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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We are starting Yakuza Kiwami 1 TODAY! It's a perfect time to jump in and find out why my stream is the best hang on Twitch! BEEF MEN. PUNCHING OUT THEIR FEELINGS! 5 PM CENTRAL TONIGHT! www.twitch.tv/artists_ali

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I am a cat with scribble eyes. I stream the Yakuza & Like a Dragon series 🀄🐉 aka- Ryū ga Gotoku 龍が如く ● they/she

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ok so this is Phil Collins? And not Big Joel? 🧐

A YouTube video thumbnail from Trash Theory called Phil Collins, In the Air Tonight and that drum fill- New British canon. The text in the thumbnail says- New British Canon Phil Collins The Divorce that spawned the 1980s. The background is red. There is a picture of Phil Collins that really looks like YouTuber Big Joel

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ok so this is Phil Collins? And not Big Joel? 🧐

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

No one should ever believe good intentions or good faith from any Southern Baptist preacher, even one who left the SBC Not without substantial public amends made to the communities he has harmed by being a Southern Baptist pastor in the first place.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Whenever I hear about the so-called Male Loneliness Epidemic I always think to myself- I was lonely for years before I met Josh. And no one gave a shit.

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

in 2023 i posted this graph with the caption nearly 20 percent of gen z in the us is queer (and the number will keep rising until demands are met) 2 years later it's 23.1%. millennials increased to 12%. gen x to 4.8% and the number will keep rising until demands are met

2022 gallup chart showing 7.2% of us adults identify as lgbt. in 2025 that number is now much higher at 9.3%

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

There is this NPR interview with Christianity Today editor ( also ex Southern Baptist and current evangelical pastor) Russell Moore where he expresses shock that some Pastor Friends of his say that their parishioners complained that Jesus's own word were too soft & woke This anecdote is bullshit.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

So when a bird builds a nest, it's beautiful and natural, but when I construct a bed on the roof out of pool noodles and glow-in-the-dark slime, I'm freaking out the neighborhood?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Heard a lot of buzz about the death of James Dobson since last Thursday? Need a primer on the monstrous man and his malign influence? The latest Bugbear Dispatch (now on Ghost!) gives you that plus a case for speaking ill of the dead when they deserve it www.bugbeardispatch.com/lets-speak-i...

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Let's Speak Ill of the Dead: Reflections on James Dobson

Administrative Matters Hello, fellow bugbears! It has been a painful process--and the financial blow remains painful, and will for some time--but the migration of ye olde Bugbear Dispatch from Substa...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/08/2025

Ai might not be able to suffer but billionaires can so let's focus our efforts there.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The latest special pleading of the AI bubble is even more irritating I keep thinking they've reached the Fuckass Event Horizon beyond which they can go no further And yet they continue to innovate new forms of foolishness and chicanery

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Why are we re-running the Glassholes incident, this time with even uglier looking glasses

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ESMirelle @esmirelle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Union station, DC

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I'm just curious- Raise your hand if your job is already quietly rolling back the AI integrations they loudly forced into production. 🤚🏻

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/08/2025

fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either

JAMES DOBSON, 89, died this week after a long battle with children. He was defined by an unshakable belief that godly parents, governments, and churches could eradicate unacceptable kinds of people with the tactical application of beatings and shame. He leaves behind the destruction of families in the service of conformity to his personal vision of society.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Btw I’m encouraged by the number of subscriptions rolling in as I struggle with the massive upfront financial hit of the transition from Substack to Ghost. You all have got me thinking I might just get through this okay after all—but if you haven’t, please subscribe! www.bugbeardispatch.com

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The Bugbear Dispatch

A Newsletter about Navigating Modern American Moral Panic

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Ministry of Violence

James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Don't ever feel like you're not making real art if you're using a digital program to do it. It's just a different medium! I understand if someone meant to use physical art vs digital, but the whole digital vs traditional debate needed to end ages ago. Stop with the purist nonsense, it's gross.

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Hoeratio Hornyblower @chestaheadinc.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

James Dobson truly one of the most evil mother fuckers that you might not know about.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

HAHAHAHAHA JAMES DOBSON IS DEAD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOOD ROAST IN HELL, DEMON

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The reason why I find the contempt displayed by other Americans on socials towards the South so upsetting is not because I am personally offended. It is because those attitudes have already had hugely negative material consequences.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I have talked to so many men who are actively looking for women who enjoy their hobbies And it's very sad that men like this are ruining that for y'all.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

So are people going to hold the same vitriol for Idaho that the entire South gets constantly? Not that you should. You could just stop being weird about the South.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Do all oil painters end up dyeing their nail beds or am I just a particularly messy bitch?

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Vincent Van Gogh invented being a weeb.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/08/2025

The Jojo's Bizarre Adventure model makes perfect sense for James Bond. You don't need to keep modernising it until we have a movie where the bad guy is ChatGPT that can make somebody a psychopath or some bullshit. Do a New Amsterdam Bond. Do a Miami Vice Bond. Add magic. Who cares!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel:

"Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.

Theo Von: Do you really?

Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.”

Von: Yeah.

Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It's real weird how people love posting about how much they hate the entire South and want Big Revenge and cheer on weather disasters because of Trump winning but you never have the same energy for the entire Midwest minus Chicago.

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Kobold Factory 🏳️‍⚧️ @koboldfactory.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I think people think that art taking a long time to learn means like a month or maybe a year and not an ever expanding process that progresses with you the entirety of your time drawing. You don't "finish" getting good at art because that's not the freaking point.

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Sarah Carr @carrarts.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

"Talent" isn't a thing, and the myth of it so damaging. Aptitude exists, but really it's INTEREST that matters. Are you interested in something enough to keep doing it over and over, so that you eventually get good at it? It's love that makes the repetition possible and (mostly) even enjoyable.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 16/08/2025

quality technique, my guy

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I know I should not try to explain the Ethan Klein situation to my husband who is not online but I just keep trying to I need him to know about the skulls that Ethan probably sent to himself. (in my non-legally actionable opinion)

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 12/08/2025

I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Hi Bluesky! I just launched my Big Cartel fabric art shop, and I was wondering if you could help spread the word? All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Any sales are colossally appreciated. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, a strawberry ghost bag, and a black creature with sharp teeth. There's a white egg with yellow embroidered flowers and purple eyeshadow and purple lips. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background. The watermelon creature and the watermelon ghost are sitting on metal doll chairs.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the pic.

Here's a lovely photo of three fabric art eggs watching the tiny witch homunculus balancing on one foot on a small broom. The eggs are purple, pink and white, and they're covered with embroidered flowers. The eggs have mouths with lip colors that match their flowers. They have two flat teeth poking out of their mouths. The pink egg is wearing a small sun hat. The tiny witch homunculus is green with large sparkly red eyes and a little frown. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a photo of fabric art creatures with a white fabric background. There's a cute and creepy mothman with a black body and a gray face with twinkly red eyes and sharp teeth. There's a green Kentucky goblin with a lighter green face and large pointy ears. He has twinkly yellow eyes and he's wearing a black party hat covered with red googly eyes and a big red poof at the top. There's also a red death worm with nine cream-colored eyes and sharp teeth. The tiny homunculus witch is sitting on the worm's head. She's very small, with large twinkly red eyes and a green body. She's wearing a small version of the party hat the goblin's wearing.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Meet Melonie the Cosmic Watermelon! I designed and hand-sewed her. She can shoot seeds from her eyes as a natural defense mechanism, but this tickles a bit so she rarely uses this ability. She enjoys biting jerks, and encouraging beings everywhere to use sunscreen. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art watermelon creature. She's a light bright green watermelon with squiggly dark green stripes. She has a red face with eight black seed-like eyes. She also has a wide smile and five sharp white teeth. Melonie is resting on my palm and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely photo of Melonie. This is a view of her back. She has the lovely dark green squiggly stripes.

Here's another lovely view of Melonie from the front. I'm not holding her in this pic. There's the galaxy print fabric in the background.

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hollywoobz @woobewty.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

a time-lapse of my latest dot mandala attempt:

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

the thing that trans people ask of the world is so tiny, really. just to be able to exist as the person they are, without the rest of us being weird or cruel about it. it's a deep shame on our society that we are unable to deliver on so small a thing.

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Mean Fat Girl @artistsali.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Update on my Kiryu tattoo oil painting. I've been laying in midtones and also added part of the background.

an oil painting of Kiryu's tattoo from the Yakuza games. The dragon is grey and black with red flames and the background is green.

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