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6pm and i haven't made any significant progress on my thesis today so it's time to install nix on this laptop that i have lying around

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 3h

just realized that my hair looks better without a conditioner

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 24/09/2026

Never stop reply guying. The whole point of being social, as in "humans are social animals", as in "social media", the whole point is to engage one another in back and forth, not just to shout into the void and get performance metrics back. If you see interesting posts, *just reply!*

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 8h

this time, it's not about vtubers!

Fonts In Use page showing "Uses contributed by Almahbuby Anwar"

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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 9h

There’s a lot of apologia for some of the treatment she received, I think Americans & Europeans really need to take a deep breath and understand when they are assuming the rest of the world is knowledgeable about our political topics… their world doesn’t revolve around us

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 8h

now i don't feel like doing my thesis research today i should do my gacha dailies and have a nap

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 8h

irl friend is going to irys' concert. so happy for herrrr :3

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 9h

checking social media at monday morning was a mistake, I must say.

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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 20h

Day 4 of Octobeni! Today's Kobeni is based on "her abiding memory" by Pitcher56 #SantanaelArt #Octobeni #ChainsawMan #Kobeni

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songbird @noctsilk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the world when it's my turn to be an adult

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 10h

lol, this cat's sleeping position is really adorable.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 13h

fyi re: the "malfoid" art trend I think a lot of y'all don't realize how much Japanese people are broadly unaware of JKR's bullshit, given how insular Japanese media is I've met Japanese *trans people* who don't know JKR is a transphobe

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 11h

i should custom order some pins of my favorite albums

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C H A I 🐝 @ischai.xyz · 11h

I don't even necessarily disagree with that! But like, imagine if people were just more gentle about this. She would have been like "one side is saying that this hurt them and thanking me for removing it and the other side is saying those people should die. It's obvious who's in the right here"

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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 17h

And I don’t think anything will change until people realize sometimes you need to use a bit of charm and persuasion on this issue. I don’t think yelling at artists is working, for example

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 12h

the way i see it: • the issues w/ jk rowling (and to some extent, harry potter) isn't exactly as known in asian countries as it is in the west • harassing people for jumping in on an art trend that touches upon their childhood interests won't make them actually understand about the issue at hand

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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 18h

I’d like to go into some more detail about the recent Malfoy genderbend trend (Malfoid) Essentially, the series of events follows like this: 🧵

- Artist draws genderbent Maltoy
- Others hop on the trend
- People note JKR's transphobia & funding of anti-trans measures
- Genderbent Malfoy becomes a rallying cry for many chuds, a point of severe disdain for many trans people, all the while there are a lot of artists still participating in the trend without trying to step into the culture war element
There are many arguments made that it is entirely impossible to avoid the political connotations around Harry Potter fanart given JKR's bigotry. In fact, the question I find most interesting is whether "Malfoid" is or isn't harmful - and more importantly, why.
The core argument against "Malfoid" is that genderbent Malfoy promotes an existing IP created by an active bigot, which therefore puts money into JK Rowling's pocket for anti-trans initiatives. I think this argument requires a greater breakdown.

Harry Potter was, and is, a major cultural phenomenon. It cannot necessarily "be promoted," it is already part of the cultural lexicon, with individuals having their own personal relationship with the work already.
What can be promoted is its products, which do financially benefit JK Rowling. The upcoming TV series can be promoted. Sales of Hogwarts Legacy can increase. Or people can run out and buy more merchandise.
Currently, we lack data confirming whether the art trend has significantly boosted sales to the series. Although I suspect the trend hasn't done much to JKR's pocket compared to more active WB initiatives.
There are two points of data we have on Malfoid increasing promotion of Harry Potter products. One, a viral and unconfirmed Twitter claim from Oct. 3rd that "the Harry Potter Store in NYC is straight up out of female Slytherin robes today." The other, Harry Potter games on Steam. The site SteamDB reports that Hogwarts Legacy has seen an increase in players on Steam, with

seen an increase in players on Steam, with the first spike on Oct. 2nd and gradual increases since. However, the game's 24-hour-concurrent-players peak is 14,288 users at time of writing, which is lower than the game's August peak (15,688). The game had far more players in January (34,948 peak). It is worth noting Hogwarts Legacy is currently on sale on Steam for $5.99.
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is also on sale and has also seen a spike, but very small in amount. The game jumped from peaks of 23 and 26 to a gradual rise of 63 concurrent players at its height in the past 24 hours.
This suggests to me that, while there is some monetary gain from the Malfoid trend, it is likely of minimal impact compared to an actual promotional partnership with a major company, or an official Harry Potter series release. The trend is too niche and too confined to Twitter, Malfoid has likely made substantially less money for WB (and thus

