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rine.bsky.social
Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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matthewcort.land
I feel like the finance geniuses who think a token prediction machine is a couple steps away from consciousness haven’t really factored in “China makes the best models available for free” into their circular business plans but 🤷
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 26d
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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kels316.bsky.social
weird how the IDF have been doing this exact thing for 2yrs and the ABC hasn't mentioned it once.
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
watching Children of Men with some Labour MPs and they keep whispering stuff like "sound policy" and "measured response." a couple of em got uncomfortable at the images of caged refugees but their colleagues calmed them down by saying they'd probably have a different facility for the trans cages
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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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:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
[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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ketanjoshi.co
Thank you to @theverge.com for posting the full clip of Microsoft's Copilot event - including the moment when Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad protested the company selling AI tools to Israel for the use of murdering families

(she was immediately fired)

youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...
but microsoft sells ai weapons to the israeli military a woman standing a crowd holding a palestinian scarf microsoft supports this genocide in our region subtitle
April 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
"The Senate received very troubling information that key Australian groups opposing offshore wind rollouts are not in fact grassroots community movements

...they are linked to political, organised and well-funded global campaigns to undermine renewable energy" #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
'We won't back down': Inside the anti-wind farm crusade threatening Labor seats
An anti-wind farm activist group has been accused of "Trumpian-style" attacks on experts and spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories in marginal Labor seats ahead of the May 3 election.
www.abc.net.au
March 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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lucyxiv.boontavista.com
why do we insist on doing this little song and dance to buy cold and flu medicine. undignified. Just hand it over dork
March 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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truthout.org
Israeli forces have killed Hossam Shabat with a targeted airstrike while he was driving his car in Beit Lahiya. Shabat, who was 23 years old, had become well-known for his reports from northern Gaza amid Israel’s total siege on the region.
Israel Kills Journalist Hossam Shabat, Known for His Reports From North Gaza
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” he said. “Keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free.”…
truthout.org
March 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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insightofland.bsky.social
the wavering voices after farting and even moreso when i dutch oven myself
December 7, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
we gotta make sure small children aren't consuming toxins like seed oils or pasteurized milk. but more importantly, we gotta make all pollution legal
March 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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snuffbait.bsky.social
looking into this
March 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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pfrazee.com
Computer. Show me posts. Deranged.
March 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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amutepiggy.bsky.social
women in STEM (Simply Targeting Elon Musk)
February 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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rk70534.bsky.social
"Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and his wife, an investigation by the Israeli news website HaMakom has revealed."

www.youtube.com/channel/UCR0...
February 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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chaser.com.au
Today two world-class cunts came together to have a cunt-off at the White House

Read more: chaser.com.au/world/cunt-o...
Image of Trump and Netanyahu. Headline: Cunt out-cunts Cunt
February 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
now live with day 3! donates and shares very appreciated! 🦖
shaunvids.bsky.social shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Feb 3
now streaming at the link below raising money for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! 🦕

www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids
shaun_vids - Twitch
PCRF Fundraiser
www.twitch.tv
February 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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waldo.net
It’s amazing watching the U.S. cede the global auto market to China. We’re 24–36 months away from utter devastation in U.S. vehicle exports, because both automakers and the U.S. are scared of EVs, because a dozen petroleum executives have a whole political party at their beck and call.
December 31, 2024 at 7:29 PM