Manticore
@manticorefalco.bsky.social
She/her, but grew up with pockets. 🏳️⚧️
#GameDev on Classic WoW - Senior Quality Analyst (Blizzard Entertainment)
Personal Account - Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employers. I also don't talk about my work here.
Married to @lavayote.bsky.social
#GameDev on Classic WoW - Senior Quality Analyst (Blizzard Entertainment)
Personal Account - Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employers. I also don't talk about my work here.
Married to @lavayote.bsky.social
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This would absolutely be a lifesaver. I'm going to be going on intermittent medical leave for a surgery recovery soon, and this will help immensely. Plus, my spouse has had poor luck finding work. gofund.me/c64920ea5
Give money to a proven worker, not a senator!
Give money to a proven worker, not a senator!
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
My god this game is pretty. #guildwars2
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
My god this game is pretty. #guildwars2
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people deserve to live. unless it's medically a lost cause, people deserve to live. really not sure how much more simple you can get.
people deserve to live.
people deserve to live.
Going to repeat this every time I see the GOP "plan":
I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment.
So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment.
So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
people deserve to live. unless it's medically a lost cause, people deserve to live. really not sure how much more simple you can get.
people deserve to live.
people deserve to live.
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Going to repeat this every time I see the GOP "plan":
I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment.
So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment.
So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Going to repeat this every time I see the GOP "plan":
I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment.
So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
I have kidney failure. I require dialysis to live. Three times a week every single week. It costs $1000 per treatment.
So either they need to give me a MINIMUM of $156,000 a year...or I'm going to die.
Reciprocal Block idiots always make me laugh.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Reciprocal Block idiots always make me laugh.
This would absolutely be a lifesaver. I'm going to be going on intermittent medical leave for a surgery recovery soon, and this will help immensely. Plus, my spouse has had poor luck finding work. gofund.me/c64920ea5
Give money to a proven worker, not a senator!
Give money to a proven worker, not a senator!
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This would absolutely be a lifesaver. I'm going to be going on intermittent medical leave for a surgery recovery soon, and this will help immensely. Plus, my spouse has had poor luck finding work. gofund.me/c64920ea5
Give money to a proven worker, not a senator!
Give money to a proven worker, not a senator!
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For real, while we are at it...hey I had to borrow $500 off my next check to pay for other bills and groceries after someone helped me pay rent earlier. So instead of donating to a senator, rep, or political party...
gofund.me/d8bb77875
gofund.me/d8bb77875
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For real, while we are at it...hey I had to borrow $500 off my next check to pay for other bills and groceries after someone helped me pay rent earlier. So instead of donating to a senator, rep, or political party...
gofund.me/d8bb77875
gofund.me/d8bb77875
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from LM Kate Johnson
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
from LM Kate Johnson
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portrait commission
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
portrait commission
Dammit, I'm thinking about this setting again.
Heh, I had a lot of fun coming up with a scifi setting once where it was justified. IIRC, the idea was that FTL was based on artificial wormholes, but the generator had to be bigger than the object going through the wormhole.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Dammit, I'm thinking about this setting again.
If I leave a feedback score of 0 for a process, calling me TWICE about it is just going to make me wish that I could make it even LOWER.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If I leave a feedback score of 0 for a process, calling me TWICE about it is just going to make me wish that I could make it even LOWER.
Don't follow Erin Reed; she's a doomer. I've followed Jael for a while, and here are the journalists that she recommends.
trans journalists you should follow who cover trans lives well and deserve your support:
@katelynburns.com
@sydney-bauer.com
@kissphoria.bsky.social
@oriion.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
cis person who covers it this in congress MUCH better than erin:
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
@katelynburns.com
@sydney-bauer.com
@kissphoria.bsky.social
@oriion.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
cis person who covers it this in congress MUCH better than erin:
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Like who? I can tell personally that she's a poor, often alarmist, reporter but it is very difficult to convince trans people in my life of that without an alternative to point to.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Don't follow Erin Reed; she's a doomer. I've followed Jael for a while, and here are the journalists that she recommends.
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When folks write things designed to make you panic, you should take a breath and ask - is this designed to make me engage? Or is it actually trying to inform?
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
When folks write things designed to make you panic, you should take a breath and ask - is this designed to make me engage? Or is it actually trying to inform?
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
Nothing this extreme, but my peers made me MISERABLE until High School.
A lot of well meaning cis allies will still be under the impression that your average trans girl grew up just like the boys around her. I don't think many actually understand just how frequently people picked up on how we are different and considered hurting as a victimless action
www.tumblr.com/biblicallyac...
Related: I remember telling stories about my childhood to my therapist and her just staring at me through the Zoom call with a thousand yard look in her eyes and then just slowly shaking her head when I said I had a typical childhood
Related: I remember telling stories about my childhood to my therapist and her just staring at me through the Zoom call with a thousand yard look in her eyes and then just slowly shaking her head when I said I had a typical childhood
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Nothing this extreme, but my peers made me MISERABLE until High School.
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if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare
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what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember
the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it
the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury
the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms
the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it
the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury
the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember
the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it
the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury
the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms
the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it
the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury
the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms
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Someone very generous sent me money to help cover rent but I still had to borrow $500 out of my next check to help cover other bills, groceries, and gas. Would love to offset that so hopefully I don't have to borrow from the next check and then the next one.
gofund.me/d8bb77875
gofund.me/d8bb77875
Donate to Help Us Catch Up On Bills & Pay Rent, organized by Rose Willard
Me and my wife Jane moved to Irvine for my work recently and currently we have been … Rose Willard needs your support for Help Us Catch Up On Bills & Pay Rent
gofund.me
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Someone very generous sent me money to help cover rent but I still had to borrow $500 out of my next check to help cover other bills, groceries, and gas. Would love to offset that so hopefully I don't have to borrow from the next check and then the next one.
gofund.me/d8bb77875
gofund.me/d8bb77875
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Johnson hasn’t even promised to reconvene the House. They’ve been in recess since mid September.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Johnson hasn’t even promised to reconvene the House. They’ve been in recess since mid September.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Between a bonus and my earning 3 paychecks this month, we've done okay in September and October. However, that's going to dry up soon, and my spouse still hasn't had any luck finding a job. Every bit helps us keep going a bit longer!
gofund.me/79519a297
gofund.me/79519a297
Donate to Help Our Trans Family Stay Afloat, organized by Senna Motto
Greetings!
My spouse and I are two trans people living in SoCal together; I'm a … Senna Motto needs your support for Help Our Trans Family Stay Afloat
gofund.me
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Between a bonus and my earning 3 paychecks this month, we've done okay in September and October. However, that's going to dry up soon, and my spouse still hasn't had any luck finding a job. Every bit helps us keep going a bit longer!
gofund.me/79519a297
gofund.me/79519a297
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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So here's where we are, Sunday morning:
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
So here's where we are, Sunday morning:
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
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I've had this exact same thing. Her greatest flaw is her pride, but I think that you'd have a hard time convincing her of that due to her cripplingly-low self-esteem.
She is Pride. Convinced of her own rightness so she acts recklessly. Just like her dad.
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've had this exact same thing. Her greatest flaw is her pride, but I think that you'd have a hard time convincing her of that due to her cripplingly-low self-esteem.