Gonna be Away From Here for a bit for my semi regular 'go outside, remember that you're a man of flesh and blood' mental health thing

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Moderating my social platform by logging onto it for 28 hours straight and telling all its users that they suck complete shit

An enjoyable part of knitting as a hobby for me is browsing all the patterns I have on my ravelry account and mentally assigning yarn to them

she can't be a virgin because she isn't real! she can't have sex! i think virgin in his personal lexicon is just shorthand for "the appearance of a barely legal girl i can impose my weird fantasies on"!!! it has nothing to do with the validity of the concept! he's just a weird pervert!

It's actually a real insight into how socially constructed virginity is, that this weird old man can see a 3D picture of a woman that doesn't exist, and declare her a virgin because no-one's had sex with her -- because no-one CAN have sex with Tilly Norwood, because it's NOT A REAL PERSON

Hmm, a philosophical question I just had - CAN an AI be a 'virgin' in the socially constructed misogynist way that's meant here? Can something that's not real in any physical way be or not be a virgin?

You can have my books over my dead body. No, I'm serious. Come over and get em, they won't be doing me any good anymore

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

today I recovered my hobby stuff from it being wrongly sent to a house I last lived in 12 years ago, AND got me a little light that can twist around my neck to knit in low light

Making spouse watch the interview with the vampire series and said to him 'I love toxic romance. I think it's because we're so healthy'

Tiernan, how's being nearly 40 going? Well, I just strained my back by reaching for a jar of olives that wasn't even far away or heavy, so you tell me.

Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.

Tasneem keeps losing her accounts but wanted to share these photos❤️ gofund.me/967dc9ee

the thing to remember about the "so you hate waffles" guy is that he's not just imagining something you didn't say. he's not just imagining that you are a bad person because of a thing you didn't say. he is also picturing you fucking his wife. that's why he's upset. you are actively fucking his wife

Help an artist pay his bills, take a look at my shop! ✨👁️ i got prints, stickers and original art! #artsky #blueskynightmarket #art ko-fi.com/scarycircus/...

It's an embarrasment to my creepy goth heart (it's on the mantlepiece) that I'm arachnophobic. Of course, october is start of the 'spiders moving into people's houses away from the cold' season here, and spouse has no had to rescue a shrieking me from a massive spider twice in a week.

Lightspeed’s October issue is now available at all ebook vendors! It includes my story, “Drosera regina,” about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant. Chuffed to be in such an impressive ToC! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

It's #buyastrangerabook day. Now then, if you'd like a book, but aren't quite sure what, just let @melissaschuh.bsky.social know the kinda stuff you like reading. Melissa will then reply with a choice of four books. You can choose your favourite & Melissa will pay for it! Get in touch. UK only

Time for elf sluts #art #elfenjoyers

I wonder what my skull looks like. Obviously I know what human skulls look like, but my specific one.

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here's the secret to having a good time in science fiction and fantasy: just skip all the books written by mormons. they get a leg up in networking, workshopping and book tours, so when you pick up a book by a mormon it's statistically likely to not be as good as one by anybody else

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Art by • Lucas Graciano

Art by • Yuriko Ohno

Elric of Melniboné:

MrBeast nearly burning a man to death and EA buckling under the leveraged buyout from hell are the exact same problem expressed differently. The rich will burn everything if it makes them a single extra dollar or feel one emotion, and they must be stopped

evil murder twink is my favourite gender

Reasons AI exist: -cudgel against labor -process massive amount of surveillance data points quickly That’s why they’re pouring a fortune into this and no other reason. Don’t believe tech evangelists who pretend it’s for a good reason. It’s not.

What if we were colleagues at a terrible Berlin start-up and we started eating each other? Haha just kidding...unless...

We’re getting kitty cat racism here on Bluesky

love this guy

Mental health a little too stable? Mood elevated for a suspiciously long time? Humanity seems mostly fine? Ligotti!

OK, got a hang of how to do the movements for crochet but am definitely gonna need hella stitchmarkers while I'm learning

I'm genuinely afraid for the young queers seeing queerness modeled for them by straight cis people and straight cis Mormons especially. Doubly so if they're also in the business of rejecting actual queers for being gross and problematic and mean and groomers probably.

Spouse is still ill, but at least he's able to be downstairs today.

reading some ligotti on this sunny last day of september

@gaycannibalism.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay and has got me thinking about giving the game another try.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

I've been a knitter for years and am attempting to learn crochet. How do you DO this? I can't read my stitches to see what I should be doing

Honestly these days the biggest twist your monster horror can have is the monster being real. No one will see it coming.

I have given him chicken soup and our cat

Spouse has my cold, and I know he's feeling rough because he's actually taken a sick day and gone back to bed.

My spouse is watching clips from Transformers: The Movie and holding our cat and crying. I'm deciding if I should be concerned or if I should rewatch a comedy show instead.

Karl Franz as a character is femme-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.

This cyberpunk 2077 essay pairs nicely with the @gaycannibalism.bsky.social one about dread delusion. One game is a ridiculous power fantasy that ultimately says nothing and the other limits player power (and other mechanics) to make a narrative point! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

1. I think I am most proud of Typebar when we do great analysis of a medium (gaming in this case) that a lot of mainstream culture/art places ignore. 2. I love how unique handles lead me to saying "hey everyone, Gay Cannibalism has a point!!"

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