Dare Arkin ๐Ÿ”ž

Dare Arkin ๐Ÿ”ž

@darearkin.bsky.social

This be my account for perusing smut, comics and other stuff. Be warned, it might get weird. Bi guy. Almost 40. Kinda figured some of this stuff out. Still working out a lot of it. I'll dispense free advice- it may be terrible but it will be free.

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I swear to god if I hear another person talk about โ€œthe mainstream mediaโ€ while mainlining disinfo slop online all day, Iโ€™m going to lose my mind

Well.. this is bad. My car has started developing possibly major problems out of nowhere. Not only do I probably not have money for this, not only might it total my car, but I can't even get my job to let me have the day to go to the mechanic...

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Replying to @briangoetz.bsky.social

Iโ€™m a phony for the things I donโ€™t engage in and performative for the things I do. Itโ€™s almost like everyone just wants to fight and argue all of the time.

And now, on the day everyone has off for labor day, that I normally have off as part of my annoyingly scheduled weekend, I get to work. Because I work retail. So instead of a three day weekend this week, I get a ONE day weekend for labor day, so my employer can sell cheap junk to people. Yay.

Hey, guys- just throwing this out into Bluesky in general. If you wanna leave a mic-drop comment when you block me, you kinda need to... not block me. Or else I lose the ability to see your clearly brilliantly crafted diss. This is what the mute button is for. Elsewise I can't see jack. XD

Yanno I'm seeing a REALLY large uptick in "We can't vote our way out of this!" posts. The paranoid in me wonders if it's being pushed to discourage voting, and possibly start some useful violence. Cause if I were genuinely afraid of being voted out- that's the kind of message I'd want spread.

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So, don't listen to the folk who very often turn out to not even be from the US telling us to rise up in bloody revolution. That may end up being needed- but if you panic and hold that as your plan, ignoring every other possible solution, you're just sabotaging things and playing into their hands.

Oh, and if you absolutely believe you need to arm up and be ready for a fight, absolutely brace for that. I will NOT fault you for it. But voting takes like, fifteen minutes. So hey, why not double up? It's such an easy thing, and the only people who'll benefit from you not... are the Redcaps.

Yanno I'm seeing a REALLY large uptick in "We can't vote our way out of this!" posts. The paranoid in me wonders if it's being pushed to discourage voting, and possibly start some useful violence. Cause if I were genuinely afraid of being voted out- that's the kind of message I'd want spread.

And, for everyone going "Oh no you can't vote your way out, he's building a bunker, he never intends to leave-" We just saw Orbรกn rig the entire system in Hungary and get slapped out by voters despite it. Trump is far, FAR less popular with the people who he'd need to defend him than Orban was.

And, yanno, his ballroom-bunker project is stalled, tied up litigation. Also, let's factor in that the fat old bastard isn't going to live much longer. I know several people in the medical field and per them if we were gonna be running a book it's better than even odds he never SEES the midterms.

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Replying to @pervocracy.bsky.social

It's funny how the "He really seems to understand the source material and take it in his own, profound direction" seems to be so similar to "Make it "gritty" and "masculine" and "realistic" (i.e no fun allowed)" a lot of the time, huh

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Found a forum where people either freely distribute content other artists are trying to sell, or create knock-offs of that work to try and profit from. .... then sympathise with each other over how hard it is for artists to make money. I can only say, yeah. Yeah, it f**king is.

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I would like to go back to when buying fifty dollars worth of groceries didnโ€™t make me sad. Food is just so expensive.

Man. I love how this site has a system for muting tags you don't want to see. And how specific fetish artists will explicitly NOT tag their stuff, so it keeps popping up in my feed. That "Show me less of this" thing does nothing, I've just resorted to blocking 'em.

I've genuinely blocked more diaper/fat/inflation artists than redcaps, at this point. Not saying y'all can't enjoy your stuff. God knows I'm into some stuff that'll make people go "What the hell are you doing?" so there's no judgement here. Just: tag it. Please. So I can filter.

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I'm a little sad that when rejecting games just made entirely out of AI slop on my Steam curator page, the only option to say 'no' is labelled 'Politely decline'. I don't wanna be polite. I want to say 'Knock that shit off and send me a real game made by real humans'.

Was listening to some audiobook stuff I have and stumbled across this quote. Had to dig it up and show it. Cause... boy does this still ring true. Seventy years later, and he was cooking with this one.

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Happy Fatherโ€™s Day to all the papas out there. May you be as joyful as my father looks with two starlings perched upon his head. Miss you, Dad. โค๏ธ