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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir)

@lyichir.bsky.social
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He/him. Fan of Lego, cartoons, and video games. I go by "Lyichir" on most Lego forums and on Twitch.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10h
Hey, remember how us radical trans extremists were warning that you have to go on the attack against transphobic Dems immediately because otherwise other politicians will take the lack of consequences as permission and the bigotry will spread? Yeah...
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12h
Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.
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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 9h
Between Pokémon, Dragon Ball, and One Piece (albeit the live action version), it's cool to see Lego belatedly get into some big name anime franchises. Growing up during the '90s/'00s anime boom it always felt like a bit of a blind spot for them.
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⭐️ Alina ⭐️ @alinalal.bsky.social · 13h
witch hat atelier
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Once you learn that not a single major US news outlet used the phrase "Hamas-ran health ministry" until after 10.17.23 you really start to see how pernicious this stuff is. Nobody really disputed that the GHM was accurate, even Israel admitted so, but that didn't matter. Anyway now it is spreading
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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Sterling Gates @sterlinggates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you've ever loved anything I've ever made, it was because I got student loans for my art degree. This is a tragedy.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people making generative AI are in a millenarian cult based on a Harry Potter fanfic and heavily subsidized by Jeff Epstein in its beginning, that is a death cult by day and a rape cult by night. And they make zero effort to hide any of this, they count on you going no fucking way that's weird
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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm so fuckin tired man
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so not only did greene county sheriff’s deputies assist ICE in stealing dozens of our neighbors, they flagrantly violated the constitution by racially profiling drivers AND tried to cover that up by violating state law requiring them to accurately report their traffic stop data to the state?
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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart
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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
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Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists @cosantifascists.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Data Republican is mad that we unmasked some of the most heinous people in the world.
“The goal of GDL Exposed is to push back against the neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League by unmasking their activists who travel around the country harassing people,” a representative of the site told Raw Story. “The GDL is led by Jon Minadeo, whose primary source of income is video chatting with children and rebroadcasting those recordings to thousands of angry neo-Nazis, without the knowledge or consent of the children or their parents.

“These videos have included support for mass shooters such as the Antioch High School shooter in Nashville, who was found to have shared a GDL flyer. Data Republican is right. We do hope to ruin these people’s lives. They are predators who would kill every non-white and Jewish person on earth if they could.”
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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still wishing I could come up with a Lego MOC of Qifrey's atelier from Witch Hat Atelier... I feel like the most complex part (the conical chimney/tower) would largely set the scale, so I'd have to start there, and I can't seem to make any progress on that at my skill level.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s fucking me up that the word elevate predates the invention of the elevator but the invention of the escalator predates the word escalate. It’s complete madness
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I do not think it is much of an exaggeration to say that British media is one of the least trustworthy institutions on the planet.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Detection software is a con. Those who believe it works are getting suckered while thinking they're righteously punishing someone who deserves it. The damn stuff says Emily Dickinson, famously deceased long before modern computing, used this generative junk. It cannot be relied on to tell on itself
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 25/09/2026
Crunchwrap and her long stinky puppies (they have a shared joy of running around the kitchen like little psychos)
My small Pomeranian Crunchwrap running around with two ferrets, all three of them shoulder to shoulderCrunchwrap and two ferrets all sniff each other's butts in a circle My ferret Yuna hanging out under crunchwrap
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One-upping everything Gale says here! Also, learning how to interpret symbolism and visual shorthand from illustrations is a great way to develop discretion and literacy. If your problem with comics for kids is “they are reading fewer words” you should put more faith in the power of art & cartooning
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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The "should you bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse highlights exactly why job searching is a nightmare for me (and probably other autistic people). So many unspoken, opaque, and inscrutable factors that can be make or break even when they have nothing to do with what you're applying for.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's the delightful development story behind Big Walk, one of this year's best video games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
bloomberg.com
The Six-Year Journey Behind ‘Big Walk,’ One of This Year’s Best Video Games
The delightful new co-op game started off as a pandemic fever dream
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still one of the greatest contributions that homestar runner ever made to culture at large is this image
The good graphics!!!! Still from homestar runner
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel what’s lost in the “Ellison asked Musk for money to buy WBD” story is this implicitly suggests Ellison *cannot afford to buy WBD* which you would think in a normal world would be the very first thing that kills a deal to buy WBD
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The meat was produced without federal inspection, and the labels bear a false USDA mark of inspection" The recall is not over any specific contamination, but because the *meat was never even inspected*. Could literally contain anything, because it never went through inspection.
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Dana Lexa, 2x Award-Winning Podcaster @authorx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another thing to remember on this bisexual day is that The Grungler is canonically bi. I do enjoy how it's become a term for "token cis guy who hangs out with a bunch of trans weirdos" but the original post was also about straight women being weird about bi men.
women will go on a 1st date with a guy and things will be going well until the guy casually mentions he's bi and she'll go home and start posting stuff like like 'we need to normalize being straight' and 'whatever happened to beauty' meanwhile the guy went home to play video games with a bunch of weird discord transsexuals and he named his character 'the grungler' and he keeps saying stuff like 'check it out guys, i'm the grungler'
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Young Horses @younghorses.com · 23/09/2026
Got another "I don't like your game because Snorpy and Chandlo are gay" emails. If you are going to do this please remember Lizbert and Eggabell kiss in the first few minutes of the game and are gay gay lesbian gya gaaayyyyy. It's simple media literacy.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23/09/2026
"Does Israel have a right to exist" in the American political discourse is 99% of the time a motte-and-bailey question which leaves off the implicit addendum "...as a Jewish state"? The reason pro-Israel people leave it off is because they know they can't defend it on the merits.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is functionally what it means to proclaim the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted so long that later-period Egypt had museums where you could go and see mysterious artefacts from early-period Egypt. Cleopatra was born closer to the iPhone than the building of the great pyramids at Giza.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is simply damning. a lot of it has been reported previously to some extent, but seeing it all pieced together like this is just horrifying. do not look away
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Democrats’ Gaza reckoning: how failing to give Palestinians a voice came back to bite the party
Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...
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Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
“This is absolutely going to create a ton of outcry if we publicly launch this as default-on. It will kill all the goodwill and organic press we’re getting from early adopters,” they wrote. “Please think about how the headlines will scream ‘Meta uses humans behind the scenes to make calls’ or ‘Muse AI is actually independent contractors’ and result in a ton of bad press about the privacy and security of our data handling […] please PLEASE do not release this as-is and at least make this a user preference if we absolutely must launch this. Please.”
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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My copy of the 2nd Grimoire Edition of Witch Hat Atelier arrived yesterday and I just finished (re-)reading it. It still hits so good, especially printed large on high quality paper. Books good...
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𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖑𝖊𝖊 瀬川 @crowlees.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Over the weekend, my partner confronted an AI vendor who was intentionally lying about using AI - this ended up with him becoming verbally abusive before coming out of his booth to physically assault my friend who started filming the incident - he BIT HER (yes BIT)
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also this bright spot in VT: “VT will ask voters to amend its constitution to state explicitly that the state shall not deny equal treatment under the law on account of a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or national origin”
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a fucking bloodbath. 343/halo studios effectively shuttered, arkane and ninja theory to be shuttered most likely, obsidian and rare are being merged into other studios which likely means huge layoffs, playground and turn 10 to merge which likely means the same.
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Andrew Barnick (Lyichir) @lyichir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lotta dire news today. Tapas shutting down, Microsoft continuing to eat itself alive, Newsom vetoing a pro-trans/pro-abortion bill, the president ranting and raving at the U.N.... a lot of the people I follow are worried and for good reason.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026
It's not just gender affirming care, this act would have protected abortion providers as well. Newsom being anti trans is hurting abortion provision as well.
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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fiddlehead fern by sarah margaret, age 32
Ugly drawing of my beautiful gnome girl fiddlehead fern.
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desperately seeking suzn @suzn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
absolute banger of a wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org
List of effects - Wikipedia
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it never fails
meme of guy looking at girl walking past while his actual gf looks at him angrily. the guy is "The West", his gf is "China Does Something Right," and the other girl is "But at what cost?"

beneath the meme are various screenshots of headlines that basically say "chinda did something good, but at what cost?"
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