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Spite Week Day 1: Candles

Little silly animation for Spite Week!
Manfred is a bit worried, his pa' said candles are not for eating

#SpiteWeek2025 #SpiteDellamorte #LucanisDellamorte #art #DragonAge

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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When two wave systems collide, they can form square patterns, like the ones shown here. Researchers want to understand the math underlying the strange phenomena that ripple through ocean waters. www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m...

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Conquering and colonization is the way people acquired land at that time in history. It was uncivilized and involved violence and yet that's how land was acquired. You fought over it and, if you won, it became yours. I acknowledge that's how America came to be. I also acknowledge colonization was a bad thing for indigenous populations. But I think you're reaching pretty far to try to claim America is an ongoing illegal occupation in present day.

The United States is in material breach of over five hundred - yes, 500 - legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations.

And lest you say that's because of Trump, we were in breach of at least 350 under both of the last two Democratic administrations.

So yes, we are an illegal occupation.

Can’t believe the Irish tried a version of UBI, found it worked, and decided to keep it rather than commission another study.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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I was seven when my uncle did explain "the ecnomy" to me. I just looked at him and pointed out the many ways it did not make sense. He told me I would understand it when I am older. I have a degree in economy by now. The senselessness still persists.

US Serien haben auch gerne so getan als gäbe es keine Schwarzen Menschen. Ich erinnere mich immer nur an Friends.

I really enjoyed her. Despite my Hawke being a mage standing with the mages, Aveline took her side in the end. She was really an upright companion, and we heard so little off her post DA2.

If someone is open to therapy it helps. In the end prejudice of any lind is basically just a shortcut the brain built to lessen the load. There is specific kinds of therapy that can help you basically delete those shortcircuits.

Girl, you do not have a boyfriend. You have a leech.

j.k. rowling should be understood, first and foremost, as a misogynist. she just sometimes cloaks her misogyny by accusing others of sexism. see how she denigrates emma watson as an ungrateful, spoiled, bratty princess. this is solely because watson refuses to be a transphobe

a yellow background with a tetris game being played ALT: a yellow background with a tetris game being played

So, I am playing Tetris on prescription by a doctor. Which is... dumb. But let's see if it helps.

Well, I would argue that "being subjected to possibly torture and death" goes a beyong just "living in a society".

My main issue with this line of thinking is, that still about half the people have voted against the current administration. And of course there is also a ton of peopel who did not get to vote at all, due to how voting in the US is structured. And they all get punished for this.

If you're not an artist but you followed a nsfw artist over to bsky, use that feedback form to tell bsky that. Remind them they're opening a traffic and funding sinkhole that extends well beyond the "icky" creators they want to get rid of

At times I feel like I am stuck in this weird time loop. Kid!Me found out about executive meddling when he was 11. He was very annoyed about it. And ever since I have had the discussion a thousand times of people outside the industry not believing how bad it is.

some of my rough animation for #KnightsofGuinevere pilot, ft Frankie and Andi and some Things she had to say 🥸 Many thanks to Dana and Kofi for letting me have fun with this one! 🤸

#animation #officialwork

I know some people hate to hear that, but while I really could do without my ADHD, I really like my autism. Sure, it makes live often overwhelming. But I frankly would not like to be without my brain going 180mph when I hyperfixate on special interests.

It is quite clear: you first need to finish a dark magic ritual to sell your soul to a demon, so that the demon can give the characters flesh, so you then can ask them whether they consent to being drawn in compromising poses.

But wait. No. They were also against satanism, weren't they? Hmm.

Uh. Monsters. 👀

But also... so frustrated about how the anti-narrative acting as if characters are people has really become the "political narrative" now.

I mean, especially with the payment processors it does not even matter where you live. They came after Japanese language stores too. :( Most people outside of the anime-nerd scene just did not hear about that outside of Japan.

I will once more get out this fun fact: viagra is definitely working against PMS. We also have some research that suggests it does at least lessens some symptoms of endometriosis. Yet, there is little research on this, and viagra is not approved in most places to be taken for either PMS/endo.

Okay. I am reading through how to put in EU petitions, given that so far there has not been an EU petition about the entire "payment processors try to censor stuff" affair. And I will openly admit. So far I only ever once put in a petition and that was for Germany. But this feels like an EU problem.

Yes. It is very likely they will come after Horror too. Especially given that horror very often tends to be political in one way or another.

I feel like a lot of people working with fantasy settings that are pre-modern or generally historical settings do overestimate traveling speeds. Especially once armies start moving. Armies move slowly.

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