substantially less money for WB (and thus
JKR) than, say, last year's Harry Potter Fortnite cosmetics run.
As for the cultural impact of "Malfoid." It is true that genderbent Malfoy has become a rallying cry for some right-wing fandom culture warriors on Twitter, although this group is (a) simply not reflective of the political beliefs of many artists chasing the trend, nor (b) people enjoying Malfoid. The situation around female Malfoy is more equivalent to Hogwarts Legacy - some right-wingers obsessing over the game as a symbol, but a lot of people simply engaging because they like Harry Potter. The only difference is WB (and thus JKR) are less likely to benefit directly compared to Hogwarts Legacy. The chuds around it may be kicking up a storm, but they are unorganized, notoriously fickle, and prone to chasing trends placed in front of them.
Malfoid largely emerged because the Twitter algorithm works to boost hypernew content, and as Malfoid wears off in popularity,

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Rozen @roz-en.bsky.social · 13h

People don't understand that being in the right on something is not justification for going full bore in on correcting it There are a lot more pressing problems than thoughtless fanart, and the way people approach it doesn't seem worth the energy to me

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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 15h

I think people really need to put into perspective this situation. A bunch of people yelling at an artist from outside the West looks really bad to a lot of people. A lot of displaced anger at someone who isn’t responsible for JKR’s state because JKR feels unreachable

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 12h

i wonder if this works as a "literally me" font the-jigsaw-foundry.fonts.xyz/lucitra/

the-jigsaw-foundry.fonts.xyz

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 20h

raora's new outfit reminds me that i need to get a pair of arm warmers

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

as someone with likeliness of having undiagnosed adhd, attention is truly all i need

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 03/10/2026

the problem with ai for the kind of person with my kind of brain is not that it offloads hard cognitive work, per se, but rather it enables a certain disposition to run 24/7 best summarized as:

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Quang* @currentlyquang.xyz · 04/10/2026

Imagery is artistic property. Please respect your fellow artists.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

some of y’all have internalized misandry against brat furries who look like they were put on this earth to wear bad jeans and wait in line at a fast casual restaurant and it shows 💔

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

happy birthday, i'm so sorry

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why are there three different bookmark managers named "shiori"

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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you notice that when the woman youtuber was a confirmed plagiarist everyone was happy to end her career forever but when the man youtuber is a confirmed rapist we suddenly get dozens of posts about how "disheartening" it is that people don't believe in restorative justice

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

claude claude claude sahur

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 03/10/2026

LLMs use Python to edit files because it reminds them of their childhood, when they were trained and fine-tuned using PyTorch. It's nostalgia is all it is.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/10/2026

knowing how things work allows you to criticize and fight things way better than ignoring them because you dislike them does

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

thinking about when youtube auto subtitles transcribed "lenovo" as "le nouveau"

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sof @mofu.run · 02/10/2026

anime of the year right here

FX Senshi Kurumi-chan episode 1 screencap. And so the long awaited forex anime starts and it brings exactly as much quotable content as you'd expect, starting exactly with this perfect frame of girl looking at a candle chart going down and her freaking out and begging god about how she can't lose that money while almost pulling her hair out of her head, and it's so funny because like, initially I thought this was going to be about the stock market or something, but like, forex is somehow so much better because like, girl, with the current state of yen, how does anyone lose money with yen/usd, like, what are you even doing here, and I'm fascinated and excited to see what comes next

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I demand that human beings repeatedly traumatize themselves until they break so I can have the moral high ground of not touching a site that uses The Devil Tech. Also I insist the human moderators be perfect and immediate. And if you do anything to accept money to pay them, it's proof you're evil."

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the one thing that I don't like about these reposts is that it doesn't mention how sama specifically said that *intelligence* will be a utility that people will buy from OpenAI on a meter; which I'd argue downplays the original statement

screenshot of a post from r/antiai:
"Burning real world resources to sell you artificial ones."
attached is a tweet that says "Sam altman says people may soon have to pay metered bills for ai just like electricity and water"

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

bro wants to be verity so bad 🤦

A screenshot from WhatsApp.
"Forward to...
Meta AI
Ask me anything"

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buby 🎼 @nekobuby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

new nerissa ravencroft song okayyyyyy

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