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okniwy

@okniwy.bsky.social
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He/Him. "Retail specialist". It's Myst.

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Antifa Jr. @thejayofspade.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Riven: The Sequel to Myst is a beautiful name for a baby
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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[title]
MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

[ends]
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A- we should not be executing anyone B- if we do it sure as shit should not be a fucking entertainment spectacle.
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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Me: *thinking to myself after someone wrongs me* You made an inconsequential and powerless enemy today my friend
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Morbi @morbi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think every human being needs to experience a little bit of suffering to be emotionally complete but I also think that suffering should be on the level of "lost an entire weekend to Pooh's Home Run Derby and didn't even win" and not "subjected to inhumane systemic violence"
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
actionnetwork.org
Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 06/10/2026
The press release for the Studio X and D&D units of UWOTC-CWA is live! Check it out. cwa-union.org/news/release... #uwotc
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Teams Form Latest Wizards of the Coast Unions with CWA
This announcement comes in the wake of the Magic: The Gathering Arena (MTG Arena) team’s successful unionization with CWA.
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 06/10/2026
Very excited for Studio X and the D&D team to unionize. Hell yeah ✊🏻
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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you want to help and make your voice heard, please sign our petition, asking Wizards of the Coast leadership to voluntarily recognize our union: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
actionnetwork.org
Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski v0.21: Lair names no longer describe their occupants as wet, otherwise liquid-covered, or lost.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026
FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This project was taking too long so I took thier work, added an AI translation for everything unfinished, then released it as mine" yeah go fuck yourself, holy hell The exact level of poisoning the well I'm talking about with these, not just releasing junk, but killing the space for real work done
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Good, we can get rid of these useless localizers and their Jelly Donuts" reading comments on an AI translation reveals a huge swath of people who dont understand that there is no "perfect 1 to 1 translation", decisions need to be made about voice, tone, respect, references, or even common knowledge
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This is the exact and best use case for AI, like programming first, wrong on that side too, but anyone who's ever read a machine translated script can tell you that just gets the meaning of a thing across, losing every bit of nuance. That also tails directly into flat not understanding Localization
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seeing 3 different AI translations of games today and reactions to them has me pulling my hair out with how ignorant people are to them These projects are wildly damaging, from poisoning the well on localizations, ruining a games reputation, completely missing context or all the other fun AI issues
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Ace ✨ ultra family tree believer @chacerider.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is what Omegahorn feels like, to me 💖 #AceArt #Omegahorn #角醒ハンターオメガホーン
A digital illustration of a gold and white DS Lite, running "Beast Hunter Omegahorn". The game is at the title screen, with the logo on the top screen and illustrations of Shout the Flame and Enkaku on the bottom screen, along with UI buttons that read "SHOUT!", "Settings", and "GBA Link". End ID.A digital illustration of a gold and white DS Lite, running "Beast Hunter Omegahorn". On the bottom screen, AGI is filling the Pokemon Professor Intro Tutorial role, cheerfully explaining in a text box "And if you put Gavan: Infinity into Slot 2, you can unlock special characters and side missions!" The top screen shows Reiji the Ironclad standing in dark shadow, next to a glowing "Mission" icon. End ID.A digital illustration of a gold and white DS Lite, running "Beast Hunter Omegahorn". On the top screen, a text box proclaims "EIR the UNDAUNTED and AL the UNWAVERING challenge you to a HUNTER BATTLE!", with Eir and Al posing back-to-back. The bottom screen has text reading "SHOUT to START!!", and it has a little sprite of Captain Omegahorn jumping excitedly. End ID.A digital illustration of a gold and white DS Lite, running "Beast Hunter Omegahorn". On the top screen, a tutorial box explains an archeology minigame: tapping the bottom screen to unearth artefacts, then blowing into the microphone to dust them off. The bottom screen shows a half-unburied artefact in a box of dirt. The DS stylus is shown action-blurred as it is tapping frantically. End ID.
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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capitalism seeks to alienate the worker from everything it possibly can, and now that's going to include actual popular culture. Individualized AI media is going to remove the actual purpose of culture, which is established common experiences and interpersonal communication.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The inability to live up to your own stringent standards is FUNNY and not an indictment of your soul
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No joke, Moral OCD was ruining my life and making me unbearably despondent, but I've been able to get through it by "Larry Daviding," where any time I do something less than noble, I play the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme in my head and accept the comedy of my pettiness.
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026
33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.
The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.
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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My wonderful father, who instilled in me the love of computer and comics and weird cartoons, has passed away. Any support you could give to help our family would be appreciated. gofund.me/a724331e4
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Donate to Help William Florence's Family With Farewell Costs, organized by T. Florence
We are heartbroken at the passing of William Florence at the age of 7… T. Florence needs your support for Help William Florence's Family With Farewell Costs
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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Charles Snart (Histobat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There's also just some straight up cool stuff that shows how Cyan did the practical effects for Riven's endings:
archive.gamehistory.org
"Riven Closing Scene Test" [Digital Betacam]
View "Riven Closing Scene Test" [Digital Betacam] in the Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive.
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Charles Snart (Histobat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today I found out that pretty much all the original footage from the live action filming sessions for both Myst and Riven are viewable online over on the Video Game History Foundation Library in their original quality and I think thats pretty damn neat.
archive.gamehistory.org
Raw camera footage
View Raw camera footage in the Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive.
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🎃 Tamummy Crossbones ☠️ @hekkabecca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
boss, the fascism
Tumblr post by user Nitewrighter that reads:
Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? 

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 14/09/2026
I continue to hate to be a wet blanket but all flavors of wow are still under the BDS boycott. Sorry to my friends that are very excited for it and my friends who work on it but I don't play wow anyways so the only way I can try to move the numbers is to remind y'all the boycott still exists
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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i try to brighten my friends’ days by sharing good news whenever i see it, but this now being the third time i’ve seen very positive climate news lately, i’m gonna get a lil mean: climate doomerism is misinformation and spreading it, even just in jest, is antithetical to the values you espouse.
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Qwarq @qwarq.io · 07/09/2026
thinking about docfuture's Sonic 2 Special Edition again. one of the best lets plays ever made www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnV...
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Sonic 2 Special Edition: Stage 1 (Emerald Hill Zone)
YouTube video by Big Challenges
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 19/08/2026
RT if you want immigration enforcement in every form to disappear tomorrow
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okniwy @okniwy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@magic.wizards.com I did everything right, getting into the pre-que at 11AM eastern (8am PST), waiting 3 hours though a technical issue, and I still couldn't buy Zeta Set because I didn't place high enough in a lottery. (1/2) #SecretLair
Clipped screenshot of webpage text, reading:

Welcome to the Secret Lair Lounge

Expected arrival time on the website: 11:50 AM PST
Your estimated wait time is: 40 minutes

Message last updated: 11:09 AM PST
Secret Lair x MSCHF: The Zeta SEt is sold out in the US, EU, UK stores.
Secret Lair x Marvel: Command Tower is sold out in the US, EU, UK stores.

DO NOT CLOSE OR REFRESH THIS PAGE
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you're under the age of 25, the first time you encounter *any* of these companies it's them offering dogshit. Like, if you are under 25 your experience with Bethesda has been Starfield, your experience with Facebook the Metaverse bullshit, your experience with Google its dogshit genAI, etc
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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 TsubasaCon (Charleston, WV) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In all seriousness though - I already see folks posting stuff along the lines of “why do they keep taking the wrong ones and not-“ No. Stop. Do NOT make it about another person; that is exactly what they’d want - the attention. Celebrate the angels of our world, not the skidmarks of human society.
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I feel like I'm just losing my mind with how prevalent this is growing, like I'm just yelling at a cloud, but I swear it's real. It's just everything everywhere turning into the same mush of a style. It's at work. It's stores on the street. It's so many things just made AI Voices/code/art/everything
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The thing I feel is that this isn't a Purity Test, it's so many details. It's made by nobody. It's the plagiarism machine. It's worse output. It shows just how little you care. And it burns reality. Everyday there's another Event with a Fake AI Photo of a real thing. It's a thousand little things.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What I’m seeing is: being very vocal about the damage thar hateful bigot worm person JK Rowling has done to the world in her pursuit of eradicating trans people is damaging the Harry Potter brand. So definitely keep doing that.
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"Peggy" @whynowhy.peepee.fun · 22/08/2026
i got my samples for the gee beyblade pins :) we have some really crazy stuff coming down the pipeline, stay tuned
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
everything hurts way more when I'm tired - Tunic Manual, Page 11
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Lea // CathGuac @delayedtrigger.scryfall.com · 18/08/2026
"Dear Scryfall, please keep your support of trans rights comfortably out of sight. Signed, Dumb Ass". Scryfall operates thanks to a gaggle of trannies and fags. The loud and obnoxious support for trans rights will continue until morale improves.
A new feedback message has been submitted

Re front page

Why do you feel it is necessary to inject politics into the front page of a CARD DATABASE?

I dont care if you are "community oriented", I play Magic to escape politics and all that bullshit. There is a time and place for discussing gender politics and this isnt it fam

As for a solution, perhaps link to another page saying "Support these causes we believe in" that way its not in your face, still accessible, and lets people decide the content they want to see

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✨💜 king 💜✨ @king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How about this: Instead of hyping up the piece of shit TERF queen and her exceedingly mid books, we point kids in the direction of K.A. Applegate and her fantastic, terrifying Animorphs series?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think about this at least a dozen times a day.
people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.
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Sebastian Fawkes 🎃 @acefawkes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Anyway,
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Dyno @dynomation.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dont play it Its very easy to just not play a game There are much better, less transphobic, games to play
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sildre.bsky.social @sildre.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
pictures of spider(coughing)
J Jonah Jameson is talking to a transitioning p. parker in his office, saying "PARKER!! Didn't you start transitioning around the same time as that WEB HEAD!?"  with Parker nervously responding "Oh, yeah ... I noticed early on, talking all the photos... and it gave me the courage to start-"

In the second panel, JJ is cutting her off saying "WHAT A SHAME!  We need better representation if that MENACE is all we have to inspire young women like you!"  And Parker in the back saying "Umm... thanks?" #meme #spiderman #trans #fanart
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 15/08/2026
Very exciting that now kingdom hearts lore will be locked not only behind a defunct mobile game but the BDS boycott
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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