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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 7h

#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand. This one's important because of the global shift to fascism. Can someone in our media directly ask our awful coalition government if they are either already giving access to our biometric information to the US and/or do they intend to do so??

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 4d

iPad artists, HUGE news!!

Affinity designer, publisher, and photo can be purchased FOR FREE rn

No subscription, just free

Here's how

1) Download ALL THREE apps on the app store

#DigitalArt #iPadArtist #Art #Affinity

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Screenshot of affinity photo, publisher, and designer in the apple app store.

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emily liddell ☕ COMMISSIONS OPEN! @liddell.bsky.social · 1d

bust commission for @hiems-atra.bsky.social !!

#BRart #art #commission

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Esin (FINALLY CAUGHT RED TK36) @fellowesin.bsky.social · 7h

Get well soon

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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · Mar 1

lauren
@NotABigJerk
For everyone visiting their parents
this week:
LG tvs call it TrueMotion
Roku/TCL calls it Action Smoothing
Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
Sony calls it MotionFlow
Panasonic calls it Intelligent Frame Creation
Amazon Fire TVs call it Motion
Processing
12/25/22

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Micah Seacole @micahseacole.bsky.social · 10h

#Sketch - Cadaecia

@jimbleshasarrived.bsky.social's character from their wrath and glory game who I may or may not be very normal about.

#ArtSky #OCSky #DigitalArt #WarHammer40k

digital sketch, an thin, athletic woman with a prosthetic arm wearing a large coat and holding a gun and a sniper rifle as tall as her. The sign of the Inquisition is emblazoned on her chest plate.

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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 8h

What’s a healthy way you care for yourself that helps you handle stress?

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kelpcheep @kelpcheep.bsky.social · 9h

goodrapple fusion 🍎

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JoetheWoomy @joethewoomy.bsky.social · 8h

The Pumpkin Pals: Pumpkid and Pump.

For @unknownartistml.bsky.social
#originalcharacter #halloween #halloween2025 #spookymonth

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zJairo @zjairo19.bsky.social · 10h

Today is halloween! Trick or Treat! :D
#WarioWare
Penny Crygor & Ashley

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Alice @bxxxnie.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah lol

𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚔𝚒 ʚ(*´꒳`*)ɞ° @whimszi.bsky.social · 9h

you deserve to be in environments that bring out the softness in you, not the survival in you

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Egg @eggpower.bsky.social · 8h

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Dr ICE Scream Maker: Slasher of Fash 🔪 @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 8h

Please help and share

Rami Nasser Aj 🍉 @pals0229.bsky.social · 9h

Our lives taste of death, bitterness fills our days and sorrow weighs on our nights.
I’m a broken father who lost his job and everything I had. I have nothing left only the desperate wish to save my kids
Please your kindness is our last hope. Every act of compassion truly matters❤️‍🩹
gofund.me/edd687b8

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

Does anyone have this in Spanish? I want to print double sided.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🍉 @thereeljon.mov · 8h

Cool, on top of age gating DMs for the UK and various US states, now BlueSky has seen fit to just straight up deny access to DMs for Palestinian accounts.

Hey, Jay, Aaron, why the fuck did we come here again if you're just gonna deny features to groups you don't like and to appease fascists?

It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 9h

I’m currently unable to send any direct messages on Bluesky.
My access to chats has been disabled by the platform moderators — without any clear reason or explanation.
I didn’t break any rules. All I’ve done is speak honestly about my life in Gaza and share what my family and I are going through.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 9h

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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Ennael @ennaelk3219.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not seeing it on my feed anywhere, so here I go reposting it from the other site...

It has been confirmed by Twitch's own Employees that if you watch more than 2 streams and lurk in them, you don't count as a viewer for *ANY* of the streams you're watching.

Make sure to watch 2 streams max!

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24/7 Laptop Ōkamization @ator.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Noah Fisk || 📌 @noahfisk.bsky.social · 11h

chuffed.org/project/hope...

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 9h

Microsoft lets you disable AI face recognition 3×/year!

if the off switch works yet

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9K... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251012-mic... - podcast

time: 4 min 03 sec

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Esin (FINALLY CAUGHT RED TK36) @fellowesin.bsky.social · 12h

You vill finish ze homework und you vill be happy

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👻🐈‍⬛🎃Pumpkin Spice Witch's Brew 🎃🐈‍⬛👻 @redvioletpanda.bsky.social · 12h

Oh for fuck's sake. Not everything is a godamn Biblical allegory, especially NOT ONE PIECE. One Piece, in which the main character has now attained a form that makes references to Chinese mythology and Buddhist imagery.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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The Growths @deadnamemovie.bsky.social · 12h

Movies are expensive. The Growths cost 500 out of pocket, money I'm going to be paying back for some time. It was necessary to complete grad school, but it is also a financial burden.

Please help if you can! You can also paypal me [email protected]

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