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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I am having complicated feelings about The Odyssey (which I saw last night). Most importantly, check this before you go (yes it includes #spoilers, but it may save you from being effed up for the entire movie for not the reasons intended) www.doesthedogdie.com/media/901726 P.S. Sinon is everything.

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The Odyssey (Movie, 2026)

Does the dog die in The Odyssey? Click for that and many other trigger warnings.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Add to the list of D&D analogs for use in TV and movies: A&D, Angels & Demons, from Simon & Simon, 1981. Smack in the middle of the AD&D age.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 25/06/2026

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This response thread has some context that is important about what I just posted. Doesn't make it any LESS fucked up but it's part of the story.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is super fucked up!

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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

LMAO Reed pop just increased the price of NYCC Pro badges by $40. $180 all-in for a pro badge SDCC? Remains FREE for professionals. Reed Pop is a garbage profit guzzling greedy corportation and that is that.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Do you use Adobe InDesign? Make sure you turn Generative AI off, it defaults to on. You'll need to check to see if it's been turned back on every time you update the app.

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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"the African Room..is now completely gutted and emptied. I was not told where those items went."

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/06/2026

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I miss stop motion animated effects in sci-fi and horror visual media.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I was today years old when I realized that Rapid Roy (that stock car boy)'s tattoo read "Hey Baby". It was not two separate tattoos, one that said "Baby" and another one that just said "Hey". Roy, had some real BDE. #JimCroce

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm in Lisbon armed with the most important phrase: posso fazer festas? Literally it means "may I throw a party?", colloquially it means "can I pet your dog?"

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Morbi @morbi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/03/2025

i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert. the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important

a table labeled "How common is your problem, how helpful is the response?"

There are three columns labeled common, rare, and novel and two rows labeled Actual Human Expert and LLM.

Common problem, human expert: helpful
Rare problem, human expert: more helpful
Novel problem, human expert: most helpful
Common problem, LLM: helpful
Rare problem, LLM: unhelpful
Novel problem, LLM: harmful

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I just spotted Madeleine Sami playing Tyro the Amazon in an episode of Xena Warrior Princess! She made one of my favorite movies, The Breaker Upperers, with Jackie van Beek and is extremely funny (not as an Amazon though, she is taking that role seriously).

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I'm super lucky to have access to a lot of very good library systems. Sometimes there are shenanigans involved in getting cards for those systems. I justify it by using all of them as frequently as possible to increase their patron and use stats hopefully leading to more local support and tax money.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I've moved all my book tracking to app.thestorygraph.com/profile/gnom... because I like stats. :D

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Fuck off, Monday . com! I don't want to read about "How to beat AI guilt" in your "Insights" newsletter. Thanks anyway, I'd prefer not use a technology that is destroying our planet and stealing art and turning it into garbage.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in September: 🎧 Private Rites by Julia Armfield read by Hannah van der Westhuysen. A dismal, disqueiting, and apocalyptic novel loosely based on King Lear. Highly recommend. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in September: 🎧 Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) read by Julie Lumsden, Katie Anvil Rich, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, and Jordan Waunch. Thriller told in the voices of four teens. I cried multiple times listening to it. I'm looking forward to whatever Cobell writes next.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in September: 🎧 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston read by Natalie Naudus. Slightly less steamy than The Pairing, this paranormal-light romance was sweet and satisfying. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in September: 🎧 Exhalation by Ted Chiang read by Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, Ted Chiang. I didn't know that Chiang wrote Arrival until after I finished this collection of short stories. He's an amazing writer with novel takes on the meaning of being human. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in September: 📕 Someone You Can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell. Romantic horror. So so good! Read It! #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 🎧 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston read by Emma Galvin and Max Meyers. This is a capital R romance novel and it is very good and very hot! #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 📕 Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox. Trans coming of age memoir set in the U.K. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 📕 Belly Full of Heart by Madeline Mouse. Cute, not super memorable. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 🎧 Guilt by Association by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. I'm still hooked on these despite the painful internalized homophobia of the main characters (and the externalized homophobia of Wahredua, Missouri). #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 🎧 Paternity Case by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. More Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset fighting, flirting, and solving mysteries. But I really didn't enjoy the horrific crime in this one. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 🎧 Transposition by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. I have mixed feelings about this entries series of "will they (detective partners), won't they" and "hate to love" mysteries. But I am reading all of them. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 🎧 The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill read by Shaan Dasani. Time travel, the meaning of homecoming and friendship, and a trans protagonist wrestling with growing up. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in August: 🎧 Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs read by Saskia Maarleveld. Engaging speculative fiction, with satisfying puzzles and a new take on magic. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in July: 📕 Plane Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol. Especially loved the characters and ending. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finished in July: 🎧 In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill, read by Shaan Dasani and Logan Rozos. Cute trans gay romance. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Finished in July: 📕 Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I found this in a #littlefreelibrary. I didn't really know anything about her and this was a great overview. Well researched and well written. #Nonfiction books written for tweens are often solid intros to a subject.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Finished in July: 🎧 Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by the author. Finally, I've read one of Tchaikovsky's books! He's a brilliant writer and very good narrator! Hey, I like spiders. If you don't, heed the title, heavy spider content. #Fantasy

Audiobook cover. Text reads: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight. A metal shield with a spider etched into its face is surrounded by hot red and yellow fire.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Finished in July: 🎧 Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, read by Em Grosland. Cozy, post-apocalyptic, novella about robots running a restaurant. Some peril. Inherently queer. If you Becky Chambers' books, you will like this. Stand out narration on the audiobook too!

Book cover. Text reads: Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz, "A story I didn't know I needed right now. So much fun!" -Martha Wells, bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries. The illustration on the cover shows a giant robot hand holding chopsticks that are pulling thick noodles out of a rectangular food holding box. Another robot sits on the edge of the box. In front of the box starting at the sitting robots feet is a cityscape with the Golden Gate Bridge. In the right-hand corner is a robot with three jointed, insectile metal legs and long hair. On the left hand-side toward bottom two arms with two-pronged claws reaches inward. One claw holds a whisk.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Finished in July: 📕 Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo; short story. #QueerBooks

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Cody R. @canthealz.com · 28/07/2025

Well said!!

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Finished in July: 🎧 Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch, read by Giordan Diaz. Murder, magic, queer teens, and the Quabbin Reservoir. Set in 1999. If you like light horror and ya, highly recommend. ##QueerBooks

Book cover. Text reads: Now, Conjurers, Freddie Kölsch. A young man stares out at the viewer. He has a star shaped patch of vitiligo over his left eye. He has dark brown wavy hair, his skin is a light to medium tan, his eyes are a bright, light brown. He is holding a skeleton style key on a chain in his left hand. His hand with the key is resting on his chin. He is wearing black silky cloth with stars sprinkled across it. The cloth draped over him visually connects to the same cloth above and behind him. Reaching out from the cloth behind him are two red hands. The hands are gripping his shoulders in an aggressive way.

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Bug @thebomberbug.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

@adriellee.bsky.social and I wrote a fun little game about being Queer Witches for @tabletopgaymers.bsky.social 10th Anniversary! It is sweet, light, and a gay ol' time! You'll be able to pick this cozy bad boi up starting at @Gencon! Check out The Queer Coven!

Queer Coven TTRPG. QUEER COVEN "Join the Queer Coven in this rules lite polymoph TTRPG born from a collaboration between Tabletop Gaymers and 9th Level Games in celebration of our 10-year Gay-aversary! You are a Magi! A magic user, a WITCH! With the help of your friends, learn about your new identity and how to move through the world. Build community, make friends, find the meaning of love and family, and learn just what you were meant to be. Welcome to the Queer Coven!"

The game coven says Queer Coven. Powered by Polymorph. Written by Bug Boll and Adriel Wilson. Seven Queer cartoon Witches hanging out doing various tasks in a room with a rainbow carpet. A troll looks in through the window. The spell sheet has all the import parts of being a queer witch, including divination, enchantment, transmutation, and invocation.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Finished in July: 🎧 The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. Maclean, read by Stephanie Bentley. Cozy novel about an anxious, queer zookeeper, who wants to restore the endangered phoenix population. Enemies to lovers. This was cute but the main character annoyed me quite a bit. #QueerBooks #AudioBooks

Bpol cover. Orange phoenixes gather around the edges of the image. They are on top mostly blue foliage with some green leaves in it. Text reads: The Phoenix Keeper | Falling in love never burned so bright.... | S. A. Maclean

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry

Book cover. Yellow text reads: Emily Austin, Gay Girl Prayers, Poems. The word Prayers in the title is broken out into four lines, Gay | Girl | Pray | Ers. Which gives it a cool double meaning. The text covers a drawn black and gray image of a young nun gazing upwards. She faces to the right.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Finished in June: 🎧 The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang read by Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung. A multiple lifetime spanning queer romantasy. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of "on screen" sex, definitely a book for adults. I wanted more from the ending. #QueerBooks

Audiobook cover. Text reads: The Emperor and the Endless Palace, Justinian Huang. The background image is of a person's arm and part of their side in a brightly colored and pattern silk robe. A hand comes up from the bottom of the image holding a bitten peach, a river flows from beneath the peach. There's a peach tree, a black cat, part of a dragons tail, and a three tailed white fox.

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Finished in June: 🎧 The Last Gifts of the Universe: A Novel by Riley August read by Robyn Holdaway, Ayesha Antoine, Chris Thompson. This book has some interesting an important things to say, though the plot didn't stick with me at all. However, there is a space cat. #QueerBooks

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Adriel @adriellee.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Finished in June: 🎧 Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Started in 2021, finally finished. It’s very good, I just got distracted. The interrelation of fungi with, well, everything is so incredibly cool (and also critical to life existing on earth). #Nonfiction

An audiobook cover. Various fungi surround text reading, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake.

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