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I want to take this excuse to talk about my relationship to Majora's Mask. (cw: bullying)

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To borrow from another game entirely, when it comes to holding up the moon, we all lift together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPTCq3LiZSE

Anyway, that's what Majora's Mask means to me.

I want to take this excuse to talk about my relationship to Majora's Mask. (cw: bullying)

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Skull Kid apologizes to you after Majora's Leopard eats his face, too. (Fitting, for a mask.) He learns an important lesson the hard way: Those who seek to claim, or reclaim, power will sacrifice those who helped them at a moment's notice if they are no longer necessary to provide material support.

But sharing power is one of the most powerful thigs of all. Somehow, it never truly dilutes. Instead, bonds are strengthened, and things become possible that are greater than the sum of their parts.

I want to take this excuse to talk about my relationship to Majora's Mask. (cw: bullying)

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What strikes me most about Majora's Mask is that you cannot stop the bad thing from happening. You have two options: Buy time, and find someone to help. The four giants prevent the moon from destroying Termina. You just call for them.

The way Majora's Mask rewired my brain is that it taught me that the biggest problems cannot be solved alone, and trying is futile. They must be solved together, with community, with solidarity, with compassion and dedication to uplifting everyone.

I want to take this excuse to talk about my relationship to Majora's Mask. (cw: bullying)

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I was bullied extensively from grades 4 through 8. My bullies were protected by the system; my attempts to fight back were seen as the "instigations". My parents were pretty useless; their support was announcing their support for me.

Majora's Mask came out at the very end of this period, right after my best friend suddenly turned on me and became my worst bully after falling in with the wrong crowd. I think you can see why it had an effect on me.

And be extremely wary of anyone who says, when confronted, that they had it coming for some other reason.

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kunalganglani.comAI Slopageddon: How AI-Generated Code Is Destroying Open SourceOpen-source projects are drowning in AI-generated slop. Learn how maintainers are fighting back, from killed bug bounties to GitHub's proposed PR kill switch.

Some of these articles read like Cybertruck owners fawning about how their car is falling apart but they always end with this weird praise. "LLM-generated code is causing 'slopageddon' because so many are submitting fraudulent PRs (but of course it still has its place and most people use it)"

🏳️‍⚧️Ms. Alice Cumgutter@alice22222.bsky.social

“AI code is the future, all software will have it” Meanwhile, ai code: www.kunalganglani.com/blog/ai-slop...

13 Sept

Her unfinished business: one last meal.

Agatha Chocolats@agathachocolats.bsky.social

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

6 Sept

https://bsky.app/profile/eva.computer/post/3mut7drpxxk26 It is extremely too late for that. (I tried to count the number of unattributed pieces in that gif. I lost count around 70. There's probably over a hundred.)

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social

Can we normalize art theft?

29 Aug

Change a letter, change a movie: Spareballs

M SiFEAR@msipher.bsky.social

Change a letter, change a movie Star Warm

9 Aug

For a while, I thought SOPHIE's "Infatuation" had the lyric "Who are you deep down (How would I know?)" (It's actually "I wanna know") and especially given other questions of identity in Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides I honestly think that reading adds to the album.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name your fav mondegreen or misheard lyric.

Finally, GONE season 3

Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

8/21/2017 Eclipse, TotalityEnding video - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/XJ1fby

The point about making sure low-engagement folks aren't left behind is really important and I'm going to be thinking about it for a while. I really like how that lets the community meet people where they are.

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Gotta be Prayers of Steel. https://poets.org/poem/prayers-steel

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Yeah, but it's only a good joke if everyone finds it funny.

Midsporkkar@strivingally.bsky.social

I’ve got a joke about Kant and it’s imperative that I tell it right away!

20 July

I recently learned a term for A: Loopholism. It refers to someone finding any pretense necessary to continue believing what they already believe. Known cognitive error in brains.

The Lexorcist@lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social

when I cite lists like this at liberals they either A. demand a source for each point that explicitly says exactly these things because they refuse to try to read between the lines, then nitpick every source they are provided or B. block me instantly so many people just refuse to believe us.

17 July

I started to write a joke anout Odysseus, but then I realized that nobody would like it.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ@sloanelysbeth.northsky.social

i started to write a joke about icarus but then i burned out.

17 July

"Millenial pink" was a huge thing in like 2017, what are we even doing here.

