alliekitten
@alliekitten.bsky.social
AuDHD transfem anarchist. Talks about politics, geekery, puns, memes and random shite
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There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online:
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online:
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
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The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
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Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.
They're trying to evict my asylum seeker friend from her temporary accommodation in Rusholme today, despite an ongoing appeal. On-the-ground support potentially needed. The address is the OYO Hala Guest House, Dickenson Road, M14 5HZ. Watch this space
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
They're trying to evict my asylum seeker friend from her temporary accommodation in Rusholme today, despite an ongoing appeal. On-the-ground support potentially needed. The address is the OYO Hala Guest House, Dickenson Road, M14 5HZ. Watch this space
Does anyone have a source for an epub of Edward Said's Orientalism? (I already checked libcom & marxists dot org)
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Does anyone have a source for an epub of Edward Said's Orientalism? (I already checked libcom & marxists dot org)
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Apparently trans hate crimes are down - success!
Or is it?
We've seen a post from @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social where two forces are pretty much refusing to take a trans hate crime report.
How often is that happening?
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/p...
Or is it?
We've seen a post from @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social where two forces are pretty much refusing to take a trans hate crime report.
How often is that happening?
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/p...
Police log more than 100 transgender hate crime offences in South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire Police recorded more than 100 transgender hate crime offences in the year to March, recent figures show.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Apparently trans hate crimes are down - success!
Or is it?
We've seen a post from @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social where two forces are pretty much refusing to take a trans hate crime report.
How often is that happening?
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/p...
Or is it?
We've seen a post from @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social where two forces are pretty much refusing to take a trans hate crime report.
How often is that happening?
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/p...
Tfw not sure if losing interest in men in practice or if all the individual men are just individually gross >_> I still like the *idea* of men but any time I try to do anything with one recently it seems to trigger my mucus issue lol
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Tfw not sure if losing interest in men in practice or if all the individual men are just individually gross >_> I still like the *idea* of men but any time I try to do anything with one recently it seems to trigger my mucus issue lol
Omg the #DailyHeil discovered #HazbinHotel 🤣
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Omg the #DailyHeil discovered #HazbinHotel 🤣
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Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Woke up with a vague recollection of re-enrolling in formal education of some sort and panicked, cos the new academic year started 2 months ago and I've definitely not been *going* to any such course >_< 90% certain this is just my anxiety making shit up for me to panic about
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Woke up with a vague recollection of re-enrolling in formal education of some sort and panicked, cos the new academic year started 2 months ago and I've definitely not been *going* to any such course >_< 90% certain this is just my anxiety making shit up for me to panic about
Be the queercoded female Bond villain you want to see in the world
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Be the queercoded female Bond villain you want to see in the world
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I didn't see a thing.
Food stamps are set to run out of funding in early November & I’m just here to remind you that if you catch someone stealing food at the grocery store then you should immediately call the ghostbusters because you clearly saw a ghost and they clearly vanished into thin air and you didn’t see nothin.
October 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I didn't see a thing.
#DeadEndParanormalPark is a legit really fun show and I'd never have bothered to check it out if it wasn't for the fash seething at it for existing :3
October 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#DeadEndParanormalPark is a legit really fun show and I'd never have bothered to check it out if it wasn't for the fash seething at it for existing :3
Evangelio, @kierongillen.bsky.social? Bit on the nose for Masumi to be an Evangelion fan :D
October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Evangelio, @kierongillen.bsky.social? Bit on the nose for Masumi to be an Evangelion fan :D
Sleep? I think I heard the legend once...
October 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Sleep? I think I heard the legend once...
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Patriarchal masculinity has hurt me horribly, but I don't think that's the only type that exists. Do I know what masculinity and femininity look like outside a patriarchal framework? No. But I want to build it.
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Patriarchal masculinity has hurt me horribly, but I don't think that's the only type that exists. Do I know what masculinity and femininity look like outside a patriarchal framework? No. But I want to build it.
Teenage detectives who work with and are taken seriously by the police seem to be a recurring theme in Japanese fiction? Akechi in Persona 5, L in Death Note, Detective Conan, Satoshi in DNAngel? Is it an actual thing in Japan in real life or just a common trope?
October 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Teenage detectives who work with and are taken seriously by the police seem to be a recurring theme in Japanese fiction? Akechi in Persona 5, L in Death Note, Detective Conan, Satoshi in DNAngel? Is it an actual thing in Japan in real life or just a common trope?
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Want to understand why users have lost faith in Bluesky's leadership?
Or what the deal with waffles was about?
Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?
Or what the deal with waffles was about?
Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.
When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…
plutopsyche.medium.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Want to understand why users have lost faith in Bluesky's leadership?
Or what the deal with waffles was about?
Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?
Or what the deal with waffles was about?
Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?
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Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“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.”
#Athens airport
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“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.”
#Athens airport
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“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.”
#Athens airport
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“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.”
#Athens airport
It occurred to me earlier that I completely accidentally chose Halloween season as the time to read the gay space necromancer book xD #TamsynMuir #GideonTheNinth #LockedTomb
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It occurred to me earlier that I completely accidentally chose Halloween season as the time to read the gay space necromancer book xD #TamsynMuir #GideonTheNinth #LockedTomb
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Hey Mom? The tranny was right again.
Hey Mom? Why does no one ever listen to Cassandra's warnings?
Hey Mom? Why does no one ever listen to Cassandra's warnings?
I’m going to go tech bro here for a second on the off chance this somehow reaches a bluesky dev. Bear with me.
it can be really hard to not take user feedback personally, but it’s vital to not do that for the sake of both your community & your own mental health.
Here’s how you adapt
🧵
it can be really hard to not take user feedback personally, but it’s vital to not do that for the sake of both your community & your own mental health.
Here’s how you adapt
🧵
October 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hey Mom? The tranny was right again.
Hey Mom? Why does no one ever listen to Cassandra's warnings?
Hey Mom? Why does no one ever listen to Cassandra's warnings?
Damn, I was hoping they'd share :(
October 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Damn, I was hoping they'd share :(
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She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.