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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · 5h
Yeah, that checks out
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 23h
apparently the hotel does a room raffle for a fancy Lucky Room and I won and got damn this room has a sauna
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 23h
"most aligned" is a really fucking stupid statement btw. most aligned to what??
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 29/09/2026
in train thinking about death
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 29/09/2026
why do they call it a fiscal year instead of a billenium
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 29/09/2026
thinking about that time when I accidentally wrote a critical piece of banking infrastructure without knowing
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 27/09/2026
Part of me is glad it is finally over, but truly I wish it would have been easier for you. The product label said "instant & painless", which I now know to be a lie. I'll bury you in the forest and finally I, too, can rest.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 27/09/2026
you know what? voxels
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 26/09/2026
tired of looksmaxxing? try transmogging instead
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 25/09/2026
I just want to be a silly little creature
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 23/09/2026
the mouse has shat all over my bed
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 23/09/2026
the finnish military service is a good place to find out your own limits and safely experience extreme discomfort, exhaustion, and permanent brain damage
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 22/09/2026
the safe word is lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 21/09/2026
Also, I feel stupid. The pencil drawings weren't in the "telegram" folder because that's not the tool you use to take photos! Anyway, here are some. First one March 2020, Il-Gżira (thanks geotagging), last one May 2020.
A cat sleeping, curled up. Ballpoint pen on paper.

I don't remember if what I used as reference for this was a photo or a drawing, but this is just a one to one copy of something I saw. The lines aren't bad, but that's because I erased the messy pencil sketch from under the pen drawing. Sketch of a part of a face, showing the eye and the surrounding region, and a sketch of a deers bust. Pencil on paper.

Both are from a sketching guide book "Beginners guide to sketching: characters, creatures & concepts".

I'm happy with both. The eye sketch uses a lot of hatching to imply form and texture, and it makes the skin feel very old and very alive. The deer drawing is smudged to create flat regions of different values. I used an eraser to make a small white outline around the deer (to erase the smudges) before redrawing the lines where I wanted to bring out the features.Police girl from Hellsing!

I basically paused the anime on a frame I wanted to draw and copied what I saw on the screen to the paper. Not quite tracing, but lets call this a study on inking lines or something. This photo shows the pencil sketch, the next one has the finished lines.

So it's Seras Victoria from Hellsing Ultimate, from the scene where she meets the mercenaries. She is standing with her back to a wall, her arms behind her, with an expression I can only describe as :3, wearing her pseudo-military uniform.

The sketch is still a bit messy, the lines still a bit uncertain, but my hatching peaked here, and I also gave the shadows faint outlines which makes them read really clearly. Her boobs are really far apart and that uniform shirt has really weird cut now that I'm looking at it.As promised, the inked(?) result. I used a combination of Staedtler fineliners (0.05mm - 0.8mm). The pencil sketch has been erased.

I think I did a good job with line weights, hatching, etc, and I think this looks really good, even if it is just a copy from an anime frame. You can probably find the original frame if you just google "police girl hellsing".
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 21/09/2026
Anyway, I got back into art during covid, this time with a copious amount of youtube videos to help, and I made some really decent progress in few years. The first sketch is from May 2020, the second one February 2021.
Sketch of Tanya from Yojo Senki, kneeling down to shoot her SMG from low kneeling stance. Red lines on a white background. The lines are messy, the line width inconsistent, and the whole drawing is very flat and hard to read. Anatomy is off, proportions are off, and dear god what is going on with that shoe.It's the dog, ya'll. The dog that didn't get me hired. It's a german shepherd running, wearing a tactical vest/harness thingy, with a kitted out AKS-74U on a one-point sling dangling off to the side.

Still white background, still white lines, but this time I have blocked out the major regions with different values: the dog is the lightest shade, then the vest, then the gun.

The lines are a lot less messy, more decisive. Lines are thicker where they need to be, to make overlapping parts and outlines more clear. I've also used hatching extensively over the dog for shading to bring out the shape and imply fur direction. This, together with the correct foreshortening, makes the image feel a lot less flat.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite pieces to date. It is rough, half finished, but I keep forgetting that because of how good it looks. I used extensive references for this. And if you were thinking "oh wow that gun looks really good", well, I traced it. Most of it, anyway. I took a screenshot from Tarkov and traced over it, but I didn't have most of the attachments I wanted so I drew them over the traced gun. I'm not really that good.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 21/09/2026
I feel like I have done nothing
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 21/09/2026
I wonder if Cyberpunk 2077 would have been different if the developers knew that AI is real
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 21/09/2026
renaming our house to House of Spiders & Mice
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 21/09/2026
you posted this on a social media app from your mobile device 🙏
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 19/09/2026
omegle for agents
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 19/09/2026
The year is 2009, dark winter evening. I'm sitting on the living room floor, right next to the massive CRT TV. In front of me I have my PC, which is plugged into the TV, a SilverCrest "gaming" keyboard and mouse, and a World of Warcraft Battle Chest I had purchased a day before.
Club3D HD4650 "Graphics card designed for Multimedia & Gaming" product picture. The GPU has a red PCB with a white DVI and a white VGA connector, and a very sparse aluminium heatsink with two thick copper head pipes running through it, both making a U turn before going into the one heat block. The fins on the heat sink are maybe half a millimetre thin and spaces maybe 5mm apart, making it very easy to see through and probably very bad at dissipating heat. It was not a powerful card.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 19/09/2026
The social element of what defined MMOs for me got replaced by the tedious, elements of what's now called LiveOps
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 19/09/2026
I spun up a 335a server, which took less than 30 minutes, and I'm having the time of my life playing it
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JMS55 @jms5517.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New blog post! Go read about making ReSTIR better, killing ReSTIR, improving denoising, and more! jms55.github.io/posts/2026-0...
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 18/09/2026
I am not kidding the mouse has learned that when it hears me watching youtube shorts it is safe for it to come out and start rummaging around in our kitchen
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 18/09/2026
product image for Fazer's Vihreitä Kuulia/Gröna Kulor,
a sort of spherical marmalade candies that are, in fact, green orbs, served in a green box that has a plastic tray to keep the balls from touching, with a picture of a crown on the lid

the kuulat are maybe an inch in diameter, so pope definitely got the bigger ball
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 17/09/2026
wait so hold on the current AI boom is because of some harry potter fanfic??
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 15/09/2026
Called the bank, they said we can get the bank account reactivated at the local branch. We go to the local branch, they take photo copies of the ID and residency permit, do a bunch of stuff, and then tell us we need to fill a paper form and mail it to the Tampere office and then go there in person 🥲
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 14/09/2026
me, at the airport, to myself: YOU ARE A REGULAR GIRL. YOU CAN ENTER WOMENS SPACES. YOU ARE A REGULAR GIRL. YOU CAN ENTER THE TOILETS. YOU CAN DO THAT AS A TRANS PERSON. YOU ARE A REGURAL GIRL.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 14/09/2026
While I love the new indian food place, but their takeout boxes keep clipping into the fridge and becoming stuck!
Photo of the inside of my fridge, top shelf, which is mostly empty, but has some nacho cheese, a microwave burger, and shredded cheese respectfully sitting on the glass shelf. A lone cardboard takeout box is touching the back wall of the fridge, floating about 6-7cm from the shelf, in mid air. The other items are keeping their distance to it.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 13/09/2026
the spiders are back??
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 12/09/2026
I think the key take away from RustConf for me was that I'm excited for Rust in video games and I'm really not that excited by AI anymore
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 12/09/2026
5 hours until the flight home
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 10/09/2026
"The point is that caustic, antisocial behaviour causes people who previously were valued in the space to leave." And I wonder who are the people participating in this antisocial behaviour.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 10/09/2026
bacon, given freely
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 10/09/2026
My life-long dream is to attend a rust conference that is not in a french speaking city.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 09/09/2026
RustConf experience so far: got to the venue at around 9:30, completely overwhelmed by 10:00, cried a bit and left. 😔
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 08/09/2026
[trans-masc death metal voice] My one desire, my only wish is to be Ethan
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 08/09/2026
Navier-Stokes Singularity Engine
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Matt Scott ♾️🌻👨🏻‍💻🎮 @makeithappenmatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I reckoned with actual psychosis for almost 18 months. I would never wish it on another person. Using ‘psychosis’ to shame people for having a specialist interest in any type of technology and wanting to share that joy with other people is horrifying to me.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 07/09/2026
ok flying to RustConf now, wish me luck
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 07/09/2026
I would like to nominate AGI as the least meaningful term of the 2020's, it mean absolutely nothing.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 04/09/2026
To give an outside-US perspective on this, a brand new 100-apartment complex costs about 25 million euros to build in Finland, and adding a single HGX B300 to it would increase the cost by about 2%, while being able to serve the whole building with Kimi K3, and the produced heat could be utilized
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 04/09/2026
I think I will just block anyone who takes part on any sort of dogpiling, either directly or by reskeeting or liking
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 04/09/2026
I am not kidding, the mouse has learned that it's safe to come out when it hears me watching youtube shorts
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 03/09/2026
The mouse was somehow able to completely lick of the peanut butter from the trap without setting it off. Meanwhile I slammed it on my thumb twice while trying to set it in place.
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 02/09/2026
IT ATE THE FUCKING CHEESE AGAIN
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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog
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Ada 🏳️‍⚧️ @bilberry.games · 02/09/2026
a common but rarely talked about side effect of HRT is that it can make your executables shrink by up to 150mb 😔
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