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✨Aria✨

@corpsepoe.bsky.social

Got a haircut and a gym membership last week. Once I get my breast reduction and my septum repierced it'll be OVER for you hoes!

December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM

✨Aria✨

@corpsepoe.bsky.social

My husband modded stardew for me, completely changing the textures, colours and vibe of the game, adding medieval buildings and alchemistry. I can change my outfits to look like a woodland creature fairy. I'm about to be absolutely insufferable. 🍄🧚‍♀️🍁🐭

November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷

@alexrochonva.bsky.social

Hey.

Kindly reminder.

Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are.

This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults.

If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.

November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Abigail E. Penner

@abigailepenner.bsky.social

Mutt lover

November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM

✨Aria✨

@corpsepoe.bsky.social

Working nights and having funny money is great and all, but I miss my pets. 🥲

November 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM

✨Aria✨

@corpsepoe.bsky.social

This man screams for food @ 6am and bites my husbands feet when we aren't fast enough. 🥲

October 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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Nisrin Elamin

@nisrinelamin.bsky.social

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM

✨Aria✨

@corpsepoe.bsky.social

Her story was racist, antisemetic, misogynistic and sympathetic towards nazis before she started being openly transphobic. Find a better story to base your personality off of.

Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · Oct 25

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

October 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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Marc Fischer

@marc-fischer.bsky.social

You do not need to be a member of the press with a badge to have valuable observations, insights and stories. You need to BECOME the press so people learn from you NOW. If you write or take photos and print and make it public in some way, people will photograph what you do and spread it further.

October 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM

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Indie Book Spotlight

@bookspotlight.bsky.social

Darlings, I’m so proud of youuuuuu with your gen AI pushback! Look at us go! 🥹🥳💙

Fight the gen AI shite! We can do it! Don’t give up! Down with the slop! Artists and writers over thieves and machines! 💪🤝🫶

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.

This frustration over AI’s steady creep has breached the container of social media and started manifesting more in the real world. Parents I talk to are concerned about AI use impacting their child’s mental health. Couples are worried about chatbot addictions driving a wedge in their relationships. Rural communities are incensed that the newly built data centers required to power these AI tools are kept humming by generators that burn fossil fuels, polluting their air, water, and soil. As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate.

Unlike the dawn of the internet where democratized access to information empowered everyday people in unique, surprising ways, the generative AI era has been defined by half-baked software releases and threats of AI replacing human workers, especially for recent college graduates looking to find entry-level work.
“Our innovation ecosystem in the 20th century was about making opportunities for human flourishing more accessible,” says Shannon Vallor, a technology philosopher at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and author of The AI Mirror, a book about reclaiming human agency from algorithms. “Now, we have an era of innovation where the greatest opportunities the technology creates are for those already enjoying a disproportionate share of strengths and resources.”

June 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM

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key-lime pie

@keymonster.bsky.social

Give them no peace.
Keep calling. Keep using your voice.
#resist

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · Jun 29

Senator Lee, under pressure from colleagues and the public (that’s all of you!) has officially removed his land sale provision from the big abomination of a bill.

June 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM

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Bree Lundberg

@breelundberg.com

Let’s get a thread of support going for #Juneteenth

If you’re Black, post your payment links below (paypal, venmo, ko-fi, gofundme, etc).

Everybody else, pick someone to donate to and repost. 👇💕

June 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Eye On Palestine

@eyeonpalestine.bsky.social

Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by the state of Israel.

"Please make sure to be loud."
- One of the last messages from the crew before being taken hostage after the attack from Israel

RESHARE! REPOST! SPEAK OUT!

RELEASE. THE. CREW.
END. THE. BLOCKADE.
FREE. PALESTINE.

June 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM

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Raider

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Here's your LAPD when they think no one's looking

June 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸

@jamalzuhir.bsky.social

The United States uses its veto power against a ceasefire resolution in Gaza after all countries unanimously agreed to stop it.

Why ?😔

June 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM

✨Aria✨

@corpsepoe.bsky.social

It's free 🇵🇸, free 🇸🇩, hands off 🇨🇩, f*ck nazis and their besties the zios, Black Lives Matter, land back, nobody is illegal on stolen land and f*ck colonialism in this house until the day I croak.

May 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder

@nilahmagruder.com

Please donate or share if you’re able. chuffed.org/project/help...

May 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter]
النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه.

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza.

These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform.

Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report.

We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes:

Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language.

Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future.

Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification.

Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic.

Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision.

In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community.

We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard.

We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future.

We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community.

[To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸

@jamalzuhir.bsky.social

Help me rebuild my family life, small amount plus small amount we will have big amount, we lost everything and we suffer everyday we lost home and university and our city and all our life and dreams and if u can’t donate
Just repost if u can’t donate

Support here
gofund.me/a625d5ba

May 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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Corey They Them Brickley

@coreybrickley.bsky.social

who gives a fuck dude she brags about using the money she receives to get laws passed that abuse countless actual people who exist in the real world

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 2

An HBO executive has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming reboot television series will not be “infused” with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.