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Melissa Wong

@favomancer.bsky.social
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Costume technician and tabletop gaming writer (Cyberpunk: Red, Curseborne). She/They, queer, American-Chinese. My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for. PS: Hook'em Horns.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 4h
One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.
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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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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Rory🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @rory-f.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
vampire bats are champion pissers, because they need to be able to shed all the water from the blood they drink, i think people should incorporate this into their vampire fiction
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
today is a tens unit day. today is a wish I had more than one tens unit day.
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My damned brain just switched "case hardening" for "blind baking" and now I'm imagining blacksmiths putting their iron pastry shells in the forge to case harden.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
grateful to J.Co for proving it is absolutely possible to verbally obliterate Chris Christie without making a single fat joke, a lesson I wish people would learn
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
you fuckin' tell em, bobby eggers
a tweet from eggersfilms with a photograph of robert eggers and a title card for "werwulf": 

Robert Eggers on the dialogue in his upcoming film Werwulf:

“I don’t know who leaked what, but it’s been said — and taken as official — that the movie is in Old English. But obviously, because of the 13th-century setting, it’s Middle English. I just want to be clear on that.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎶Splinter taught them to paint detailed scenes... John Millais leads While Rossetti does machines. Collinson is cool but rude William Holman Hunt is a party dude!🎶 #ArtHistory #TMNT 🎨
The TMNT logo generator strikes again! (The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood)

http://glench.com/tmnt/
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Purrypurrydog @purrypurrydog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Legend says if you say bad things about COBOL, Admiral Hopper will rise from her grave and squish you like the first computer bug
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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Ginger 🫚🏳️‍⚧️🥀 Hawthorne @gulopine.com · 21/09/2026
See, this is my favorite part. I just love that science has no gone from “Stegosaurus had a brain in its butt” to “that’s stupid and you should be ashamed of yourself” to “actually, human butts might think too”
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a classroom of young students are sitting at their desks. The teacher responds to a question from a crustacean sitting in the back row, “No… a Japanese spider crab can’t run for office.” Panel 2: the spider crab is hard at work, leafing through a pile of books in a dimly lit library. Panel 3: the spider crab stands proudly at a podium in front of a crowd; behind him is the American Flag. People in the crowd are excitedly cheering, video recording the crab on their phones, and holding a flag that reads: YES WE CRAB.
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Chlorociboria aeruginascens. #MushroomMonday
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
today my timeline is full of awful art literacy takes so I am going to do what I usually do, glance over them and move on, because I don't need to get into internet arguments.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*checks email* Congratulations on your recent sale on Redbubble. Here are the details: 1x Art Print of THE SCREAM Size: Extra Large (24.0in x 32.0in) oh
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'd like you all to also meet Motha Lisa www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Mot... and Krill with A Pearl Earring www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Kri... #Art #SciArt
A parody of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci showing a robed figure in black against landscape background, except the figure has been swapped by a very fluffy moth with humongous eyes.A parody of Girl with a pearl earring by by Johannes Vermeer which should show a woman facing slightly to the left with a big shining earring, except the woman has been swapped with a shrimp, with legs and antennae protruding from her collar under her face.
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FreakInASheet @freakinasheet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Archbishop Thordan VII has been gifted a massive draconic orb and honestly not now massive draconic orb
Edit of the photo of Pope Leo XIV receiving a massive green orb, hastily photoshopped to replace him with Archbishop Thordan VII from Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, and the orb with an eye of Nidhogg
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's finally out! www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
About to publish an investigation into stolen art that is the greatest possible demonstration of this core research principle:
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ahem. Ed Sheeran. Pikachu. Is disappointed. In YOU. yes, YOU.
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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am
A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I don't know how much more room my heart has for breaking.
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh jesus now I have to figure out another warband for Turnip 28.
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For the record I know times are extremely difficult but posting an appeal for financial help when most of the people you expect to give are a: at work (on Eastern) or in bed (on Pacific and other non US time zones) and then calling us useless idiots is just. Like give us a minute for fuck's sake.
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Did some budgeting for the Pride and Prejudice and Parsnips warband I'm planning for Turnip 28, and the minis cost is going to be in the ballpark of $100. That's a fricken steal and that's with me buying multiple minis to kitbash into single units.
A discord screenshot where I say, "hm the trousers are not tight enough in the Perry Miniatures civvy sets. I suppose I shall have to sculpt my own tuberous Mr. Darcy"

All punctuation errors are intentional.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pleased to announce I will be the 2026-2027 University Club of Portland writer-in-residence! Prior recipients have included Ursula K. LeGuin, Cheryl Strayed, and Lidia Yuknavitch, among others.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The United Kingdom’s decision to impose sanctions and a trade ban on settlements is a step in the right direction. The expansion of Israeli settlements is an ugly land grab carried out through violence and terrorism. Any American President serious about achieving peace should do the same.
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. I have never, and will never, use generative AI.
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I am occasionally a wargamer. I am also a costume professional even if I don't work in that field currently. So behold the lightbulb that went off in my head when I realized, "Turnip 28 is Napoleonic. Napoleonic is Regency. Regency is Jane Austen. PRIDE AND PARSNIPS MOTHERFUCKER."
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/09/2026
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky. www.wired.com/story/nobody...
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For the first time since its inception in 1991, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held outside the United States because organizers feared that it is unsafe for foreign guests to visit the United States under the Trump regime.
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Optimised urinals and buried underwear at 2026 Ig Nobels
Underwear buried to test soil quality and urinals scientifically designed to prevent splashing were among the projects honoured as the Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of scien...
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everyone look at the new lumpfish friends!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
6 years ago today, bloody hell
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I feel like this moth is flashing me
Silly brown moth in a strange stance where he's almost standing upright, legs spread wide (suggestively), making uncomfortable eye contact
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*uncomfortably loud slurping noises through a straw while never breaking eye contact* (silly Scolops planthopper nymph)
Silly planthopper with a pointy snoot, straw-like mouthparts poking into the grass it's standing on, staring right through you
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
While I understand what the motivation of that test is, it winds up ignoring the fact that a: people who learn a word by reading it may not actually know how to pronounce it properly especially given English orthography, and +
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Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do your best to pronounce these words’
People online are distressed at men butchering words such as ‘hyperbole’ and ‘hors d’oeuvres’ – highlighting a gender reversal in ‘intelligence gaps’
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Thorn's Monster Menagerie @thorngobo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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MacRumors.com @macrumors.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down
It is apparently not a good day for AI chatbots, as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are all down or experiencing issues for many users. OpenAI's status page acknowledges issues across ChatGPT and Codex, while Grok's website notes that it is currently experiencing issues as well. Likewise, Anthropic's status page indicates Claude is experiencing elevated errors. All of the companies are investigating the issues.Tag: ChatGPT This article, "ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
yeah, i read the classics
cover of GAY T-REX LAW FIRM: EXECUTIVE BONER featuring a shirtless buckaroo in the front and a group of handsome laughing t-rexes behind him
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
was chatting with one of my homegirls this morning about sandwiches and we stumbled into what I think is the policy agenda for Dems to take back Congress
screenshotted excerpt of a text exchange between me and a bestie

screenshot picks up in the middle of my sentence which read in full: "I also one got brunch at this...I wanna say maybe Thai fusiony place? I forget what exactly. Point is I got an eggs benedict and instead of bread they used a scallion pancake. Mind blowing"

Friend replies: Omg that sounds incredible!!
Scallion pancake is just better. So you should always replace bread with it [I double exclamation point emoji react to this]

me: Right?! Genius

Friend: I had a sandwich using garlic bread once and was like why don't they all come like this

Me: Omg
This is the kind of innovation this country needs

Friend: Mhmmm!!
More breads less data centers [I double exclamation point emoji react to this, too]

me: Winning policy platform!! [friend heart emoji reacts to this]
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
never surrender
neil degrasse tyson: you are not a planet

pluto:: you are not carl sagan

neil: middle finger

pluto: two middle fingers
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Attention Domnhall Gleeson fans. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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The year of Domhnall Gleeson: ‘No one talks about actors’ dedication. But I had a perm for five months!’
He started in the Harry Potter films and has since become ubiquitous, playing every type of character: romcom leads, evil villains, comical idiots. He even starred in a Taylor Swift video. So how does...
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Seamyst @seamyst.northsky.social · 31/08/2026
Meme showing several cicadas on a tree. The text reads, "Sweet trees are made of screams. Who am AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If your day sucks, let me try to brighten it a bit by pointing you to this filk — "Ea-Nasir's Mother", which is an Akkadian filk of Stacy's Mom. archiveofourown.org/works/46305223 I've linked this before, but it has been a while, and some of you new folks haven't seen it yet.
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Ea-Nasir's Mom Has Got It Goin' On - Elisif - Mesopotamian RPF, Filk - Fandom [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
“woke 1 was worse than our nation being run by fascist white nationalists” is a horrible thing to say out loud but it is the actual position most of these people hold so they disguise it by Just Asking Questions but you can tell by which subjects they cover
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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You know what would be a funny Princess Maker style sim game? You work in an inpatient mental health facility. One day you are introduced to the patient in your current case — a former zombie-slaying hero who is now catatonic from trauma. It is your job to rehabilitate a Chris Redfield expy +
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