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austin_walker

@austinwalker.bsky.social

anyone who invokes anti- or post-humanism (both things I'm totally fine with) but who focuses their love and defense of the non-human on, for instance, the machine that gives you imperfect answers in a perfectly obeisant tone, and not the non-human things devastated by that machine, can fuck off.

Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · Oct 4

truly hilarious that this is an attempted attack on ai critics. yeah being mean to chatgpt is eugenics. saying sam altman shouldn't be able to steal the entirety of human creative output for profit is genocide. words don't fucking mean anything

if you’re writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go “oh that’s fine to say because it’s not a real person” (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

October 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM

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Anya Chalina

@anyachalina.bsky.social

It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work.
Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions.

📩: anya.chalina.illustrations@gmail.com
prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...
portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com

"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige.

"Angel's Whisper". The image shows a room decorated with tiles and murals with a pool in the foreground. There's a queen sitting in on the throne in the center of the image. There's an angel standing next to her closely. There are two white peacocks in the room and two swans swimming in the pool. The artwork is mostly grey-blue.

"The Dressing Room". The illustration shows a woman with long black hair sitting in front of the mirror. There are people behind her holding and brushing her hair. There are flowers around the woman and behind the wall in the middle ground. There's a statue of a man on the right and some flowers and herons near it. There are broken plates and vases in the foreground. There are eggs in some plates. In the background there are buildings that connect to each other. The artwork is mostly pastel with pinks, blues, turquoise and purples.

"Sojourn". This artwork is inspired by "Picnic at Hanging Rock". The artwork shows a ruin with young women sitting and standing around it. There are two teachers among them. They are skeletons. One is holding a chihuahua and another one is reading a book. The young women participate in different activities such as reading books, drawing, sharing secrets with each other, playing flute and admiring the surroundings. There are two dogs in the foreground and a bird that one of the characters is drawing. There are trees in the background and some rock formations. Two young women are walking towards the rocks. The artwork is mostly green and brown with some white and light blue accents.

May 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM

awxo

@awxo.posts.art

I love real, beautiful art

Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · Oct 4

WIP ☀️

A fragment of a piece I work on. The image shows a scenery with overlapping buildings and circular windows. The buildings are decorated with tiles and mosaics. There’s a person standing in front of the closest building.

October 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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awxo

@awxo.posts.art

Holy shit the lack of self-awareness is starting to make me think this pig is actually an AI herself

bsky.app/profile/t4t....

bailey🌸🐝 @catgirl.money · Oct 4

This is really bigoted of you to disagree with me because I'm trans, you should really apologize to me with flowers and then we can go out on a date
👉👈😖

October 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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awxo

@awxo.posts.art

She's a 10 but

September 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM

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October 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM

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alyssum 11/26 🎂 #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink

@permanentalien.blacksky.app

it’s time to pay October rent and i’m at $120 of the $1400 needed to pay the €1180 rent (all utilities included).
i was approved for health insurance but had to contest their rate offer and i’m currently waiting on their approval for a lower monthly payment.

tbh i’m kinda stuck while this + 1/

alyssum 11/26 🎂 #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @permanentalien.blacksky.app · Jun 25

meeting this goal is paying my rent from now to November. which means investing the little i make from work towards my small business and focusing on getting set up with health insurance because i’m a trans disabled person who needs ONGOING MEDICAL CARE and GENDER AFFIRMING CARE

gofund.me/982b699b

October 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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Lars Maischak

@larsmaischak.bsky.social

Instead, I got a Title IX complaint for my criticism of their functionaries. Because this is stalking, according to said functionaries:

CFA, champions of justice

YouTube video by Dr. Lars Maischak, Historian

youtu.be

October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Lars Maischak

@larsmaischak.bsky.social

Next up, Trump's EEOC filing Title IX complaints against anyone committing acts of intersectional feminism, a violent ideology that targets men and white people for discrimination (says Rufo).

October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Lars Maischak

@larsmaischak.bsky.social

CSU Los Angeles already handed over faculty names demanded by Trump's EEOC. CFA should have listened when I asked them in 2018 to adopt an official policy and common strategy against fascism together with the CSU.

CSU Administration Says Hands Over Faculty and Staff Information to Federal Agency - California Faculty Association

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—an agency significantly reshaped by President Donald Trump—has initiated an antisemitism complaint

www.calfac.org

October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM

awxo

@awxo.posts.art

As a disabled and legally blind artist with tendon issues in my painting hand I can tell you that anyone pretending being anti-ai is "ableist" should be treated as a reactionary snake cynically using ableism to excuse their souless slop. Fuck these people, they are not our allies.

Lynn Cole

@Priestess OfDada. 1h

Ah yes, more ableism from the #noAl crowd.

They're all such nice book burners. Remember kids, the only time anyone is ever going to be offended when you tell them to pick up a pencil... is when they can't

My bio showing I'm a legally blind artist aka one of the people these dipshits pretend their consent destroying theft machines are "helping"

October 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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cait (and adonis)

@cait.bsky.social

incredible development: this is not the first time I have encountered this woman

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Dec 15

what the fuck is going on over there LMAO

October 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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cait (and adonis)

@cait.bsky.social

don't say dumb shit to me and then block me when I respond. as if I don't have the fastest screenshot fingers in the northeast

Lynn Cole r
@priestessofdada.bsky.social
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Okay, but substantively, they weren't wrong.
The sorry state of discussion around Al by
"traditionalists" on this app is repulsive. The ongoing transphobia, racism, classism, and dismissive gatekeeping is flatly anti-human.
Has been since the beginning. I'm glad people are starting to call it out

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social • 1d
this poster mentioned in their 50 post tantrum that they literally work in ML research, and between this and the Google engineer who went to the press to tell them that their Al was alive, I am
becoming concerned that these companies are not sending their best

October 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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Its ruaa

@itsmeio.bsky.social

Again We are truly the afflicted, yearning only to survive. If you recognize our right to survive as victims, please spend 50 for my family so we can evacuate befor time runs out. 😩

Here ⬇️⬇️

October 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM

awxo

@awxo.posts.art

bsky.app/profile/did:...

stellz @piss.beauty

You degendered me on purpose too

Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social

When was that?

stellz @piss.beauty

oh sorry you merely implied I had no friends after making an extremely weird post about my breakfast

Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social

Those are wildly different accusations

oliver @eikopf.com:

jay needs to go for the woke jugular. this is a harassment campaign trying to silence a woman for not falling in line with a bunch of angry men

oliver
@eikopf.com

if they accuse you for transphobia over this you can just throw the accusation of transmasc erasure right back at them, it's checkmate

What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal
autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura.
Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass
appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party's full name was
the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name.
As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-
wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he
took state power.
Both the Italian fascists and the Nazis made a conscious effort to
steal the Left's thunder. There were mass mobilizations, youth orga-
nizations, work brigades, rallies, parades, banners, symbols, and slo-
gans. There was much talk about a "Nazi revolution" that would
revitalize society, sweeping away the old order and building the new.

October 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM

awxo

@awxo.posts.art

Oh weird they're all disingenuous little worms who could've seen that coming

ThemBOO!
@thembo:

I was curious about the mindset of people defending the recent mod sloppiness, and it took like 10 seconds to see the phrase "anti-ai bigot" used with full sincerity.

@dystopiabreaker.xyz:

in much of 20th century science fiction, anti-ai/anti-progress bigots are depicted variously as religious fanatics, right wing social conservatives, and so on. it has turned out quite differently.

@dystopiabreaker.xyz:

for context, i wasn't defending "mod sloppiness", i was sharing frustration at how bad faith and insane much of the user base has become here, for example the dogpiling on Jay sharing her breakfast photo.

October 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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The Associated Press

@apnews.com

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM

awxo

@awxo.posts.art

BREAKING: A card carrying member of antifa speaks out

Darkwing Duck (When there's trouble you call DW)

October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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Bullwark

@bullwark.bsky.social

I just got banned for this post for 23 minutes lol, "Why" from bluesky might be the biggest baby of all of them.

@moderation.bsky.app what the hell are you guys doing, this place is a joke.

Blue sky suspension email for violent speech

October 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM

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Grumpy dad energy

@fdsignifier.bsky.social

Ice is kidnapping black citizens in Chicago in the middle of the night.

October 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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Phoenix Calida

@phoenixcalida.bsky.social

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats.

White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers.

People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am

I'm seeing a trend

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · Oct 4

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.