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Chrome Guardsman

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History Nerd, Geek, Gamer, Teacher. He/Him.

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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · 16h
It seems like it was #TerribleComicTuesday just last week. Woof. No Devil Girl and Moon Dinosaur today. I hope y'all can get over the shock of disappointment. Nay! Today you get the epic tale of the Fall of Klorg the Deathless, Warlock of Fnord! It's pretty darned gripping, friends. Behold:
It says: This One Is For the Transes.

Gather 'round, stout yeomen, and hear the tale of the Fall of Klorg the Deathless. It is a tale told in 5 panels.

Panel 1: The horrifying and Eldritch Klorg stands in a cavern, littered with the bones of centuries of fallen foes. His head is the skull of a deer, antlers reaching towards the cavern ceiling. He is cloaked in shadows, a long, thin neck stretching down to a dark, shrouded body. Two phantasmal bat wings stretch ot behind the warlock. A spikey scepter is held in one hand, while a second, bony appendage points toward a doomed hero. The young man--clad in full plate armor--is holding a sword and a shield.

Klorg speaks: "Thou fool'", says he. "Knowest thou not the prophecy? No man may hinder me! No man's weapon may harm my flesh! No man's will may--"

Panel 2: The hero skips forward, sticking his sword right into Klorg 's most of him. Sound FX is "Stabbity".

Klorg lets out a death rattle, represented by an antlered skull, with Xs for eyes, and a tongue sticking out.

He is dorded.

Panel 3: Our hero is seated at a tavern, ale mug in hand. Next to him, an older, bearded gentleman stands, his own mug gripped tightly. The bearded man says: "A queer thing, your victory. No man had touched Klorg for centuries!"

The hero looks confused. "Aye," he responds. "Queer indeed."

Panel 4: The bearded man has walked away, and our hero takes a drink.

Panel 5: Our hero has placed the mug down on the counter, a look of sudden realization on his face. 

"Oh..." she says.

You know what? It's hard to WRITE a moment of suddenly realizing you are trans. 

The pronouns get you every time.

Um.

Thanks for reading! 

I love you!
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 7h
Sometimes you need to choose word carefully around your reenactor friend.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 7h
Fact. Also its Æ.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 8h
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 9h
1 only 1 😤
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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comms closed~ @chumiicham.bsky.social · 5h
“Chaos Dreadnought” redraw 🦞
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 14h
Without a doubt, Hellboy. He's so aggressively baked into my comic-drawing DNA
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 14h
It wasn't until I wanted to do a direct Mignola homage that I realized how easily the Force flowed through me when drawing like that 😅
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Red Winterwolf @redwinterwolf.bsky.social · 13h
Ok, so, we KNEW this shit was evil, but this just 110% confirms it out loud, right? Also, Helldivers devs predicted the future, huh? 'Super Earth', Super Intelligence? Same fascist braincell...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026
Halo Infinite (2021): UNSC Infinity, art by Josh Kao
UNSC Infinity, art by Josh Kao
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⋮⋮⋮ SIEGE @siegefault.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you see this post your green art. Spacenoids for life.
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Amaranth Eve Dench @amadenchart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Silent Huntress" Original character: Su (Amur leopard). #art #animalart #amurleopard
Illustration of a female Amur leopard with bright blue eyes carrying a roe deer through a snowy landscape.Illustration of the Amur leopard’s human visage form, a brown-haired woman with blue eyes crouching over a dead roe deer.
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 20h
I am UNCOMFORTABLY annoyed that I cant tell if that's a genuine quote or something said by Hissy Fitler.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 21h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Because what do you do when you wake up and your standard-bearer is term limited, your coalition no longer works and you spent the last twenty years chaining yourself as tightly as possible to the orange-painted lead weight now plummeting into the Mariana Trench?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The corruption never stops.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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R.Case @rcase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huh who would have thought that pro AI dbags would struggle with things like boundaries and consent
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Why didnt the cops do anything?" She tried to get the cops to do *anything* but was told the only thing she could do was remove herself from the situation. she tried. he found her. she kept trying. he found her. eventually she stayed to protect the daughter.
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My cousin was the victim of domestic abuse. she ran barefoot in the night to a CVS & begged them to help her. they thought she was on drugs & locked the doors. She was trying to get help, her boyfriend was beating his 6 y/o daughter. My cousin tried to stop him. he murdered her. Nobody believed her.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are we paying for this??
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Trump's Latest Government-Funded Campaign Ad Just Aired On National TV—And Critics Are Crying Foul
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A reminder that the term "green data centre" has not been defined, and the industry itself cannot be trusted to do so.
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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster.’ Tom opens the barrow, sings away its spell, and awakens Frodo’s companions.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so BOTh of the two latest “ai” “breakthroughs” came from training on the user data of the people who actually did the work, themselves, and made the fatal error of putting novel research into their claude chats? amazing stuff. they invented auto-cannibalization of their users
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
 
