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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 7h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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FizzyMola @fizzymola.bsky.social · 2d

Sculptober - Day 8 - Mask
Get it her shirt says she loves mayor and the huge dildo behind her mask says mayor do you get it

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Patacon🔞 @patacon.bsky.social · Jan 24

Chubby snake commission made for @justkindofhere.bsky.social
Her name is Gloria

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Pretty Pink Pony Princess - P4 🔞 @prettypinkponyp4.bsky.social · 2d

That's the thing like, I do get people need their moments to detox and escape. It's just that these spaces literally won't exist soon if people don't stand up now, so, yeah. I can't just be silent about it 😔

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Pretty Pink Pony Princess - P4 🔞 @prettypinkponyp4.bsky.social · 2d

That's the thing. Like, we're not living in a moment where this stuff can be ignored. I'd feel less inclined if it was more... on the edges so to speak. But people in the crosshairs don't just get to ignore it, and literally everything we're doing here is in the crosshairs

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Pretty Pink Pony Princess - P4 🔞 @prettypinkponyp4.bsky.social · 2d

Man when I do post another piece of art it's gonna be like, 3 people left who haven't all muted my politics-posting ass over the last few months that will even see it, lol

I assure you nobody would rather I could just "shut up and draw" more than me

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Pretty Pink Pony Princess - P4 🔞 @prettypinkponyp4.bsky.social · 2d

"AI", the slop-peddling software that can't scale, making sure to export some of that "doesn't scale worth a shit" energy to everyone else on the internet, too

The problem is nobody running tech has any clue wtf they're doing; it's all failsons who have bought the snake oil

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

while Bundestag majority leader has come out against Chat Control here, there's no GUARANTEE that Ger will oppose

until the vote happens and we see it set in stone that opposition to chat control has won, assume that everything is in flux and CONTACT YOUR REPS

fightchatcontrol.eu#member-states

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#saveSpeech

this is a really good sign, but it's not over until it's over. Germany has flipped before, and we cannot risk it flipping again. Germans, continue to voice your opposition to your MEPs/MPs. likewise, everyone else in the EU should be similarly vocal!

we have 7 more days!

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 2d

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

Germany voices opposition to Chat Control, tilting the balance.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

A bill that basically allows teachers to acknowledge that trans people exist is too spicy for this nazi fluffer

Republicans latched onto the legislation as an example of "gender ideology" at work in state government, with the Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R) demanding Newsom veto it.
The bill promotes the "theory that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person's gender," Jones wrote in a message to Newsom.
"For third grade students the framework states,"
'When
providing instruction on sexual and reproductive organs, teachers can introduce the concept that gender does not always match the sexual and reproductive organs described," Jones said.
"Teaching controversial gender theories to students as young as eight or nine years old is not a practice that most Californians support, nor want to see happening in our schools."

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Doodle Dip @doodledipart.bsky.social · 2d

At this rate, they're not even getting clean
comm for @DannyAshbeckJr (on twitter)

Monatana the cow getting positively slamfucked against the glass door of a shower by the two bedonged equine Danny Jr.

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Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 26d

Happy 40th Mario #SuperMarioBros40th #SuperMarioBros

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☁ @wolke.work · 3d

Angel Cookie for @iliekbuttz.bsky.social 's Halloween. On her way to 'purify' the demons.

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Pretty Pink Pony Princess - P4 🔞 @prettypinkponyp4.bsky.social · 2d

It is of course obvious that the goal is to be able to blame some nebulous "automation" for faults and take no responsibility; it's not a bug for corporations, but a feature

Gut personnel costs of having actual people doing moderation, AND you can hand-wave problems because the compooter did it

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Pretty Pink Pony Princess - P4 🔞 @prettypinkponyp4.bsky.social · 2d

If someone made an "automated system" that, say, made hotdogs, except it surprisingly often made charcoal, I'm not sure anyone would say it was an automated hotdog maker - they'd just say it was a shitty machine that doesn't do its job

And yet we treat automated "moderation" this way

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 3d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 3d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

plutopsyche.medium.com

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Sam Rose @samrosemod.bsky.social · Jul 24

Create NSFW art

Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime

Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art

This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like

Always resist oppression

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0Frightsource 👻 @0lightsource.bsky.social · 3d

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna say it: if you have time to make fun of me for not wanting to accept censorship in America, you have time to e-mail your reps about the issue. Anytime you feel like dunking on someone because they don't wanna use crypto or a VPN, you should be using that energy to contact reps instead. Thanks!

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 3d

Some assholes found some of my posts again, looks like. What a bummer! People truly are happy to just accept the censorship sweeping across America and they really think VPNs are going to go unchallenged forever, huh? Yikes.

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 7d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 3d

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 3d

Take action!

fightchatcontrol.eu to contact your ministers, permanent representation, MEPs, and, if you are German or Italian, your national MPs!

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