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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

Asexual flag made from photos of galaxies

Non-binary flag made from photos of galaxies

New Pride flag made from photos of galaxies

Transgender flag made from photos of galaxies

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

One year ago today, this image of Anas Al-Sharif amidst the aftermath of a particularly horrific Israeli attack on a school in Gaza went viral. Israel recognized the anniversary by killing him, along with four other journalists: Mohammed Qreiqea Ibrahim Daher Moumin Alaywa Mohammed Noufal

Anas Al-Sharif Li,yill uii o
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My words stopped, and I lost my strength and ability to express or speak when I reached the place of the massacre. Body parts and blood were all around us, corpses piled on top of each other, dismembered. Tell me, with what words or phrases can any journalist describe this horrific scene?
When I told you on air that it was "an indescribable scene," I truly faltered before this sight. How do we convey our annihilation to you?
I am exhausted and pained by the scale of the body parts and blood I saw today.

Photo of a young man wearing a PRESS vest sitting disconsolate among the rubble of an Israeli attack on Gaza.

7:34 AM • 8/10/24 • 2.1M Views

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My toxic trait is despite knowing it’ll be a financial death trap I’ll never not be tempted to buy an abandoned akiya

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Today I booked in my first round of the HPV vaccine (via a private pharmacy - £185) and also completed the free NHS-provided postal STI testing kit. Bit grim, those lancets, and I couldn't quite fill up the tube with blood (drink water!! I guess) but it's DONE. 💪

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Discourse Ignorer @sirsandgoblin.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Think a lot about a guy I know who went to Cardiff museum on acid, it got a bit much but he managed to find a quiet dark room, then suddenly the lights went up, a giant turtle hanging from the ceiling filled the room, and a booming voice started a monologue with "YOU KILLED ME"

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Hunter's Mark: A Bloodborne Anniversary Zine @huntersmarkzine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Blood Saint of the Healing Church or outsider to the city, all are welcome to join us in making this zine more than a restless dream. Page Artist, Writer, Merch Artist Sign-Ups: forms.gle/mzHBuMCUjGK7... Cover Artist Applications: forms.gle/dZ4nSQ9YcFAh... #bloodborne #zine #fanzine #zineapps

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

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Kelso @broken-ghost.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I rarely get to see my flag (labrys) out in the wild, so this is really thoughtful and exciting for me.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Setsuko Hara in "The Idiot" - BOTD

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Just witnessed a miscalculation Child on train: oooooo Parent: you’re being very loud Child: no I’m not P: yes you are Child: ……that’s not loud. That’s not the loudest I can be P: wait Child: OOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 27/05/2025

Home sick today. 1 like=1 obscure Yuri review from the Okazu archives.

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Crystal Game Works @crystalgameworks.com · 11/06/2025

Our next boys love visual novel Asphodelium releases 1 week from today on June 18th! 💜 You killed him before. Will you make the same mistakes again? This is a story about cults, killing, and killing cults. And being in love. 🔪 Play the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3139260/...

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My book, "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain" (or "True Britons and Celtic Empires", if you'd prefer) is now AVAILABLE FOR HARDBACK PREORDER Your library needs more about bardic antislavery, imperial complicity, and druids with telescopes, no? boydellandbrewer.com/978183765195...

Book cover for "Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires". Cover shoes a painting of a Welshman with a gilded leek in his wide-brimmed black hat, warming a (seemingly alcoholic...) drink at a candle flame

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Deadstar Publishing @deadstar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Fifteen years ago, three geeks had a chat about creative outlets and wanting to do something fun. Since then, we've toured the UK, met thousands of fans and made a lot of happy memories. Thanks for sticking with us and supporting us to do something amazing!

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 04/06/2025

Make a language and then watch it die in Dialect #ttrpg #storygames

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Rika Klassen @rikaklassen.northsky.social · 04/06/2025

yeah, someone made the sunset lesbian flag inspired by your design www.tumblr.com/lgbtqa-aesth...

