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Alex Blaes

@otagian.bsky.social
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Nerd, professional drawer of straight lines, painter of small things.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 20h
Yall yelled at trans people for a month and CHANGE for this clown. A MONTH AND CHANGE! FOR A GUY ANY CALIFONIAN IN THE STATE CAN TELL YOU SUCKS ASS!
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Amanda Seyfried with one of her pet peacocks, named Kevin. 🦚 The peacock is a rescue animal living on her farm, which operates as a sanctuary for various animals including goats and horses. #peacock #celeb #farm
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ceej @ceej.online · 28/08/2026
officially-licensed “Being John Malkovich” social stealth multiplayer game
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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 26/08/2026
'cause i've seen, oh, blue skies
youtu.be
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A New Color (1/5🧵)
Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.” Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.” Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They hunger for juicy vitamin C sources impaled on a metal pole.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Still thinking about the Luddites I came across this. How fascinating it is to watch what might be the germ of a neo-Luddite movement around surveillance technology. And a guy writing a nudge-wink, fuck-the-man, banger of a country song makes me feel American in a way that for once isn’t pejorative.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Have you ever heard of Yukio Mushima" "Yeah no toxic yaoi isn't really my thing" "...fuck that ones not even entirely wrong"
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I really can't decide if I'd rather have Steve Buscemi or Patton Oswalt playing ART. We're really spoiled for choice here, aren't we?
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sweet zee @zoctopode.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
little mech comic i made. read it or i dont feed the hostages #mechs #comics #webcomics #stilldontknowhowbskytaggingworks
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
All the adults working on the wizard bigot show made an active decision to endorse a vile campaign of hate. We do not in any way have to reward them for that, let alone sympathize with their plight. Which they CHOSE.
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Well I guess I know why there's been a train parked outside my house all day.
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Anjin Anhut / available for freelance @anjinanhut.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Nice and succinct
Tweet from X user Dat Asuna says:

old avatar: "we contacted consultants with PHDs in their field to help with our worldbuilding and hand draw our calligraphy to best match the class and culture of each writer" 

new avatar: "chatgpt told us no beards"
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mitch McConnell's "death" is just a misunderstanding: 84 is quite young for a turtle. He's bruminating. Bury him in the back yard under a few inches of soil and he'll dig himself out in a few months, perfectly healthy.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Welcome back, Yukio Mishima
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Deciding "submissive and breedable" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been estrogenated by your fey boyfriends and it SHOWS.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?
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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish
Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley  	BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look 
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead  velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if 
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I  never asked for any of this
A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sir, this is clearly a reanimated John Candy in a wig.
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Well I hate this.
npr.org
Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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hailthefish @hailthefi.sh · 14/06/2026
you wanna see a dead body?
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Chris Person @papapishu.bisky.social - 1h
Gimp is objectively unintuitive and also can't parse text layers of PSDs properly, it's designed by FOSS people that have never created tools for professionals. Telling someone to use it for their job is like saying you can make a feature on iMovie. Technically true but not serious.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space - 2h
If you find GIMP hard to use you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or shop at a grocery store. It's literally just buttons with pictures on them that do the things the pictures represent. you don't even need to be able to read.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space - 1h
I use it for my job.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social - 1h
I'm sorry

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space - 1h
aren't you a videogames blogger?

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Sweasel von Trapp @irritatingly.gay
Aren't you unemployed?

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why do the gays have to march so early? don't they know I'm an unemployed film programmer?

4:07 pm - Jun 13, 2026
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hooray, we officially have screw worms in the US! One step closer to @tkingfisher.com's latest becoming real! Now excuse me while I barricade myself inside and make sure my home is air tight.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
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🎆 oceaned min 🎆 @oceanminex.myatproto.social · 30/05/2026
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Scott the Woz leaning on a TV that says “PORN” on it
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And onnot stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I was *obsessed* with brewing chifir for a while after reading too much Russian literature. It is cartoonishly, wildly, impossibly strong black tea, tea strong enough to keep you functional in a Siberian gulag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir
en.wikipedia.org
Chifir - Wikipedia
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Actually cooked a real dinner for a change!
Baked tilapia and garlic bread
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Okay, so I have a great plan for getting banned from Lego Ideas.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
pelcan Mouth perfec t size for $1.776 billion anti-weaponization monies! inside very Soft and Safe put monies in Pelican Moouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth. Apelican Mouth yes a place for $1.776 billion put $1.776 billion in pelican mouth can trust pelican. friend pelican
friend pelican trustworthy pelican open mouth perfect size for keeping money safe
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Gailey: don't fool yourself Gailey: the hippo may look cute, maybe even harmless Gailey: but the so-called river horse is a remorseless murder machine, designed by God only for death Gailey: you ever looked into the eyes of a hippo
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!
Uggi the dog next to my hand, holding a copy of Dead Weight Two copies of Dead Weight with teethmarks
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/05/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...
burnsnotice.com
Her Name Was Juniper Blessing
Sick Burns 5/15/2026 - The slain 19 year old trans University of Washington student has been identified in the press It's never easy to write about a trans woman who dies by violence. It's just a fac...
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 09/01/2026
Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is a very nice video.
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Well, time to change my password I suppose. Getting 30+ 2FA requests in a matter of minutes is usually a good sign, right?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
There’s been a hell of a lot more hand-wringing over lefty politicians associating with Hasan Piker than there was over Gavin Newsom welcoming (and agreeing with) Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro on his podcast. I wonder if that says anything about our politics.
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Crosby finally realized the neighbors have an outdoor cat, and that the cat will play chase with him. Crosby, the world's gentlest boy, is going to be very, very upset if he ever wins a game of chase.
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The duality of dog.
Crosby the black lab, serenely sunbathing in mlthe yard.Bo the other black lab, very unserenely rolling in the grass and kicking to try and get my attention.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/03/2026
God's Penis Visible In Night Sky For First Time In Millennia
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
Recalls been expanded. Check your freezers gang
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 01/03/2026
“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Please enjoy this. You will never see a happier pup,
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Paizo @paizo.com · 17/02/2026
It's your turn to test our two new classes coming to Pathfinder, the daredevil and the slayer! Read today’s blog to see how you can contribute to the Risks and Rewards Playtest: buff.ly/SMYNOW7
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My granddad (Pat) figured out his legal name (Milton) when he had to dig out his birth certificate as an adult. His parents had never told him it.
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Alex Blaes @otagian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well, I guess I'm going back to IRC...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/02/2026
perhaps the most cursed thing i’ve ever recorded just dropped on the ill conceived patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/150071...
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gabbs @girlboss.capital · 06/01/2026
curvy isabelle discourse if we actually respected the marketplace of ideas
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