Characters
 
Hannah - Goat - Daryl and Seth's Daughter

Daryl - Bear - Hannah's Papa
 
Seth - Otter - Hannah's Dad
 
Panel 1
 
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
 
Hannah's family is having dinner.
 
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
 
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
 
Panel 2
 
Seth puts on a cute happy face. The backgrounds shifts to a pink color with hearts floating all around them.
 
Seth: Is it LOVE?
 
Daryl's face remains emotionless.
 
Panel  3
 
Daryl looks at Seth and responds.
 
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Panel 4
 
Daryl looks away.
 
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
 
Seth: I DID!
  
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
 
Seth: NO!
 
Daryl: Yes.

Hannah is ignoring this and just browsing on her phone.
 
Hannah is ignoring all this and has pulled out her phone.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power. From the archives:
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What Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants for America
Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.
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CEO of Beckett Mariner @kariizumi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
on God, I've seen aerial photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with more standing buildings than this
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would never have been able to get an advanced degree without student loans. The new aggregate loan limits already nuked my chances at switching careers through the MLIS—this new rule would be catastrophic for the working class At this point it wouldn’t be a waste to explore alt. higher ed design
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Joanne Rixon @joannerixon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Details are filtering in about friends who were taken today--two people I was joking with this morning. There's this sense of doom heavy over the city www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 29/09/2026
Pure. Evil.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans' closing argument heading into November: please pretend our president is popular, ignore the gas prices, and if you vote for us, maybe there's $5,000 in it for you. It is not going well for them.
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Republicans' Closing Arguments Are Becoming Increasingly Desperate
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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The first wartime contract for Char B1 tanks was signed #OTD in 1939. The army wanted 400 more heavy tanks but only 34 from this contract were finished before France surrendered. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The first 10 Czechoslovakian AH-IV-R (R-1) tankettes built for Romania was completed #OTD in 1937. Romania wanted to build these vehicles locally in addition to purchasing Czechoslovakian ones, but only one was ever completed. #tanks #history
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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A cheap and effective antitank weapon in 1941, antitank rifles began to lose their luster by 1944. #OTD in 1944 the 51st Army composed a report finding that the PTRS was insufficiently reliable and the otherwise satisfactory PTRD fired too slowly. #guns #history #WW2 #WWII
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS
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NothingSacred.com @nothingsacredwa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In Berlin.
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kitten-koder.bsky.social @kitten-koder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The German Nazis first attacked the transgender people for the same reason the US Nazis are attacking us now.
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Papillon19 @papillon19.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/01...
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A Lost Piece of Trans History by Matthew H. Birkhold
January 15, 2019 – The Third Sex, likely the world’s first magazine devoted to trans issues, circulated in the final years of the Weimar Republic.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And yes, this photo, time and place is authentic, nit is that the german term used for transvestites back then would include also drag queens, cross dressers etc and we cannot know who is who exactly on it. And then the big paperwork gap 1930-1945.
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