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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 10h

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.

Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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eli 🦦 •they/them• 🧡🖤 20/400 @daddysyand3re.bsky.social · 19h

welp my SNAP benefits got cut off. and I need groceries for myself, my grandfather and my mother. In total I need $400 for groceries. Please share if you can’t donate.

cashapp is $elijahskylerr

please help. I’d like to get groceries soon within the next few days before I run out completely 🥹🙏🏻❤️

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 13h

While We Were Hunting Rabbits - Matthew Good

I only discovered this song last year, but it absolutely would have hooked me as a teen and stuck with me.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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DumpTruck 🍑 Decider @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online · 1d

A great block list for those accounts that are followed them here. They are already in shambles on other places because we’re using the nuclear block here an not getting engagement. These accounts need to be blocked too. We got this y’all!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

We did it, people.

Lot's of gov agencies in top 20 blocked accounts

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 4d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 1d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 1d

Don't take the bait and engage with these gov accounts, simply block. You can subscribe to this block list or use the list to block individually. But either way I do NOT want to see y'all dunking on these accounts which are clearly here just to antagonize us and spread propaganda.

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

Maybe let’s get the word out on this again, for no reason in particular.

Davis Bickford @davis.social · Nov 11

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

Venn Diagram of 3 circles:
BE KIND
BLOCK FAST
HAVE FUN

An arrow points to thee intersection of all 3 circles:
YOU CAN BE HERE

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

UNRWA @unrwa.org · 3d

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

block this shit

Verified Account Tracker @verified.pds.mmatt.net · 1d

✅ @homelandgov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Dec 7

Just saw a post saying “block and don’t engage” doesn’t work. It does, we know it does. These bigoted weirdos can’t exist without conflict, they are trolls and they can’t troll the freaks who already agree with them. Starve them of air and attention bc that is truly all they want.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Nov 10

As this site expands the one thing I hope holds is the no dunk-quote-posting. Starve the professional haters of the attention they so desperately crave. They can’t monetize an empty room!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i’m so sick of this cowardly use of language.

Some legal experts have questioned the legality of the approach. The president’s use of overwhelming military force to combat the cartels, along with his authorization of covert action inside Venezuela, possibly to oust President Nicolás Maduro, stretches the bounds of international law, legal scholars said this week.

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 1d

@bedtimeforando.bsky.social

Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes.

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! I just shared mine. See if anything is playing near those same areas and hit me.

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 1d

Planting the stakes for my music tent as far and wide as possible. It's still a fairly lopsided tent.

Coheed and Cambria
Portishead
Strapping Young Lad
Tinariwen
Jamiriquai
Arch Enemy
Our Lady Peace
Ulver (not the black metal stuff)

Alberto S. Ballesteros🔜Spotlight Liverpool @asbillustration.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Converge
Aphex Twin
Flying Lotus
Run the Jewels
John Coltrane
Ben Frost
Jessie Ware
Tame Impala

Amanda (OnionBug) @onionbug.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Deftones
Sleater-Kinney
Mars Volta
Melvins
Bjork
Fugazi
Tool
Callous Daoboys

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 1d

I only know three of these artists by name. Apex Twin is the only one that I know even fairly well, a collection of random stuff that made it onto a Winamp playlist.

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CJ Mlsna @themlsna.bsky.social · 1d

My day job is now decorating cakes, which eats up all of my creative energy. When I had the spoons to draw, I was doing small ink drawings.

Sheet cake design. Three skeletons are dancing with glow sticks. The sky is black, the trees are barren, and there are three headstones that read, "CJ", "Meg", and "Lina." The moon is a disco ball which shines in the scene with glitter and confetti sprinkles. "Raveyard" is written in the corner.

Magic card alter for Deathrite Shaman. A hooded figure with skull paint and a faintly glowing dagger stands at an altar carved with green symbols. There are a bundle of twigs, a skull, and a book within the circle and each has a lit candle with tapering smoke. Behind the figure is a sort of dream catcher with a spider's web in it. Rendered in micron pens.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

Dice Man — it's just how he rolls...

More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Good morning to everyone, but especially women who don’t like the vehicle

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Gray Ginther @gginther.myatproto.social · 2d

ZombieSkull-tober shambles on!

So, taking a picture of my monitor with my phone looks better than my actual renders. Definitely doing this wrong.😑
#ZombieSkulltober

A skeleton warrior peers menacingly through what appears to be mist but is actually glare on my monitor screen.

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