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She/Her. Mid-30s. PNW. Bi. 🎨Minipainter 🧵Stitcher ✨DIYer 🎭Tabletop Gamemaster 🖱⌨PC Gamer 📝Writer

Playing Solo: Horizon Forbidden West & Avowed
Playing with @zonugal.bsky.social: Baldur's Gate 3 & Blue Prince

hEDS & ADHD
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whimsysgeekery @whimsysgeekery.bsky.social · Nov 7
Let's be moots if you like any of these!
🌟 Dragon Age
🌟 Dreamfall/The Longest Journey
🌟 Realm of the Elderlings
🌟 Sims
🌟 Dreamlight Valley
🌟 Guild Wars 2
🌟 Comics (DC, X-men, Indie)
🌟 Minipainting
🌟 Stitching
🌟 Dollhouse Room Kits
🌟 TTRPGs
🌟 Writing
🌟 Board Games
🌟 Star Trek
🌟 Witcher
🌟 IWTV
🌟 Art
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saltzman.bsky.social
Hell yes my worlds collide as Adam writes about D&D and talks to @aabria.bsky.social about Elon Musk pretending he has enough friends to play a game with (gift article!)
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Time change is so hard for pets. They have their internal clocks highly-regulated. They're attuned to the rhythms and routines of the day. They know their rights. And suddenly, everything is in disarray and confusion and their people are pointing at clocks and lecturing them about arcane human rules
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ginsays.bsky.social
IT'S NOVEMBER but I'm not ready to give up the ghost just yet!! Go for it young miss!! 💚 #spookycute #ocs
a young miss sits in an arm chair tilting a book to her ghostly companion, who's pulling the "arm over back of chair not quite around shoulder" move. all the portraits hung on the wall look on in excitement of this development. go for it girls!!!
November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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diterlizzi.bsky.social
🎃Happy Halloween!🎃
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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patwahlerauthor.bsky.social
Kind of loving this free little stick library.

#booksky #books #read #library
@ollie
Image: painting of four dogs gazing up at sign with various types of sticks posted on it. Text: Stick Library - first stick is lush and leafy named "Romance" Second stick has cobwebs and spiders and is labeled "Horror". Third stick is pink and purple and labeled "Sci-Fi". Fourth stick is thick and beefy and labeled "Reference"
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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junlper.beer
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ragso.bsky.social
I can’t say I’m *thrilled* that Dustborn is selling for less than ten bucks (not our decision) but if it helps more people discover the game — and maybe cut through some of the noise and misinformation? — I’ll take it.

So yeah: buy Dustborn!! It’s cheap as hell right now, at least on GOG.
asbnbyn.bsky.social ASBNBYN (they/them) @asbnbyn.bsky.social · 27d
If anyone has like $10 amid *waves at everything* and you're looking for a game, Dustborn, which was review bombed to Hell, is on sale at gog . com

It sounds interesting

The complete version, which gives you the game And the soundtrack is $7.91 until 10/20/25

www.gog.com/en/game/dust...
Dustborn + Original Sound Track
Dustborn + Original Sound Track includes: Dustborn Dustborn - The Vision Tour Bundle Dus
www.gog.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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adactivity.bsky.social
This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 29d
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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drkristopherwells.bsky.social
Sign the new House of Commons e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people worldwide and reaffirm Canada’s role as a safe haven.

Thank you to MP Rob Oliphant for sponsoring this important petition.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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jacobgeller.com
"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI
chibdm.bsky.social Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · Oct 6
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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grimblesdgrumbles.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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tomtaylormade.bsky.social
I hate AI with a passion.
It’s a culmination of so much that is wrong with the world. A theft-machine that puts profit and product over people.
It turns out… I can hate it more.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 27
First look at the AI Stan Lee Hologram at LA Comic Con 🚮
September 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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gizmouse.bsky.social
academy award contending tiktok
September 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
If you can help, please do. Pretty monstrous stuff here. Arrested at her scheduled green card meeting after having gotten married. We are in Hell.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...
Donate to Help Barbara Fight for Her Future After ICE Detention, organized by Nikki Groton
Support Barbara’s fight to stay with her family and community!!!! … Nikki Groton needs your support for Help Barbara Fight for Her Future After ICE Detention
www.gofundme.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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cortanav.bsky.social
Seattle & King County —

A rabies-positive bat was found near Washington Park Arboretum.

Two unknown people gave the bat water before it was tested. They need to seek treatment for exposure to rabies.
Bat with rabies found in King County A rabid bat was found on a residential road near Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle. Public Health Seattle & King County Two unknown people gave water to the sick bat before it tested positive for rabies. We're trying to find them so they can seek any needed treatment for exposure to rabies. If you or someone you know had any contact with a bat near this area, seek medical care immediately or contact Public Health - Seattle & King County at 206-296-4774. Public Health Seattle & King County
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest
sisko in ds9 saying "im tired of being calm, calm never got me a damn thing"
May 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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mitsubishe.bsky.social
*deep breath*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
A llama or similar large brown fuzzy animal stands in a meadow in front of what looks like old ruins or a historic site. The llamas head is thrown back and its entire mouth open in what looks like a scream but might have been a yawn. I downloaded this picture a long time ago and no idea the context or where it came from.
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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notdred.bsky.social
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM