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Escher Vespid

@ash-v.bsky.social
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Yes I named myself, why do you ask?

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warjenkins.bsky.social @warjenkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
the swat operators in this department tend to spend their downtime bonding, among other things. these two, however, really seem to enjoying bonding (she just wants to cuddle) #robotart #digitalart #art
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convelocity✨ @convelocity.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
On the dangers of drowning #art #originalart
Monochrome drawing showing the head of a woman emerging from a dark body of water. Behind it parts of a large snake-like body can be seen. A human skull is floating on the surface.
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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 21/12/2024
As paraphrased from Gustav Mahler's second symphony (fifth movement): "You were not born for no reason. You have not lived for nothing. Nor suffered in vain. What has lived must also perish What has perished shall rise again." Happy Winter Solstice. #wintersolstice #art #death #fauxlinocut
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
but also, la lucha sigue www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands. Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have swiftly moved the surveillance data out of the country.

According to sources familiar with the huge data transfer outside of the EU country, it occurred in early August. Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. Neither the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) nor Amazon responded to a request for comment.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
sometimes marriage is two women eating pizza pockets together at midnight
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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
All you have to do is give the most basic-ass software a text UI with conversational rather than technical language and people will jump through whatever hoops they need to in order to convince themselves it's alive and talking to them. It's that easy.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The problem with describing classic works of philosophy as "challenging" is it doesn't capture the distinction between those that are legitimately arcane, and those that are talking about something a middle schooler could grasp but keep circling the point like the author's getting paid by the word.
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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I think this is the part where ppl is gonna start dressing up like in Mad Max and riding around on motorcycles setting shit on fire and stuff
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Mouflon Cloud @mouflon.cloud · 18/09/2025
the elevator scene from ff7 and barret says the quoted tweet text "technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight"
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
the world (reversed)
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
the hanged man (reversed)
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
do you ever wish you could be something different
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
i say to my following comprised in large part of transsexuals, furries, and depressed artists
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
friends know me as the xenomorph liker but sometimes I just want to be something giant and sharp and acidic
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Hero calls the villain's henchperson their "lapdog"; villain gets annoyed at the lack of precision, starts lecturing the hero about different working dog roles and constructing complex parallels for what specific kind of working dog the henchperson would be in the analogy the hero has introduced.
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
feeling normal
A sketch of worm-in-a-rock god but with a cobra’s body. Its rock head opens to reveal fangs and a forked tongue.
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Blorg³ @blorgblorgbl.org · 16/09/2025
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 10/09/2025
Regardless of your feelings on the shooting, there's no doubt that Trump didn't need it to continue enacting mass political violence against the civilian population. Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 10/09/2025
Politicians and rich people only condemn violence as "political" when it kills someone rich and famous. When trans people are targeted for violence by the state or by right wing influencers, when immigrants are racially profiles and put in camps, when protestors are brutalized, that's just normal.
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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 10/09/2025
I’m wanting to do more short slice-of-life, stream-of-consciousness comics & I’m trying to feel out a design/style for it. It’s remarkably hard. All you people with canine sonas or lightly marked sonas have no idea how good you’ve got it in the cartooning department. #art #tiger #furry #sketch
Two sketches of the same tiger anthro character in two different styles. The drawings are real media; pencil over colored pencil. Five sketches of the same tiger anthro character in five different styles. The drawings are real media; pencil over colored pencil.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
(1/2) Honestly, facile deconstructions of niche genres don't bother me in and of themselves. Like, yeah, they're not a quarter as clever as they think they are, but even deconstruction benefits form having entry-level media available; SOMETHING has gotta by Baby's First Meta Fuckery.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
(2/2) No, the real trouble is when somebody who's literally never seen an undeconstructed example of the genre in question decides they've got something important to say.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A fact that's always stood out to me when talking about firearms and frontline communities/movements is that Thurgood Marshall was, while traveling for civil rights cases, guarded by a team of veterans with literal machine guns. And that was the more legalistic side of the movement.
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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 01/09/2025
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”
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James_R_Millar @jamesrmillar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
First Shiptember design. Got to admit, I feel the colour-scheme is a little sedate; I need to change that up. The flower pattern on the second-to-last mech I posted might really work well on something larger like this.
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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
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convelocity✨ @convelocity.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
King of the night #art #originalart
Digital painting of a white tiger with glowing teeth and eyes. The halo makes a comeback as well as pink lightning. It's time to drink some water.
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Escher Vespid @ash-v.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Why would I pay $70 or $80 for a game when the individual devs either already got paid or are gonna get stiffed when the studio closes (which it will either way)?
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The hero hero walks free!
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/08/2025
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2025
whenever I feel adrift I think "more bookshelves in the house would fix me" and this is probably not addressing the root cause of what's going on but is also probably True
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Keith Donovan @keithdonovan.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
said this before but with YEARS before any primary or election it's insane to already be conceding that you are aware that the Dem party's inclination will be to pick a 99% Hitler and are already pre-defending their pre-disappointment
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
insisting i have to support 99% hitler even when there isn't an election or candidates yet. i just Have to
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
rise and shine!!!
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Escher Vespid @ash-v.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It's not like anything happened in like 2020 that might have delayed some things.
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Escher Vespid @ash-v.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
AI doesn't know the difference between "secret" and "not secret". Y'all are basically doing the industrial espionage (and regular espionage) for your rivals.
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 13/08/2025
Not to mention how highly unprofessional it is to ignore requests for comment sent nearly three weeks ago, to not respond whatsoever, and then accuse me of spreading misinformation in a casual reply sent elsewhere. Is this your PR strategy?
Urgent Media Inquiry - Removal of Queer & NSFW Content, Request for Comment / Interview

Hello,

I'm a journalist with Trans News Network writing a story about your platform's removal of LGBTQ+ and NSFW content following pressure from Visa and Mastercard. While public statements of yours have suggested that no LGBTQ+ content was intentionally targeted and this was strictly for NSFW content, I have spoken to numerous creators who attest to providing SFW, LGBTQ+ content that was nevertheless removed, including some larger creators and even many members of a game jam. I'm reaching out to request comment from Itch on the rationale for this decision, why LGBTQ+ creators are targeted, whether this will be reversed, and how you plan to go forward after losing community trust. 

I can be reached via this email, via phone at [redacted], or via Signal [redacted].

Best,
-Mira
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 13/08/2025
However, you are correct - currently, Wendy, warm, and Like Seafoam do appear in the search once again. I can confirm a few days ago they did not - what is your comment on this, given that you ignored our article for the better part of a week?
wendy indexed when searchedwarm indexedlike seafoam indexed
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 13/08/2025
Hi Itch, author of the original article here. Thanks for ignoring my repeated requests to comment, and then coming out of the woodwork days later to claim that my article - which verified each game's indexing status independently - is 'full of misinformation.' You're full of it. (thread)
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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13/08/2025
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 14/08/2025
There's simply no joke I can make that is funnier than the real story here
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The entire fascist project is built around a core of intense, pathetic, dangerous fear.
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