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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There's a theory that Link's new style is based on Ningyōgeki (Japanese marionettes), which apparently Miyamoto loves. There's nothing wrong with that conceptually, but if you're going to go with a style that distinct you have to commit to it fully otherwise it's gonna look out of place.
Side by side comparison of the new Link design from the OoT remake and a Japanese marionette.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
i vote for Show Jumping. it would make everyone at least a little bit angry and also ~very~ confused. the unity our troubled nation deserves.
A horse and rider going over a jump in a show jumping competition.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
i'm glad they got rid of ONE of the data center tax breaks, too bad there's another one. but i guess we're all doomed to let brain-melted tech bros drive up our power costs and suck up our water (how much water? idk! they're going to court to keep it a secret, which is a always a great sign!)
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
*shouting back from the audience* "IS! THAT!! GOOD!!!"
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Been using Photoshop for art for years. I've tried a number of other programs, but none are as feature complete and smooth with a drawing tablet. That said, I use a cracked/offline version of PS 2022 (no subscription, no AI) and will never upgrade again. I'd switch to gimp before using modern adobe.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
good to see you're taking time to rest and recuperate
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Grace's VA (Angela Sant'Albano) is doing an amazing job, but I continue to struggle with the idea this 16 year old child is an actual FBI agent with a gov't issued badge and gun. (I know she's canonically older than that, but she looks like she should be hanging out at the mall with Ashley and Rose)
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
there's definitely some overlap between zelda and kratos.
Two screenshots from the Zelda CD-i game Wand of Gamelon. In the top panel a dying enemy says "You've killed me!", and in the bottom panel Zelda says "Good".
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Do you have a source on that? The bias trackers I looked at all list The WA State Standard as generally left-of-center (example: www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/w...). Their language can be a bit both-sidesy/passive for my preference, but the factuality of their reporting is very reliable.
influencewatch.org
Washington State Standard - InfluenceWatch
The Washington State Standard is a nonprofit news outlet located in Olympia, Washington and launched by States Newsroom. It reports on Washington state politics and policies focusing on left-of-center...
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The Wildlife Commission SHOULD be working with wildlife advocacy groups, that's the whole point! This makes it sound like a nefarious conservationist plot when it should be condemning the commissioners who are definitely colluding with a bloodthirsty hunting group that wants to kill all our bears!
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
some real synergy possible between Maine and New Hampshire if they're brave enough to embrace it
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
could also add "pyramids (again)" after reagan to commemorate two of our greatest american achievements, the Luxor and the Bass Pro Shop.
The Luxor resort pyramid in Las VegasThe Bass Pro Shop pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hey now, every one of the Gargoyles would beat these pedo motherfuckers to death with a brick, they protect the world from evil.
a picture of the main characters from the 1994 animated show "Gargoyles"
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
be the Cease and Desist letter you want to see in the world 💖
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
OR: "Senate Republicans continue to stonewall efforts to reduce health care costs for Americans, as deadline nears" Please, for the love of god, stop both-sidesing this. I hate the Dems spinelessness with a fiery passion, but the Repubs - the current majority party - is actively ruining our lives.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
unfortunately, it looks like people are going to have to learn the hard way that the stock market only ever benefits the richest 1%. maybe if the AI bubble bursts fast enough they can invest the people's money after the stock market falls off a cliff and get some good deals. 😟
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
our stock market (hell, the whole economy) is currently being propped up by the AI bubble, and that bubble is looking reeeal thin these days. now is NOT the time to be gambling with citizens' money. vote NO on Resolution 8201
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Wall-E the robot waving
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
reporting in from eastern WA, there are at least a few of us who are hardcore progressives, and i swear to god if we could ban right wing media in United Cascadia a lot of those Reds could be talked into being socialists. all my red neighbors are on medicare/SNAP/etc and they don't want to lose it.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
so killing sea lions might "save" 100k salmon, meanwhile the hydro dams prevented at least 7 million salmon from returning to spawn. sounds like sea lions are being scapegoated for a man-made problem and killing them isn't going to do anything to actually fix the salmon decline. cool. 💀
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Good article with a passive headline. People who want to shoot bears got the dept. director to convince ferguson to investigate the pro-conservation members of the commission while conveniently NOT investigating the commissioners who seemingly want to dismantle the rules protecting our environment.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hopefully he fails this run too.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
plus we all know ICE is dishonest as hell. this could be a repeat drunk driver, or it could be someone pulled over for a traffic infraction and the cop found weed on them, and all these charges are knock-on effects of that (driving high counts as a DUI in Louisiana). ACAB. (and abolish ICE)
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
they're leaving room for the leftover floor meat
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Gonna get a lot of mileage out of this meme for the foreseeable future.
