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✶ she/they ✶ autistic lesbian ✶ into horror & paranormal adjacent stuff ✶
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chrispygameplay.bsky.social
On The Fourth Day of Chrispymas, My True Love Gave To Meeeeeeeeeee....🎄🎁

Expeditions time for Arc Raiders! Prepping my rocket into space and getting ready for the Big Wipe ™️LAST STREAM BEFORE NJ!!!

🚨LIVE NOW🚨
twitch.tv/chrispygameplay
the words returning to speranza are on a black background
ALT: the words returning to speranza are on a black background
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December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
raccoonpriest.bsky.social
listening to brasso and thinking I'm ready for an andor rewatch/cry
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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scalzi.com
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈
sundogscoops.bsky.social SCOOPS 🍖 @sundogscoops.bsky.social · 5d
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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esqueer.net
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 4d
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
raccoonpriest.bsky.social
I haven't been on here because I've been so susceptible to doomscrooming so instead I go to reddit which can be equally as bad

for example today I saw someone described LOOT IN VIDEO GAME as same thing as "slutty partner" instead of a fully realized human being
reaction image of laura bailey sitting at critical role table with two pictures of herself transposed on the image. One of her with a straight face and the other with her face in her hands.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
everyday this guy challenges my rules about not being a fanboy for politicians
September 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
raccoonpriest.bsky.social
you ever doomscroll so hard you put an intense lock on certain apps

(just did that yesterday)
September 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
raccoonpriest.bsky.social
thanks to the people behind the blocklists y’all are great
September 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.
September 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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miawong.bsky.social
Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
edition.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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moxiest.art
a typewritten note that reads "the democratic party doesn't care about you... like, at all."
September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
This is a thread about a new charity endeavor I’ve heard many good things about that allows you to send food and supplies directly to families in Gaza- I want to try it out before I recommend it and Obada offered to see if it works! Instructions on how to do it are in the thread
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Sep 4
Alright Obada offered to be my test case to see if this service works! gazagivingcart.org

Basically you can order food and supplies directly through them and specify Obada Salqawe as who you want it to go to and they will work to get it to him!

(Cat video for attention)
September 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
The federal government is waging war against democratically held cities and states. Full stop.

We need to be honest about what this is: a republican led war against the states.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 4
Breaking news: The Pentagon approved the use of a Navy base on the outskirts of Chicago as a staging ground so that the Trump administration can launch operations against undocumented immigrants.
Pentagon approves use of Navy base for Chicago ICE operations
Pentagon approves use of Chicago-area Navy base for ICE operations. Defense officials have said the installation could be used by military forces who are called to assist.
wapo.st
September 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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alexvont.bsky.social
At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.
rosieisaholt.bsky.social Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · Sep 3
Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
September 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
raccoonpriest.bsky.social
are you kidding me like how unreal is this lil pig sleeping
Photo of two younger pigs on concrete. One pig at the top of the photo is standing and the other pig which is the focus of the photo is sleeping with one leg underneath and one leg out to rest their head on.
September 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The Wall Street Journal has a new article about billionaires.

Here's a gift link if you feel like getting mad.
What We Know About America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting
An exclusive, up-close look at the richest people in the U.S. from celebrities like Taylor Swift and Elon Musk to the founder of a roofing supplier in Wisconsin.
www.wsj.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
raccoonpriest.bsky.social
didn’t expect my current hyperfixations to be weed, ufos, and human consciousness but here we are
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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pantibliss.bsky.social
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
September 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Some good news is that our giving circle has contributed nearly $21,000 to over 63 groups/individuals since January. You can see the list of groups/people here in case you are interested in supporting any of them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
2025 Giving Circle - List of People and Groups
2025 Giving Circle - https://ko-fi.com/prisonculture List of People and Groups January to August - total donated $20,860.23 so far South Bay Mutual Aid Care Club - https://hcb.hackclub.com/donation...
docs.google.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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conchodreamer.bsky.social
time for the demon boys to kill kaiju to raise money for @blizzb3ar.bsky.social

Ft-
@shadelytv.bsky.social
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twitch.tv/projectmedus...
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
Like, whatever happened to “don’t tread on me”??????? WE ARE BEING TREADED Y’ALL. Boot prints are on all our butt cheeks!!! IT’S GO TIME, TOUGH GUYS.
aaronblackshear.bsky.social Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · Sep 2
I’ve been waiting for the 2nd amendment people to do some 2nd amendment shit and yet…
September 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social
Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.
Screenshot of a tumblr post by user khazrablood. It shows another screenshot from twitter/X by @advocate.com, stating; "Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targetted for mild criticisms of anti-trans billionaire." Beneath the quote, a hyperlink pop up of an informative article appears, with two images; the first is Bluesky's logo, and the second is of Joanne Rowling. Under the two portrait images, the header reads; "Bluesky silenced trans voices over J. K Rowling, here's why" The sub-header of the hyperlink further reads; "Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targetted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire." Underneath the screenshot of the Twitter/X post, khazrablood writes; "wannabe twitter already bending the knee to terfs." Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added; If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens. And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage. So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here). a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound; The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time. The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content. Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself. The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post; This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now. How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging. But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM