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Sera @geranium.pink · 01/07/2026

The context being someone "fumbled" a date by mentioning they listen to @wooliewoolz.bsky.social & @patstaresat.bsky.social 's podcast is just,,, bueno

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Sera @geranium.pink · 27/06/2026

As someone who read all of homestuck a decade ago, @wooliewoolz.bsky.social really hits the nail on the head with this one

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Sera @geranium.pink · 24/06/2026

FFXIV Bingo for the @wooliewoolz.bsky.social & @patstaresat.bsky.social stream this week Feel free to make your own with the blank version

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Sera @geranium.pink · 19/06/2026

So caught up on the stream heres the result:

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Sera @geranium.pink · 18/06/2026

Made a bingo for @wooliewoolz.bsky.social & @patstaresat.bsky.social FFXIV stream tomorrow, feel free to fill in the blank version

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Sera @geranium.pink · 16/06/2026

Ok this is the absolute highlight so far trawling thru #steamnextfest (Garden Eternal)

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Sera @geranium.pink · 16/06/2026

I love the SBFP reddit

Post Title: Your biggest "THAT'S WHERE THE MEME CAME FROM!?" moment?
Post body: I thought the "Minor spelling mistake" old man meme was from World of Warcraft or something. I'm surprised to learn it's from Final Fantasy 14 from Pat and Woolie's collab. Oddly, I played FF14 years back and don't remember that scene in the intro, must've blacked it out.

Top comment: So I only recently started playing Skyrim for the first time

This has been me, non-stop, every 30 minutes or so

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Sera @geranium.pink · 11/05/2026

Fuuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkkk ooooooofffff

The family has called on New Zealand’s ministry for foreign affairs, and its minister, Winston Peters, to intervene.

“Step up and do more,” Betty said. “One, do something about Everlee, there has to be something the New Zealand government can do; and two, train your people … because the help we are getting is not the best”.

In a statement to the Guardian, the ministry said it could not comment on the specifics of the case due to privacy reasons but said it was providing assistance to the family of a New Zealander detained in Los Angeles.

It said it could not influence the immigration decisions of other governments.

The Guardian has also contacted Peters’ office. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Peters said Wihongi had not declared a prior conviction on her immigration paperwork.

“When the form asks you to do things, complete the form accurately,” he said, adding staff had been working on the case “from day one”.

“This is going through a process internationally. The process has got to be followed. We cannot intervene. We can do our best to help, but that’s all we can do.”

The Guardian has contacted the Wihongi family and ICE for comment.

Wihongi’s case is the latest in a growing list of foreigners facing interrogation, detention and deportations at the US border, including New Zealander Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son, and more recently an Egyptian family of six, and an 86-year-old French widow.

According to Guardian analysis, 60,310 people were in detention as of 4 April, and 468,450 people had been deported since Trump’s inauguration.

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Sera @geranium.pink · 30/04/2026

Here you go (had to repost because bluesky hates transparent PNGs apparently)

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Sera @geranium.pink · 29/04/2026

My favourite comment on this so far:

Comment by JohnRSoviet on Reddit

British Nature Documentarian: *"FFXIV is a cunning ambush predator. It seeks to lure the Woolie in with the promise of an alluring experience. This may have worked on a younger, more inexperienced Woolie, but our Woolie is fully grown, and wizened by many years of experience. He knows bait when he sees it, and isn't tempted. But FFXIV will not go hungry, as another FGC player, drawn by the bright colors and pleasant sounds, falls into the trap."*

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Sera @geranium.pink · 22/04/2026

XD I am glad to be appropriately labelled

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Sera @geranium.pink · 21/04/2026

paternal joy is cool actually

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Sera @geranium.pink · 17/04/2026

I've been spending this week catching strays

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Sera @geranium.pink · 20/03/2026

I can not easily explain how this horsey game speedrun is making me insane but this comment does a good job

So you're telling me people sequenced the entire Horsey Game genome before they figured out you can just click on the lights?

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Sera @geranium.pink · 20/02/2026

@bestteamaker.bsky.social amazing thumbnail you made today, excellent job

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Sera @geranium.pink · 20/02/2026

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

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Sera @geranium.pink · 15/02/2026

I spent 15 minutes laughing my guts out at this, so I made a blue screen version

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Sera @geranium.pink · 13/02/2026

Smells like desperation from Discord also $34AUD a month???

Discord offering a new Beta feature where you can get 6 nitro memberships on one shared plan called "Nitro Squad"

Important: Nitro Squad is currently in Beta and only available to desktop users in Australia.
What is Nitro Squad?

Nitro Squad is a monthly subscription that provides Nitro memberships for up to 6 accounts under one plan. Each Nitro Squad includes 1 plan owner and up to 5 plan members for $33.99 AUD per month.
Nitro Squad Perks

Plan Owners: All Nitro perks
Plan Members: All Nitro perks EXCEPT Server Boosting perks

Important: Plan members cannot purchase Server Boosts while on a Nitro Squad plan.

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Sera @geranium.pink · 11/02/2026

Heres a good rundown on why it's false:

So, just for the sake of clarity, the emails are about using games as a learning tool, not as a money extraction tool. Even the snippet that people are going around with doesn't even mentions microtransactions either.

Emails 1 and 2 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00960328.pdf)

Epstein says he's meeting with someone and asks Pablos Holman to name some edutainment games. Holman responds saying edutainment doesn't really work unless you mask the learning (example being Call of Duty and Medal of Honor teaching war history and another hypothetical example being a game that teaches you Japanese by rewarding you with attractive women when you learn a new word).

Emails 3 and 4 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00695633.pdf)

Epstein forwards Holman's message to Bobby Kotick asking for critique of what Holman is saying. Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO at the time) says it's a good idea but the key is real world rewards. You learn to read you get rewarded with cell phone minutes -or- iphone credits -or- virtual items in games

Email 5 (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01762201.pdf)

Epstein forwards Kotick's response to Holman, Holman mentions indoctrinating kids into an economy and Kotick's example of real world rewards being virtual items in games.

None of this relates to microtransactions at all really (unless someone stretches and say the learning to spend money = cool in-game items is what they are getting at, but judging by the emails that would wrong since that's not what they are talking about).

Not only that but at least in CoD's case there was already an DLC framework in place with map packs and microtransactions in the form of gun camos in Black Ops 2 prior to these conversations.

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Sera @geranium.pink · 09/02/2026

Re: the #discord ban and me being stuck in baby face jail due to the Australia under 16 ban

Panel 1: In december the under 16 ban went into affect Discord mandated age verification. Between Face-scan and providing a photo ID, I thought I was safe with a scan
Panel 2: My account was insta-suspended in under a minute, I am over 30 years old and it identified me as under 13
Panel 3: Discord gave me an ultimatum:
give them a photo of me holding my ID or never use my
account again
Panel 4: I tried arguing I feared for my privacy; they have leaked ID before, I tried arguing I'VE BEEN PAYING THEM FOR 8 YEARS. They didn't listen
Panel 5: I couldn't talk to most of my overseas friends for a month
Panel 6: Looking for advice online: Turns out victims of the UK/AUS ban had it better than the norm; at least a person saw my complaints. Most suspension tickets are auto declined by bots; I cannot envision Discord scaling this for worldwide fairly
Panel 7: I eventually complied, I'm pretty luck;
I could get away with an expired license
Panel 8: Currently discord is being hammered by people cancelling
nitro subscriptions, I'd cancel mine if they hadn't had done it for me already
Panel 9: my advice is this: Ensure Discord isn't your only point of contact with your friends

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Sera @geranium.pink · 05/02/2026

I don't think I should be advertised to while installing a driver :T

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Sera @geranium.pink · 03/02/2026

speaking of software that you just fucking buy & own; might be time for me to finally bite the bullet on Davinci Resolve studio, even though they didn't have the black friday discount last year this is probs equivalent :T

1 US dollar is equivalent to 1.44 Australian dollar, this is a result of a downward trend for the majority of last year

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Sera @geranium.pink · 18/01/2026

For example here is two examples of why google/youtube would choose to kill .ytt/.srv3; gemini doesn't summarize videos without AI auto-sub, and the fact these formats can be nightmarish on mobile

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Sera @geranium.pink · 14/01/2026

My hoya serpens bloomed 🥹

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