my neck
my back
my CEO attack

Due to people already scraping posts here in BSky for training 🅰️ℹ️ garbage. I feel like I need to remind fellow artists who don't already do it to PLEASE protect your artworks from being scraped by using Glaze and/or Nightshade. (1/11🧵)

[ #HelpfulBskyPost #Art #Artsky ]

Bsky is being flooded with German speaking AI powered bots.
A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election

1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):

How to spot bot accounts?

Many folks keep asking how to identify bots/identity churners.

The truth is, it's difficult. But there are often clues that can help—especially when there are multiple bot-like indicators coming from the same account.

Here are 9 strategies I use to spot the bots: 🧵

When you finally find out about your #ADHD

PSA: MODERATION LISTS ARE MIGRATING FROM THIS ACCOUNT to @skysentry.bsky.social

If you're subscribed to any of the lists, please re-subscribe to them at the new owner by November 30th, after which I will no longer be maintaining them, and the lists will be removed from this account. Thank you.

🌟 Throwback to my 2020 research published in @science.org 🌼🐝We showed how bumble bees actively shape their environment—making plants flower earlier to meet their needs. Nature’s engineers in action!🧪🌏
Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in![1/17] 👇

When you see big "Resister" accounts that largely post generic memes and reposts of other "liberals" Please understand these big follow for follow accounts are ✨farming✨ you. Once their size gives them perceived credibility, they shift into disinformation.

Please see my examples below:

Hello and thank you for using the blocklist!

The original list hosted on my personal account @franzanth.bsky.social was created during bsky's early days. It has since escaped my circle of friends and evolved into a multi-purpose blocklist, so I feel it's important to redefine my scope here. 🧵

sometimes i look at my dog and think, "wow i can't believe i carried her in my belly for 9 months"

Being a gamer in your 30s means you get all the games you always wanted but finish maybe 3 of them and replay your favorite ones over and over

On this day in 1999, 25 years ago, Pokémon Gold & Silver were first released.

These games started the second generation and had you travel through Johto to defeat Gyms and defeat Team Rocket before heading back to Kanto!

www.serebii.net/gs/

Just 40 years ago, the 1st chapter of "Dragon Ball" manga was published.
Happy birthday to Goku and all his friends.
And eternal farewell to Akira Toriyama 🙏

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful

It’s a different kind of troll.

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

A brief thread on alt-text.

Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

Some lists of bad actors to block (click subscribe, then select block). Didn't create these, but I block 'em all! Up to you how you want to handle!

MAGA

Right Wing Propaganda

Far right

NFT/AI/Crypto

More NFT/AI/Crypto

British Bigots

Nazis

Content Scrapers

My page on Bluesky is a safe space and you will always be welcome and safe here 🏳️‍⚧️

Please, be careful everyone 🙏