Forge27
@forge27.bsky.social
Account for Forge/Metaldragon27. https://forge27.carrd.co
34 he/him
I am an artist, a writer, an enjoyer of history, forteana, and witchcraft. I adore watching humanity's creativity in all its forms.
Artists, Sex Workers, and academics are supported here.
34 he/him
I am an artist, a writer, an enjoyer of history, forteana, and witchcraft. I adore watching humanity's creativity in all its forms.
Artists, Sex Workers, and academics are supported here.
@kaevywaevy.bsky.social
Young man, the fact your followed me without taking 5sec to look into me tells a lot. I don't know where you skimmed my name from, but everyone i converse and interact with is 18+. So as a minor I heavily suggest not trying to skim off 18+ communities, and demand refollows.
Young man, the fact your followed me without taking 5sec to look into me tells a lot. I don't know where you skimmed my name from, but everyone i converse and interact with is 18+. So as a minor I heavily suggest not trying to skim off 18+ communities, and demand refollows.
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@kaevywaevy.bsky.social
Young man, the fact your followed me without taking 5sec to look into me tells a lot. I don't know where you skimmed my name from, but everyone i converse and interact with is 18+. So as a minor I heavily suggest not trying to skim off 18+ communities, and demand refollows.
Young man, the fact your followed me without taking 5sec to look into me tells a lot. I don't know where you skimmed my name from, but everyone i converse and interact with is 18+. So as a minor I heavily suggest not trying to skim off 18+ communities, and demand refollows.
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Rebuilding the indie animation community here on Bluesky. Please share and also comment for anyone that is an indie creator or team that’d like to be added here and we’re happy to follow and support as well ☺️
go.bsky.app/Hf6oVAY
go.bsky.app/Hf6oVAY
October 18, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Rebuilding the indie animation community here on Bluesky. Please share and also comment for anyone that is an indie creator or team that’d like to be added here and we’re happy to follow and support as well ☺️
go.bsky.app/Hf6oVAY
go.bsky.app/Hf6oVAY
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“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.”
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.”
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
We all knew this for years. It's practically common knowledge. I personally wondered how long it'd be around because of this.
The fantasy they run on it so paper thin it's transperant.
The fantasy they run on it so paper thin it's transperant.
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We all knew this for years. It's practically common knowledge. I personally wondered how long it'd be around because of this.
The fantasy they run on it so paper thin it's transperant.
The fantasy they run on it so paper thin it's transperant.
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
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when it comes to sussing out folks trying to pass of AI art as their own, nothing ever beats the tried and tested metric of "are they sharing/even fucking talking to anyone else in the community?".
if the answer is no, then odds are theyre AI
if the answer is no, then odds are theyre AI
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
when it comes to sussing out folks trying to pass of AI art as their own, nothing ever beats the tried and tested metric of "are they sharing/even fucking talking to anyone else in the community?".
if the answer is no, then odds are theyre AI
if the answer is no, then odds are theyre AI
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"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens”
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens”
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
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Friendly reminder that the beautiful Bluesky API allows for so many cool integrations with @streamer.bot ❤️
Automating posts when you go live?
Change your profile picture while live and revert it back once you go offline?
Automatically post new clips into your feed?
tawmae.xyz/utility/blue...
Automating posts when you go live?
Change your profile picture while live and revert it back once you go offline?
Automatically post new clips into your feed?
tawmae.xyz/utility/blue...
BLUEKSY & SB | tawmae
A Bluesky integration for Streamer.bot. Create posts, update your profile, announce that you went live on Twitch and more.
tawmae.xyz
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Friendly reminder that the beautiful Bluesky API allows for so many cool integrations with @streamer.bot ❤️
Automating posts when you go live?
Change your profile picture while live and revert it back once you go offline?
Automatically post new clips into your feed?
tawmae.xyz/utility/blue...
Automating posts when you go live?
Change your profile picture while live and revert it back once you go offline?
Automatically post new clips into your feed?
tawmae.xyz/utility/blue...
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#Dispatch devs have no interest in using AI for game development 🎮
"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"
"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"
(via GIBiz)
"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"
"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"
(via GIBiz)
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#Dispatch devs have no interest in using AI for game development 🎮
"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"
"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"
(via GIBiz)
"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"
"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"
(via GIBiz)
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Despite everything, it's still you. ❤️
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Despite everything, it's still you. ❤️
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I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED WENDY CARLOS’ BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY
Happy 86th queen thank you for enabling and inspiring my favorite genres of music and continuing to be a living icon and inspiration for trans folks everywhere
Happy 86th queen thank you for enabling and inspiring my favorite genres of music and continuing to be a living icon and inspiration for trans folks everywhere
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED WENDY CARLOS’ BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY
Happy 86th queen thank you for enabling and inspiring my favorite genres of music and continuing to be a living icon and inspiration for trans folks everywhere
Happy 86th queen thank you for enabling and inspiring my favorite genres of music and continuing to be a living icon and inspiration for trans folks everywhere
Here's your real red flag. Concentration camps. That's what they're looking for.
The last time there were over 1000 camps, this is how you make that happen.
The last time there were over 1000 camps, this is how you make that happen.
Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Here's your real red flag. Concentration camps. That's what they're looking for.
The last time there were over 1000 camps, this is how you make that happen.
The last time there were over 1000 camps, this is how you make that happen.
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Can't find a single thing wrong with this...
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Can't find a single thing wrong with this...
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It’s definitely a head empty day for me
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It’s definitely a head empty day for me
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Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
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If there is anything positive about this debacle, it's the massive wave of devs who have come out in response to this to say "actually we use human artists and always will".
You love to see it.
You love to see it.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If there is anything positive about this debacle, it's the massive wave of devs who have come out in response to this to say "actually we use human artists and always will".
You love to see it.
You love to see it.
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German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
I think the most depressing part of today is the Arthur M Anderson is laid up in Toledo(GPS also says San Francisco for some erroneous reason) and won't be sailing on the 50th anniversary. Thus she won't be giving her traditional salute to the Fitz.
youtu.be/ZDA8nF02Xy0?...
youtu.be/ZDA8nF02Xy0?...
Arthur M Anderson Master Salute to the Edmund Fitzgerald 11/10/2020
YouTube video by Duluth Harbor Cam
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think the most depressing part of today is the Arthur M Anderson is laid up in Toledo(GPS also says San Francisco for some erroneous reason) and won't be sailing on the 50th anniversary. Thus she won't be giving her traditional salute to the Fitz.
youtu.be/ZDA8nF02Xy0?...
youtu.be/ZDA8nF02Xy0?...
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Cyndi Lauper at her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nov 8, 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Cyndi Lauper at her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nov 8, 2025.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
82 years, and this short film is still on the nose. It's all the same talking points you hear on the news today. Fighting these people is really as easy as seeing them as unoriginal losers, and cowards. Be firm, don't back down, stand together against them.
www.youtube.com/shorts/9qivX...
www.youtube.com/shorts/9qivX...
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
82 years, and this short film is still on the nose. It's all the same talking points you hear on the news today. Fighting these people is really as easy as seeing them as unoriginal losers, and cowards. Be firm, don't back down, stand together against them.
www.youtube.com/shorts/9qivX...
www.youtube.com/shorts/9qivX...
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THANKS FOR LIKING MY SILLY SONG!!! 100K is wild!!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
THANKS FOR LIKING MY SILLY SONG!!! 100K is wild!!
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life