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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 22h

While we're at it #PeterThiel #ErnstRöhm #Communism #Socialism #Leftism

They're the same picture meme:

Above images of Peter Thiel 2025 and Ernst Röhm 1924 with text: "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture."

Below Pam Halpert (played by Jenna Fischer) in the Office: "They're the same picture."

Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 22h

Peter Thiel: "The Antichrist is coming to get you."
Everyone: "Aren't you gay?"
Peter Thiel:
#FuckAI #FuckPeterThiel #TransRights #ErnstRöhm2025

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 22h

I think the saddest part of AI stuff is that people want to be fooled, cf. The Emperor's New Clothes. #EmployRealArtists

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 1d

So remember that man who attacked an elderly woman and shoved her in a bin because he thought she was "a man dressed up as a woman and that she was actually a predatory paedophile"? She died. Transphobes have more blood on their hands 🤬

(Original story www.rte.ie/news/courts/...)

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

www.rte.ie

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not even get into the Arabic being spoken isn't monolithic. There's Palestinian Arabic, Northwest Arabian Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, alongside Domari, Armenian, French, English, pre-Israeli Hebrew (you know, among the brown-skinned Palestinian Jewish peoples Israel hates)...?

Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 1d

"But but but Hebrew has Yod and the Hebrew Alphabet/Abjad uses a different phoneme structure that changes based on..."

OMG Really?

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 1d

"There is no "P" in Arabic so Palestine can't exist."
There is no "I" in Israeli Hebrew. #FreePalestine

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite bird is the South African Pied Crow or White-breasted Crow (Corvus albus), they are massive and have the most extraordinary cawing sound but also chitter and chat when around each other.

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 2d

Fixed it!

Two pictures comparing Crows and Ravens.
Left picture is a Crow, labelled "Crow"
Right picture is a Raven, labelled "Raven"
Below Crow is the text: "Will steal your heart and your soul." And your soul is red and glowing.
Below Raven is the exact same text again.

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 2d

Excited for the free speech crowd to get outraged about this.

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 2d

And you get a transgendering! And you get a transgendering! EVERYBODY GETS A TRANSGENDERRIIIIIIINNNNGGGG! #JustTransThings #TransJoy

Terra Fied 🎃🏳️‍⚧️👻 @rainofterra.gay · 2d

He should have stolen mine, it’s way funnier.

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Terra Fied 🎃🏳️‍⚧️👻 @rainofterra.gay · 2d

He should have stolen mine, it’s way funnier.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

it’s going to be a fun presidential primary when people look back at the response to sending troops and ICE to terrorize cities. in particular, who said jack shit about political violence against their own base

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 10

Horrific to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. Political violence must be always and totally rejected. Praying for him and all who may have been injured or impacted.

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BleedingGrey𓅗 @ginzhizhawizi.net · 5d

I was silenced for pointing out Jay was hiding replies

I could post and reply and like and repost as a phantom

and then everyone realized what was going on with Link and other folks being suspended

bluesky's decentralization is a lie, no matter how fast they're trying to catch up to their promise

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, you’ve spotted the problem. Well done.

ousman1292
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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
- Stokely Carmichael —
AZ QUOTES

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 3d

If you're fighting for freedom by throwing marginalized groups under the bus, you aren't fighting for freedom. You're fighting to become the next problem, the next hurdle, the next tyrant, the next stumbling block. Trans people aren't disposable #transgender

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 3d

Original post:

Jeff Ryder post: "Maybe don't die on transgender hills when we need to attract independents in order to actually take back the govt."

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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 3d

"Eew, is living really the hill you transgenders wanna die on." *pushes trans person under the bus* "God, I hate transgender hills." *pushes another trans person under the bus*. "Do the fascists who call themselves 'moderates' like me yet?"

Do you fuckers hear yourselves?

#transgender

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 4d

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 5d

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation

What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s be honest - @theguardian.com and much of the legacy media have spent years dressing up anti-Trans+ rhetoric as “fact”

They too have helped deceive the US and UK Supreme Courts

They share responsibility for the erosion of basic individual rights, including the right to control one’s own body

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 5d

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation

What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

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