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alyaza ΘΔ

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part time coyote, full time gryphon || 24 || nonbinary. they/she/it || ΘΔ coyote || you could say i'm here under protest || https://alyaza.neocities.org/

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 8d

hey anyways totally unrelated to the current staff meltdown on here, we're in the process of revitalizing Website League (believe it or not it is our 1 year anniversary already; we've been active that whole time) and now is actually a great time to get involved

websiteleague.org

The Website League

The Website League: it's like a confederation of independent websites in here.

websiteleague.org

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 3h

this is essentially a distinction without a difference past a certain point, they are also definitely hoarding money that could alleviate poverty and inequality, and there is no ethical way to be a billionaire anyways—so yeah

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 3h

nationalize coyotes

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Hazelmutt @hazelmutt666.bsky.social · 23h

Having a lot of trouble saving money, made a gofundme and would appreciate if yall can donate or at least spread the word

www.gofundme.com/f/help-hazel...

#mutualaid

Donate to Help Hazel afford essential car maintenance, organized by Olivia Holzknecht

The car I drive is going to need some important maintenance urgently and… Olivia Holzknecht needs your support for Help Hazel afford essential car maintenance

www.gofundme.com

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 23h

hey, help my wife out if you can

Hazelmutt @hazelmutt666.bsky.social · 23h

Having a lot of trouble saving money, made a gofundme and would appreciate if yall can donate or at least spread the word

www.gofundme.com/f/help-hazel...

#mutualaid

Donate to Help Hazel afford essential car maintenance, organized by Olivia Holzknecht

The car I drive is going to need some important maintenance urgently and… Olivia Holzknecht needs your support for Help Hazel afford essential car maintenance

www.gofundme.com

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

i don't say this lightly but Minecraft Movie 2 has serious potential to be both among the worst movies ever made AND among the most holistically slop movies ever made

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

coyotes are everywhere; they might even be behind your monitor

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

alert: this dog is being tortured!!! also i have a dog but i treat it worse than the guy i think is torturing that dog. also i eat animal products and have never cared about animal welfare before today

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

(in fact, even otherwise consistently left-wing European parties tend to balk at things liberal and leftist Americans just take for granted ideologically here. for example: the Swedish left is almost wholly anti-sex work because of their feminist movement over there

www.tv4.se/artikel/6JzZ...)

Socialdemokraterna vill förbjuda Onlyfans helt

Socialdemokraterna kräver förbud mot Onlyfans 2024 och ny lag mot digital prostitution. Regeringen varnas för kryphål i lagen.

www.tv4.se

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

there is—to my knowledge—no consistent analogue to the level of social freedom most Americans politically take for granted in Europe (even now); social liberalism in Europe seems to mostly be the bugbear of classical liberals and right-libertarians who join it at the hip to dogshit economic policy

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

"the Democrats would be a center-right party in America" people realize that until very recently the consensus on abortion in Europe was worse than literally every US state, and that it's still backwards relative to the US on nearly every social issue besides guns, right

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

(assuming, of course, everyone currently employed continued to be employed, which is a bad assumption to make because capitalists hate paying people shit)

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

the dumbest part of this plan is that in purely qualitative terms it would be an improvement over the current workweek for nearly everybody *and* probably one of the largest wealth transfers in world history since the minimum possible yearly salary for a worker would be like $72,000/yr

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

it's time for a Democrat to campaign on the 4-20-69 plan: a 4-day, 20-hour workweek with a $69/hr minimum wage plus benefits

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

thank you sir, it's a real honor to be acknowledged for our work in this space

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

Ubisoft, the extent to which your studio should kill itself cannot be quantified in human language alone; may your studio's ten-fold ancestors be burdened with nothing but indolence and agony of the heart, inshallah

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

ball knowers will also recall that even the threat of something like this happening within the FAA helped end the last big shutdown. we'll see if that repeats

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2...

2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

really good chance that if anything forces the issue and ends the government shutdown, it'll be this. we are generously like two weeks away from having a de facto, country-wide no fly zone right now because there won't be the staffing to safely land planes

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

it's been a busy few days over on Coordination, the place where we coordinate development and organization stuff for the Website League

a window into Coordination, the self-hosted Zulip-based chat platform for Website League development and organization stuff

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

the actual infrastructure needed to make (non-sexual) furry small business viable is here. if you want to produce furry wares in bulk, you can do that for a lot of things now—and that progression and professionalization is not going to slow down, because why would it? it's increasingly profitable

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

take fursuits as the obvious example: there's a real limit on the number of fursuits any one person can make by hand per year, and at some point if demand continues the delta between "profit made from hand-creation" and "profit from semi-industrialized/mass production" will likely drop to nothing

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

i think a lot of furries don't realize this—understandably—but capital-B Brands are inevitable in furry subculture unless explicitly anti-capitalist organizing happens? most furry artists are artisans, but they're not going to be that forever, especially if demand continues to grow for their work

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

it could probably be more "electorally democratic" if you will than it currently is, but in terms of governing structure "guaranteed representation if your node wants it (unless there's some reason we have to remove/block you)" is a fairly easy to administer step that has given us few problems

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

this is (more or less) the model of the Website League yes—better website still incoming i promise, we're on the precipice of the "how do we test deploy this, then deploy it for real" stage—and for the first year we've found this to work pretty well as a structure

Kozu @kozufox.bsky.social · 3d

I've had a whacky idea for a while of a fediverse type environment, but the site admin and moderation are modeled on democratic confederalism.

Each instance would be autonomous, but they wouldn't just be fending for themselves, and they'd have input on the direction of the overall project.

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

the AI stuff i think speaks for itself but purely on a mechanical level, is it... even a good idea to outsource this in the way they seem to be doing

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 3d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

i just think a lot of the theorem here is needlessly overcomplicated, when what's happening could also just be summarized as "the same negative, homogenizing, sociotechnical processes that are playing out in other fandoms and subcultures, and on people who use social media as a whole"