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I cannot fathom how my (straight, cisgender) sister watched K-Pop Demon Hunters and went, “Why are we celebrating Rumi being a demon?” Like Way to miss the point sis

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thank you @kazkodaka.bsky.social for revitalizing Tribe Nine, you are the GOAT

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🎃 Cal Joyal 🎃 @calvinjoyal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

No matter what, do not fall into that doomer shit. They want you to feel completely hopeless. It’s never hopeless, not by a mile. They tried to corral and kill all my ancestors. They failed. They stole my grandma from her family and traumatized her kids. But they still had families of their own.

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kelsey jaffer⚡️they/she @kelatonin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

there is nothing to say that hasn’t already been said. love your neighbors as if they were your own family, keep your community safe, healthy and fed, be careful online, keep making art and enjoying life to the fullest, if only out of spite

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Needed this reminder today.

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It’s not worth celebrating today

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Seanathan @seanathanva.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

FINE. Y'know what's wrong with Mujin's video? 1. SAG isn't striking Hoyo 2. He calls striking actors entitled 3. He shares the sample interim agreement (not the real thing) 4. He claims SAG's AI agreements are hypocritical to the strike. They aren't. They were made for actors' protections. (cont)

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Glad to hear the voice acting strike has reached an end 👏

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Fuck ICE, btw.

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride Month, you are all valid even if the g*vernment says otherwise

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Found out Paimon’s VA is stepping down. I don’t play Genshin anymore but I sympathize with them regardless

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

All I want for my birthday is for Akatsuki Games to say they’ll cancel Tribe Nine’s EOS :)))))))))))

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s been a day and a half since Tribe Nine’s EOS was announced, and I’m finally able to process it somewhat

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Absolutely gutted over Tribe Nine’s EOS. Heartbroken doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel rn

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hello I’m back on social media w/ my unpopular opinion of the week The character designs in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy are um How do I say this nicely Hideous.

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tru @tootru.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

please stop sharing this. it is completely misinformation. it is putting vulnerable people at risk. 1. the number given is for the Canadian Trans Lifeline, not suicide hotline. 2. the US Trans Lifeline, 877-565-8860, is still operational 3. Trans Lifeline is not part of the US 988 network 1/3

a screenshot of a gradient backed text image with the word FALSE superimposed on the top.

the text (which, again, is misinformation) reads:

As Trump shuts down the suicide hotline, Canada has broadcasted their national hotline which now has a toll-free American version: 1-877-330-6366

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The FDA. The CFPB. The CDC. Just in the past couple of days. Man, we are going to collectively die so sick and so broke without massive and damn near immediate intervention.

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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Republicans are pushing the voter-suppression “SAVE” Act. It means “SAVE” Republicans by keeping US from voting. MILLIONS of women who changed their names at marriage won’t have required ID. Maybe you! TELL your Rep to VOTE NO on the SAVE Act! #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/BaFodSDC

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Contact Your MOC

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Does Nintendo realize people will just attempt to put Switch 2 games into their OG Switch

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Can I even afford to start playing Tribe Nine,,,, I’m already playing two other games rn 😭

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Khoi Dao @khoidaooo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Answers to common questions and concerns regarding the ongoing video game voice actor strike 💕 (1/7) 🧵

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Kit Harrison @kitharrison.com · 26/03/2025

There is a Reddit thread circulating that is gleefully spreading and being used to spread - misinformation about the voice actor strike. I wrote a response to it, which you can read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... or in the images below.

Hi there, I'm a voice actor who has worked in several games including making an appearance in Genshin as some NPCs. A lot of the information in this thread is based on conjecture or is completely wrong.

Studios, Agencies, and Flipping, Oh My!

First off, just to be clear on wording and not to be too much of a nerd, it would be a recording studio that handled the casting and recording of characters for a game; an agency is a separate thing that represents actors and their best interests. The studio sends out an audition to my agent and my agent gives me the ones they think I'd be a good fit for.

The recording studio does not handle whether or not a game is or is not union; this explicitly rests with the client which in this example would be Hoyoverse. A recording studio can no more flip a project union than I could throw a stone and hit the moon.

"SAG-AFTRA has banned all union voice actors from acting in Hoyo games (effectively forever) if the Hoyo games remain non-union."

This is a distortion of the truth: if you are a SAG member actor you are bound by what is called Global Rule One, where you are not allowed to work projects not protected by SAG. This has been the case long before Hoyoverse games came along, and will be the case long after they are gone.

Union actors who work non-union projects are what's called "working off the card" and can be punished by SAG for doing so. However, you can resign from SAG to become what is called Financial Core, or Fi-Core, where you pay union fees but are allowed to work non-union projects. The vast majority of voice work is non-union, as well as any projects that record in the UK (where I live and work), so a great many voice actors are Fi-Core and as such were able to work non-union games.

TL;DR: union actors never weren't banned; that has never once been a point of contention.

"If the Hoyo games become unionized or sign the Independent Interactive Localization Agreement, Hoyo has to remove all EN VAs who are currently non-union, or all these non-union VAs will have to join SAG-AFTRA."

This isn't true either. If the game flipped union, then all non-union actors would both stay on it and given the option to join the union.

Non-union actors can work on union projects by a form called a Taft-Hartley, which allows them in (think of it as a visitor pass). Actors that live in what's called 'right-to-work states' like Texas, or are based outside the US, don't even need to do that and can just work union jobs regardless.

Working a union project makes you elegible to join SAG, but the joining fee and annual fees you mention (which are called dues and are paid by all members of all unions) only apply if they choose to, well, join. The dues help fund the operation of the union and help afford it its ability to protect actors.

TL;DR: NU actors are not at risk from a project flipping union.

Hoyo games (and recording studios) are not the target of the SAG-AFTRA strike. In a legal sense, they are collateral damage from the strike.

Also unfortunately wrong. The strike aims to secure fair working conditions for all actors working on video games, and while union projects are the main target, non-union titles like Genshin and Zenless are not collateral but are also combatants.

It was outlined at the beginning of the strike that non-union projects can be worked, but performers can withhold work in solidarity with their union peers and fight for proper enforceable protections (that is to say, protections that SAG's lawyers outlined and will fight your case on in court). This is what actors who are silent in a lot of these games were doing. They knew the risks of being recast, but chose to stand up for what is right in the hopes that AI protections were assured.

TL;DR: Non-union projects have work withheld in solidarity.

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A really vague idea of how I might’ve written Natlan, a thread 🧵

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kelsey jaffer⚡️they/she @kelatonin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

IL people, you know what to do: Call @duckworth.senate.gov ‘s offices today/tmw and make it clear to her that we her constituents DO not want a CR that gives Musk any more power, and urge her to vote accordingly!! DC: (202) 224-2854 Springfield: (217) 528-6124 Chicago: (312) 886-3506 or 5calls.org

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5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Oh hey, they’re on here too, look at that Anyways @formosainteract.bsky.social SIGN THE INTERIM AGREEMENT

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/02/2025

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Did anyone end up recording this meeting, since it was open to the public?? I meant to attend, but I ended up not being able to

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NAVA @navavoices.org · 21/02/2025

Do you want to stay up-to-date about the latest news from the SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee? Tim Friedlander, President of NAVA, will be moderating this discussion with Sarah Elmaleh, Zeke Alton, and Crispin Freeman. Get updated info on where negotiations stand! buff.ly/4bcNnec

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So it's been at least two weeks since I attended the Genshin concert in New York City, and even though it was an INCREDIBLE time, there was one thing I noticed: Among all the countless talented cosplayers I saw, not one of them was dressed up as a character from Natlan. I think I know why. (🧵)

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Kelly 🍉 BLM @heartmermaidat.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Genshin English dub fans we stay losing 😣

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