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polerin

@polerin.bsky.social

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White trans woman, radical lefty, geek, pro web dev, derbyDerbyDerby. Will eat for food, & rock your face off. Or on. On is good. Seattle-ish

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · Aug 25

I cannot state this strongly enough:

Trans healthcare is literally lifesaving. I would not be here today if it were not a thing.

It is not something that can be put off in a healthy way, it is not a frivolous lark. We exist, and we hurt in ways that most cis people cannot start to understand.

Truthout @truthout.org · Aug 25

On Friday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management issued a memo announcing that, beginning in 2026, all federal employee health plans will be barred from covering gender-affirming care for both transgender youth and adults.

Trump Admin Memo Bars Federal Health Plans From Covering Gender-Affirming Care

The memo also mandates that insurers cover “faith-based counseling,” otherwise known as conversion therapy.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 12h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5h

If I get extrajudicially got because I did research and writing about fascism being bad, you all need to scream from the rooftops that who they got was a mom of young kids who volunteers at a preschool.

I will haunt each and every one of you if you do not

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like that must have been since the last time I looked at it. Admittedly, that was forever ago. It was more of a toydb at that point

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 5h

sure, my concern is more reliability and recovery.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 5h

an older man with a beard and mustache is smiling and says `` smile through the pain '' .

Alt: meme of an older man with a beard and mustache, smiling painfully with the caption `` smile through the pain '' .

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 6h

I got one that hit like 80 likes and I noped out. I donno how y'all deal with it.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 8h

We have been warning y’all about cops for god knows how long.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 6h

*web app.

sigh. can't type on phone

polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 9h

that is a WHOLE story too

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Yves Jeanrenaud @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social · 11h

goes well in line with this bsky.app/profile/feli...
purging digital spaces

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 9h

and this is why I won't have an apple device as my primary.

and yeah, android is heading this direction too.

honestly this kind of app should be a weapon anyway soo

404 Media @404media.co · 11h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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404 Media @404media.co · 11h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 19h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 12h

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 15h

“The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government-ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.”

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Discord warns users after data stolen in third-party breach

The stolen data includes names, emails, limited billing information, and some government-ID images.

www.malwarebytes.com

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 15h

“limited billing information” was also taken—including payment type, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and purchase histories. Customer IP addresses and messages with support agents were also exposed.

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 15h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 13h

I started skating roller derby in 2011 because of social media. It has filled my life since that day.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 14h

it just makes me repeat over and over "no accounting for taste, no accounting for taste, no accounting for taste..."

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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polerin @polerin.bsky.social · 15h

you know what game I want a modern version of?

Heckin WaveRace.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 23h

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 23h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 1d

Attention Attorneys:

Federal Trans inmate transferred to men’s prison. Denied medical care. Denied phone privileges.

Needs help.

youtu.be/4bYm4VIEAkM

A Kara Update and a Request for Advice

YouTube video by DeviantOllam

youtu.be

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