist
#ArtvsArtist2025 #ArtvsArtist
December 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I love being able to see what I've drawn this year. I love art vs artist 🥰❤️
#ArtvsArtist2025 #ArtvsArtist
#ArtvsArtist2025 #ArtvsArtist
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“Companions without internal lives of their own — ‘happy slaves’ — and friendship without friction cannot address solipsism, only flatter us into believing our self-absorption is something else.”
Why your AI companion is not your friend
First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’
www.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Companions without internal lives of their own — ‘happy slaves’ — and friendship without friction cannot address solipsism, only flatter us into believing our self-absorption is something else.”
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look what Vice's brunchlord leadershp did to our baby
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
look what Vice's brunchlord leadershp did to our baby
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Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
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December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Got my teen the Mighty Nein addition of Clue for x-mas. It's done so well!
They even added a bit of a D&D twist to the classical game set-up.
We played it on x-mas day and she's requested that we replay it every Sunday going forward ... 😂🤘
They even added a bit of a D&D twist to the classical game set-up.
We played it on x-mas day and she's requested that we replay it every Sunday going forward ... 😂🤘
December 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Got my teen the Mighty Nein addition of Clue for x-mas. It's done so well!
They even added a bit of a D&D twist to the classical game set-up.
We played it on x-mas day and she's requested that we replay it every Sunday going forward ... 😂🤘
They even added a bit of a D&D twist to the classical game set-up.
We played it on x-mas day and she's requested that we replay it every Sunday going forward ... 😂🤘
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damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone