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bro i am so fuckin glad i just remembered that the fountain faerie can make your pet mutant because i was just 2 seconds away from spending 10 million np on a transmog potion

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 12h

anyway i was looking on the pet trading/pound boards yesterday and saw someone specifically looking for pets with dinosaur/paleontology names

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 12h

FINALLY found a home for a neopet ive been looking to rehome for a while..... it has the name of a real species of ichthyosaur which is cool but its a name that makes it not show up in the pound due to a long-standing glitch, so i couldnt just plop it in there for someone to find

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 14h

not to mention that the life of a feral cat is generally Not Good. disease, parasites, the cold and/or heat, the potential to be injured or killed by cars or coyotes/foxes/other predators/random scumbags, etc etc

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 14h

does it suck to have to euthanize an animal because its not adoptable? yes. 100%. it sucks. but the life of a cat is not inherently worth more than the lives of all the native species they kill nor is it worth more than the ecosystem as a whole

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 14h

person responding to criticism of tnr and of peoples automatic hatred of kill shelters with "THIS PERSON LOVES KILLING CATS" dude come on

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 21h

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, Mario never criticizes the player for underperforming and tries to be understanding and supportive. According to Charles Martinet, that was his initiative, as he felt being negative would go against the core principles of Mario's character.

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, even if the player does badly or underperforms compared to previous attempts, Mario will try to be understanding instead of critical:
Uh-oh, that wasn't quite as fast as the last time.
Hmm, are your fingers getting tired? Mine would be by now... if I had any. (laughs)
Charles Martinet, speaking at TooManyGames Convention 2021:
I got this marvelous opportunity to do Mario Teaches Typing. And when I got the script and I'm in the studio - I'm reading the script for the first time, there were things like "You failed!"
"That wasn't very good." "That was much worse... that was bad."
And I was reading that and I said, "Do you mind if I just, like, play with these words a little bit and just change them around?" because, you know, I never say "no" and I never say anything negative as Mario... and the producer graciously said "Sure, go for it!"
And so it became "Oh, that was good, but I know you can do even better!" "Oh, nice one but let's try again!" so it was always uplifting and always trying to be positive. And I think that that is the essence of the character to me - it's that love and that joy.
Source: transcript of speech found at youtube.com/watch?v=k9RywNQXCUM

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

da vinci and michelangelo were hacks

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the idea that referencing is bad is always wild. people who transparently have never engaged with learning about art even on the level of an elementary school class for but also think theyre the authority of what is or is not Allowed. yall ever heard of people posing for paintings. thats a reference

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

its interesting how many times ive seen people online who dont know the definition of the word tracing. it is not a hard word or concept i dont understand how So Many People think its a synonym for 'reference'

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

just saw someone accuse araki of "tracing" for referencing poses. internet is fascinating

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this doesnt seem that significant but as someone whos been playing neo for over 20 years and did not know about this, it was EXTREMELY jarring to just come across a pet with a space in its name. also i think the name is funny

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

just found out that for a short time back in 2000 there was a bug that let you create grundos with characters in their names that normally wouldnt be allowed and i found this out because i did a double-take at a neopets user with the pet "alien man"

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

looking for a neopet to transmog into a mutant usul so im looking through a pound surf board for names i like. one of the pet names mentioned on this board is "sigmalabubu"

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

really like this bit for that reason. hes actively failing asleep but he Just Keeps Going. "im going to sleep. no im really going to sleep. im tired im really gonna do it. im gonna sleep" bro. shut up

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

a thing i really enjoy about wei wuxian is that hes like, genuinely annoying. not to the viewer but in a way thats like, yeah if you knew this guy irl hed have a heavy tendency towards getting on peoples nerves. the dude Does Not Shut Up

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

absolutely do not get the same response, i have a feeling that that is not true at all. also because the prevalence of it varies between cultures; in some places spiders are even used for food. if it was an innate thing wouldnt a fear of spiders be more evenly distributed

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ive seen lots of people argue that arachnophobia is like the Natural State for humans "because spiders are dangerous" and like i get why people would assume that but considering the vast vast majority of spiders are completely harmless and there are animals that are WAYYYY MORE dangerous that -

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

pokemon fossil museum exhibit is apparently going to denver next year..... thats only a state away....... i could probably go up there for a weekend..................

