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Gaia Talamini

@loss.eurosky.social
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she/her | Scotland | Game translator 🇬🇧🇸🇪>🇮🇹 | Bear enthusiast 🐻‍❄️🐻🐼 | [Fix your hearts or die] 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Ⓥ

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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Dreamt a new @simogo.com game was being announced today. Me madly opening Bluesky dressed as Galadriel: I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 15/09/2026
The 24 proposed hyper-scale data centres in Scotland would use over 1.5 times the country's total peak power use. That would mean higher prices for the rest of us. Tomorrow we're bringing a vote to the Scottish Parliament to urgently stop new applications.
bbc.co.uk
Building more data centres could push up electricity prices, expert warns
Scotland has been identified as a key location for building hyperscale AI data centres because of the high potential for renewable energy.
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Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!! @nenilein.com · 09/09/2026
Fun fact: "Reviewing an AI made translation" is more work for translators than just translating it themselves, because AI translations do not pass the sniff test beyond the most superficial. It's a loophole companies use as an excuse to underpay translators, and nothing else.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What devs need to know about localization, ft. Concha Fernandez Alvarez, Aurelie Perrin, and Guido Di Carlo
gamedeveloper.com
What devs need to know about localization, ft. Concha Fernandez Alvarez, Aurelie Perrin, and Guido Di Carlo
We're breaking down what developers need to know about working with localizers to bring their games to different languages.
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
People: lol r u stupid? fish don't feel pain Also people: my AI girlfriend is A REAL PERSON and HAS FEELINGS
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
A brilliant analysis! Wish we had access to something like this every time we translate a Japanese game using English as a pivot language. (Obviously, spoiler warnings for the 25-year-old game.)
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026
Why does the geniality of the people of Edinburgh seem to be inversely proportional to the integrity of those who lead its big game companies?
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Steven Pumpkin Spice 🦇🎃 @silent0siris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Note to self
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absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.
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The thing about Denethor is that he not only succumbed to despair, he wanted to ensure that Faramir succumbed with him. Similarly, a lot of people now are not only succumbing to despair, they're actively proselytizing despair, trying to convince others to join them in their hopelessness. Despair is apparently lonely and they want company in their self-immolation.
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btw denethor succumbed to despair bc he was doomscrolling on the palantir. Sauron tweaked his algorithm so he only saw bad news, and he fell into the trap of thinking the world couldn't be saved.
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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social and Nanna Inie! So many great alts to anthropomorphism in this piece! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output
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🦇 Tam🦇 | She/her #TranslatorsInTheCredits @tamslator.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
My biggest and best creation ever: Gustave. @expedition33.bsky.social
A frog crocheted dressed with Expedition 33's french suit. Black trousers, a red beret, a black and white striped shirt and a piece of bread. He is resting against some purple daisies.A frog crocheted dressed with Expedition 33's french suit. Black trousers, a red beret, a black and white striped shirt and a piece of bread. He is resting against some purple daisies.
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026
Never not repost
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 25/05/2026
I'm asking every cis person who follows me to read this article and take it in. It's a sobering account of how quickly things turned in the UK - with detail that often doesn't make the news - and, yes, what it means for you www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
liberalcurrents.com
The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I find that it helps a lot, when working with a new editor, to first include a page of words and spellings that are idiosyncratic or important to you: or just to say to them that you use certain words and spellings for a reason, and not to alter them...
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...
Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise
By Emily Herring

On a painting of young 19th-century men looking drunk and sad around a table with cigarettes and drinks
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LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization @locquest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
How about this for a creature feature? 🦝 @therat.zone have released their new game: Creature Kitchen. And here at LocQuest, we were really cooking with gas. 🔥 We localized the game into 10 languages, including handwriting and in-game textures. Crawl on over to Steam to get it now! 🐦‍⬛
Creature Kitchen by The Rat Zone is out now on Steam, with localisation by LocQuest.Creature Kitchen is a creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun. LocQuest localized the game into 10 languages, including handwriting and in-game textures.A quote from Chris Onorati, Founder at The Rat Zone: “LocQuest was the perfect partner for our localization needs. From the first emails to project conclusion, LocQuest was a joy to work with given how communicative, transparent, and professional they are. If game developers are artists than the same must be true about LocQuest’s team, who expertly adapted everything from the mundane to the bizarre to work for players all over the globe. With their extreme care and attention to detail, LocQuest will be our first stop for future localization support."The names and roles of all the localization managers, handwriting and graphic designers, translators, and LQA specialists involved in localizing the game.
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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 07/05/2026
Attention please, we have an 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 for developers & publishers: Studio Fugu posted a comprehensive Localization Kit Guide to help teams manage the translation of their games and it's pretty awesome. A must read that should help everyone 📝👇 www.studio-fugu.com/blog-posts/v...
studio-fugu.com
Video Game Localization Kit: Your Ultimate Guide
Learn how a to build a Game Localization Kit (Lockit) and efficiently manage your translation workflow to make your global launch a success.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Morning, all. Mind you _don't_ need photo ID to vote in Scottish Parliament elections, but you _do_ need to watch out for a nasty wee fash outfit calling itself "Independent Green Voice", which is nothing to do with the Greens.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you’re a politician who believes in equality and human rights, we’d love you to add your name. If you're a woman in the UK, sign our here: notinourname.org.uk And if you're a trans-ally, please share 🙏 🩷
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 14/04/2026
54% - That's the percentage of translators (out of 235 respondents) who only receive minimal or no reference material whatsoever for the games they're working on. Remember that figure next time you read a translation that sounds off in context!
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them
• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people.
• Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election.
• Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️
David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I tell people this about writing all the time. Ideas are the easy part. Turning the idea into a story people will enjoy reading - that's what's difficult.
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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026
Dear #gamedev, we know that making a game is hard, but please try to wait until you have more strings before you send them to your translators. To translate those 15 words, we still have to accept the project, add it to our task tracker, open the project, start the actual translation work...
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026
SO READY TO FEEL SO MANY THINGS
A picture of Knower from video game 1000xRESIST, with quote: "Yes, she was quiet. Yes, she kept to herself. But she would FEEL so many things, all the time."
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Kaizen Game Works @kaizengameworks.com · 20/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" etc etc I asked Pinky☆ and she said:
Pinky☆ from Promise Mascot Agency in full rage mode saying, "do you want to die?"
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026
As for languages other than Japanese, my current pet peeve is "Lüften", because we can't possibly just say "to ventilate", we need to pretend it's ancestral German knowledge.
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 08/03/2026
🗣️ HEKKI INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 🗣️ women are capable of so many things! like matricide, committing crimes, motherhood, godhood, not talking about their feelings with their crush... the list goes on! thank you for accepting the women in 1000xRESIST with open arms 💖
Screenshot of Iris getting stabbed by Watcher in 1000xRESIST.Screenshot of Iris in 1000xRESIST. She's holding a bloody knife and saying, "You will pay for this, sister."Screenshot of Watcher looking at Fixer in 1000xRESIST. Watcher says, "Fixer..."Screenshot of Iris and her mother in the stairwell in 1000xRESIST.
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Nazih Fares | Wishlist The Arab League of Misfits @nazihfares.com · 07/03/2026
Hey #TeaseYaGame, Our current project is The Arab League of Misfits! 🃏 A satirical 1v1 card duel game 🌍 travel 16 countries dueling regional leaders 🩴 Make use of over 140 cards full of Arab memes and flying slippers. 📚 Learn Arabic wit and cultural jabs through gameplay #indiegame #ALoM
The Arab League of Misfits logo The Arab League of Misfits prototype screenshot The Arab League of Misfits prototype screenshot The Arab League of Misfits prototype screenshot
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 07/03/2026
It's almost like the AI bros have trouble understanding consent. (1/3)
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026
I will never not find this disproportionately funny #discoelysium
An Edinburgh street with the big red sign of a Tesco supermarket and right next to it the one for a gym called Elysium
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
JD Vance looks like yassified Chucky
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LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization @locquest.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hope this is what @on-together.bsky.social and @futurefriendsgames.com had in mind when they launched 😅 Here’s a handful of our talented localizers, taking a class picture together 📸 (Very important work) Remote work is far from lonely. And we're happy that we can give our folks a space to hang 🤗
A screenshot from On-Together: Virtual Co-Working, with a bunch of localizers from LocQuest standing in front of a chalkboard that says “LocQuest Complete”Another screenshot from On-Together: Virtual Co-Working, with a bunch of localizers from LocQuest sitting at desks and working peacefully together
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 04/02/2026
Thank you, Knower, I feel seen #1000xRESIST #gameloc
A screenshot of video game 1000xRESIST with the speech bubble of a character named Knower stating: "Unfortunately, all the linguists are dead".
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 14/01/2026
Not my house, but I know my way around.
A picture of the mysterious motel from Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
New Year’s Eve.
New Year's Eve
Omar Sakr

Typically, this is when we wish we were 
wise, yet like fools, make plans as certain 
and resolute as ants. There is a lesson for us 
in how the end is followed fast by the start 
of the new: perhaps you should not be 
so afraid of death which, like time and rules, 
we invented. I was here 
before the Big Bang, you know. Trust men 
to make the universe's birth an explosion. 
I have other names for it, most of them untranslatable: think somewhere 
between Always, and Blink, and you 
approach the meaning if not the words. 
Surely, anything but a bomb is true. 
Surely, if this is a real celebration 
and not another manic ritual of brutal distraction, we would create a reprieve from burning? 
Surely the sky is desperate for silence, 
or else the hard and beautiful work of birds?
Once, we could see the stars unaided, 
the perfect light of memory, and now 
we have only this snap, crackle, pop.
You will not believe me, child, but once 
we could see the stars, and it was glorious.
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Marc E.G. ★ Loc Madman @mittovac.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I barely made it, but here I present to you the @fromthevoid.net Gaming Awards 2025. Maybe a bit heavier than previous years, but hey, that's the world for ya 🙃 ⬇️ fromthevoid.net/blog/gaming-...
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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 23/12/2025
As promised in our newsletter, we're organizing a giveaway of the Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe Firestarter Bundle! To enter: 1. Follow us 2. Repost this post Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.
GIVEAWAY: Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe FIrestarter Bundle. Step 1: Follow us. Step 2: Repost this.
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Open Tech Calendar @opentechcalendar.co.uk · 07/12/2025
#introduction We list virtual #tech events that include community participation. Open means open data - reuse our listings! We will launch properly after the holidays - for now just saying Hi. 👋 Send us details of good virtual events you know about! opentechcalendar.co.uk #techcommunity #dev
opentechcalendar.co.uk
Welcome
We list virtual tech events that include community participation.
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ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 03/10/2025
Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.
thedailytism.com
AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late
An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.  Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…
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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 29/09/2025
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
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Gaia Talamini @loss.eurosky.social · 28/08/2025
Fuck the shovels.
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