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Aris Merquoni

@aristgd.bsky.social
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Politely promoting the practice of pornography. Professional shipper do not attempt at home. She/her, White, cis. Trans rights. Shares Indigenous news/content, Black content, and Trans content, especially art and writing, to spread perspectives and joy.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 23/09/2026
It's official! We're raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation at #AGDQ2027!! Their mission is to empower people to stay ahead of cancer through prevention and early detection and we're excited to be supporting them once again 💚 Don't forget we have a ton of registrations opening tomorrow!
two representative sit behind a green Prevent Cancer Foundation table with branded goodies and informational materials at a GDQ event announcement for AGDQ 2027 submissions and registrations opening on September 23rd 

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Opens at 12 PM ET
Volunteer Applications
Game Submissions 
Vendor Alley Submissions

Opens at 3 PM ETRegistration
Hotel Block
The Yetee Attendee Shirt Pre-orders
ESA tournaments
Cosplay Contest Submissions
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From @allrisenews.com. Whenever anyone asks a Democrat about a twitch streamer, they should counter with this, which is only one among several dangers to children that Elon has introduced to this world.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This, also, I find it most interesting to look beyond "is this racist y/n" to "how have representations of race in media changed?" It's way less interesting to judge on a scale than see how different projects tackled the subject, what we consider too racist vs funny, what a villain can do vs hero
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True in many such spaces See the recent ODYSSEY arguments for a similar context collapse!
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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For my fellow typophiles
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ah shit it's beautiful
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Frankly the most exciting thing that happened on my watch was that we dropped a fuel rod in front of our NRC auditor, and he was glad to have something interesting to write about (and I got a GREAT answer to an interview question).
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On the one hand any nuclear job is mostly about keeping exciting things from happening, with excellent paperwork, and R-112 is a TRIGA Mk. 1. Even at their most exciting they are built to be unexciting. On the other hand it was also basically a student job. (This is a recipe for excitement.)
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Labor Day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid jobs you've had? I actually haven't had that many. QA (data entry), dance TA, rec center receptionist, Nuclear Reactor associate director, QA (chemical), grad student. You would assume the reactor was the weirdest one but enh...
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“With cigarettes, my wife and I, we made a deal. We only smoke after sex. I've got the same pack now since 1975. What bothers me is my wife. She's up to three packs a day.” The late great RODNEY DANGERFIELD on The Tonight Show.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026
Still cracking up over the idea of a movie asking "What if Scrooge had a point," because A) he didn't and B) it's not as if we haven't already had the entire run of DuckTales to explore this question
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Princess Flannel @flannel.live · 01/09/2026
So those of you who wanted to know why I was so mad a few weeks ago? Here you go. The IFPA has banned a trans women from their tournament for speaking up too loudly and for protesting. Read this entire statement, please.
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Yseult Ceirw 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @yseult.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.tomshardware.com/software/lin... THE CENTURY OF THE LINUX DESKTOP THE OS OF CHOICE FOR ADULTS THAT WANT TECH COMPANIES TO LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE
tomshardware.com
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
But really it's The Waybacks who I have seen a billion times and every version of their lineup has been a treat, check them out if you like bluegrass/folk.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Also of all the artists on there, who would you think I had seen multiple times? That's right, it's Storm Large who appeared with Pink Martini, and also she had a show at the Leverage convention that we talked our way into, and I was gifted a ticket to her Xmas show.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's funny because it's divided pretty heavily into stuff my parents got me tickets to and stuff I went to as a young adult; I haven't been to a lot of live shows but I would say my taste for recorded stuff is broader than my ability to supplement with live shows.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live Neil Diamond Mary-Chapin Carpenter Sarah Brightman Billy Joel Ray Charles The Decemberists Storm Large The Waybacks Great Big Sea Pink Martini I find this list equal parts hilarious and telling. It's not a great sample in some ways.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My heart says Mary and my head says Rover My plotting brain says therefore the third act twist is they join forces
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/08/2026
THIS IS HOW YOU KNOW YOU MADE A GREAT POLL
first two replies:

"Rover always wins"

"Mary always wins"

they are not replies to each other, they came in simultaneously
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/08/2026
Who wins in a fight
Rover, from The PrisonerMary Poppins
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
fwiw, one reason young people are more attracted to egalitarian philosophies is that no young person is actually rich. children don't own any property in their own name. this is not just a tecnicality; it's a material reality that has realy material consequences. 1
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Noah's thread (read all of it, it's good) touches on a thread of mine from 13 months ago. One of the odd things about patriarchies is that they continually repeat intergenerational conflict, and reactionary moral panics are a recurring tactic in these wars. So let's revisit my old thread....
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of the things that living through a dumb fascist uprising has taught me is I should really take previous generations' fascists' claims of their own coolness with a pinch of salt. I now believe Ford and his Nazi pals were just as blundering and cringeworthy as our current ones, just with PR.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have heard multiple references to Fordlandia recently so I think more people are waking up to him as the purveyor of multiple massive, racist, money-losing disasters. The Musk parallels are kinda striking, honestly!
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Dangit tagged the wrong @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social !
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I have spent my entire life BEING the taller, stronger, more intimidating woman, so I have very little patience for the idea that smaller and lighter women are less athletically gifted than me. I am a tall strong couch potato. Like marshmallow fluff could lift.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thread. There is no reason to fear trans women participating in sport, even if they are all on the taller/stronger end there is always going to be someone stronger or taller than you in sports. Better to have inclusion!
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Always funny when my tendency to swear like a schoolmarm meets my normal foul-mouthed media diet.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Heck yeah, Real Hero Shit delivery day! @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social @kendrawrites.com
A copy of Kendra Wells' "Real Hero Shit" volume 2: Harder Than It Looks. The cover is a red field with four wanted posters for our heroes arranged in an even grid, with the words of the title picked out in spot gloss, one to a character.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express
All the Star Trek characters played by Jeffrey Combs
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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Initial conditions: m1=52.9 m2=46.1 m3=13.5 (solar masses) v1x=4.41 v1y=6.356 v2x=-4.666 v2y=3.806 v3x=2.532 v3y=-2.528 (km/s) x1=8.0 y1=-16.0 x2=26.0 y2=5.0 x3=5.0 y3=30.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor – Rachmaninoff
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Chaos @shed.gay · 22/08/2026
This has been on of those posts which has lived in my head rent free to the point that when I DJ'd last month I made sure to reference it, I'm not sure if anyone at #EMFcamp got the joke or not but it was for me so that's not the point.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 28/08/2026
i consider lying to get this vaccine more morally correct than telling the truth and not getting this vaccine. that is my opinion as a minister. they almost certainly will not ask though
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶
A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/08/2026
Hey, did you know I wrote a book all about grief in contemporary American culture, including an exploration of how we react to very public deaths? Might be a good time to pick up a (print/ebook/audio) copy or get from the library!
bookshop.org
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That's pretty close tbh, given that the original is "It's log, it's log / It's big, it's heavy, it's wood / It's log, it's log / It's better than bad, it's good!" I apologize for stepping in with this information but you triggered the code word
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 27/08/2026
We stand by and reiterate our call to boycott the New York Times. Their role in enabling trans genocide is immense, and we cannot stand by idly. Additionally, we stand with those before us who have called to boycott the Times over their complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Boycott and Divest NYT!
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Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
MY NEW RELEASE IS HERE! My new lesbian romance light novel "Love in Silent Space" is out now! Join Lucille and Tee as they try to navigate the crippling feeling of being alone and trying to connect with the only person who can help you, but communication is nearly impossible
lizstar.itch.io
Love in Silent Space by Lizstar
Two strangers find each other in an empty universe. Can they learn to communicate and understand each other?
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey smiley strange You're looking happily deranged
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Share a TV show you love with a catchy theme song/intro. 📺🎶 My pick: The Adventures of Pete and Pete
static.klipy.com
Pete Pete & Pete
Alt: The opening of the credits for the 90s Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete: closeup of an electric guitar strumming, a push mower running over a fall lawn strewn with leaves, and Little Pete leaning out the car window with his tongue out like a dog.
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Share a TV show you love with a catchy theme song/intro. 📺🎶 My pick: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
$2700 AWAY, now!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As I point out, romance novels used to be where women got their porn, whereas guys had magazines. And porn genres are even more inflexible than novel ones.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think it's good to have more romance novels written by and for men, frankly, but I also feel like it's okay to remember that the audience expectations aren't going to be the same as if you were reading a different genre.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thankfully, Romance as a genre has also benefited a huge amount from the digital revolution and self publishing. Tiny and digital presses have broadened the number of authors getting published and stories getting told. All good! But it's still more a women's genre than a men's.
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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Romance novels being a genre traditionally ruled by straight white women is both a strength and a weakness. It's good to have a genre that centers women's desires in all their messy contradictions! But that list did say straight and white.
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