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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@silmaria.bsky.social
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Transfem queer, partner of @wiredferret.bsky.social. Human-shaped. My opinions are my own and do not reflect any organization I'm a part of unless otherwise stated.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1h
I also did close to 20 miles on my bike today, which was really tough for the last 6 miles.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1h
leaving aside other issues there is no such thing as "machine-made clothes"
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Freckles @elfreckles.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🦊🏹 #comics #furryart #furry
Digital picture. Disney's Robin Hood fox character, looking concerned. A speech bubble comes out from him saying "If I was your first furry crush, it's time to take note of your cholesterol.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind." bsky.app/profile/jame... "struggling to explain without sounding like a lunatic" "media's issues--objectively reporting sounds biased because fucking batshit crazy"
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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 2h
While I believe the city is more or less required to provide this defense (and the city is itself a defendant and so needs counsel itself), I do not think that the mayor is required to request or accept it.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 16/09/2026
Hey everyone. Things have been tough around here and they are about to get worse. I’ll probably need to make a bigger ask soon, but right now I’m asking for some help covering essentials. Next post has what I’m trying to cover. PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc No Venmo
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 4h
Eyebrows waxed and sharp enough to cut glass. Woot!
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 6h
It's moist out.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 7h
I often forget that not everybody knows the history of the city, even people who've lived here a while. Halfway tempted to write "An Extremely ADHD History of Minneapolis"
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 9h
They're looking to hire a law firm that's famous for union busting to defend Mayor Her against the police chief's lawsuit. St Paul, you were supposed to be the city that wasn't a clown show!
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Star Wars: You Were The Chosen One
Alt: Star Wars: You Were The Chosen One
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 10h
Here is an excellent example of framing issues using the appropriate and socially relevant terms, directly addressing the power dynamics embedded in institutions. I wish people would do that more often, especially in the MSM and academia itself.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 10h
Youth pastor voice
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 29/09/2026
And not one cis person will say "man, transphobes are dangerous people who kill over their hatred" A lot of them will blame his transition for provoking this violence
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Murdered trans exec angered in-laws 'by letting son dress as girl'
Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was shot dead in a parking lot in Dublin, California on Saturday. Police arrested his in-laws Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on suspicion of murder.
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JCO for the win.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always nice to see a doctor who listens and doesn't fight me when I suggest something slightly zebraish by cis standards, especially when it turns out to my correct. Post-op trans anatomy is just different and we're prone to different problems because of it.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm 0 for 5 in my last electronics projects, and I've even donated blood to two of them. I swear, I used to be good at this shit. I also feel like I've gotten really clumsy since I tripped in July, though I didn't hit my head or anything.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The new owner isn't paying the old owner or the landlord and is in serious legal trouble, according to the Strib. www.startribune.com/french-meado...
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French Meadow founder calls sale of Minneapolis restaurant a ‘horrible mistake’
In a lawsuit, Lynn Gordon says the buyer behind the Lyndale Avenue location owes $1.7 million and has damaged the beloved brand she spent four decades building.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I need a new video game or project or something. And $15 for parts for an existing project.
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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The emotional equivalent of "someone cut the crusts off my cheese sandwich for me" for our youngest is "someone picked out all the carrots before they heated the soup". Becomes sometimes, everyone needs ridiculous caretaking.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“My child Thomas Anderson, we call him Neo, loves being plugged into the matrix.”
Keanu plugged into the matrix in the movie
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
KARE 11 declaring itself anti-trans isn't surprising, but wasn't expecting full mask-off on bluesky.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thumb tendonitis sucks
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This the American Way: Deliberately make transit confusing and difficult to use, then the powers that be can say “see, people don’t take transit.” Minneapolis is playing this exact game with the Nicollet Mall, so it can become a permanent corporate events space tailored to suburban tastes.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, as I’ve reminded people many times before, cat eyes don’t work like human eyes do. Tuned for different wavelengths, different shaped pupils, and different density of receptors on the retina. The laser classifications are for your eyes. Lasers aren’t toys. Never have been. Not even for pets.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Third spaces were places of commerce, sure, but it was a *lot* cheaper and young people weren't banned from them. You could have a good time for $5-10 as recently as 2010. Prices have far outpaced wages, especially at the low end.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So, apparently all of those "AI solved the unsolvable thing!" were stolen from researchers who'd made the mistake of using LLMs to assist in their research. They're not even being subtle about it.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The pre-recorded Nuclear War Message from the BBC is chilling as hell. "Remember, there's nothing to be gained by trying to get away." It then describes a bunch of reasons not to leave your house. youtu.be/uCpPYgu36Xk
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Why the BBC planned a COMEDY schedule for NUCLEAR DOOMSDAY.
YouTube video by Peter Austin
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 28/09/2026
They should do a Simpsons where Homer gets beaten up and ziptied by the IDF in front of his family lol Oh fuck wait that already happened 16 years ago:
Still from "The Greatest Story Ever D'Ohed," more properly titled "The Simpsons Go to the Zionist Entity" -- Homer is ziptied by the IDF at the airport and Marge says to him, "Homie, just tell them what they want to hear"
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻
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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the familyfrom my mom

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How many crying wives were at
Aunt Chrissy's funeral
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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i was on my college conduct board. i do t think anyone can get mad at me for telling you: 20 years ago, a student threatened his female friend, took her by the shoulders, and shook her. you know what we did? we expelled him. that was "all" it took. he laid hands on a girl, so we kicked him out.
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Truman Chipotle @trumanchipotle.com · 11/06/2026
"Being a grown up sucks,' said Ramona just before taking a large swig of Malört straight from the bottle. — an excerpt from 𝘙𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘺, 𝘈𝘨𝘦 45
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Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t know about the Charter, but MPS funding is distinct from Minneapolis and is collected through property taxes. By state law, funding is attached to each student. So when a student lives in Minneapolis but goes to Roseville, that money goes to Roseville public schools.
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Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Surprise! I’m vending last minute today over at Odd Mart from 12pm-4pm! Come say hey!
Market stall with art
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Man, as someone who actually does know a few folks who've done sex work -- all of whom were normal people -- this is a pretty fucked up thing to just casually say
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
but seriously wtf. wtf??????
A lestodon skeleton, with giant claws and a long, blunt skull
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As often happens, I fully prepped for something that didn't happen, though it's because my players were smart and bought a bunch of stuff and prepped for the fight.
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Alexandria W. Darling @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
anarchists when they turn 40 and you tell them they have to get a pro-state exam:
guy screaming no meme
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Don't give Minneapolis Police any ideas on ways to wreck our budget even more.
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wearing guillotine earrings seems appropriate for this morning'a Cyberpunk:Red adventure.
White woman wearing a polka dot bandana and a pair of orange acrylic guillotine earrings
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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
spouse wore this tshirt to the twins game friday night and literally could not go 10 feet without someone coming up to us and complimenting his shirt and asking where to get one
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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm running on 5 hours of sleep, a recently broken fever, and coffee. Let's hit it.
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First look at Rachel Weisz filming ‘THE MUMMY 4’. #TheMummy4 #RachelWeisz
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erratrix @chiptune.gay · 26/09/2026
it's my birthday! I'm at least 40. if you want to do something for me, share my music around. the new one is kinda popular, but I think the older one is better erratrix.bandcamp.com/music
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I want worse sounds, at a lower bitrate, with less polyphony tracked by queerer people, paid more to write less and I'm not kidding.
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