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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · Sep 9

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously k...

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 13h

They should still be there!

🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 14h

I like your username lol

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 14h

Omg I should’ve just shared this! justinegracephoto.com/yael/

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Photo collection by Justine Grace Photo & Film

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 14h

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 14h

Oops and this one is also dark background plus first batch of seated

🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 14h

Dark background. 2/x

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Help me decide between new headshots! White background! 1/x

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 6d

Texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50 percent in the past year, with young adults experiencing the sharpest rise of any age group. Here’s how to protect yourself:

Texting and Messaging Scam Attempts Have Increased by 50 Percent, a Consumer Reports Survey Finds - Consumer Reports

Texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50 percent, according to Consumer Reports' 2025 Cyber Readiness Report

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 5d

The 2025 Consumer Cyber Readiness Report from Consumer Reports shows that Gen Z is falling for “record levels” of text scams. (via @mental-floss.bsky.social)

Gen Z Is Surprisingly Likely to Fall for Text Scams

The ultra-online Generation Z is still getting hoodwinked by text scams.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 1d

Scoop, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: A federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with fake cellphone towers known as cell-site simulators, which can be used to spy on nearby phones.