Takel, Four Ravens in a Private Key ๐Ÿ”œMFF

Takel, Four Ravens in a Private Key ๐Ÿ”œMFF

@takel.gryph.one

Cybersecurity gryphon, leftist, pansexual disaster. Old enough to complain about back pain. He/him. PFP by @fleeks.art. Banner from art by @blindcoyote.bsky.social. ๐Ÿ”ž b/c Horny on Main.

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Replying to @billbeagle.bsky.social

Franchises of the 90โ€™s churning out furries

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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

"Anytime another charr goes on about magic being for weaklings. I didn't spend years learning how to stab someone in the face with a sword made of pure lightning just to have some hornless fuck walk up and call me weak. And of course none of them want to settle it in the Bane either. Cowards."

Guild Wars 2 character questions@commanderquestions.bsky.social

Commander, what is the one phrase that will set you off on a tirade or even a rampage?

"They're pests. And all the worse because they keep crawling off their graves after they get their asses kicked. Usually I can respect someone who fights for what's theirs against all odds, but there's a fine line between determination and the raging stupidity Ascalon's ghosts show."

Guild Wars 2 character questions@commanderquestions.bsky.social

In honor of the season - how do you feel about ghosts, commander? Not your personal ones but like the ones in Ascalon or other places, the ones who can actually attack you.

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As annoying as it is, the fact that we're now seeing people try to blame some variety of "outside agitators" for the hurt trans people are feeling from being betrayed by the party is a convoluted good sign. It means they've realized dismissing that pain is not actually an effective pragmatic move.

england is not a real country, it is an ulcer in the shape of an island

Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news

Two University of Leicester students speak out over โ€˜absurdโ€™ and โ€˜Orwellianโ€™ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

leicester.newsBBC edits out pride pins on University Challenge in โ€˜Orwellianโ€™ move* * * This story was published by **The Leicester Gazette** : a local, independent newspaper about Leicestershire. 1,000 people have already joined our community. Just use those buttons below to download our app and **sign up for free**. * * * Astrophysics student Samuel Carlier and History student Emmeline Hague-Wright were shocked to find that their LGBTQ+ pride pins had been edited out of their University Challenge appearance earlier this year. The episode, initially scheduled for BBC Two on 24 August, was delayed twice before airing on 7 September 2026. The pins showed the progressive LGBTQ+ pride flag, the bisexual pride flag and a rainbow feather. Speaking to the Leicester Gazette, Sam said: โ€œLiving in a liberal democracy and having the state broadcaster tell you โ€˜weโ€™re editing how you lookโ€™, seems very Orwellian.โ€ Sam described the choice to remove the pins before broadcast as โ€œweirdโ€ and โ€œabsurdโ€. He said: โ€œ[Censoring] that seemed weird. If I had worn a rainbow shirt, would they have censored that? If the idea is to keep things impartial, where is that line in the sand?โ€ A side by-side image of Sam wearing the pin and with it having been digitally removed. Photograph: supplied Sam contacted the BBC to try to understand why his pins had been edited out. He told the Gazette: โ€œThe BBC people said theyโ€™d ring me, and I chased them, they just said go to the complaints website and file a complaint there, thatโ€™s what I did.โ€ Since then, Sam hasnโ€™t had a response from the BBC as to why his pins were removed. After the episode had aired, Sam noted that his shirt โ€˜meltedโ€™ into itself occasionally, as a result of the editing. Photograph: supplied ## Students believe the decision was made following online transphobia Emmeline was also shocked when she found out that the feather pin she wore was due to be removed from the episode she was in. It was understood by Emmeline that there was online transphobia in response to previous episode of University Challenge, and she had been contacted by the BBC, anticipating support from the broadcaster. When the BBC contacted her, instead of an offer of support, she was told her pin was going to be removed. โ€œAt first it was mostly confusion,โ€ she said. โ€œI heard that they had received a lot of nastiness online from people and I thought they were going to call me to say โ€˜we have support services if needed,โ€™ and that wasn't what I got at all.โ€ Instead, Emmeline was notified that the episodes were going to be delayed. โ€œIt was out of left field, I was confused for a while,โ€ she said. โ€œThis entire delay has been because of a feather and two badges on a teammate that were basically impossible [for viewers] to see.โ€ Emmeline had expressed her frustrations with the repeated delays from the BBC, spanning from mid-July to early-September. She said: โ€œWe were announced on the website and then delayed again, and then announced on the website a second time, and delayed even further. Speaking about the removal, she said: โ€œIt takes a lot of timeโ€ she said. โ€œMaking it [the edit] look good would be even more expensive and time-consuming. It seems like drastically a lot of effort.โ€ ## Join the conversation Our app is more than just a way to keep up โ€“ it's a gateway to award-winning journalism and the local community. __Want to support our work?__ Click here for membership__.__ ## Wider criticism on LGBTQ+ support The pins Sam wore during the episode. Photograph: supplied According to leading LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall UK, two in five LGBTQ+ students will hide their identities at university for fear of discrimination. Stonewall has reported that more than 36 per cent of trans students have received hostile conduct from university staff due to their gender identity. Reflecting on the digital removal of the pins, Sam spoke about how disheartening the choice was. He said: โ€œThere was maybe like a span of eight years where someone could be uncontroversially out in the open queer โ€“ now thatโ€™s gone again.โ€ he said. The BBC has also been widely criticised for โ€˜an attack on the LGBTQ+ communityโ€™ by pulling its involvement with the popular show, RuPaul's Drag Race. The broadcaster pulled its involvement in September following โ€œsignificant financial pressuresโ€ as the reason for axing their involvement. The criticism follows another recent controversial edit by the BBC. On its hit show, Strictly Come Dancing, a decision was made to edit out โ€˜Protect the Dollsโ€™ from contestant Bethany Antoniaโ€™s T-shirt. Itโ€™s a slogan which has become widely used to support the rights of trans women. The BBC defended their decision, saying the changes were made to meet editorial guidelines. It comes as the LGBTQ+ community has faced challenges amid an increasingly less tolerant political climate. ## What the BBC had to say When we asked them about editing out the pins worn by Leicesterโ€™s University Challenge team, a BBC spokesperson said: โ€œIn line with our editorial guidelines, we advise that no badges, flags, and emblems or symbols are worn or visible during filming, along with clothing with obvious branding or slogans. If such items are not removed for any reason then a decision is made between the programme makers and the BBC regarding any edits to the programme.โ€ The BBC said the delays to the episode were unrelated to the decision to edit out the pins. A spokesperson for ITV Studios said: โ€œUniversity Challenge is an entertainment quiz show and is made in accordance with the BBC Editorial Guidelines requirements for impartiality.โ€ The University of Leicester refused to comment on the matter. * * * **Before you goโ€ฆ** Weโ€™ve recently surpassed 1,000 subscribers, which is amazing considering weโ€™re a small team on a shoestring budget. Now, weโ€™re ready for the next stage of the Leicester Gazette. **Download our new app and get all of our journalism anytime, anywhere.** The app connects with **Bluesky** , **Mastodon** and **Threads** , giving you access to a network of around 60 million people. Itโ€™s a safer, more meaningful alternative to mainstream social media โ€“ owned by the community. * * *

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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BSKY HISTORY MOMENT: only reason we have top-level moderation on this fuckass scrotemoid webzone is that all of the power-users of this site in its invite era (2023) would tell matty every time he posted that he needed to be beaten to death with hammers in a completely unironic, very serious way.

Zeteo@zeteo.com

Mehdi @mehdirhasan.bsky.social GRILLS centrist, contrarian pundit Matthew Yglesias for calling Gaza โ€˜a just warโ€™. โ€œWhat does it say for your credibilityโ€ฆif you've gotten the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime, Iraq and Gaza, both wrong?โ€ zeteo.com/p/matt-ygles...

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Day twenty two of weretober, leucistic raven ๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›โšช๏ธ

note to self: commission porn of my sona getting a blowjob from a big-titty snow leopard milf so that i can get the ghost of ben franklin to give me the biggest high-five in the history of the afterlife

Jason Concepcion@netw3rk.bsky.social

ill be fucking their little tri-corn hat wearing asses up. founding fathers never saw brazilian jui jitsu. Never saw muy thai. im putting ben franklin in a kimura.

i still think that he'd be less transphobic if she had chosen a name like Xaila or Xandra or something like that, but honestly this is probably the biggest contributor

Jill Weinberger@jillybobww.bsky.social

I think a huge reason Elon Musk is so virulently transphobic is not simply that his daughter transitioned & went no contact, but that he did everything he could to make sure all his kids were boys b/c he hates women, & one of those children deliberately & publicly embracing being female enrages him.

seriously though i'm glad slotkin finally said or did something that actually involves fighting back against trump's horseshit now all we have to do is hope her staff can convince her that Trump's actually the socialist president of a central American country and just let nature take its course

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please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

the funniest possible result will be if it turns out wayne used freely available non-ai tools tools that have been around for years

This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

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you can't judge when bioware was really killed because the mismanagement at the higher level under EA has been so constant and pervasive since the acquisition at every stage that every game shipped at all was a herculean miracle

jesus fuck clicking through this link flashbanged the hell out of me

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This quote is painfully accurate.

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

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on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...