Reposted by DaranteiDanielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS 4351331542
Reposted by DaranteiCaptain Pooky @captainpooky.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa. 10861691890
Reposted by DaranteiHalloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise. 8580179
Reposted by DaranteiChris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025'Tis the season once again! Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable." 27716307
Reposted by DaranteiLuke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 01/12/2025presented without comment 8436131057
Reposted by DaranteiHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The Christian persecution bullshit is so irritating because no one gives a shit who you worship until you start telling other people who they have to worship, too. Gee, I resent you telling me what I can or cannot do based upon shit I don't believe in. Who'd have seen that coming. 11794176
Reposted by DaranteiKatie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Authors, one more time: 📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list. Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it. Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does. 11747297
Reposted by DaranteiPopverse @popversesays.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Magic: The Gathering revives its prose novel line after 5 years, beginning with the wizard university Strixhaven in Omens of Chaos. @seananmcguire.bsky.social @magic.wizards.com Read on: www.thepopverse.com/literary-str...thepopverse.comMagic: The Gathering revives its prose novel line after 5 years, beginning with the wizard university Strixhaven in Omens of ChaosWizards of the Coast is expanding the Magic: The Gathering official story into prose fiction. 54310
Reposted by DaranteiCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2025The advice on protests isn’t because we expect the protests to do anything illegal. It is because we expect the cops (writ broadly) to do so. 033844
Reposted by DaranteiShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Oh this explains why people are all up in my rabies thread again. This is a PSA: DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE. 271439324
Reposted by DaranteiCol. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 14/09/2025You know, paper journals are a great place to put all of your thoughts on current events. 1122930
Reposted by DaranteiStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/09/2025 21775433
Reposted by DaranteiPharmacistjudge @pharmacistjudge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Gearing up for #MCAtlanta. Got my shots at Kroger. No prescription required. No eligibility questions asked. (You still have to fill out the health questionnaire to get vaccinated, but that’s standard procedure.) 1524
Reposted by DaranteiRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.theatlantic.comSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIMillions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. 223118719759
Reposted by Daranteimattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/05/2024TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST! 313570747
Reposted by DaranteiCount Duckula 🧛♂️🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I can’t find the lie in this. 59102862309
Reposted by DaranteiThe Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens. 446138621150
Reposted by DaranteiCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/08/2025there are definitely artists who use AI as a tool in their art (it 99% sucks though), but nothing made exclusively from prompting AI is art, hope that helps 812712
Reposted by DaranteiKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23/08/2025I just moderated a panel with Arkady and let me add that you should totally read these, they are very smart and fun. 2336128
Reposted by DaranteiN. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop. 112042697
Reposted by DaranteiKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/08/2025I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible 11876441996
Reposted by DaranteiJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/08/2025As a human who turns an alarming shade of boiled lobster red after roughly 17 seconds in the sun, I will not be participating in the anti-sunscreen movement, or for that matter going outside for any length of time until mid-September at the earliest 7795197
Reposted by DaranteiVanessa Wyeth @vwyeth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time 4657672110
Reposted by DaranteiPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha. 10839133
Reposted by DaranteiPumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Hey @ultimateguard.bsky.social are the marginals on these boxes post-licencing worth directly funding anti-trans policy? Or do you just generally hate queer people? Asking for my audience, & those of my other creator friends xoxo 201282441
Reposted by DaranteiDarryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 01/08/2025If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine. 157121104732
Reposted by DaranteiFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/08/2025It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS” 5288003294
Reposted by DaranteiCassandra Miller’s Monster Chiller Horror Theater—AWOOOO @tiptransformed.bsky.social · 31/07/2025THIS. 012239
Reposted by DaranteiSpike Feeder Alex @alex.spikefeeders.com · 24/07/2025A UB Secret Lair but it pays for the VML. A UB Secret Lair but it supports a New Horizons Grant fund. A UB Secret Lair but it underwrites free learn to play resources and decks. A MtG Secret Lair but with last year's Standard Staples that increases the Worlds Prize Pool sold exclusively at LGSs. 818039
Reposted by DaranteiMicah @rincewind.run · 24/07/2025the Hogan/Thiel destruction of Gawker was one of the defining moments in the fall of the media and made the world, in a significant way, much worse bye, you racist asshole 542504478
Reposted by DaranteiSteve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 24/07/2025www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-what...comicsbeat.comSDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the conIf you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them. 5240138
Reposted by DaranteiJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/07/2025It's me I am counting BRING ME ALL THE PUMPKINS 2548634
Reposted by DaranteiBill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.social · 22/07/2025And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined. 75120973307
Reposted by DaranteiSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Also, it's really weird how this conversation always revolves around "Making farm jobs good enough for Americans." Farm jobs should be good jobs no matter who's doing them. Even a lot of self-described progressives seem to have a hard time getting that! knock it off it's weird 441385
Reposted by DaranteiNicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 19/07/2025im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts? 20282901698
Reposted by DaranteiTomboyish Transfemme @naomihofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Really badass graffiti spotted in town 50107263019
Reposted by Daranteirahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Someone found this thread again via search, so I'm reupping the reminder: if you're diagnosed with Dupuytren/Ledderhose, especially if it's bilateral or you're under 75, get yourself to an oncologist specializing in benign radiotherapy IMMEDIATELY. 18400213
Darantei @darantei.bsky.social · 17/07/2025My giant fluffy Norwegian look-alike loves to lay directly in front of the air conditioner. I'm sure there would be words if I dared allow the bedroom to get hot. 010
Reposted by DaranteiTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 16/07/2025SHUT UP ABOUT PURITY TESTS. GAVIN NEWSOM WANTS TRANS PEOPLE AND HOMELESS PEOPLE FUCKING DEAD. HE LIKELY HAS RANTS ABOUT IT LIKE ROBERT DENIRO IN THE UNTOUCHABLES. SHUT UP ABOUT THIS ADOLF MCCONAUGHEY MOTHERFUCKER. WE ARE TELLING YOU ~NO FUCKING WAY~ WITH THREE YEARS NOTICE. GROW THE FUCK UP. 311318286
Reposted by DaranteiMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 15/07/2025New Murderbot interview! collider.com/murderbot-fi...collider.com'Murderbot's Co-Creators Break Down the Heartbreaking Season 1 Finale and Making Changes From the Book: "You Can Actually Make a Good Show While Having These Extreme Things"Murderbot co-creators Chris & Paul Weitz break down the behind-the-scenes secrets of the Season 1 finale and tease what's next. 19483108
Reposted by DaranteiTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/11/2023My toxic trait is I want every human to be sheltered, fed, clothed and provided healthcare at no direct cost to themselves. I DO NOT CARE if some people then do nothing for the rest of their lives. Mazletov, god bless. I don't care if a few people figure out ways to game the system. People need help 5630371062
Reposted by DaranteiJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I don't understand how parents can support harm to *anyone's* children, ever. How that does not become an absolute, uncrossable line the second you hold a child in your arms and recognize that vulnerability and dire responsibility (if not before). How you don't generalize that protectiveness. 842071
Reposted by DaranteiVee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025This is exactly what the internet is for. 131121483550
