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Twitch streamer, book dragon, ice hockey lover. 18+ only Non Binary. Queer. Disabled. AuDHD. They/Them pronouns. https://www.twitch.tv/blowp0p Inquiries email: [email protected]

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Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hello! My name is Blow Pop. But y'all can call me BP or Pop. I'm a variety twitch streamer, a hockey fan & a voracious book reader. I love Star Wars & am AuDHD. I'm non binary & use they/them pronouns. I am a bit of a chaos gremlin. I am part of my local kink scene & am chronically overstimulated.

Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · 1d

Me to my dog: I'm going to shave my head if you need me i'll be in the bathroom

Like she even understands. She just gave me the "and?" look and went back to laying down

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 3d

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 3d

They put up chainlink fences underneath the biggest bridges
They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children
They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face
So they don't have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them
The South will not rise again
Til it's paid for every sin
Strange fruit, hard bargain
Till the roots, Southern Gotham
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief
And I'm the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
Cause I'm a true believer

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 3d

Hayley Williams performed True Believer positioned at the back of the stage with most of her black musicians at the front. I’ll post the lyrics below

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 2d

i think people who have a hard on for Ai truly cannot understand that some people are just talented in the arts and have worked hard to become better at their craft. saying this to the creator of one of the best shows ever written is insane.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

*make* the proof

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 3d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · 2d

Doing the multi stream thing with Queen. Relaxing in Palia.
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Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · 3d

Surviving, collecting moris, and trying to adept survivors with one of my friends @sallysyko.bsky.social. Doing stream together thing
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Blow Pop is a variety streamer. Loves horror, star wars and reading. A queer gamer (non-binary, demipansexual) and goes by they/them pronouns. Chaos gremlin and magpie extraordinaire. Very anti genera...

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 4d

I can't even imagine how disconcerting the mechanical soulless slop machines must be if you're an organic soulless slop machine.

MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators

He says he's worried about what will happen to millions of creators when AI videos are as good as normal ones.

www.bbc.com

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Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · 4d

I am the pumpkin king? Possibly? New game come chat or lurk.
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[18+] Chaos enby magpie does chaos things | I am the pumpkin king? -- First Playthrough, NO SPOILERS

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Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · 5d

Posted this on discord and posting here for those not in my discord. Alt texted as usual

As a heads up twitch's anti lurker thing is going overboard again so if those of you who like to lurk can just do the lurking redeem you'll count as lurkers in chat (or I always have my command). I'm going to add another command where I don't say anything to you for those who don't want to be perceived (because I know there are some who are like that).
I love and appreciate all of you who do lurk when you can.
As always I only register people are actively there if they're actively chatting (except for andrew he's just always there).

Blow Pop @blowp0p.bsky.social · 5d

I am so very tired of filling in job applications. particularly for jobs I'm qualified for that I'm probably not going to get cause why would we hire people in 2025.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5d

The GOP loses by 7% instead of 10%: THAT WAS A HISTORIC LANDSLIDE VICTORY WE HAVE A MANDATE NOW

Dems win by 7% instead of 10%: woke has gone too far who can we sacrifice to make a guy in a diner happy?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5d

YES! like, do you want us to fight using every fucking tool we can put our hands on or not??

If we need to learn one thing from the damn GOP, it is their pathological willingness to go "well that didn't work, who has an even weirder idea let's fuckin go"

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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Darrel Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · 5d

You can watch him back down a line of ICE and do his little dance on TikTok
www.tiktok.com/@theantifasc...

this is the war ravaged city that Trump is talking about😂😂😂 crazy #iceoutofportland #portland #portlandmusicfestival

TikTok video by TheAntifascistfrog

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 6d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Dee Mack @carly911.bsky.social · 5d

Yup

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6d

A frog just defeated ICE. Somewhere Pepe is crying.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 5d

If you only knew how much of tech's energy is devoted to building better tools for abusers

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

futurism.com

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DOGE mag @dogemag.bsky.social · 5d

Remember it didn't start with AI.

Go look at the "real people" reels and keep the thought about quality and purpose in mind.

Sure maybe there isn't a 'consent' issue at play, but that's not all there is to it.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

AI is a lack of consent machine whose greatest strength has been convincing people that other people’s boundaries are to be negotiated with

And that people who tell you no are defunct

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 6d

I wish I didn’t have to say this but…

If someone tells you they’re autistic and you find that hard to believe, it might be because:

- They don’t feel safe enough to unmask around you
- Your knowledge of autism is limited

Arguing won’t help. Kindness, curiosity, and listening to understand, will ❤️

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