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blue-ten.bsky.social
My chronic pain has once again caused me to fall behind on work. Got some bills coming up and can't open more commissions, so I'm gonna mention my Ko-Fi and shop again ;v;

ko-fi.com/everbluecomic/
ko-fi.com/everbluecomi...

My fav pencil brushes are there, Ch1-3 PDFs, and bonus art for donations :)
A promo image for Blue-Ten's "Real" Graphite Brushes, available at https://ko-fi.com/everbluecomic/shop A preview of the bonus art gallery on https://ko-fi.com/everbluecomic/gallery
December 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
upzonenj.bsky.social
I think there's still an opportunity for Solomon and his admin to embrace broad-based affordability. My message isn't "developers good" - it's that let's be data driven, open-minded, non-ideological, and embrace best practices of what case studies show work in peer cities.
December 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
jasoncarpentier.bsky.social
At work someone brought a King Cake. I was like 😲 *looks at date* and someone was like "the bakery by me sells them all year" and I was like "well, we open Egyptian sarcophaguses for science, but it doesn't mean we should." Lol
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
circuspals.bsky.social
Circus Pals is now officially open source! You can do whatever you want with the code! ...Just don't make it less safe for work... :(
#msagent #microsoftagent #circuspals #tadc #digitalcircus
GitHub - LaserBoyStudios/Circus-Pals: Source Code for Circus Pals 3.0.
Source Code for Circus Pals 3.0. Contribute to LaserBoyStudios/Circus-Pals development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
alphistia.bsky.social
The author is completely naive and/or cynical. There is no working-class solidarity in the US, none at all. We have shitty work benefits exactly because most people think they are temporarily displaced millionaires. Of course racists of ALL classes should be fired for open racism in the workplace.
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
barbaraandes.bsky.social
Join me in voting Saturday, Dec 13 for this slate of experienced, credible, rural leaders to continue the essential work of the Rural Caucus of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Tremendous progress has been made to strengthen our numbers & trust in rural VA because of the folks.
Please join me in voting this full slate of experienced, credible, rural leaders to continue the essential work of the Rural Caucus of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Tremendous progress has been made to strengthen our numbers and trust in rural VA because of the folks I’m asking you to support this Saturday (Dec. 13). All members of the Rural Caucus will receive an electronic ballot from the Democratic Party of Virginia, you’ll be able to cast your votes on a platform called “Election Buddy”. There will be an optional Zoom meeting at 10:30am where candidates for officer positions will give a brief speech. Here ate the full slate of candidates I ask you to join me in supporting on Saturday Dec. 13 voting open noon - 4pm. ⭐ Roberta Thacker-Oliver – Chair ⭐ Annette Hyde – Vice-Chair ⭐ Samantha Litchford – Secretary ⭐ Tony Reynolds – Treasurer ⭐ Jessica Reynolds – Community Engagement ⭐ Chris Burton – Training & Elections ⭐ Jacob Cooke – Policy & Communications ⭐ Kris Nelson – Membership ⭐ Dustin Keith – Development & Fundraising ⭐ Chuck Simpson – Labor
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
blirbie.bsky.social
[RT's Appreciated]
My job is ending for the season and they also canceled my last couple days so I'll be out of work until January.
I have loans and a new kitty to care for. If you are looking for art of your OCs or fanart of your blorbos my commissions are OPEN!
🔗 vgen.co/blirbie
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
pinebarprince.bsky.social
The hat shaper must have known this was for DT because that open crease is
1. The least possible amount of work to shape
AND
2. The least flattering shape possible.
They literally thought "Let's give him the Hoss Cartwright model, he'll look completely ridiculous." Well played.
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
goodboyvideo.bsky.social
In the meantime, I'm gonna be deleting ALL my old posts with <20 reposts. I've already deleted hundreds, and it's just a start. This content is now only available on OF.

Please consider leaving a tip if you enjoy the work that I do. I'm also open for custom commissions.
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
manigarm.bsky.social
You Studied Them. Now, They're Reviewing You.

In the world of THE WAY BY, fairies aren't hidden—they're sought after, studied, and the subject of endless human scholarly work.

But what happens when the subjects get to grade their observers?
Breaking News! By the Way is open for pre-order!
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
iwishtobeapichu.bsky.social
Do you admit more pokémon? I'd like to ask for work as a breeder, if that possibility is open
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
opdeatheaters.bsky.social
Chomsky being controlled opposition tracks well with what philosopher Heather Marsh previously revealed from her correspondence with him: "Noam Chomsky introduces the concepts of ‘normal torture’ and ‘serious torture’ and is happy that the levels at Guantanamo have reached 'normal'." #OpDeathEaters
Dear Mr. Chomsky, I have just had your article here pointed out to me. http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-america-moral-degenerate?paging-off I am an admirer of your work and see your tireless advocacy for human rights, so as a long time Guantanamo activist I would like to point out two errors which I am certain were unintentional and respectfully request a correction. In your article you state "Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo." and point to inspection and the presence of defense attorneys as deterrents. I am sorry to tell you that torture, and murder, are still very much a part of Guantanamo Bay. The inspections are still severely restricted and insufficient to bring human rights and the attorneys are insufficient to bring justice. Did you miss, to name one instance, the details and cover up of the death of Adnan Latif? 167 humans still remain in Guantanamo Bay and it has been a largely frustrating and futile ten years of advocacy to try to get them returned. I'm sure you can appreciate how harmful to our efforts it would be for someone of your stature and with your audience to announce (very incorrectly)" that's not a torture chamber any more." The second error is perhaps even more important. Many methods of torture being used in all of these prisons are the result of years, even decades, of study and are chosen both for their effectiveness and their lack of recognition as torture. We have fought for many years to get the effects of methods such as sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, stress positions, etc understood and have them recognized as torture. This is still very much an uphill battle. The last thing we need is for someone with as prominent a voice as yours to introduce a concept such as "serious torture" There is no such thing as "serious torture" any more than there is "legitimate rape". The implication that what is still going on in Guantanamo is 'un-serious torture' c… I did follow the Latif case, and the reports of his torture, but my impression is that they declined a few years ago. On the rest, US prisons carry out torture constantly, and some of them, like the supermax prisons, carry out severe torture routinely. Perhaps I should have commented more fully in the interview, as I often have before, but in the comments you cite the reference was explicitly to "the more extreme forms of torture." They were doubtless carried out at Gitmo in the past, but I suspect that by now Gitmo is no more of a torture chamber than is often routine in the scandalous US incarceration system. In earlier years it was a great deal worse, really extreme forms of torture, far beyond the norm in prisons. Could and perhaps should have been said more fully. Noam Chomsky Thanks for your comments. I understand and appreciate your points, but am not entirely convinced. Reality is that Gitmo has never been much different from US supermax's, which engage in torture as routine practice though not waterboarding and the more extreme forms of torture that take place in Bagram and Gitmo earlier. I've also written about this elsewhere, pointing out that the US never ratified the UN torture convention, but did so only after rewriting it to exclude the kinds of torture recommended by the CIA (in fact borrowed from the KGB), what's called "mental torture" in the torture literature, the kind that you mention here. It seems to me worthwhile, and in fact empowering - especially in brief references that do not go into the matter - to point out that the protests about Gitmo led to a modification of the forms of torture to the kind that's normal in prisons, and more generally to distinguish between waterboarding, electrodes to the genitals, and other such torture procedures, and the "mental torture" that is permitted under US law, and is more harmful to the individual (which is why it's permitted). To distinguish, for example, between Manning's torture (common in US priso…
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
rpatulny.bsky.social
Very pleased to have our edited collection on 'Social Connections in Everyday Spaces' come out this year - open access, please have a look! Special thanks to Milovan Savic and Jane Farmer for all their hard work

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-conne...
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
arus.bsky.social
Valve may be doing for their own ends, but the fact that it remains open source and their work on Proton can be used by anyone means that it is still for 'the greater good'
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
spottedbarks.bsky.social
📢REINDEER GAMES YCH COMMISSIONS OPEN‼️

Iv'e been sick the last couple days and had to call out from work, I need some extra help to get home for work for the coming week.

Plz boost and share, repost Thank you!!

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#ych #reindeergames #desertruckus #furryart
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
sethcotlar.bsky.social
Canvas has enabled me to do exactly nothing more than I did via email and a very basic, open source LLM I could post pdfs to back in 2010. Instead, Canvas has gotten between me and my students in multiple ways and created days worth of extra work for me each semester.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ouroborosworm.bsky.social
Been working on this in some spare time, it's @burgerkurger Visca going for a stroll. Guess, someone is trying to tell her she's gone the wrong way? Not sure. If you like this kind of work, my commissions are open.
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
columbiachi.bsky.social
That's a wrap on the Fall 2025 semester!
Thank you to the entire Columbia College Chicago community for your hard work and passion that makes the college a great place to create.
Two individuals are operating a camera on a film set, capturing a scene with a lush, plant-decorated background and a cozy bedroom setting. Two people smiling and sitting on a school bus, with colorful autumn trees visible through the window. A performer in a sparkling costume stands center stage in a theatrical setting, under dramatic blue lighting, with doors open behind them. Two people smiling at a table, holding a sign. Laptops with presentations are on either side; one screen displays "Giving Thanks" and the other "Created to Achieve Success."
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
dorothealange.mastodon.ozioso.online.ap.brid.gy
Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California

#california #thegreatdepression #dorothealange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017759621/
The black and white photograph depicts a rural setting, likely during or just after the Great Depression. It shows makeshift tents arranged in an open field with trees faintly visible in the background, suggesting it could be late autumn or early winter due to the bare branches of some trees. In front of these tents are several individuals who appear to be adults and children dressed in work clothes typical for manual laborers from that era - overalls, jackets, and hats. Their expressions range from neutral to slightly somber, which may reflect their situation's hardship. On the left side of the photo is an old-fashioned automobile with a spare tire attached on its right front fender; it looks like it has been through many journeys itself, given its weathered appearance. The ground shows puddles that likely resulted from recent rainfall. The presence of these puddles and the overall setting suggests they are in California as indicated by the image's title "Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain." This could be a transient laborer community taking refuge during off-seasons or due to economic conditions. The photo captures an intimate glimpse into how people lived, traveled, and survived during challenging times. It is representative of social documentation photography where photographers like Dorothea Lange sought to portray real life with authenticity without romanticiz [...]
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
antonioannamele.bsky.social
Before our work, it was known how to do both optimal pure-and optimal mixed-state tomography; but for quantum channels, optimal tomography was understood only for the special case of unitaries. For general channels, this was an open problem.

In this paper, we finally settle this question.
Conjugate queries can help
We give a natural problem over input quantum oracles $U$ which cannot be solved with exponentially many black-box queries to $U$ and $U^\dagger$, but which can be solved with constant many queries to ...
arxiv.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
pjccahill.bsky.social
#DeckTheHalls -From NICEF: Taegen+Selene! They represent all aspects of the Lovers at different points, caught between imbalances and temptations, conflicting over goals, but align and forge a deep bond with their choices.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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Art by Luigiix - left side features Selene standing, somewhat shy, wearing the Mercelo engineering uniform, holding some hair out of her face with her prosthetic hand. Her hair is green with a single pink stripe on the back, her eyes are red, and her skin is pale. Right side shows Selene in her work suit for Nicef repair, stained and tired, but ready to work. Center is an info block with the following information: Selene Ark; Mechanical Engineering Candidate; Age: 18 y.o.; House Status: Member of Aroi House; Origin: Gatusk, Rykal colony (NeuroGen Aerospace mining facility); Known Skills: mechanical engineering Art by Luigiix - character reference sheet for Taegen Atius, main character of NICEF. Left side shows a normal human appearance in an academy uniform (she has white hair in a ponytail and ice blue eyes with very pale skin). Right side shows a ferocious alien appearance, with red glowing eyes, black skin, black armor, and distorted tentacles in place of hair. Her open mouth shows shark-like teeth. The center features text with brief bio factoids. 'Taegen Atius; Pilot Candidate; Age 17 y.o. (ERR//101111); House Status 'Member of Aroi House'; Origin 'outer systems' (ERR//01101111011100000111010001101001011011100110000101100101); Known Skills 'Nicef piloting, software engineering, mechanical engineering'
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
dimadamen.bsky.social
Applications are open for visiting PhD @compscibristol.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026 - DL 29 Jan
Would you like to work with any of the Faculty working in Machine Learning and Computer Vision #mavi as part of our summer of research at Bristol program?
uob-mavi.github.io/Summer@MaVi....
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
softbugz.bsky.social
found out i was nominated for an avn fan award today which is honestly wild?? thank u to everyone who thought of me and supports my work! voting is open if u wanna help me take it all the way 🔗👇 of course let me know when ur finished for your own award from me <3
December 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
projectmuse.bsky.social
Thanks @baltimoresun.bsky.social for the article this week reporting on our work with @ushmm.bsky.social. It can be read here: (bit.ly/SunMUSE_USHMM).

MUSE & @hopkinspress.bsky.social are proud of this work of scholarly research & have made it open access and free to explore.

bit.ly/USHMM_MUSE
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
indycelt.bsky.social
Because Plaid were in that agreement to work together then we had so much we would not have because of Plaid working and holding Labour to account! Like school meals,breakfast clubs for more children who would have been hungry, so people need open their eyes, sometimes we have to work with the devil
December 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM