MaoCat
@maocat.bsky.social
• (Fan)Artist & Cosplayer🧑🏼🎨 They/Them
I speak EN, DE & some JP.
• WIPs & works: #MaoCatDraws #fanart #art #cosplay
• other interests: Animation / Manga / Games / #gardening 🌱 #flowerreport 🌸 #invertebrates 🐝 #DIY 🛠️ science/medicine 🔬
I speak EN, DE & some JP.
• WIPs & works: #MaoCatDraws #fanart #art #cosplay
• other interests: Animation / Manga / Games / #gardening 🌱 #flowerreport 🌸 #invertebrates 🐝 #DIY 🛠️ science/medicine 🔬
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
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Fashionably late, I guess.
AGE OF IMPRISONMENT Casual!
>> tghsr.stream
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-2y...
AGE OF IMPRISONMENT Casual!
>> tghsr.stream
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-2y...
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Fashionably late, I guess.
AGE OF IMPRISONMENT Casual!
>> tghsr.stream
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-2y...
AGE OF IMPRISONMENT Casual!
>> tghsr.stream
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-2y...
LRT I see it coming that I eventually get squirrel visitors, even though I’m not even sure how they would reach my balustrade… I’m afraid they will find a way 😂
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
LRT I see it coming that I eventually get squirrel visitors, even though I’m not even sure how they would reach my balustrade… I’m afraid they will find a way 😂
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The irony is that a recent poll among AltRight in Germany (AfD voters) found that they don’t even believe they can govern. It‘s more across the lines of “owning the libs”. But what they do with these signals is that they radicalize more moderate-right voters and shoo the entire rest into not-voting.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The irony is that a recent poll among AltRight in Germany (AfD voters) found that they don’t even believe they can govern. It‘s more across the lines of “owning the libs”. But what they do with these signals is that they radicalize more moderate-right voters and shoo the entire rest into not-voting.
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We still have a handful of these shirts left 👀
Squidfacts.net
Squidfacts.net
Good morning, especially to @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, and thank you for creating these shirts! I got mine in the mail yesterday.
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We still have a handful of these shirts left 👀
Squidfacts.net
Squidfacts.net
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Of course they did. Of course.
Krafton CEO allegedly asked AI to "brainstorm ways to avoid paying" earnout bonus to Subnautica 2 devs www.eurogamer.net/krafton-ceo-...
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Of course they did. Of course.
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Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.
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...they didn’t start talking to their parents about it or advocating for themselves... until they were a legal adult. “I was just focused on survival, self-protection. It was only once I felt more secure in those things that I could try to change people’s minds, including my parents.”
I can relate.
I can relate.
The bans should be the other way round and everyone should know that. Once again pure bigotry to create “exceptions“ to allow something so horrible but also take away any other options if a kid was assigned the wrong gender and is old enough to express it.
It‘s really about cruelty only.
It‘s really about cruelty only.
The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember. When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that took away their fertility and ability to produce their own hormones; they also describe it emphatically as intersex genital mutilation.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
...they didn’t start talking to their parents about it or advocating for themselves... until they were a legal adult. “I was just focused on survival, self-protection. It was only once I felt more secure in those things that I could try to change people’s minds, including my parents.”
I can relate.
I can relate.
Holy moly I can tolerate when Germans write chicorée as Schikoree, but if you tell me there’s the officially allowed spelling "Bordo Wein" I’m gonna side with the French LMAO
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Holy moly I can tolerate when Germans write chicorée as Schikoree, but if you tell me there’s the officially allowed spelling "Bordo Wein" I’m gonna side with the French LMAO
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unfortunately this is the sickest shit i’ve ever seen in my life
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
unfortunately this is the sickest shit i’ve ever seen in my life
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Literally every scientist ever: People will either stop voting because they have no options left they can tolerate, or go and vote for the real thing and not the slightly-less-extreme version
Every country‘s political establishment: But what if we all turn right anyway, surely % line will go up?
Every country‘s political establishment: But what if we all turn right anyway, surely % line will go up?
“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.”
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
Well..
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Literally every scientist ever: People will either stop voting because they have no options left they can tolerate, or go and vote for the real thing and not the slightly-less-extreme version
Every country‘s political establishment: But what if we all turn right anyway, surely % line will go up?
Every country‘s political establishment: But what if we all turn right anyway, surely % line will go up?
I need that DJ to put between me and the people at conventions who try to approach me with this “haha misgendering cosplayers with this joke I know is so funny*” vibe.
*it is absolutely not and I will neither be your posterguy for that, nor for the horribly old joke, so fuck off & take no pictures
*it is absolutely not and I will neither be your posterguy for that, nor for the horribly old joke, so fuck off & take no pictures
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I need that DJ to put between me and the people at conventions who try to approach me with this “haha misgendering cosplayers with this joke I know is so funny*” vibe.
*it is absolutely not and I will neither be your posterguy for that, nor for the horribly old joke, so fuck off & take no pictures
*it is absolutely not and I will neither be your posterguy for that, nor for the horribly old joke, so fuck off & take no pictures
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My contribution to #DTPYSNOV25 and @theposearchives.bsky.social
nice little Hinako from #SilentHillF
nice little Hinako from #SilentHillF
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
My contribution to #DTPYSNOV25 and @theposearchives.bsky.social
nice little Hinako from #SilentHillF
nice little Hinako from #SilentHillF
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New poses!✏️ Star gazing
Sitting/couple/duo/chair
Sitting/couple/duo/chair
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
New poses!✏️ Star gazing
Sitting/couple/duo/chair
Sitting/couple/duo/chair
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1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
October 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
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For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond.
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond.
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
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Mosslax is coated in moss and has a flower blooming atop their head. Perhaps Mosslax was asleep for a really long time…
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Mosslax is coated in moss and has a flower blooming atop their head. Perhaps Mosslax was asleep for a really long time…
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This is bullshit.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is bullshit.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
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The bans should be the other way round and everyone should know that. Once again pure bigotry to create “exceptions“ to allow something so horrible but also take away any other options if a kid was assigned the wrong gender and is old enough to express it.
It‘s really about cruelty only.
It‘s really about cruelty only.
The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember. When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that took away their fertility and ability to produce their own hormones; they also describe it emphatically as intersex genital mutilation.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...
Advocates decry intersex exceptions in trans health bans
Restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors consistently allow exceptions for minors with intersex traits, a new study finds.
www.statnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The bans should be the other way round and everyone should know that. Once again pure bigotry to create “exceptions“ to allow something so horrible but also take away any other options if a kid was assigned the wrong gender and is old enough to express it.
It‘s really about cruelty only.
It‘s really about cruelty only.
Idk maybe I’ve seen too many cool cosplays in my life, but the TLoZ movie leak doesn’t impress me much.
Queue into the list of movie-fied games that probably won’t be worth it in my opinion. Things don’t always have to just look impressive but newer movies often don’t excel at anything else, either
Queue into the list of movie-fied games that probably won’t be worth it in my opinion. Things don’t always have to just look impressive but newer movies often don’t excel at anything else, either
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Idk maybe I’ve seen too many cool cosplays in my life, but the TLoZ movie leak doesn’t impress me much.
Queue into the list of movie-fied games that probably won’t be worth it in my opinion. Things don’t always have to just look impressive but newer movies often don’t excel at anything else, either
Queue into the list of movie-fied games that probably won’t be worth it in my opinion. Things don’t always have to just look impressive but newer movies often don’t excel at anything else, either