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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

the weekend should be like 5 days long

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 3d

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

omg she's a RACIST on top of being a transphobe. my God, man.

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 2d

The same people who literally built this site are now being banned by Jay and mods. Black people, trans folks and sex workers were here making this place beautiful when you were still on X thinking you could wait out the Nazis.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot lately about how so many Black folks were hesitant to come to this site because many of us figured this is where it would go and I have never seen one person so utterly committed to single handedly burning any and all good will their site has accumulated like a five alarm gas fire.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza.

But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news.

It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

this entire website was made tenable by a bunch of perverts and trans people and attacking both of them is not a really good business model.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

the only ones who don't see anxiety as a problem are those who don't deal w it. i developed a psychosomatic response to food from it and had chronic nausea because couldn't eat or sleep. i would have panic attacks every few days. and i'm terrified of getting an autoimmune disease from it all.

Arron Automata @arrontk.bsky.social · 3d

Some people might not see anxiety as a big deal but it’s actually such a nightmare.

You worry all the time about something bad happening , you can’t concentrate, you can’t sleep, your emotions are all over the place, you isolate yourself.

Every day is a struggle but we endure.

Fuck anxiety.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4d

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

and now with the new TOS that bans a lot of NSFW art, they're about to lose a loooot of people too!

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

Dawg the only reason your platform exists is because people like me who actually make good stuff were on it. Growth slowed and now you're sweating. This ain't the answer.

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry @bsky.app what happened to decentralization & composable moderation & being able to take your data & accounts with you?

Bc it looks like y’all just nuked an important poster who provides commentary on many topics but notably 🔭🛰️🧪.

Free @spacelawshitpost.me!

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 3d

Update from Link. He said he still is banned despite being under BlackSky PDS cause BlueSky servers still used? :( idk

Just sharing what I’m told.

Screenshot of an iMessage conversation between Aveta and contact ‘AJ’ at 1:21. The conversation shows:

Aveta (blue bubbles): ‘If you get account back’ ‘Move to BlackSky immediately’
AJ (gray bubbles): ‘I am on Blacksky.’ ‘lol’
Aveta: ‘Wait what’ ‘WHAT’
AJ: ‘But they still use Bsky servers.’
Aveta: ‘How tr’ ‘Oh yeah… well shit’ (marked as Delivered)
AJ: ‘That’s how they got me.’ ‘You should include that too.’ ‘Decentralized moderation my ass.’

At the bottom is a notification banner reading ‘AJ has notifications silenced’ with a moon icon.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

so let me get this straight-

trans ppls, artists, & leftists all flee twitter to "new twitter" aka bluesky

it's now a main hub for trans ppl, artists, & leftists.

known transphobe joins the app and the main userbase demands he goes, and mods side with the transphobe..????

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Megan E. Human @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 7d

You think demanding hate accounts be banned is “waffles” in making social media better?

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2d

This is soooo fucking crazy lmao. Why is transphobia so normalized?

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky literally caved to right wingers harassing them to ban people saying “rest in piss Charlie Kirk”

Stop trying to gaslight us, Jay.

You literally changed the TOS to allow Jesse Singal to stay despite violating them.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 4d

the biggest joke on bsky is the idea that a meaningful number of people are here for the promise of eventual decentralization. if we gave a shit about that we’d all be on mastodon. we just want less shitty twitter with fewer nazis. but the staff is too tech industry libertarian brained to understand

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

It’s funny because it’s true

Jay D@@jay.bsky.team
You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works

crystal @cim.bsky.social
your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 5d

to put it in terms they will understand: if you want to run a pancake store, but then millions of people who only want waffles turn up, fuck you, you run a waffle store now

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 5d

nobody who works at bluesky has any idea what bluesky is, eh

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 3d

How do I turn push notifications for blusky off

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3d

sure would have been nice if Schumer et al had refused to fund the budget of our tax dollars paying for all these ICE recruiting ads but alas

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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