Brian Upton
@ystros.bsky.social
Does not belong to the living, but the dead do not forgive.
FFXIV: Yralla Reyn @ Zalera
FFXIV: Yralla Reyn @ Zalera
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I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it.
The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public
The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public
January 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it.
The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public
The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public
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Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
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"Don't take the bait" is the kind of advice people for whom the danger is theoretical tell people for whom the danger is real.
Also often accompanied by demands for civil, calm discourse and chiding/ignoring anyone who expresses any of the many emotions that come with being in harm's way.
Also often accompanied by demands for civil, calm discourse and chiding/ignoring anyone who expresses any of the many emotions that come with being in harm's way.
wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 AM
"Don't take the bait" is the kind of advice people for whom the danger is theoretical tell people for whom the danger is real.
Also often accompanied by demands for civil, calm discourse and chiding/ignoring anyone who expresses any of the many emotions that come with being in harm's way.
Also often accompanied by demands for civil, calm discourse and chiding/ignoring anyone who expresses any of the many emotions that come with being in harm's way.
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Another gem from the strategy boards
January 15, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Another gem from the strategy boards
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January 14, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?
ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?
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i saw everyone dressing their wols and i wanted in too
January 13, 2026 at 9:18 PM
i saw everyone dressing their wols and i wanted in too
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What if non consensual sexual imagery and leaking of sexual images without consent was illegal and we framed laws on consent not on the apparatus used to violate consent
January 13, 2026 at 1:18 AM
What if non consensual sexual imagery and leaking of sexual images without consent was illegal and we framed laws on consent not on the apparatus used to violate consent
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She shakes you awake at 4AM. "Hurry," whispering, pulling you against her chest, "it only happens once every two centuries," and groggy, you listen to her heartbeat, a single thump, for the first and last time
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
She shakes you awake at 4AM. "Hurry," whispering, pulling you against her chest, "it only happens once every two centuries," and groggy, you listen to her heartbeat, a single thump, for the first and last time
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an old one
(Sapphic Pulp, 2023)
(Sapphic Pulp, 2023)
January 12, 2026 at 2:48 PM
an old one
(Sapphic Pulp, 2023)
(Sapphic Pulp, 2023)
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[Shadowbringers]
"Why you? Why not you? Had I chosen another, we would never have made it this far. Or do I mistake your meaning...?"
#GPOSERS #Hyur #midlander #gpose
#Graha #GrahaTia #CrystalExarch
"Why you? Why not you? Had I chosen another, we would never have made it this far. Or do I mistake your meaning...?"
#GPOSERS #Hyur #midlander #gpose
#Graha #GrahaTia #CrystalExarch
January 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
[Shadowbringers]
"Why you? Why not you? Had I chosen another, we would never have made it this far. Or do I mistake your meaning...?"
#GPOSERS #Hyur #midlander #gpose
#Graha #GrahaTia #CrystalExarch
"Why you? Why not you? Had I chosen another, we would never have made it this far. Or do I mistake your meaning...?"
#GPOSERS #Hyur #midlander #gpose
#Graha #GrahaTia #CrystalExarch
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I'm convinced like 90% of "straight men" who are really into yuri are just repressed trans girls
Guys: if you find lesbian romance stories *really* relatable for some reason, you can just be a girl! It's okay! I discovered yuri 10 years ago & look at me now💁♀️
Himedanshi to himejoshi pipeline is real
Guys: if you find lesbian romance stories *really* relatable for some reason, you can just be a girl! It's okay! I discovered yuri 10 years ago & look at me now💁♀️
Himedanshi to himejoshi pipeline is real
![Reddit comments like "Probably most of us lol, being a men[sic] suck." "Agreed it's awful" "for realz 2/10 wouldn't recommend" "higher score than I'd give it"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kmz7vydcqlu3py2swcrebvza/bafkreib5caggfl4kk3f5vq5yxetgkf2csngze4qzjqraxnvys5tuvrkwwa@jpeg)
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I'm convinced like 90% of "straight men" who are really into yuri are just repressed trans girls
Guys: if you find lesbian romance stories *really* relatable for some reason, you can just be a girl! It's okay! I discovered yuri 10 years ago & look at me now💁♀️
Himedanshi to himejoshi pipeline is real
Guys: if you find lesbian romance stories *really* relatable for some reason, you can just be a girl! It's okay! I discovered yuri 10 years ago & look at me now💁♀️
Himedanshi to himejoshi pipeline is real
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I think its fucking crazy that Grok is actively generating deepfakes and csam as we speak but if I want to commission a nsfw painting of two fictional characters and pay it through paypal I could get myself and the artist banned from the site. Like honestly, fuck all of this.
January 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I think its fucking crazy that Grok is actively generating deepfakes and csam as we speak but if I want to commission a nsfw painting of two fictional characters and pay it through paypal I could get myself and the artist banned from the site. Like honestly, fuck all of this.
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Just cute Tifa :3
January 12, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Just cute Tifa :3
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This reminds me of the time I gave a homeless man outside the local craft brewery a fiver and another customer inside told me "You shouldn't have done that; he's just gonna spend it on alcohol" and I responded "My dude, this is the brewery. We are all here to spend our money on alcohol."
Real convo I've heard:
NYC finance bro: SF sucks. Human 💩 on the street? Get it together.
SF tech bro: But if we add public restrooms, people will do drugs in the bathrooms.
NYC finance bro: Dude *I* do drugs in the restroom! I've done drugs *with you* in the restroom! What are you talking about?
NYC finance bro: SF sucks. Human 💩 on the street? Get it together.
SF tech bro: But if we add public restrooms, people will do drugs in the bathrooms.
NYC finance bro: Dude *I* do drugs in the restroom! I've done drugs *with you* in the restroom! What are you talking about?
January 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This reminds me of the time I gave a homeless man outside the local craft brewery a fiver and another customer inside told me "You shouldn't have done that; he's just gonna spend it on alcohol" and I responded "My dude, this is the brewery. We are all here to spend our money on alcohol."
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Male to New Yorker / Male to Marisa Tomei
January 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Male to New Yorker / Male to Marisa Tomei
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Theodor Adorno wrote that "A wrong life cannot be lived rightly."
Trans people need to understand that we are "wrong lives". Our actions will never improve our standing with most Americans. But for the fact that I am trans, I would be regarded as having lived an exemplary life. Instead, I'm exiled.
Trans people need to understand that we are "wrong lives". Our actions will never improve our standing with most Americans. But for the fact that I am trans, I would be regarded as having lived an exemplary life. Instead, I'm exiled.
January 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Theodor Adorno wrote that "A wrong life cannot be lived rightly."
Trans people need to understand that we are "wrong lives". Our actions will never improve our standing with most Americans. But for the fact that I am trans, I would be regarded as having lived an exemplary life. Instead, I'm exiled.
Trans people need to understand that we are "wrong lives". Our actions will never improve our standing with most Americans. But for the fact that I am trans, I would be regarded as having lived an exemplary life. Instead, I'm exiled.
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one of the worst accounts on twitter and now on here is askaubry and i will go to my deathbed saying so. nobody should follow a person who puts their OWN watermark on someone else's sexual assault story
HDHFFHDJXJXBXB I found it bc of my own comment calling her out lmao
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
one of the worst accounts on twitter and now on here is askaubry and i will go to my deathbed saying so. nobody should follow a person who puts their OWN watermark on someone else's sexual assault story
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Damn, sure is a good thing we've all agreed to not examine and critique the pop culture we consume in light of the world we live in. Excellent decision, really saves us a lot of discomfort.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Damn, sure is a good thing we've all agreed to not examine and critique the pop culture we consume in light of the world we live in. Excellent decision, really saves us a lot of discomfort.