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

theres plenty of way closer libraries but the slc library is massive and pretty and has a cafe. also apparently honeybee colonies? the slc library employs beekeepers? thats not a factor in me wanting to visit i just found that out and wanted to share

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i need to go visit the slc library. i havent been there in years since its all the way downtown. but now i have the power of familiarizing myself with public transit

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

have discovered that you can borrow pasta makers from salt lake county libraries

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

reading something and the author typoed in a thorn. the letter Þ. icelander spotted

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

put in my food club bets on neo and new layout is fine (will definitely make putting in bets on mobile way easier) but ohhhhh not being able to use my automatic muscle memory for the exact locations of stuff to click is gonna bug me for a while

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is silly because its just for some jokes but honestly i think one of the most impressive bits of bending in atla is when toph bends sand into a scale model of ba sing se. this is cool as hell

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this isnt a slight against the movie i just think the show has some real good stuff in it

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

that theres nothing wrong with the fight choreography in avatar aang but i feel like theres a lot in the original series thats wayy better. same with a lot of the bending; in the show theres a lot more that sticks out to me as being really cool. and i think thats interesting given Budget

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh also dionne quan does a super good job sounding like an actual older version of tophs original voice. all the others are very clearly different people but with toph i was wondering if she was actually still played by the same voice actress

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

given that its called "avatar aang" its not surprising that the focus is so heavily on aang but i do wish the rest of the gaang got more time to shine. zukos like barely even there. also wouldve liked for sokka to have more cool moments rather than being 95% comic relief. also any suki

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

watched avatar aang. very mad i didnt get to watch this in a theater, its super pretty

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

modern au wei wuxian doing drag and teeny little a-yuan wanting to dress up pretty like his dad

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Blair@COMMS CLOSED @flandrepudding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

its that time of year!! tribute piece I did last year to one of my most favorite Halloween specials from my childhood: Scary Godmother!! I still like this artwork a lot, so now it’s available as a print on my online shop just in time for the season!! 🔗 in my description 👻✨🎃

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Atrementi @viripond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know! I really don't know! #mdzs #niehuaisang

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

tomodachi life games inevitably get repetitive after a while but me not wanting to spend 20 years making stuff made that happen a lot faster. id like to go back to it with somethin that lets me be lazy & uncreative

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how difficult is it to mod an original model switch. wasnt there a tomodachi life thing that lets you download other peoples miis/creations

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

now i just need. 2 more. hoorgh by the way i just noticed that the nephrite one goes on the faerieland II stamp page instead of the mobile apps one like all the others. why

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Requinoesis✨ @requinoesis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lemonade Shark 🦈🍋 The refreshing, citrusy party of lemon sharks around the great lemon mangrove! #Sharktober2026

An illustration of a small, semi-spherical marine world of water, with a ring of water and bubbles and lemon slices around it. There is a large mangrove tree in the center that is also a lemon tree. Three small lemon sharks are swimming happily around the tree.

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

area and they take me to a family dance where RFK jr is attending and are totally cool with him being there and just go and dance right alongside him". so right before i woke up i was in the middle of typing up a dm to them like "oh my god dude i am so sorry about RFK jr"

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

who ended up standing right next to me in the dance, with me somehow completely oblivious. later on, after i realized who he was, i realized said mutual had left. i then pulled up bsky, saw they unfollowed me, & they made a post vagueing me that was like "wow i finally try to make a friend in the

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just had a very odd dream where i was getting into like. square-dancing??? & i found out a mutual lived nearby so i invited them to a family square-dancing thing (?????) and it was going fine up until we actually line up to dance and it turns out some family member was pals with & invited RFK jr????

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blair @pterodaustro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

was googling for potential reasons why my eyes burn like hell every time i tear up & i like the second "people also search for". i really enjoy the idea of someone with dry eyes or something being like "this must be caused by Jesus or possibly the Fae"

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