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amadeaur.bsky.social
Sydney
@amadeaur.bsky.social
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Age 29(pronouns any but femme preferred) Canadian! still obsessed with She-Ra 4 years on!(prolific art retweeter) (also, shouldn't have to be said, love trans/LGBTQ folks) (also god, I hate that I've had to come here..)
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this was cool too, got to see a frankly unheard of (for me) number of seals today, there were at least a hundred!!
Me here guiltily side-eyeing this as I've done it for years lmao, going to the last in a thread and reposting in reverse so that if someone opens up their timeline, it'll appear as first post is at the top of the timeline😅😭
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His proposed budget tomorrow is a massive cut to social programs, huge breaks to corporations, and giant spending on the military and the RCMP.

It's a war on the working class
By building our strength at home and working with new trade partners around the world, we will create more prosperity for Canadian workers, families, and businesses.
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They are destroying what SHE built.

#TeenVogue
Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’
Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?
www.theguardian.com
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It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
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It’s so poetic the degree to which every time windows breaks it now makes both windows and the ai they used to program it look like unusable garbage. These are the two things they’re trying to sell you btw
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They probably shouldn’t have said publicly that they were using ai to program windows 11. I probably wouldn’t have said that part
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I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson.

I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.
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hard to put into words how hysterically enraged the far-right is over the prospect of mamdani winning but here’s a glimpse at my ‘for you’ tab on hellsite. it’s been like this since early voting started. the kind of stuff that provokes acts of violence.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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well they are notable to Muslims...
New York City is home to about a million Muslims—nearly a quarter of the country’s entire Muslim population. Yet epithets such as “extremist” and “jihadist” are used to describe Zohran Mamdani with such regularity that they’re hardly notable anymore.
What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America
The Islamophobic attacks on the candidate carry the weight of history and the urgency of the present.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
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The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
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Part of what is going on here isn't just inflicting hunger, it's inflicting humiliation. Human beings should be able to feed themselves and their families with dignity.

The sadism is the point.
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
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baseball broadcast directors fucking live for the slow motion raspberries shot. they dream of that shit
Am so... so happy, I got to get some incredibly detailed (for mee) Seal photos today!!! they're so absurdly cute😭
its fire-colored, in Seahawk's defense!!! not her fault they're attracted to things that either look like fire or matchboxes😭 (but also daaamn, that's such a weird puncture too)
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A mate of mine agreed to do a well-paid corporate gig supposedly about art & diversity but really about branding. They gave him a script, he departed from it a bit, they made a video of the event and used an AI imitating his voice to speak the bit of their script he had skipped. Without asking him.
What the French-fried fuckity fuck?

I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT?

When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense?

You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work
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Speaking frankly, with recent and ongoing moderation decisions and the difficulties around posts already getting incorrect automatic labels/flags, i don't think i could trust any top-down algorithmic decisions on what counts as "good faith" conversation
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"Have better conversations, not just louder ones" its been like a month since the CEO's three-day Posters Madness and this is the decision we come away with. okay.jpg
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Excited for marginalized creators getting actively attacked somehow with their current ideas
okay, so who decides what ranks where on the toxicity detection?

good thing mods have such a great record on protecting marginalized communities, right?
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the problem here seems to be the blusky team clearly never talks regular to human beings irl, so they're just guessing at what a conversation feels like, vibes wise
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You know, like when you're having a conversation IRL and the person you're talking to makes a joke and everyone laughs but then suddenly they get disappeared and the authorities just mock you when you question it and also one of them is in the corner yelling about how he's not gooning? That kind!