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Cranky-faced Knitter
@crankyfacedknitter.bsky.social
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Wool-spinner, tea-drinking, surfer of word-waves, ever-whining lover of potatoes; hobbit-like in form and function, multi-crafting, elder Bi. Chronic illness-bearer, TTRPG-enjoying, embroiderer with thread and words, perpetrator of the sin of empathy.
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mrrb.bsky.social
Annual reminder to avoid the Salvation Army!!
dasharez0ne.bsky.social da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 18h
FUCK THE SALVATON ARMY - dashare.zone ADMIN
NEVER GIVE YA MONEY TO "DA RED BUCKET" THE SALVTION ARMY IS NOTOROUS FOR (1) GIVING MONEY TO CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL CANDIDATES (2) OPPOSING UNIONS (3) REFUSING TO HELP LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN NEED (4) FIRING THERE OWN WORKERS WHEN THEY FIND OUT THERE LGBTQ+ !!! SO GIVE YA MONEY TO YA LOCAL FOOD BANK https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank OR YA LOCAL HOMELESS SHELTER , AND FUCK DA BELL RINGERS ,,,,OH AND DA TEXT "FUCK OFF SALVATION ARMY IF I WANTED TO OPPRESS MARGINALIZED PEOPLE WITH MY MONEY I WOULD PAY MY TAXES ON TIME " DONT GET ME STARTED ON HOW THE GOVERNMENTS USING OUR TAX MONEY IT SURE AINT TO HELP PEOPLE EAT OR FIND HOUSING - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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smilkyshake.com
For people unaware and playing/streaming Where Winds Meet, it uses GenAI for NPC chat bots, and let's you import a photo of yourself and a voice clip for character creation, which I'm sure I don't need to explain why that is fucked up

And no AI disclosure on Steam 🙃
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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jomiles.bsky.social
Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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wiredferret.bsky.social
Wow. This is like the holy grail of clothes recycling.

New solvent completely recycles polycotton textiles share.google/qrM7caF2CHyf...
Simple solvent makes polycotton fabric completely recyclable
What we think of as polyester fabric is most often actually a blend of polyester and cotton, which has proven very difficult to recycle. A new solvent, however, breaks the blend down into its two comp...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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uncivil.work
😀👋This song🎵 is called "Alice's👱🏼‍♀️ ®️estaurant"🍽🛖, and it's about Alice👉👱🏼‍♀️👈. And ➕️the ®️estaurant🍽🛖. But Alice's 👱🏼‍♀️®️estaurant🍽🛖 is not🙅‍♂️🚫🚫 the name of the ®️estaurant🍽🛖, that's just the name of the song🎵. And that's why🤔 I called the song🎵 "Alice's ®️estaurant."👱🏼‍♀️🍽🛖🙂‍↕️
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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tuxkate.bsky.social
tidal.com/browse/track...
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
quick,
everyone get more anti AI now!!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back
exnerd.bsky.social Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 9d
Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.

I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features"
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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amockingbird.bsky.social
Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
scarleteen.com Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 9d
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
crankyfacedknitter.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics, what's it like to date you
Simply-drawn two panel cartoon with a figure sitting in front of a computer looking relaxed. A figure in gray representing their inner thoughts is freaking out behind them, screaming at them to start doing an urgent task. Second panel is a closer look at the unbothered expression on the person's face as they stare ahead, perhaps with exhaustion, and the inner thoughts continue their attempt to start the easily-begun task. A frog mage in purple wizard hat and robes, riding a black horse at speed and wielding a sword in a nighttime forest scene. Caption: 3 mana potions no lunch. A black cat with sharp white claws extended as if to pounce and scratch. Caption: me trying to communicate my want for affection. Upper panel of the Predator from the Predator movies. Middle panel: what the predator sees after 15 seconds of chasing me. Bottom panel: A series of artistic x-ray-style images of joints, glowing red to illustrate pain.
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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doodlemancy.com
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html

🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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amagire.bsky.social
YOU THERE. BOY. WHAT DAY IS THIS
amagire.bsky.social Vulgar Roast Beast @amagire.bsky.social · 13d
reminder that #Wolfenoot is Sunday. eat the moon, be kind to dogs, and perhaps the spirit of the wolf will leave you a gift.
illustration: a wolf silhouette in dark blue outlined with black, play-bowing against a full moon sky. there is a stylized heart the color of the sky in the center of the wolf's chest
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
I'm enjoying the freakout over on XTwitter about geographical locations being exposed...it's exposing some literary scammers as well. Here's "literary agent" Joyce Momoa, about whom I get occasional inquiries.
Joyce Momoa | Open to Submission @LitAgentjoyce Date joined July 2024 Account based in Nigeria 7 username changes Last on July 2025 Connected via Nigeria Android App
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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pavlovforgoths.com
here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox
mckitterick (ADE.............- Yesterday 601 irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page • browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge • browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.link Preview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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gravewriter71.bsky.social
Reminder again to be sure your vaccines are up to date, get boosted if you need to, and please for the love of fuck, mask & distance!
apoorvanyt.bsky.social Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 14d
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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qsy.bsky.social
Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out.
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
crankyfacedknitter.bsky.social
Playing the "am I sick or just stressed and pre-menstrual" game is worse when you're not at home
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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christiannegg.bsky.social
K-Pop Demon Hunters, but (early 1700's) Canada 🇨🇦

I did a lot of research for this one due to Canada's history of colonialism, and learned a lot! Here's more info- www.tumblr.com/christianneg...

#kpdh #kpopdemonhunters #canada #acadian #mi'kmaq
#frenchcanadian
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

Wisconsin's Age Verification bill [which also targets VPNs] has passed both committees.

Folks in that state need to contact your senators and demand they oppose this bill!

docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/legisla...

action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/wiscons...
Wisconsin AB 105 / SB 130 – Action Center
action.freespeechcoalition.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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tendermiasma.com
Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 16d
Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens”

I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!
meaooww 10m i tried giving you money and my bank's fraud dept called me 8m only notable be they specifically read "giantess voretuber ana valens" off some part of their screen 6m Wait Can i post this? They literally said that? 2m they literally said that in the most monotone ass voice mid sentence while asking if it was a valid transaction 2m Woah. What were you trying to give money to, Throne? 1m yeah 1m Holy
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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sfwa.org
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM