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Dancing Viru
@dancingviru.bsky.social
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he/him | South Asian Swiss | autistic | invested in autistic accessibility in games | <3 Destiny 2 & tv shows | streams on:
https://twitch.tv/dancingviru

here to do whats necessary, not to make you & me comfortable, since living is political now.
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dancingviru.bsky.social
glad Mamdani knew exactly how to play that orange slop of a fascist.
Dem leadership have no more excuses for their inaction & negligence now.
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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404media.co
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them

www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
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November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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inthesetimes.com
"Except for Palestine" exposes how “progressive except for Palestine” politics have shaped U.S. power for decades.

Get a copy when you donate $30+ to support our reporting on Palestine and U.S. politics.

Support the work. Get the book.

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Book cover with black and red text reading "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics" by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick. Diagonal red triangle and green line accents.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
There's a lot to say about the Roblox CEO interview, and the right place to start is definitely his answers on children's safety, because that's kind of the fire that is hottest and closest.

However, I have to also say, the polymarket stuff is real 'summation of our neoliberal dumpster fire' shit.
Newton: Wait, where are you on Polymarket? Baszucki: So I assume you are both big fans. Newton: We’ve talked a lot about prediction markets on the show. Roose: Yup. Baszucki: So, I don’t know if you had the experience, independent of political party or anything, just a real-time science experiment. On election night, I had four screens, like journalists of all journalists, and like, how do I quickly go from journalist to journalist? And then with my family, we were watching Polymarket as well, and we were comparing Polymarket to the comments of all the journalists. And I do think Polymarket was coming through, like, 30 to 45 minutes ahead of them. And, like, it was an interesting thought experiment to see, like, OK, we’re at 86 percent here, whether you like or dislike the way it was going, and then see various journalists, like, say different things. Newton: Yeah, so you think this is becoming a really interesting signal to understanding what’s happening in the world right now? Baszucki: I think, mathematically, there’s the notion that prediction markets, if they’re liquid and transparent, capture, in a way, all of the world’s information and every signal. And if there is one election counter way out in the corner in some weird county that knows it’s going to go this way, if they could go bet $10,000, like, that’s gonna nudge the thing and make the information more perfect. So, I’m a huge fan of that.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
They aren’t professional .. and they are jobs most likely to be achieved by non white / non men as leaving poverty

And these are the professions that most aid people in changing their places in the social hierarchy
maryrosewood.bsky.social Mary Wood @maryrosewood.bsky.social · 21h
🧵 Let’s be so effing for real right now. The Department of Education saying these jobs are no longer PROFESSIONAL is dumb as hell and insulting as fuck. It takes YEARS of post-graduate training, including passing certifying exams, to earn degrees in these fields. #fdt #momsky
Degrees no longer considered professional by the Department of Education, including teaching, nursing, social work, counseling, business, and engineering.
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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shengokai.blacksky.app
I know not with what weapons the next war will be fought, but I do know that it will be fought to end the tyranny of *checks notes* redressing historical injustices against marginalized groups through social and economic policies.

This is a country devoid of honor. We live in the age of the peta'Q.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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hard-drive.bsky.social
You mean purging all data relating to a group of developers from marginalized and underrepresented communities doesn’t make your website load faster?
Screenshot of a quote tweet from Hard Drive responding to Geoff Keighley who posted about the game awards website being bogged down by traffic. Here’s the hard drive tweet: Does the web team know where the Future Class part of the site went? We can’t find it, and know how much you care about being an advocate for the people who make games. ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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diptripping.bsky.social
Zack Polanski and the Greens have done incredibly well, like look how quickly and fast we shot up, nearly crossing the Tories and Labour, and in some polls are literally polling 2nd after Reform.

Maybe replacing Labour doesn't seem so distant now!
A graph of opinion polls for the next UK General Election. The graph shows Labour on a downwards trend, Reform on an upwards one that has more recently stabilised, the Tories have stabilised after losing support, the Lib Dems have stayed around the same level of support, and the Greens shot up recently.
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 14d
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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alyssamerc.bsky.social
A court has ordered the immediate sale of one of the last Black-owned cultural landmarks in Brooklyn. Sign the petition and spread this far and wide!

www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
Sign the Petition
Stop the Sale of 375 Stuyvesant Ave
www.change.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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tendermiasma.com
and indie artists and sex workers are getting crucified for existing
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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shadetooth.bsky.social
Audio (sound effects, music, and dialogue) has a weird relationship with temp assets, mostly because of issues revolving around human psychology.

Problem #1: How do you communicate that something you're hearing is temp?
ramiismail.com Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 4d
The annoying thing about the "oh we left a placeholder" generative AI slop excuse is that that is EXACTLY NOT how you should be using placeholders. Anything "not obviously terrible with a panicked hurried half-awake glance" is getting shipped.
rajio.bsky.social Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 4d
In gamedev, if you're using a placeholder asset, best practices involve marking it as placeholder so garishly and offensively clearly PLACEHOLDER that you can't possibly miss it. Also flagging that asset in the dev process so it can be identified quickly before the final build.
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app
I did a lot of adulting today and I've been left tired af, guess its time to keep the artsy fartsy vibes and go do some Overture after we've Obscured Clairs

Lies of P is back, play this game please
twitch.tv/pleasantlytwstd

#blacksky #blackskygaming
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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sbworkersunited.org
Let's make this clear: wherever Starbucks is, we’ll be there too until we win a fair contract and an end to union busting.

Our ULP strike is just getting started. And we'll keep calling on allies to say #NoContractNoCoffee with us!

nocontractnocoffee.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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urbanbohemian.com
A valuable lesson that shall never be learned.
sol-cantus.blacksky.app Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.blacksky.app · 3d
It's almost like maybe we shouldn't have one megalithic company that handles the vast majority of web safety...
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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shazshanghari.bsky.social
Oh nooooo hurry up and do it
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Spare me the "Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed" bullshit.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Dana Bash: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show"
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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sh-greenparty.bsky.social
Amazing news this morning! 40,000 Young people believe in making hope normal again!
Join them
join.greenparty.org.uk
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3d
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚

We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳

This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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thinkingautism.com
Today in #BetterWaysThanABA: yep, ABA is indeed implicated in long-lasting and serious mental health crises for young people, according to in-depth new research. But go ahead and tell us how ABA is the "gold standard" again? @nahime.bsky.social et al:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #autism
Mental health outcomes associated with applied behavior analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth - Nahime G Aguirre Mtanous, Jamie Koenig, Melica Nikahd, Sarah E Effertz, S...
Applied behavior analysis is a widely used intervention for autistic youth, though its mental health impacts remain under-researched. This study aims to investi...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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rincewind.run
"really mean and weird" sums these people up just about perfectly
katmabu.bsky.social Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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autisticadvocacy.org
We are missing our friend Alice Wong. Alice died on November 14. We are proud to call her an ally and a friend. And while we mourn her passing, we want to uplift her work and her own words too. You can read more about Alice's work and legacy here: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/mour...
A photo of Alice Wong with text that says, "We are missing our friend Alice Wong. Alice died on November 14. We are proud to call her an ally and a friend. And while we mourn her passing, we want to uplift her work and her own words too. Alice was a powerhouse — her impact on the world, on disability justice, on so many of us at ASAN, cannot be overstated." Alice was a friend, an ally, a mentor, a force to be reckoned with, and now she is a disabled ancestor. In 2023, Alice was the awardee of ASAN's Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Nonfiction for her book Year of the Tiger, and ongoing work on the Disability Visibility Project. She also spoke at ASAN's 2019 Gala, reflecting on action and community in a way that still rings true today. "So, why do we want to take action? For me, it’s because I care deeply about a lot of things and I want to create change. What do you care about? Maybe it’s public transit, horrible sidewalks, climate change, or gentrification.…And your view of the world is unique and invaluable, no matter what others may say." Alice Wong, ASAN Gala 2019. "Personally, I am exhausted from fighting against eugenics and social inequality, especially in the middle of this pandemic that made things worse for the disability community and other marginalized groups. Where is the justice? How do we keep going on against overwhelming forces that do not want us to exist, such as ableism, capitalism, and white supremacy? I wish I had the answers, but I know that I am not alone. We are living in truly difficult and extraordinary times. Now, more than ever, we need to share space, mourn, and remember together." Alice Wong, 2021 Disability Day of Mourning Virtual Vigil. We will keep fighting for our community, and for the world Alice fought for, in every way we can. We hope you will too. Protect, love, and care for one another — wear a mask, protect the most vulnerable of us, and keep fighting against a world that tells us we are not worth fighting for.
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12d
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
Dear [Professor’s Name], I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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jessicawluther.com
To Kat's point, I have always said that the easiest thing to do in the face of reports of gendered violence is nothing. People desperately want to do nothing. And pushing them to do literally anything is seen as an attack.
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM