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Free Palestine and trans rights if you were curious. (he/him)
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devononearth.bsky.social
Hey everyone, my friend Ahmed in Gaza is in a bad way. The kids are sick with a heavy fever thats been spreading in the tent city. He's still struggling to afford basic supplies, let alone medicine- anything you can chip in would help!

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Please help Ahmed and his family get food, drink and medicine.
I am Ahmed Shaaban, a father of four children: Jana, Malek, Lana, Amir, and my wife, Laila. I had a link for evacuation and raised the entire amount. However, the occupation imposed a complete blockad...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:39 PM
freeloadcurve.bsky.social
@ryanlcooper.com It's taboo for good reason. It's downstream of actual problems progressives already propose solutions for. You talk about regulating tech companies, but then reference taking kids' phones? What solutions to the birthrate "problem" do you actually propose?
Quoted post from @ryanlcooper.com: it frankly is kind of taboo to discuss these questions on the left, but this piece also doesn't get into the actual most promising policy ideas (limiting smartphone and social media use to the greatest possible extent) https://www.npr.org/2026/01/12/nx-s1-5637424/birthrate-population-babies 10:30 AM Jan 13, 2026 The embedded link to NPR features an image of two women embracing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. The text preview reads: "As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions. The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in." Post from @shaunvids.bsky.social: i am hugely skeptical about the importance of smartphones & social media wrt fertility, but to the extent that they are important, the horse has fully bolted, there. there's no rolling that back. trying to take away phones is just 'undo decades of social change, please' hiding under a sheet 11:47 AM Jan 13, 2026 Reply from @ryanlcooper.com: I don't agree. for instance lots of schools have tried phone bans with apparent success. and fundamentally we're talking about a handful of companies here, most of them located in California. one is them is mass manufacturing child pornography 11:50 AM Jan 13, 2026
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
i am hugely skeptical about the importance of smartphones & social media wrt fertility, but to the extent that they are important, the horse has fully bolted, there. there's no rolling that back. trying to take away phones is just 'undo decades of social change, please' hiding under a sheet
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d
it frankly is kind of taboo to discuss these questions on the left, but this piece also doesn't get into the actual most promising policy ideas (limiting smartphone and social media use to the greatest possible extent) www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
www.npr.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
that is, if you're concerned about birthrates, which i am not really. it'll be alright
January 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school
January 9, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
Besides the fact that I don’t think I saw a single person say that Kamala was worse than Trump, spending your time doing whatever this is while our government is murdering its citizens is… unwise
sololoner.bsky.social sololoner.bsky.social @sololoner.bsky.social · 14d
Where are the Fuckin degenerate Lowlife Leftists that said Kamala was worse?
January 8, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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oldsquida.bsky.social
here we go (police incident report follows)
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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kxd.dev
You may be interested to know that one of the Ladybird leads is not a fan of inclusivity/diversity, promotes "white replacement," and supports/promotes DHH's xenophobia: hyperborea.org/reviews/soft...
Ladybird and the Controversy over Inclusivity
What people were upset about, why it blew up, and why some people are still leery of the project to this day.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
everyone loves architecture criticism until it’s time to actually challenge anything
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Please join me in supporting Austin and co’s excellent project to get people in Atlanta out of medical debt. Can we get to $7000 by end of day?? I’ll bet we can!

I love Atlanta and it would awesome to give some people there a bit of relief and happiness. Even a little bit helps.
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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devononearth.bsky.social
Ahmed is in Khan Younis. Since Israel unilaterly broke the ceasefire in January of this year, he's been forced to spend all the money we raised for evacuation just to keep his family fed. Anything you can chuck in keeps him away from the deadly GHF "Aid sites"

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Help the Shaban Family Evacuate Gaza
Hi All,
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September 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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devononearth.bsky.social
Since I'm posting here again it's time to plug fundraisers for families I've been talking to in Gaza.

Starting with the most urgent: Maysam is currently in Gaza city with her family, unable to afford transport out of the active fighting area. She needs help desperately

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Help My Family Evacuate Gaza
Hi everyone,
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September 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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aywarhiannon.bsky.social
🧵In the past week Israel has bombed: Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen, and now Qatar. In Yemen the prime minister and multiple cabinet members were assassinated. In Qatar the Hamas negotiators who were called there by the US to review a ceasefire proposal were targeted. These are acts of
September 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. If you've scrolled social media lately, you've likely seem Democrats cheering for Gov. Gavin Newsom for trolling Trump relentlessly.

You've also likely seen trans people terrified of a Newsom 2028 run.

I explain why trans people are not feeling Newsom.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

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[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay … Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or … End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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qwilman.bsky.social
i have no idea who originally made this but i feel it in my bones
An image with a wall of text, formatted like a belligerent screed: STOP DOING RAYTRACING -LIGHT RAYS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SIMULATED -YEARS OF GAMING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for bouncing light more than ONCE -Wanted to go higher anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "BAKED LIGHTING" -"Yes please give me SLIGHTLY better visuals. Give me those slightly better visuals at a cost of HALF my frame rate" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Big Graphic Card have been demanding your money for all this time, with all the decades worth of beautiful non-RT games in your backlog. (This Is REAL Raytracing done by REAL $1600 graphics cards) Insert - screen shots of video games showing the diminishing visual returns of ray tracing. "Hello I would like to run my games poorly please" They have played us for absolute fools
May 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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artoftalya.bsky.social
A few Palestinian YouTube channels have stopped because they were killed. These were kids. They sang songs & loved birds, and showed us the ocean. I'll never forget Medo, a young man growing a garden in the midst of a genocide. Israel killed him; he showed the world that Palestinians are human.
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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agoldman.bsky.social
Extremely “I’m not mad, I’m actually laughing” voice:
Bari Weiss: “Yesterday came and went and I didn't even realize the Pulitzer Prizes had been awarded. Amazing how quickly things we venerate can lose their shine.”
May 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM