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thrasherxy.bsky.social
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Reporting by Palestinian journalists indicates that the pretext for IDF’s attacks today was Israeli Zionist settlers running over unexploded ordinance while they were bulldozing Palestinian homes, not something involving Hamas at all.

Colonialism kills

www.instagram.com/p/DQAE0SCDpy...
nowinpalestine on Instagram: "“Ceasefire”View all 74 comments"
“Ceasefire”
www.instagram.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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cityofangelle.bsky.social
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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jeremykaplowitz.com
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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shing.bsky.social
I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.

(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
May 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Apr 28
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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dropsitenews.com
REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington

Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️
April 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
What is so goddamn frustrating is how journalists do the PR work for AI evangelists by not following up on their platitudes.
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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dean-tane.bsky.social
They were already doing this for some of their courses last year. The Irish course is completely ruined, the real human voices have been replaced with AI ones which have their pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases make up sounds that don’t exist in any Irish dialect. It’s awful.
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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wwxwashere.bsky.social
I set a new goal @ ko-fi. I have been prioritizing buying our meds and food but it would mean everything to me to see my family again, even if just once before it’s too late. It’s not a necessity but I would be extremely grateful for any help at all 🩷 ko-fi.com/wwxwashere
April 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064
April 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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mcmillen.dev
Mt Fuji says trans rights
April 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
Wait what you can’t improve literacy by banning books and making children talk to statistical sentence fragment generators instead of humans?
April 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
It's less "fuck you for being attracted to multiple genders" and more "fuck you for thinking any of this is optional".

This is not a sexual marketplace! THIS! IS! PATRIARCHY!
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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halduncan.com
The Right: don’t prosecute the elite because fuck everyone else lol
The Centre: don’t prosecute the elite because it would undermine faith in the system
The Left, apparently: don’t prosecute the elite because it’ll make them look all rebellious and shit like cool smooth criminals and stuff I guess?
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Apr 1
"The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party."

so if I have this right: the French government should have given Le Pen actual impunity to prevent a victory in the war of ideas?

jacobin.com/2025/03/mari...
Stopping Marine Le Pen From Running Is a Bad Idea
Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office for five years. The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party.
jacobin.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
Germany tries to deport two Irish, a Pole and an American - over objections from its own officials - because of activities in support of Palestinian victims of Israel. None has been convicted of a crime. One acquitted of a charge over calling police 'fascist'.
theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...
Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.
theintercept.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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endless-resistance.bsky.social
3rd times the charm? aye?

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clownworld.
Germany never learns a fucking thing.
March 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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toomanymouths.bsky.social
that time i did a lil fingertapped EXORCIST theme
October 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
eljo.bsky.social
YouTube comment section circa 2007: “six hundred seventy five thousand six hundred twenty sixth!”
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October 10, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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andrewhickey.500songs.com
Also in many countries you're not allowed to marry an immigrant unless you have a massive income. The fights against borders, ableism, poverty, racism and queerphobia are all distinct, but in many ways all the same fight.
roxiqt.com Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · Jun 1
While we're talking about how everyone should be able to marry the person they love, here's a reminder that disabled people still can't get married legally because they will have their benefits taken away. In many places, they can't even -live- with their partner unmarried without losing benefits.
June 1, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
I missed this part of the story. Pretty convenient how pervasive surveillance is used to justify ubiquitous surveillance.

“The federal court’s decision says that video cameras have become ‘ubiquitous,’ and have therefore diminished our expectations of privacy.”
The Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court
A federal court says your privacy is diminished due to the proliferation of video cameras throughout society.
gizmodo.com
March 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”
March 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM