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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 22h

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

bluesky official posts from november 2024:

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

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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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 4h

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... source on this if you're interested - discord's zendesk data breach likely includes images of people's government IDs which were processed for age verification in places like the UK

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 17h

this is just a slightly more high fashion version of what middle aged rich white women in lower bucks county wear to the grocery store but actually I think she looks great here lmao

Lana Del Rey at the Zimmermann fashion show in Paris in a striped top with drapery sleeves and weird wide leg khaki pants with a single cargo pocket detail on the wearer's left

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 18h

I love rooting against the champion on Jeopardy. I love hooting at the tv like "yeah Claudine get his ass" even if I like the current Jeopardy champion

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 18h

the episode "Gerald comes over" on Hey Arnold made a serious impression on me as a kid. it's fascinating because it shows people being unhinged but demonstrates that it's possible to be kind to them and relate to them and be in community with them without enabling them

zoë @zo-e.xyz · 22h

what's with the constant spam accounts created with the domain "myatproto.social" ?

zoë @zo-e.xyz · 23h

this is a great explanation of atproto's technical implementation and how bluesky's mod decisions affect the federated network

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 23h

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

most short films in this vein I have found portray the trans kid subject as dealing with nasty bigotry and while they are surely ultimately affirming, I am hoping to show a film to students that doesn't like, trigger kids unnecessarily in the middle of the day

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

can anyone recommend any positive short films about trans/gender nonconforming teens (preferably made by a trans filmmaker) ?

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

could just re-watch veep tbh

Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

i simply see two cuties

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

glad you could get a good deal on the wife computers

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

been seeing it every day from your senior leadership team. you need an actual PR and moderation team. immediately

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

shape

Pop pop is a large brown tabby cat with white paws curled up like a shrimp on the back of the couch.

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

lmfaoooo

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

I just realized that if atproto actually becomes meaningfully federated we could be forced to start calling them skeets for clarity

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 1d

okay everyone I put the Phillies on

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

if you don’t actually want to run a social network, don’t brag about all the posts on your own product you hate

Bluesky @bsky.app · 1d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 1d

Look if Philadelphians don’t boo a great opposing player it just means they have completely lost all respect for him. It’s a courtesy

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Philly booing Ohtani cmon man. He's not a Dodger he's our national baseball Folk Hero. He is for everyone. He loves dogs and hits balls 500 ft and throws the ball 100 mph.

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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