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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Lauren @midheavens.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you darlin 💕💕

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Lauren @midheavens.bsky.social · 13d

First week at Cambridge is in the books ❤️🎉

A photo from inside a classroom of curtained windows and a bookshelf

A photo of a teddy bear on a bed with a University of Cambridge bow

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17d

If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 16d

Our mini-drive has 14 hours left and shares are so appreciated!

This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 18d

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza.

www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18d

If you see this duck it’s a fuckin miracle, your luck will change, fortune will smile, this is a duck Bluesky doesn’t want you to see.

Beautiful duck with iridescent wings in green water

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Lauren @midheavens.bsky.social · 18d

Trying to edit poetry tonight is certainly an Exercise

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G.C. Houle 🔞 @gchoule.bsky.social · 18d

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 19d

I'm so tired of concepts having more rights and protections than me, a living flesh person

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19d

Lord alive, they want fictional characters in fictional sexual situations to model consent for literal adults like a patronizing early 2020’s sitcom where the point of the writing is to convey that the writer’s been to therapy at some point

Bluesky @bsky.app · 19d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

bsky.social

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 18d

"what is their obsession with trans people even about" cuz trans people are the free-est motherfuckers on earth! they don't want the rest of y'all getting any ideas about having control over your own fucking destiny!!

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 18d

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 18d

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

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Lauren @midheavens.bsky.social · 18d

south node Virgo eclipse opposing Saturn in Pisces indeed

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Lauren @midheavens.bsky.social · 18d

Difficult to feel like it’s safe to write without heavily self-censoring at the moment, which I am of course thinking about a lot on the eve of my creative writing masters program

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 19d

and really, I do not believe that everyone needs to "get weirder now," or that everyone needs to "make more nsfw," etc. what I do believe, however, is that everyone should look to those already making that work and sit in dialogue with them. support their work, substantiate their humanity.

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

platforms for accidentally lingering too long within a fraught topic and losing my livelihood over it is not worth the risk of the full exploration of anybodys artistic vision. unless it's the kind of state enforced sexless hyper-violence we're all inundated with 24/7, that stuff is a-ok

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

i like to depict intense, broody, emotionally & physically fraught eroticism in my work, a lot of which if it happened in the real world would be dangerous or unhealthy. ppl say my work is daring, but you see the chickenshit versions of it because the risk of getting banned from -

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

pivoting to normal & good stories about brave soldiers of the mighty west getting heroically blown up to bits in 4k by the scary oriental other after depicting run of the mill power play bdsm is banned everywhere for being too frighteningly sickening a depiction of the worst parts of human nature

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 19d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Sascha // STALKER Maid VTuber ☢️ 🎀 @toomuchsascha.bsky.social · 19d

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER
Do you like art on the site?
Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform.
Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 19d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

bsky.social

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 19d

Tiny aqualium #invertebrates

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 18d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kamal. Kamal has helped so many people I know in Gaza but never asked for my help before. He had a few careers before this including a tailor and a solar power tech. He’s helping his siblings including Aliaa, 25, Yasmin, 15 and Mohammad, 12.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 19d

Everything is very heavy, extremely heavy on me, endless responsibilities in this ap hard times, I appreciate every single support I appreciate every repost. In this time on my life I supposed to be software engineer and endless ambitions but this world just unfair

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 22d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

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