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Maru 🥊🚬

@marureviere.bsky.social

jp users learning about 'fujoshing out' for the first time probably made my whole week...peak cultural exchange 😭

July 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM

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novah ✩

@puffernovah.bsky.social

CATMAN1!! ^-^

so excited for rats smp today omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg

#ratssmp #apokuna #mcyt #minecraft #powcreations #fanart

October 19, 2024 at 10:55 AM

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Kenny Lauderdale

@kennylauderdale.bsky.social

June 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM

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Cable Contributes to Life

@cctl.me

since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it...

i now unveil to you my greatest invention:
color bars pride flag

An LGBTQ+ pride flag formatted in the layout of the SMPTE "color bars" test pattern used for broadcast television. The first set of columns use the colors of the gay pride flag, with the addition of the original SMPTE color on the final column. The second set of columns contains two pride flags - the pansexual flag horizontally, and the asexual flag flipped and horizontal. The final set of columns contains the three colors of the transgender flag and the two POC-inclusive colors, followed by the original bar gradient from the SMPTE ECR-1-1978 pattern.

June 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Kelly

@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

Do not take legal advice from chatGPT.

Do not take medical advice from chatGPT.

Do not take financial advice from chatGPT.

In fact, stop using chatGPT. It’s destroying the environment, giving people terrible advice and lining tech bro pockets.

Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Jun 30

I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them.

They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

June 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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Max (Comms Open)

@digitalvessel.bsky.social

We may have been just a smidge late, but congrats Gem for two million subs!!! It was so much fun putting this together so thank you so so much to everyone who contributed!! #Geminitayfanart #Minecraft #Hermitcraft

A fanart collaboration to celebrate Geminitay reaching 2 million subscribers on youtube. 19 artists participated, each drawing one full body piece of Gem from various series across her youtube career, including one background artist who drew a beach scene from Gem's current Hermitcraft base. The text in the sky, made to look like it was written by a plane, reads "Congragulations" and the text on the sand, made to look like giant sandcastles, reads "2 Million".

July 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Milla✨

@millastaria.bsky.social

my contribution to this 2M subs gem collab!!

#geminitayfanart #hermitcraftfanart #art #hermitsky

July 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Mother

@astraenby.bsky.social

I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT A RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AND A PRODUCT WONT KILL ME. I WANT MORE REGULATION. I DONT WANT CORPORATIONS TO BREATHE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.

March 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM

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Julia Carrie Wong

@joolia.bsky.social

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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Alex Graudins

@toonyballoony.bsky.social

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

June 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do.

So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · Jun 12

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

June 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM

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Milla✨

@millastaria.bsky.social

today's mini fella is gem with a swordfish! 🐟✨

#geminitayfanart #hermitcraftfanart #minifellas #art #hermitsky

June 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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Andy Khouri

@andykhouri.bsky.social

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

June 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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mrtechnodad.bsky.social

@mrtechnodad.bsky.social

When I leave my coffee unattended, sometimes Floof finishes it for me.

My dog Floof engaged in unauthorized coffee drinking.

June 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen

@aussiastronomer.bsky.social

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.