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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents are intentionally breaking the law, shooting protestors who are citizens and lying in court.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Adam Seats 🔜 PAXU @iknowadamseats.bsky.social · 13d

I don't usually like publicly talking about my convention work, but I'm 1 of the 2 people inheriting this department next year. I am basically never in a spot that lets me materially help creators in need, but this is something tangible I can do to help folks in the tabletop community who need it.

MAGFest - The Music and Gaming Festival @magfest.org · 18d

The 2026 MAGFest Indie Tabletop Showcase application form is now live! Applications will close on October 16th at 11:59PM EST! This is open to indie tabletop developers - whether you're slinging cards, boardgames or dice, please apply!

Link to application: super2026.reg.magfest.org/mits/team

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 1d

With alt text just straight up copy/pasted so people who use screen readers can access this important information:

r/Harlem
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ICE Checkpoint 125th st, (1 stop)

Hey everyone. Apparently there's a group of police cars outside of the 125th street station (the 1 stop) (between 125th and 129th) and they are announcing that it's an ICE checkpoint and that people must stop.

Please be careful and let your friends know.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️ - KOFI COMMS OPEN @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that this got slapped with the "intolerance" label is really just the icing on the cake huh

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 2d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

Also, if I disappear as well... I'm not sorry and I meant it. I still mean it. Fuck you.

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

But over here you have (as I have said before and again) the digital HOA, with its disgust for anything unsightly and the wrong kind of upsetting and like any HOA lady, THAT LADY is doing whatever it takes to make her neighborhood 'nice'

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

So the old site has more digital Nazis than my old place had roaches, and a terrifying number of real Nazis mixed in with them and like a Five Nights game, if you move wrong a janky ass AI scoops you out and wears your account...

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

Oh holy shit, y'all apparently if you annoy THAT LADY who apparently must remain unnamed, she has the moderation team scour your tweets and alt text for anything she can use to ban you under pretense that she's just complying with that batshit fascist order that came down from Washington

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

In Scrapbooking and junk journaling, all the extras get classed as Ephemera and it's just all the other little fussy shit you really like that makes something go from standard and well assembled to something unique and special.

No reason not to use a perfectly good word twice

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

I have a little Etsy store and it has exactly one thing (for now) and I'm very proud of it

roseinglovegaming.etsy.com

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The Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch @kristinarobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but citing a CK meme points to Bondi’s 1A oversteps last month. No need to engage with the substance of the transphobia allegations.

This puts BlueSky’s decision-making in lockstep with the regime AND means they don’t have to defend their real position: “you insulted the CEO UwU”

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WowCoolRobot @wowcoolrobot.bsky.social · 1d

but that was an old post though, the thing that made Jay go back through his account looking for a permabannable offense was a screen cap showing that Jay was now following a transphobe

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The Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch @kristinarobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Not even!

The final straw, per the official email, was the alt tag “a negative consequence followed” on a CK meme

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ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 2d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 2d

fix it.

A typewritten note that reads:

Link is, literally, the reason we sell our art.
He talked us into it and insisted on showing us financial support.

In 25 years of being active online, we've never encountered a better voice.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Free Link, @jay.bsky.team

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

that said, i don't use the app anymore. i know there's a way to hook it back up once you move from bluesky to Blacksky, but I fumbled it, got frustrated, and then realized that was great and it cut my doomscrolling!

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 1d

Following the instruction posts from Rudy with the video by Wraithe on standby makes it a REALLY easy move. I opened Moobot, turned of my 2FA (late, after three failed frustrating attempts so don't be me and turn it off before you start) and it was done in just a few minutes with very little work.

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 1d

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

It is possible to have a society where abuse and human trafficking is taken seriously and critically, but also understands that AI porn/brothels will create monsters who will not be able to restrict their violent impulses to ‘AI girls’

Obscene to use this as a justification.

of the industry. They also argue that AI performers do not get ill, do not need to have days off, do not get exhausted at the end of a shift, or feel humiliated by the demands made by clients.

“Do you prefer your porn with a lot of abuse and human trafficking, or would you rather talk to an AI?” Steve Jones, who runs an AI porn site, asked. “We hear about human trafficking, girls being forced to be on camera 10 hours a day. You’ll never have a human trafficked AI girl. You’ll never have a girl who is forced or coerced into a sex scene that she’s so humiliated by, that she ends up killing herself. AI doesn’t get humiliated, it’s not going to kill itself.”

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 2d

Five weeks after an oil and lubricant facility exploded, sending oily soot as far as 40 miles away, Black residents still complain that the chemical smell is so strong that it wakes them up in the middle of the night.

An Explosion Left a Black Town Contaminated. Politics Are Stunting the Cleanup.

For Black Louisianans, health fears mount as federal crews face delays, threats, and funding shortfalls at the oil disaster site.

capitalbnews.org

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Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 2d

Gallows Corner launches on Kickstarter February 3rd, 2026. Come and follow the campaign TODAY.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...

And download the Prerelease Guide and intro adventure FOR FREE right here:

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Coming soon: Gallows Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG

This is not your England. It's theirs. But we're going to take it back. And we'll start by burning it down!

www.kickstarter.com

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