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i have memories of being like 10 and a virus messed up the family PC so we had to hard reinstall windows, except we didn't have a windows CD so I had to get a 30 day free trial, that i would edit registry entries to continously reset the trial countdown dsflkhsdfhsfd

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16h

Also, as you might imagine, survivors had horrific experiences trying to get their images taken down. According to the survivors we interviewed, web platforms did better 10 years ago. Which makes their institutional betrayals even more enraging. We’re going backwards. Here’s a link to that study:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16h

I worked on a study about online nonconsensual image sharing. We were shocked by how many women found their images on 8chan forums where men posted challenges to each other like, “Find her workplace and get her fired,” or, “Get a nude photo of one of your girlfriend’s friends.”

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 20h

stat holiday tomorrow so I wanna be very productive but I'm in a mood where like I want to be able to share or post something and everything i'm doing is in awkward places sdfklhsf youtube vids with scripts that need editing before i record, half-finished sections of my game, slkfhasdf

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 29/09/2026

life hack i recently found: putting those powdered drink mix sticks you can get in the store into plain greek yogurt... very delicious!! I tried a root beer one yesterday and today a blue raspberry starburst one and it's so addicting LOL

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 26/09/2026

i will never in my life get over this era of web design. ever. bring it BACK

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 26/09/2026

back playing Vintage Story again and man it's amazing how many amazing, modern games are out there outside of the Steam infrastructure you never really hear about unless you look for them specifically LOL

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 25/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhsk... Highly recommended video from a very small creator going into the art and cultural history of the decor items featured in the Sims 1. I thought it'd be silly but it was actually really insightful pre-recession America cultural analysis LOL

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An unnecessarily detailed breakdown of 190 decor items in The Sims 1

YouTube video by Ben M Kay

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the more unfinished projects you have the better. the bigger your graveyard the more strange zombies you can sew together from the body parts. do not feel self-conscious about it. just keep making.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 23/09/2026

what kind of gets me about the way men who are known sex pests continue to fail upward in all industries, not just creative ones, is that there are thousands of women just as talented or even more so talented than these men who are "just too good at what they do" to hold accountable.

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Sarah @sarahvisel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brad Bird working with John Lasseter and dismissing his accusations by saying storytelling is more important is why these types of men will continue to fail up.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 23/09/2026

ugh today's web discussions reminds me i still have lots i wanna do on my personal site + finish building my gamedev log site sdlkfhsdfklh time just goes so fast and there's a neverending to do list...

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 22/09/2026

LRPs: 👏The era 👏of ease 👏is over. 👏The era 👏of self-determination 👏is now. I'm super annoying about it… Make a website… It doesn't have to be pretty… It can be ugly. Ppl like to go "but portal means hands-free audience!" but most ppl I know with audiences on comics portals had to self-promo HARD…

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 22/09/2026

i think what's kind of tricky w the tapas news is like... while indie websites will obviously solve the immediate issue of "my webcomic will go offline and be readable nowhere," it doesn't really solve the "discoverability" problem that unfortunately tapas did a lot of solving for

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 22/09/2026

indie web is right there and the hosting is very cheap on both neocities and nekoweb... just saying..............

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026

You don’t need to listen to a three-hour podcast to find the manosphere; it’s right there in the conference room. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026

One after another, women reported being sexually harassed by male supervisors, getting paid less than their male peers, getting passed over for promotions, getting talked over in meetings. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 21/09/2026

This was a hard list for me to make because not all of these are on my "absolute favorites" list anymore, but undoubtedly were the series' that influenced my art, storytelling and humor the most growing up, despite their flaws and shortcomings

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 20/09/2026

idk if this is Anything but something I've done to kind of wrangle my YouTube algo that has worked well: couple times a week I spend like 10 ish? mins actively going through what it recommends me and adding the vids I see that seem intellectually/entertainingly valuable to my watchlist-

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 20/09/2026

googling "how to place a hex on grocery store for not having Cranberry Ginger Ale Zero Sugar when they had an ad that said they did and I went to the grocery store specifically and only because of said ad"

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 20/09/2026

want to draw but also want to play games but also want to watch tv but also want to take a nap but ALSO (this list goes on ad infinitum because i have a neverending list of things i want to do and never enough time)

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bats of denial (alice's story) @nonbatnary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

quoting a friend of mine, but "get weirder" should be exploring more abstract concepts, not abandoning a moral compass

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 19/09/2026

youtu.be/RevO17XVsoc?... this video is pretty well done and has been a big part of what i'm thinking about lately re: social culture and changing my own behaviors

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How Tech Oligarchs Built Behavioral Control Systems

YouTube video by muck hole

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 18/09/2026

whenever I watch comedians I feel like such a hater because I almost never actually laugh at their jokes sdflhsdf but I see the audiences like ROARING with laughter and I'm like... is it really that funny... sdlkhsdfhlsdf

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 17/09/2026

do you guys remember in like 2010 when dubstep suddenly hit mainstream and like out of nowhere it was in huge prestige brand commercials. looking back that was kind of crazy culturally LOL

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 17/09/2026

me: ugh i'm in the mood to play more unique high art games also me: playing my singing monsters before bed again, as usual

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My Singing Monsters Rare Wubbox

ALT: My Singing Monsters Rare Wubbox

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 17/09/2026

I think really impressed. 20 year old me cried herself to sleep at night dreaming of this exact life I've built and whenever I get sad or stressed about the world I try to remind myself of that

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 17/09/2026

i'm craving a really breathtaking narrative game lately but haven't stumbled upon anything that's inspired me for a while cry... Closest I had lately was Subnautica 2 but early access hell

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K!SH @kishthebeast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

goin to bed but idk. it might be annoying or childish or foolish n naive but i really just do not buy into running out of time for your dreams, interests, and even hobbies. i feel like that "message" is trying to root itself everywhere and i just don't BELIEVE that.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 16/09/2026

canada complaint: for some reason all the grocery stores sell sweet pickles/bread and butter pickles EXCLUSIVELY and it drives me crazy. i hate sweet pickles. dills or death. wtaf SDFLKHSFD

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 16/09/2026

in one of those moods where i wanna write but i also wanna watch videos and i can't do both at the same time sdlkfhsdf

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Medusa Oblongata @theupgrade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣👏🏾mis👏🏾takes👏🏾are👏🏾lear👏🏾ning👏🏾opp👏🏾or👏🏾tun👏🏾it👏🏾ies!!!

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 14/09/2026

also omg I tracked the amount of time I put into my personal projects last week and I put almost a full time work week into it outside of my regular day job......... why does it feel like I'm not making any progresssssssssssss sdflkhsfd

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 14/09/2026

so much of the world is explained by ppl being unable to remove their own egos from criticisms of systems they participate in dslkhsdf like IDK if it's just me but I've seen a lot of like... weirdly hostile anti-vegan sentiments out of nowhere in the last few wks? which, 1st of all what yr is it LOL

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 13/09/2026

I wish I was the kind of person who could just play a game for an hour after I'm done for the day and be satisfied instead of someone who needs to play the entire 20-40 hour game at once LOL

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 13/09/2026

just came across a gaming youtuber who sells physical copies of their video essays on VHS and DVD and 1) rad as fuck 2) angry i didn't think of this first LMFSDLKHSDF

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 10/09/2026

I completely agree. I've noticed there is a stigma behind how retro games are viewed in today's lens. The fact is lots of folks don't know what graphical and artistic progress looks like, in a world conditioned to have everything be their definition of "realism". Older games still impress me.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 11/09/2026

There are certainly elephants in the room re: X and what other communities flourish there given the recent news, that if I highlight too directly will get ppl to send me death threats

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

THOSE ARE INSANE NUMBERS

The company blocks users who post or engage with exploitative material and reports them to authorities, X said in its statement, including 780,000 users in the past month alone. The company has reported 1.3 million images to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children this year, leading to 543 arrests, the statement said.

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 10/09/2026

nothing better than watching a video and then looking at the comments and seeing that over 50% of the comments clearly did not watch beyond the first 10 seconds of the video, if they watched it at all

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From: Zima Blue (2019), dir. Robert Valley, Passion Animation Studios

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 09/09/2026

social media platform concept where quote rts are available but the second you use them you're permabanned

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Amber ✨🦇💄 @ambattii.com · 09/09/2026

I think for me re: looking at the way the oot discussion has gone is more than anything I dislike how reactive the internet has become. OoT is certainly not the first situation this kind of "discourse" (if you can even call it that???) has occurred and it won't be the last, and smth about that.. idk

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