Uncle Asriel
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Uncle Asriel
@yeruncleasriel.bsky.social
Mid-30s library professional, ttrpg dork, Bast cultist, pulp fiction enthusiast, enjoyer of filmmaking & animation. It's not over until you're all out of healing potions & the cleric is unconscious
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Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design.

When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI.
> Enzor-DeMeo spent 2025 racing to make Firefox a more compelling product, adding things like tab groups, while also trying to figure out how the browser should integrate with AI.

It doesn't have to be compelling! It's for accessing compelling stuff!

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
blog.mozilla.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Commission work
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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There it is, gang. Your perfect excuse, locked and loaded.

Time for icepops and tamales.

ALL OF THEM.
A tactic supporters used in Chicago was to completely buy out street vendors so they wouldn't be easy targets.
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Actual psychologist here, and there are 2 things I would like to point out:

1. This sort of "we tried our best / we weren't so bad" is very much a classic move of the awful authoritarian and/or narcissistic parent, they've always done this and social media has allowed them more reach 🧵
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
on.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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This is why Shigeru Jo's cool! He joins Black Satan in order to get revenge, then he volunteers to be a cyborg, then due to Shigeru being a badass, he tricks the doctors and then henshin and kick their asses! So badass!!
#tokusatsu #kamenrider #kamenriderstronger #stronger #70s
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Dream by Carlos Dearmas
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The King in Yellow by Carlos Dearmas
December 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Storm by Carlos Dearmas
December 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Living in Tokyo for years, and knowing what it is to take care of and love a baby - this movie just hits different. I've always loved Tokyo Godfathers, and I'm really perceiving how much a film - a concrete, solid thing - can evolve and change as you do.

Missing Kon Satoshi again today.
Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best films of this century. A key reason is that it portrays Tokyo with an almost overwhelming level of care and detail.

Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...
Satoshi Kon's Impossibly Real Tokyo
Plus: news and a music video.
animationobsessive.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Pirate the series. Make your own physical media. That's the only answer when this happens and they haven't put it out any other way.
‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ is scheduled to leave Netflix on February 21, 2026.

(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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OPINION: Many Jews celebrate Christmas in some way because they are part of interfaith families – whether their own immediate family or extended relatives with whom they spend the day.
religionnews.com/2025/12/09/m...
Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews
(The Conversation) — What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a shift for Christian colleagues.
religionnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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it's that time again
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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oh look it really is a neurotypical conversation simulator
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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In this day and age? The One-Pound Gospel OVA

Rumiko Takahashi's classic romance about a young boxer and a nun. It was required watching in the '90s but very much "only the oldheads know about it" these days due to the fansub scene decline and it not having an official home video release since 1998
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Artbook alert: "Vampire Hunter D - Yoshitaka Amano Complete Art Collection" is coming next month (200 pages, 340 illustrations).
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The two insidious things about the way our society deals with abuse are, first, that we almost always don’t, and, second, that when we do we center the abuser and what it all means for them.

Which is another way of saying this is a great essay about politics and our current predicament.
December 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Batman is very serious about deep Catholic lore and I appreciate that.
Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!
December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The Game Awards peaked here
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would
Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.
Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM