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Booleanean @booleanean.bsky.social · 17d

I see this a lot in online discourse about adult material or material dealing with dark topics. "But you wouldn't want a kid to read that, would you?" "What if a teenager sees the porn you drew?" "You want to help keep kids safe online, right?"

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding in 1/??

🪱🃏 𝕱𝖆𝖌𝖌ø𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓🦷🪳 @babettecirque.bsky.social · 18d

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this

#bskycensorship

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Kjatar Tavishen @kjatar.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I relate to this HARD. Explaining to my mom the changes to the legacy news media, and just getting a frustrated, "well, I can't just NOT have my PAPER... who am I supposed to watch???"

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Kjatar Tavishen @kjatar.bsky.social · 1d

Also, an extra special "why is this even legal" honorable mention to @kaine.senate.gov , who TURNS HIS VOICEMAIL OFF WHEN THE OFFICE IS CLOSED. Because apparently, he has no interest in hearing from constituents.

Also apparently, 3:45pm on a Friday is after business hours and the office is closed.

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Kjatar Tavishen @kjatar.bsky.social · 1d

both @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social have sponsored the Kids Online Safety Act, continuing their absolutely TERRIBLE record when it comes to tech policy. In the face of this current administration, is it really a good idea to add MORE censorship opportunities for the internet? Really?

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Christine Ridgway [Commissions Open!] @skidarstudios.bsky.social · Aug 22

#Yeehawgust Day 21: White Water Rapids

Cartoon of a grizzly bear fishing on the edge of a waterfall, a cartoon salmon dressed like a cowboy and wielding two pistols and leaping up towards the surprised bear

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just pretty fukn tired of being told I need to “tone down” my rhetoric by people who’ll eagerly call me a terrorist-loving America-hater to any reporter who’ll listen.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 8d

ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"

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artdecade @artdecade.bsky.social · 9d

Permanent Opium War (2025)

"The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival..." -Debord

www.artdecademonthly.com
(Quality version here: www.furaffinity.net/view/62499602/)

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · Jul 4

Life is like soccer because my mom signed me up for it and expects me to do my best even though I hate soccer.

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Kjatar Tavishen @kjatar.bsky.social · 9d

Four days, and not a ton, really; I'll be in conference 8-4, free time will be after likely.

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 9d

“Even after the D.C. Council set aside additional funds to continue green card sponsorships, DCPS says it simply won’t spend the money.”

The 51st @51st.news · 9d

DCPS reneged on its promise to help hundreds of international teachers secure a green card. Many may now be forced to leave the country. Read the full story from @maustermuhle.bsky.social 51st.news/dc-green-car...

DCPS promised them green cards. Now, these international teachers have nowhere to turn

More than 200 teachers may soon have to leave the country because of what they say are broken promises from the city's school system.

51st.news

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 9d

the trump BBB is just a fucking series of stupid heists and basically 0 counterexamples

"Discovery is the most intact shuttle orbiter of the NASA program, and we remain concerned that disassembling the vehicle will destroy its historical value," wrote the Smithsonian in a letter to the Congressional Authorizing & Appropriating Committees.

"We remain concerned about the unprecedented nature of a removal of an object from the national collection, and that we would be causing damage to the most intact orbiter from the Space Shuttle program. In particular, irreparable damage to the Shuttle tiles will occur in disassembly, which were critical to the Shuttle's unique reusability."

The US reconciliation bill, signed into law on July 4, includes a requirement to move a flown space vehicle to Houston, Texas. The vehicle in question is widely expected to be Discovery, although NASA has yet to confirm this. Several lawmakers are seeking to remove the relocation requirement, including Senator Mark Kelly, a former commander of Discovery.

Nothing has happened yet, but the request to begin preparations and undertake planning indicates that wheels are in motion. ®

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 9d

the larger problem is that all the tech people go to the same parties, parties you're excluded from, so there's always a right wing praise backchannel for them to contrast those mean trans leftists

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Thogli Studios @thoglistudios.com · 11d

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Kjatar Tavishen @kjatar.bsky.social · 9d

Looks like I'll be hitting Manhattan next week for work. Any nearby mutuals want to hang out, let me know; otherwise if you have any sightseeing recommendations, tell me!

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PotluckSoup @potlucksoup.bsky.social · Jan 30

Tied up and ready to pull.

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kalina2hu.bsky.social @kalina2hu.bsky.social · Aug 16

When the people who coined the term say "porn addiction" they absolutely mean it in the same sense that Immortan Joe warns you not to get addicted to water

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 10d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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The Cuix (sketch comms open) @thecuix.bsky.social · 12d

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

4 panel comic, une bunny and a witch cat are sitting around the fire, preparing dinner.
Dialogue goes :
"So, you're a Brush bearer, an Artist"
"Are you still painting?"
"I am"
"Hah! No way ! with the world on the verge of collapse and hoe fading day by day, you think art still matters?"
"Now more than ever..."

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 12d

#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.

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Kjatar Tavishen @kjatar.bsky.social · 13d

Insert eyes emoji here :D

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16d

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16d

I spoke with analyst Gil Luria at D.A. Davidson, asking if the capital existed to build OpenAI's promised 17GW of data centers.

He said "of course there isn't enough capital for all of this," but "enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer."

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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