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@burrow.bsky.social

CALL YOUR SENATORS THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT

A felony? For saving people’s lives? Are you fucking kidding me???

(I just know Durbin’s gonna vote for this piece of shit So bombard his ass with calls)

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.

3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.

4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.

It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.

Story to come.

December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM

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Kelina1080

@kelina1080.bsky.social

Gen Ai music is not real music
Gen Ai art is not real art
Gen Ai writing is not real writing
Gen Ai is not better than human creativity and soul.

Fuck gen ai and fuck all the billionaires/corporations trying to forcibly shove this shit down our esophagus.

December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Cider🍂☕️📚

@cidermarten.bsky.social

If the AI invasion of the game industry has got you down, don’t forget there’s decades-worth of games that weren’t created with AI. Revisit your backlog and browse old magazines for treasures!

December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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IggyMaid

@iggymaid.bsky.social

cannot stress how much better the world would be if billionaires weren't allowed to exist

Each one of them could solve world hunger alone, they choose not to. The very existence of a billionaire is a failing as they only exist via mass scale exploitation

Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 18d

This is a disgusting amount of money.

Families are losing healthcare and can't afford food or basic necessities.

And the billionaires keep getting richer.

December 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

Anyone use thriftbooks before, curious how good it is for finding more obscure books?

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thriftbooks.com

November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

Either I'm blind or there a bunch of people lacking media literacy

November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle

@theangrynoodle.com

I made a little coffee bean. 🧶 ☕️

I swear, I used two different yarn colors. Dark and light brown. Apparently, they weren’t different enough, because it ALL LOOKS THE SAME. 😡

Whatever. It’s fine. I’m fine.

#crochetsky

A crocheted coffee bean with a little smile and white lines under his eyes, and little brown feeties.

November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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Sarah Karasek

@sarahkarasek.bsky.social

Weird Waypoints has officially joined the Read a Book, Feed a Neighbor list! All profit from purchases during the months of November and December will be donated to the World Central Kitchen. More info and the full list available here: substack.com/@haunted4alw...
#RABFAN #booksky

Sarah Karasek (@haunted4always)

Weird Waypoint: A Speculative Travel Guide to the Between has officially joined the Read a Book, Feed a Neighbor list! All profits from the anthology for the months of November and December will be do...

substack.com

November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ

@britpoptarts.bsky.social

October 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)

@stinasdemons.com

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA
NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

Is bureaucratic negligence illegal, if not how do we make it that way?

November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

I don't watch TV much anymore but I swear I've seen like 30 of these Walmart Whoville commercials already.

November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk

@bpavuk.neocities.org

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

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25

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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Sarah Karasek

@sarahkarasek.bsky.social

I'm offering free 1 card tarot readings now through November 1st to anyone who donates at least $1 or volunteers some amount of time to help people in need of housing, food, or healthcare; animal welfare; or support the Arts.

If you know an organization you'd recommend supporting, please comment.

October 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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Snark (And Occasionally Bourbon)

@snarkandbourbon.bsky.social

If the foundation of your endeavor, no matter what it may be, is AI? I hope that shit collapses in ways that make Eldritch horrors gasp in shock.

Take time. Put in work to hone your work. Make something you’re proud of instead of slop you cobbled together through theft and pollution. Fuck.

October 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

So been tutoring a lot lately but just encountered a student that had their whole 15 page paper flagged as AI generated based on a detector multiple times despite rewrites. I don't think instructors should make students use these tools if this is the case. Especially since they use AI themselves.

September 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

I feel like cross brand marketing has gotten a bit out of control lately, especially when the brands don't seem to connect very well or are anachronistic to one another. Mostly I'm thinking of video games.

Palworld x UltraKill
Persona 5 x Overwatch
And Hunt Showdown has a Ghostface character.

September 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

Harley S

@hsthewriter.bsky.social

So I mostly spent the latter half of the Summer trying to build a schedule for myself. And I was starting to do really good and was writing again, but recently I pulled a muscle in my shoulder and typing and writing aggravate the pain.

So pretty much my body doesn't want me to do anything.

August 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle

@theangrynoodle.com

I wrote a post about copaganda in media, using five popular pieces of media as examples.

It was fun. I had fun. 🙂

theangrynoodle.com/5-instances-...