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Hazelnoot

@hazelnoot.dev

You know, I feel like this wouldn't be an issue if BlueSky hadn't tried to outsource their moderation to volunteers with no incentive and minimal support 🍵

Hazelnoot @hazelnoot.dev · 3h

Ok so the majority of labelers I depended on have now shut down or stopped processing results, which has led to my timeline becoming mostly unmoderated. Anyone have suggestions for new / still-functional labelers to check out?

December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Hazelnoot

@hazelnoot.dev

Ok so the majority of labelers I depended on have now shut down or stopped processing results, which has led to my timeline becoming mostly unmoderated. Anyone have suggestions for new / still-functional labelers to check out?

December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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TakethatEarth

@takethatearth.bsky.social

Since when do executive orders supercede written law?

Oh, that's right. We don't give a fuck about any of that anymore.

December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM

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Pookleblinky

@pookleblinky.bsky.social

Since genAI has completely fucked the market for home computers, I guarantee there'll be an article complaining that people are playing older and less resource-intensive games and how this is killing the AAA gaming industry

December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM

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David Buchanan

@retr0.id

someone should make a downdetector-like site that just says "no", but with a dependency on every major cloud service so if one of them is down the page won't load

December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Sarah

@angelicimouto.moe.observer

this is right up there with the gundam captions replacing the word gundam with "condoms"

December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM

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Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was federally indicted after an anti-ICE protest, is taking a unique approach to fundraising for both her campaign and legal battle: twitch streaming. so far, it's working

$Buerk said that Abughazaleh’s donors were the kinds of people who’d kick in hundreds of dollars, not thousands, and as a result, call time was not exactly pulling in money hand over fist. “In the best of times, we would get $600 an hour [from call time],” she said. “The stream has obviously crushed that. Today we raised $12,000." The FNAF stream lasted two hours and, thanks to a simple offer of a sticker featuring Abughazaleh’s cat for anyone who donated $10 or more, performed as well as 20 hours of call time. Even during lower-yield streams – the floor, so far, has proven to be $2,000 during a single broadcast – that’s still far preferable a fraction of the money for double, triple, or quadruple the work. "Kat is busy at events,” said Buerk. “Kat is dealing with a lot of really insane, horrible things. She doesn't have time to be calling people and trying to convince them to donate for 40 hours a week."$

December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️

@miamurphy.net

Regarding The Essay:

If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment.

The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/

December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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The Latest Kate

@thelatestkate.bsky.social

Maybe it's making things worse, but at least it's trying.

#mentalhealth #anxiety

A drawing of a colorful snow leopard looking up at an aurora. The caption reads, "Please be patient with your anxious mind; it's trying to keep you safe."

December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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🔆 Soluna 🔆

@soluna7.bsky.social

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe

girl with text "Not to self diagnose, but I think I'm fucking cooked"

December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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Molotov🏳️‍⚧️Cockatiel

@youknowmy.name

did you know that you can be allergic to soybean oil, but they don't mark products containing soybean oil as a soy allergy because according to the FDA only a 'few' people have this allergy?

did you know almost all commercial bread has soybean oil?

December 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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Nekobungi Sumire (猫分儀スミレ)🏳️‍⚧️通販中

@amaitorte.jp

Dear western scifi/fantasy artsit:

Look, incorporating Japanese/Asian motifs is totally fine. But please. Do not randomly place THESE GATES within your art just because it makes your work look more exotic and cool. I see far too many artists doing this without a second thought.

October 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Nekobungi Sumire (猫分儀スミレ)🏳️‍⚧️通販中

@amaitorte.jp

Webcomics for Web 1.0.
Still accessible with the original iPod touch (2007).

November 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM

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erimuS ignubokeN🔞

@ignuboken.tokyo

🏳️‍⚧️

November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Josh Foreman

@josh-foreman.bsky.social

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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Drop Site

@dropsitenews.com

🔴 BREAKING: A Palestinian journalist detained in Israel’s Sde Teiman camp was raped & subjected to sexual torture — including assault carried out by a trained dog — according to new testimony released by the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC). The Center calls it one of the most...

🔴 BREAKING: A Palestinian journalist detained in Israel’s Sde Teiman camp was raped and subjected to sexual torture — including assault carried out by a trained dog — according to new testimony released by the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC). The Center calls it one of the most severe crimes documented against journalists in Israeli custody.

“Whoever didn’t die inside came out broken forever,” the journalist told PJPC.

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The Assault

The journalist, identifying himself only as “Yahya” for his family’s safety, said soldiers dragged him and seven others to a secluded section of Sde Teiman. There, Israeli soldiers stood by as the group was subjected to collective sexual assault, with some soldiers filming the attack and mocking the victims.
All detainees were restrained, blindfolded, and denied any legal or humanitarian protection.

Doctors who reviewed Yahya’s case say the trauma caused a complete psychological collapse lasting more than two months. His symptoms are consistent with acute PTSD.

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A Systematic Torture Regime

Yahya spent 20 months in Israeli prisons — three months in Sde Teiman and one in Ofer — and insists the assault was not an isolated incident but part of a systematic torture policy. He described the use of dogs as deliberate, internationally prohibited torture aimed at inflicting total psychological destruction.

He detailed interrogations that included:
•Blindfolding and full restraints
•Transfers in military trucks between sites
•Physical and psychological beatings
•Starvation and sleep deprivation
•Denial of medical care
•Religious insults
•Electric shocks

The torture intensified after soldiers learned he was a journalist. He was accused of spreading “misinformation” and told he could face life imprisonment for his media work.

Conditions Inside Sde Teiman

Yahya described extreme overcrowding, filthy cells with no hygiene, disease outbreaks, and constant shortages of food and water. Prayer was banned.
He said he witnessed detainees — including doctors and academics — die under unexplained circumstances.

“We spent autumn and winter in worn-out summer clothes, sleeping on the tiles,” he said. “We entered these detention centers alive, and came out with exhausted bodies and broken souls.”

Israeli forces arrested him on March 18, 2024, during the storming of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where he was reporting in full press gear.

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A Crime Under International Law

The PJPC says the assault constitutes:
•Rape and sexual torture under the 1984 Convention Against Torture
•A war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute
•Potentially a crime against humanity under Article 7, if the systematic nature is confirmed

•A grave violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions
•A direct attack on journalists protected as civilians under international humanitarian law

The use of dogs in sexualized torture, the Center said, is “one of the most extreme forms of prohibited abuse.”

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Calls for Accountability

The PJPC is demanding:
•Immediate submission of the case to the International Criminal Court
•An urgent, independent international investigation
•Prosecution of those responsible under universal jurisdiction
•Immediate medical and psychological treatment for survivors
•Protection for witnesses and journalists at risk

“These crimes carry no statute of limitations,” the Center concluded. Testimonies from Palestinian journalists now represent cumulative evidence of a deliberate, systematic torture regime inside Israeli prisons — one that demands international criminal accountability.

December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Sarah has a suggestion

@goatsarah.org

I still maintain that against stiff competition from the likes of “borderline personality disorder”, which some symptom lists make indistinguishable from ADHD anyway, it has THE stupidest name in all mental health.

“I think everyone hates me and can’t do shit”

“Oh! Trouble sitting still disease”

December 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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Stefan Bohacek

@stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy

Presenting the Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #3.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/alt-text-health-check-image-accessibility-report-3/

#alttext #alttexthealthcheck #accessibility #imagedescription #fediverse

stefanbohacek.com

December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Kayin

@kayin.moe

using emojis in subtitles to indicate saying a word twice in different ways is so wildly modern that I am left in shock

December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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moFREE LINKgirl

@eigenvectrix.myatproto.social

I realise that to cis people, when trans people lose access to gender-affirming care, it seems like we're bitching about not getting our little treats.

I have more than one friend whose body is currently falling apart because it no longer makes its own hormones and the government banned their HRT.

March 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM