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val knight @valknight.xyz · 04/09/2026

who up fridaying they bandcamp

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 23/08/2026

ai halloween has hit the homesense (august 2026)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 14/08/2026

please mr burnham i get it no more disposable barbecue can you stop pausing my ethel cain

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 20/07/2026

finally listening to iTMRW and . god i forgot how much i love a concept album ...

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 12/07/2026

also also -- saw this little band called "my chemical romance" on friday :D :D

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 12/07/2026

shes sooo tuckered out on the air mattress but cannot sleep. you could say she's UNSLEEPABLE

Quaver plushie from UNBEATABLE on an airbed, under the covers

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 09/07/2026

went to the wes anderson exhibition at the design museum :D (i took this photo using Halide for iPhone)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 27/06/2026

being called terminal online transsexual by Apple Music widget

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 20/06/2026

people in a few discord servers I am in are doing the whole "9 games more people should play" thing. unfortunately, I like using my words and writing badly. it's not going to be anything novel / games people here haven't heard of, but, hey :3 blog.valknight.xyz/nine-games-i...

screenshot of Sayonara Wild Hearts. It has "I'm not beating the stereotypes" underneath

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 19/06/2026

btw don't tell anyone but i kind of love how cute these are.

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 19/06/2026

clocky tgirl fit of the day (i am going to tesco to buy Juice)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 03/06/2026

(if you are in the UK and are in an ok-headspace, this article is really quite good. archive link just because the host seems to be down archive.is/Aly1S)

For those who made it through the assessments, a common final hurdle to accessing medication via GIDS was an examination of breast or genital development. Routine genital exams in order to access hormones are forbidden (but still sometimes happen) in adult trans healthcare. However, they remain a core part of child trans healthcare. The Endocrine Society recommends the examination to ensure that puberty has begun before prescribing blockers, which assumes correct prescription of blockers near the onset of puberty.
John*, the father of a former GIDS patient and trans healthcare advocate, said “I know young people who’ve been unable to access care because they would not go through that process.”
Anna and Elliot both had these exams, which involved clinicians touching intimate body parts. Elliot, who has since written about his experience at GIDS, says his assessment “was handled very badly”. He remembers the paediatrician who assessed him saying “You’ve got a really good body. It would be a shame if you got surgery.” He was suffering from an eating disorder at the time, and remembers thinking, “I’m dying. Why are you saying this to me?”

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 02/06/2026

comedy gold to pull out when even ***Tim Farron** has signed on

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 02/06/2026

do labour MPs think if they keep saying "dignity and respect" the trannies will shut up and die ??? anyway

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 27/05/2026

im trying to find some joke of getting bloods done but its too humid xoxo so enjoy back of uber photo

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 08/05/2026

reports are saying she's very sleepy (i should Not have been playing risk of rain 2 until like 1am)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 06/05/2026

Thank you Victorian Stan (TM) (seriously though very good writeup) also -- unrelated but I'm so curious what you use for your blog because i *love* how you format the asides like these

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 04/05/2026

if you want this strap (which, is actually pretty good! it's easy to adjust and is really easy to disconnect from its little eyelets) you can get it wayyy cheaper on ebay! like obvs the "genuine" status is to be doubted but who cares it's a strap and it should be fine

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 04/05/2026

the connector for the apple iphone strap is basically the same thing you see for wrist straps? so you can just loop it through the console on either side

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 04/05/2026

also: a) ayn thor good b) very wild how far we've come on x86 -> arm c) life is strange on a DS sized thing is still wild to me d) i do not like the realisation savegame 2 has its 10th birthday in 3 days

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 04/05/2026

sickos.png - little strap for ayn thor means you can take it with you, without needing Men's Pockets(tm) or a bag

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 29/04/2026

currently in uber to hospital to hand in forms for 🐱 surgery ‼️‼️ (oversharing on main i don't know her)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 27/04/2026

thank you to the life is strange fan working on Apple Music's curated playlists and jumpscared me with this

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 18/04/2026

i caved and bought Tomodachi Life... and god the mii maker is good

1000x watcher in tomodachi life. she's described as "Confident"

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 18/04/2026

this isn't to say this is Fine Actually, but rather it's another example of: - exponential decay of success (see this good slide Meredith Whittaker presented at CCC) - *and* the issue that models are Just Fancy Predictive Text, and produce more unsafe results the more is in their context window

screenshot of 39C3 talk, where Meredith Whittaker (of the Signal Foundation) is explaining the exponential decay of success - e.g. that if a model has a 95% success accuracy, after a 30 step task (given .95 to the power of 30), it's actual success rate is closer to 21.4%.

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 18/04/2026

fyi (as I'm seeing it shared) - this article (IMO) doesn't do a good job of explaining this research said research is examining the issue of *the same* models becoming more unsafe after being given content from the internet (e.g Google's AI summary), not model collapse at training time

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 15/04/2026

hi friends! a couple evenings ago, I made a tool to show historical comparisons of UK Gender Pay Gap Data. it pulls from the UK goverment's data, but, lays it out in a way that's easier for me to parse & understand. you can access it at ukpaygap.valknight.xyz

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 15/04/2026

marathon's marketing shouldn't have been to capital G gamers who are now upset about a game with colours, it should have been on tumblr to weird transsexual women. see: attached dialogue

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 12/04/2026

(ignore my hair going everywhere) eggbug hat on mental health walk ✨

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 09/04/2026

omg it looks so amazing! congratulations on the announce :) also -- i have *got* to ask - are you folks using a gaussian splat here? i'm on a train with a bad mobile hotspot so can't quite tell 🥀

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 06/04/2026

dang 2020 val cooked with this selection, i'm honestly thriving

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 06/04/2026

my ipod !! it lives !! (shoutout 2020 me for putting 100 gecs lavapalooza on here, i forgot how much fun it is)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 01/04/2026

what if the world was made of pudding

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 31/03/2026

sickos.gif.... (if you want, this is my profile!)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 31/03/2026

if its any selling point - i bought it on friday and it's hit the rare point of game that enters my dreams

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 29/03/2026

sat all nice and cozy in bed playing Marathon thanks to powerline adapter plugged in behind bed + huge long ethernet cable into laptop + remote play honestly a game changer

marathon being streamed to a mac via remote play

"sometimes my genius is... it's almost frightening" meme

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 18/03/2026

never trust @jademarker.bsky.social with the slay the spire pencil tool

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 02/03/2026

locked and loaded.... we Will be there

pokémon pokopia preloaded on a switch 2 home screen

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 13/02/2026

thank you whoever at Slack added this when you mark yourself out of office and then send a message 🙂‍↕️

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 30/01/2026

things that make sense at your global game jam site

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 29/01/2026

Spreading the news of non-binary miis

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 27/01/2026

Bluesky isn't like the other apps, you can opt out and remove any feeds you like. 1. Click the # in the top right of the screen 2. Click the Discover feed 3. Click the pin 4. Remove from my feeds You'll then never see it again. (UI is different on mobile, but you can do it there too)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 25/01/2026

it happened again ❤️ (@ machine girl gig)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 18/01/2026

been obsessed with Halide (on iOS) the last few days, as it has an option to bypass Apple's image processing turns out the lenses on your iPhone can look really interesting! and i absolutely prefer digital sensor noise over the default processing ❤️

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 17/01/2026

watcher real ?? watcher soon ?? (i Will be making room on my desk on monday. she will be sat next to Miku and my Unity-Chan manga mark my words)

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 14/01/2026

also sorry but in what universe is this an image editor. it looks more like its going to teleport me to mars than add circles to screenshots

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val knight @valknight.xyz · 10/01/2026

had an unstoppable urge to fuck around with windows movie maker on a random saturday now just sat here 🧍‍♀️

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