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One of the best bit of ethics advice I've ever seen was in this page by @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com

www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html
(narrator from panel of A Girl and Her Fed) He said he wants to be a man who tries to do good, instead of a good man. The good man has it easy. He thinks everything he does is morally correct. But the man who tries to do good overthinks everything he does. He teaches himself that "good" isn't a quality, but a goal. He knows he has to work at being good, but he also knows when he fails, he can try again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Poster of a white man in a dark suit and tie and a bowler hat, with an arm coming from off-picture to cover his mouth and prevent him from saying anything. Attributed to THEREALFLYDOG - MMXXII Text, in normal font: Did you see: - A tent in the woods? - Someone shoplifting? - A person sleeping in their car? Larger red text: No! You fucking didn't! Medium black text on yellow stripes: People are struggling Don't make it worse
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Screenshot of a playlist by Diego, entitled "Marvin Gaye's clueless ass" Songs: What's Going On What's Happening Brother When Did You Stop Loving Me,... Where Are We Going? I Don't Know Why
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Example of an account whose followers belong on the "followers of non-posters, badactor or followbacker" list and why it needs automation. There's no way to
Account info page for @j1o2.bsky.social, screen name Joyce Clune. Zero posts/replies, 66K following, and somehow has 20.6K followers. (Also labeled as "AI Avatar or Banner", "User - Frequent AI Imagery", and "Spam")
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Firefox (with lots of blockers) doesn't give me that option, only "pin to home"
Screenshot showing the top of a Bluesky personal list, with only "Pin to home", "Copy link to list", "Edit list details", and "Delete list" as top-level actions
September 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Thanks to @rahaeli.bsky.social, I know accounts who follow back are suspect.

Example, some followers of an account with 6 total posts:
Screenshot of 4 different bluesky accounts with screen name 'Mimi', completely different @ names, and very similar icons (female-presenting face) and bios including a mention of being 18, 'looking for local to make content', link to getmysocial.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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(unattributed excerpt) During a hearing in July, Tesla attorney Matthew Benedetto asserted the company has never tried to conceal the fact that its vehicles cannot drive themselves. "Cars with Full Self-Driving capabilities are currently not capable of driving themselves," Benedetto said.
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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4 hours later, only the (misspelled) parody account remains
search showing only the parody Jeffrey Phillips parody account left
August 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Parsing of human language, if it's at all ambiguous, still seems a little off, and confidently answers rather than attempting to clarify.
Chat GPT getting confused by "Which state names do not start or end with a consonant" (which most humans would parse as "start and end with a vowel", or ask to clarify the actual question) and treating as "start OR end with a vowel"
August 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Screenshot of a tweet by Garry Kasparov (blue check) @Kasparov63 Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is ba, unless the criminals ar pro-Trump. This isn't 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocracy 101.
August 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Surprising how many account names are timb3x - probably part of some bad actor group.
Screenshot of search for users starting @timb3, finding timb37, timb32 timb34, timb31 with suspicious user icons; as well as timb3541 and timb3009 with normal icons, and timb3r that doesn't look at all like a mass-generated account
August 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Thanks to @rahaeli.bsky.social I have been sensitized to unusual patterns of posting by "people" who randomly follow me.
Current round is accounts with 4-6 posts/replies but no real thought put in - at least one affirmation-type post, and then either all links, or copy pasta.
A lot of different accounts all setting screen name to "Emily" or "Sarah" and posting the exact same reply of "I can't privat message you, please leave me a message". Screenshot for posterity, before they all get artisanal individual blocks.
July 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I was right about bogus followers - at least half of the first 20 I looked at immediately tripped my "doesn't act like a real person" sensor, and I found a couple that are posting identical content (pic & words), with zero attribution.
screenshot of a post supposedly by @jinxxbitch.bsky.social, which is an exact duplicate (pic & words) with at least one other account screenshot of a post supposedly by @fivemessymonsters.bsky.social, which is an exact duplicate (pic & words) with at least one other account
July 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Because this deserves more attention.
4-panel comic of two snails. First three panels are a conversation while heading somewhere together Red/Yellow snail: English is difficult. When do we use "many" and when do we use "much"? Blue/Green snail: "Many" is for nouns that are countable, like apples. "Much is for nouns that are not countable, like water. Red/Yellow: "So we should say "many rational numbers" and "much real numbers"? Panel 4: Blue/Green turns and just glares (as much as stylized comic snails can) at Red/Yellow undated, attributed to instagram: @snail.and.snail twitter:@snal_and_snail tumblr: snail-and-snail.tumblr.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Repost to add alt text - source is collected tweets (old, long before Musk happened) from @tkingfisher.com.

I vaguely recall reading them live, back in the day.
(old) tweet thread by @UrsulaV (@tkingfisher.com on Bluesky) If you're ever feeling guilty about not cooking a fresh home-cooked meal, a reminder that people in cities historically either had cook or ate at food stalls, going back to Ancient Greece. Ancient Egypt, too, although since everybody ate bread, beer, and onions, less of a thing. It's a weird quirk of our obsession with nuclear families that everybody is expected to have time, skill, and equipment to cook daily, and that if you're a woman, particularly, you are a lesser person if you aren't casually able to cook every day with random fresh ingredients. Don't buy into that. People since forever have hired cook, gone to inns, lived in extended families where it wasn't always your turn to cook, or ate such simplified diets that it was less of an issue. You haven't faile at a normal human task, you have been sold an unrealistic expectation and told it was a normal hum task. Go get takeout. Or beer, bread, and onions. Eat cheese and some dates. Relax.
June 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Post to unlabeled social media by leojamesmusic / NoKings It works like this, you look the ICE agent right in the face, cell phone in hand and say "Identify yourself as a real officer." Then you say "badge number and serial number" because they are playing dumb. Strt dialing emergency services. If they refuse two times you call 911 and say, "there is a man here impersonating a cop and he has a gun." Someone was assassinated by a fake cop. Time for ICE to stop hiding behind the masks. We need to learn who they are. NoKings
June 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Below a picture of students at a graduation ceremony, all wearing mortarboard caps: Futurism --- "Learn to code" backfires spectacularly as comp-sci majors suddenly have sky-high unemploymnent
June 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Screenshot of X/Twitter post by The Tennessee Holler MISSISSIPPI: "We haven't see the federal folks down here." [tornado emoji] MONTHS after a tornado hit MISSISSIPPI, Trump supporters are feeling abandoned by their own president. When you elect people who don't believe in government, this is what happens. [screenshot from a video, showing destroyed houses, with caption "Frustration is growing in Tyler Town, Mississippi,"]
June 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Interesting, mostly because I pay attention to @rahaeli.bsky.social - I just got followed by an account that follows 22.9k accounts. Okay, some people just click "Follow" every time they can.

The suspicious part is it also has 2k followers, despite never making a post.

Blocking ASAP
Screenshot showing an account following 22.9K accounts and 2.2K followers, despite never making a single post or reply
May 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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(Formatted to look like large print in a book) The 'guns don't kill people' people sure seem to think a book can make you gay.
May 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Photo of a cat with a collar, laying on a stack of blankets on a couch. Caption reads: 4 years ago I lived in a bush and hunted for my meals. Now I have 2 passive incomes, my own hours, & a personal chef. Follow for financial advice (money emoji)
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them,. shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
May 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Still true, three years later
Screenshot of Tweet by Pat Dennis: Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry. Timestamp 1:05 PM, Apr 25, 2022
May 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Honest, it's not about politics, but still one of the most WTF moments I've had in a long time.

Sample paragraph from after the original document went off the rails
Header: Whipping Text (formatting omitted, but it doesn't really help) Besides fishing on a leg, we can normalize any leg to any tile using the $@ (bucpat, %bcpt ) hoon - aka, whip. Not only is whip the same thing as clam, it's what clam uses internally. All clam does it make a gate whose sample, an arbitrary noun +< (glus, .6 ), it whips into its tile.
May 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Protester with a hand-written sign (in all-caps, converted to mixed case and caps added to approximate original emphasis) Wanting a child BORN is PRO-BIRTH Wanting a child FED HOUSED EDUCATED with parents who earn a living wage is PRO-LIFE
April 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM