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mauve

@mystic-mauve.bsky.social
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amateur gamedev, hobbyist artist, compsci undergrad, Roll20 volunteer translator, qa automation, multiple other things also. twenty-something. perceive me he/him

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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
oh and that post actually went out. what the hell how
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
wait that's crazy why can't one of my accounts load shit but the other one is completely fine
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Remembering how much I hate ea every time I come in contact with ea
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
Illustration featuring all the women of the Mini Mná series.

#art #blueskyart #speirgorm
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Man I'm so tired
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/01/2026
i think the worst new word of 2025 i started seeing used everywhere was “vibecoding”. please stay on linkedin with language like that
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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"Dnepr Electric Vacuum Cleaner - Cleans Carpets, Clothes, Furniture, Walls, Floors well and quickly from Dust", Soviet Advertising Poster, 1954
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A friend just had her checking account wiped out by her family's new health insurance premium (which went from $890 a month to $2800). The thing is, she'd cancelled the policy in early December, assuming it would also cancel the autopay. Nope.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 06/01/2026
You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying. So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product. It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.
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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The thing you jokers are calling "ideological purity testing" is the same thing textbooks call "minimum ethical standards."
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/12/2025
Plug that space heater directly into a wall, friends. Fire is LOOMING.
A power strip. Behind it are two glowing eyes made of fire. The text reads: A fire is looming when you plug your space heater into a power strip. Power strips are not designed to handle the energy needs of space heaters. Always plug your space heater directly into a wall outlet.
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Yeah it may suck that we don't do halloween here or catholic christmas BUT. Consider. Two day work week and then it's a twelve day holiday
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I'm so cold and it's only like -5
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Okay is bsky blocking russian ips or are russian isps blocking bsky. be honest. i haven't gotten my posting in for so long
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.
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𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚢 ♡ @dandyyylion.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Falling deep into research of the country's history of the internet because I saw that xilennial video and I fully fit their "analog childhood" description despite never even seeing the 90s
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Farming sim but it's a survival horror not a cosy game. Is this anything
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/12/2025
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
You get all these artistic depictions of the Chicxulub asteroid that have it as, like, this big glowing rock in the sky, like the moon from Majora's Mask, and "oh, what would that have been like!? Imagine the stress!" But the reality is almost worse.
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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much. This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year. So let's make an effort to support their new projects!🧵
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/12/2025
Northernlion with a word bubble pointing to the post below
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 03/12/2025
to emphasize my thoughts on alternatives:
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Suddenly finding myself weeping over I dreamed a dream and realizing maybe everything is not as fine as I thought it was
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol
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Jordan Hass @jordanhass.com · 01/12/2025
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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Even though it's freeware/pwyw so it's not technically on sale like my main paid projects are, you can learn some things about designing a turn-based RPG for 50% off of $0.00 I suppose lol
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters”

The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
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steffi🥛 @diversestripes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
imagine looking like this while writing tasks for a show that's basically saw for middle aged people
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What a great headline
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Speaking of alice in wonderland. Go watch the soviet cartoon right now or else
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Thinking of getting into minis
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I think everything I ever create will have something of fable or merlin bbc in it because I just keep minding my own business and then suddenly head in hands that's not an original thought I straight up took it from one of those and never realized
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 27/11/2025
I would say maybe the single most underrated Disney movie
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.
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crows 🖤 @doomfunk.rip · 27/11/2025
fallen london
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high & off the wallflower 👻spoopy szn edition👻 @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The kombucha girl side-eye/approving eye meme, with “Weird Al music”/“Weird AI music”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Fun fact. Fable's jack of blades was called jack from the shadow in the russian translation. Why? Good question. No idea
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I don't know how this billboard means this but I like to believe it's adversarial, like a "We must outdo the Soviets" kind of deal
AI is Learning Fast
SO CAN YOU
ecpi UNIVERSITY
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mauve @mystic-mauve.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We've had two professors teach us machine learning adjacent stuff. One an older woman and the other this young guy. The woman definitely knew her shit, also taught math, overall pretty fair. The guy was a nightmare and universally disliked and he is my mortal enemy for the rest of time
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 26/11/2025
"The industry's finest sustainable storyteller" is an appellation that we'll wear with pride. Thank you, @jeremypeel.bsky.social and the Edge team, for this wonderful profile in January's issue.
A full page version of the key art for the game Mandrake in Edge Magazine. Titled: Studio Profile, Failbetter Games. The industry's finest sustainable storyteller shifts towards 'fireside menace', by Jeremy Peel.
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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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