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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is Brooks and I love him 🥺

A white and cream husky/lab cross runs towards the camera across a grassy patch; a line of trees behind him and a blue sky with wispy clouds above all

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 14h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 5h

Everything is The Da Vinci Code.

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe this is real

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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · 12h

All decked out for the flower festival! #TinyBookshop 🌺 🌻 🌼 🌹 📖 📕 📗📘📙

Screenshot from a switch2 of the game tiny bookshop. All in cartoon, a trailer hitched to a car holds a small teal purple and light blue bookshop decked out in fishing nets, fairy lights, buoys, and topped with a clock tower and a solar panel, and is surrounded by a dog resting on a dog bed and several potted plants. The park it is set up in is hosting a festival decked out in flags and flower arrangements with several characters milling about. In thé top left are a sub, sunflower and dog icon. Along the right of the screen are several different coloured books each with a tally next to it. At the top right is a wallet containing 7 gold coins.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · 17h

Such wickedness. Where does their empathy and compassion run off to?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 1d

"An executive order decreed that government agencies may not procure 'woke' AI models that feature 'incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism.'"

It's important to interrogate what 'bias' means to fascists.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

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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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

the correct response to scaremongering about trans kids in sports is:
1) kids should be able to play sports with their friends
2) you want the government inspecting yr kid’s genitals? asking for chromosome and hormone tests? seems messed up!
3) sports governing bodies also already figured this out

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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · 1d

I had a cider-loving coworker over one time to sample this Ontario cider with ghost pepper (Heartwood’s Eve Goes Badass 🍎🌶️ ) which my mom had brought for me since it’s a fave. She brought fresh mango and her EDC purse mini-tajin shaker to share. It was a lovely afternoon

🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · 1d

They had dried mango with tajin on it at the grocery store 🤤🥭🌶️ honestly thé perfect snack

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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I learn a new thing about Mansa Musa it without fail makes him somehow even more interesting!

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 1d

"People that want to keep pushing an agenda to go against these library materials and the First Amendment [right to free speech], I hope they see this, and I hope it's a deterrent."

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...

www.cbc.ca

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4d

Manifestation is just religion without the part where you try being a better person

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️ @verolynne.bsky.social · 2d

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Miyanda Nehwati 🇿🇼 @emmessenn.com · 2d

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Dr. JMW @jamarmontez.com · 2d

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 2d

If you use the Saskatchewan @flatlander.social feed, now you can kick him a bit of support. #Sask

Flatlander @flatlander.social · Jun 6

For those that missed the first announcement, you can now support Flatlander by becoming a member over at patreon.com/sk_flatlanders.

I don't have plans for memberships perks right now, it is currently just a means to send a modest monthly contribution to help pay for hosting.

Thanks everyone!

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 2d

#Sask #SkPoli

MLA Keith Jorgenson @keithjorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

Today I shared the story of a man who received a blood plasma exchange in the hallway of RUH in August.

This story is deplorable and yet the Sask.Party continues to lie and gaslight patients and staff about the quality of care at our healthcare facilities.

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