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3dfrost.bsky.social
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
LRT: Can confirm, I’m an adult and I still make amvs with my blorbos in my head when listening to music
December 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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shepardcdr.bsky.social
it doesn’t go away as an adult btw
neurodivergent kids listening to music and imagining complex animations with characters from their hyperfixations
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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diveamydive.bsky.social
Are you from the UK? Do you consider yourself to be a supporter of trans rights and women’s rights? Are you dismayed by the news about the Girl Guides and Women’s Institute today?

Cool. So the *least* you can do today is email your MP. Get your friends and family to email, too. Speak up.
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
"No one is angry about games not containing gen AI" is such a hell of a good point. It is incredibly off-putting to many customers, an absolute deal-breaker, yet there is no flip side to that, no consumer base clamouring for it, no demand. They can only try to wear people down into accepting it.
genevieve80.bsky.social Genevieve @genevieve80.bsky.social · Nov 17
I saw this and had two thoughts,
No one is angry about games not containing gen AI, so if you wanna avoid being a part of the conversation it's easy.
But, since you have decided to weigh in on the conversation I guess we'll see gen AI made cosmetics in helldivers soon then
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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freedom.press
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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culturecrave.co
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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unangbangkay.bsky.social
If you don't like YT doing this, make sure Bsky does not also do this to your international oomfies' posts by occasionally checking Settings > Languages > Content Languages and deselecting all

(this keeps Bsky from hiding posts that are not in a selected language)
unangbangkay.bsky.social unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · Oct 29
one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work
screenshot of the firefox version of Youtube Anti Translate extension by Petr, which disables auto-translation of video titles, as well as auto-translation of video descriptions, links, and comments,
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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marcquill.bsky.social
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I leave Bluesky.
October 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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triaelf9.bsky.social
No. Be loud. They want us to be silent. Also maybe listen to the nsfw artists begging you not to do a blackout & instead fight this loud & as vocal as you can be, especially if you say you wanba do this for those artists.
September 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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bonnicula.bsky.social
Testing a theory:

reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote
bonnicula.bsky.social Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Sep 8
CAN I GET A 'FUCK ICE' IN CHAT
bonnicula.bsky.social Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Jun 15
ICE is only as old as the Kangaroo Jack movie and neither needed to exist
September 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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kr00bs.com
Please just let Palestinians KNOW you see their posts and care. These people are begging for a future and are treated like scams or some lost cause. These are real, living people trying to make it out alive.

The least people can do is let them know they aren’t invisible. Please.
September 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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sprunkigate.bsky.social
The key to getting youtube to treat your Artwork Copyright Claim seriously.

#Sprunkigate #Youtube #Tutorial
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
They aren't backing down, they're getting MORE aggressive

So we need to get more aggressive too. Keep calling the payment pros. Start sending them letters. Contact your reps too & let them know you think censoring the internet and especially giving payment processors this kind of power is BAD
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Aug 13
CALL STRIPE
CALL PAYPAL
CALL MASTERCARD
CALL VISA

DO NOT. STOP. CALLING!
#rocktheboat

stop-paypros.neocities.org
UPDATED Stripe A Stripe is currently a major priority, as they have the ability to deny itch.io's eligibility to their services according to itch.io's owner. • 354 Oyster Point Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080 US (United States HQ) • 10 BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN, 75009 PARIS (France HQ) • Grand Canal Street Lower, The One Building, Dublin D02 HD59 (Ireland HQ) (yes, it's called The One Building) • +1 888 926 2289 - State you are from California when calling this number • 1(888) 963-8955 (San Franeisco HQ) • 353 1 903 8449 (Ireland HQ) • (877) 887-7815 (Customer Support/Complaints) • UPDATED +33-805-11-19-67 (France-HQ) Seems like the line was disconnect due to our calls. • complaints@stripe.com • Complaints Form PayPal ! Unfortunately, PayPal doesn't seem to have any e-mail address, as it uses its website's customer support. You will need to log in to your PayPal account if you wish to access Customer Support lines or messages. Here's a few lines we found so far : • 2211 N 1st St. San Jose, CA 95131 US • 1-402-935-2050 (US + Canada) • 1800 931 678 (Australia) • Customer Complaints Form (Australia) • enquiry@paypal.com thank you sassinthedark.bsky.social for the info! UPDAIED MasterCard • 2000 Purchase St. Purchase, NY 10577 US UPDATED +1 914 249 2000 • CEO of MasterCard: 0 -> 6432224# →> 1 • President of Mastercard: 0 - 54757287425# →> 3 • Play the roulette: 0 -> Any numbers until you get connected to someone 1 800 307 7309 (US) - Options for operator : 1-1-2-2-2-1 List of toll-free numbers by region 1 636 722 6100 (St. Louis Office) • 914.249.2000 (Global Headquarters, US) • 636.722.6100 (Operaction Center, US) • 971.4.391.4200 (Dubai HQ) • 305.539.2300 (Latin America HQ) • 914.249.6518 (North America HQ) • 1-800-627-8372 (US Only) • 1800-120-113 (Australia) • +1-636-722-7111 (International) • customer_support@mastercard.com List of executives' Linkedin profiles UPDATED Visa ! 900 Metro Center Bivd, Foster City, CA 94404 NEW +1 650 432 3200 (Headquarters, US) • Ryan McInerney (CEO) - 4 -> 6246376397926# • Paul Fabara (Chief Risk Officer) - 4 - > 3222727285# • Kelley Tullier (Chief People and Corp. Affairs Officer) - 4 -> 885543753559# • Source • Thank you profbadvibes.bsky.social for these finds! 1-800-847-2911 (US + Canada) - US Option Selection for Operator: 1-1-2 / 1-1-3 • List of phone numbers by region • 1-888-289-9322 (Confidential Compliance Hotline) • askvisa@visa.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
rahaeli.bsky.social rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Sep 10
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!

1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
September 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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nymnym.bsky.social
It's the day...
Cirno! This ice fairy only visits the human world once a year Repost in the next 9 seconds for a very cool day
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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louistonehill.bsky.social
Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...
Screenshot of the Advocate article headline showing an image of bluesky's logo and JKR, with the title "Outcry grows after multiple trans uers were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire" Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3: "If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time." Text post part 2/3: "The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now." Text post part 3/3: "How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. " Response by drtanner: "Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal. It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "
September 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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crossingmomo.bsky.social
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September 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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foxyoreos.bsky.social
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage?

This is a GIFT.

"You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here.

People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
foxyoreos.bsky.social foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) @foxyoreos.bsky.social · Aug 30
Paypal ramps up NSFW censorship by beginning to go after not just adult creators but also customers.

In a lot of ways, this is even more terrifying than the adult creator bans. With them, it's only me at risk, but how do I navigate a space where putting a game on Itch might put customers at risk?
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · Aug 30
PayPal user in the UK lost their account after buying adult ebooks “about monsters and milking,” “some dubcon stuff”

“My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the ToS. Upon querying w/ staff over the phone I've been told that it was ebooks that I've been buying”
August 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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ballpitbee.bsky.social
Random raffle/art giveaway

I'll grab one fella at random to draw something like this for. Your choice. OC, canon character- whatever da hell.

All you gotta do is:
-Follow me
-reshare this or w/e
-thats it
Have your DMS open!

You can unfollow after, it's all cool.

Ends 25th of September.
August 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.
We must fight age verification with all we have | Taylor Lorenz
Get more from Taylor Lorenz on Patreon
www.patreon.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM