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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, I'm sorry: WHAT tf is happening? Is Bsky Trust & Safety actually saying that they don't provide input on the 3rd party "AI" that is the 1st tier of all image & video moderation on this website? Am I actually reading that right? Because that seems like a completely bananas way to run a railroad

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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Akram Basil Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 1d

We wake up every day holding on to the hope of survival… but hope alone can’t feed us or keep us safe.

Keep support our little family, for our girls, my mom, my little bro ❤️

chuffed.org/project/help...

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Akram Basil Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 1d

What if they kill us with a nuclear bomb?
Maybe it would be easier for them — and for us — than this unbearable life.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of poetry that should never have had to be written. Tweet from Gaza doctor Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzinggaza).

Two years ago, on a Friday that now stands outside of time, my father prepared a feast. It was meant to honor life, my graduation, my return, the promise of a future. The table was full, not only with food, but with faith: the quiet, unspoken faith that tomorrow would exist. How easily we believe in continuity, in the mercy of another morning.

We gathered as one family, laughing, speaking over one another, breaking bread with careless joy, pouring juice into glasses as though it were the wine of peace itself. Each gesture was a prayer, though none of us knew it. My father’s hands moved as Christ’s once did, blessing the bread, dividing it among those he loved. And somewhere, though no one could name it, there hung in the air that same fragile foreboding that filled the upper room in Jerusalem, when love spoke its last words before betrayal.

The air trembled with that kind of happiness which only later reveals itself as farewell.

And then, silence.
The silence that only the dead can teach.

When I look now at the photographs, I see the faces of the condemned, though they did not know it. More than half of them are gone, devoured by what men call war and what truth calls murder. The homes that once contained our breathing, our prayers, our smallest tenderness, crushed. The gardens that smelled of oranges and evening, erased. I walk in memory as one walks through ruins, touching the stones of vanished laughter.

October 7 was not the birth of a war; it was the death of illusion. On that day, history tore itself open, and the wound has not closed. It bleeds through every surviving soul. And in that blood I see not only the crime of one nation against another, but the crime of humanity against itself, the old, endless betrayal that men repeat while invoking God.

If justice still exists, it must weep.
If God still looks upon this earth, He must avert His eyes.

This day should be marked forever, not as an event of politics, but as a revelation of the human abyss. Let every flag descend into silence. Let every tongue fall still. Because what was taken from us was not only life, but the very rhythm of being alive, the rustle of bread torn by a father’s hand, the sound of a child laughing before she learns what grief is.

They took from us the ordinary, and left us with eternity.

And yet, I remain. I, who ate with them, who still taste that bread in my mouth as though it were guilt itself. I live, and I do not know why. Perhaps only to remember. Perhaps only to tell the world that history is not written in treaties or speeches, but in the trembling of hands that once passed a dish across a table, in the laughter that did not know it was bidding farewell to the world.

There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people.
And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend.
But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice.

#GazaGenocide

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 2d

Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian ac

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1d

"I lost my children, my home, my siblings, my memories. I lost every beautiful thing in my life."

"Sometimes my only wish is as simple as having a toilet of our own."

We’ve interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza over the past two years.

@nytimes.com Gift Link

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

www.nytimes.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a good day to help someone in Gaza

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ramadan. Ramadan is 23 years old and worked in his father’s sewing factory. His father was killed and now he’s responsible for his family including his siblings Rula, 26, Rami, 20 and Ramey, 17 as well as his 2 year old nephew Jihad.

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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

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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Freyaa🍉❤️‍🔥🇵🇸 @freyaa.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing this, it was very atmospheric, tense, and unfortunately relatable! I enjoyed the messy way in which male vulnerability was presented as an asset here.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2d

“Imagine harvesting fruits that feed America, yet being told that we don’t deserve the protections that are already written in law. This is our reality.”

rochesterbeacon.com/2025/10/06/u...

UFW pushes for farms to honor union contracts - Rochester Beacon

United Farm Workers organizers have called on Wayne County’s Wafler Farms to implement a contract imposed in arbitration.

rochesterbeacon.com

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️♿️⚠️🆘

„My mother lies in agony in
northern Gaza, her body growing
weaker each day without medicine.
I watch helplessly as her pain
deepens.
Just $500 could give her
the urgent treatment that might
save her life.
Please, your kindness could be
her only hope“

_ Ahmed

tinyurl.com/SaveAhmedFam...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

In this case, ADF “cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had ‘profoundly’ misrepresented their research, which discussed the ‘psychological damage’ of conversion therapy.’”

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · May 27

Alt txt in the genocide
Image description #1:
The warm hand of the father
The warm hand of the daughter
Together clasp the cold son.
Image description #2:
Please
Don't make me write another
I beg you
How many hauntings
Must we bear
Omar Sakr

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Spanish Gaza flotilla activists report rights violation by Israeli authorities - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-gaza-flotilla-activists-report-rights-violation-israeli

Spanish Gaza flotilla activists report rights violation by Israeli authorities

<article data-history-node-id="429711" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-gaza-flotilla-activists-report-rights-violation-israeli" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spanish-gaza-flotilla-activists-report-rights-violation-israeli" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Spanish Gaza flotilla activists report rights violation by Israeli authorities</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Spanish activists of the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla on Monday alleged mistreatment and violation of rights by Israeli authorities, news agency Reuters reported. </p> <p>The activists made the allegations after arriving in Madrid. </p> <p>Some 10 Tunisian activists received a hero’s welcome as they arrived in Tunis, the report said. </p> <p>Earlier, Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said that allegations regarding the abusive treatment of climate activist Greta Thunberg are "very serious" if confirmed. </p> <p>Media reports claimed that Thunberg was mistreated by Israeli authorities, including being forced to pose for a photo with an Israeli flag. </p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Shame is a powerful tool and our elites should be shamed constantly.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

#WATCH | From Gaza, A message to the brave activists and the world

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

It’d be nice to have a single place on the internet where black people or trans people or indigenous people or any queer people can simply exist free from tech doofuses and power-mad Karens with nothing on the ball but heads full of air but thats too much like right, I guess

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