Jack Saint@lackingsaint.bsky.social

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

16 July

I have specifically been praised for my fight scenes before. I honed my writing skills on ERP for like 12 years.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

15 July

Replying to @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

you know that kwame ture quote about how nonviolence only works as a strategy when your opponent has a conscience? something similar at play with pointing out your opponent's hypocrisy. that only works if your opponent agrees that he's playing a word game not prosecuting a holy war

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social

13 July

So. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love?

lifeisasacredtext.comA Jewish Case for AI work exemptionsor: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun

15 July

Toronto-ass picture right now

Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

Curiosity at Duluth drilling site - sol 2082 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/JF9hyn

14 July

My sister coordinates events and filming at a major location in my city. She's worked with Netflix. She is big-league. I would be on the floor in the fetal position in three days, max.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

12 July

Sell your book in five words: Human Domestication Guide (2024–present) https://archiveofourown.org/works/85611396/

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11 July

As a reminder, the reason we think this is because the studies stopped after two or three years. The data after that is far spottier. Has nothing to do with the material conditions of transness but the current limits of data collection.

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...My brain is making a wild correspondence to a psychoanalysis book I'm reading.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Probably the most common form of this for people in my generation is having awareness of pop culture stuff from a Simpsons parody and only seeing the actual thing later. e.g. I think about 60% of the scenes in CITIZEN KANE received 1:1 Simpsons parodies bsky.app/profile/priz...

I think how I feel about Doonesbury, which I absolutely read and understood about a third of as a kid, is that it has this weird quality that even understanding what Iran-Contra was doesn't fully shake. A kind of surrealism hidden in ripped-from-the-headlines jokes. I still can't explain that part.

But I definitely think one of the pearls in my necklace is built out of that feeling, and trying to make sense of it.

...My brain is making a wild correspondence to a psychoanalysis book I'm reading.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

The book also mentions that these theory formations are both inevitable —we have to make sense of the world somehow —and also frequently maladaptive in some way, and the ego tends to not want to let go of these maladaptive frameworks even when it's clear they don't work for us.

This is why the book argues that finding new frameworks must happen *without the ego's consent* (hence the title), and that we have to force it to shatter in order to rebuild them. Crucially, the 'grit', being unknowable, doesn't get a more accurate explanation, just one that works better for us.

...My brain is making a wild correspondence to a psychoanalysis book I'm reading.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

So, okay, in Avgi Saketopoulou's book Sexuality Beyond Consent, she describes a model of childhood development in which things happen to us as children that we do not understand, and the ego, whose role is explanation, builds a theory around it like a pearl around a piece of grit.

Her point was about things that are unknowable, things our parents do that even they don't know the motivations of, as all people do things we can't entirely explain (or more commonly, explain post hoc). But I think it's applicable here, too.

7 July

You know, given how much these companies are defined by "hyperscaling", that is, growth at all costs, this allegory does put it into sharp focus, doesn't it.

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6 July

That my sub main character got bad-ended because she ended up with a switch and not a dom. Shout out to it, though, I got another half a million words out of the premise specifically rebuking it.

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

6 July

"The dog's in the boiler room?!"

Agatha Chocolats@agathachocolats.bsky.social

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

6 July

(I know this isn't Boiler Room, it's HÖR in Berlin. It's one additional conceptual step outside.)

29 June

In Sexuality Beyond Consent, the author forwards a theory that this basically happens in childhood: Something happens we can't explain at the time, our ego wraps an interpretation around it, and then later something disrupts that interpretation to recontextualize it.

Alec S // Renegade Sector Games@renegadesector.bsky.social

I'm a big fan of media analysis but sometimes the best form of media analysis is letting a piece of art sit with you, making you feel weird in a way you can't understand or explain, until one day you have a life experience and you remember the piece of art and you realize that you understand it now

29 June

Something I've been sitting with is that the book claims that there is no single true interpretation, only ones that are more and less useful to us. So the late realization about a piece of art is not us understanding it better but finding more and better ways to integrate it into our frameworks.

29 June

I think that's a cool way to look at art, at this almost mystical object that nobody truly understands, not even its creators. Spells cast upon the world that warp as they interface with the audience, and warp them in turn.

23 June

WOE.BEGONE (2020–), Dylan Griggs

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app

If time travel is possible, the worst people control it.

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨

@ansitru.bsky.social

5 June

May your delulu come trululu. 🙂‍↕️

5 June

...Oh, this reminded me that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6yhcFMa5HU exists, which is on my shortlist for favourite cover. Everyone knew *Heaven* at the time, but this is the best DJ Sammy track in my heart.

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2 June

Like 20 years ago Preident's Choice made a crinkle-cut Greek flavour that was based in feta and oregano. That shit was *ambrosia*.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name your fav flavor of potato chips/crisps.