wrong! the negative space is actually a hook, which is a design choice left over from when the handle on the back was originally going to be a hook so people could hang their gamecubes in their closet when not in use.
/joke

bluesky telling you to go live and make the most of your life, get out in the world, touch grass! very inspirational.

CW/ vore, dark themes, light snuff There’s something kind of intoxicatingly romantic about the way a hypnotic snake hunts isn’t there?

Like, yes of course he aims to kill you and eat you, it’s in some ways strictly business

But… he has to take time out of his day to devote to the hunt, has to be

Oh nice, haha! Butterbean is a perfect name for Wren.

Usually @dutholec.bsky.social's Wren is very put off by creatures of the serpentine persuasion, but Kenny's got some persuasion of his own to put them at ease 🐍

Erada has orange-red hair to her shoulders and fiery eyes. Here she's wearing a long-sleeved purple shirt and darker violet skirt with black-fuchsia striped stockings and sensible black shoes with fuchsia laces. She always wears a necklace with a locket and earrings. Her hat isn't visible in this art.

Erada is brewing a potion in this art, and she wears ruby rings on her fingers to dispel the heat. She also wears safety glasses when brewing potions. Her witch hat is in this art, a dark blue brim with the top curled like a chameleon's tail, blue and green stripes like a chameleon. She has a pink band around her hat with pockets sewn into it, all sorts of ingredients and tools stuffed into it.

Erada's artwork is by @bumblesteak.bsky.social!

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

wow I used to do that (does not specify which one)

I still love this art, though it's now outdated as one half of my hair is short and the other half is even longer and purple

I mean Google has a drop down "Tools" with an option for a custom date range search, too. Well, at least on desktop.

get them to give me a definition from before AI was around by only requesting search results from before 2023.
...
Oh hey that worked.
I can't do the simple click a synonym and see its results like before but it'll do until Google decides you can't search for results before 2025 without paying

I just saw that searching a word meaning in Google no longer pulls up the actual definition and synonyms like it did for many years, but instead ONLY an AI overview.
This has apparently happened off and on for people in the past 8 months or so.
Well, that sucks, I think. Maybe I can just...

💔👁️🩷 (2/2)

Eldritch Pretend 🩷👁️💔 (1/2)

i love puns!

I forget if I've said it but The Liar is my favorite character in Greatures, even the simple obvious rote ones from when he was introduced were perfect from their execution. This is a really good twist on the setup, too.
My favorite use of him might've been in the story introducing Grandma.

GOTCHYA! It's a new greatures
greatures.com/comic/206/

Same same same so much, as far as I'm concerned I barely existed before I found myself on the internet. I'm sure there are many kids now who naturally struggle to socialize in meatspace but find it easy in the digital realm.

oh boy now search isn't working

Serious question, has Israel ever honored a ceasefire? Like it's been around as long as my dad had been, surely in that time there was a ceasefire it honored.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.

The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Get yourself a girl that looks at you like uh... like... uhm... 🌀😵💞

You would also finally get your dream job, as per the actual primary terms of the contract. You’d also be rich and famous, which was just a standard freebie. You picked up a quill. “No, no.” The demon grinned. “The rules are you have to sign in blood.” “Oh, this is my blood,” you said, pulling out an inkpot. The demon’s grin fell. “What?” “I stored some blood in here. I’ve been waiting for one of you fuckers for years.” At this point the demon glanced around, a little uncomfortable. But you signed the contract! Everyone in hell saw it! You can’t back down now! Neither could they but they rallied and set you in your armchair.

“Just stare into my eyes and I’ll make all your dreams come true.” You nodded with an assenting murmur. It was a little quicker and more assenting than the demon expected. They didn’t let it throw them off and tapped their claws over your head, twirling them through your hair on occasion. “Just listen to my voice, hang on every word and do exactly as I say.” The warm glow increased to a hot glow, as if it softly baked your mind. It felt so relaxing to give in, let the demon’s words twist around your thoughts. “You will have your dream job, and once you do you will follow the contract, you will use your job to further our goals.” “You will use your job to promote our causes, you will help our people consolidate power, and you will STOP ENJOYING THIS SO MUCH.” With a soft smile and a giggle you muttered, “Wasn’t… in the… contract…”

Old microstory, more of a jape than erotica but I know some folks would sign a contract to be hypnotized by a demon.
The demon just keeps being blindsided at how that seems to be the human's plan, though?? #hypnosis #demon #contract
Full story: cloudycuckoocosmos.com/hypnosisnake...

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

"Amazon Settlements" is trending, and most of the posts at top are just people promoting their stuff on Amazon.
the trending topics feature on here might be kinda bad, actually
also divest from amazon and don't sell your stuff on there or buy your stuff from there

The brainwashing takes place at the same time as the makeover. Obedience drilled into your head by my voice over and over again until you're hearing thoughts in my voice. :3

I shared this post with some friends and gave some thoughts about what I think might happen and it resulted in a joke "Pomni was the real Abel all along"

this whole "birthday" thing is getting old

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Last Place leaves his F R I E N D S behind, in a new greatures greatures.com/comic/204/