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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If a series has five main characters and one petty AF villain, you must make a Breakfast Club AU of them. #AvatarTheLastAirbender #ATLA #AvatarAangTheLastAirbender #AATLA #Aang #Katara #Sokka #Toph #Zuko

Black and white comic. Only two panels, set in the same location: the reading tables of a library. The main characters of ATLA are all asleep at the tables as Zhao barks at them to "WAKE UP!!" He gets no reaction until he asks, "...who needs to use the lavatory?" Then everyone raises their hands without waking up.

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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

At long last, Orchid the Mantis has arms, a torso, and legs! #SonicOC

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Following over two years of grassroots and international mobilization led by solidarity groups including BDS Japan Bulletin, on Nov 18th the government of Aichi Prefecture announced the end of the Aichi-Israel Matching Program between Japanese manufacturers and Israeli tech startups! #SmashTheMatch

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Izzy.PNG | comms closed @izzydotpng.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

sick of google drive becoming increasingly sluggish? go turn this off

a screenshot of the "manage app" section of the google drive settings menu showing the "use gemini by default" option

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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Here's a 4-koma of my #Nezha and #AoBing before they started dating and were still mortal!

TITLE: "Awful News"
PANEL 1: Ao Bing is flying towards Nezha as a small dragon, crying, "Oh, Nezha! What a FOOL I made of myself today!" To which Nezha responds with his arms open: "What happened, Ao Bing??"
PANEL 2: Ao Bing has shifted into a half dragon, half human form. His head is still dragon-shaped, and his dragon tail is in Nezha's arms, but he now has human hands which are pulling at his whiskers while he explains with strained, bloodshot eyes: "The snail soldier my father dispatched to find me a suitable human bride finally returned; he said he had found the perfect woman, but it slipped his mind to mention that was FIVE YEARS AGO! I proposed to her in front of her HUSBAND AND THREE CHILDREN!" Behind him, Nezha replied with a smile, "That's awful!"
PANEL 3: Ao Bing is almost completely human now, except his mouth looks a bit like a dragon's snout as he screams at Nezha, "Go ahead, LAUGH! My unluck in love must seem so humorous!" Nezha refutes with a smile, "Not at all! I do sympathize with you!" Ao Bing then demands, "Then why are you smiling?!"
PANEL 4: Nezha turns away from Ao Bing, blushing with his hands over his mouth as he whispers, "Am I?" Ao Bing just watches him in confusion and irritation while huffily flipping his braid over his shoulders.

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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

To be against genocide in Gaza means we have to oppose the structural oppression of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism at the root of ongoing genocides in Sudan, Congo, and Tigray. No one is free until all of us are free. Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free Tigray.

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Jonii Q-Bee @joniivee.firesexexplosion.com · 15/09/2025

I think we should be at least as militant about the increasing restrictions and potential bans of adult content as the right is any time the idea of gun control is mentioned actually

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PlantGothKira @plantgothkira.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Really glad so many people showed out for this. Stop dumping data centers in majority black residential areas.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Palestinian civil society calls for an immediate build-up to a Weekend of Global Disruption between 18 – 21 September against complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. #DisruptComplicity

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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

From Nunavut to Palestine. From Iqaluit to Gaza. From one Indigenous Peoples to another. Solidarity for shared struggles against colonialism.

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Jonii Q-Bee @joniivee.firesexexplosion.com · 19/08/2025

63. Rumi

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Victor Maristane @maristane.com · 17/08/2025

I'm all for transhumanism but gAI ain't it. Weakening our brains and ceding more control to megacorporations over our culture isn't augmenting us, it's diminishing us. All cyber, no punk.

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

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🏳️‍⚧️ Helix @helix.midwestspeedfest.com · 16/08/2025

starting to look more and more like banana rumble is the last sega game i'll care about :/

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hey, Sega. You go all in on generative AI, I’m going all in on not buying a single one of your games from here on out. And I’m really looking forward to VF6, new Yakuza, Crazy Taxi, and that new Jet Set Radio. None of them. Not a single fucking one. Try me. Fuck around and find out.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

“War criminals are not welcome!” The BDS movement just launched an organizing toolkit to support businesses and civil society groups as they expand and strengthen the #NoRoomForGenocide campaign. We call on supporters globally to escalate the No Room for Genocide campaign now! loom.ly/hD0P0lM

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Even if we do not actively subscribe to, say, Chat GPT, we pay for "GenAI" (higher electricity costs, pollution, water shortages), while a few reap profits.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify

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Dial Liz-Z for Zombie (Lizzy Rose Oliver - Voice Actress) @lizzyrosevo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Literally the last time I spoke about someone in the indie sphere engaging in predatory behavior toward me, I was immediately doubted due to lack of receipts and my story just kinda disappeared. Predators are a problem in this field. People defending them are an even bigger problem.

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Jonii Q-Bee @joniivee.firesexexplosion.com · 14/07/2025

If something made using GenAI already exists and you're showing it to illustrate a point, that's one thing. Sneaking AI shit you generated yourself into a video is another.

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Seanathan @seanathanva.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It's official. The SAG strike is finally over. It took an entire year but now VAs have the AI protections they sought. This is a huge victory. Do not let anyone who isn't in the industry tell you otherwise.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...

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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A li'l 4-koma of my versions of #Nezha and #AoBing after they're reincarnated with plant bodies.

TITLE: "Made for Consumption"
PANEL 1: Some villager offscreen says, "Lord Third Prince! Please grant us leaves to make medicine!" Ao Bing cuts off his entire ponytail, which are Tinospora Sinensis vines and leaves, answering, "Of course! This should be more than enough!" The villager responds, "Thank you!"
PANEL 2: A Taoist seeker of immortality says, "O' Pine Dragon, may we consume a dollop of thee resin?" Ao Bing clenches his left hand, drawing amber sap and pouring it into a bowl in his right hand, answering, "Just a dollop? I'll give you a bowl!" The Daoist responds, "How generous!"
PANEL 3: Nezha is frowning with his arms crossed, saying, "How nice that your body can be used to make medicine. Whereas all I'm good for is a snack. And religious symbolism."
PANEL 4: Ao Bing comes up behind Nezha and nips his ear, saying, "That's fine♥️" Nezha flinches and blushes.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I saw someone refer to be as a SoftBoi™ in regards to me being a man who is not emotionally intimidating, and uh... .... please don't do that. Don't do this with men in general. It's a great way to fetishize certain kinds of guys that can blind you to malicious behavior.

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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'm working on my own original #Nezha designs. On the right is Nezha as a human, and the left is after him as an anthropomorphic lotus.

A sketched bust shot of a boy in a hanfu. He is Nezha. His hair is tied into two buns shaped like lotus buds. His sleeves are tied up by his Chaos Silk; its ends float in the air like two extra arms. He wears his Universe Hoop on his right shoulder. He has a pleasant smile.

A sketched bust shot of an angry topless boy. He is Nezha after being reincarnated as lotus. His hair is a lotus leaf with two lotus blossoms. His Fire-Tipped Spear stands in front of him at his left and his Wind-Fire Wheels float behind the sides of his head.

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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Here's #Nezha the Hedgehog, my #Sonadow Fankid and the Iblis Incarnate.

A Sonic the Hedgehog OC where it's a hedgehog with dark grey quills and a brown muzzle. The quills are upright like flames or a lotus. He has a fluffy patch of red fur on his chest. His arms are brown with sharp black fingernails. A round portion of the front of his body is also brown, and the rest of his torso until his knees are dark grey. The bottom half of his legs are red with flame patterns on the knee. He has sharp black toenails too. His face is in a sharp-teethed smirk. The fur around his eyes is black, fading into the grey of his quills. He has red eyes, a red yang insignia on his head, and red flame markings on the edge of his eyes. He wears a yellow sash around his waist. He's showing off his powers, including a strip of silk made of Chaos Energy, a Chaos Spear, two gold rings he can stand on, and one ring around his wrist. Accompanying illustrations show he can grow four extra arms in a technique called "Doom Arms", as well as a younger version of him with a bob cut, a vest, and a ring around his neck.

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big giant circles @bgc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Grown-up wish #???: I would love to see Hustle Culture go away. I would love for people to stop hyping absurd output like it's something to aspire to. If you're naturally prolific, more power to you, but I want to see the things that contribute to burnout culture diminish into the void.

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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 24/05/2025

"em dashes are a sign that something was written by AI" you are simply jealous that i've memorized that I can hold alt and press 0151 on the numpad to produce an em dash whenever i desire. look: —. it's beautiful. i'll even do it again: —

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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 24/05/2025

i just wanna go back and rewatch the original lilo and stitch now after hearing how much the live action remake fucked up the story so i guess the evil scheme to use the remakes to keep those movies relevant is unfortunately working

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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Your stories and art are worth telling and sharing. They don’t have to be groundbreaking or revolutionary. They just need to be YOURS.

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Rose (\(ㅇㅅㅇ☠)/) @rosedees.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Reminder that defending porn is an absolute requirement for the right to free speech. you will lose all autonomy trying to scrub uncomfortable content.

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Omen, Funny Imp Vtuber @impsong.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

In light of the Hogwarts Legacy II news, I want to say this to any streamers who follow me: If you stream this, its fucking over. Theres no coming back for you. That bitch has spent years making my life worse & this will be the second time you've paid for her to do so. Have a spine this time.

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Orchid the Mantis @theeorchidmantis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

That’s another one for the Sonadow iceberg.

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