fruitpies.bsky.social
@fruitpies.bsky.social
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Reminder if you use Firefox and haven't done this yet
to disable their A/I chatbot feature (not just removing it from your sidebar):

➡ go to about:config (open a new tab and type it into the address bar)
➡ locate "browser .ml .chat .enabled" (or just search "chat")
➡ toggle to "false"
May 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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alright squad it's time to teach bsky a thing I learned off Twitter before it stopped being Twitter

how to (somewhat) AI-proof your ao3, a thread by chief 🧵

(repost to save a fanfic author etc etc)
reposting with alt text.

omg DO NOT DO THIS.
April 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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NORTH CAROLINA!!!!!

After five months The North Carolina Court of Appeals has decided to decide with Griffin and will be throwing out votes. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE WILL HAVE 14 DAYS TO CURE THEIR BALLOT
thegriffinlist.com
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The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government
Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government
Activists in world’s third-largest democracy warn the legal changes signal a return to military dominance in civilian affairs that characterised Suharto years Indonesia has ratified controversial changes to its military law allowing armed forces…
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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We now have a website. udm14.com
May 22, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️

Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration…

The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...
February 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
January 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Friends don't let friends use Duolingo. When it comes to Japanese, there are so many better ways to learn than giving money to a company that's firing its workers and replacing them with AI. Here's our roadmap for a cheap and effective Duolingo alternative.

https://buff.ly/3WaA87t
January 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!
December 23, 2023 at 6:43 PM
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Rahaeli is a trust & safety pro and cares very deeply about both. She is warning that a CSAM blocklist out there is not following best practices & doing retaliatory blocking. Here’s her post:
November 15, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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since this will always be circulating, i might as well be the first one to put it here: the stretch tips i made many years ago… remember to stop and stretch and take care of your hands! be mindful of your work time & listen to your body.
July 5, 2023 at 3:32 PM
I guess I should make at least one post so this doesn't look too weird. hi.
November 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM