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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 7h

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#DOITFORSHIIKO | Lillie Ver.Ka 🏳️‍⚧️ @heat--end.bsky.social · 2h

microsoft is so fucking desperate to get back the money they blew on AI so they have to pull shit like this to convince shareholders its working lmfao. fucking insane

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 10h

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 20h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Eleanor Harper @lusthag.bsky.social · 1d

There is no ethical subscription based streaming service. There is no “better option” than Spotify besides actually buying albums from artists. Streaming services have completely de-valued art and music and even worse, have convinced the general population to believe they DESERVE it.

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Émi / vgen comms open! @emistarrynight.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hello! It's been a while, but I'm bringing back Halloween icons commission on VGen! They are open until Halloween! Below are the two commissions I've done last year!

A drawing of blitzingz's character dressed up as a devil

A drawing of Rozen's character Azzy dressed up for Halloween with fake blood on the claws

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 23h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

And last but definitely not least, it's Mr Vietnam who has managed to combine the traditional and beautiful look with wearing a tree on his back, which is something that I very much appreciate (especially in a year with a very low level of insanely large looks)

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 20h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Kallidora Rhosferatu 🩸 @kallidorarho.bsky.social · 1d

snakes truly are unmatched in terms of symbolism btw. it rules. life, death, immortality, eternity, medicine, sex, temptation, evil, gluttony, hypnosis - we've got it all babes

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 1d

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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George @hannahtempler.com · 1d

ive said this before, but the dissonance of marketing AI as an absolute source of unlimited intelligence (the implication being some sort of factuality or neutrality), while a few very wealthy humans manually carve it to say the things they want, should be ringing alarm bells for everyone

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Canadian Mech-X4 Donald 🇨🇦🤖🦾 @rangerdonald.bsky.social · 1d

Boom.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Can I just say it’s nice to see a frog used as a mascot and taking power from the one used and twisted by the right. Big difference takes balls and humour to be them frogs on the line compared to a faceless person behind a racist meme.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Émi / vgen comms open! @emistarrynight.bsky.social · 4d

teehee i wanna hop in too-

white text on black background all in caps "what is your favorite character created by this artist?"

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EngineerKappa @engineerkappa.net · 2d

Been playing 999, I like June and this silly pose she makes

June from 999: Nine hours Nine Persons Nine Doors. She has her hands up in a sort of shocked or flustered type of pose

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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felix ♡ ko-fi comms: 0/3 @angelkissedface.bsky.social · 2d

finally heard back abt a job today and it was a rejection 😭 some help, even just a share, would be amazing!! #artsky #art #commission

felix ♡ ko-fi comms: 0/3 @angelkissedface.bsky.social · 21d

✧ i've put my commissions options on ko-fi for convenience!! ✧

almost all my usual options are there thus far, including a new pwyw surprise-me half-body option for people who prefer skeb-style collaboration!!

[ ko-fi • general commission info ]

please repost to help me get the word out ♡

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