Cyanide Valentine
@cyanidevalentine1.bsky.social
Weirdo. Larper. they/them
This profile is for me to reblog whatever I find interesting from porn to academia to art.
This profile is for me to reblog whatever I find interesting from porn to academia to art.
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Every tech headline is like “the company you fucking despise will go out of business and crash the Trump economy if you don’t use super autocomplete to fuck everything up.”
a man in a leather jacket stands in a living room next to a lamp
ALT: a man in a leather jacket stands in a living room next to a lamp
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Every tech headline is like “the company you fucking despise will go out of business and crash the Trump economy if you don’t use super autocomplete to fuck everything up.”
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"AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns"
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is wearing a colorado shirt
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is wearing a colorado shirt
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns"
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sometime this year, donald trump is going to say the money we took from other countries in the form of tariffs will be used to pay for greenland and the right-wing propaganda machine will repeat it. it won't matter that this makes no sense at all bc nothing matters.
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 AM
sometime this year, donald trump is going to say the money we took from other countries in the form of tariffs will be used to pay for greenland and the right-wing propaganda machine will repeat it. it won't matter that this makes no sense at all bc nothing matters.
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The reality is that the PATHWAYS puberty blockers trial is damaging for trans kids - but for completely different reasons than ‘gender critical’ transphobes claim.
However, if it gets shut down, we know nothing else will come in its place and trans youth will be left with NOTHING! 😣😖
However, if it gets shut down, we know nothing else will come in its place and trans youth will be left with NOTHING! 😣😖
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
medium.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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I’ve been curating content on Iran since 2009. This is the most challenging environment yet. Iran has state controlled media. Correspondents from non-state outlets are few. Citizens upload what they can, but internet is throttled. There’s also A LOT of propaganda.
But these Iran protests are major.
But these Iran protests are major.
January 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I’ve been curating content on Iran since 2009. This is the most challenging environment yet. Iran has state controlled media. Correspondents from non-state outlets are few. Citizens upload what they can, but internet is throttled. There’s also A LOT of propaganda.
But these Iran protests are major.
But these Iran protests are major.
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Labour faced an exhausted Government, surprised by the vigour of the attack from Reform, with the stench of corruption hanging over it, one which ran an unlucky campaign, and won 33.7% of the popular vote. Selling that to the media as a glorious success is McSweeney's sole political achievement.
And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Labour faced an exhausted Government, surprised by the vigour of the attack from Reform, with the stench of corruption hanging over it, one which ran an unlucky campaign, and won 33.7% of the popular vote. Selling that to the media as a glorious success is McSweeney's sole political achievement.
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We had a good, one-hour-long call with President Trump, President Zelenskyy and several European leaders to discuss their meeting today on peace negotiations.
There was good progress, which we welcomed.
There was good progress, which we welcomed.
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We had a good, one-hour-long call with President Trump, President Zelenskyy and several European leaders to discuss their meeting today on peace negotiations.
There was good progress, which we welcomed.
There was good progress, which we welcomed.
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nah. screw the bbc. get rid of it.
i should not have to pay for a broadcaster that describes me and others in my community using slurs.
i don't care that you like it. make it a subscription service and you pay for it.
i should not have to pay for a broadcaster that describes me and others in my community using slurs.
i don't care that you like it. make it a subscription service and you pay for it.
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
nah. screw the bbc. get rid of it.
i should not have to pay for a broadcaster that describes me and others in my community using slurs.
i don't care that you like it. make it a subscription service and you pay for it.
i should not have to pay for a broadcaster that describes me and others in my community using slurs.
i don't care that you like it. make it a subscription service and you pay for it.
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The lessons to take from this:
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The lessons to take from this:
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
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This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.
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oh damn they're goin full metaverse, corporations only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
It blows my mind that you can create a startup based on a fucking absurd series of lies and impossible promises, make billions of dollars while companies cut staffing believing the lie, then walk away from the smoldering crater without being guillotined straight to hell
www.ft.com/content/9b1b...
www.ft.com/content/9b1b...
AI ‘world models’ promise to reshape $190bn video games industry
Google DeepMind and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs target gaming with AI-generated 3D environments
www.ft.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
oh damn they're goin full metaverse, corporations only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
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Can't wait to mine for genAI NFTs in the metaverse with my VR headset and minting it all on the Blockchain, and in the evening I will count my beanie babies and secure my retirement with big event issues of 90s comics, and invest in sub-prime mortgages and tulip bulb futures. The line only goes up!
GenAI is inevitable and if you think otherwise, I dare you to say it to my (virtual) face, just put on your VR headset and meet me outside the 404'd NFT gallery in the metaverse
GenAI is inevitable and will definitely be a major part of every art form from now on. Just like NFTs!
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Can't wait to mine for genAI NFTs in the metaverse with my VR headset and minting it all on the Blockchain, and in the evening I will count my beanie babies and secure my retirement with big event issues of 90s comics, and invest in sub-prime mortgages and tulip bulb futures. The line only goes up!
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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Full responsibility for this calamitous decision rests with Bridget Phillipson who was told by two committees of MPs that Mary-Ann Stephenson was out of her depth - and it was clear she was transphobic - but chose to appoint her anyway.
Just in case there was any doubt about Mary-Ann Stephenson being both biased (so unqualified to Chair the EHRC) and out of her depth here she hangs her hat on the hideous guidance drawn up by her predecessor - without waiting for the results of the High Court challenge which may find it unlawful.
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Full responsibility for this calamitous decision rests with Bridget Phillipson who was told by two committees of MPs that Mary-Ann Stephenson was out of her depth - and it was clear she was transphobic - but chose to appoint her anyway.
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OF COURSE it was going to come to this... Indiana now saying it's not enough for adult websites to block people in response to state age-verification law—since VPNs exist, they're still in violation.
That leaves 3 options for porn platforms: check IDs, don't exist, or block all VPNs...
That leaves 3 options for porn platforms: check IDs, don't exist, or block all VPNs...
Porn sites must block VPNs to comply with Indiana's age-verification law, state suggests in new lawsuit
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita says porn sites must block VPNs to satisfy the state’s age-verification requirements.
reason.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
OF COURSE it was going to come to this... Indiana now saying it's not enough for adult websites to block people in response to state age-verification law—since VPNs exist, they're still in violation.
That leaves 3 options for porn platforms: check IDs, don't exist, or block all VPNs...
That leaves 3 options for porn platforms: check IDs, don't exist, or block all VPNs...
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There's an appealingly simple logic to anti-tech arguments: phone & social media use went up, so did bad things. Ergo, the phones & Instagram did it
Correlation is 9/10 of moral-panic law
But a growing body of research challenges easy narratives about young people & tech
Correlation is 9/10 of moral-panic law
But a growing body of research challenges easy narratives about young people & tech
Young people's mental health is improving. Tech alarmists take note.
Depression and anxiety are declining, adding yet more complications to the anti-smartphone and anti–social media narratives.
reason.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There's an appealingly simple logic to anti-tech arguments: phone & social media use went up, so did bad things. Ergo, the phones & Instagram did it
Correlation is 9/10 of moral-panic law
But a growing body of research challenges easy narratives about young people & tech
Correlation is 9/10 of moral-panic law
But a growing body of research challenges easy narratives about young people & tech
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They know.
Labour aren't doing what they're doing to see off Reform. They are doing what they are doing because it is what they want to do.
Labour aren't doing what they're doing to see off Reform. They are doing what they are doing because it is what they want to do.
Labour have got to get it into their heads that far and away their biggest threat in Wales is coming from the left.
Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.
Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.
Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.
Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
They know.
Labour aren't doing what they're doing to see off Reform. They are doing what they are doing because it is what they want to do.
Labour aren't doing what they're doing to see off Reform. They are doing what they are doing because it is what they want to do.
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
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Do you folks like my kobolds? :3 #CosyDungeon
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do you folks like my kobolds? :3 #CosyDungeon
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its a genuinely deeply unfun place to be right now and its our job to keep it that way
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
its a genuinely deeply unfun place to be right now and its our job to keep it that way
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If Labour wanted to know why it is tanking electorally trans rights would be a great case study. Not because people vote on trans rights; most don't. But because everyone - both the JKRs who hate trans people and trans people and their allies - can sniff out Labour's position as insincere bullshit.
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If Labour wanted to know why it is tanking electorally trans rights would be a great case study. Not because people vote on trans rights; most don't. But because everyone - both the JKRs who hate trans people and trans people and their allies - can sniff out Labour's position as insincere bullshit.
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Some of the best movies ever made were by Rob Reiner. They made us laugh and think: The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men. And he was a force on screen as well in All in the Family and so many films.
What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.
What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Some of the best movies ever made were by Rob Reiner. They made us laugh and think: The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men. And he was a force on screen as well in All in the Family and so many films.
What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.
What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.
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Guys you can't ban VPN for kids without ALSO severely restricting the ability of adults to use VPNs without surveillance.
If this were proposed in Saudi Arabia or Myanmar or Hungary or Belarus, the British government would rightly call this what it is: a mandate for censorship.
If this were proposed in Saudi Arabia or Myanmar or Hungary or Belarus, the British government would rightly call this what it is: a mandate for censorship.
UK Lords propose ban on VPNs for children
Amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill would force VPN providers to age-gate their services
www.techradar.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Guys you can't ban VPN for kids without ALSO severely restricting the ability of adults to use VPNs without surveillance.
If this were proposed in Saudi Arabia or Myanmar or Hungary or Belarus, the British government would rightly call this what it is: a mandate for censorship.
If this were proposed in Saudi Arabia or Myanmar or Hungary or Belarus, the British government would rightly call this what it is: a mandate for censorship.