Shark Week! Kara! Combat synth, 8'8" a little over 3 tonnes (adjustable via gravity manipulation) She loves food, long walks by the beach, and ecological preservation through precision removal of key ecological stressors (read: shooting a railgun at whaling ships) Art by @roxannarachnid.bsky.social
i hope we all outlive joanne in the event that you don't, i recommend banking exactly one bottle of piss and designating a piss executor
It's been a long time coming, but I finally got a bit of an update to the design of my girl Roxy, by the ever talented @roxannarachnid.bsky.social
Smurfs are cute but I bet if you live in Australia you get used to seeing them get hit by cars
ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: hehe yeah bro ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
It's important to know intellectual property symbols. © stands for copyright, which is the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute a creative work. ™ stands for The Masquerade, a centuries-long undertaking by the Camarilla to ensure that mortal prey never learn of the Kindred in their midst.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
There has never been any version of Hunter S. Thompson at any level of vitality, who would not, upon seeing 2025, be entirely convinced of the reasonability of his decision to end things how he did
They have to keep us poor because if we can ever afford a garage with powertools in it, there's gonna be so many Saws happening
I really hope other Australians watching this ask themselves that if this is how these cops treat international journalists on live camera: How must they be treating their own people when no-one is watching?
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
This absolutely Fucks check it out if you like Noir and/or Mushes. If you see the internet as a place, not just a thing. Shades of more recent Gibson tbh.
dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night
Every conference you speak at, you hope there's a thing you say that is memorable. Didn't expect mine at Reboot Develop to be "if someone shits on a table in your restaurant you don't say 'I lost a customer' either", in response to a remark about the economic incentive against banning toxic players.
This. Like Britain before it with Brexit, the US is revealing itself as a fundamentally unserious, untrustworthy country whose citizens can't be relied on not to vote to punch themselves in the face if they get to say a slur while they do it.
Even then, he was telling me that if a new president comes in and restores all the funding, why should he keep building a career in a country that could do this all again four years down the line and leave him in the lurch. I think a lot of folks are feeling this way
so hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -?
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.
Finished! It wasn’t hard to do, just hard to find time. Close up of the fine details. (Hehe) #embroidery #ThisIsFine