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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 15h

"there is no more urgent task than to remain human"

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 17h

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 1d

I hate to keep asking but when the pinned fund is filled, I'll be able to pick up eggs' next prescription & kidney food.

#catsky

Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 10d

new crowdfund goal up. still about $1800 from our of the red, and my other job is on hiatus.

Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · Sep 1

Eggs has an expensive ($6k) surgery coming up. If you're able, the "bills" list, food items, or says "crowfunding" on my wishlist all go to cash right now. it all goes to him.
he really needs to get this oral mass handled.

Anything at all helps.

Thank you 🖤

Link:
throne.com/mayawest

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 5d

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 7d

We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going:

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.

notinourname.org.uk

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 1d

"I care about trans people, but there are bigger issues!" well, I sure am glad you get to opt out of caring, but trans people don't 🙃

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andylew.bsky.social @andylew.bsky.social · 1d

Imagining ICE offcers in Maggie Simpson snowsuits trying to chase a guy in a hoodie, jorts and flip flops through a foot of snow.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this reaches you.

To a Life in Despair

Don't. Don't go to the bridge.
Don't wake in your coat in the morning light
and carry those stones into the river.
Don't find your father's pistol
in the attic, hidden in the family albums.
Don't. Don't pour the pills
into the whiskey, the walls dissolving
like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose
not to wake.

Stay. Just stay.
Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.
You can always walk alone into the darkness.
But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon.
I don't have a reason
to give you. All I have
is the morning, and the autumn wind,
and the child you once were
in the darkness, looking at the new moon
through the ruins, saying
save me, save me, save me,
and the moon looking back
with her vacant
face
saying I promise, I stone-
cold promise
that the face of utter
hopelessness
is the face of something just about to change.

—Joseph Fasano

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 2d

it's called a fleshlight because jack-o-lantern was taken

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kristina @cosmepolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Received another eviction notice since we’re still behind on rent. Any help is appreciated. We have nowhere to go.

PayPal: PayPal.me/cosmepolitic
Venmo: uhmmkristina
Cash App: $cosmepolitics

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Happy Halluino! 🎃 @aluino.blacksky.app · 2d

Hey I’d appreciate some shares on this, it’s been kinda losing traction for a while and I still need to get my teeth worked on… especially to prevent it from traveling into my skull.

Happy Halluino! 🎃 @aluino.blacksky.app · 11d

It’s Saturn’s Day, and I hope everyone is doing good! 🙂‍↕️

We’re at 40%, nearly at 50!

Please share!
Donate if you can!

Donating 60$+ gets you a commission! See below in the comments for an example, I do SFW and NSFW art.

I hope whoever is reading this has a good day, 🙏

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Become a supporter of Aluino "Lu" today!

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 2d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 12d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Xavier Horatio Xinicit 🎉 @xinicit.bsky.social · 5d

Just because you're a disgusting sack of what the hell doesn't mean you don't have value. Ambergris is whale excrement, and people have been killed over it. Maybe you just haven't washed up on the right shore yet.

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KC Complains a Lot @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 5d

you reap what you sow and you can’t pitch yourself as an alternative to X and celebrate when another group of users migrates from there to here and go “WHOOPS WE DONT WANT TO MODERATE WE LET USERS DO THAT ITS WEIRD YOU WANT US TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WAFFLES” when people ask for more

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andylew.bsky.social @andylew.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely 💯. I had to explain to HR once that I wasn't crying because I was sad, it's just that big feelings sometimes trigger an involuntary anxiety response. It's like, I don't know what I'm feeling yet, I just know that it's big, so my body prepares for the worst.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7d

CEO: we're all trying to improve this place

You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right

CEO:

You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right

CEO: WAFFLES

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 6d

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 6d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

bloom.bg

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andylew.bsky.social @andylew.bsky.social · 6d

Gagnant!

a drawing of a map of canada with a person standing in front of it

Alt: House hippo gif

media.tenor.com

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andylew.bsky.social @andylew.bsky.social · 6d

Reset

A river with two small, treed islands and more trees in the background. The water is so calm that the surface is a perfect mirror of the trees and grey, cloudy sky. There are yellow bouys in the foreground, and a bird is perched on one of them.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 7d

if you’ve ever even quietly thought “i would just move,” now’s your chance to pony up and make that possible for not just someone but three someones.

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 7d

A few Houston trans scene people I know are fundraising to leave Texas, just thought I'd boost their GFM with my platform.

Donate to help 3 trans people fleeing texas, organized by brooke caimonte

Texas has gotten scarier and scarier for trans people and especially trans women and… brooke caimonte needs your support for help 3 trans people fleeing texas

www.gofundme.com

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andylew.bsky.social @andylew.bsky.social · 7d

A coworker proudly replied to my request for assistance today by telling me he got 3 suggestions from Gemini. The first suggestion was unsafe, and the other 2 were physically impossible. We may be terrible at knowing things, but so is AI.

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · Dec 23

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag
She's pointing back and looking shocked

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Prop @prophiphop.bsky.social · 8d

The Beautiful Endling live Experience.
Come see the poetry album come to life. Along with a reading from Dr Almas book, Chingona and poetry from Simply Kat www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beauti...

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