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they/them. occasional comicposter & watcher of baihe short films
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audriserat.bsky.social
(1)🚨ALL EYES ON INDONESIA🚨
It's 0.41. A.M. Local time. First they cut off the power in Kwitang & Senen. Then the snipers came. And now they're using live bullets.
Just 3 days ago the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission silenced the journalists to not broadcast the protests.
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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voraciousopolis.bsky.social
Oh my god
Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima
The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.
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July 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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rpgsite.net
Chrono Trigger turns 30 today - it first released on this day in 1995. A project led by the collaboration 'dream team' of Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy, lower right), Yuji Horii (Dragon Quest, top right) and Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball, left). Arguably one of the greatest RPGs of all time.
March 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
If you're reeling from Trump's ongoing attacks, please check out my latest piece about what trans people are up against and how we (as in, all of us, including doctors and clinicians) can resist these assaults. Includes commentary from @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social.
Trump's Latest Anti-Trans Actions and How We Can Fight Back
The message should be clear among all people of conscience: We will not cooperate with the fascist, anti-trans agenda.
organizingmythoughts.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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blackcasebook.bsky.social
Friend of the show Sebastian asked me to put together a syllabus for Grant Morrison’s Batman run for a friend, so I thought I’d share it here, too. I could make a more exhaustive list, but I’m trying to stick to the absolute essentials; nobody wants to do extra homework.
Batman rising from the grave in the climax of Batman RIP, penciled by Tony Daniel.
January 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
There must be another starter pack going around, cause wow! Lots of new people!

If you’ve never read a novel by a transfemme before, I’ve got a nifty starter guide for you here 🩷
Start Here
55 Books by Trans Women that you should read right now. Like right now.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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caseystegman.com
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
December 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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yilinwriter.bsky.social
can you believe there were only 3 english translations of Chinese poetry books published in all of 2024. mine, a revised edition of an earlier anthology of Classical Chinese poetry, and Bei Dao.

in all of 2024. so depressing.

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POETRY Bei Dao, Sidetracks, tr. Jeffrey Yang (New Directions) Qiu Jin, Fei Ming, Dai Wangshu, Zhang Qiaohui, and Xiao Xi, The Lantern and the Night Moths, tr. Yilin Wang (Invisible Publishing) The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry, tr. Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)
January 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
this the horse btw
a medieval drawing of an anthropomorphic horse sitting on a throne a medieval drawing of an anthropomorphic horse surrounded by people
December 18, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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whistlinpast.bsky.social
sketching tattoo ideas, accidentally ended up with cthulhu but if jack kirby somehow, i'm electing to call this #art instead of what it is, which is rule of cool no-thought-in-head vibes-only whateverism
the image depicts a sketchy (as in, the image is a sketch, not a completed work) sunset-colored octopus, with three sky blue eyes and the wavy pupils of a cuttlefish. the octopus, a riff on lovecraft's cthulhu but if lovecraft had, like, a miami vice kind of deal going, like if lovecraft thought his space octopus could go to a rave on the side of the dvil business. the headgear is gold and orange, and two horns curve together atop its head, a secondary set curves down in the opposite direction, as do a pair of tusks, which curve upwards towards the points of the top horns. the eight tentacles are adorned with neon purple suckers, and the background is eaten up by black and blue bat wings. i know this sounds crazy but just do me a favor and imagine it looks totally kickass. cause it does. i promise, bro just trust me
November 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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mobilesuitzero.bsky.social
i think at some point writers of ip comics need to sit and figure out if they’re writing with the intent of “for the fans” or “themselves” (even if they are fans of the ip) because they are both very different things, and reading comics makes it very aware to the reader of what side they fall into
December 8, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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camw.ing
In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.

I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.

If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: "The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop." Here's the whole paragraph: We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”
December 5, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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itch.io
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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jonahlobe.bsky.social
Trilobite Beetles are one of those rare creatures who seem like they should be extinct but aren't!
November 15, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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ko-op.com
Help us fundraise for victims of Israel’s attacks on Palestine and Lebanon 🇵🇸🇱🇧 Donate $20(USD) or more to the GFM highlighted on our page, choose from a roster of current and former KO_OP artists, and receive a small piece of artwork! ❤️ For more info: bit.ly/3Zrw04X
Illustration in shades of red, green, white, and black, of a person wearing a keffiyeh with their hands outstretched as a dove holding a key flies above them. Text reads: KO_OP Art Fundraiser for Palestine and Lebanon. KO_OP Art Fundraiser for Palestine and Lebanon. Please join us in fundraising for victims of Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. Give $20 USD or more to the GoFundMe linked on our fundraising page, choose an available artist from our roster, and they will send you a small piece of artwork! As always, KO_OP is in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon and their rights for liberation, sovereignty, and land. The West has long been complicit in the destabilization and genocide of Palestine and its people, and we refuse to remain silent about that complicity. Free Palestine!
November 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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melissagiragrant.com
for whatever reason I've been reading some post-2016 election takes, and this essay (by @colindickey.com) shook some very depressing characters out of the cobwebs for me
How Conspiracy Theories are Gripping the Resistance
Democrats have always prided themselves on being a voice of political sanity. So why has Trump's election turned the left into a breeding ground for conspiracy theories?
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
On the Wayback Machine homepage there are two sections researchers ought to know about web.archive.org

1. "Save Page Now".
2. "Tools". there are extensions for browsers that make it easy for you to check whether a page has been archived, and save any page that hasn't yet with a click of a button.
bho.bsky.social British History Online @bho.bsky.social · Dec 2
Can't be stressed enough: what's on the web isn't permanent.

Always download your own copies. Use Zotero from @digitalscholar.bsky.social to grab webpages, PDFs, etc. Mirror webpages with the WaybackMachine from @archive.org

#DigitalHistory 🗃️
sharonhoward.bsky.social Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · Dec 2
We're probably going to see more of these sudden removals caused by panic-induced changes of policy further upstream. If you're using an online resource that's really important to your research, this is the moment to get your plan B in place. Eg: is there a data download, or an alternative source?
December 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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wwend.bsky.social
Fans of #Locus award winner #JamesSACorey might be pleased to know that their 2024 novel The Mercy of the Gods is on a Kindle Daily Deal for $3, today only.

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December 5, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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duendeonfuego.bsky.social
Hey we've all had a minute to process, right? All done? Good.

Let's talk about some guidelines for continued use of our social media systems. This one appears better than the others, but the same forces are coming for all of them. A quick thread. 🧵🧵🧵
November 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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redditspaceviewes.bsky.social
How the Andromeda galaxy would look from Earth if it were brighter
November 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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November 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM