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@echo.ishella.gay
xhe/xer/xers pronouns gender nebula, goth, anarchist, dyke, dystopian hard femme usa trans refugee living in berlin another queer web engineer https://echonyc.blog i mostly use this for larp things. life/work stuff on Mastodon, bridged here: @ishella.gay
ok so like, you know how omegaverse stories always have this section explaining the omegaverse at the beginning? what if you had section at the beginning and then it was just totally and completely irrelevant to the story
“yes we’re all locked in the depths of this oubliette that is gradually filling with viscous gore from the murderous slaughterhouse above us, but have you considered that serial killers are job creators & meat production is good for the US economy?” - NYT Op-Ed by Bret Stephens
Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
The Future is Straight, a #larp project about conversion therapy, was so intense and tragic but also really transformative. I really enjoyed my experience there, though of course I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. it underlined how important identity and community is 🖤🌈
This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3mo agoHaving social media access made growing up gay 1 million times easier (I don’t think I would even know I was gay as a teen if it weren’t for social media), but it also made growing up progressive and informed possible. Social media was where I learned about abortion rights, for starters
What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.
Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo agoHormuz vessel crossings: @bloomberg.com
"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content
Faisal فيصل@faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Greylight 2142 photos are out! i had a ton of fun playing an awful private security detective in a dystopian cyberpunk future. i don't often do villains, but i love it when i do! thanks to Fractured Reality Studios for organizing this, and photos by orkfotografie.nl #larp #greylight2142
The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other. The judge kicked everyone off the case.
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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sighhh. wrangling adult schedules is such a pain. i'm trying to run Changeling: the Lost mini-arc of only four games and already it's a nightmare 🫠 😭 one day i WILL run this game though. i spent way too much time and energy writing this. #ttprgs #vent #changelingthelost
also, the Greylight 2143 video preview dropped! word has it there'll be a full documentary later this summer, but in the meantime you can see a bit about the build and video of some play. see if you can spot me 😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD0s... #larp #greylightlarp
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whew, done with B-Movie and Greylight #larp, so i get to relax till the July. B-Movie was a campy good time, and it was really fun to see a b&w film trailer with me! anyway, i'm thinking of posting more about my larpy adventures on here. i love Fedi but nobody who follows me is a larper 😅
someone called my #larp PC "the lesbian subplot personified" and that may be the best compliment i've ever received for a character
Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
It’s astounding to me that so many people have been hoodwinked into accepting the very idea that landlords should exist and are like real people with real jobs that should be respected and allowed to breathe.
tonight watch me hang out with a lot of bluesky people
echo :janky_voidcat:@ishella.gay · 5mo agoinfo on the talk I'm going to be part of on the 26th! thanks @dotmeow for having me :blobcatheart:
accidentally ordered the Big American Joke Drink (xxl cappuccino) at a busy cafe this morning and the entire place erupted in laughter and cheers as the guy brought it over, placed it in front of me, and handed me a foot-long spoon to stir it with.. italy rocks
not pictured: the text at the bottom that says "I crewed iHunt and all I got was this lousy bottle" #iHuntLarp
Niels ⚰️ 𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖊@haemophagie.bsky.social · 5mo agothe crew got bottles 🥺💛
eyyyyy!!! also lmao i didn't realize you went for that vibe. tbf your NPC was wayyy too interesting and fun to be "my name is Dark Nightstrider, Elder Lasombra"
Niels ⚰️ 𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖊@haemophagie.bsky.social · 5mo agoyour local shady vampire npc (i tried to have them look like someone's edgy vtm character) (also echo! 💛)
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store