4-panel comic where one stick man says they voted for trump and are surprised by his actions while the other stick man just keeps saying "He said he was gonna" in bigger and bigger text
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
this image from a Washingtonian article in 2017 remains ever-relevant to the media coverage of protests
a large crowd of reporters gather around a single, small, burning trash can to take pictures
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
long time villain - and harbinger of the end of democracy - roger stone understood the assignment:
roger stone dressed in a suit and top hat looking like a batman villain
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
a beautiful essay in it's entirety. i find myself thinking about this passage a lot, especially in recent times:
"The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially “escapist,” nor “fugitive.” In its fairy-tale—or otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief." J.R.R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories"
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Plus only ~50% of americans have valid passports, and getting one is a big hassle, a long wait, and at least $165. Only a handful of state IDs show citizenship status (and all cost $), so they're really suggesting people carry their SS card and birth certificate everywhere. Which is insane.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I didn't expect to miss Jay Inslee, but here we are. At least he wasn't entirely spineless. ferguson needs to rise to the occasion, and he needs to do it quickly, or he's going to have a rough time in the primaries.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Columbia University bent the knee to trump and handed over students and faculty and he STILL shafted them on funding. Washington should take that as a lesson and fight like hell for its students and its laws. 🌲
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
solid odds he's gonna blame vaccines again. that'll give this clownshoes gov't a flimsy pretext to remove protections from vaccine manufacturers so rfk's law firm can sue them for cash. there's no moral bar so low these grifters can't limbo under it.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
true or not, i fully expected them to blame the tariffs anyway. corps just love to pass the buck when people get mad at them. (also shoutout to bowser's "just buy the old one" line, big "don't you guys have phones" energy. maybe worse since the 1st switch is still the same fucking price as launch)
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
if i may be pedantic for a moment: that's not Deportation. if you're an american citizen being kicked out and not allowed back in, that's Exile. they want to Exile people and leave them stateless, which is in many ways worse.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
even if we could reverse thanos-snap our fingers and conjure the entire manufacturing chain here on US soil, it WOULD STILL COST MORE because americans won't work for pennies a day. plus we would devastate our environment; hope these right wing dipshits like breathing smog and drinking mercury.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It's a shame the bill didn't get a hearing, but thank you for reporting on things like this. With all the chaos going on at the federal level it's easy to lose sight of local issues.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I wish our state politicians had the spine to respond to this kind of bullying by threatening to withhold state funds from the feds. Washington and its residents pay-in more than we get from the federal government.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Amtrak should never have been relied on in the first place. Rail service should be nationalized, since corporations have consistently proven they can't be trusted with it.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
if we count the 1.1 million (US) who died of covid in his first term, he's already got a toehold, and if the brain worm piloting RFK makes a few bad calls on bird flu those numbers could really start rackin' up. 💀
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It's a good start. Now I want to see every single congressional Dem copying mitch mcconnell's playbook from the Obama years. Obstruct everything. Vote no on everything. Make each and every bill take months to move an inch. Don't comply in advance. The new Dem motto should be "Fuck You, Make Me." 🗽
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So more federal tax dollars are being wasted on another bullshit witch hunt because these republican ghouls are obsessed with tormenting trans kids? Glad WA actually has a spine and is willing to fight for the rights of our citizens. 🏳️‍🌈
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The union president is right, stop cutting services and just Tax. The. Rich.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thank you for reporting on things like this! Rep. Walen needs to be primaried, this is such a clear conflict of interest. (But don't worry, she investigated herself and found she did nothing wrong.) Also, car dealerships shouldn't exist, they're just parasitic middlemen.
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cricketecho.bsky.social @cricketecho.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Another data point for the growing body of evidence that DEI was the only thing actually keeping planes in the air. ✈️🏳️‍🌈
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