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@mostlybrowsing.bsky.social

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Mostly reposts and replies. Franz and Rost are my FFXIV OCs. Sometimes I do dev things. R-18 content. I've been on the internet longer than any teenager has been alive.

I'm not super active anywhere, but am elsewhere. https://linktr.ee/mostlybrowsing

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RandallMakArt

@randallmakart.bsky.social

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Blibbles - DRAGON STRANDING

@blibbles.bsky.social

Every Target employee rn

Joo Dee from the Earth Kingdom, uncomfortably smiling.

November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken

@papawoof.bsky.social

October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM

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Donryu

@donryu.bsky.social

went through to verify the accounts on this list and yeah this is pretty legit and helpful.

Basil and Thyme @basilmuse.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey, as a heads up for NSFW peeps in the US, US President administration just made a shitton of BlueSky accounts. I would highhhhly recommend subbing to this blocklist so they don't show up on any algorithm feeds (and so they can't see your shit)

bsky.app/profile/eva....

October 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Makkon

@makkon.bsky.social

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM

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debs 🏴‍☠️🩸

@edstede.bsky.social

September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Ryuji The Dragon

@ryujidoodles.bsky.social

I hate doing this again. I don't like piling up work when I have commissions to finish, but I'm going to be opening up some emergency slots for commissions to make sure I hit my bills before the end of the month. If y'all would like one I would appreciate the support. Details below.

September 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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Larx Arcanum

@larxarcanum.bsky.social

Who were the ones who suggested a bluesky blackout??

September 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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jenn m. jackson

@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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Shira🔞

@shiransfw.bsky.social

Something seemed different about Franz (@mostlybrowsing.bsky.social).... something demonic...

September 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios

@seanfaywolfe.bsky.social

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM

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PureKoor

@purekoor.art

Side note: anyone saying "ah we need to be nicer and loving to each other more"

Give examples. What does that mean? Most bad people think they're doing nice and loving things. Just saying the attributes doesn't actually explain how you get them

What does kindness and love actually mean here? ->

September 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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Buggy gay simping 🏳️‍⚧️🍉

@beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social

Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it.

Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments.

Organise and be smart.

Following the previous tumblr post by khazrablood, fourohfourlifenotfound, a different user, has reblogged the post and added;

If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.

And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.

So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).

a continuation of khazrablood's tumblr post, reblogged and added to by fourohfourlifenotfound;

The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time.

The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.

Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.

The end of tumblr user fourohfourlifenotfound addition to khazrablood's original tumblr post;

This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now.

How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.

But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them.

September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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🌸 money from the sky 🌸

@carriecmoney.bsky.social

fma is the greatest story ever written

a comic panel from the Fullmetal Alchemist extras. The comic has a note from the author that says, "Recently I received a piece of fan mail which asked, "Are Alex and Olivier really brother and sister?" In the foreground, General Olivier Armstrong and Major Alex Louis Armstrong stand with their hands on their hips and their jackets unbuttoned. Olivier says, "I can't button up this uniform because it's too tight around the chest." Alex says, "Me too." In the bottom right, a cow with glasses gestures at them and says, "Yep, they really are. See?"

February 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM

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Jay

@envinyon.bsky.social

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Khayle

@khayle.net

[REPOSTS APPRECIATED]
Hi, I'm Khayle, a plugin developer for FFXIV (XIVCombo, formerly Chat Bubbles & a lot more!)
I've been notified today that I have to pay my entire rent debt within this month or else I am getting evicted from my appartment.
I need to gather 2250€ before 31/09.

Links below!

September 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM

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perchbird

@perchbird.dev

in game developer speak, they don't say "I want to see your character naked", that say "I want to consider another theoretical mod on your character" and I think that's beautiful

August 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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perchbird

@perchbird.dev

anyone who says mare was sending data to XIV's servers needs to step away from the conversation immediately

August 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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♱ 🕯️𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕸𝖆𝖏𝖔𝖗🕯️ ♱

@majormelon1.bsky.social

You’re not any less of a man for needing affirmation or emotional validation

It’s not always your job to emotionally provide for your partners. You can and should have it reciprocated.

Your emotional needs are just as important as anyone else’s.

Just remember that.

August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM