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bsb

@blackshirtboy.bsky.social

Let's Keep Calling!

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online!

https://yellat.money/
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

July 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

@cpsc.gov

Smudge please, you are setting a bad example do better.

April 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

@schumer.senate.gov LET THE REPUBLICANS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. LET THEM DESTROY EVERYTHING. SHOW THE COUNTRY HOW INEPT THESE PEOPLE ARE. YOUR BASE WOULD 100% SUPPORT THIS

March 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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dan sinker

@dansinker.com

Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.

What I’m saying is we can go harder.

screenshot that reads Elon Musk almost needed SFPD wellness check after ‘breakdown,’ getting booed at Dave Chappelle show ‘He got to a point where he locked himself in his office, was so upset’ that Twitter employees feared he would hurt himself, the author of a new book says about the billionaire

March 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM

Clay O

@inkonant.bsky.social

*political message*

Moon knight throwing a bunch of objects saying the phrase "RANDOM BULLSHIT GO!!!!"

March 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Alex Zalben

@azalben.bsky.social

Once again for the "where are the protests" folks!

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Feb 1

Tomorrow in DC we’re protesting DC Children’s Hospital for ending all care to trans people under 19

I would love to see my followers join me in protesting a move that’s already impacting folks very close to me

If not now, when?

PROTECT TRANS HEALTH CARE PROTEST MEET 11:30 AM AT BRUCE MONROE COMMUNITY PARK MARCH AT NOON TO CHILDREN’S NATIONAL, MASKS REQUIRED

February 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Hank Green

@hankgreen.bsky.social

Of the SciShow postcard promo I’ve done…here are the most effective:
Vlogbrothers>Hankschannel>Bluesky>SciShow>Threads>Twitter.

Bluesky, if you want to move up the list, and help quality, popular science videos reach more people who need them, it’s not too late!

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