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Just saw a really wonderful review for Retrogression that lifted my spirits! "...you can clearly feel the translator's dedication and willingness to portray Dazai in the right way..." Full review: instagram.com/p/DCzd9xQIi2P

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Joel C. Scoberg @joel-c-scoberg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Chuffed to receive my contributors copy of @gwyllion.bsky.social and looking forward to reading all the other great stories in Issue 10 (which is on sale now so grab a copy for yourselves too)! 🪐📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 #booksky

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I spoke to disabled rights campaingers about their thoughts on the current row over gende and toilets - they know better than anyone what it means to be excluded from bathroom facilities www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation

Disabled activists say supreme court ruling has left trans community at similar risk of exclusion from public spaces

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Bruno de Figueiredo @dieubussy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Yesterday, I uploaded the ISO image of one of the rarest videogames known to exist, of which a single copy is known to exist in the online world. After years of appeals, its owner finally agreed to share it with me so that I could in turn share it with the world.

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This is also true of translation! If you like something someone has translated, please say so Don't worry, there will always be someone out there who's already mused about what's been "lost in translation", you can feel free to say something, anything else

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Cadensia 婉玉🪻🎀 @cadensia.eurosky.social · 23/05/2025

There was always something a bit magical about the Pilgrimage of Tripitaka being inaccessible, a sort of meta-commentary on the disappearance of early Buddhist canonic works. But there's also something great about it being accessible at last!

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Bruno de Figueiredo @dieubussy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

After a long search, uncertain that it even existed, I finally located the CD-ROM TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, the elusive sequel to the legendary Cosmology of Kyoto. Here is the ISO for your emulational pleasure. archive.org/details/trip...

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TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅 : Soft Edge : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Dual Macintosh-Windows ISO CD image of TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅 (Xuanzang Sanzo's Dharma-Seeking Journey), the sequel to Cosmology of Kyoto and...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I open up ‘Silverwhite’ and the first thing I see is this insane map showing how Saaremaa is part of Britain. This is gonna be a WILD ride

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Truth Scrapper 📚 Demo out now! @truthscrapper.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention– who will you decide to remember, and who will you decide to push aside…? Here's romance/mystery VN Truth Scrapper, the next game by In Stars and Time developer @insertdisc5.com !!! 📚👒👭

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It's publication day! What a surreal, amazing feeling this is.

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Pawtez @pawtez.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

gritty undertones --> "the words coming out like gravel"

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

(Rinsing out an amphora with a dishcloth) What can I getcha?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Tao Te Ching: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step Westerners: this means we must start small and dream big! Master Han Fei (2nd cent BC) : This means you should kill people who will pose a threat to your rule while they are still weak. www2.iath.virginia.edu/saxon/servle...

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For Bandcamp Friday today I bought a few Tuareg rock albums, many of which are free/pay-what-you-like anyway so please check them out. Starting with the mesmerising Tinariwen: tinariwenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/amatss...

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Amatssou (Deluxe), by Tinariwen

16 track album

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Gwyllion Magazine @gwyllion.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Out today! Hot off the press and 35% longer! Thank you for supporting us all the way to issue 10. 🫶 Plus we still have some copies of issue 9 lying around, so they have gone on sale. Only three left though so grab them quick! 📚🏃 gwyllionmagazine.com/issues

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My poem "The Selkie" has been published by Welsh speculative fiction/poetry magazine Gwyllion. gwyllionmagazine.com

Cover of Gwyllion magazine featuring an illustration of a monstrous-looking warrior staring adoringly at the little animals perched on him.

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Learning about the first Moomin tv series from 1969 which depicted the characters getting drunk together in a bar and repeatedly gave Moomintroll a gun

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Well, this is horrendous.

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Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

FR: Herlock Sholmès. US: Herlock Sholmes. UK: Fuck you. Holmlock Shears.

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