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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 2h

To the point where the made this “display piece” because no lethality-capable emitter is small enough to fit inside so he used explosive charges instead:

Palmer Luckey’s explosive charges modded Oculus Rift “display piece” headset, next to one of Kirito’s swords from Sword Art Online

Three moderately sized cylindrical explosives are modded into the frame of the headset

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You might be interested to know, the original scifi novels by Yoshiki Tanaka all got an English localization in the last decade, it’s a ten novel series

Cover to the english edition of the first novel of Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka

It depicts a large space-faring vessel composed of a large, circular hull surrounding an inner structure comprised of multiple discs-shaped decks with a longer, more “traditional” ship design known as top of those decks. The circular outer hull does not connect to itself near the front of this inner vessel, which appears to be where its main artillery battery is arrayed.

Above this vessel are smaller escort ships of some kind, composed of asymmetric polygonal sections surrounding a possibly cylindrical core hull.

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Drop some PUNCHES 👊 🦾❤️ BLODIA PUNCH

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Further context for the quote (I figured MG is already familiar, this is for the lurkers):

Karl Popper, “The Open Society and Its Enemies”: The Paradox of Tolerance

“Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnap-ping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I enjoy that my morning webcomics routine is the tonal whiplash of swapping back and forth between @hyxpk.bsky.social’s Little Nuns and @bransonreese.bsky.social’s Swanboy

Rona from Swanboy looks at something offscreen with an intense anxious energy

Three ducks are trying to form a square. They haven not yet realized they need a fourth duck. They have formed an adorably lumpy bird orb instead

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw your post, scrolled down, and then, WELL:

headfallsoff's post that this is in reply to as displayed in my bluesky feed, immediately followed by an IGN post noting that the new spider-man film from this summer is getting a NEW theatrical run with added footage. They use a particularly baffled looking photograph of Peter Parker.

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Relevant historical citation is relevant:

Later in 1970, Roger Freeman - a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan - spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counterattack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people."30 The two most menacing institutional sources of the danger described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honestly reads to me like "We use AI!" "What do you use it *for*" "You know, stuff! Ideas!" Genuinely curious how much is *actual* AI use and how much is staff going "fuck it, burn the tokens on bullshit because the boss said we got to use the tokens they bought up"

"With the clarification from the spokesperson still remaining too vague for my liking, I went straight to the lead producer of the upcoming revival of the series to get further clarification on the development team's use of AI, in particular, generative AI. Here's what Kanno had to say:

"First, I think I can be a little bit more specific or clear on how we use the generative AI. So, it's like one small part of the creative process. So, to get a little bit more detailed about our design process, as mentioned earlier, it's World Tour, and we have five different countries. I can't say which countries there are today, but our artists, our designers, they actually went to the actual locations, and they took references, and based on that, they came up with the designs. And generally, AI is just one part of that, and is used as a hint or part of the ideation. I think the statement on the Steam page was quite vague, so to make things a bit more clear – and this is a sentiment that both me and our team of talented artist and designers back in Japan share – is that we want to create things ourselves and deliver that as a great experience for our customers. So rest assured, everything in the final product is going to be original.""

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using this cap less for the general reaction image reading and something more adjacent to its original, in context meaning for this line*

Char Aznable: “Isn't there any way to send all politicians to outer space?”

*in series context, this line was originally meant in regards to sending politicians to the orbital and lunar colonies to experience in person the plight of spacenoids (those people living in space, typically those still in the orbit of earth sphere) to cultivate empathy of the earthnoid (those who still primarily lived on earth’s surface) politicians

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Including connecting my bank account”

Philippe, the beloved plush toy otter child from Achewood, is screaming

He is screaming so so much.

The terror is existential.

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The world has been down this road before Would you help throw us down it again? The death, the destruction? The misery and the hatred? Would you betray your fellows because of your ignorance and fear to the people who have for over a century now wanted all of us dead?

The institute would ultimately house an immense library on sexuality, gathered over many years and including rare books and diagrams and protocols for male-to-female (MTF) surgical transition. In addition to psychiatrists for therapy, he had hired Ludwig Levy-Lenz, a gynecologist. Together, with surgeon Erwin Gohrbandt, they performed male-to-female surgery called Genitalumwandlung-literally,
"transformation of genitals." This occurred in stages: castration, penectomy and vaginoplasty. (The institute treated only trans women at this time; female-to-male phalloplasty. would not be practiced until the late 1940s.) Patients would also be prescribed hormone therapy, allowing them to grow natural breasts and softer features.

Their groundbreaking studies, meticulously documented, drew international attention. Legal rights and recognition did not immediately follow, however. After surgery, some trans women had difficulty getting work to support themselves, and as a result, five were employed at the institute itself. In this way, Hirschfeld sought to provide a safe space for those whose altered bodies differed from the gender they were assigned at birth-including, at times, protection from the law.

LIVES WORTH LIVING

That such an institute existed as early as 1919, recognizing the plurality of gender identity and offering support, comes as a surprise to many. It should have been the bedrock on which to build a bolder future. But as the institute celebrated its first decade, the Nazi party was already on the rise. By 1932 it was the largest political party in Germany, growing its numbers through a nationalism that targeted the immigrant, the disabled and the "genetically unfit." Weakened by economic crisis and without a majority, the Weimar Republic collapsed.

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I advise you to look at our history. We were one of the first people the Nazis came for, because our numbers were small, few knew or understood us, and so were easy to demonize in the ways you’re falling for now and helping to propagate. hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...

A nazi can been seen tossing books from Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexology, one of Weimar Germany’s premier institutions studying queer life in the nation prior to the rise of the Nazi party to power. Among those lost were foundational research and documentation on the German transgender community.

“The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10 May, the entire contents of the library were removed to Berlin’s Bebelplatz Square. That night, along with 20,000 other books across Germany, they were publicly burned in a symbolic attack by Nazi officials on their enemies.” - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Doin' my three... my nine? I am very tired:

a "Nine Anime that shaped who you are" collage

Three rows of three columns, in no particular order of influence:
Ranma 1/2, Utena the movie, Gundam Wing
Bubblegum Crisis, Tenchi Muyo, Slayers Next
Casshan: Robot Hunter, Trigun, Zeta Gundam

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think you can find it floating around the net for as a free font, but I initially ran into it in the Phonto app I use for adding text to images on my phone.

A list of fonts in Phonto; each one is depicted using their respective typeface. Of particular note here is Tanuki Permanent Marker, which evokes hand written lettering made using, well, the felt tip of an ink marker

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah wait there we go I got it working.

The Swanboy comic, but you’ve crossed your eyes and made the hidden oden picture reveal itself

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A testament to my shameful typo/autocorrect making this post

The same post as above, but I accidentally somehow typed “oden,” the Japanese soup dish, instead of “hidden”

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Related: you ever see how much leg a raccoon dog actually has when they aren’t covered in winter floof?

Comparison photos of a Tanuki, Muku, in his winter and summer coats

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And like, cooking your own food is a shitton of work! I made this tonight for my folks and I! It fucking wiped me out for the rest of the day because I had to handle every step and involved multiple pots and pans active at once!

Bowl of chicken balsamico topped with a heap of crumbled feta cheese

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s a lot of liberals who will never understand this, and the most succinct explanation I can give them is Lincoln:

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

- Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah I feel like people are just reading the headline and not the actual piece where it discusses the dangers of the tech and its failure conditions. Not included in the caps is the part of the article where the system just… hallucinates non-existent speed limits, be they 5 MPH or 100 MPH