mags // Tal

mags // Tal

@ruffboi.bsky.social

ruff boi, minecrafter, enderman-raised, queer af.

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mags // Tal
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I started as a Pally main (at least from when I actually considered any class to be my "main", which started with Lis) but am now a hunter main and have been for like... the last three expansions I think? I haven't had a pally at level cap in YEARS. Definitely not since before Shadowlands.

mags // Tal
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Funniest part I think is the fact I still THINK of myself as a Pally main. XD Well, upside of Forever starting next month: I'mma be a pally main again! (undead pally is gonna be hella overrepresented, at least for a while, but i do not remotely care.)

mags // Tal
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Anyway the moral of the story is apparently if you did something that skirted a rule in a small way on a website about breeding fake dragons ten years ago, and it's only found out today, you can be punished more harshly than if you'd committed most felonies in the US (3-6 year SoL).

mags // Tal
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So a recommendation to folks not to put any active effort into an account with @flightrising.com, because apparently they will deactivate your account today in 2026 for a single dragon trade that was POSSIBLY done using a secondary account. In 2016. Because that's normal and necessary.

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mags // Tal
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Hell I think anything that happened a DECADE AGO should be off-limits for this level of repercussion unless it was literally law-breaking somehow. It's a game about digital dragon breeding. It happened a DECADE ago. Let it the fuck go at this point???

mags // Tal
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So a recommendation to folks not to put any active effort into an account with @flightrising.com, because apparently they will deactivate your account today in 2026 for a single dragon trade that was POSSIBLY done using a secondary account. In 2016. Because that's normal and necessary.

mags // Tal
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To be clear: I do get having rules about secondary accounts. I think unless someone's like actually impacting the economy or gameplay a termination is overkill but ok I guess.

mags // Tal
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But I think if an appeal returns the result that the only thing someone did wrong was something that did not have any notable impact on gameplay for literally anyone (such as the trade of a single dragon) especially when that happened a DECADE AGO, that appeal should be accepted.

mags // Tal
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so i've been growing my hair out for the past 3.5ish years (i got a fresh short fade right before starting my job back in 2022, and one trim a year or so ago to touch up some split ends) and I gotta say, the actual weight of my nighttime braid is WILD.

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mags // Tal
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anyway thank you to various historical fashion/hair styling youtubers for providing tips/info on things like elastics damaging your hair if you wear them tight/for extended periods (I did both initially) and teaching me how to tie off my braid with a ribbon securely enough I can sleep in it <3

mags // Tal
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Photographic proof of my securely-tied-off braid btw. I did this last night while half-awake, slept in it with my wife and 4 dogs, and then came to work. It's frizzy at the base from rubbing against my pillow in the night but the braid is secure af. ☺️ This skill/knowledge brings me much joy tbh.

mags // Tal
@ruffboi.bsky.social

so i've been growing my hair out for the past 3.5ish years (i got a fresh short fade right before starting my job back in 2022, and one trim a year or so ago to touch up some split ends) and I gotta say, the actual weight of my nighttime braid is WILD.

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mags // Tal
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I know braids can be heavy but I'd never experienced it on my own head and it's WILD. And it's not even that heavy, it's just. NOTICEABLE in a way I'd never had the chance to experience before. Absolutely wild to experience for the first time a month before I turn 40 as a transmasc person XD

mags // Tal
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(it's also funny if I ever leave my hair down at work 'cause usually i have it twisted up and held in place with a hair stick or left in my slightly frizzy sleep braid due to being in a rush, so if it's down all my coworkers are like HOLY CRAP your hair's so LONG! :O it's always funny XD)

mags // Tal
@ruffboi.bsky.social

so i've been growing my hair out for the past 3.5ish years (i got a fresh short fade right before starting my job back in 2022, and one trim a year or so ago to touch up some split ends) and I gotta say, the actual weight of my nighttime braid is WILD.

mags // Tal
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Like, this is the longest my hair has ever been I think, so even though it's definitely a lot thinner than it was when I was a teenager, there's still a LOT of it. And being able to lift and drop it and like FEEL it hit my back/jerk to a stop is wild.

mags // Tal
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@wowhead.com hey WoWhead wanted to check in about your "show tooltip as spec" tool. I was looking at my current main hand weapon (sword) as my main's spec (survival hunter) and it showed the weapon type in red (can't wield) when uh. I do. It shows white for other specs like DK. What's up?

mags // Tal
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anyway back to not really using my bsky i'm just apparently running into or revisiting a bunch of old WoW blogosphere friends this week. It's just cool folks are still around in some capacity, y'know?

mags // Tal
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oh my lord above I just found out that @kurnmogh.bsky.social is still blogging WoW. I think I might cry, THE OLD GUARD SURVIVES!!! My beloved Healing Lead!!! I'm so happy to learn this, carry on. Sincerely, the former blogger formerly known as Azeroth Apple

mags // Tal
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(fr tho I raided with Kurn's guild at the end of Wrath and then my work schedule changed so I couldn't devote the time to keep up with them in Cata, and it's always kind of gutted me a bit. My one-lockout pre-Cata pre-prepatch Starcaller run was at least half Apoth folks. the NOSTALGIA, man...)

mags // Tal
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y'know, I love the original episodes of "It Could Happen Here", but frankly after that, it has turned into "Doomscrolling: The Podcast", and I don't think those need to be on my Behind the Bastards feed @iwriteok.bsky.social. Can we maybe please just let it be its own podcast??

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Hank Green
@hankgreen.bsky.social

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

standupforscience2025.orgSTAND UP FOR SCIENCEMarch 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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taibhsearachd.bsky.social
@taibhsearachd.bsky.social

There are a million things wrong with this man; not one of them is about how he looks. There's nothing cute or progressive about making fun of a person's fucking face. Btw, everyone in the comments calling him a lizard or reptilian is parroting antisemitic bullshit, whether they realize it or not.

Adam Ellis@adamtots.bsky.social

Imagine being the sixth richest person on earth, spending tons of money to overhaul your face and hair to look cooler, and this is the absolute best they could do

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Seanan McGuire
@seananmcguire.bsky.social

When I was researching FEED--the first of a series of novels about pandemics and their effects--I ran across one of the most frightening concepts I had ever seen in non-fiction. It held that humanity has been living in the anthropocene--the human age--but was approaching the pandemicene.

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Gillian Branstetter
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Good analysis of the "why" they keep doing this and adding that they're sadists whom nobody is stopping from using the corpses of children as pawns

Gare Davis@bishonentype.bsky.social

I wrote an article on the femcel Columbine copycat shooter in Madison, Wisconsin, and why the online right is trying to convince you she’s trans. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madiso...

shatterzone.substack.comThe Madison, Wisconsin School Shooter Was A "Femcel" Columbine Copycat: Here's What That MeansAlso: why the far-right wants you to believe she was transgender

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