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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 12m

The basic problem with the true crime economy is that demand vastly overstrips supply. The vast majority of real-life crime, horrific crimes included, is in fact very boring.

Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 18m

I like true crime but I’m beginning To think that the dominance of true crime as an entertainment genre is doing terrible things to our ability to empathise.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 21m

I mean the show essentially treated the victims with the same attitude as Dahmer himself did: as props, with total disregard for the lives they lived.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 5m

This ruling makes it crystal clear that any attempt to ban trans women and girls from sports is prohibited by our New York State’s antidiscrimination laws.

Judge halts New York county from enforcing trans athlete ban after roller derby league sues

The ban would have affected more than 100 sports facilities in Nassau County, just east of New York City.

www.nbcnews.com

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Breno Altman @brenoaltman.bsky.social · 4m

A Venezuela de Chavez e Maduro tem mais flexibilidade judicial que o Brasil. Maria Corina e Juan Guaidó lideraram tentativas golpistas em cumplicidade com os EUA, mas jamais pagaram por seus crimes. A Bolsonaro venezuelana deveria estar presa desde 2002, quando foi cúmplice do golpe contra Chavez.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 6m

REDIVERTING THE OUTPUT OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR TO GENERATE BILLIONS OF MINUTELY DIFFERENT VIDEOS OF PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING AND ODIE THE DOG FROM GARFIELD DOING PARKOUR JUST IN CASE ROKO’S BASILISK TRIES TO EAT ME, YEAH I GUESS YOU COULD SAY I’M FUCKING STRESSED

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MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 11m

please?

$0/50

MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 23m

hey friends,

i hate to ask again, but could anyone spot me $30-50 for food please?

still waiting for my snap benefits to be restored and i have nothing left to eat 🙏🏽 hopeful to get a parcel from the foodbank next week -they've offered to deliver ❤️

paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash

Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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themischiefprince.bsky.social @themischiefprince.bsky.social · 11m

Let us not forget that Trump is a neo Nazi and she’s asking a neo Nazi for help in overthrowing her nations government!

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Kaelik @kaelik.bsky.social · 16m

You are just lying here.

She's not appeasing an abuser.

She supports murdering fishing boats and invasion of Venezuela to put her in as president.

You don't have to become pathetically stupid and support a Pinochet figure just because she's a woman.

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 40m

“In China, the longest ultrahigh-voltage power line stretches
the equivalent of the distance from Idaho to New York City. That’s a single power line. China has 41 others. Each is capable of carrying more electricity than any utility transmission line in the United States.”

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

www.nytimes.com

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 28m

Two large accounts have done fake alt text today, and I've muted them both.

C'mon, folks, it's bad enough to not use alt; it's worse to pretend you have so you get the original Bsky community to share.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Nov 11

Muting/blocking larger accounts who don't use alt, unfortunately.

Fake alt, like "a picture" are really disappointing, too.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25m

“The agency’s human resources staff, which had been furloughed as part of the government shutdown, [was] called back to work to send out layoff notices to their colleagues.”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 23m

hey friends,

i hate to ask again, but could anyone spot me $30-50 for food please?

still waiting for my snap benefits to be restored and i have nothing left to eat 🙏🏽 hopeful to get a parcel from the foodbank next week -they've offered to deliver ❤️

paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash

Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 17m

I like them

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 21m

The basic motivation of Blanchardism is the homophobic and misogynist prejudice that no-one could ever genuinely prefer to be a lesbian woman to a straight man because the latter is so obviously better, so instead a nefarious motive is assumed.

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4h

What's worse than it not going away is that it keeps mutating into new types of tropes & imagined sexual deviancy that have nothing to do with Blanchard's original disproven theory, as discussed here: juliaserano.medium.com/the-white-lo...

The White Lotus, TERFs, and “Autogynephilia” as a Floating Signifier

plus their “grand unified theory” of transness

juliaserano.medium.com

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 20m

the Fuckaas Ultimatum

shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 27m

That’s essentially how new technology is made

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 32m

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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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Nov 12

Here's a why and here is a how:

bsky.app/profile/drem...

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Nov 11

The majority of posts used alt text before the first big influx from X-- unfortunately, larger accounts have never felt the need to change, b/c their current approach is working for them.

There are progressive voices that do care about accessibility, so I'm going to mute those who don't

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Nov 11

Muting/blocking larger accounts who don't use alt, unfortunately.

Fake alt, like "a picture" are really disappointing, too.

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · Sep 7

Get in the fucking robot, Your Honor

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 30m

mechas cant be choosers. get in the fucking robot

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 38m

A detail buried in the article that bums me out:

"OpenAI reached a deal last year to lease 90,000 square ft in the building, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal."

So when the AI bubble bursts (soon) the Puck Building will be a flagship Spirit Halloween 🙃 gothamist.com/news/rei-shu...

REI shutting down SoHo store, its only NYC location

The company's Paramus location is also closing.

gothamist.com

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 21h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 38m

Sharing this so that you do not endure the wasted 2 hours that I just did: Jurassic Park Rebirth is a piece of shit.

It was terrible. Like *real* terrible.

The dinosaurs have mutated (so don't look real). They are AI-generated, so they look even more fake. And the storyline is garbage bin juice.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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