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@suavevillain.bsky.social

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Black Dude, Enjoys Watching Melty Blood. Chill dude. N̶i̶n̶t̶e̶n̶d̶o̶ ̶F̶a̶n̶ Wrestling fan. He/Him Below the heavens.

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · Nov 15

I got some new followers lately. So I'll let you know most of the stuff I talk about. I'm a Black Linux nerd.

Linux
Gaming
Music
Politics (If you hate people that dislike the duopoly, this the wrong place for you.)
Wrestling and whatever else I think of.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 15h

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1h

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

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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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 2h

People just got the urge to stand beside bigots for some reason.

.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 2h

They are cool with Nazis who helped write that Project 2025 stuff. Most of them folks in that org are klansmen and white nationalists.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

Like, you have to be using zero community moderation tools, for their account to even be visible to you.

Like, did *you* know that Heritage Foundation was here? Probably not, if you use pretty much any community moderation tools.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

Note: if you use basically *any* community modlist, you won't even see their account. Very British Bigotry, Asuka, etc already block em for you.

You have to purposely expose yourself to all the worst fucking people around, for you to *even be able to see it*

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 2h

That says more than enough.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 4h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 2h

They lobbied for hell protections to shield AI from any basic copyright standards, and have admitted to training their stuff on stolen work.

Then they also said if they were held accountable, it would destroy the industry. If you have to clear a sample for commercial usage, why is AI excluded?

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

No, they expected it. They just wanted the publicity of it all to keep the attention on them. These people are dumb but not that stupid.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 2h

Go on TV and call him a pussy and a criminal.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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OrdinaryBrotha @ordinarybrotha.bsky.social · 4h

“We’ve always been the main course! It’s clear that these folks saying, ‘Black people are next,’ don’t know history!”

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 4h

I really wish people stop the “yall next” stuff..my parents have been talking to me about racism and violence since I was like 9…like I need them to be serious…

a woman is wearing a silver dress with fringe and a necklace with rhinestones

ALT: a woman is wearing a silver dress with fringe and a necklace with rhinestones

media.tenor.com

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 2h

If people have to be expendable in order to gain power. You will never win anything not standing for something. There is no such thing as purity tests, half of the Dem base rather be subservient to Republicans and let them set the stage and rules.

Stop being weak and stand up damn.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 3h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3h

If you don’t work until you die to produce these goods you will be homeless. Thank you for coming

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 3h

I think the search is broken at least for atm.

.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 3h

My World Champ.

Reganelite 💙 @reganelite.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t like being political on this account but I love this!

#AEW

.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 3h

I need Denny in photomode next update plz chooms. 👁️.

.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 4h

You literally lost the last one twerking for Dick Cheney. You folks are out of touch.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Fuck Gavin Newsom. No I'm not voting for him.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 22h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4h

I love how half of Wired posts are about the dangers of digital surveillance or exposés of tech oligarchs and the other half is stuff like this. Capitalism makes us crazy.

WIRED @wired.com · 5h

The Gooloo A3 jumpstarter has been a lifesaver for me—and it's nearly half off for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. www.wired.com/story/gooloo...

This Jumpstarter Is Just $70—and Revived my Dead Land Cruiser

The Gooloo A3 jumpstarter has been a lifesaver for me—and it's nearly half off for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days.

www.wired.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 16h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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