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Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shout out to Claire North as well, in her novel Slow Gods, which is about a lot of things, including the ways that people find to be themselves.

Some off-worlders complain, say that it's too complicated, there's too much there for them to every understand.
How odd, the Adjumiris reply.
You can remember the difference between innumerable different types of sausage or sporting teams, but you cannot hold in your mind a mere half-dozen or so categories of people? That much make navigating the nuances of human experience extraordinarily taxing for you.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely not, no, you were a delightful visitor <3

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Despite not being like mean or argumentative or anything they are the precise and perfect opposite of a chill hang and just. Wow I'm exhausted. Wow. I went to pick up a phone the evening before they leave Germany and stayed for an hour trying to get them a taxi.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What witchcraft are my parents engaging in? No idea. It's not as if they even e.g. have loads of arguments or anything they just.........idk trying to make anything happen with them involved is like picking the shopping trolley with the stuck wheel that's super heavy and hard to steer.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My friend @opalsong.bsky.social visited for a similar timeframe a few weeks ago and we had a great and chill time with more walking and earlier meeting times and I was Somewhat Tired at the end.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God okay my parents visited and me and @casualcheese.bsky.social are WIPED. I care about my parents and all but they are the most exhausting people in the entire world and there's nothing any of us can do about it

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(I imagine you know the one but a link for anyone who happens to stumble on this tweet: bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...)

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And this is extremely very much beside the point, but it is a nice side benefit for those of us (me, many delightfully loud women in the internet as well as many people who aren't women) who like a man to look. Like a normal man. I feel like "everyone is beautiful and no one is horny" is relevant.

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

god I love getting into discussions that are just like...

crop of The School of Athens by Raphael, closing in on Plato and Aristotle who are wearing a chiton and cloak with "sickos" written on them

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(This is definitely not a problem of every romance novel, and I've read some with cool as shit worldbuilding and even a few series with both book plot and series plot but this sort of thing is really only optional for a romance novel and yet I will be sad and bereft without it)

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Where was I? Oh yes. Anyway the romance format doesn't really work for me because I feel like I just need more Stuff to be in the story to really dig my teeth into, so. Yeah.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For real there is a lot of plot and sieges and political kidnappings and bandits and side quests and, when there's time between missions and near death experiences, one man sighing deeply while he acknowledges he's unsalvageably in love with his liege lord who's often a bit of a prat. Anyway.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh this is so real. Me reading romance: meh, do these people have friends? A job? Anything else going on in their lives at all??? Me playing kcd2, a game about 2 knights during the hussite wars in medieval bohemia: this is the most romantic thing ever, can you believe my ship is canon, etc etc

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
...
just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The first aid kit does not yet have butterfly stitches but I can and will fix that.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

[Looks at this post] [looks at fandom I've fallen right down the oubliette into feat. A medieval lord and his squire in an extremely Christian Bohemia] [looks back at this post] .....yeah. yeah I think you both nailed this one and caught me in the crossfire

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've gone from being that bitch who always has painkillers, lactose pills, water and cereal bars on me to being that bitch who also has a whole ass first aid kit in their backpack.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I missed a post about shame being the most erotic emotion???? (Big agree)

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cannot explain how much I miss DA2's vibe and how much I dislike Games (for adults with eg realistic violence etc) Where They Don't Say Fuck when any reasonable person would absolutely say fuck/where it makes sense for the vibe etc.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also, yknow, huge rec for the game itself, it's super well made and really immersive and feels hard at the start (note: I am bad at video games, this ain't dark souls) but you get a lot better which is super rewarding. And many of the (less serious) quests are hilarious. Also people say fuck!

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

YES THEY HAVE A WHOLE ARC IT'S SO!!!!!!!!!!

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you! I feel extremely accomplished tbh. Sometimes the best de-cursing ritual tools are elbow grease, a hammer with a claw, and a large sturdy rubbish bag.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good tidings! We removed the Cursed Object* from our kitchen and replaced it with the Blessed Object** and now the kitchen is suddenly all roomy and easy to get into. *Old, fucked up, wrongly sized kitchen counter/shelving unit **New, sleek, space-saving kitchen counter with drawers

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finished Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and will be replaying immediately. I am.... extremely deep in my Hansry feelings, friends. Hans panicking after the kiss????? Lancelot and Galehaut??????? The last conversation about how they're basically going to have a honeymoon?????????????

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Goddammit, I wanna know this too tbh. I have a slight suspicion I kind of know but that's guesswork.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Discovered via me using my tried and true anti insomnia trick, Sleep On Floor (literally on a thin yoga mat on the hardwood floor), and my pain just Leaving. Idk why I'm like this. Some days I feel unsure about the concept of beds generally, when the delightfully comfy floor is right there.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friends, we are very silly. Both Cake and I have been having back/hip troubles for a few days. We've just noticed it's long past time to flip the mattress because there's a literal divot under our hips. Whoops?

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The thing is. I scrolled down to the photos of you with the extremely dapper skeleton and went, he's right, I would pause at that stall and buy something

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Solidarity fistbump from the "what the fuck is my body even doing THIS time" club. Drowning my current left hip sorrows by buying a book, specifically your starter pack because I'm indecisive, and I wish you a very priority tasks getting done easier than expected.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the human brain is a fine-tuned machine for making decisions first and reasons second

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And I would love to provide villain xue yang but unfortunately I see a weird obsessive fearless whip-smart adrenaline junkie with a fucked up history who doesn't yet know he's capable of love and I just go: but wouldn't it be more interesting if he got to experience that?

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The map is not the territory and all that. Very much not given our currently pretty crap map of mental health and social/emotional brain function. Uh..... Where was I? Oh right, I love Xue Yang.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Given what I know about trauma and neurodivergence and so on it would not surprise me at all if that were kindof the same thing or at least closely related. Cousins maybe. Like, all of these seem to cluster around the idea of a brain that can't get the right amount of stimulation in the usual ways.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Give! Him! Dopamine!! Which is why people (extremely correctly, always here for this) keep putting him in kink. Anyway controversial opinion here but none of that would mean he's not capable of love, it's just that this is an apocalyptic reversal of everything he thought he knew about himself.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Which explains his obsessions and his Projects and his interest in exciting new forms of violence and violent catharsis. And the sweets. We don't see this that much in canon but he's gotta be so flat without these things. Mxtx is really fucking smart and fantastically insightful about people imo.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Standing ovation!!!! I personally put Xue Yang in that place where people start getting confused about the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths. By which I concretely mean: nearly no (normal) fear response, no remorse, no emotional empathy, and as a result a deeeeply understimulated brain

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm so glad to have found you on here finally! Having looked at your website I'm just...so impressed by how endlessly creative and prolific you are. And delighted I can direct-buy ebooks, because that makes it much easier to TTS them so I don't give myself a migraine with too much reading.

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 29/08/2026

if vosotros don't like "y'all," it's on Ihnen to come up with a second-person plural pronoun ὑμεῖς prefer

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llawll @llawll.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hook, line, and sinker 🪝

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And we love that for you tbh

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

blah blah couple-oriented vs. non-hierarchical, situational vs. committed, sexual vs. emotional, whatever the real difference between swinging and polyamory is that swingers are Republicans and polyamorists are [thirty minute lecture on Theory]

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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