IRL Stine
@smollusk.bsky.social
Jewish Autist, ttrpg amateur enthusiast, retro jrpg nerd, politically enraged
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IRL Stine
@smollusk.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Sorry not sorry
It's really weird how after you fight Xande you have to beat "Dark Cloud" (2000), really comes out of nowhere.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It's really weird how after you fight Xande you have to beat "Dark Cloud" (2000), really comes out of nowhere.
Queen Zeal : Lavos :: Sephiroth : Jenova
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Queen Zeal : Lavos :: Sephiroth : Jenova
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
"Christmas is secular"
"You can play my megadungeon in any system"
"You can play my megadungeon in any system"
it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Christmas is secular"
"You can play my megadungeon in any system"
"You can play my megadungeon in any system"
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death of the artist is a stupid baby excuse for clowns with no standards to pretend the money they give her doesn't literally go to making trans people's lives worse. fucking get over her her writing isn't even good. ursula k le guin and terry prachett are right there. have some fucking self respect
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
death of the artist is a stupid baby excuse for clowns with no standards to pretend the money they give her doesn't literally go to making trans people's lives worse. fucking get over her her writing isn't even good. ursula k le guin and terry prachett are right there. have some fucking self respect
1000% unironically
Universal Basic Income would fix me.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
1000% unironically
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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got fired today because of time loss from an injury. if anyone can spare any money so peggy and i can pay our bills while i try to find a new job id really appreciate it
venmo: gayley_williams
venmo: gayley_williams
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
got fired today because of time loss from an injury. if anyone can spare any money so peggy and i can pay our bills while i try to find a new job id really appreciate it
venmo: gayley_williams
venmo: gayley_williams
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One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again
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Our new favorite analog horror series:
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Our new favorite analog horror series:
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the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
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Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
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The continuing irony that Christians think Channukah (a holiday about public resistance to assimilation) is just Jewish Christmas. And that if they paint a Christmas tradition blue and white, that makes it fully a Channukah thing.
And, for me personally, the insistance that all of this is totally secular, totally *unconnected* to the celebration of Jesus' birth, that only a grump wouldn't participate, is one of the most uncomfortable things about it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The continuing irony that Christians think Channukah (a holiday about public resistance to assimilation) is just Jewish Christmas. And that if they paint a Christmas tradition blue and white, that makes it fully a Channukah thing.
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Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Plumber confirmed that the fuses blowing yesterday was due to the water heater and we need a new water heater. I did find the fuse for the water heater itself so we're good heating wise
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Marjorie Taylor Swift
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Marjorie Taylor Swift
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As a former travel agent & airline employee who has traveled 100s of thousands of miles, no. It won't improve shit. The problem with air travel civility is entitlement over the enshittification of flying, not the ladies in yoga pants & crop tops. Make FLYING better.
www.cbsnews.com/news/transpo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/transpo...
Transportation Department urges "dressing with respect" on flights. Will it improve air travel?
The agency's "Golden Age of Travel" campaign aims to restore civility to air travel. Experts say they have doubts.
www.cbsnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
As a former travel agent & airline employee who has traveled 100s of thousands of miles, no. It won't improve shit. The problem with air travel civility is entitlement over the enshittification of flying, not the ladies in yoga pants & crop tops. Make FLYING better.
www.cbsnews.com/news/transpo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/transpo...
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I am choosing this one post to advertise this thread because it's the one that had me nodding along most vigorously, but you should read the whole thing.
But to get there, we not only have to get past the dogwhistle aspect of "we never even touched the dice", we also have to teach ourselves to look closely at our own good feelings, to examine WHY we like them instead of just accepting "yeah, feels good, let's chase it" and even embrace discomfort.
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I am choosing this one post to advertise this thread because it's the one that had me nodding along most vigorously, but you should read the whole thing.
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I get scared to start new games, especially ones where I will have to watch a ten minute movie about what the game is about. I sometimes start them up then quit them quickly, saying to myself, "not now. I can't do it just now."
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I get scared to start new games, especially ones where I will have to watch a ten minute movie about what the game is about. I sometimes start them up then quit them quickly, saying to myself, "not now. I can't do it just now."
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You've got until the end of tomorrow to grab this and convince your friends to do the same. The bots ain't terrible either if you want to play it solo, has drop-in/drop-out multiplayer, and thanks to the giveaway, tons of new players.
It's just a good time.
It's just a good time.
Cool free stuff alert: They're giving away the base version of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 this weekend.
Really good co-op first-person brawler about the world's most dysfunctional friend group fighting through the ratpocalypse.
There's some decent DLC but they've added a LOT for free over the years.
Really good co-op first-person brawler about the world's most dysfunctional friend group fighting through the ratpocalypse.
There's some decent DLC but they've added a LOT for free over the years.
Save 100% on Warhammer: Vermintide 2 on Steam
The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!
store.steampowered.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
You've got until the end of tomorrow to grab this and convince your friends to do the same. The bots ain't terrible either if you want to play it solo, has drop-in/drop-out multiplayer, and thanks to the giveaway, tons of new players.
It's just a good time.
It's just a good time.
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My friend has a close birthday to me, read his books and buy his games! Bwargh!
My birthday is on the 27th. It's always a strange time—in the US everyone talks about how thankful they are, but here in Australia they're already preparing for Christmas
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My friend has a close birthday to me, read his books and buy his games! Bwargh!
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here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox
It's fascinating he gets such an audience because in addition to his garbage politics and never owning up to them, he's also just personally a huge piece of shit
Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
It's fascinating he gets such an audience because in addition to his garbage politics and never owning up to them, he's also just personally a huge piece of shit