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Hey, I'm all for providing support for Gaza but random inbox messages from people I don't know and links I don't trust will be deleted and blogs will be blocked.

Please stop.

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not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

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Everyone please tell me have you seen one of your top artists live this year

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Get jolly with it

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should you delete twitter and get bluesky? (or just get a bluesky in general)? here's what i've found:

yes. my answer was no before bc the former CEO of twitter who also sucked, jack dorsey, was on the board, but he left as of may 2024, and things have gotten a lot better. also a lot of japanese and korean artists have joined

don't delete your twitter. lock your account, use a service to delete all your tweets, delete the app off of your phone, and keep your account/handle so you can't be impersonated.

get a bluesky with the same handle, even if you won't use it, also so you won't be impersonated.

get the sky follower bridge extension for chrome or firefox. you can find everyone you follow on twitter AND everyone you blocked so you don't have to start fresh: https://skyfollowerbridge.com/

learn how to use its moderation tools (labelers, block lists, NSFW settings) so you can immediately cut out the grifters, fascists, t*rfs, AI freaks, have the NSFW content you want to see if you so choose, and moderate for triggers. here's a helpful thread with a lot of tools.

the bluesky phone app is pretty good, but there is also tweetdeck for bluesky, called https://deck.blue/ on desktop, if you miss tweetdeck.

bluesky has explicitly stated they do not use your data to train generative AI, which is nice to hear from an up and coming startup. obviously we can’t trust these companies and please use nightshade and glaze, but it’s good to hear.

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if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

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"what's your dream job??" Uhh to have 17 weird little hobbies that I don't have to be good at and hang out with friends. I get money via being the world's specialist little princess

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Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

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YALL THE ONION BOUGHT INFO WARS IN THE BANKRUPTCY AUCTION

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bumblebee should haunt starscream more often this stuff is the greatest

The Transformers Annual 2017 by Priscilla Tramontano and Thomas Deer

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If you're trans and you don't have a passport, get one. right now. not in a month, not in a week, get started on it today.

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Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

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I didn't get enough photos but my partner did! This was our first TFCon and we definitely enjoyed it. It was such a pleasure to meet folks who enjoy just one single franchise and especially certain characters. I couldn't believe how many Tailgates I saw and to no one's surprise all of the Starscreams. But all of the cosplays were unique with their own twists AND LITERALLY EVERY DECEPTICON COSPLAYER HAD THEIR OWN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SEEKER?? I loved it. This was another major test of my makeup skills and some of my makeup failed while applying but this was definitely a real call to upgrade our jackets and looks. Fingers crossed for TFCon Chicago 2025. Was a pleasure to meet a lot of you!!

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it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.

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TFCon Baltimore Lineup!

Howdy tumblr! Partner and I have finally determined our linup for TFCon Baltimore in two weeks! (Since my partner's Ultra Magnus jacket isn't coming together.) So you'll catch us as: Myself: Punk Elita-One, Bumblebee and Rodimus Prime Partner: Punk Optimus Prime, Cliffjumper and Megatron Really looking forward to going to my first TFCon ;w;

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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email